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Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with 91av’s exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

Technology

91av changed the UK’s freedom of information laws in 2025

By requesting copies of the then-UK technology secretary's ChatGPT logs, 91av set a precedent for how freedom of information laws apply to chatbot interactions, helping to hold governments to account

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Space

Hopes of finding aliens were raised in 2025 – but quickly faded

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Space

Black hole stars really do exist in the early universe

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Space

Putting data centres in space isn’t going to happen any time soon

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Health

The US beat back bird flu in 2025 – but the battle isn’t over

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Technology

2025 was the year of online safety laws – but do they work?

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Mind

High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies

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Ken MacLeod
Society

Author Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late Iain M. Banks

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Humans

Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall had intestinal parasites

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This is a false-color composite image of the Fomalhaut System taken with the Hubble telescope's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument in 2010 and 2012. The black circle at the center of the image blocks out the light from the bright star, allowing reflected light from the belt and planet to be photographed.

Space

Two asteroids crashed around a nearby star, solving a cosmic mystery

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved the puzzle of its famous ‘planet’

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Environment

Closure of US institute will do immense harm to climate research

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Health

Sitting by a window may improve blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes

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Physics

Scientists build a window into the fourth dimension

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Space

Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation

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