October 8, 2025

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 winners. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: The MOF Revolution – Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Capture and Green Energy

Three researchers – Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yagi – have won the Nobel Prize for developing novel porous materials capable of storing, filtering and trapping molecules, with applications ranging from medicine to the climate crisis.
Once considered a stable, ancient giant, Glacier A-23A is now gradually breaking apart as it drifts into warmer waters. The glacier, which broke away from the Pilchner Ice Shelf in 1986, survived nearly four decades before it began to disintegrate on its journey north. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory / Michala Garrison, MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.

NASA has documented the collapse of the giant iceberg A-23A – one of the largest and oldest in the world

NASA satellites have documented the disintegration of the A-23A glacier, which broke away from Antarctica in 1986 and survived for almost four decades before starting to break up on its journey north.

Crowded conditions cloud toads' mate choice

An international study led by the University of Tennessee and in collaboration with Tel Aviv University finds that noise and selection pressure make it difficult for female toads to choose mates – a phenomenon that may slow the pace of evolution.
Artificial intelligence writes a story. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Artificial intelligence writes stories better than professional writers

An experiment conducted by author Marc Lawrence, with the participation of well-known fantasy writers and the help of GPT-5, revealed that readers prefer stories written by a machine over human creations.