DECEMBER 2025 December 14 - 22 - Hanukkah December 19 - National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day December 20 - New Moon 28° Sagittarius December 21 - Winter Solstice December 25 - Christmas December 26 - Kwanzaa December 26 - Boxing Day December 31 - New Years Eve

Reading with Ellie Ellie's Archives: 2000-2025

Ellie's World Blog Today
Bay Ridge Christmas Tree Lightning 2025
Faberge's "Winter Egg"
Pantene's Color for 2026 - Cloud Dancer
Jeffrey Bridges - Starman
Extraterrestrials and UFOs in the News
Asteroid Bennu and the Ingredients of Life
December is a Mix
Ellie and Einstein Time Travel

SPHERE's stunning space images reveal where new planets are forming

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The impossible LED breakthrough that changes everything

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Supercomputer Creates One of The Most Realistic Virtual Brains Ever Seen

Johns Hopkins Study Challenges Billion-Dollar AI Models

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A newly uncovered four-layer blueprint in the hippocampus is transforming how scientists understand memory and neurological disease

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Earth's early oceans hid the secret rise of complex life

What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining

How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia

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1,800-year-old 'piggy banks' full of Roman-era coins unearthed in French village

Treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines found in Egyptian tomb - in the Tanis necropolis - solves long-standing mystery of who was buried there

Ancient Chinese texts reveal new clues about the 1st recorded solar eclipse

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Meghan reaches out to estranged father after leg amputation reports, spokesman says

Trump lays bare his contempt for Europe in blistering new national security plan

FDA in turmoil after exit of veteran cancer researcher

Astrobee: AI-guided robot navigates space station corridors with improved speed and safety

A blueprint for visiting an interstellar comet

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Probing the existence of a fifth force via neutron star cooling

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New 'physics shortcut' lets laptops tackle quantum problems once reserved for supercomputers and AI

Record-breaking germanium-on-silicon tech promises faster, cooler, next-gen electronics and quantum devices

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Visual system of butterflies changes with seasons, research reveals

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A synthetic RNA molecule may help the body repair damaged DNA and heal tissue after heart or autoimmune injury

New Study Challenges Global Health Advice: Reducing Sweetness Won't Curb Cravings

Tiny Metal Nanodots Obliterate Cancer Cells While Largely Sparing Healthy Tissue

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Karahan Tepe: Mysterious Figurine With Stitched Lips Found at 11,000-Year-Old Site

Extremely rare 'dinosaur mummy' makes its way to Minnesota for study

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Taylor and Travis to carry on Saturday, June 13, 2026 in Rhode Island - Ocean House in Watch Hill

Inside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's swanky Rhode Island wedding venue

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Capturing the cultural zeitgeist and trends for the year ahead is a tricky business. But every year, the Pantone Color Institute chooses a color to do precisely that. It settled on a shade of white, 'Cloud Dancer,' as its Color of the Year for 2026. The color is associated with new beginnings and signifies our desire for a fresh start.

'Greatest of them all': Faberge's Winter Egg is poised to smash auction records

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Specific Hand Gestures Can Make You Instantly More Persuasive, Study Says

People who talk with their hands seem more clear and persuasive

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Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $83 Billion Deal to Create a Streaming Giant. The deal to acquire the Hollywood giant's television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world's biggest paid streaming service

Here are the groups for the 2026 FIFA World Cup

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Federal judge in Florida orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts and records in Epstein probe

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An Exploding Star Just Changed What We Know About the Origins of Life

Close Brush With 'Cosmic Dog' May Still Be Seen at Solar System's Edge

'Tornado' of Galaxies Could Be The Longest Spinning Structure Ever Seen

Almost All Space Telescope Images Could Soon Be Contaminated, NASA Warns

Astronomers Stunned: Hidden Star Found Inside Impossible Dust Zone

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Quantum technology moves from lab to life, but widespread use remains years away

CERN's ATLAS detects evidence for decay of Higgs boson into muon-antimuon pair

LHC data confirm validity of new model of hadron production and test foundations of quantum mechanics

A direct leap into terahertz: Dirac materials enable efficient signal conversion at room temperature

How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics

Scientists rule out fourth neutrino in particle physics mystery

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Gold Nanoclusters Could Supercharge Quantum Computers

Computers Made From Human Brain Tissue Are Coming. Are We Prepared?

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The World's Largest Ice Desert Surprisingly Lacks Ice in One Key Place

New data reveals one of the smallest ozone holes in decades

3.3 billion-year-old crystals reveal a shockingly active early Earth. New evidence reveals a surprisingly dynamic Hadean Earth already forging continents and recycling crust.

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Celebrated Rutland mosaic depicts 'long-lost' Troy story connecting Roman Britain to the ancient classical world

Archaic humans were strategic and picky hunters, new study suggests

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Black Death's Carnage Traced to a Volcanic Eruption Half a World Away

Your Driving Choices Could Be Hiding Signs of Future Cognitive Decline

AI Now Decodes Your Sweat to Spot Early Signs of Disease

Your Depression Type Could Determine Your Risk for Diabetes or Heart Disease

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Why art is a prime target for organized crime

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Microscopic Droplets Reveal DNA's Secret Architecture

The Full Cold Supermoon at 13° Gemini arrives with sharp clarity and quickening energy, illuminating the dualities we've been juggling as the year winds down. Gemini's air element brings heightened communication, curiosity, and the need to express what has been brewing beneath the surface. Because it's a supermoon, emotions feel closer, conversations more meaningful, and synchronicities more noticeable.

This lunation highlights truth-seeking, decision-making, gathering information, and reconnecting with people or ideas that once guided your path. It also brings a sense of restless anticipation - the mind racing ahead while the body moves through colder, stiller days. Expect revelations, news, or insights that help you tie up loose ends before the next cycle begins.

As this Supermoon closes out the cycle, it opens a window into 2026 - a year where clarity hopefully replaces confusion, long-delayed choices finally move forward, and new connections guide you toward the next chapter of your personal and collective journey.

JWST finds a Milky Way twin born shockingly early in the Universe

The solar mission that survived disaster and found 5,000 comets

Space is filling with junk and scientists have a fix

New Images Reveal Young Solar Systems Filled With Secret Planets

Simulations reveal how black holes generate intense light from infalling matter

SpaceX knocks out sunset Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral

Historical geography helps researchers solve 2,700-year old eclipse mystery

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UFO clues emerge in decades-old images showing strange bursts over nuclear testing sites: report

UFOs potentially identified in 1950s images, study finds

Trump must address UFOs to dispel conflicting messages: Journalist

Did a former Soviet Union citizen tour a UFO and leave proof? | Reality Check

Lue Elizondo Ran the Pentagon's UFO Unit - and Says the Government Is Withholding What It Knows

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New levitating sensors could pave way to dark matter detection and quantum sensing

Quantum Spin Ice Is Real: Physicists Confirm Exotic State of Matter

Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possible

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Paper Mill Trash Could Be the Secret to Cheap Clean Energy

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New Algorithm Lets Architects Design Stunning Curved Structures in Minutes

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35-Year-Old Air Samples Uncover Unexpected Changes in Nature's Seasonal Rhythms

First Detailed Look at a Tsunami From Space Reveals Unexpected Feature - SWOT data suggest the tsunami broke up, forming a relatively large leading wave followed by smaller trailing waves

NASA Satellite Captures First-Ever High-Res View of a Giant Pacific Tsunami

Scientists Uncover New Evidence of Ancient Airbursts That Ravaged Earth Without Leaving Craters

Only one in 10 Hawaii households meets emergency preparedness standards

From earthquakes to wildfires, Canada is woefully ill-prepared for disasters

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Microbiologists Explain What Happens in Your Mouth When You Eat Sugar

Scientists Discover the Brain's Hidden Fat-Burning Power

Sweat-reading AI wearables are poised to become the next breakthrough in personalized, needle-free health monitoring.

Hidden Brain Layers May Explain Why Memory Fails

'Brainquake' phenomenon links psychotic states to chaotic information flow

Why stress can make your hair fall out: A two-part reaction

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Elaborate 2,700-year-old tomb in Greece contains burial of a woman with an upside-down crown

One of Publishing's Greatest Failures - How a 500-Year-Old Bible Map Changed History Forever

10-thousand-year-old genomes from southern Africa change picture of human evolution

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Ancient Pterosaurs Took Flight With Surprisingly Small Brains, Study Finds

18,000 Tracks Discovered in World's Largest Dinosaur Tracksite

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The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume on 30 December, over a decade after the aircraft with 239 people on board vanished and will run for 55 days based on weather concerns

DNA Analysis Reveals Two Routes Ancient Humans Used to Reach Australia

Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting

It looks like the weather is going to cooperate here in New York City - clear, crisp, and cold enough to give the evening that classic holiday feel. Crowds will gather around the Rockefeller Plaza - some wearing Christmas scarves, hats, and other things to put onlookers and those at home in a holiday mood - while watching entertainment - as anticipation builds for the tree lighting countdown. The ice rink below will reflect the glow of the surrounding buildings, turning the whole scene into a living postcard.

Live entertainment will fill the air as singers dressed in festive holiday attire perform seasonal classics - their voices echoing through the plaza. Christmas carols blend with the hum of the crowd, creating a soundtrack that feels both nostalgic and electric. Dancers, choirs, and musicians add to the ambience, transforming Rockefeller Center into a grand holiday stage.

This tradition goes back to 1933 as families gather, often huddled together in the chill of winter, strangers smile at one another, and in that moment there is a genuine sense of oneness. Behold the tree lighting up as onlookers and those at home forget the chaotic world around us through the magic of the moment - best reflected in the wondering eyes of the children who remind us why this and other holiday traditions matter.

It's all about the 'screens of reality' coming to life in the virtual hologram that connects us to our emotional selves - a shared experience reflecting the spiraling movement of time and light within the continuum of existence.

Scientists Spot Hidden Water Ice on Mars: A Game-Changer for Human Missions

Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Revealed a Big Surprise - Yellow crystals of elemental sulfur, known as brimstone

Dynamic duo of bacteria could change Mars dust into versatile building material for first human colonists

Dead stars aren't so dead after all: The hidden force inflating white dwarfs

New Theory Suggests We've Been Wrong About Black Holes for 60 Years

A Lost Spacecraft SOHO Came Back and Changed How We See the Sun

Alaknanda: JWST discovers massive grand-design spiral galaxy from the universe's infancy

Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS - giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

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the first trailer for Steven Spielberg's mysterious UFO movie is rumored to debut with "Avatar: Fire and Ash"

The Trailer for Spielberg's next UFO movie will be released this month

UFO-like 'drones' targeted police helicopter over air base before vanishing: report

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Geodesic approach links quantum physics and gravitation

Physicists overcome fundamental limitation of acoustic levitation

Single-photon teleportation achieved between distant quantum dots for the first time

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Satellites at Risk? New AI Predicts Space Weather With Breakthrough Accuracy

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Plants Stopped Thriving When Earth Warmed 56 Million Years Ago

A hidden Antarctic shift unleashed the carbon that warmed the world

Chesapeake Bay's storm surge tides can be 47% higher than the open ocean

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Scientists discover first gene proven to directly cause mental illness

Beyond Ozempic: The New Pill That Burns Fat but Keeps the Muscle

Our Brains Really Do 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate, Study Reveals

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Monumental Roman basin hidden for 2,000 years unearthed near Rome

Sounding the 6,000-year-old shell trumpets of Catalonia

4,000-year-old burial in little-known African kingdom mystifies archaeologists

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Having a gun in your hand is very empowering
just be sure you know what you're doing.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Art is harmony.
Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of
tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under
the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

Molecule Vital to Happiness Found in Material From Asteroid Bennu

New Idea Could Turn Space Debris Into Future Spacecraft

What time is it on Mars? Physicists have the answer.

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What seven decades of hunting for aliens tells us

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The case for an antimatter Manhattan project

Physicists create 'quantum wire' where mass and energy flow without friction or loss

New Research Shows How Entanglement Amplifies Light

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New Algorithm Reveals the Secret Chemistry Behind Cheaper, Cleaner Propylene

Bird-of-paradise inspires darkest fabric ever made

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Using AI to Find Information Could Diminish Your Knowledge, Study Finds

Scientists just found a way to tell if quantum computers are wrong

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A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia

750-Year-Old Poems Reveal India's Savannas Are Far Older Than We Thought

Scientists Find a New State of Matter at Earth's Center

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Study Reveals The Age You Hit The 'Tipping Point' Into Frailty - Over 75

Switch Turns Brain's Defenses Into Protectors Against Alzheimer's

Fat Stem Cells Heal Broken Spines in a Breakthrough Study

Scientists can finally answer an old question about cellular aging

The functional principles of eye evolution: Light-sensitive stem cells provide new insight

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An ancient Egyptian crocodile relative pushes dyrosaurid evolution deeper into the past and firmly roots their origins in Africa

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Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings

It Rivaled Ancient Egypt, Then Vanished: New Study Pinpoints Why the Indus Valley Fell

Massive pit circle confirmed as Neolithic structure near Durrington Walls henge

Humans first entered Australia 60,000 years ago via two routes, DNA analysis suggests

New discoveries reveal Tell Abraq's role in ancient Persian Gulf trade

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Iran is running out of clean water. One city is grappling with a water crisis so severe the Iranian president has suggested people may need to evacuate. The weeks tick by, still the rains doesn’t arrive.

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14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight

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