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Using artificial intelligence, researchers identified two previously unknown subtypes of multiple sclerosis, paving the way for personalized treatments.
Coco Gauff spent 2025 winning major titles and widening the door for the next generation, confirming her rise as a lasting movement in women's tennis.
The planet's oldest bee species and primary pollinator in the Amazon rainforest has been granted legal rights — a world first for any insect.
A previously unknown jaguar was identified in southern Arizona through remote cameras, suggesting that conservation efforts are helping the endangered species expand its range northward.
A pioneering assisted fertilization technique is helping restore disappearing coral reefs in the Dominican Republic, with the approach gaining momentum across the Caribbean.
When Janae helped a stranger in need, she had no idea the encounter would change her life — the man turned out to be a content creator who rewarded her kindness with a generous cash gift.
In a groundbreaking first, surgeons at the University of Southern California completed the world's first successful bladder transplant, opening a new treatment frontier for patients with terminal bladder disease.
In December 2025, the FDA approved mitapivat (AQVESME), the first oral disease-modifying treatment for anemia in adults with alpha- or beta-thalassemia, after two Phase 3 trials showed it improved hemoglobin and reduced transfusion needs.
GanLum, the first new type of malaria treatment in decades, demonstrated a 99.2% cure rate in phase 3 trials — outperforming standard treatments and offering hope to millions.
New data shows global deforestation rates dropped sharply in 2025, with Brazil's Amazon seeing its lowest destruction levels in years and Indonesia continuing its downward trend.
Science Magazine declared the unstoppable rise of renewable energy as 2025's Breakthrough of the Year, with China installing record-breaking solar and wind capacity.
A new conservation study offers hope for wild axolotls facing extinction: captive-bred populations retain enough genetic diversity to potentially replenish their wild counterparts in Mexico.
For the first time, renewable sources generated a third of the world's electricity in 2025, with solar and wind leading an accelerating energy transition.
The Immigrant Defense Network has gathered more than 100 organizations to support vulnerable families, training an average of 2,000 volunteers per week as constitutional observers.
Scientists have identified and mapped climate change refugia around the world that are naturally buffered from the worst effects of global warming.
The Greenland Wildlife Overpass, the largest wildlife crossing in North America, opened over Interstate 25 in Douglas County, Colorado, reconnecting 39,000 acres of habitat and making one of the state's most dangerous stretches of highway far safer.
Archaeologists excavating the Villa di Poppea at Oplontis uncovered vivid frescoes including symmetrical peacocks and traces of Egyptian blue pigment, expanding the known rooms of one of the best-preserved Roman villas to over 100.
The Saving Wildcats project has released 46 captive-bred European wildcats into the Cairngorms National Park, with 95 percent surviving their first ten months and females raising litters in the wild in both 2024 and 2025. Conservationists say it proves a critically endangered cat can be brought back.
Hunted to roughly 2,000 animals a century ago, sea otters have rebounded to nearly 100,000 across the Pacific, with about 95,000 in Alaska. As keystone predators that keep urchins in check, the otters have become the single strongest predictor of healthy kelp forests along the coast.
The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is now operational, equipped with the Simonyi Telescope that will scan the entire visible sky every three days.
The Tainui Atea marine protected area now covers 1.1 million square kilometers of ocean, making it the largest MPA on Earth and a major win for ocean biodiversity.
Mail carrier Deanna Chatman noticed a faint cry for help during a Missouri snowstorm and found a 96-year-old neighbor with a shattered pelvis in the snow — a rescue her supervisors call "just what a mail carrier does."
Engineer Guihua Yu won the 2025 Global Prize for Innovation in Water for hydrogel systems that purify seawater and harvest drinking water from air using only sunlight, aimed at off-grid communities.
Japan's kodomo shokudo — community cafeterias offering free or low-cost meals to children and neighbors — reached a record 12,601 sites in fiscal 2025, up more than 1,700 from the year before. The nonprofit Musubie says the growth reflects efforts to build welcoming spaces.
Highlife, the joyful Ghanaian genre that blends indigenous rhythms with brass-band and guitar traditions, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
At its largest-ever session in New Delhi, UNESCO inscribed 67 new cultural practices on its intangible heritage lists, spotlighting traditional craftsmanship and bringing the global total to 849 elements across 157 countries.
The FDA cleared Flow Neuroscience's FL-100, a wearable headset delivering gentle electrical stimulation to treat major depression at home, the first device of its kind authorized in the US as a non-drug therapy.
Reported in December 2025 in the New England Journal of Medicine, "off-the-shelf" base-edited CAR7 T cells drove very deep remissions in 82% of patients with resistant T-cell leukemia, with the earliest patients disease-free for three years.
Scientists announced that the ozone hole over Antarctica was its smallest in six years in 2025, continuing a long-term healing trend driven by the Montreal Protocol.
Fervo Energy closed a $462 million funding round, led by B Capital and joined by Google, to complete Cape Station in Utah, set to deliver clean, around-the-clock geothermal power starting in 2026.
Queens Public Library broke ground in December 2025 on a new 39 million dollar Rego Park branch — a three-story, 18,000-square-foot building with dedicated spaces for teens, children and adults. A mobile library keeps service running during construction.
Deepavali, the festival of lights celebrated across India and its global diaspora, was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during the committee session hosted in New Delhi.
Fervo Energy raised $462 million to complete Cape Station in Utah, set to be the world's largest next-generation geothermal project. Its first 100 megawatts of round-the-clock, carbon-free power are due online in 2026, scaling to 500 megawatts by 2028 — a major step for "always-on" clean energy.
After suffering a devastating crash in the Giant Slalom, the most decorated Alpine skier in history is back and ready for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Beginning 1 January 2026, MoMA PS1 offers free admission to all visitors, becoming New York City’s largest free museum thanks to a gift from creative entrepreneur Sonya Yu, timed to the institution’s 50th anniversary.
Harvard chemist David Liu received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing base editing and prime editing, precision gene-editing tools that can correct mutations without cutting DNA.
The first giant panda cub ever born in Indonesia, a male named Satrio Wiratama and nicknamed Rio, arrived at Taman Safari Indonesia in late November 2025. His birth crowns a decade-long conservation partnership between Indonesia and China for a species now classed as vulnerable.
Engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute created an enzymatic structural material that hardens in hours and locks away more CO2 than it emits, offering a carbon-negative alternative to concrete, which causes about 8% of global emissions.
An AI imaging decision-support tool deployed at over 70 hospitals across England helped roughly 15,000 stroke patients, doubling thrombectomy rates from 2.3 to 4.6 percent and cutting transfer times, with national rollout under way.
When 86-year-old Connie Platero of the Navajo Nation helped a stranger buy headache medicine at an Arizona Walmart, his thank-you of $500 grew into a GoFundMe that raised more than $68,000 for her family.
Eavor's Geretsried project in Bavaria became the first closed-loop geothermal system to deliver electricity to a commercial grid, using sealed wells that draw heat from hot rock almost anywhere, without fracking or water use.
Choco vanished from his California yard in 2021. Nearly five years later he turned up tied to a fence near Detroit, and a microchip, a volunteer rescue group and a stranger’s donated flight miles brought him home.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team watched the low-density planet WASP-107b lose helium into a vast cloud stretching nearly ten times the planet’s radius.
JinkoSolar reported a certified 34.76% efficiency for a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell, edging close to the world record and signaling steady progress toward cheaper, higher-yield panels.
Project CETI researchers used custom AI models to analyze sperm whale codas, identifying vowel-like patterns described as one of the closest parallels to human phonology found in animal communication.
