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Disease-resistant pork may go on sale in 2025 thanks to gene editing

US regulators are expected to approve a disease-resistant pig breed in 2025, opening the door to wider adoption of gene-edited farm animals and crops

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Direct CO2 capture from the atmosphere will scale up massively in 2025

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The world?s largest Direct Air Capture facility from 1PointFive, STRATOS, currently being developed in Ector County, TX

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COP30 host Brazil aims to get 2025 climate talks back on track

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/Shutterstock (14937083f) Activists stage a protest during a press conference in Blue Zone during United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29, an event held by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Baku Olympic Stadium. COP29, running from November 11-22 focuses on climate funding. UN Climate Conference COP29 in Baku - Day eleven, Azerbaijan - 22 Nov 2024

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These are all of the missions heading to the moon in 2025

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Humanoid robots will march into factories and homes in 2025

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An artistic celebration of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) year-one data, showing a slice of the larger 3D map that DESI is constructing during its five-year survey. By mapping objects across multiple periods of cosmic history with extremely high precision, DESI is allowing astronomers to make unprecedented measurements of dark energy and its effect on the accelerating expansion of the Universe. DESI???s map reveals the large-scale structure of the Universe, showing clumps of galaxies separated by voids where there are fewer objects. This pattern is a result of large pressure waves that permeated the early Universe and is reflected in the cosmic microwave background ??? a 2D snapshot of the radiation that filled the Universe shortly after the Big Bang, which bears the imprint of the 3D galaxy distribution. DESI is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. This version of the DESI map includes 600,000 galaxies ??? less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume. The locations of objects in the data slice do not correlate with their locations on-sky shown in this image.

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Could 2025 be the year we finally start to understand dark energy?

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B6DT04 Alzheimers disease. Series of computed tomography (CT) scans of an axial section through the head of a 74-year-old patient.

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We'll learn about Ozempic's potential for Alzheimer's disease in 2025

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The eye of Hurricane Beryl on 1 July

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The most powerful images of the natural world from 2024

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Monster wildfires are sending more smoke into the stratosphere

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Whales may hone their singing skills by practising out of season

The songs of male humpback whales seem to become more complex in the months before they look for a mate, suggesting a rehearsal period may be important for good performance

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Mathematicians spent 2024 unravelling proof almost no one understands

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OpenAI's o3 model aced a test of AI reasoning – but it's still not AGI

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Is solar geoengineering research having its moment?

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How the US Supreme Court and Trump could stop a TikTok ban

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