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Environment

2025's best photos of the natural world, from volcanoes to icebergs

A village buried by a landslide, the world’s largest tidal bore and the aftermath of ferocious storms and wildfires appear in our pick of images from environment stories this year

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Space

Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?

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Life

A ghostly glow was seen emanating from living things in 2025

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Life

6 incredible new dinosaurs we discovered in 2025

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Technology

The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope went big in 2025

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Physics

Physicists used 'dark photons' in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025

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Space

More than 100 moons were discovered in our own solar system in 2025

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Environment

Alpine communities face uncertain future after 2025 glacier collapse

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Health

Gene therapy for Huntington’s disease showed great promise in 2025

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Technology

51¶¯Âþ changed the UK's freedom of information laws in 2025

By requesting copies of the then-UK technology secretary's ChatGPT logs, 51¶¯Âþ 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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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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Environment

China's carbon emissions may have started to fall in 2025

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