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Technology

Humanoid robots will march into factories and homes in 2025

A robotic boom could see thousands of humanoid units entering workplaces and more in 2025, but whether they will have staying power remains to be seen

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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.

Space

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.

Health

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

Earth

The most powerful images of the natural world from 2024

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Environment

Monster wildfires are sending more smoke into the stratosphere

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Life

Whales may hone their singing skills by practising out of season

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Mathematics

Mathematicians spent 2024 unravelling proof almost no one understands

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Technology

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

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Environment

Is solar geoengineering research having its moment?

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Technology

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

A US ban on the video-sharing app TikTok is set to take effect in early 2025 – but the country's Supreme Court and President-elect Donald Trump could still change that

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Technology

Quantum teleportation can survive through busy internet cables

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Health

Will an mRNA vaccine target the norovirus strain behind surging cases?

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Space

NASA’s Mars helicopter was grounded in 2024 after surprise success

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Technology

Hundreds of small websites may shut down due to UK's Online Safety Act

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