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2025: The Year Science Was Shaken

2025: The Year Science Was Shaken

60-Second Science vor 9 Monaten

A look back at 2025’s biggest science stories—from federal upheaval and public health setbacks to climate policy reversals and groundbreaking discoveries in space.

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In this year-end roundup, Scientific American editors break down
how 2025 reshaped science across the board—from sweeping federal
upheavals that disrupted long-standing research institutions to
public health setbacks driven by vaccine rollbacks and rising
measles cases to renewed hostility toward climate science and
clean-energy policy and finally to the mind-bending dark energy
findings that are shaking up cosmology. Together, their insights
reveal how 2025 was a turbulent year for science on Earth and
beyond—and what to watch closely in 2026. Recommended Reading:
Cures for Sickle Cell Disease Arrive After a Painful Journey NASA’s
Moon Race Looks like a Losing Bet Changing the FDA’s Vaccine
Approval Process Could Threaten COVID, Flu Protection for Children
5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10 Latest
Dark Energy Study Suggests the Universe Is Even Weirder Than We
Imagined E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any
questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover
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Pierre-Louis, Fonda Mwangi, Sushmita Pathak and Jeff DelViscio.
This episode was edited by Alex Sugiura, with fact-checking by
Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. Our theme music was composed by
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