2025 in science
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The following scientific events occurred, or are scheduled to occur in 2025. The United Nations declared 2025 the International year of quantum science and technology.
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 1 January – Detailed telemetry data from the Parker Solar Probe is received, following its passage through the Sun's corona.[1]
- 2 January
- The biggest dinosaur fossil trackway ever found in the UK is reported at a quarry in Oxfordshire, consisting of 200 huge footprints made during the mid-Jurassic.[2]
- Bioengineers at Rice University report having developed a novel "construction kit" for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells.[3][4]
- 3 January – Researchers report discovering a new class of anti-malaria antibodies.[5][6]
- 8 January – Scientists publish a comprehensive map of protein locations within human cells, offering potential new insights into how cells respond to infections and other changing circumstances.[7]
- 9 January – The El Capitan supercomputer is officially dedicated at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, United States.[8]
- 10 January
- The European Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that 2024 was the world's hottest year on record, and the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold of 1.5°C of global warming.[9]
- The first fully 3D printed microscope is revealed by the University of Strathclyde, made in just a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional devices.[10]
- 13 January – Researchers discover what could be the world's oldest three-dimensional map in a cave in the Paris Basin of France, dating back 13,000 years.[11]
- 15 January – The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft ends its operation after 11 years of mapping the Milky Way galaxy, during which time it made three trillion observations of two billion stars.[12]
- 16 January
- Microsoft researchers publish details of MatterGen, a generative AI tool for materials design.[13]
- The first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material is demonstrated by Northwestern University, consisting of 100 trillion bonds per square centimetre, which its creators describe as having exceptional flexibility and strength.[14] Adding just 2.5% of the new material to Ultem boosted the latter's tensile modulus by 45%.[15]
- The air monitoring station at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reports that CO2 jumped by 3.58 parts per million (ppm) in 2024, exceeding the previous record of 3.36 ppm set in 2023. The global atmospheric concentration of CO2 is now at 427 ppm, more than 50% higher than the pre-industrial level.[16][17]
- 21 January
- Coral bleaching on the southern Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 is reported to have struck 80% of colonies, with some coral genera, such as Acropora, experiencing a 95% mortality rate.[18]
- More than a third (34%) of the Arctic-boreal zone is now reported to be a source of carbon emissions, rather than a carbon sink, a figure that rises to 40% when including emissions from fires.[19]
- The exoplanet WASP-127b is discovered to have wind speeds of up to 33,000 km/h, the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured.[20]
- 22 January – The second Trump administration imposes an immediate freeze on scientific grants, communications, hiring, and meetings at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – by far the biggest supporter of biomedical research worldwide – impacting $47.4 billion worth of activities.[21]
- 23 January – Machine learning and 3D printing are used at the University of Toronto to design nano-architected materials exhibiting the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam.[22]
Predicted and scheduled events
[edit]- 20 May – The 150th anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention will be celebrated, which established the BIPM, one of the first International Organizations.
- 22 June – The Royal Observatory Greenwich will celebrate its 350th anniversary.[23]
Date unknown
[edit]- NASA's IMAP probe will launch toward Lagrange point 1 to collect interstellar dust and investigate space weather.[24]
- The Venus Life Finder spacecraft is expected to arrive at Venus.[25][26]
- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to begin science operations in late 2025.[27][28]
- Science-related budgets
See also
[edit]- Category:Science events
- Category:Science timelines
- List of emerging technologies
- List of years in science
References
[edit]- ^ "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Healthy Status After Solar Encounter – Parker Solar Probe". blogs.nasa.gov. 2 January 2025. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed". BBC News. BBC. 2 January 2025. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ Yang, Xiaoyu; Rocks, Jason W.; Jiang, Kaiyi; Walters, Andrew J.; Rai, Kshitij; Liu, Jing; Nguyen, Jason; Olson, Scott D.; Mehta, Pankaj; Collins, James J.; Daringer, Nichole M.; Bashor, Caleb J. (3 January 2025). "Engineering synthetic phosphorylation signaling networks in human cells". Science. 387 (6729): 74–81. doi:10.1126/science.adm8485. ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ "Breakthrough for 'smart cell' design". ScienceDaily. 3 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ Dacon, Cherrelle; Moskovitz, Re’em; Swearingen, Kristian; Da Silva Pereira, Lais; Flores-Garcia, Yevel; Aleshnick, Maya; Kanatani, Sachie; Flynn, Barbara; Molina-Cruz, Alvaro; Wollenberg, Kurt; Traver, Maria; Kirtley, Payton; Purser, Lauren; Dillon, Marlon; Bonilla, Brian (3 January 2025). "Protective antibodies target cryptic epitope unmasked by cleavage of malaria sporozoite protein". Science. 387 (6729). doi:10.1126/science.adr0510. ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ "Researchers discover class of anti-malaria antibodies". ScienceDaily. 3 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ "Scientists create comprehensive map of protein locations within human cells". EurekAlert!. EurekAlert!. 8 January 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ Fried, Ina (10 January 2025). "Meet the world's most powerful supercomputer". Axios. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit". BBC News. BBC News. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- ^ "World's first fully 3D-printed microscope made in under 3 hours". New Scientist. New Scientist. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ "World's oldest 3D map discovered". ScienceDaily. 13 January 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ^ "Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia". ESA. ESA. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI". Microsoft. Microsoft. 16 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "Chainmail-like material could be the future of armor". Northwestern University. Northwestern University. 16 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "21st-century chainmail uses molecular instead of metallic links". New Atlas. New Atlas. 17 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "Wildfires drive record leap in global level of climate-heating CO2". The Guardian. The Guardian. 17 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2". New Scientist. New Scientist. 17 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ "Cycle of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef now at 'catastrophic' levels". scimex. scimex. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
- ^ "After millennia as CO₂ sink, more than one-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source". Phys.org. Phys.org. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
- ^ "Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System". ESO. ESO. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ^ "Trump hits NIH with 'devastating' freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring". Science. 22 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ^ "Strong as steel, light as foam: Machine learning and nano-3D printing create breakthrough nano-architected materials". Nanowerk. Nanowerk. 25 January 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ^ "History of the Royal Observatory | Royal Museums Greenwich". www.rmg.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^ Kuthunur, Sharmila (22 January 2024). "NASA's IMAP probe will launch in 2025 to capture interstellar dust". Space.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (31 October 2023). "Rocket Lab plans launch of Venus mission as soon as late 2024". SpaceNews. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Speed, Richard. "Rocket Lab sets sights on 2024-2025 window for Venus mission". The Register. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Rubin Observatory will inspire a new era in space missions without ever leaving the ground". SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Rubin Observatory Will Reveal Dark Matter's Ghostly Disruptions of Stellar Streams - Vera C. Rubin Observatory's stunningly detailed images will illuminate distant stellar streams and their past encounters with dark matter". www.noirlab.edu. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "FACT SHEET: President Biden's 2025 Budget Invests in Science and Technology to Power American Innovation, Expand Frontiers of What's Possible | OSTP". The White House. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Mervis, Jeffrey. "Biden's lean science budget could mean tough choices for agencies". Science. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
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