2025: The Year Science Was Shaken
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Episode 2025: The Year Science Was Shaken
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.
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Science Quickly is produced by Kendra 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 Dominic Smith.
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- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-sickle-cell-treatments-highlight-the-power-of-patient-perspectives/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-bet-on-spacexs-starship-may-give-moon-race-to-china/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/changing-the-fdas-vaccine-approval-process-could-threaten-covid-flu/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-paris-climate-agreement-is-turning-10-these-5-charts-show-what-progress/
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