2025 Year in Review

2025 Year in Review

  • Posted by Mara Di Berardo
  • On 23 December 2025
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  • 2025, Year in Review

The 2025 Year in Review is not listed in any priority. It is a non-scientific, subjective review by Jerome C. Glenn. The Year in review has been published by The Millennium Project since 2010.

  1. Trump takes over the U.S. White House
  2. First commercially-funded successful moon landing by Firefly’s Blue Ghost
  3. Massive US government cuts lead by Elon Musk
  4. DeepSeek and Manus AI Agent show China’s rapid progress on AI
  5. War in Ukraine and Sudan continues other regional tensions increase
  6. France, UK, others recognize Palestine State; Simi-cease fire in Gaza
  7. Humanoid Robots going commercial: Tesla, Unitree, Boston Dynamics, others
  8. Germany’s fusion plant sets world record for sustain fusion for 43 seconds.
  9. Pope Francis dies; first American Pope elected as Leo XIV
  10. China has record $1 trillion trade surpluses despite tariff policies 
  11. Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses for augmented reality (AR) commercialized
  12. Gen Z overthrows corrupt governments in Nepal and Madagascar
  13. Job openings for software coders are beginning to fall.
  14. Quantum Computing is becoming practical: drug discovery and materials science
  15. Race to build data centers in orbit to save energy, cooling water, environ’al impacts
  16. Largest number of armed conflicts in history
  17. First G20 meeting held in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
  18. The first World Humanoid Robot Games were held in Beijing
  19. Direct air CO2 capture business star-ups begin.
  20. Trump starts Traffic Wars, cuts US Science 25-50% cuts USAID and UN dues
  21. Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica nearly 50% disintegrated in just two months.
  22. Renewables less costly than fossil fuels
  23. Agentic AI, local AI control (dual engine AI), S. Korea leading 6G race for 2028
  24. VR used to train medical surgeons
  25. Synthetic biology engineered bacteria to diagnose and treat disease.
  26. Structural battery composites, using structure of cars, planes, robots, for energy use.
  27. UN Security Council hold third session on AI as a national security issue
  28. Global warming continues 2015-2025 hottest decade, CO2 emissions record high
  29. Brazil’s Bolsonaro received 27-year prison sentence for leading coop attempt
  30. Japan elected Sanae Takaichi as its first female prime minister
  31. The first paraplegic to go into space on 9-minute trip on Blue Origin
  32. There were 321 rocket launches in 2025, of which Space X launched 172.
  33. Cell reprograming advances by tissue nanotransfection moves toward reverse aging
  34. Lab-grown cells restored brain function in aging mice.

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