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2025 was the year of online safety laws – but do they work?

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2025 was the year of online safety laws – but do they work?

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal

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Environment

China's carbon emissions may have started to fall in 2025

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Life

De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn't live up to the hype

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Life

A spectacular showcase of animal pictures from 2025

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Technology

AI firms began to feel the legal wrath of copyright holders in 2025

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Humans

The most amazing archaeology photos and discoveries of 2025

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Mind

People saw a new colour for the first time in 2025

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Health

The potential of GLP-1 drugs to transform medicine exploded in 2025

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Space

Chance of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025

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Handout still for the film Blue Planet Red. Wrench Tool and Container Discovered by Rolf Varga, the Spirit Rover photographed two funny-looking rocks that resemble a wrench and open-top container laid on its side. https://blueplanetred.net/images

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Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

Brian Cory Dobbs's documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there's some value in how it inadvertently documents a generation of otherwise-sensible scientists, says Simon Ings

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Humans

A compelling book about the end of the Neanderthals is a rare treat

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Environment

Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery

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Health

Matt Richtel grapples with how modern life is warping adolescence

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Health

Tim Spector's guide to fermentation is meticulous and persuasive

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