In this week’s edition of The Prototype we look at the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025–and the year’s best music. To get The Prototype in your inbox, sign up here. Despite political and economic ...

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2025 had its ups and downs for many people, and you might understandably be ready to leave the year in your rearview mirror. Before moving on to the future though, it's worth looking back on some of ...

A novel satellite-based method to track fossil fuel CO2 emissions with greater precision than ever before marks a “significant advancement for climate monitoring”, said Open Access Government.

At the end of 2024, I shared 10 predictions about how AI, quantum computing and digital trust would shape 2025. As we are well into 2026, we can assess how those expectations held up: where we nailed ...

Black hole science in 2025 did not advance in gentle increments. It lurched forward in giant steps, from record shattering collisions to hints of entirely new kinds of objects that blur the line ...