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December 2025

24 posts

• 31 Dec 2025 closes and the new year begins
• 29 Dec The days between and the year’s last quiet
• 28 Dec Words of the year, and the mood they catch
• 27 Dec The year's ledger: the accounts of 2025
• 25 Dec The day itself and the rituals of the turning week

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November 2025

22 posts

• 30 Nov November closes with the year’s decisions delivered
• 29 Nov Ancient DNA opens a window on Shimao
• 28 Nov From martial law to the dock: a president's year on trial
• 27 Nov Shenzhou 22, the first emergency launch
• 26 Nov The holiday and the year's accounting

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October 2025

27 posts

• 31 Oct Water worlds, brewed under pressure
• 30 Oct October closes with the year’s arguments at their peak
• 30 Oct Diffusion models take on every molecule of life: AlphaFold 3
• 29 Oct Humanity moves more biomass than all land animals
• 28 Oct Reversing time to probe quantum dynamics

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September 2025

26 posts

• 30 Sep September closes and the autumn begins in earnest
• 29 Sep Big fires, and the warming they feed
• 28 Sep Fengyun 3 08: a weather eye on climate change
• 26 Sep The assembly closes and the autumn's work resumes
• 25 Sep Muon magnetism lands on the Standard Model side

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August 2025

9 posts

• 29 Aug August closes and the autumn's arguments line up
• 26 Aug The school year that begins with the world in motion
• 23 Aug Hurricane season and the summer’s warnings
• 21 Aug Flow matching for robots: one backbone, every body
• 19 Aug Jackson Hole arrives with the rates in question

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July 2025

13 posts

• 31 Jul July closes with the settlements and the summer’s shape
• 28 Jul Washington talks on the trade’s largest file
• 25 Jul The long vacation and the quiet between the headlines
• 21 Jul The drawdown announcement and the alliance's new arithmetic
• 18 Jul The first days of the ceasefire and the work of keeping it

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June 2025

11 posts

• 28 Jun June closes: the half-year in the rear mirror
• 27 Jun European-American talks reach their decisive stage
• 26 Jun Twelve days in June: the Israel-Iran war that redrew a map
• 25 Jun Nuclear talks return to Vienna with a new cast
• 21 Jun The truce expires and the tariffs return on schedule

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May 2025

12 posts

• 31 May May closes and the summer's calendar takes shape
• 30 May Climate machinery grinds toward Belém
• 29 May The last week before Korea votes
• 26 May Europe's summer of decisions begins quietly
• 22 May Thirty-day truce: a window that both sides need

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April 2025

12 posts

• 28 Apr The Korean campaign that the verdict opened
• 25 Apr Rome waits for the smoke and the world waits with it
• 23 Apr Francis: the pope who changed the room
• 19 Apr Easter in the middle of the trade war
• 18 Apr European talks begin with a list of demands: the mandate the member states set

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March 2025

8 posts

• 26 Mar Qingming, the road home
• 25 Mar Spring that the markets learned to price
• 23 Mar Seoul waits for the court and the country waits for the answer
• 21 Mar Climate leadership that left an empty chair
• 18 Mar The automotive tariffs: the levy that rewrote the map

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February 2025

10 posts

• 28 Feb Meeting in Washington that ended the script
• 27 Feb Donanemab slows dementia: a modest but real gain
• 23 Feb Germany votes and the coalition work begins
• 22 Feb Germany's last weekend before the verdict
• 19 Feb The impeachment trial that Korea watched in silence

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January 2025

11 posts

• 29 Jan DeepSeek R1: a reminder that intelligence is not the same as cost
• 28 Jan The Year of the Snake arrives on a workday: the shortest festival
• 27 Jan Davos and the year of the strong
• 25 Jan The tariff deadline that arrived early
• 23 Jan First hundred hours

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