Top 10 positive highlights of 2025: From science to society

The year 2025, in many ways, was a year of chaos, confusion, disruption, war, and unprecedented humanitarian crises. But it was also a year of hope. In this two-part special year-ender series, I capture happenings across the world—the good, the bad, and the ugly. I must begin with the positives that emerged in an otherwise chaotic 2025. Positives that Emerged First, Seventy Is Now the New Sixty As reported in Positive News, scientists in the UK, based on a study of English pensioners, declared that “70 really may be the new 60”, finding those in their 70s to be in…