SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is an ISRO mission launched to demonstrate autonomous docking and berthing technologies in orbit, crucial for future space stations.

Proba-3 is an ESA mission launched in late 2024 to demonstrate high-precision formation flying of satellites, effectively creating a giant solar coronagraph in space.

The AlphaFold model, recognized in the 2024 Chemistry prize awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, was developed by Google DeepMind.

The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2024 for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for computational protein design, and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction (specifically the AlphaFold model).

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.

The High Seas Treaty (BBNJ Agreement) creates a legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

The WWF Living Planet Report 2024 revealed a catastrophic 73% average decline in monitored wildlife populations between 1970 and 2020.

The Amazon River basin faced an unprecedented drought in 2024 and 2025, with water levels dropping to record lows, isolating communities and killing freshwater dolphins.