Hello.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Welcome to the first podcast of the year from all of us at New Scientist.
Now, this week, we're going to provide you with a preview of the year, all the big events in science that you need to know to set you up for the year ahead.
That doesn't mean you have to stop listening to the podcast for the rest of the year.
What it means is you're going to be primed, you're going to be smarter than everyone else because you already know what's happening and before it happens, pretty much.
So what we've done, though, is we've asked our reporters, our editors, what's most on their radar for this year to give us a heads up.
We've got basically what the intel on the year, what the incoming US president means for COP 30, the climate summit.
We've got a genetically modified pig coming to market, and GM bananas.
We're going to look forward to some big results on Ozempic, which was a big story from last year.
And what else?
We got supersonic flight, we got geoengineering experiments.
There's lots going on.
But we're going to start with robots.
It's a big year for robots.
The Chinese government has actually called 2025 a year of humanoid robot innovation.
News editor Jacob Erin is here to tell us about what we can expect.
Jacob?
Yes, obviously, you know, robot arms and things like that have been used in car manufacturing for a while, but this is humanoid robots.
So something with two arms, two legs, it can walk about, it can sort of human tools, it can interact in an environment.