The Daily Aus Breakthrough discoveries & your good news roundup
Nov 28, 2025
Celebrate the 2025 Good News Awards with a roundup of heartwarming stories! Discover how AI is pushing the boundaries in medical breakthroughs, including a promising mRNA HIV treatment. Marvel at Mitch Brown, the AFL's first openly bisexual player, and his significant impact. Be inspired by Valerie, the sausage dog rescued after 529 days! Plus, learn about the renewable energy triumph, with renewables finally surpassing coal. Don't miss the hilariously bizarre tale of hikers rescued while on psychedelics!
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Medical Breakthroughs Led Science This Year
- Medical discoveries dominated science good news in 2025, spanning treatments for cancer, rabies, HIV, malaria and Alzheimer's.
- Emma highlights AI as a key enabler accelerating many of these breakthrough medical advances.
AI Showing Practical Wins In Medicine
- AI played a central role in several medical advances and diagnostics trials across the UK, Scotland and research studies.
- Billi and Emma note AI's practical uses from fast brain-scan interpretation to skin-lesion analysis in remote areas.
Melbourne Team's Promising HIV mRNA Treatment
- The Peter Doherty Institute team in Melbourne developed an mRNA-based treatment for HIV with promising results.
- Emma says the findings felt 'too good to be true' but bring us closer to an HIV cure than ever.