2024 was a massive year for science, and most of it, you’ve already forgotten. So for this video I’m taking a look back the biggest science news stories you missed (or have forgotten!)
Links:
James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest and most distant black hole ever seen
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-oldest-black-hole
Meet Retro — the first rhesus monkey cloned using a new method
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-rhesus-monkey-cloned-retro-new-method-scnt/
Anxiety and Testosterone Linked to Brain Receptor
https://neurosciencenews.com/tacr3-anxiety-testosterone-25508/
World’s 1st graphene semiconductor could power future quantum computers
https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/worlds-first-graphene-semiconductor-could-power-future-quantum-computers https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12446
X-rays Reveal a New Phase of MatterLight-matter hybrid can alter its resistance—unveiling secrets to better photovoltaics
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/hybrid-light-matter-2666872175
Mars helicopter Ingenuity pilot says ‘bland’ terrain may have doomed NASA chopper
https://www.space.com/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-doomed-bland-terrain
Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? Manchester astronomers uncover a mysterious object in Milky Way
New search finds 85 exoplanet candidates – as cool as planets in our own Solar System
https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/?newsItem=8a17841a8ce92c70018d3ae753af09ff
European mission approved to detect cosmic ripples
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68096794
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1774/discovery-alert-a-super-earth-in-the-habitable-zone/
Axiom Mission 3 Launches to the International Space Station
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/axiom-mission-3-launches-to-the-international-space-station/
Odysseus spacecraft lands on the moon as Nasa hails ‘giant leap forward’ – as it happened
https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2024/feb/22/nasa-odysseus-moon-landing-intuitive-machines
Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
Scientists say they can cut HIV out of cells
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68609297
SpaceX Starship Flight 3
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/science/spacex-starship-rocket-launch.html
Diamonds can help speed up EVs’ charging time
https://www.mining.com/diamonds-can-help-speed-up-evs-charging-time/
NASA Selects Companies to Advance Moon Mobility for Artemis Missions
Finding Cures – Google DeepMind AlphaFold 3
https://time.com/7094933/google-deepmind-alphafold-3/
Custom Prostate Cancer Treatment
https://time.com/7094698/arterai-multimodal-artificial-intelligence/
China launches ambitious mission to far side of the moon
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/03/china-moon-mission-far-side-chang-e-6-launch
China’s Chang’e-6 robot lands on Moon’s far side
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxeejp0y2pjo
Carrying lunar rocks, Chinese probe lifts off from far side of moon
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/chinas-change-6-probe-lifts-off-far-side-moon-2024-06-04/
A Chinese lunar probe returns to Earth with the world’s first samples from the far side of the moon
https://apnews.com/article/china-far-side-of-moon-probe-samples-c2dd59505402c07f9382bbca14eed4cf
Boeing’s Starliner launches astronauts for 1st time in historic liftoff
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-crew-flight-test-launch
Lab-Grown Fabric
https://time.com/7094631/galy-literally-cotton
Simple Cancer Testing – Guardant Health Shield
https://time.com/7094708/guardant-health-shield
Milky Way’s missing satellite galaxies found
https://www.space.com/milky-way-satellite-dwarf-galaxies-found
Mars Suburface Ocean Found
Humans age in two bursts – at 44, then 60
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00692-2
Breakthrough from REMspace: First Ever Communication Between People in Dreams
Arecibo Observatory offers a new explanation for the Wow! Signal
https://universemagazine.com/en/arecibo-observatory-offers-a-new-explanation-for-the-wow-signal
Polaris Dawn astronauts complete first commercial spacewalk
Scientists map fruit fly brain in neurobiological milestone
https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-map-fruit-fly-brain-neurobiological-milestone-2024-10-02
It’s not to be. Universe too short for Shakespeare typing monkeys
https://www.uts.edu.au/news/health-science/its-not-be.-universe-too-short-shakespeare-typing-monkeys
Air-Cleaning “Fruit”
https://time.com/7094641/spiritus-carbon-orchard
A Blood Test for Alzheimer’s
https://time.com/7094900/alzpath-ptau217-antibody
A 25-Year Flywheel Battery
https://time.com/7094817/torus-nova-spin
Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our Sun
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2414
Starship Flight 5
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe7exjy1go
NASA launches Europa Clipper to see if Jupiter’s icy moon has ingredients for life
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-10-14/nasa-jupiter-probe-launches-aboard-spacex-rocket
Chemists create world’s thinnest ‘spaghetti’
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241121141211.htm
Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2417
Starship’s Sixth Flight Test
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-6
Global EV sales hit third consecutive record high
Artemis Accords Reach 50 Signatories as NASA Welcomes Panama, Austria
Stellantis, Zeta Energy Collaborate on Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
https://theevreport.com/stellantis-zeta-energy-collaborate-on-lithium-sulfur-batteries
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