This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. Below, you’ll find a brief description along with a link to a feature article that probes each technology in detail.
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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021
This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies.
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This Is a Piece of a Lost Protoplanet, And It's Officially Older Than Earth
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This Is a Piece of a Lost Protoplanet, And It's Officially Older Than Earth
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This Is a Piece of a Lost Protoplanet, And It's Officially Older Than Earth
A chunk of meteorite found in the desert sands of Algeria could be a piece of a baby planet that never made it.
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We Finally Know The True Age of The Huge, Mysterious Objects in Laos' Plain of Jars
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We Finally Know The True Age of The Huge, Mysterious Objects in Laos' Plain of Jars
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We Finally Know The True Age of The Huge, Mysterious Objects in Laos' Plain of Jars
In total, there are thousands of them – a giant landscape of strange, hollowed jars, carved from ancient stone. Some have lids. Most are open to the sky.
From incessant allergies to life-threatening anaphylaxis and debilitating autoimmune disease, the system that's supposed to be protecting us can be problematic when it goes wrong. Now, we might be closer to fixing these issues in an entirely new way.
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Scientists Find a Natural Protein That Stops Allergies And Autoimmune Conditions
For the millions of us plagued by hypersensitive, overactive, or downright abusive immune systems, it can feel like you're constantly fighting your own physical self.
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Did Humans Once Wipe Out Neanderthals? Here's What We Know
After 400,000 years of roaming Europe and Asia, Neanderthals disappeared. Why this happened is a contentious topic amongst experts. It is possible that our ancestors may have directly or indirectly contributed to this extinction, but the extent of
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Giant Space Telescope Submerged Thousands of Feet Below World's Deepest Lake
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Giant Space Telescope Submerged Thousands of Feet Below World's Deepest Lake
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Giant Space Telescope Submerged Thousands of Feet Below World's Deepest Lake
Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the Universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.
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Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
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Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
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Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing - and this is no exception in low-gravity environments, such as the International Space Station (ISS).
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Deadly Superbug Identified on Sandy Beach in Remote Tropical Archipelago
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Deadly Superbug Identified on Sandy Beach in Remote Tropical Archipelago
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Deadly Superbug Identified on Sandy Beach in Remote Tropical Archipelago
A deadly hospital superbug has been discovered on a remote island beach, marking the first time researchers have seen this multidrug-resistant organism in the "wild".
Science proved that good sleep at night is essential. So here's something to help you sleep better: https://youtu.be/L683zpBn930
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A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Pic. It Will Crush Your Tiny Heart
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A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Pic. It Will Crush Your Tiny Heart
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A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Pic. It Will Crush Your Tiny Heart
Have you ever thought to yourself, "Gosh, I sure wish I could feel extremely small and awed right now"? Do we ever have the solution for you!
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Biofluorescent Fish Have Finally Been Spotted in Arctic Waters, And They're a Little Unusual
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Biofluorescent Fish Have Finally Been Spotted in Arctic Waters, And They're a Little Unusual
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Biofluorescent Fish Have Finally Been Spotted in Arctic Waters, And They're a Little Unusual
Life can get a little blue beneath the ocean's surface. Warmer colors quickly fade the deeper you go, leaving a meager palette of just a few short wavelengths to light up the landscape.
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Scientists Just Demonstrated How These 'Spiders' Might Form on Mars
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Scientists Just Demonstrated How These 'Spiders' Might Form on Mars
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Scientists Just Demonstrated How These 'Spiders' Might Form on Mars
We may not have detected life on Mars, but we have found 'spiders'... of a sort.
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The World's Oldest Known Wooden Statue Is Over 7,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge
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The World's Oldest Known Wooden Statue Is Over 7,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge
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The World's Oldest Known Wooden Statue Is Over 7,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge
The further back in time you go, the sparser the archaeological record grows. Many materials used by humans - wood, leather, fabric - simply don't last and are swallowed by Earth under the implacable march of time. The Shigir Idol, in that context
We know there are lots of cosmology and astronomy lovers among our members. The question "What books on cosmology would you recommend?" often appears in our chat.
So here's a pretty great list of books on cosmology: from popular to college and graduate textbooks.
The list was created by Prof. Edward L. Wright who got his Ph.D. from Harvard and taught in MIT.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmobib.html
So here's a pretty great list of books on cosmology: from popular to college and graduate textbooks.
The list was created by Prof. Edward L. Wright who got his Ph.D. from Harvard and taught in MIT.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmobib.html
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Are Artificial Sweeteners Healthier Than Sugar or No? Here's What Experts Think
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Are Artificial Sweeteners Healthier Than Sugar or No? Here's What Experts Think
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Are Artificial Sweeteners Healthier Than Sugar or No? Here's What Experts Think
Saccharin – the first artificial sweetener - was discovered by accident when, in 1879, Professor Ira Remsen from Johns Hopkins University noticed a sweet substance on his hands after experimenting with different chemicals in the laboratory.
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Scientists Built an Artificial Cell That Grows And Divides Like a Natural One
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Scientists Built an Artificial Cell That Grows And Divides Like a Natural One
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Scientists Built an Artificial Cell That Grows And Divides Like a Natural One
In a new first for genetic engineering, scientists have developed a single-celled synthetic organism that grows and divides much like a normal cell, mimicking aspects of the cell division cycle that underlies and generates healthy living cellular l
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When and how the pandemic will end. McKinsey Structured Analysis and Forecast.
If anyone is able to analyze the sea of the most contradictory information about the course and prospects of the pandemic and give a more or less reliable forecast, it is not epidemiologists and virologists. And not doctors, not vaccine developers, not math model specialists, not medical bureaucrats, and certainly not psychologists, sociologists, or politicians. Only specialists in strategic analysis can summarize, structure, analyze, and scenario-predict the future of the pandemic based on information from all the above-mentioned factors. For example, from McKinsey. Which they just did, based on a giant pool of new information that came in over the last 60 days.
Read their analysis, scenarios, and conclusions here.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/when-will-the-covid-19-pandemic-end
@science super short summary of this document is as follows.
When and how the pandemic will end depends on "where".
In Israel and the United States, France and Russia, Australia and China, everything will be very different.
And while each country will be "unhappy in its own way," only one thing will be common to all: the risks will not disappear even when collective immunity is achieved.
If anyone is able to analyze the sea of the most contradictory information about the course and prospects of the pandemic and give a more or less reliable forecast, it is not epidemiologists and virologists. And not doctors, not vaccine developers, not math model specialists, not medical bureaucrats, and certainly not psychologists, sociologists, or politicians. Only specialists in strategic analysis can summarize, structure, analyze, and scenario-predict the future of the pandemic based on information from all the above-mentioned factors. For example, from McKinsey. Which they just did, based on a giant pool of new information that came in over the last 60 days.
Read their analysis, scenarios, and conclusions here.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/when-will-the-covid-19-pandemic-end
@science super short summary of this document is as follows.
When and how the pandemic will end depends on "where".
In Israel and the United States, France and Russia, Australia and China, everything will be very different.
And while each country will be "unhappy in its own way," only one thing will be common to all: the risks will not disappear even when collective immunity is achieved.
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When will the COVID-19 pandemic end?
McKinsey’s evolving perspectives on when will the COVID-19 pandemic end in the United States updated to examine how timing will vary around the world.
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