Site of the Day for Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Cheery Greetings to All those Celebrating the New Year
The Science News Events that Shaped 2019
Today's site from Nature magazine offers a judicious selection of notable
scientific occurrences that resulted in defining the science community in 2019.
Gentle Subscribers will find a refreshing variety of events in this carefully
winnowed science news collection.
"A year marked by climate protests, political uncertainty and debate over the
ethics of gene editing in human embryos proved challenging for science. But
researchers also celebrated some exciting firsts -- a quantum computer that can
outperform its classical counterparts, a photo of a black hole and samples
gathered from an asteroid." - from the website
Presented in a straightforward account, the significant science news of 2019
leads off with reports of space exploration by several countries. Newly gleaned
information about the solar system follows before the summary plunges into
dispiriting news about environmental setbacks and the anti-science position of
several major world leaders. Further pessimistic news reveals the increasing
incidence of measles on a global basis. On the positive side, new treatments
which appear to effectively combat the Ebola virus are being used in several
African countries, while further breakthroughs in stem cell research hint at
the possibilities of curing some types of diseases.
Slip over to the site for a brief review of science at work in 2019 at:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03838-0
A.M. Holm
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