Best of 2019 in science

https://www.nature.com/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03838-0/d41586-019-03838-0.pdf

Here's a nice write-up in Nature about the scientific year in review. Lots of stuff I had forgotten. Much improved gene editing tools, CRISPR-edited humans (with the lead scientist still missing), transient waves of methane being released from Mars, Hayabusa2 landed on an asteroid, Ebola vaccines.

What's the most important new discovery/scientific achievement this year?

@wildgrass
And now oxygen coming off Mars as well. And now they have started digging again with the lander, measuring earthquakes and have found Mars has a tone resonating at 2.4 hertz from an unknown source. Must be those buried Martian internet sites, they have slow brains it seems😉

@wildgrass said
https://www.nature.com/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03838-0/d41586-019-03838-0.pdf

Here's a nice write-up in Nature about the scientific year in review. Lots of stuff I had forgotten. Much improved gene editing tools, CRISPR-edited humans (with the lead scientist still missing), transient waves of methane being released from Mars, Hayabusa2 landed on an asteroid, Ebola vaccines.

What's the most important new discovery/scientific achievement this year?

My favourite piece of Science this millenium has to be the discovery of brain activity in a salmon when shown pictures of people in different social situations [1]. The results were particularly surprising since the salmon was dead at the time of the experiment. The joy of fMRI. So, this is more of an "on this day ten years ago..." post.

Of course, this is also a good time to remind everyone of the MFAP hypothesis, enjoy [2].

[1] http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
[2] https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/07/02/the-mfap-hypothesis-for-the-origins-of-homo-sapiens

@DeepThought
I wonder if the MFAP folks heard about the attempted addition of monkey genes to pigs in China (failed)?