Great scientific moments in 2022

The records of 88,000 cases and 66 deaths due to monkeypox were nothing more than a single outbreak. Despite it being a viral disease, approved vaccines and prepared societies have been able to ensure that another pandemic won’t happen.

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Earlier this year, a 57-year-old man with heart disease received a successful transplant of a genetically modified pig heart.

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In March, researchers sequenced the last 8% of the human genome. The code includes many genes and repetitive DNA, and is comparable in size to the entire chromosome.

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In May, scientists succeeded in growing plants in lunar soil. Samples collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions were loaned by NASA.

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The world’s most powerful telescope has revealed images with an unprecedented amount of detail. Show data from the first galaxies in the universe, as well as detail the chemical profile of an exoplanet’s atmosphere.

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Data from Fermilab’s collider detector (CDF) indicates that the elementary particle called the W boson is heavier than expected — if confirmed, it would be exactly the kind of hole researchers are looking for in the Standard Model of particle physics.

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A US laboratory announced in December that the reactor managed to produce more energy than was used to start the nuclear fusion process. This is a step towards applying clean, safe and inexhaustible energy.

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