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8 Incredible Scientific Discoveries in 2020
On 12/26/20 at 12:01 AM EST
Dealing with the COVID pandemic, including developing vaccines to fight it, has been one of the biggest challenges ever faced by scientists. But researchers in all fields, including astronomy and physics, have also made great strides.
As 2020 draws to a close, let s look at some of the most incredible scientific discoveries of the past 12 months.
Sign of Alien Life in the Clouds of Venus?
In September, astronomers announced they had found a gas called phosphine, which can be a sign of life, in the atmosphere of Venus. The team later revised their findings and said they found a fainter phosphine signal than initially reported.
9 Things You Should Know About Events and Discoveries in 2020
Over the past 12 months, a global pandemic caused the world to come to a near standstill. Yet despite COVID-19 being the primary event of 2020, numerous other significant discoveries and events occurred during this disruptive year. Here are nine such events and discoveries from 2020 you may not have heard much about.
1. Due to the complexity of vaccine development, creating a new vaccine can take more than a decade. The fastest vaccine developed before 2020 was for the mumps, and that process took four years. But the biotech company Moderna was able to create a COVID-19 vaccine in just two days. The speed of creation was due in large part to advances in technology and biomedical knowledge. For instance, a key first step in creating modern vaccines is determining the genetic sequence of the virus. The first complete genome sequence from a free-living organism (Haemophilus Influenzae) only occurred in 1995. When the coron
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Dec. 21, 2020 noon
From coronavirus to the environment, social justice to civic engagement, Princetonians rallied to make 2020 a year of purpose and achievement.
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Princetonians demonstrated incredible resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic fighting the virus, pushing forward academically and growing stronger as a community, as shown in the year-in-review video above.
The video features the song “I won’t sleep soundly,” written by first-year student Molly Trueman after attending a Black Lives Matter rally in June, and arranged and performed by Trueman and the Princeton University Glee Club.
The year began with a drumbeat of academic and co-curricular events. Students returned from winter recess, taking final exams in January for the last time before a change in the academic calendar, and then participated in Wintersession classes, and then the start of the spring term. Maya Lin’s new public art
CLATSKANIE, Ore. â A beaver scurried into a nearby slough as Jim Hoffmann drove his growling UTV past rows of organic blueberries at Hopville Farms.
Hoffmann bought the property as an investment 10 years ago in Clatskanie, Ore., about 60 miles northwest of Portland along the Columbia River. What he found was an impeccable area for growing blueberries, with its cool climate, clean water and soils rich in organic matter.
âThe soil, itâs like peat,â Hoffmann said. âBecause of that, it lends itself to organic growing.â
Hopville Farms finished its three-year organic certification regimen in 2020, and will begin selling certified organic blueberries in 2021.