22 Dec 2020 | News A miserable year, we all agree. But there were a few positive developments worth recalling… This has been, no doubt, a year to forget. But there are some things worth remembering. As Mamokgethi Phakeng, vice chancellor of South Africa’s University of Cape Town put it in an interview, “The crisis can be positive as well as negative. We haven’t been able to continue as planned but it has certainly been productive and forced us to think outside the box.” In that spirit, here are our picks of five good things, in the world of science and technology, that came from 2020: