A roundup of all the biggest stories in science in 2018. Check out this video's sponsor https://brilliant.org/dos
Loads of amazing progress was made in all areas of science in 2018 which is encouraging when the news makes us think that everything is falling apart. In this video I round up all of my favorite news stories from the year. Let me know in the comments if you think I have missed any out.
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CRISPR not as good as thought https://www.livescience.com/63075-cri...
Cancer research from August
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...
Animals that don’t age https://www.rd.com/culture/animals-th...
Entirely new kind of life: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-a...
Kinda room temperature superconductor https://www.sciencenews.org/article/n...
Best science stories by Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-healt...
2018 in spaceflight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_in...
FRB 121102 https://www.seti.org/frb-121102-radio...
sources of greenhouse gas emissions https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sour...
Science 2018 breakthroughs • 2018 Breakthrough of the Year
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Video clips
Robots:
Trump signing • President Trump Participates in the U...
Boston Dynamics / bostondynamics
Soft Body robots • “Robotics Skins” turn everyday object...
Uber self driving cars • Video
CRISPR:
Gladstone Institute • Inspired Science at Gladstone
Launching stuff into space:
NASA TESS • NASA’s New Planet Hunter: TESS
NASA Kepler • Legacy of NASA’s Kepler Space Telesco...
NASA InSight Launch • NASA Launches InSight to Mars (part 1)
NASA InSight • What will NASA's InSight do on Mars?
NASA Mars Helicopter Scout • NASA Mars Helicopter Technology Demon...
NASA Spacecraft Dawn • Dusk for Dawn: NASA Mission to the As...
NASA Parker Solar Probe • Parker Solar Probe--Mission Overview
ESA BepiColombo • BepiColombo launch to Mercury
NASA OSIRIS-REx • NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Mission to Bennu
China's CNSA Chang'e-4 Lunar Mission • Chang’e-4 lunar mission: lander and r...
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch • Falcon Heavy Test Flight
Finding Stuff in Space
Europa Water Plumes • Hubble Directly Images Possible Plume...
Material falling into black hole • NASA | Massive Black Hole Shreds Pass...
European Southern Observatory Super Earth https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1837/
European Southern Observatory Oumuamua https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso...
Physics
Harvard meta material lens https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi...
IceCube neutrino blazar • The first source of high-energy neutr...
Earth's Magnetic Field https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000...
Biology
Fruit Fly connectome https://phys.org/news/2018-07-brain-i...
Medicine
3D printed corneas https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/...
Pigs https://www.videvo.net/video/pig-digg...
Pigs https://www.videvo.net/video/piglets-...
Pills https://www.videvo.net/video/prescrip...
Climate Change
Ozone recovery https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...
World Meteorological Organization • State of the Climate 2018
Clouds https://www.videvo.net/video/blue-sky...
Glacier https://www.videvo.net/video/icelandi...
Explosion sound effect https://freesound.org/s/156031/
Vinyl scratch https://freesound.org/people/musicvis...
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