The 10 Most Intriguing Science Breakthroughs of 2024
Live Mint-- It was a bad year for good news, but only because the tumult and drama surrounding the 2024 US election and ongoing wars overshadowed some of the discoveries made in the world’s observatories, field studies and laboratories. Others, also using JWST, measure a faster expansion and argue that the incompatibility with other measurements is the universe trying to show us there’s some new physical phenomenon at play. Before considering taking up taxi driving or pole vaulting as part of a New Year’s resolution, scientists warn that both studies are preliminary. If the latest round of optimistic predictions pans out, quantum computers could digest the real world’s complexity to make otherwise impossible predictions — how experimental drugs would work in the human body, for example, or how some new type of material would handle stress. The big sales line was that Willow could take five minutes to do a test problem that supercomputers couldn’t do in 10 septillion years, or the universe's age squared.
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