Here we are once more, watching as another year passes into the history books. In world news it has been a year filled with wars, pandemic/disease, and both natural and man-made disasters. In certain scientific circles it has also been the dawn of the anthropocene era, in which humanity was first deemed to have had a measurable impact on the planet's geological history. But as a physicist and mathematician, my highlights of the year's news are more exotic...
Of course any review of the scienti...
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