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This video explains how I took them and why my arm isn't in the shot 🤳https://t.co/ttkooHyQoK pic.twitter.com/cOZBPNpSP6WASHINGTON - From finding the building blocks for life on Mars to breakthroughs in gene editing and the rise of artificial intelligence, here are six major scientific discoveries that shaped the 2010s -- and what leading experts say could come next.
Launched in 2009, the Kepler mission helped identify more than 2,600 planets outside of our solar system, also known as exoplanets -- and astronomers believe each star has a planet, meaning there are billions out there. "What I predict is that by the end of the next decade, we will be making high quality real-time movies of black holes that reveal not just how they look, but how they act on the cosmic stage," Shep Doeleman, the project's director, told AFP.
Three Americans won the Nobel prize in physics in 2017 for their work on the project, and there have been many more gravitational waves detected since. "CRISPR-based gene editing stands above all the others," William Kaelin, a 2019 Nobel prize winner for medicine, told AFP. The 2010s saw the rise of a fourth, one that was long doubted: immunotherapy, or leveraging the body's own immune system to target tumor cells.
Scientists sequenced the DNA of a female juvenile's finger bone in 2010, finding it was distinct both from genetically modern humans and Neanderthals, our most famous ancient cousins who lived alongside us until around 40,000 years ago. "This discovery has led to a revolution in our ability to study human evolution and how we came to be in a way never possible before," said Vagheesh Narasimhan, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School.
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