From moon missions to fast-charging batteries and AI-sourced antibiotics, in no particular order, the year’s significant scientific developments
The year opened with a bang. Or rather, it didn’t. The successful film, in which a comet is found to be on a collision course with Earth, had been released just before Christmas 2021. In the bleak days of post-festive gloom, the news media were on an adrenaline high, chasing any and every story about potential asteroid collisions to cheer us all up.
As well as asteroid activity, our moon has been in the news, as a destination of choice for a new generation of astronauts. This year, it is 50 years since the Apollo 17 mission, the last time a human set foot on the moon. So it is a cause for celebration that Artemis, another joint Nasa-Esa programme, has started its operation to return people to the moon. The first phase of the mission, the Orion capsule, was launched in mid-November, andlast week.
A man gets his Covid booster in Nice, October this year. The coronavirus has spurred huge advances in the fields of vaccine development and administration.Vaccine technology has seen an unprecedented acceleration in innovation that could soon be benefiting us in a host of ways. A vaccine works by delivering an “infection” signal and an “alert” signal . As our knowledge of immunology has increased, so too has our capacity to innovate in the vaccines that deliver those signals.
The autumn Covid-19 booster shots we have just been offered are one such example – these bivalent vaccines target the original strain of Sars-CoV-2 alongside the Omicron variant. Bivalent vaccines have advantages over the original vaccines as they both top up and
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