In our roundup of 2024's top science stories, we feature particle physics research to two-billion-year-old rocks that yielded live microbes.
This is Interesting Engineering’s roundup of the top seven stories in science, ranging from particle physics research to two-billion-year-old rocks that yield live microbes.2024 has been an interesting, exciting year for those with a scientific bend of mind, with fascinating, path-breaking research being conducted across the wide spectrum of scientific fields, be it neutrino experiments or radiation research.
Apart from primordial rocks and millennia-old computers, important discoveries and developments also happened in quantum and particle physics, showing ample promise in improving our understanding of the universe. Microbiologists made a groundbreaking discovery in a 2-billion-year-old rock located in northeastern South Africa. This incredibly ancient rock was not only habitable but still contained living microbes within its “sealed fractures,” serving as “the oldest example of living microbes being found within ancient rock so far discovered.” The rock’s unchanging formation provided a stable habitat for these ancient microbes to thrive for two billion years.
Researchers directly observed high-energy electron and muon neutrino interactions for the first time in the teraelectronvolt energy range. This landmark moment was achieved at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider using the Forward Search Experiment .
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