2023 Science You Might Have Missed
Channel: Peter Allen
Date: 31/01/2024

Here is the science I was most excited about in 2023. Batteries got a big funding boost, Nuclear Fusion made progress, AI turned a corner, it was a big year and these are my top stories.

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SOURCES

Science Magazine's top story

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-all-breakthroughs-2023-what-topped-science-s-list

Science Magazine Runners-up
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn4879

The Guardian’s Top 10

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2023-chosen-by-scientists

Wegovy

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-all-breakthroughs-2023-what-topped-science-s-list

Gene editing

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-authorises-world-first-gene-therapy-that-aims-to-cure-sickle-cell-disease-and-transfusion-dependent-thalassemia

Taurine as an anti-aging supplement

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn9257

LK-99

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/08/09/room-temperature-superconductor-lk99-evidence/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/the-room-temperature-superconductor-that-wasnt/

SPACE

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-osiris-rex-is-about-to-bring-asteroid-pieces-back-to-earth/

Chandrayaan-3 landing: India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/world/chandrayaan-3-lunar-landing-attempt-scn/index.html

AI in science

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02980-0

AI lawsuits

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/11/277422-legal-challenges-to-generative-ai-part-ii/fulltext

Hydrogen deposits

https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-hydrogen-earth-may-hold-vast-stores-renewable-carbon-free-fuel

Battery investment at DOE

https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-35-billion-strengthen-domestic-battery-manufacturing

Solid State Batteries

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06653-w

https://eng.umd.edu/news/story/wang-develops-new-battery-technology-that-could-lead-to-safer-highenergy-electric-vehicles

Nuclear fusion

LLNL’s NIF Delivers Record Laser Energy
https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/llnls-nif-delivers-record-laser-energy

Helion announces world’s first fusion energy purchase agreement with Microsoft | Helion
https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/helion-announces-worlds-first-fusion-ppa-with-microsoft/

First measurements of p11B fusion in a magnetically confined plasma | Nature Communications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36655-1

Climate

https://www.noaa.gov/news/2023-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-record-by-far

Dipak Koirala's paper

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02978