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Which scientific breakthrough of the last decade has impressed you most?
From mapping the human brain to detecting gravitational waves, the past ten years have delivered some genuinely jaw-dropping moments in science. Which discovery or achievement do you think deserves the most recognition?
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Gravitational Waves Detected
In 2015, LIGO confirmed Einstein's century-old prediction by detecting ripples in spacetime caused by colliding black holes. It opened an entirely new way of observing the cosmos.
2
mRNA Vaccine Technology
Developed at record speed during the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines proved a concept decades in the making and may now be applied to cancer, flu, and beyond. The UK played a central role in trialling and deploying them.
3
James Webb Space Telescope Images
Since its first images in 2022, the Webb telescope has revealed galaxies forming just after the Big Bang and atmospheres of distant exoplanets in extraordinary detail. It has genuinely rewritten what we thought we knew.
4
AlphaFold Solves Protein Folding
DeepMind's AlphaFold predicted the 3D structures of virtually every known protein, a challenge that had stumped scientists for generations. Researchers worldwide now use it to accelerate drug discovery and disease research.
5
First Image of a Black Hole
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released the first ever direct image of a black hole, located in galaxy M87. It was a triumph of global scientific cooperation involving researchers from institutions including UK universities.
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