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Friday, December 23, 2022
The Year in Review
2022 highlights from physics, math, computer science, biology, and our audience.
Momentum for new ideas in Alzheimer's research joined advances in neuroscience, developmental biology and origin-of-life studies to make 2022 a year of insights.
Puzzling particles, quirky (and controversial) quantum computers, and one of the most ambitious science experiments in history marked the year's milestones.
Four Fields Medals were awarded for major breakthroughs in geometry, combinatorics, statistical physics and number theory, even as mathematicians continued to wrestle with how computers are changing the discipline.
Computer scientists this year learned how to transmit perfect secrets, why transformers seem so good at everything, and how to improve on decades-old algorithms.
While the internet is awash in the noise of unmoderated comments, Quanta has attempted to provide a quiet, information-rich spot where readers, listeners and viewers can contemplate the complexity of nature.
The buckminsterfullerene revolution never came, but some researchers are eagerly exploring the properties of newfound carbon crystals known as fullertubes.
