2023 Biggest Breakthroughs in Science - Tier List
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Published 2023-12-21
Fusion? LK-99? Antimatter doesn't fall up? As the year comes to an end, let's look back and rank the most incredible Science Breakthroughs of 2023. From the seemingly impossible to the literally impossible!
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Chapters:
0:00 Science Breakthroughs 2023 Tier List
1:10 LK-99 - Scam Or Bad Data?
2:42 The NIF Fusion Breakthroughs
4:46 NASA Test World's Most Powerful Ion Engine
6:25 Toyota's Solid State Batteries
7:36 Antimatter Doesn't Fall Up
8:50 Ozempic and Wegovy
10:13 Wormhole Created in a Quantum Computer
11:13 Ad Read
11:59 First Detection of Background Gravitational Waves
13:29 Double Slit in Time Experiment
14:46 Creating Oxygen On Mars
15:53 The James Webb Space Telescope
17:38 Breakthrough Alzheimer's Treatment
18:27 First CRISPR Therapy Approved - Sickle Cell
19:31 ChatGPT and A.I Science
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All Comments (21)
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A lot happened in 2023! What was your top science story? Let me know down below 👇 And yes technically quantum wormholes were last year, but they snuck into this year...
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Cmon man, JWST breaking cosmology and the hubble tension stuff deserves at least an A tier! That is going to be big once we get our head around it.
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Discovering a room temp, ambient pressure, super conductor wouldn't even be a discovery of this decade... It would be the discovery of the millennium. That thing can rewrite how we treat and see electronics in general and revolutionise ALL sectors of production, on top of a giant pile of researchs that aren't related but would benefit massively from such discovery.
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If you add all the James Webb discoveries into one story, as opposed to everything else on your list, it has to be S-tier. It just weighs more.
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Nice video! James Webb should be an S. FYI, Toyota first announced they would have a solid state battery in two years in 2015. Then again in 2017, 2020 and now again in 2023. You had it right, this is just a bait to delay people from buying any car and make existing EV's look inferior to the near future that never arrives.
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The double slit in time discovery is even more mind-blowing than the original double slit experiment. Time increasingly feels like an iceberg where all we know about it is just the tip, and it may not be anything like what we think it is.
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Plasmogen therapy that allows the mitochondria to regenerate, gives more ATP and cell energy. This in turn provides cells with ability to clean out junk, repair DNA, and regain lost function. Trials have shown a reversal of Alzheimer's disease. One patient who could not walk, talk or recognize family members, after two weeks of plasmogen treatment, was walking and talking with her family that she knew. If verified would definitely be an S.
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One to consider for D tier in mathematics - some of the advances in Ramsay theory. It's an advance in graph theory specifically, but these often show up in other fields later, especially around neural networks.
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Thanks for all the great content this year. Your ability to relay scientific information in an understandable manner is extraordinary. Keep on rocking in 2024.
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The restoration of an optic nerve by Sinclar et. al, and the realization that cellular senescence may underlie most/all neurodegeneration. Think about those implications.
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Low frequenzy gravi waves is easily S tier for me XD. That's another nobel prize.
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I've been using Ozenpic for the last 18 months +- and lost about 26Kg. It helps a lot but it just makes the dieting easier. I still had to change my eating habits and reduce/replace the many tasty things I indulged in. Coincidentaly I did a check-up today and my IMC is now normal, my blood pressure is also back to normal, my liver fat is gone, etc. I now need to increase my muscle mass but that's expected. Phase 2 starts in January :)
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Don't agree with all the rankings but great video. Also. I thing you missed two big ones. 1) Canon nonimprint lithography breakthrough. 2) A mathematician recently released an improved version of shor's algorithm if that's hownits spelled.
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One of the least covered and most important scientific discoveries in 2023 was the discovery of a pinacosaurus specimen. One, with an intact larynx! It was previously thought that dinosaurs didn’t have larynx’s and so couldn’t make complex vocalisations. But this discovery completely changed our understanding of prehistory!
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Honorable mention: All the discoveries about the micro biome and how it is far more important to humans in many ways. I think some big things are coming in the next few years there.
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That antimatter is affected by gravity deserves more, experiments like that are hard to run and if we only had theories for all we knew it might not have been affected by gravity.
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Just came upon your channel: well thought out and interesting! Keep up the good work!
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Good roundup. I'm happy I found your show. Thank you.
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Thanks ! Excellent summary.
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I think JWST should at least be A tier for its part in growing the astronomy community. I’ve never seen so many people so invested in the cosmos. The fact that it can detect atmospheric composition so much better than Kepler for example is incredible. Space science isn’t directly relevant to the common person, or actually anyone for that matter really so I see why it’s C, but solely for its publicity and impact it could be higher
