{"id":12735,"date":"2023-12-23T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2023-chosen-by-scientists\/"},"modified":"2023-12-23T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:37:51","slug":"the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2023-chosen-by-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2023-chosen-by-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 \u2013 chosen by scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama<\/p>\n<p>While western billionaires were busy sending rockets to space only for them to crash and burn, scientists in India were quietly doing something no one had accomplished before. Their Chandrayaan-3 moon lander was the first mission to reach the lunar south pole \u2013 an unexplored region where reservoirs of frozen water are believed to exist. I remember my heart soaring when images of the control room in India spread around social media, showing senior female scientists celebrating their incredible achievement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/dec\/23\/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2023-chosen-by-scientists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/81c929153b0e3527bc9d78ec55c51fa8be8bc206\/227_475_5562_3338\/master\/5562.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3bfd25396dd269ff6ffbeb5389b66148\" title=\"The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 \u2013 chosen by scientists\" \/>From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama<br \/>\nWhile western billionaires were busy sending rockets to space only for them to crash and burn, scientists in India were quietly doing something no one had accomplished before. Their Chandrayaan-3 moon lander was the first mission to reach the lunar south pole \u2013 an unexplored region where reservoirs of frozen water are believed to exist. I remember my heart soaring when images of the control room in India spread around social media, showing senior female scientists celebrating their incredible achievement. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama While western billionaires were busy sending rockets to space only for them to crash and burn, scientists in India were quietly doing something no one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2023-chosen-by-scientists\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 10 biggest science stories of 2023 \u2013 chosen by scientists<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}