The year of science

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.CHRISTOPHER BLACK / AFP

Science has had a lot to celebrate over the last century or so.

Quantum mechanics and relativity were discovered between 1900 and 1905, and are now the two fundamental building blocks of physics.

The elucidation of the DNA double helix in 1953 revealed the secret of life on which most of biology now rests.

The demonstration of continental drift revolutionized geology and evolutionary biology, the standard model of particle physics reduced to a handful of components and forces the subatomic jungle of which we are made, neurology has revealed ...

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