The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years—and a few to watch

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/top-discoveries-in-the-last-25-years?utm_source=tksst_daily&utm_medium=daily&utm_campaign=videos-news-today-december-16-2025

My big three wins of these from a personal perspective would be:

  • Advances in vaccine technology, in particular mRNA tech. I also love how the right-wing weirdos don't even understand what the tech actually is, nevermind what it does. 😅 It makes their ramblings about it so entertaining to hear.
  • An actual image of an actual black hole. Little me decades ago loved Sci-Fi - I mean I kinda still do. And this is Sci-Fi, now. It's weird to think that in 30 years that near-future actually became the present.
  • Feathered dinosaurs, simply because of it making me realize how my entire visual understanding of dinosaurs was entirely the creation of Jurassic Park.
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spittingimage@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 238d (1 reply)

I'm not giving them my email address to read the article.

ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 238d

I gave them your email and now I'm reading the article

Krusty@feddit.it · 6 pts · 239d

Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, lived on the Indonesian island of Flores some 50,000 years ago; these relatives have been nicknamed “hobbits” for their small stature.

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scarabic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 238d (2 replies)

Apparently #1 is the development of the paywall.

Carighan@piefed.world · 2 pts · 238d (1 reply)

Oh sorry, that must be based on location then, it's not paywalled when I access it. Weird. 😔

scarabic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d

Not your fault. It happens all the time.