Science magazine summed up the year and named the scientific discoveries that became the most significant in 2022. Thus, the editors of the journal consider the work of the James Webb telescope, which was launched at the end of December 2021, to be the main scientific breakthrough of the past year..

“This is the most complex science mission ever sent into space, and the most expensive at $10 billion.. And it wasn't easy. Its construction on Earth took 20 years and faced numerous setbacks.. New dangers arose as the telescope traveled 1.5 million kilometers into space… Engineers took a total of 344 critical steps, any of which could have doomed the mission if they had gone wrong,” the editors of the magazine noted..

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Among other scientific breakthroughs of the year, the editors chose the emergence of perennial rice; development of artificial intelligence that transforms text into words;

discovery of a giant bacterium that can be observed with the naked eye; clinical trials of two respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines; discovery of the role of the herpes virus in the development of multiple sclerosis. In addition, important discoveries included the discovery in the genome of Europeans of the “legacy” of the Black Death.; collision of the DART apparatus with an asteroid satellite, as well as the discovery of the DNA of an ancient ecosystem 2 million years old.