Scientists discovered a whole new continent and created a new way to attack cancer cells. Check out the greatest scientific discoveries of 2017.
2017 was a year of discovery: NASA started using reusable rockets, patients started treating cancer using only their own cells, and scientists discovered the Earth’s lost eighth continent.
Here are some of the wildest, coolest, most promising science finds of the year.
An international team of 32 scientists found a new continent in the South Pacific.
The lost land of Zealandia sits on the ocean floor between New Zealand and New Caledonia. It wasn’t always a sunken land — researchers have found fossils that suggested novel kinds of plants and organisms once lived there. Some argue it should be counted alongside our (more visible) seven continents.
Scientists created the ‘closest thing anyone has ever made’ to a new life form.
Living creatures have two kinds of amino acid pairs: A-T (adenine – thymine) and G-C (guanine – cytosine).
Tech: The wildest scientific discoveries of 2017
