2020 was an unforgettable year and delivered a range of unprecedented news events.
Yet, among these immense events came a range of scientific discoveries that slipped under the radar...
We’ve created downloadable posters which focus on these discoveries and look at why they’re so important and exciting to know about. You can use these posters to inspire your students in the classroom or as starter questions to be used in lessons as discussion topics.
Astronomers analysing 3D maps of the shapes and sizes of nearby molecular clouds have discovered a gigantic cavity in space.
In November 2018, a space craft arrived on Mars’s dusty surface to take the planets ‘pulse’.
In April 2020, the earliest known skull of Homo erectus was extracted from rocks in Johannesburg, South Africa, by an Australian-led team of researchers.
Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth.
Researchers identified a new bacterium that feeds on polyurethane, a kind of plastic that is difficult to recycle or destroy.
In October 2020 scientists identified the remains of a Tyrannosaurs in its embryonic stage, it had been fossilised whilst it was still in its egg.
German scientists announced they had measured the smallest unit of time ever recorded - a zeptosecond.
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