Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2024: A Year in Review

The year started with scientists reporting that newborn galaxies in the very early universe were “banana-shaped”.“This is both a surprising and unexpected result, though there were already hints of it with Hubble,” Dr Viraj Pandya, a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, told the New York Times.Image: Graphic NewsDr Pandya said the observation could offer insight into the mysterious nature of dark matter, an unknown and invisible form of matter that astronomers say makes up a major part of the universe and outweighs atomic matter 5 to 1.China launched its Chang’e-6 probe in…