The 10 most high-profile scientific milestones of 2023

This article could start with the same old empty sentences. Things we say just for the sake of it, but don’t add much: “2023 has been a year with a lot of science” or “This year, science has explored boundaries it had never reached before.” Fortunately, it would be rare if these claims failed. Science is not something that can move forward, go backward, or stand still as the years go by. It is an organization made up of countless research groups. Big, small, public, private and of all nationalities. There is always progress to be made and, logically, a large portion of them will be at the boundary between the known and the unknown.

For the Reason

Now, it’s true that, looking back, we can point to some particularly high-profile achievements that, taken together, make 2023 particularly famous in the annals of scientific history. A strange mirage, because although this way of presenting the facts changes the way we see them, the truth is that it helps us to give them the relevance that we should give them during the rest of the year. So, one more thing, these rankings help us correct the scientific laziness that the media sometimes does during the other 364 days of the year. And, in this case, we wanted to briefly highlight 10 milestones that have reached the press, but that, perhaps, we have not recognized them the way we should.

Two more steps against malaria

Despite what it may seem, the mosquito is the second animal that causes the most human deaths each year, and this is due to the infections it transmits, including malaria. The disease is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium and causes the deaths of more than 600,000 people every year. Fortunately, many experts are trying to find a vaccine that will significantly reduce these numbers, and it seems they are succeeding. This year Moscirix has shown that it reduces mortality in children and a second vaccine has just been approved; It is named R21/MatrixM and, although its design is similar to Moscrix, it is cheaper and easier to produce in large quantities.

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