JAKARTA – Various scientific discoveries are recorded every year, and some of them become popular discoveries among scientists. 2022 will be no exception, from giant bacteria, the fastest super computers, to black holes (black hole) closest to Earth was this year’s most “broken” discovery.
Quoted from science news, The following are the five most popular scientific breakthroughs in 2022;
The oldest surgery
The first known surgical operation was the amputation of the leg. This is the conclusion that the researchers concluded after studying the skeleton of a person who lived on the Indonesian island of Borneo about 31,000 years ago.
Bone showing a (rough) cut in the left lower leg of the skeleton indicates that the cut bone showed healing and the individual survived for several years following the procedure.
This discovery also broke the record where scientists had previously discovered the first surgery performed 15,000 years ago.
Giant unicellular bacteria
Bacteria usually live in a microscopic world that obviously can’t be seen with the naked eye. However, it’s a different story with Thiomagarita magnifica.
With an average length of about one centimeter, the newly discovered bacteria can be seen with the naked eye. T. magnifica, which lives in mangrove forests in the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles, is about 50 times larger than other large species of bacteria and about 5,000 times larger than normal bacteria.
Until now, scientists still don’t know why this species evolved into a giant.
Super fast computer
A supercomputer called Frontier is generating numbers at an astonishing rate this year. With a power of 1.1 trillion operations per second, this computer used by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has become a computer exascale (a computer with operating power greater than 10 to the power of 18 per second) before.
Further development is planned to create a super computer capable of performing 442 quadrillion operations per second. computer technology exascale it should lead to breakthroughs in everything from climate science to health to particle physics.
The largest colony of fish
Far off the coast of Antarctica, alligator icefish congregate in spawning colonies the size of the city of Orlando, Florida.
About 60 million crocodile icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah) nests span at least 240 square kilometers on the ocean floor. Previously, this fish species consisted of only one colony containing hundreds of nests. Abundant food supplies and access to areas of warm water are thought to be responsible for the swelling of these fish colonies.
The closest black hole
Sifting through data released by the Gaia spacecraft, astrophysicists have found a black hole more than 1,560 light-years from Earth.
Dubbed Gaia BH1, it is twice as close as the closest previously known black hole.
Even this new record may not last long. There are about 100 million black holes in the Milky Way, most of which have yet to be discovered because they are invisible.
These are the five most “disruptive” scientific discoveries among scientists. When we are only interested in social media trends every day, the life of scientists seems more colorful with extraordinary discoveries.
