25 Most SHOCKING Discoveries In The Last Year

although constant updates from social media and the 24-hour news cycle can make us think the world is falling apart it's not in fact it's more advanced safe wealthy and peaceful than it's ever been in history a lot of our present-day comforts are the result of an ever-increasing pace of technological advancement and scientific discoveries I'm Mike with lists 25 and these are the 25 most shocking discoveries in the last year 25 eternal storage know not for your clothes for your data as you may know ink fades perhaps surprisingly so does computer memory after all it's just a bunch of electrical impulses being stored in various ways scientists at the University of Southampton however discovered a way to store data on a special type of glass this technique would allow data to survive over 13 billion years about the age of the universe 24 2016 3 2016 8 ro 3 is the name of earth's second moon that's right NASA discovered that earth has two moons well at least for now 2016 HR 3 is an asteroid that orbits the earth at quite a distance and in roughly a century it'll probably leave Earth's orbit again 23 human footprints scientists discovered hundreds of human footprints in Tanzania at the site known as angora Starro the prints dated back about 20,000 years and showed groups of people jogging in the shadow of a volcano 22 cloning and long-term health consequences Dolly the sheep's for clones Debbie Denis Diana and Daisy appear to have aged quite well in fact while dolly suffered from degenerative osteoarthritis her clones were barely affected they aged better than the original 21 super wheat although GMOs genetically modified food aren't very popular in some circles among scientists there is a solution to what the global population and food crisis in fact if it were for GMOs the vast majority of the world's population wouldn't be alive super wheat is the latest addition to the club it's much more efficient at photosynthesis than regular wheat and could potentially produce a much larger crop 20 giant crocodile scientists digging up bones in Tunisia discovered the largest marine crocodile to ever walk the earth it grew up to 30 feet long and weighed 3 tons 19 the real 9th planet long before we knew about Pluto scientists had theorized that there would be another planet beyond Neptune they could calculate the effects of its gravity at first we all thought it might be Pluto but Pluto didn't really count for the full effects of the gravity and not long after little lost its planet hood anyway that's messed up right in 2016 however scientists at Caltech calculated that there is almost certainly a ninth planet far beyond Pluto although it hasn't been found yet the math checks out and in case you're wondering it's between 2 to 15 times the size of Earth and about 240 trillion kilometres from the Sun 18 carbon-capture when we burn fossil fuels the co2 goes into the atmosphere and has negative effects on the environment scientists in Iceland however have developed a technique for recapturing the harmful emissions pumping them into the ground and basically creating rock out of them again 17 gravitational waves scientists at LIGO laser interferometer gravitational-wave Observatory in California detected gravitational waves in case this doesn't make you jump out of your seat these are basically the things that Einstein predicted in 1916 with his general theory of relativity 16 Venus's past according to NASA scientists Venus may have had a much cooler past in fact it may have even had oceans for several billion years imagine that beaches on Venus 15 the longest living vertebrae scientists discovered the Greenland shark the longest living vertebrate on record its average lifespan is roughly 400 years granted most of its life is spent at the bottom of freezing oceans which slows its metabolism considerably regardless these sharks may contain some vital clues to longevity 14 recovery from strokes by using stem cells doctors and scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine in California were able to create healing in stroke patients long after any improvements would be expected some patients even ditched their wheelchairs and started walking again 13 CRISPR there have been many scientific discoveries that have changed the world this might just be another one while CRISPR /cast 9 gene editing has been a hot topic in medical circles for a while now just last year Chinese doctors actually use the technology to edit the genes of a cancer patient 12 to ^ 74 million two hundred and seven thousand two hundred eighty one minus one in 2016 scientists discovered a new prime number it's the biggest one yet in fact it's so big 22 million three hundred and thirty-eight thousand six hundred eighteen digits that the only way to write it out is by raising to ^ 74 million two hundred and seven thousand two hundred eighty one and then subtracting one this discovery was made thanks to the great internet Mersenne prime search 11 the size of the universe thanks to the Hubble telescope researchers at NASA discovered that the universe may be a lot more crowded than we had previously thought in fact it may be ten times more crowded 10 times more galaxies 10 the beginning of the end of paralysis neuro scientists at the University of Ohio managed to develop a brain implant that allows paralyzed patients to move again 24 year-old Ian Burkhart was the first patient to try it out although he hasn't been able to move for six years by using the device he can now play guitar hero and swipe credit cards 9 the emdrive this one is a nerds wildest dream come true more officially known as a radiofrequency resonant cavity thruster rather than using some sort of fuel to create thrust this theoretical device uses electromagnetic fields very simply it creates thrust without pushing against anything and yes it does seem to violate Newton's third law every action has an equal and opposite reaction but there have been some promising and controversial trials carried out by both NASA and cast China Academy of space technology although it's still controversial it's crazy that some scientists now seem to think it may actually be possible eight new reserves of helium although it's the second most abundant element in the universe we get most of our supply from underground it gets lost in the atmosphere rather easily scientists were excited to find a large reserve of gas in Tanzania last year seven wall walking cave fish scientists at the New Jersey Institute of Technology discovered a taiwanese cave fish that has a lot in common with amphibians and reptiles another link in the evolutionary chain six Proxima B Proxima B is an exoplanet orbiting our near star the cool part hits in the sweet spot that could potentially support life this is exciting because that means there may be extraterrestrial life less than five light-years away 5gk PID scientists found that about 800 million years ago a slight genetic mutation in an ancient molecule of gk PID guanylate kinase protein interaction domain allowed organisms to move from single cells to multiple cells basically it allowed life as we know it to exist for a dinosaur feather in a scene straight out of Jurassic Park paleontologists from the China University of geosciences found a well preserved dinosaur feather in an amber market in Burma it's 99 million years old 3 Zika no I'm not talking about the discovery of Zika it was actually first identified in Uganda in the 1940s what I'm talking about is the discovery that Zika causes microcephaly and other birth defects it's crazy that although we had known about Zika for nearly seven years we knew almost nothing else about it why because we had assumed it was limited to a few communities in Uganda in fact before the outbreak there was only one person in the US working on the virus to dragonfly 44 a galaxy that emits about 1% of the light of the Milky Way scientists have determined that the dragonfly 44 galaxies may be up to 99 percent dark matter one vertical rocket landings although you've seen these landings in just about every sci-fi movie in real life Rockets are usually just ditched in the ocean thanks to you on musk and SpaceX the first successful vertical landing of a rocket took place on a drone ship that just sounds intense enjoying our lists be sure to click that subscribe button in the bottom right we don't miss our new ones every Monday to Friday share them with your friends and help us consistently conciliate curiosity and if you want even more or less check out these three videos here or just head to our website at least 25 calm [Music]

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Published: Mon Apr 24 2017