2023 in Review!

If you fancy catching up on all the hottest developments in science from 2023, here's my roundup for Knowable Magazine.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2023/top-scientific-news-and-breakthroughs-of-2023

And, since climate change is particularly close to my heart as a topic, here's one startling graph that really shows how weird 2023 was. What they're plotting here is the monthly temperature anomaly (in other words, how weirdly hot the month was). 2023 is a real standout, though 2016 was also super strange. Both are/were El Nino years (a natural climate pattern that also makes things hot, on top of climate change).