{"id":99924,"date":"2019-12-18T23:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-science-news-events-that-shaped-2019"},"modified":"2019-12-18T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T07:45:57","slug":"the-science-news-events-that-shaped-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-science-news-events-that-shaped-2019","title":{"rendered":"The science news events that shaped 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-science-news-events-that-shaped-20192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year marked by climate protests, political uncertainty and debate over the ethics of gene editing in human embryos proved challenging for science. But researchers also celebrated some exciting firsts \u2014 a quantum computer that can outperform its classical counterparts, a photo of a black hole and samples gathered from an asteroid.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Climate strikes, marsquakes and gaming AIs are among the year\u2019s top stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year marked by climate protests, political uncertainty and debate over the ethics of gene editing in human embryos proved challenging for science. But researchers also celebrated some exciting firsts \u2014 a quantum computer that can outperform its classical counterparts, a photo of a black hole and samples gathered from an asteroid. Climate strikes, marsquakes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523,30,1617,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-ethics","category-quantum-physics","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}