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Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by �鶹��ý

Nuclear fusion, infectious diseases and an incredible new space telescope were ongoing stories in 2022, but what were some of the other big scientific developments, discoveries and events of the year?

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WALTER TOSTO COMPANY REPORT https://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionforenergy/52231537313/ Final assembly of Europe's sector 4 of the ITER Vacuum Vessel, Walter Tosto, Italy, May 2022.

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Unlimited energy from fusion became a more feasible prospect in 2022

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TOPSHOT - Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. - Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine started a new kind of nuclear war

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National Ignition Facility

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Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

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NIF Livermore July 2008 https://lasers.llnl.gov/media/photo-gallery?id=nif-1209-18050

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Nuclear fusion: Has there been a breakthrough and what will it mean?

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Sections of a timber wind turbine tower under construction

Environment

Should we build wind turbines from wood?

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The Zephyr solar plane made by Airbus

Technology

Why the US military could replace spy satellites with solar planes

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Banning solar plants on farmland in England would be a grave error

Environment

Banning solar plants on farmland in England would be a grave error

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View of asteroid Ryugu from Hayabusa 2. Credits: JAXA, University of Tokyo & collaborators

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Hayabusa 2 has brought back gases from an asteroid for the first time

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https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/resources/#gallery JET tokamak

Technology

Despite decades of hype, there is now real hope of progress in fusion

It may have a history of over-optimistic predictions, but research into generating power using a fusion reactor is finally making notable advances

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Space

Astronomers found a weird asteroid closer to the sun than any other

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Space

A long-lost rogue planet could explain unexpectedly distant asteroids

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Space

NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes closest images of Europa for 20 years

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Space

JWST has captured an astonishing view of Neptune and its rings

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