The 8 most controversial science stories of 2024
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Image caption: This year, scientists disagreed about an artifact found in an ancient tomb, bones that may or may not belong to T. rex, and an image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Image credit: Ina Meer Sommer via Shutterstock; Roger Harris / Science Photo Library via Getty Images; EHT Collaboration. Article by Sascha Pare. Live Science – December 28, 2024.
Disagreements about research results aren’t often aired in the open, but this year saw its fair share of public scientific controversies. Debates between scientists are usually confined to the pages of scientific journals, with researchers criticizing one another’s work via letters and commentaries. Occasionally, though, these disputes spill out into the wider media, and […]
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Studies referenced:
On the possible use of hydraulic force to assist with building the step pyramid of saqqara – PLOS
An independent hybrid imaging of Sgr A* from the data in EHT 2017 observations – Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C – Nature Climate Change
Taxonomic Status of Nanotyrannus lancensis (Dinosauria: Tyrannosauroidea)—A Distinct Taxon of Small-Bodied Tyrannosaur – Fossil Studies
The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton” (Sarapis) of Pharaoh Alexander the Great in Tomb II at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece – Journal of Field Archaeology
Unveiling intra-person fingerprint similarity via deep contrastive learning – Science Advances
White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) – Palaeontologia Electronica
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