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From corals bunkering down in deeper waters to wait out climate change stress, to how vaccines can boost our immune system beyond a specific disease \u2013 here are the 20 most surprising scientific facts that we discovered this year.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: Five things you need to know about bats, disease and coronavirus\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: We are starting to crack the mystery of how lightning and thunderstorms work<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Understudied deeper water reefs could teach us how to better conserve corals<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: ‘Four times more toxic’: How wildfire smoke ages over time<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Bats have different song cultures and chatter about food, sleep, sex and other bats<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Q&A: How vaccines can strengthen immune response beyond a specific disease<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Q&A: Why clouds are still ‘one of the biggest uncertainties’ in climate change<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Bees use shark ‘supersense’ to help find food<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: How Stone Age humans unlocked the glucose in plants<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Space dust fossils are providing a new window onto Earth’s past<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: How life on Earth could help us find life on Mars<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: How hybrid electric and fuel aircraft could green air travel<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: We can programme plants to grow biomolecules. Is farming the future of vaccines?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Q&A: The curious case of male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefishes<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: The science of tickling: why the brain won’t let us tickle ourselves<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Plants can detect insect attacks by ‘sniffing’ each other’s aromas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Cloud shapes and formations impact global warming – but we still don’t understand them<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Alpacas and antibodies: How scientists hope to stop coronavirus in its tracks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: How speech recognition techniques are helping to predict volcanoes’ behaviour<\/a><\/p>\n

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Read: Solving an ancient dairy mystery could help cure modern food ills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From corals bunkering down in deeper waters to wait out climate change stress, to how vaccines can boost our immune system beyond a specific disease \u2013 here are the 20 most surprising scientific facts that we discovered this year.\u00a0 Read: Five things you need to know about bats, disease and coronavirus\u00a0 Read: We are starting … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":1554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12,13,118,15],"tags":[222,371,4,372,37,299],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-behavior","category-earth-energy-environment","category-health","category-life-non-humans","category-social-sciences","category-space","tag-earth-science","tag-end-of-year","tag-environment","tag-facts","tag-health","tag-social-sciences"],"yoast_head":"\nTwenty surprising scientific facts we learned in 2020 - Horizon Magazine Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/horizon\/1532\/twenty-surprising-scientific-facts-we-learned-in-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twenty surprising scientific facts we learned in 2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From corals bunkering down in deeper waters to wait out climate change stress, to how vaccines can boost our immune system beyond a specific disease \u2013 here are the 20 most surprising scientific facts that we discovered this year.\u00a0 Read: Five things you need to know about bats, disease and coronavirus\u00a0 Read: We are starting ... 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