A Farewell to 2024, and What We’re Following in the New Year

Science Quickly

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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2024 brought heat waves and hurricanes, bird flu and breakthroughs, and an overwhelming amount of progress in AI. Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman is joined by sustainability editor Andrea Thompson, health and medicine editor Tanya Lewis and technology editor Ben Guarino to recap a busy year and weigh in on the stories they’re watching in 2025. Happy Holidays from all of us at Science Quickly! Thank you for your support and your curiosity. We’ll see you next year. Recommended reading: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wildest-things-science-learned-about-the-human-body-in-2024/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/summer-2024-was-the-hottest-ever-measured-beating-last-year/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/78-books-scientific-american-recommends-in-2024/ E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman, with guests Tanya Lewis, Andrea Thompson and Ben Guarino. Our show is edited by Fonda Mwangi, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Happy Monday listeners. For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman. We've had a busy and
0:39.9	exciting year here at Science Quickly. After a few months of working behind the scenes, I officially
0:44.9	started hosting the show back in May. I've had so much fun chatting with you all three times a
0:50.1	week since then, and I can't wait for all the conversations we'll get to have in 2025.
0:55.0	Before we here at SQ take a short break for the holidays, I thought it would be fun to ask a few
0:59.9	Scientific American editors about the biggest science stories of the year. Let's get into it.
1:05.9	I'm Andrea Thompson. I'm the Earth and Environment News Editor at Scientific American.
1:10.3	So the biggest weather and
1:11.4	climate stories this year are a lot of what we've seen in recent years. Hurricanes, floods, record
1:16.6	heat. Hurricanes were a big story, especially in the U.S. this year. We had several really devastating
1:23.3	ones and really surprising ones, kicking off with Hurricane Barrow, which was the earliest
1:27.6	Category 5 on record for the Atlantic Ocean, and it really rapidly intensified.
1:32.8	And meteorologists were just sort of left with their mouths hanging open, watching this storm
1:36.9	develop.
1:37.9	We had two really devastating hurricanes.
1:41.2	Incredible hurricane.
1:42.8	It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours. I apologize. This is just
1:57.1	horrific. Hurricane Milton and then particularly Hurricane Helene, which dropped tons of rain
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