BREAKTHROUGHS IN SCIENCE

BREAKTHROUGHS IN SCIENCE, 2021
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December’s last issue of Science magazine, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), goes out on a limb and describes the major scientific breakthroughs of the past year. We will describe the selections, what qualifies them as breakthroughs, what the possible impacts to non-scientists may be, how future research might be affected, and what their status is at the time of this presentation.

Presenters/ Developers: Robert B. Wilson, Ph.D., NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (ret.), OLLI STEM Committee; Dennis Silverman, UCI Physics and Astronomy Professor (ret.), OLLI STEM Committee

Date:
Monday, June 6

Time:
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

Facilitator:
Marj Besemer