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Science’s 2022 Breakthrough of the Year: NASA’s Stellar New Space Telescope

The JWST finally opened its golden, infrared eye and gave us a glimpse of our universe in stunning, unprecedented detail.

Kathryn Flanagan and the Vision Behind the James Webb Space Telescope
Andean Science Diplomacy: Interview with Chile’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador Silva

Chile's Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador Alfonso Silva spoke with Kim Montgomery, Executive Editor of Science & Diplomacy, on Chile’s science diplomacy initiatives.

Science’s 2019 Breakthrough: First Image of Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope revealed one of the darkest and most elusive phenomena in the known universe.

Barbara Schaal Chosen to Serve as AAAS President-Elect
Schaal is known for her innovative research in plant sciences, in addition to her contributions to Washington University in St. Louis, the National Academy of Sciences, and PCAST.
Science: Volunteers Find Rare Pulsar in Arecibo Data

A massive computing project that pools the collective power of hundreds of thousands of computers owned by volunteers from 192 different countries to “mine” large data sets has discovered a rare, isolated pulsar with a very low magnetic field, researchers say. This international computing network is known as Einstein@Home and the pulsar it identified, called PSR J2007+2722, represents the volunteer project’s first deep-space discovery.