Top Ten Science Stories 2019 by Nova Planet

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1. New Horizons nails the most distant flyby in history

2. A second HIV patient enters long-term remission

3. Scientists reveal the first-ever black hole image

4. First CRISPR gene-editing clinical trials in the U.S. take place

5. New fossils capture the day the dinosaurs died—and the million years after

6. Racism persists in medicine and science

7. A new link is drawn between humans and Denisovans

8. Google claims quantum supremacy

9. Saturn now has the most moons in the solar system

10. Climate change intensifies, and youth fight back

(Platform, quantum Supremacy and HIV graphics from Wikipedia)

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