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Hello everyone,

Happy New Year

I wish the upcoming years will bring more happiness, success, and prosperity in your life and in the lives of your loved ones.

As requested, here are one of the most amazing scientific discoveries and events of 2017 in chronological order:

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January

• 6 January
• A portion of the Larsen C ice shelf reportedly in danger of breaking off.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/LarcenC
  
• NASA scientists released an image of the Earth and Moon as viewed 127 million miles away from the planet Mars by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/EarthMoonMars
  
• 18 January
• NASA and NOAA confirm 2016 was the hottest year on record globally.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/hottest2016
  
• 26 January
• Scientists at Harvard report the first synthesis of metallic hydrogen, normally found inside gas giants like Jupiter.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/metalhydrogen
  

February

• 8 February
• The genome of Quinoa food crop is decoded.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/quinoagenome
  
• 22 February
• Discovery of seven Earth-sized exoplanets, which may all be in the habitable zone, orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf star, announced.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/trappistplanets
  

March

• 1 March
• Evidence of possibly the oldest forms of life on Earth found in hydrothermal vent precipitates.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/ventlifeforms
  
• 22 March
• New way of classifying the dinosaur family tree reported; original dinosaurs were possibly small 2-footed omnivorous animals with large grasping hands.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/dinotree
  

April

• 10 April
• The Great Barrier Reef is hit by a second consecutive mass coral bleaching event.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/GreatBarrierCoral
  
• 22 April
• March for Science occurred in more than 600 cities around the world on Earth Day.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/MarchForScienceApril2017
  

May

• 4 May
• First synthetic retina reported to have been created.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/SyntheticRetinaOxford
  
• 9 May
• Evidence of the earliest known life on land may have been found in 3.48-billion-year-old geyserite.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/geyseritelife
  
• 18 May
• Rapid greening of the Antarctica region reported, based on a significant increase in the growth rate of moss.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/greenantartica
  
• 27 May
  
• AI beats the human world champion at the game Go.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/gobeatshuman
  

June

• 1 June
• Elon Musk publishes a paper on the future human settlement of Mars.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/ElonMuskMarsColony
  
• 7 June
• Evidence suggests that Homo sapiens may have originated 300,000 years ago, much earlier than the 200,000 years ago thought previously.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/OldestHumans
  

July

• 6 July
• New baryon particle confirmed by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/baryonparticle
  
• 12 July
• Iceberg A-68 detaches from Antarctica.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/A68Iceberg
  
• 14 July
• Tardigrades, one of the most resilient life forms on Earth, may withstand global mass extinctions due to astrophysical events.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/TardigradesWaterBears
  

August

• 2 August
• CRISPR used to remove faulty DNA from human embryos for the first time.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/crisprdnaembryo
  
• 8 August
• Patagotitan Mayorum, one of the largest ever dinosaurs, is officially named.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/PatagotitanMayorum
  
• 23 August
• Antares, most detailed image of a star other than the Sun.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/AntaresStar
  

September

• 13 September
• A third of the mass of Asia’s high mountain glaciers may be expected to be lost by 2100 due to global warming.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/Asiaglaciers
  
• 15 September
• End of Cassini-Huygens’s 20-year mission to explore the planet Saturn.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/cassinirip
  

October

• 10 October
• A tenfold increase in childhood and adolescent obesity since 1975 is reported.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/childadolescentobesity
  
• 16 October
• Gravitational wave (GW170817) detected from the merger of two neutron stars.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/NeutronStarMerge
  
• 26 October
• Ocean temperatures could be warmer now than those in the last 100 million years.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/warmoceans
  
• First known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/InterstellarObject
  

November

• 2 November
• Large “void” discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/PyramidVoid
  
• 8 November
• First known star, IPTF14hls, to have exploded multiple times, over at least 50 years.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/WeirdSupernova
  
• 20 November
• Studies suggest life on Earth may have originated from biological particles carried by space dust.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/SpaceDustLife
  

December

• 6 December
• Most distant quasar, ULAS J1342+0928, and supermassive black hole found so far.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/OldestMonsterBlackHole
  
• 11 December
• Genetic error corrected for Huntington’s disease using IONIS-HTTRx, an experimental drug.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/HuntingtonResearch
  
• 14 December
• Studies at Lechaio in Greece reveal evidence of large-scale ancient Roman engineering.
  * Details: http://bit.ly/romanstructures