‘Science Breakthroughs of 2021’ to be highlighted Feb. 1

The Lewes Public Library’s Science and Society lecture series will kick off 2022 with a live, online presentation of Science magazine’s “Science Breakthroughs of 2021” at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 1.

Each year, Science magazine selects a scientific advance as the Breakthrough of the Year. Science News Editor Tim Appenzeller will discuss the pick for 2021, along with nine other advances Science editors and writers considered especially important. The discussion will take participants through a tour of some of the hottest areas of research in a year when COVID-19 affected much of science worldwide.

The program is part of the Lewes Public Library’s Science and Society - Making Sense of the World Around Us lecture series. It will be moderated by Fred Dylla, executive director emeritus of the American Institute of Physics and author of “Scientific Journeys”; Linda Dylla, former public information officer at the Jefferson Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy; and Colin Norman, the former news editor at Science.

To register for this event and other upcoming Science and Society Lectures, go to tinyurl.com/ScienceAndSociety2022.

Upcoming Science and Society Lectures include “Lone Survivors: Neanderthals, Denisovans and Us,” March 1; “Immunotherapy: Unleashing Your Body’s Immune System to Fight Cancer,” April 5; “The Universal Timekeeper: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom,” May 3; and “Perseverance on Mars,” June 7.