Vote for AAAS's Breakthrough of the Year

[BillTre]

Choose from:

Planet X
Human Embryos in a Dish
Speedy Zika Vaccines
Ripples in Spacetime
AI Ups Its Game
The Exoplanet Next Door
Great Migration
Pocket Size DNA Sequencers
Making Eggs
Great Apes Read Minds
Super Lenses
Custom Designed Proteins
The Purge that Refreshes
Lichen is a Menage a Trios
Sticking the Landing

by voting here.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

The detection of gravity waves probably deserves to win, though proxima b or planet x might win the popular vote. Another breakthrough worth of mentioning is Craig Venter's design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/bacterium-with-a-minimal-genome.863642/

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Vote for the finalists:

The purge that refreshes
Pocket-sized DNA sequencers
AI ups its game
Ripples in spacetime
Human embryos in a dish

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/finalists-are-make-your-pick-breakthrough-year

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Science chooses the detection of gravitational waves as its breakthrough of the year. Human embryo culture wins the People's Choice Award.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6319/1516.full