Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Make sure you the truth behind these 10 stories.

Misinformation was extremely popular in 2023, as bad science often made global headlines. Learn the truth behind these 10 dubious stories.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • While there have been huge scientific advances in a wide variety of aspects of physics and astronomy, there have also been wild headlines that do not reflect at all what’s true in this Universe.
  • No, we haven’t found a room-temperature superconductor, overturned the expanding Universe or Big Bang, discovered that the cosmos is twice as old as we thought, or discovered alien technology on the seafloor.
  • There has been a lot of fiction permeating science news this year, and the frustrating thing is that these untrue stories are posing as actual facts.

Here are 10 lies you may want to learn the actual truth behind.

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  • El Barto@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Weird article structure. By the time I figured it out half-way through, I lost interest - and I love space-related content!

    The images with the italics annotations appear to be in the way rather than being part of the main content.