Yearender 2022 | A look at how the year was for science

World’s smallest micro-robot that can crawl on a penny’s edge: Engineers in the US demonstrated the world’s smallest walking robot, measuring just 0.5 mm wide and resembling a crab. (Image: News18 Creative)

Life sciences get big data: More than 2,300 researchers across 83 countries compile a Human Cell Atlas (HCA), mapping the position of over a million cells across 33 different organs. (Image: News18 Creative)

Images of an unseen universe: NASA releases the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope that turn physics inside out. (Image: News18 Creative)

Ice-age Woolly Mammoth: Miners working in the Yukon in northwestern Canada uncover a frozen baby mammoth while excavating permafrost. (Image: News18 Creative)

Mining the Moon for Helium-3: China announced the discovery of a new mineral from moon samples – the phosphate mineral Changesite – (Y). (Image: News18 Creative)

Protecting our home planet: NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defence demonstration – successfully impacts its asteroid target. (Image: News18 Creative)

Alzheimer’s breakthrough: An experimental drug, Lecanemab, has been shown to slow the destruction of the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. (Image: News18 Creative)