{"id":497,"date":"2021-12-17T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=106523"},"modified":"2021-12-17T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:16:08","slug":"science-quiz-of-the-year-20-questions-to-test-whether-you-were-paying-attention-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/science-quiz-of-the-year-20-questions-to-test-whether-you-were-paying-attention-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Science quiz of the year: 20 questions to test whether you were paying attention in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Sara Rigby\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 17 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The news has been a wild ride in 2021, and science news was no exception. From Mars missions<\/a> to world-first vaccines<\/a>, there has been no shortage of fascinating discoveries and developments to get excited about. But science wouldn\u2019t be science without the weird and wonderful research we all love, and there was plenty of news that made us go \u201cThey did what?\u201d<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s your turn to prove that you\u2019ve been paying attention. How many of these stories do you remember?<\/p>\n