A year of scientific breakthroughs • The progress of new discoveries must be celebrated

In lieu of a submission statement, here’s a concise list of all breakthroughs mentioned in the article:

* The [James Webb Space Telescope](https://webbtelescope.org/) is revealing a stream of new insights about the universe and its origins
* Scientists re-established lost contact with the 1977 Voyager 1 satellite
* The first results of the [global cell atlas project](https://www.ft.com/content/4dc9a14a-8d65-4718-a899-912780cbe220), to build a complete digital map for the body
* The first map of the [brain of a fruit fly](https://www.ft.com/content/4e041fd1-7633-44ab-9afd-72cbdfe4e295)
* First ever [malaria vaccines](https://www.ft.com/content/b6f03756-86ab-4912-aad0-9384198673ad)
* New [tuberculosis vaccine](https://wellcome.org/news/late-stage-trial-tuberculosis-vaccine-candidate-underway-south-africa)
* HIV and Aids infections and deaths [fall sharply](https://www.ft.com/content/a4fb4cb1-6e09-44f2-903b-360535065821)
* [Weight-loss drugs](https://www.ft.com/content/0d947b51-b46d-4482-a6fe-6c1ccf9388e0) and their wide-ranging applications
* [Robots improve](https://ig.ft.com/ai-robots/)
* [Quantum computing progress](https://www.ft.com/content/7ce2f04a-f8e2-4e3d-8602-776647c520c9)
* [Synthetic ‘mirror’ microbes](https://www.ft.com/content/af39c5f1-3c7c-4097-897b-6793cddf658d) pose threat to life