Posted: Dec 18, 2020 5:01 PM ET | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
A man wearing a face mask and holding a sign is approached by a woman attending a rally and march held by protesters opposed to COVID-19 regulations, in Vancouver, on October 18. (Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Often at this time of year, we might have a list of the top science stories of the year, but this season COVID-19 took over many different areas of science as we all scrambled to face a new reality.
While the first private rocket flight to the International Space Station, Japan s sample return mission from an asteroid and China s sample return mission from the moon briefly grabbed headlines, it was the COVID-19 pandemic that rallied scientists around the world to work together to fight the emerging disease.