December 23, 2013 3:24PM 

# Scientific Breakthroughs of the Year 2013 

By [Marian L. Tupy](https://www.cato.org/people/marian-l-tupy) 

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I hope that many of you had a chance to check out Cato’s new website: [www​.human​progress​.org](http://www.humanprogress.org/).

In the same vein, here is a just-released video put together by the folks at *Science Magazine* summing up the greatest scientific advances of 2013:

As G.K. Chesterton put it, “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”

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