2024 in science

The following scientific events occurred in 2024.

19 January: Japan becomes the fifth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon.
24 January : A global analysis of groundwater levels is published, including widespread rapid declines of over 0.5 meters per year.
10 February : An analysis of Outer London's Mini-Hollands active transport Low Traffic Neighbourhoods is published.
14 February : A study reviews educational content of 18,400 universities worldwide finds higher education is not transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy curricula nearly fast enough.
17 February : A global review of harms from personal car automobility finds cars have killed 60–80 million people through diverse pathways, largely arising from car-centrism.
22 February : The first commercial vehicle to land on the Moon includes a copy of English Wikipedia and other long-term records of humanity.
13 March: Amid an ongoing boom in AI research , the EU passes the world's first comprehensive legislation governing the technology.
27 March : A study calculates the production costs of diabetes medications such as insulin and ozempic .
11 April: The first nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga ( Braarudosphaera bigelowii ) is reported, the nitroplast .
The early evolutionary stage organelle provides a view into the transition from an endosymbiont into a proper organelle.
9 May: A cubic millimetre of the human brain is mapped at nanoscale resolution by a team at Google
30 May: NASA reports the discovery of the most distant known galaxy.