Making waves: the other biggest scientific discoveries

MONDAY 17 MARCH 2014
As US scientists confirm they have new evidence of what happened just after the Big Bang as well as how it has shaped the universe since, what are the other game-changing scientific breakthroughs?

Will 4pm on Monday 17 March, 2014, be remembered as the moment the world changed forever? Well, probably not, but it is the day when a landmark discovery in physics - about as fundamental as it gets - was announced to the wider world.