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19 de dic. de 2000 · Discoveries 2000: The Year in Science: Directed by Chris Lofft. With Francis Collins, Roger K. Crouch, James Garvin, John Gearhart.
- New Human relatives
- Taking Measure of The Cosmos
- The Hottest Years on Record
- Editing Genes
- Mysteries of Other Worlds Revealed
- Fossilized Pigments Reveal The Colors of Dinosaurs
- Redefining The Fundamental Unit of Mass
- First Ancient Human Genome Sequenced
- A Vaccine and New Treatments to Fight Ebola
- CERN Detects The Higgs Boson
The human family tree expanded significantly in the past decade, with fossils of new hominin species discovered in Africa and the Philippines. The decade began with the discovery and identification of Australopithecus sediba, a hominin species that lived nearly two million years ago in present-day South Africa. Matthew Berger, the son of paleoanthr...
When Albert Einstein first published the general theory of relativity in 1915, he likely couldn’t have imagined that 100 years later, astronomers would test the theory’s predictions with some of the most sophisticated instruments ever built—and the theory would pass each test. General relativity describes the universe as a “fabric” of space-time th...
Scientists have been predicating the effects of burning coal and fossil fuels on the temperature of the planet for over 100 years. A 1912 issue of Popular Mechanics contains an article titled “Remarkable Weather of 1911: The Effect of the Combustion of Coal on the Climate—What Scientists Predict for the Future,” which has a caption that reads: “The...
Ever since the double-helix structure of DNA was revealed in the early 1950s, scientists have hypothesized about the possibility of artificially modifying DNA to change the functions of an organism. The first approved gene therapy trial occurred in 1990, when a four-year-old girl had her own white blood cells removed, augmented with the genes that ...
Spacecraft and telescopes have revealed a wealth of information about worlds beyond our own in the last decade. In 2015, the New Horizons probe made a close pass of Pluto, taking the first nearby observations of the dwarf planet and its moons. The spacecraft revealed a surprisingly dynamic and active world, with icy mountains reaching up to nearly ...
The decade began with a revolution in paleontology as scientists got their first look at the true colors of dinosaurs. First, in January 2010, an analysis of melanosomes—organelles that contain pigments—in the fossilized feathers of Sinosauropteryx, a dinosaur that lived in China some 120 to 125 million years ago, revealed that the prehistoric crea...
In November 2018, measurement scientists around the world voted to officially changed the definition of a kilogram, the fundamental unit of mass. Rather than basing the kilogram off of an object—a platinum-iridium alloy cylinder about the size of a golf ball—the new definition uses a constant of nature to set the unit of mass. The change replaced t...
In 2010, scientists gained a new tool to study the ancient past and the people who inhabited it. Researchers used a hair preserved in permafrost to sequence the genome of a man who lived some 4,000 years ago in what is now Greenland, revealing the physical traits and even the blood type of a member of one of the first cultures to settle in that par...
This decade included the worst outbreak of Ebola virus diseases in history. The epidemic is believed to have begun with a single case of an 18-month-old-boy in Guinea infected by bats in December 2013. The disease quickly spread to neighboring countries, reaching the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by July 2014, providing an unprecedented oppo...
Over the past several decades, physicists have worked tirelessly to model the workings of the universe, developing what is known as the Standard Model. This model describes four basic interactions of matter, known as the fundamental forces. Two are familiar in everyday life: the gravitational force and the electromagnetic force. The other two, howe...
The year 2000 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy and space exploration [ edit ] Conjunction of planets, Moon, and Sun on May 4, 2000
5 de dic. de 2019 · By Michael Greshko. December 05, 2019. • 25 min read. As the 2010s come to an end, we can look back on an era rife with discovery. In the past 10 years, scientists around the world made...
The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific breakthroughs, theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer.
13 de ene. de 2023 · From biomedicine to outer space, 2022 was filled with scientific discoveries. In 2022, discoveries and breakthroughs happened in the lab, the field, and even in Congress. In addition to naming JWST as the 2022 Breakthrough of the Year, the staff at Science selected a list of runners-up.
29 de abr. de 2023 · Discoveries 2000: The Year in Science. 2000. 46m. Documentary. Advertisement. Cast. Francis Collins (Self - Director, National Institutes of Health) Roger K. Crouch (Self) James Garvin...
