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June – RFC 2616 defines HTTP/1.1, the version of Hypertext Transfer Protocol in common use. September 21 – David Bowie's Hours becomes the first complete music album by a major artist available to download over the Internet in advance of the physical release. [2] First working 3-qubit NMR computer demonstrated at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
Since 2003, Jean-Pierre Luminet, et al., and other groups have suggested that the shape of the universe may be the Poincaré dodecahedral space. Is the shape unmeasurable, the Poincaré space, or another 3-manifold? Cosmic inflation: Is the theory of cosmic inflation in the very early universe correct? If so, what are the details of this epoch?
The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object is listed in chronological order of its discovery (multiple dates occur when the moments of imaging, observation, and publication differ), identified through its various designations (including temporary and permanent schemes), and the ...
1924: Edwin Hubble: the discovery that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies; 1925: Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger equation (Quantum mechanics) 1925: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: Discovery of the composition of the Sun and that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe; 1927: Werner Heisenberg: Uncertainty principle (Quantum ...
The month of February brought some unbelievably exciting discoveries in the study of space, and with it even more out of this world images. Most notably, scientists detected a "chirp" from ...
The Science of Star Wars (book) A Scientist at the Seashore; The Search for the Giant Squid; Seeds of Change (non-fiction book) The Selfish Gene; Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science; The Sexual Brain; A Short History of Nearly Everything; The Sirens of Mars; Sleights of Mind; Space Chronicles; Stalin and the Scientists ...
[4] [5] 20 February 1947 First animals in space (fruit flies). United States V-2 [4] [6] 24 February 1949: First two-stage liquid-fueled rocket, that sets a record altitude of 244 miles (393 km) (WAC Corporal missile mounted onto a V-2 rocket). United States Bumper-5: 14 June 1949: First mammal in space (Albert II, a rhesus monkey). First ...
The robotic probe is set to begin sample collection before returning its 2 kg (4.4 lb) cargo on 4 June. [ 327 ] 4 June – The China National Space Administration 's Chang'e 6 spacecraft lifts off from the surface of the far side of the Moon carrying samples of lunar soil and rocks back to Earth .