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July 2015 was the hottest month on Earth since records began in 1880, according to data from NOAA. [354] [355] A new report in the journal Science underscores the need for improved management and protection of boreal forests in response to global changes this century. [356] [357] 21 August
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NASA Dawn probe was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, [60] the first spacecraft to visit either Vesta or Ceres, and the first to orbit a dwarf planet, [61] arriving at Ceres in March 2015, a few months before New Horizons flew by Pluto in July 2015. Other notable developments in astronomy and spaceflight over the decade ...
10 August 2015: First food grown in space eaten . USA (NASA) Japan (JAXA) International Space Station [65] 14 September 2015: First observation of gravitational waves. LSC – EGO: LIGO – Virgo [66] [67] 23 November 2015: First propulsive landing of a rocket after sending something into space . USA (Blue Origin) New Shepard 2 [68] 21 December ...
The class of 2015 is officially the most indebted class in history, according to an analysis by Mark Kantrowitz, senior vice president and publisher of Edvisors who shared his findings with Mic ...
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The history of science is often seen as a linear story of progress [27] but historians have come to see the story as more complex. [28] [29] [30] Alfred Edward Taylor has characterised lean periods in the advance of scientific discovery as "periodical bankruptcies of science". [31] Science is a human activity, and scientific contributions have ...
1932 Antielectron (or positron), the first antiparticle, discovered by Carl D. Anderson [13] (proposed by Paul Dirac in 1927 and by Ettore Majorana in 1928) : 1937 Muon (or mu lepton) discovered by Seth Neddermeyer, Carl D. Anderson, J.C. Street, and E.C. Stevenson, using cloud chamber measurements of cosmic rays [14] (it was mistaken for the pion until 1947 [15])