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DeepMind used artificial intelligence for the first time to predict protein folding. [1]Singapore became the first jurisdiction to approve the sale of cultured meat. [2]The vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against Coronavirus disease 2019 became the first vaccines developed using messenger RNA [3] and mark the fastest vaccine development and approval, taking only 10 months.
The following entries cover events related to science or technology which occurred in the listed year. Before 1500s. 0s: 1st century in science; 100s ... 2020s: 2020 ...
Artificial satellites and space probes in the 2020s Year Origin Name Target Status Description 2020 Turkey: TÜRKSAT 5A: Earth: Success: TÜRKSAT 5A, Turkey's seventh communication satellite launched with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. European Union: SolO: Sun: En route: Solar Orbiter is an ESA's Sun-observing satellite. [23] [24] [25] US: Mars ...
Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages nearly 1 million years ago. Last year was the planet’s hottest in ...
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announces that it assesses a 20% chance that global warming compared to pre-industrial levels will exceed 1.5 °C in at least one year within the five years of 2020–2024. 1.5 °C is often considered to be a key threshold of global warming and nations have agreed to attempt limiting contemporary ...
The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand twenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029.
The blue-chip index was still up over 10% on the year, but the pullback brought bearish analysts who had predicted a dismal year for stocks due to rising interest rates out of hiding. Then Ed ...
A year may be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 4. Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400.