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The Mars Exploration Rovers have provided vast amounts of information by functioning well beyond NASA's original estimates. Using the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, scientists studying the universe measured that its age is 13.77 billion years; "solidly supported" that it has been expanding and cooling since the Big Bang; and calculated that the universe is composed of about 4.6% atoms ...
Lactic acid, added to the list in 2010 after large-scale production was established, currently holds a market value exceeding US$2.5 billion, primarily used in the production of polylactate. [ 5 ] 2009 – Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute uses modified SAN heart genes to create the first viral pacemaker in guinea pigs, now known as iSANs.
2000 BC: Pythagorean triples are first discussed in Babylon and Egypt, and appear on later manuscripts such as the Berlin Papyrus 6619. [6] 2000 BC: Multiplication tables in a base-60, rather than base-10 (decimal), system from Babylon. [7] 2000 BC: Primitive positional notation for numerals is seen in the Babylonian cuneiform numerals. [8]
TIME Magazine has released its list of "50 Worst Inventions" and somehow FarmVille has made the list of one of the fifty! The list of fifty worst inventions is compiled of "the world's bright ...
The 24-year-old from Brooklyn was the first to use a new technology called digitalization to capture images. Four decades later, we carry his invention in our pockets on our phones. Courtesy of ...
The January 27, 2010, launch of the iPad by Apple, Inc. marked the first large-scale commercial release of a tablet computer. 2012 3D bioprinting Three dimensional (3D) bioprinting is the utilization of 3D printing –like techniques to combine cells , growth factors , and/or biomaterials to fabricate biomedical parts, often with the aim of ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.
In the time that Shark Tank has been on the air, America has come to fall in love with Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John, Robert Herjavec, and Kevin O'Leary aka Mr ...