Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
25 May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft (pictured) becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station. The year 2012 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, including the first orbital rendezvous by a commercial spacecraft, the discovery of a particle highly similar to the long-sought Higgs boson, and the near-eradication of guinea ...
Disasters More than 80 flood alerts are issued in the United Kingdom as the north of England and East Anglia prepares for torrential rain. (Sky News) Law and crime Former de facto President of Argentina Jorge Videla and General Reynaldo Bignone are found guilty of overseeing the systematic theft of at least 400 babies from political prisoners during military rule's Dirty War. (BBC) British ...
Her obituary acknowledges her 27-year relationship with a woman. An unusually large coronal mass ejection emitted by the Sun barely missed the Earth by nine days, dubbed the Solar storm of 2012. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide. (Science@NASA)
2012: Higgs boson is discovered at CERN (confirmed to 99.999% certainty) 2012: Photonic molecules are discovered at MIT; 2014: Exotic hadrons are discovered at the LHCb; 2014: Photonic metamaterials are discovered to make passive daytime radiative cooling possible by Raman et al. [135] [136] 2016: The LIGO team detects gravitational waves from ...
2012 in science; January–March 2012 in science; 0–9. 2012 transit of Venus; 433 Eros; A. Alan Turing Year; 2012 in anthropology; ... July 2012 solar storm; L.
Leap day, the extra day added to the calendar during a leap year, always comes on Feb. 29. This adds one more day to the shortest month of the year. Why do we have Leap Day? Because the Earth ...
On This Day; BBC: On This Day; The New York Times: On This Day; Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History
The year in science articles are missing references. (December 2007) The pre-1600 coverage is spotty and frequently unformatted (e.g., 1506 in science). (December 2007) User:Wernher questioned whether science and technology should be lumped together in a single article at Talk:2005 in science#Arrgh! Science ≠ Technology!. (Only one response ...