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2019: Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon. [83] 2019: NASA concludes the 15-year Opportunity rover mission after being unable to wake the rover from hibernation. [84] 2019: The first image of the supermassive black hole inside galaxy Messier 87 was captured by the Event Horizon ...
The company introduced its first two tests in March 2020 and delivered more than 400 million in 2020. [9] [10] Ford said he considers Abbott's BinaxNOW test to be a model, setting a trend for rapid point-of-care testing after the coronavirus pandemic for ailments such as influenza, sexually transmitted diseases, and hepatitis. [11]
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.
10 January – Astronomers propose that AT2018cow, a very powerful astronomical explosion, 10–100 times brighter than a normal supernova, may have been a white dwarf being pulled apart by a black hole; or, a supernova leaving behind a black hole or a neutron star, the creation of a compact body being observed for the first time. [19] [20] [21]
The year 2010 involved numerous significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below. The United Nations declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity . [ 1 ]
Ford ended the production of the Lincoln MKT in October 2019 and the Ford Flex the following month, the company laid off 450 of its 4,200 plant workers in early 2020. [ 6 ] The plant is planned to produce electric vehicles and assemble batteries, starting from 2025, after a major retooling from 2024.
The 6,087 km 2 of lost rainforest in 2020 as of early September – ~95% of the period in 2019 [290] – is about the size of Palestine. 14 September The Royal Astronomical Society announces the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, which, in the discovered concentration, is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.
In Nautilus ' launch year (2013), it was cited as one of Library Journal's Ten Best New Magazines Launched; [2] was named one of the World's Best-Designed news sites by the Society for News Design; [3] received an honorary mention as one of RealClearScience's top science news sites; [4] and received three awards from FOLIO: magazine, including Best Consumer Website and Best Full Issue.