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A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2015. Gene editing based on CRISPR got significantly improved. A new human-like species, Homo naledi, was first described. Gravitational waves were observed for the first time (announced publicly in 2016), and dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres were visited by
16 May – NASA confirms that April 2016 was the hottest April ever recorded, beating the previous record set in 2010 by 0.24 °C, the largest margin ever. [142] 17 May Scientists at IBM Research announce a storage memory breakthrough by reliably storing three bits of data per cell using a new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM).
2015: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed after a launch, making it the first rocket to successfully return and perform a vertical landing. [73] 2016: The ESA and Roscosmos launched the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars. [74] 2016: SpaceX lands the first reusable rocket, a CRS-8 rocket on a droning platform at sea.
6 2015. 7 2016. 8 2017. 9 2018. 10 2019. ... low-cost credit-card sized computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry, ...
The phrase Fourth Industrial Revolution was first introduced by a team of scientists developing a high-tech strategy for the German government. [13] Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), introduced the phrase to a wider audience in a 2015 article published by Foreign Affairs. [14] "
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 2015: First propulsive landing of an orbital rocket. USA Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests: 16 April 2016
On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-8396-8. Berger, Michael L. The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001). Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online.
Civic technology: Research and development, projects Smart cities, more responsive government Smart city, e-democracy, open data, intelligent environment: Digital scent technology: Diffusion Smell-O-Vision, iSmell: DNA digital data storage: Experiments Mass data storage Electronic nose: Research, limited commercialization [20] [21]