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As we near the close of 2022, it’s natural to take stock of the year’s greatest highlights. At Popular Mechanics , we like to think that scientific discoveries should be on that list.
24 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of thousands of prehistoric pits during an electromagnetic induction field survey around Stonehenge [6] 25 – Archaeologists announced the discovery of an intact 2,000-year-old blue glass bowl with a trim rim and a vertical stripe pattern in the Dutch city of Nijmegen in Netherlands. [7] [8] February
Astronomers report the discovery of HD1, considered to be the earliest and most distant known galaxy yet identified in the observable universe, located only about 330 million years after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, a light-travel distance of 13.5 billion light-years from Earth, and, due to the expansion of the universe, a present ...
First discovery of lunar water in the form of ice. [note 4] India Chandrayaan-1 [56] [57] 6 March 2009: First space telescope designated to search for Earth-like exoplanets. USA (NASA) Kepler Mission [58] August 2009: First images of the structures in the rings of a planet (rings of Saturn). USA (NASA) ESA Italy (ASI) Cassini–Huygens [59] [60]
An age of discovery is upon us.Big vessels, carrying robust robotic explorers and sometimes submersibles piloted by humans, embark on deep sea expeditions each year. This lightless realm remains a ...
2022: The standard reference gene, GRCh38.p14, of the human genome, is fully sequenced and contains 3.1 billion base pairs. [ 141 ] Further information: 2024 in science and 2025 in science
5. Play-Doh. Who: Kay Zufall, Brian, Joseph McVicker, Bill Rhodenbaugh When: 1956 . How it was created: The gooey toy kids have been playing with for decades began as a household cleaning product ...
Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. Multiple discovery sometimes occurs when multiple research groups discover the same phenomenon at about the same time, and scientific priority is often disputed. The listings below include some of the most significant people and ideas by date of publication or experiment.