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April 22 – Trees have a theoretical maximum height of 130 m (426 ft) before gravity restricts their growth, according to a study published in Nature. [5]July 30 – Marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute announce in the journal Science the discovery of the genus Osedax, deep sea worms that feed on lipids in decaying whale carcasses.
26 October 2007: Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, dies aged 89. 20 February – F. Albert Cotton (b. 1930), American chemist known for research on transition metal chemistry; 22 February – Lucille Farrier Stickel (b. 1915), American wildlife toxicologist; 23 March – Paul Cohen (b.
2004: Ben Green and Terence Tao announce their proof on arithmetic progressions in prime numbers known as the Green–Tao Theorem. 2004: Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated graphene, a monolayer of carbon atoms, and studied its quantum electrical properties. 2005: Grid cells in the brain are discovered by Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser.
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 ...
Most experts believe that the Antikythera Mechanism was used to predict astronomical positions, like eclipses. Image credits: Isabella Thornton #24 Ski-Sailing - A New Sport Invented In Austria ...
2007 – Giant magnetoresistance recognized (Nobel prize, Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg) 2008 – First artificial production of antimatter ( positrons ), by the LLNL 2008 – 16-year study of stellar orbits around Sagittarius A* provides strong evidence for a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy
And to think, you might not have had to sit through all those math classes if it hadn't been for Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi's mind
1937), English Quaternary geologist and paleoclimatologist, recipient of the Vetlesen Prize (2004). February 28 – Owen Chamberlain (b. 1920), American Nobel laureate in physics (1959). May 1 – Kikuo Takano (b. 1927), Japanese poet and mathematician. May 14 – Bruce Merrifield (b.