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8 July 2010: the Solar Impulse (picturedhola ) becomes the first aircraft to complete a non-stop 24-hour flight using only solar power. 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]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPad at a press conference on 27 January 2010. Smartphones maintained their strong popularity throughout the 2010s, along with the arrival of tablets. Apple Inc. launched the iPad in 2010, its first tablet computer, which offered multi-touch interaction.
The Indus Valley script remains undeciphered and there are very little surviving fragments of its writing, thus any inference about scientific discoveries in that region must be made based only on archaeological digs. The following dates are approximations. The Nippur cubit-rod, c. 2650 BCE, in the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey
How many times have you heard news of a scientific breakthrough -- a cure for Alzheimer's, for aging, for cancer -- and then never hear another word about it? Often, that's because even great ...
With policy reform, drug recalls, medical breakthroughs and plenty of layoffs, 2010 proved to be an exciting -- if not entirely positive -- year for health care. The passage of the controversial ...
2010 archaeological discoveries (12 P) B. 2010 in biology (2 C, 1 P) E. ... Pages in category "2010 in science" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 ...
A researcher who claimed a breakthrough in superconductivity had two papers retracted earlier. Why was this one accepted as solid? Column: How a scientific 'breakthrough' fell apart amid ...
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 ...