Yeah Science, Bitch - 2015 in science

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THI·YEAR IN SCIENCE! Researchers have developed microscopic robots capable of safely targeting and delivering a drug inside a patient's body, NASAS New Horizons probe made a Pluto flyby, getting breathtaking footage of the planetold and it's moons. The first 3D-Printed bionic hand wins the James Dyson Award for Engineering Innovation. The hand will be available commercially in 2016 for < £1000 Elon Musk announced the birth of Tesla Energy and unveiled the Powerwall: the revolutionary $3,500 home solar system battery pack. A planet was discovered with a ring system 200 times larger than Saturn's. Scientists captured the first ever image of light as both a particle and a wave.. mimicked to create liquid fuel for the first time. Sandisk unveiled an astonishing 200 GB micro SD Card. slowed down the speed of light travelling through free space for the first time. A new island formed from volcanic activity near Tonga. The jawbone of a 2.8 million year old human ancestor was discovered in Ethiopia. Harvard researchers successfully spliced functional Wooly Mammoth DNA with that of an elephant. New gravitational influence data suggests that there are probably 2 more planets orbiting our sun beyond Pluto. The first licensed autonomous vehicle in the US. hit the road. The world's thinnest light source was created-1 carbon molecule thick. The Weyl Fermion particle was discovered -a mass- less particle essential for quantum computing to work. The 'Opah became the first discavered warm-blooded fish. The Large Hadron Collider began running at 13 Tev Nearly twice as powerful as before. Higher energies means more new data and ultimately more discoveries Beyond recognizing photos better than humans, a new computer program was written that is verifiably better than humans at recognizing hu- man-made sketches. A new GPS system was developed that is accurate dawn to the centimeter. A new Japanese maglev train crushed previous speed records, cruises at 600 km/hr. Archaeologists discovered two lost cities in the Honduran Jungles. They have been left untouched for 600 years. giantleaps.org

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SixthSun

Sep 04, 2015 at 11:00AM EDT

Gonna have to ask for sources for some of these.

Especially that one about light, I find it very odd to take a picture of light, let alone that feat mentioned.

Dralemeres

Sep 04, 2015 at 04:22AM EDT in reply to prophetofpuppets

No, that is the future our grandparents dreamed about. The future our parents dreamed about was based off those terrible made for scifi movies where the nanomachines turn evil and try to convert the world.

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