Top Breakthroughs in 2018

Top breakthroughs in 2018

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                      As today marks the end of a whole year and our blog is always keen at explaining the bizarre, newest scientific discoveries and Engineering Advancements.

We are now going to explore some remarkable discoveries and advancements which were not spoken out loud much in 2018. Now I'm going to stop boring you from the introduction and going to take you to the topic.

January

atomristor

In the first month, there were some remarkable achievements starting with

The Atomristor

Engineers from the University of Austin, Texas along with Peking University have announced the creation of Atomristor and It is a memory storage device of one atomic layer thick. It cannot be seen with a naked eye you would need a powerful microscope to even see its existence. They are created using 2D- nanomaterials and they are said to compute data as fast as our brain.

Artificial Synapses

Engineers from MIT have developed a computer chip with artificial synapses which process the information same as our brain this can be used in neural networks and make machines think more like us.

AmazonGo

Many people might know about this. Amazon launched its first cashier-less grocery store.

February 

In the second month, we had

Superionic Water

Superionic water is water under extreme heat and pressure and has properties of solid and liquid. Scientists found traces of it in Earth which was uncommon but this kind of water is present in Uranus and Neptune.

Falcon Heavy

SpaceX launched their maiden flight Falcon heavy into outer space which carries the Tesla Roadster which is still in Outer space with Musk's dummy behind the wheels. It is the heaviest rocked launched till date.

Human Eggs are grown in the lab for the first time by researches. From the earliest ovarian tissue to full maturity.

Human eggs

March

In March we have,

Graphene as Superconductor

Researchers at the MIT and Harvard have found that graphene acts as a Superconductor when its atoms are arranged in a particular way.

Bristlecone

Google announced the creation of Bristlecone the world's most advanced quantum computer chip featuring 72 qubits.

April

In April,

Mars Mission

The NASA and ESA have planned mars sample return missions in which they will send spacecraft to Mars to collect their soil and sediments and take it back to Earth so we will have a better understanding of our neighbour.

sample return mission concept art

All are Equal

Researchers found 6331 groups of genes that are common to all living beings, and which may have arisen from a single common ancestor that lived 650 million years ago.

May

Immunity

The Genome project-write announces a 10-year initiative to make human cells immune to viral infections this may cure AIDS maybe cancer.

Corneas

3D printed human corneas was developed this could help us with an unlimited supply of corneas and give more people the gift of vision

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Helicopter Rover

NASA to send rovers with a helicopter to Mars for surveillance at 2020.

June

Supercomputer

Summit was announced as the world's most powerful supercomputer capable of calculating 200,000 trillion calculations per second.

Scientists cure pigs of one of the world's costliest animal disease using Gene editing.

July

The longest Total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurred in 27th of July.

Artificial Intelligence has grown so much that now it can predict a person's personality just by sensing the eye movements.

August

Earth's overshoot day 2018 is reached. This is defined as the humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeding the time taken for the earth to regenerate those resources.

A Delta IV heavy launces the parker solar probe to study the Sun and the solar wind.

parker probe

September

Researchers prove that phosphorous compounds which were a key component for life, are made in interstellar space and distributed throughout the outer space and early Earth. Perhaps we really were created by aliens.

Scientists identify human's skeleton stem cells for the first time.

October

The world's fastest camera capable of capturing 10 trillion frames per second is announced by the INRS in Canada.

world's fastest camera

Kepler space telescope ran out of fuel after 9 years of service and discovering almost 2600 exoplanets was retired on October 30.

kepler spacecraft

November

Geologists present evidence that there was plenty of water available on early Mars by analysing the Gale crater.

Gale crater

The first genetically edited twin babies were born in China they were resistant to HIV and named Lulu and Nana.

The Insight lander from NASA successfully landed on Mars and now sounds of wind in Mars can be heard for the first time.

Insight lander

December

China launches Chang'e4 the first robotic spacecraft sent to explore the far side of the moon.

Chang'e4

Scientists corrected themselves by informing the earliest feathers were originated 250 million years ago than previously thought 70 million years and the earliest flowers were originated 180 million years ago than the previously thought 50 million years ago.

I know most things I mentioned are from space research I did this because those were some most notable breakthroughs.

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