Top 10 advances in science in 2014, according to the ‘Science’ – veja.com

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Landing comet, genealogy of birds, memory handling and robots that mimic termites are among the choices of the journal

The film led mission to land a probe for the first time in a comet took first place in the magazine’s list Science of the top ten scientific advances in 2014, published on Thursday. The selection, made by the editors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, responsible for its publication, includes made medicine, robotics, synthetic biology and paleontology, among other fields of science. Potential treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s and diabetes, the addition of new letters to the genetic alphabet, the transition from dinosaurs to birds and a chip that mimics the human brain are among the highlights of hindsight. Taking first place in the list, the ‘Science’ does not order of importance the other exploits and cientísticas discoveries.

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 The top ten scientific developments in 2014, according to the ‘Science’

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Mission Rosetta

 The large space conquest of the year took first place in the list Science : the Rosetta spacecraft, which orbited a comet for the first time. At 14h03 GMT on the 12th of November, came to Earth confirmation that the Philae module, carried by Rosetta, had landed on the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 509 million kilometers away from the blue planet.

 

 After touching the comet, the robot Philae bounced twice, away from the site originally chosen by the researchers. The place where the Philae landed, still unknown by scientists, has no sunlight, preventing the batteries are recharged robot. As a result, the module went into hibernation three days later – in time to send all the data collected to Earth. There is hope that, when the comet approaches the sun enough, the robot back up and running.

 

 “The landing module Philae was an incredible achievement that gained worldwide attention. But all the Rosetta mission is to advance. She is giving scientists a privileged place to observe the evolution of the comet, “said Tim Appenzeller, editor of Science. One of the first studies of Rosetta data showed that the water in the comet is not equal to Earth, contrary to expectations the mission.

 

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