The Rosetta mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) leads the list of top ten discoveries of the Year in 2014 which produces Science, said yesterday the US scientific journal.
Rosetta and Philae module, first aircraft sent by humans landing on a comet, head palmares not only for his feat of reaching the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, but by science to perform with the data collected.
According to the deputy director of Science News, Robert Coontz, the findings of the year must “solve a problem that people have been struggling for a long time or opening the door to a wealth of new research.”
For Rosetta, “most of good science really is coming,” Coontz said in a statement.
The paleontological discovery of the year was the correct calculation of the age of some paintings of animals in a cave in Indonesia believed they were made 10,000 years ago, but actually had 35,000 to 40,000 years, which suggests that humans in Asia produced symbolic art on par with Europeans.
The publication also recognized a series of articles comparing fossils of primitive birds and dinosaurs to modern birds and allowed reveal the genetic evolution of different species of birds.
Also, an experiment assessed showed that GDF11 factor in the blood of young mouse can rejuvenate the muscles and brain of older mice, and that has led to a clinical trial that Alzheimer’s patients receiving plasma from young donors.
Notable studies also are research of Harvard University who was inspired by the behavior of termites to create a group of robots that coordinate with each other and are able to create structures without human supervision.
The list also includes the use of optogenetic-a technique that manipulates neuronal activity with light-rays, allowed to show that is possible to manipulate specific memories in mice. In neuroscience, highlights the first neuromorphic chips that mimic the architecture of the human brain and two pioneering research developed different methods for culturing cells that resemble the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas -other beta cells -.
In the technology area, stood small satellites known as Cubesats, while in genetics, highlighted a synthetic E. coli bacteria that could be used to create proteins with “unnatural” amino acids.
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