Rosetta, the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2014 – The Economist

After taking off from Earth in 2004, Rosetta reached into the depths of space to comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August and then sent his capsule Philae to land gently on the surface.

The biggest advancement of science in 2014 was landing on a comet Rosetta, the European Space Agency, said Thursday the specialist journal Science.

After taking off from Earth in 2004, Rosetta reached into the depths of space to comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August and then sent his capsule Philae to land gently on the surface.

“The landing of Philae was an amazing feat and won worldwide attention,” said Tim Appenzeller, news editor of the journal Science.

“But all the Rosetta mission itself is the breakthrough. It is will give scientists a front row seat as the comet begins to warm, breathes and evolves, “said

SPECIAL PHOTO GALLERY. Probe Rosetta reaches the comet after 10 years of sailing . in space

Other innovations or discoveries are part of the 10 main event of 2014, chosen by the newspaper:

• A series of articles on how some dinosaurs evolved to become birds.
• The research showed that the blood of a young mouse can rejuvenate the muscles and brain of older rodent, which led to clinical trials in humans with Alzheimer’s disease.
• The robots inspired by termites that help accomplish tasks without human supervision.
• development led by IBM chips that mimic the architecture of the human brain.
• New ways of culturing cells that closely resemble -productoras insulin beta cells in the páncreas-, as a new way to study diabetes.
• The discovery in a cave in Indonesia templates and paintings of animals, believed to date from 10,000 years ago, but actually have between 35.000 to 40.000 years of antiquity # age.
• Advances in handling memories of a mouse, using optogenetics or beams of light.
• Cheap and parts of 10 inches satellites, called “CubeSat” were acclaimed for their foray into the “real science”.
• Engineering synthetic bacteria “E. coli “which houses two extra normal G, T, C and A, which make up the standard structure of DNA additional nucleotides, an X and Y.

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