Scientific Discoveries That Made 2019 a Fantastic Year

you know hundreds of different events happen in the world every single day how about we check the brightest moments of 2019 january on january 3rd 2019 china's changi 4 robotic mission landed on the moon's far side for the first time ever its goal was to explore the terrain of the previously mysterious dark side people in east asia and north pacific could observe a partial solar eclipse on january 6th and on january 21st there was the last total solar eclipse till may 2021 it was referred to as a wolf super moon wolf because it was the first full moon in a calendar year and super because it was closer to earth and bigger than usual scientists found out that human bones might be loaded with a network of tiny tunnels this system is likely to help blood cells produced in bones quickly get into the blood circulation if there are holes there should also be capillaries miniature blood vessels kiyoshi kimura a japanese sushi restaurant owner also known as the tuna king paid more than 3 million dollars for a ginormous bluefin tuna at tokyo's toyota fish market man that's some expensive fish you're about to slice up january 2019 was the hottest month in australia since records began in 1910 scientists discovered a teeny jello violin inside the human ear it's a blob of jelly-like substance made up of 97 water researchers believe that thanks to this jell-o your ear can separate high frequencies from lower ones february it was discovered honeybees could add and subtract and understood the idea of zero a new kangaroo fossil study proved that the animals had learned to hop around 20 million years ago it was much earlier than scientists had previously thought rare black panthers were spotted in kenya for the first time in 100 years on february 21st japanese spacecraft halebusa ii landed on asteroid ryugu to collect rock samples a 30 million page digital library called the lunar library was launched toward the moon its main purpose is to preserve the records of human civilization for billions of years march the dragon vehicle launched by spacex successfully docked with the international space station it was a demonstration run the mission was only carrying a test dummy and a 400 pound payload google employee emma haruka iwo broke the guinness world record for calculating pi to the most number of digits a staggering 31.4 trillion she achieved her childhood dream with the help of google cloud me i like strawberry pie the super bloom of poppies in walker canyon in southern california was visible from space nasa aircraft snapped a picture of the phenomenon that happened after heavy rainfall bugatti announced its new car it's the most expensive vehicle ever sold lavoiter noir cost about 19 million bucks and was the only one to be built the vessel a honeycomb-like visitor attraction was open on march 15th in new york city the 16-story elaborate construction consists of 80 landings 154 flights of stairs and 2 500 steps queen elizabeth ii shared her first instagram post ever it happened during her visit to london's science museum it was an image of a letter between prince albert and mathematician and inventor charles babbage armando a champion racing pigeon nicknamed the lewis hamilton of pigeons was sold for 1.42 million in belgium april the first ever image of a black hole appeared in april it took two years to piece the image together eight radio observatories on four continents had been watching a black hole in messier 87 a big galaxy 55 million light years away from earth wolves returned to the netherlands after they hadn't been seen in the country for 140 years the biggest plane in the world set off on its first trip in the mojave desert in california the aircraft is designed to launch rockets into orbit and can carry a 250 ton payload after growing several human taste cells in a lab scientists discover they had an ability to smell in each of these cells there were a few molecules similar to those found in cells in the human nose that's why taste cells reacted to odor molecules just like smell cells did scientific journal nature geoscience reported that methane a gas usually produced by living things you and me and cows for example was found on mars in 2013. it was detected by european space agency's mars express spacecraft in gale crater near the martian equator aston martin a british sports car manufacturer presented its first electric car the repeat e at the shanghai auto show this model can reach the speed of up to 155 miles per hour and cost 326 000 scientists discovered a previously unknown human species in a cave in luzon island in the philippines three foot tall homo luzonis lived fifty thousand to sixty thousand years ago no word if the lumpia found with him was still fresh just kidding nasa's insight lander whose goal was to study the interior of mars detected the first mars quake ever after years of test flights the first home delivery drone service was launched in australia an american diver made the deepest submarine dive ever to the bottom of the mariana trench the submersible designed to withstand immense pressures reached the depth of nearly seven miles the first ever albino panda caught on camera was spotted at a nature preserve in china people had seen brown and white pandas in the northwest part of the country before but never all white ones may a stainless steel sculpture rabbit created in 1986 by the artist jeff coons was sold at auction for a whopping 91.1 million dollars it became the world's most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist scientists announced that they had evidence that early humans had lived at extreme altitudes in tibet about 160 thousand years ago they belonged to the ancient denezuvan species french adventurer jean-jacques sivan successfully crossed the atlantic ocean in a 10-foot long barrel-shaped orange capsule the entire journey lasted 122 days the man traveled 2 800 miles i'll bet that was a barrel of fun not a study published in the journal nature geoscience claimed the moon kept shrinking the earth satellite became 150 feet skinnier than it had been several hundred million years ago its insides were still cooling and this could be triggering moonquakes china's changi 4 mission found evidence that a giant asteroid had created a massive crater in the moon's far side the impact was so great it had cracked the crust and reached the mantle cami rita sherpa from nepal set a new record for making it to the top of mount everest the most number of times 24. the supermassive black hole at the center of our home milky way galaxy suddenly lit up twice as brightly as usual it could mean the black hole had swallowed something large maybe that bluefin tuna dna research proved bed bugs were older than humans at least 115 million years ago these insects managed to outlive dinosaurs china unveiled the prototype of a new high-speed train that would float above the track at a speed of 370 miles per hour hey what's your hurry astronomers pieced together 7500 photos taken during 16 years by the hubble space telescope it resulted in a mosaic of the distant universe the image consisted of 265 000 visible galaxies the light from some of them comes from 13.3 billion years ago june an island in northern norway asked to be the world's first time free zone the sun doesn't sit there for 69 days from may 18th to july 26th that's why you can see kids playing soccer at 2 am and adults drinking coffee with friends or painting their houses at 4 00 am a baseball jersey that belonged to baseball legend babe ruth became the most expensive sports memorabilia ever it was sold at an auction in new york for 5.64 million dollars rykoke volcano in the coral islands erupted sending volcanic gasses and ash high up into the atmosphere the eruption was so massive that it was spotted by the astronauts on the international space station nasa launched the deep space atomic clock the size of a four-slice toaster it was designed to keep super accurate time within 1 10 millionth of a second so don't be late during a week-long heat wave in europe the highest ever june temperatures were recorded in poland about 100 degrees fahrenheit germany around 101 and the czech republic 102. two days later the highest ever temperature was recorded in southern france it reached almost 115 degrees the first solar sailing spacecraft propelled solely by sunlight was launched into space on the same rocket as the atomic clock well it's time out a new study stated that if people suddenly started to be born with six fingers the brain would easily adapt to it people with polydactyly extra fingers or toes have no problems controlling additional fingers and can use each of them independently july a 12th century chess piece from a sand dune on the island of louis was sold in an auction in london for almost 900 000 bucks people in chile and argentina observed a total solar eclipse lights out a floating mass of seaweed that stretched from west africa to the gulf of mexico became the world's biggest seaweed bloom record temperatures were registered in alaska the temperature there reached 90 degrees fahrenheit japan's hayabusa 2 mission landed on a ryugu asteroid for the second time to collect more samples like double dipping huh a new study claimed some people could be better at knowing everything than others thanks to their super effectively wired brains brain scans prove such individuals had shorter and stronger connections between brain cells nope not me asteroid 2019 okay scared scientists by sneaking up on our planet the rather large rock appeared seemingly out of nowhere and traveled uncomfortably close to earth just forty five thousand miles away which is less than one fifth of the distance to the moon a two hundred ten thousand year old skull was found in southern greece it's the earliest example of modern humans outside africa kenya launched the largest wind power plant in africa the lake turkana wind power project consisted of 365 wind turbines and was designed to increase the country's electricity supply by 13 the highest ever uk temperature was recorded in cambridge it was nearly 102 degrees detecting a pattern here august scientists discovered a previously unknown organ in the human body it looks like a mesh-like web of cells inside the skin these cells cover nerve endings and might be the reason why people can feel pain a two-headed baby rattlesnake called double dave was found in a forest in new jersey nasa confirmed that a mission to europa jupiter's ice-covered moon would be launched in 2025. a life-size robot called fidor was launched toward the international space station the robot set off in its space journey in a rocket from russia's balconer cosmodrome in kazakhstan the robot was five feet 11 inches tall and weighed around 350 pounds not the best height weight ratio frenchman frankie zappata became the first person ever to cross the english channel on a jet-powered fly board the inventor covered the 22 mile distance in 22 minutes boo sign me up astronomers detected what they thought could be a collision between a neutron star and a black hole for the first time september for the first time in more than 360 years compasses pointed to true north at greenwich our planet has two north poles geographic and magnetic most of the time compasses show the magnetic pole which shifts because of the earth's liquid core an environmental dna study proved that the loch ness monster couldn't be a giant reptile or an aquatic dinosaur but researchers discovered the lake was home to tons of eels that's why they concluded nessie could be an overgrown eel even though it's unlikely scientists discovered a new dino species in japan the bones they analyzed belonged to a 26 foot long animal that lived about 72 million years ago the duck-billed herbiferous dinosaur was the largest ever found in the country scientists found the early evidence of milk consumption in the teeth of prehistoric british farmers apparently people started to drink milk as early as 6 000 years ago chocolate milk came later researchers announced they might have discovered the reason why some people are born left-handed after analyzing four hundred thousand people they found four genetic regions partially responsible for the handedness elon musk unveiled a new spacex spacecraft starship was designed to carry cargo and crews to the moon mars or any other place in the solar system then it would land back on earth perpendicularly the largest arctic research expedition ever the mosaic expedition left norway the international team from 20 countries had to spend a year in the central arctic investigating the climate in that region for the first time ever astronomers detected water on a planet outside of our solar system the distant exoplanet k218b whose size and surface gravity are larger than earth's has water vapor in its atmosphere people all over the world celebrated batman day the 80th anniversary of the very first batman comic a new airport was opened in beijing it's the city's second biggest international airport nicknamed starfish its terminal building is the world's largest single structure airport terminal a ginormous 315 billion ton iceberg carved from an ice shelf in antarctica the giant chunk of ice was named d28 hey let's give it its own zip code october one of the rare vicion warty pigs at a parisian zoo was recorded using tools for the first time ever the animal picked up a piece of bark in its mouth and started to dig with it the nobel prize in medicine or physiology was awarded to three physician scientists for figuring out how cells sense oxygen the plant known as pete the fern took its first selfie in london zoo using the waste energy it had generated it was enough to power a camera and take the photo researchers found out humans could regenerate cartilage rubber-like stuff around joints they saw a cartilage repair itself most effectively at the ankle not that well in the knee and least effectively in the hip the blob went on display at the paris zoological park the bright yellow slime mold is neither plant nor animal or fungus it can move around at a speed of 1.6 inches per hour and heals itself after being divided into two parts the organism can also solve problems even though it doesn't have a brain astronomers found out the universe was expanding nine times faster than they had predicted google researchers claimed they had created the first quantum supercomputer they said it had taken the computer just three minutes to perform calculations the most advanced modern computer would need 10 000 years to solve the oldest natural pearl in the world was discovered on an island off the capital of the united arab emirates abu dhabi experts said the pearl was at least eight thousand years old yabba-dabby-doo nasa's hubble space telescope snapped a clear picture of a comet discovered by an amateur astronomer 2i borisov that's what the comet is called came from an unknown star system it was the second interstellar visitor ever noticed in our solar system australian airline qantas completed its non-stop test flight from london to sydney its purpose was to research how such a long journey would affect crew pilots and passengers it took a boeing 787 dreamliner more than 19 hours to carry 49 people 11 000 miles away from their departure point november scientists found some evidence that human ancestors might have walked upright as early as yesterday no 12 million years ago not 6 million as previously thought this theory appeared after researchers had discovered an ancient ape in a bavarian clay pit in germany a new study suggested that ancient snakes used to have hind legs during the first 70 million years of their evolution researchers found that people who lived to be 110 years old and more aka super centenarians had more immune cells called t helpers than the average person these cells are believed to protect people from viruses and other health problems mercury passed directly in front of the sun on november 11th how rude such a transit event only happens 13 to 14 times a century a tiny book charlotte bronte wrote when she was 14 for her toy soldiers was sold at an auction in paris for over 650 000 a new study claimed the wind speed across asia europe and north america had risen and become three times faster since 2010. december a new breed of apple with a super long shelf life hit the market in the u.s the fruit called cosmic crisp had taken 20 years to develop it was cultivated to last for up to a year north pole explorers mike horn and borg auslan completed their 1120 mile journey on drifting ice in the arctic darkness so how could they tell it's dark the world's first fully electric commercial aircraft successfully made its test flight in canada the e-plane was a 62-year-old seaplane equipped with a new powerful electric motor the entire trip lasted 15 minutes sydney to london not yet scientists discovered the earliest fossilized trees ever 386 million years old they were found in cairo new york a new study reported archaeologists might have uncovered the oldest figurative artwork in the world it was a cave painting in indonesia nearly 44 000 years old it had a hunting scene with animals and people in it scientists found the deepest point on land in east antarctica under denman glacier the canyon filled with eyes reached 11 500 feet below sea level australia had its hottest day ever the average temperature across the country reached 104 degrees people in south and southeast asia could sing a ring of fire a ring-shaped solar eclipse the high-speed parker solar probe discovered a bizarre activity at the edges of the sun's atmosphere the probe's data showed mysterious reversals of the solar magnetic field and weird bursts in the solar wind streams stay tuned

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Published: Fri Jul 03 2020