Scientific discoveries are the pillars of the progress of human civilisation. In the last decade only, the world witnessed a host of scientific discoveries including finding water on Mars, the discovery of Higgs Boson and genome editing. New Delhi: Scientific discoveries have been the wheel of progress of human civilisation.
Without the discoveries, we would still be in the medieval age when technological advancement has not given us the kind of luxury and security that we enjoy today. In the last decade only, the world witnessed a host of scientific discoveries. In this article, we will take a look at the major scientific discoveries which took place in the last decade.
Major scientific discoveries which took place in the last decade e The synthetic genome In 2010, the line between natural and man-made got blurred. In that year, the scientists created the first-ever organism with a synthetic genome. It was done by scientists at the J.
Craig Venter Institute and the discovery has proven to be a game changer in the field of scientific studies. First gravitational waves It was in the last wave that the first gravitational waves were detected. In 1916, the great physicist Albert Einstein proposed that objects with enough mass to accelerate can sometimes create waves that move through the fabric of space and time.
In 2015, the U.S.-based observatory LIGO felt the aftershock of a distant collision between two black holes and in 2017, LIGO and the European observatory Virgo felt an.