Just days away from the new year 2020, it has given us time to reflect on the scientific and technological advances we have experienced in the last decade and, especially, on the ingenuity that awaits us in the coming years. Main Technology News 2019
The advance of genetic editing, artificial intelligence and space exploration could be defined as the key trends in science at the present time.
Thus, this year 2019, which is about to conclude, has left us with surprising news in these three areas, in addition to other findings that are vital for understanding our origin as human beings, the origin of other species that once populated the Earth, or for advancing knowledge and treatment of diseases.
Main Technology News 2019
The giant bee was not extinct
They found the world’s largest bee (it wasn’t extinct!). It is Wallace’s bee, discovered in 1859 in the jungles of Indonesia by the famous naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace.
However, it was declared extinct when no other traces of this species were observed in the following 120 years.
First victims of the meteorite 66 million years ago
This 2019 a huge cemetery was also located with the first fossilized victims of the 66 million year old meteorite: burned trees, conifer branches, dead fish and mammals, mosaic bones, insects, and even the partial carcass of a Triceratops, in addition to other marine microorganisms (such as dinoflagellates and cephalopods).
They manage to reverse time
In addition, a team of researchers from IFTP, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, along with experts from the United States and Switzerland have succeeded in moving a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past.
In other words, it managed to reverse time using quantum technology!
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Late Mooners
At the beginning of the year, the first private flight to the Moon, the Beresheet probe, took off. Weeks later, this probe had to make a crash landing.
Well, thousands of living creatures on board were accidentally scattered among the wreckage of the ship on the surface of the Moon: they are late bloomers.
This animal, less than a millimetre in size, is one of nature’s most fascinating creatures, as it is virtually indestructible: the latex can survive extreme radiation, scorching heat, the freezing temperatures of the universe, and decades without food.
Can you imagine? Now thousands of Tardi Gras spread out on the Moon! But, as resilient as they are, they should have water to revive them.
Madrid hosted COP25
The month of December has had as main protagonist the COP25, the climate summit of Chile that hosts on this occasion MADRID.
This has been a decisive year, given that it is the last convention to be held before the Paris Agreement (signed during COP21 in 2015) comes into force in January 2020.
It is the last opportunity for the members of the Conference of the Parties to review the actions that will implement a sustainable plan to effectively mitigate and adapt to climate change.
