1. Ardi is the most complete specimen found the oldest ancestor of humans, Ardipithecus . Ardi, a female measuring 120 cm, weighing about 50 kilograms and lived in the Afar region in Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago. Is added to the first Neanderthal skeleton, the child Taung in South Africa, and the famous Lucy, 3.2, million years. Not all paleoanthropologists are sure to be a human ancestor, or hominid, the family that includes humans and our ancestors but not other ancestors of modern apes.
2. Pulsars: Fermi Space Telescope, NASA, has helped to find 16 new celestial objects that rotate rapidly and appear as lights in the sky. The novelty is that they discovered through their gamma ray emissions.
3. ABA receptors : I know the structure of the hormone in plants and drought this year has come a long way to their attention. Studies like published in the journal Nature involving English scientists, suggest new ways to increase the resistance of plants to water shortage.
4. Monopoles: In a bombshell experimental physicists who work with crystalline materials call us strange spin ice magnetic disturbances created that behave as magnetic monopoles, particles never detected.
5. Graphene: The properties of the layers of a carbon atom thick are being studied and resulting devices experimental electronic.
6. X-ray laser: SLAC Lab launched the first X-ray laser, a tool with many applications.
7. Gene therapy: Researchers in Europe and the United States have made progress in the treatment of a neurological disease with no cure, the congenital blindness and severe immune disease with gene therapy strategies.
8. Rapamycin: The modification of a key pathway leading to the mice live longer. The discovery was particularly noteworthy because the treatment is not started until the mice were adults.
9. Hubble repair : The servicing mission to Hubble space shuttle in May improved the vision of the Hubble and extended life.
10. Water on the Moon: Sensors on the spacecraft detected LCROSS vapor and water ice in the remains of the impact of another vehicle on a permanently dark crater on the Moon.
also predict Science on hot science topics in 2010 include the metabolism of cancer cells, the spectrometer Alpha Magnetic, exome sequencing and its medical impact, induced pluripotent stem cells for neuro-psychiatric diseases, and the future of human spaceflight. As a virus of the year, has been chosen, predictably, the new flu, N1H1, for which it is concluded that the story will probably have caused more confusion which have been catastrophic.
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