“Nature” highlights the success of “Rosetta” – Milenio.com

The journal Nature emphasized the mission of the European probe Rosetta as one of the 10 most significant scientific achievements of 2014, including developments also appear in artificial intelligence and battle against Ebola and cancer.

The Italian Andrea Accomazzo, director of flight of the spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA), whose module landed on November 12 in the comet 67P / Churyamov-Gerasimenko , won a place among the 10 most important scientists of the year after nearly two decades preparing to travel to Rosetta .

“It was like going to a peak of 8000 meters and returned alive. You have to train a lot, it’s something that takes many years, “Accomazzo, one of the leaders of a mission, which has established that the water in comets is different from Earth’s oceans said.

The Indian Radhinka Nagpal also high on the list of the prestigious British magazine for developing swarms of robots inspired insect communities in place.

Along with his group at the American University of Harvard, Nagpal has created a group of one thousand 24 robots that coordinate with each other as do the ants, termites and bees.

As for the fight against Ebola, Nature stressed Figure researcher Humarr Khan, who is part of the team that developed the first studies of the genetic sequence of the virus.

Khan died on July 29 after getting the disease working in the Kenema Government Hospital Sierra Leone, where he conducted research on mutations of the virus.

Nature also fits the initiative of the American Pete Frates to call attention to the ALS, which grossed 115 million dollars.

His campaign, known as the challenge bucket of ice water , flooded social networks with over 17 million videos, including those recorded Bill Gates, US president George W. Bush and the three sons of physicist Stephen Hawking, who has said wrong.

The Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics since the inception of the award in 1936, listed in Nature , like the Japanese Masayo Takahashi for his pioneering research into stem cells.