The scientific journal Nature said the mission of the European probe Rosetta as one of the 10 most significant scientific achievements of 2014, among which also appear advances in artificial intelligence and medical 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 at 67P / Churyamov-Gerasimenko, conquered a place among the 10 most important scientists of the year after nearly two decades preparing to travel from Rosetta.
“It was like going to a peak of 8000 meters and return alive. You have to train a lot, it’s something that takes many years,” Accomazzo said, one of those responsible for mission, which has established that the water in comets is different from Earth’s oceans.
The Indian Radhinka Nagpal also ranks high on the list of the prestigious British magazine for developing inspired swarms of insect communities robots instead.
Along with his group at the American University of Harvard, Nagpal has created a group of 24 thousand robots that coordinate with each other as do the ants, termites and bees.
As for the fight against Ebola, a disease that has killed more than 6000 people in its last outbreak in West Africa, Nature highlights the figure of researcher Sierra Leona Humarr Khan, part of the team that developed the first studies of the genetic sequence of the virus.
Khan died on July 29 after getting himself of the disease working in the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, where he conducted studies that shed light on the mutations of the virus.
The campaign of ‘challenge bucket of ice water’ flooded social networks with over 17 million videos.
Nature also falls among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of the year Pete Frates initiative to draw attention to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS ), which has raised $ 115 million.
His campaign, known as the “challenge bucket of ice water” flooded social networks with over 17 million videos, including those recorded computer mogul Bill Gates, the former US President George W. Bush and the three sons of physicist Stephen Hawking, ALS patient himself.
The American astrophysicist David Spergel is in the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2014 after having discovered an error in the data of the team that announced in March that it had first detected the presence gravitational waves, one of the physical consequences of the theory of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
Spergel found that measurements of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, USA, with BICEP2 telescope installed at the South Pole, had not taken into account distortion by the cosmic dust.
Following the Spergel skepticism regarding the discovery, the scientific community began to shuffle the nomination of the Harvard-Smithsonian team Nobel Prize to discuss the problems arising from scientific discoveries announce with too early.
The Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics since the inception of the award in 1936, also appears prominently in the list of Nature, like the Japanese Masayo Takahashi for his pioneering research into stem cells.
Kipillil Radhakrishnan is the most visible face of the Mars mission of Indian probe Mangalyaan, a milestone that had not achieved any Asian country so far.
The American oncologist Suzanne Topalian known for developing anti-cancer immune therapy, while Sjors Scheres, the British University of Cambridge, appears among scientists of the year for progress in a microscopy technique to detect electrons more effectively and observed a previously unknown proteins with resolution.
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