The greatest scientific discoveries of the year leaving

The greatest scientific discoveries of the year leaving


2013 was certainly an important and fruitful year for the global scientific community . However some achievements really impressed researchers breaking new ground in disciplines such as medicine and astronomy .

Here are the major achievements of world scientific community that marked 2013

Crowds in space
Many new spacecraft were launched in 2013 , with the most important MAVEN which currently travels the atmosphere of the planet Mars. Alongside the Caltech researchers say only this year found at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way .

Cloned human embryonic stem cells
After more than a decade of failed attempts , researchers at the University of Health and Science at Oregon , announced that they have created cloned human embryos and stem cells collected from them. They also created cells from specialized cells in the skin and heart , making a first step for use in human transplantation .

The Voyager crossed the limits of our Solar System
One of the most important announcements of the year relates to an incident that actually happened in 2012 but we have seen this year . The vibrations of solar storms in September confirmed that the spacecraft NASA's Voyager 1 came from outside our solar system in space.

Detected lake on Mars probably host life
The Curiosity of NASA continues to write history in the soil of the Red Planet and among the most important discoveries of 2013 is a dry lake which probably housed life more than three billion years ago.

The skull revealed our roots
The archaeological site Ntmanisi the Republic of Georgia , researchers discovered a skull aged 1800000 years hiding inside of a mixture of ancient and new characteristics . This finding suggests that archaic humans mated with Homo erectus, as well as some early modern humans in prehistory . Many modern people have a small dose of archaic human genes .