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2013 Event - Scientists discover that a large amount of bacterial life forms live in the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, which is about 6.831 miles

2013 Event - Lazarus Project scientists reveal that they successfully recovered frozen tissue from the 1970's and rejuvenated the cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog that has been extinct since 1983

2013 Event - After measuring its spin and parity, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider firmly believe the particle discovered in July 2012 is a Higgs boson

2013 Event - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars

2013 Event - Scientists in Illinois, announce they've developed stretchable batteries that can power a new generation of flexible electronics

2013 Event - Scientists in Spain publish a study in the 'New England Journal of Medicine' that claims a Mediterranean diets, high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits, reduce the risk of heart disease

2013 Event - Scientists discover that bumblebees have the ability to sense electric fields around flowers, enabling them to identify specific flowers for pollination

2013 Event - Scientists say Pandemrix, GlaxoSmithKline influenza vaccine, may be the cause of Europe's recent increase in cases of narcolepsy

2013 Event - European Bioinformatics Institute scientists have successfully stored audio and text on fragments of DNA, and retrieved them with 99.99% accuracy - the first time in history DNA has been used for data storage

2013 Event - NASA scientists achieve a first in laser communication when they successfully beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon

2013 Event - U.S. scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded

2012 Event - Scientists studying the Sutter's Mill meteorite, found near where the Sutter's Mill California Gold Rush site, determine it contains the oldest material in the Solar System

2012 Event - Scientists discover the closest known rogue planet to Earth, known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the planet is about 100+ light years away

2012 Event - Medical textbooks require rewriting after 39-year-old Canadian Scott Routley becomes the first person believed to be in a vegetative state to tell scientists he isn't in any pain

2012 Event - Four genetically different types of breast cancer are identified by researchers; the study, part of the Cancer Genome Atlas, will help scientists understand how to cure breast cancer in the future

2012 Event - Scientists create a 'magic carpet' using optical fibers to help prevent elderly people from falling by detecting when unusual footsteps are taken

2012 Event - Scientists reveal new research identifying a mechanism by which Earth-warming carbon is pulled deep into the Southern Ocean, and locked away; scientists claim this process may be threatened by global warming

2012 Event - Ending an extensive study on the wooly mammoth, scientists conclude that they were wiped out by multiple things, including climate change, human hunters, and shifting habitats

2012 Event - Scientists successfully sequence the tomato genome, and announce that tastier, more pesticide-resistant tomato varieties can be engineered for use in the next five years

2012 Event - U.S. scientists develop a device that can generate electricity from genetically-engineered viruses; these piezoelectric materials are a step toward the development of personal power generators

2012 Event - Scientists at Stanford University invent a working bionic eye the is powered only by focused light; the eye could eventually restore the sight of millions of people suffering from macular degeneration and retinal pigmentosa

2012 Event - Scientists believe a link exists between the disappearance of endangered languages and cultures and a loss of biodiversity

2012 Event - Scientists in Kamchatka, Russia, report sighting the first adult white orca to be seen in the wild

2012 Event - Scientists claim a recent study suggests that donor stem cells may prevent organ rejection in cases of imperfectly matched transplants

2012 Event - Scientists discover two new species of prehistoric penguins, Kairuku waitaki and Kairuku grebneffi, which stood over five feet tall

2012 Event - Scientists regenerated specimens from Silene stenophylla, a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, substantially surpassing previous records for the oldest plant regenerated

2011 Event - Scientists in New Britain discover the first orchid known to flower at night, Bulbophyllum nocturnum, over the cost of Papua New Guinea

2011 Event - NASA scientists announce the discovery of a circumbinary planet - a planet the orbits two stars instead of one

2011 Event - In South Africa, scientists find Australopithecus sediba skeletons are 2 million years old, suggesting the hominid species could be a transitional fossil between apes and humans

2011 Event - In Borneo a previously extinct rainbow toad is rediscovered by scientists; the sighting is the first since its extinction was declared in 1924

2011 Event - After scientists reviewed studies on cell phone safety, the World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a carcinogenic hazard, possibly carcinogenic to humans

2011 Event - In Canada's Arctic regions, scientists study an outbreak of avian cholera responsible for killing thousands of eider ducks

2011 Event - Scientists claim 2010 was the warmest year ever recorded, and the last decade the warmest ever recorded, in 200 years

2011 Event - Scientists posit that streams of antimatter positrons detected annihilating electrons cause Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes on top of thunderstorms

2011 Event - Over 5,000 red-winged blackbirds suddenly die in Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year's Eve; scientists investigate causes of the bird die-off

2010 Event - In Heuneburg, Germany, scientists discover a late Bronze Age grave of a Celtic princess, containing amber, gold, bronze and coal

2010 Event - In Prague, scientists exhume the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe, in an effort to solve the mystery of his sudden death

2010 Event - Scientists working near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea uncover world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old

2010 Event - Scientists announce the discovery of Inkayacu, an extinct genus of prehistoric penguin that lived in the Late Eocene period

2010 Event - Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world's first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell

2010 Event - Scientists announce the discovery of three new animal species that spent their entire lives without oxygen; the species are phylum Loricifera

2010 Event - Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia

2009 Event - 30,000 Phillipine people remain in temporary shelter as scientists predict the Mount Mayon volcano will erupt in the coming weeks

2009 Event - U.S. Scientists believe to have discovered an antibody that can miminize internal bleeding in trauma victims

1997 Event - Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil

1997 Event - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"

1995 Event - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)

1989 Event - 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature

1988 Event - 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research

1976 Event - Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars

1970 Event - Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell

1969 Event - Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard

1958 Event - 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition United Nations for nuclear test ban

1955 Event - Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years

1953 Birthday - Sallie L. Baliunas, born in New York, New York, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, cited as one of America's outstanding women scientists

1948 Event - 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus

1908 Event - Dutch scientists produce solid helium

1898 Event - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium

1895 Event - Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists

1756 Birthday - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature, Disease of Scientists

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