Top 'breakthroughs' in science and technology in 2016

2016 is about to pass with many difficulties and gloom all over the world. However, for the science and technology world, 2016 has a lot of very promising breakthroughs, listed by the Popular Science magazine below.

Panda is no longer a "endangered" species.

(Photo: George Lu / Flickr).

In September 2016, the World Nature Conservation Alliance lowered the threat to pandas from "endangered" to "near-threatened". The above process is achieved because the number of remaining panda species is stable, while breeding process in captive environment also takes place favorably.

Besides pandas there are many other similar types, including the typical butterfly moth. These are good signs for world biology.

The SpaceX project successfully landed a vertical rocket

(Photo: SpaceX)

In April 2016, the SpaceX project made history with the first successful implementation of landing a rocket to a floating beach.

This is seen as an important step forward for space exploration, because landing successfully on a moving surface will make the recall process easier, opening up the opportunity to reclaim. use them in the future, helping to reduce the cost of space travel by 30%.

Advanced virtual reality technology is becoming more and more easily accessible

(Photo: Sam Kaplan)

Sony's launch of its VR products is said to be a pioneering step to make VR technology more "user-friendly" for most users.

Regardless of inexpensive, low-quality products, lack of important features, high-end virtual reality products require strong hardware systems, independent products are too expensive.

Sony's VR glasses take advantage of the hardware of Sony's PlayStation 4 entertainment system and operate with a user-friendly plug-and-play mechanism.

For the first time capturing gravitational waves

(Photo: R. Hurt - Caltech / JPL)

The LIGO observatory event captured the gravitational wave from a black hole collision that occurred 1.3 billion years ago as a century-old innovation that took place in 2016.

Previous gravitational waves exist only in theory and this is only the first time humans can use machines to sense them, opening scientists to a whole new direction to study the universe. .

Our solar system may be about to have the 9th planet

(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech)

In 2016, astronomers and scientists also found more evidence showing the existence of a "planet" the size of Neptune, located at the edge of the solar system, at a distance. 10 to 20 times more than Pluto.

If proven to be a "planet ", the celestial body will cause the solar system to once again have nine planets, after the official Pluto is "downgraded" to "dwarf planet ". in 2005.

Complete development of dengue vaccine

(Photo: Michael Schnaidt)

Every year in the world, there are 400 million people suffering from dengue fever, mosquito-mediated disease, causing high fever, severe headache, vomiting and can lead to death.

In 2016, the World Health Organization WHO has started to apply new vaccines to prevent dengue fever and the community vaccination process has begun to be carried out at the "hot spots" of export fever. blood like Brazil and the Philippines.

Finding the "neighbor" may have the ability to sustain life

(Photo: ESO / M. Kornmesser)

Astronomers this year have found that in the closest planetary system to the solar system there is a planet the size of the Earth, within the "life belt". The planet named Proxima b is the nearest planet that has conditions to sustain life like the earth. So it was dubbed the "Second Earth".

The prospect of leaving the Solar System and coming to settle in another star system is desirable, but don't forget the possibility that the planet cannot sustain life is not small.

We now need some non-human brain to be able to soon invent new super-fast moving methods, helping to bridge the vast gap in the universe.

Solar flight around the World

(Photo: Solar Impulse / Revillard / Rezo.ch)

Pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg control the Solar Impulse 2 solar plane landing in Abu Dhabi, marking the completion of a nearly 42,000km journey around the world using solar powered islands.

The flight, although it did not create any breakthrough, could soon be applied to air traffic, but the organizers and the two pilots hoped their trophy would be an encouragement to the research and development movement. Future environmentally friendly flying vehicles.

The ozone layer hole is gradually recovering

(Photo: NASA)

The giant hole in the Arctic of the ozone layer - the shield that protects the Earth and our people from dangerous UV rays, has reduced 1.5 million square miles from 2000 to now. This is the result of a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.