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Amazing and interesting discoveries that will blow your mind

The past ten years have undoubtedly been among the most productive in terms of scientific discovery. Researchers from all fields have examined theories, discovered evidence, and traveled to locations that have caused us to reevaluate our understanding of not only our planets but also the entire universe. It was also the decade in which we have finally begun to comprehend one of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced and have learned more than ever, about some of the most destructive objects that are currently in existence.

By Vidella MarcellsPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Amazing and interesting discoveries that will blow your mind
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let's look at four of the most incredible scientific discoveries of the year 2000.

1.Despite being unceremoniously demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, that year also saw the launch of the New Horizons spacecraft, which was intended to travel to the outermost regions of our solar system and study the dwarf planet. The spacecraft arrived at its destination in July 2015, and the images and data it returned were incredibly interesting and far from being the usual frozen rock, it turned out to contain what some had expected to be moving glaciers, floating icebergs and vast frozen oceans of solid nitrogen, the Ice is always moving slowly because the pressure on it heats it up, causing it to rise. The constant replenishment of the top layer of ice is creating surface structures that no one could have predicted, providing new insights and understanding of events on the mysterious dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system.

2. The Higgs Bosons used to build the world's largest machine for just under five billion dollars, but it was finally announced in 2012 that the mysterious Higgs a Bolton particle, also known as the divine particle, was discovered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, for the first time. first theorized in 1964 and is one of the most influential parts of the subatomic world, the reason it is so important is that the standard physical model that includes familiar particles like electrons and protons and like muons and quarks don't really explain why objects have mass, although the answer is the elusive Higgs, Its discovery was a confirmation of the last unknown part of the standard model of physics, and now researchers can reuse the LHC to study the even stranger phenomenon

3. Kepler. For thousands of years, people have looked up at the sky and wondered what is there. When astronomical instruments were invented, we learned that there are countless stars in the universe. There were also other planets in our solar system, but it was impossible to Learn how often planets orbit around their stars. Things changed in 2009 with the launch of the first Kepler spacecraft used to study distant stars and measure the amount of light. They emitted changes in brightness that could be used to determine if an object was orbiting around them, and the results were astonishing. By the end of the last decade, more than 4,055 exoplanets, including potentially habitable ones, had been discovered, and this number is expected to rise further at the start of the new decade. The more we explore, the more common our solar system is becoming. We can only imagine what else we might find.

4.The World's Climate Throughout the history of the Earth, the climate has changed, with periods of extreme heat and extreme cold, there is no doubt that the situation will change significantly again while we are alive. The difference this time, however, is that the changes are largely due to human behavior. This has become more evident than ever in the last decade, with Greenland losing more than 400 billion tonnes of its ice in 2012, and we are beginning to understand the magnitude of its impact on the planet.Over the last decade, Antarctica has lost 250.2 billion tons of ice each year. This is almost six times the amount lost just 30 years ago, and at current rates, sea levels are projected to rise 3 feet worldwide by 2100, which is at least 6 It will directly affect the homes and livelihoods of 130 million people. But its impact extends further. Human activities endanger 40% of all amphibian species, more than 33% of marine mammals and 10% of insect species.last decade was when the extent of the problem began to be fully realized, hopefully next decade will be when the solution is finally found.

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