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The big milestones of science in 2010 according to Science

Until this year, all objects created by man by man have been moved in accordance with the laws of classical mechanics. But last March, physicists Andrew Cleland and John Martinis, University of California at Santa Barbara (USA), designed a device that "dances" and moves in a way that can only be described by quantum mechanics - the set of rules that governs the behavior of molecules, atoms and subatomic particles -. In recognition of the conceptual terrain in which their experiment is a pioneering, ingenuity behind it and its various applications potential, Science magazine has called this discovery the most significant scientific breakthrough of 2010.

addition, the publication has chosen another 9 scientific advances to be part of his "top ten" year. In the second set featuring developments in synthetic biology by Craig Venter and his team to create the first artificial bacterium genome. The list also includes other genetic landmarks, such as sequencing the Neanderthal genome from bones of three individuals who lived in Croatia between 38,000 and 44,000 years ago, advances in sequencing technologies that allows to launch initiatives such as the "Project of 1000 genomes ", the exons of a genome to study the so-called" rare diseases "and the reprogrammed cells using synthetic RNA.

Two new methods to prevent infection by the AIDS virus, advancements in the folding simulation protein, quantum simulators and the "return of the rats" to the laboratory for testing, complete the ranking.

A decade of science

addition, to celebrate the end of the decade, reporters and Science's editors have selected ten breakthroughs for science in the first decade of the millennium. It is nicknamed the "Genome Dark" (the non-coding genome, over 98%), the new "recipe" of the composition of the Cosmos, the study of ancient biomolecules (DNA, collagen ...) of tens of thousands of years old, finding water on Mars, the ability to reprogram and transform them into pluripotent cells, the microbiome, exoplanets, metamaterials and the first attempts to construct invisibility cloaks, advances in the study of inflammation and research climate change.