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This article is a summary of the 2020s in science and technology.
Biology and medicine
- DeepMind used artificial intelligence for the first time to predict protein folding. [1]
- Singapore became the first jurisdiction to approve the sale of cultured meat. [2]
- The vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against Coronavirus disease 2019 became the first vaccines developed using messenger RNA [3] and mark the fastest vaccine development and approval, taking only 10 months. [4]
- Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalize the medicinal use of psilocybin for mental health treatment. [5]
Energy
- QuantumScape revealed that it had created the first functioning prototype of a solid-state battery, promising to massively increase battery capacity. [6]
- The Chinese Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak was turned on for the first time. [7] The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor is being planned for commissioning later in the decade.
- Group14 Technologies has patented SCC55, a silicon-carbon composite, leading to 50% more in fully lithiated volumetric energy density than graphite used in conventional lithium-ion battery anodes. [8] [9]
Environmental sciences
- The United Nations has designated the 2020s as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. [10]
Space
- NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which includes the Perseverance rover, was successfully launched on 30 July 2020 to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions. [11]
- The Chang'e 5 successfully landed on the surface of the Moon in 2020. [12]
- 16 September 2021, SpaceX launched Inspiration4. It was the first orbital launch of an all-private crew, including the first person with a prosthesis who was also the youngest person in space (aged 29).
- NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon launched on 16 November 2022 to test the Space Launch System rocket.
- The James Webb Space Telescope was successfully launched on 25 December 2021. On 12 July 2022, the first full-color images captured were released to the public which included Webb's First Deep Field and others. [13]
- India hopes to conduct its first human spaceflight, Gaganyaan in late 2024. [14]
- The first component of the Lunar Gateway, a proposed inhabitable space station to be implemented by multiple international space agencies on the Moon, the Power and Propulsion Element, is set to be delivered by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in November 2024. [15]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer was launched on 14 April 2023. [16]
- SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first Starship to Mars in 2029, paving the way to the colonization of the planet. [17]
- NASA plans to send "the first woman and the next man" to the Lunar south pole region via Artemis 3 in 2025.
- The European Space Agency plans to begin mining the Moon for natural resources by 2025. [18]
Transport
Air
- In 2021, United Airlines revealed plans to purchase 15 supersonic Boom Overture aircraft by the end of the decade. [19]
Land
- Waymo became the first company to offer self-driving car services to the general public without a human supervisor in Chandler, Arizona. [20]
- Autonomous delivery vehicles began transporting food to customers in Texas in 2021. [21]
Computing and artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence-assisted coding began to emerge in the early 2020s. [22]
- El Salvador passed Bitcoin law to become the first country to give cryptocurrency and bitcoin the status of legal tender.
Robotics and machine learning
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Physics
- In January 2020, Physicists discovered a unique metal with billions of quantum entangled electrons. [23]
- The Large Hadron Collider will once again begin operation in early 2021; [24] [25] [26] [27] the collider was shut down in December 2018 "to enable major upgrade and renovation works." [24]
Paleontology
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See also
- History of science and technology
- List of science and technology articles by continent
- List of years in science
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on science and technology
- History of technology by type
- List of science timelines
References
- ^ "DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding". the Guardian. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time". the Guardian. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Pfizer and Moderna vaccines showing potential success of mRNA platform – a first". Boston Herald. 21 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Pfizer COVID Shot Is Fastest Ever Vaccine to Be Approved in the West, First Licensed mRNA Jab in History". 2 December 2020.
- ^ Feuer, Will (4 November 2020). "Oregon becomes first state to legalize magic mushrooms as more states ease drug laws in 'psychedelic renaissance'". CNBC. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "China turns on nuclear-powered 'artificial sun' for first time". The Independent. 7 December 2020. Archived from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Root, Al (19 October 2020). "Another Way Tesla Can Reduce Battery Costs".
- ^ "SCC55".
- ^ "United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)". UNESCO. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Overview – 2020 Mission Plans". Mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ Myers, Steven Lee; Chang, Kenneth (1 December 2020). "China Lands Chang'e-5 Spacecraft on Moon to Gather Lunar Rocks and Soil". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "First Images of James Webb". Ars Technica. Ars Technica. 8 July 2022 [July 8, 2022]. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022.
- ^ Pillai, Soumya (22 December 2022). "India's 1st human space flight to be launched in end of 2024". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
- ^ "NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract". NASA (Press release). 9 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "ESA's Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter's icy moons". ESA (Press release). 14 April 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Torchinsky, Rina. "Elon Musk hints at crewed mission to Mars in 2029". nrp.com. nrp. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ Kent, Lauren (22 January 2019). "The European Space Agency plans to start mining for natural resources on the moon". CNN. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "United plans supersonic passenger flights by 2029". BBC News. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ Lee, Timothy B. (8 October 2020). "Waymo finally launches an actual public, driverless taxi service". Ars Technica. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Wood, Charlie (10 July 2021). "The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots". CNBC. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "AI is transforming the coding of computer programs". The Economist. 7 July 2021. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "Billions of quantum entangled electrons found in 'strange metal'". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ a b CERN. "LHC prepares for new achievements". Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Hays, Brooks. "CERN reveals plans for new experiment to search for dark matter particles". United Press International. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
-
^ Tech2 News Staff (3 September 2019).
"Cern's Large Hadron Collider Gets Major Upgrade, Experiments to Resume in 2021". Tech2. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) - ^ Wetzel, James. "USCMS completes phase 1 upgrade program for CMS detector at CERN". Fermilab. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
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| Quantum IT |
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| Computing |
| 2020s |
| Environment and environmental sciences |
| Climate change |
| Related |
| 2020s by topic |
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This article is a summary of the 2020s in science and technology.
Biology and medicine
- DeepMind used artificial intelligence for the first time to predict protein folding. [1]
- Singapore became the first jurisdiction to approve the sale of cultured meat. [2]
- The vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against Coronavirus disease 2019 became the first vaccines developed using messenger RNA [3] and mark the fastest vaccine development and approval, taking only 10 months. [4]
- Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalize the medicinal use of psilocybin for mental health treatment. [5]
Energy
- QuantumScape revealed that it had created the first functioning prototype of a solid-state battery, promising to massively increase battery capacity. [6]
- The Chinese Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak was turned on for the first time. [7] The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor is being planned for commissioning later in the decade.
- Group14 Technologies has patented SCC55, a silicon-carbon composite, leading to 50% more in fully lithiated volumetric energy density than graphite used in conventional lithium-ion battery anodes. [8] [9]
Environmental sciences
- The United Nations has designated the 2020s as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. [10]
Space
- NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which includes the Perseverance rover, was successfully launched on 30 July 2020 to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions. [11]
- The Chang'e 5 successfully landed on the surface of the Moon in 2020. [12]
- 16 September 2021, SpaceX launched Inspiration4. It was the first orbital launch of an all-private crew, including the first person with a prosthesis who was also the youngest person in space (aged 29).
- NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon launched on 16 November 2022 to test the Space Launch System rocket.
- The James Webb Space Telescope was successfully launched on 25 December 2021. On 12 July 2022, the first full-color images captured were released to the public which included Webb's First Deep Field and others. [13]
- India hopes to conduct its first human spaceflight, Gaganyaan in late 2024. [14]
- The first component of the Lunar Gateway, a proposed inhabitable space station to be implemented by multiple international space agencies on the Moon, the Power and Propulsion Element, is set to be delivered by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in November 2024. [15]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer was launched on 14 April 2023. [16]
- SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first Starship to Mars in 2029, paving the way to the colonization of the planet. [17]
- NASA plans to send "the first woman and the next man" to the Lunar south pole region via Artemis 3 in 2025.
- The European Space Agency plans to begin mining the Moon for natural resources by 2025. [18]
Transport
Air
- In 2021, United Airlines revealed plans to purchase 15 supersonic Boom Overture aircraft by the end of the decade. [19]
Land
- Waymo became the first company to offer self-driving car services to the general public without a human supervisor in Chandler, Arizona. [20]
- Autonomous delivery vehicles began transporting food to customers in Texas in 2021. [21]
Computing and artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence-assisted coding began to emerge in the early 2020s. [22]
- El Salvador passed Bitcoin law to become the first country to give cryptocurrency and bitcoin the status of legal tender.
Robotics and machine learning
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Physics
- In January 2020, Physicists discovered a unique metal with billions of quantum entangled electrons. [23]
- The Large Hadron Collider will once again begin operation in early 2021; [24] [25] [26] [27] the collider was shut down in December 2018 "to enable major upgrade and renovation works." [24]
Paleontology
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Archaeology
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See also
- History of science and technology
- List of science and technology articles by continent
- List of years in science
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on science and technology
- History of technology by type
- List of science timelines
References
- ^ "DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding". the Guardian. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time". the Guardian. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Pfizer and Moderna vaccines showing potential success of mRNA platform – a first". Boston Herald. 21 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Pfizer COVID Shot Is Fastest Ever Vaccine to Be Approved in the West, First Licensed mRNA Jab in History". 2 December 2020.
- ^ Feuer, Will (4 November 2020). "Oregon becomes first state to legalize magic mushrooms as more states ease drug laws in 'psychedelic renaissance'". CNBC. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "China turns on nuclear-powered 'artificial sun' for first time". The Independent. 7 December 2020. Archived from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Root, Al (19 October 2020). "Another Way Tesla Can Reduce Battery Costs".
- ^ "SCC55".
- ^ "United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)". UNESCO. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Overview – 2020 Mission Plans". Mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ Myers, Steven Lee; Chang, Kenneth (1 December 2020). "China Lands Chang'e-5 Spacecraft on Moon to Gather Lunar Rocks and Soil". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "First Images of James Webb". Ars Technica. Ars Technica. 8 July 2022 [July 8, 2022]. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022.
- ^ Pillai, Soumya (22 December 2022). "India's 1st human space flight to be launched in end of 2024". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
- ^ "NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract". NASA (Press release). 9 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "ESA's Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter's icy moons". ESA (Press release). 14 April 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Torchinsky, Rina. "Elon Musk hints at crewed mission to Mars in 2029". nrp.com. nrp. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ Kent, Lauren (22 January 2019). "The European Space Agency plans to start mining for natural resources on the moon". CNN. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "United plans supersonic passenger flights by 2029". BBC News. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ Lee, Timothy B. (8 October 2020). "Waymo finally launches an actual public, driverless taxi service". Ars Technica. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Wood, Charlie (10 July 2021). "The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots". CNBC. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "AI is transforming the coding of computer programs". The Economist. 7 July 2021. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "Billions of quantum entangled electrons found in 'strange metal'". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ a b CERN. "LHC prepares for new achievements". Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Hays, Brooks. "CERN reveals plans for new experiment to search for dark matter particles". United Press International. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
-
^ Tech2 News Staff (3 September 2019).
"Cern's Large Hadron Collider Gets Major Upgrade, Experiments to Resume in 2021". Tech2. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) - ^ Wetzel, James. "USCMS completes phase 1 upgrade program for CMS detector at CERN". Fermilab. Retrieved 10 September 2019.