The landing of space roboticsdeviceς Philae on November 12, comet 67P/Churyumov/Gerasimenko was declared the #1 achievement of the outgoing year by the magazine "Physics World" published by the Institute of Physics, based in London.
The adventurous landing of the robot-laboratory was considered fundamental to space science, even though the Philae ran out of battery as it bounced several times on the rough surface of the comet and finally landed in a shadowy place that does not allow it to be recharged by solar radiation.
He did, however, collect and send valuable scientific data to the Earth, and it can not be ruled out, at some point within 2015, that he "be resurrected".
The list of scientific ... miracles
Ten for 2014 complements several other important achievements from various fields of physics such as:
* Detection of neutrinos from nuclear reactions in the "heart" of Sun by the international research consortium Borexino.
* A laser-powered experiment at the US National Combustion Plant (NIF), which brought closer the realization of nuclear fusion and thus a new source of cheap energy.
* The creation by British and American scientists of the first acoustic radius of attraction that can attract an object through sound waves.
* Challenge from an international team of mini-explosions of super nova-type explosions in the lab.
* The measurement by Israeli researchers for the first time of an excessively weak magnetic interaction between two electrons.
* The creation by a Russian and American scientist of a new holographic memory, which allows the storage of data in magnetic holograms.
* Compression of quantum data by Canadian researchers.
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