2006 in science

none 2006 science 2006 The year 2006 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy 280px|thumb|March 29 total eclipse from Turkey January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181763,00.html Stardust Container in Almost Perfect Condition 2006-01-17 2009-07-06 Associated Press Fox News https://web.archive.org/web/20181106160304/https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181763,00.html 2018-11-06 January 25 – The discovery of the planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing is announced by PLANET/RoboNet, OGLE and MOA February 1 – 2003 UB 313 is found to be larger than Pluto. February 13 – The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi erupts. The last outburst occurred in 1985. March 9 – NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0310_060310_saturn.html?source=rss https://web.archive.org/web/20060518152642/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0310_060310_saturn.html?source=rss May 18, 2006 Saturn Moon Has Water Geysers and, Just Maybe, Life National Geographic Society 2006-03-10 2009-07-06 Elizabeth Svoboda March 29 – Total solar eclipse (Brazil, Greece, Mid Atlantic Ocean, Sahara, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia). June 30 – The discovery of nine additional natural satellites of Saturn published. August 24 – Pluto is redesignated as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union, joining 2003 UB 313 and 1 Ceres. September 13 – 2003 UB 313 is assigned the name Eris. September 14 – The asteroid subsequently designated 2006 RH 120 is identified as it becomes a temporary satellite of Earth. September 22 – Annular solar eclipse in South America, West Africa and Antarctica. Biology April 15 – Anthony Atala and team at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in the United States publish their success in transplanting the first laboratory-grown organs, bladders, into human patients.Anthony Atala Tissue-engineered autologous bladders for patients needing cystoplasty The Lancet London 367 9518 15–21 April 2006 1241–1246 16631879 10.1016/s0140-6736(06)68438-9 17892321 free May 15 – The sequence of the last chromosome in the Human Genome Project is published in the journal Nature. September – The Western Balsam Poplar (Populus trichocarpa) is the first tree whose full DNA code has been determined by DNA sequencing.Joint Genome Institute http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Poptr1_1/Poptr1_1.home.html Populus trichocarpa Genome Portal 2015-11-06 December 13 – Baiji (Yangtze river dolphin) declared "functionally extinct".The Chinese river dolphin is functionally extinct http://www.baiji.org/expeditions/1.html baiji.org 2006-12-13 2006-12-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20070104192730/http://www.baiji.org/expeditions/1.html 2007-01-04 Adrian Owen demonstrates for the first time that functional neuroimaging can be used to detect awareness in patients incapable of generating any recognised behavioural response and appearing to be in a persistent vegetative state.Owen, A. M. Coleman, M. R. Boly, M. Davis, M. H. Laureys, S. Pickard, J. D. Detecting awareness in the vegetative state Science 313 5792 1402 2006-09-08 10.1126/science.1130197 16959998 Haifan Lin discovers Piwi-interacting RNA.Lee Han Rosenstein Rachel December 2006 Dr. Haifan Lin The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 79 3–4 187–191 0044-0086 1994806 17940631 Last sightings of the Western black rhinoceros and of the natural-born Northern white rhinoceros. Nontherian mammal fossils are identified among the St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand's South Island. Computer science July 15 – Social networking service Twitter launched publicly.Michael Arrington https://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/ Odeo Releases Twttr TechCrunch AOL 2006-07-15 2014-05-15 Michael Arrington November 1 – Sony PRS500 e-book reader launched in the United States. Environment January 19 – Australian researchers at the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart, Tasmania, publish experimental data that matches models of increasing sea level rising.Philip Ball http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060116/full/060116-11.html Sea-level rise is quickening pace 2006-01-19 10.1038/news060116-11 2012-04-08 Nature London 128668212 subscription Mathematics The great prime search project finds the 44th Mersenne prime.Tony Crilly 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know London Quercus 2007 978-1-84724-008-8 41 Philosophy 2006 in philosophy Physics September 19 – Lee Smolin publishes The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next in the United States. Space exploration January 15 – The Stardust spacecraft successfully completes its primary mission of returning samples of cometary and interstellar dust to Earth. Its sample return capsule touches down safely inside its intended landing area in Utah, close to the Army Dugway Proving Ground. January 19 – The NASA spacecraft New Horizons launches successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and leaves Earth's orbit shortly afterwards on its journey to Pluto February 2 – NASA's public affairs office is accused of censoring the comments by James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.Reichhardt Tony Has NASA's press office gone too far? Nature Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2006-02-02 0028-0836 10.1038/news060130-11 free March 24 – The maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket ends in failure. July 12 – The launch of the first private experimental space habitat, Genesis I. September 12 – The construction of the International Space Station is continued for the first time after a hiatus of almost four years. Technology Groupe SEB introduce the world's first air fryer, under the Actifry brand of convection oven, in the French consumer market.La base innovation produits de LSA https://www.lsa-conso.fr/produits/friteuse-actifry-seb,133832 LSA 2024-12-12Plus de 8 millions d'Actifry vendues dans le monde Journaldunet.com 2015-12-15 https://www.journaldunet.com/economie/industrie/1169062-actifry-smart-seb/1169706-8-millions-d-actifry-vendues-dans-le-monde Other events January 27 – Scientific misconduct: The University of Tokyo announces that Kazunari Taira's experimental results in RNA research are irreproducible.http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060123/full/060123-14.html Scientist faces irreproducible results Ichiko Fuyuno 2006-01-27 2012-04-08 10.1038/news060123-14 Nature 85108611 subscription March 13 – Six healthy young men taking part in the first-in-man study for an anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412 in London are placed in intensive care with adverse side-effects, some suffering a life-threatening cytokine storm.Suntharalingam G. Perry M. R. Ward S. Brett S. J. Castello-Cortes A. Brunner M. D. Panoskaltsis N. Cytokine Storm in a Phase 1 Trial of the Anti-CD28 Monoclonal Antibody TGN1412 New England Journal of Medicine 2006-09-07 355 10 1018–28 10.1056/NEJMoa063842 16908486 http://rsp.ima-press.net/rsp/article/view/1966 free November – The Burndy Library is merged into the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, enhancing its status as a center for the study of the history of science and technology.http://catalog.huntington.org/screens/libinfo_03.html Paging Burndy Library Books Huntington Library 2009-01-29 2025-08-06 Awards Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Andrew Fire and Craig Mello Nobel Prize in Physics: John C. Mather and George Smoot Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Roger Kornberg Abel Prize in Mathematics: Lennart Carleson Fields Prize in Mathematics: Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman (declined), Terence Tao, and Wendelin Werner Deaths January 24 – Sir Nicholas Shackleton (b. 1937), English Quaternary geologist and paleoclimatologist, recipient of the Vetlesen Prize (2004). February 28 – Owen Chamberlain (b. 1920), American Nobel laureate in physics (1959). March 28 – Charles Schepens (born 1912), Belgian-born American ophthalmologist. May 1 – Kikuo Takano (b. 1927), Japanese poet and mathematician. May 14 – Bruce Merrifield (b. 1921), American Nobel laureate in chemistry (1984) for developing a rapid, automated system for making peptides. May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr. (b. 1914), American Nobel laureate in physics (2002) for pioneering the detection of cosmic neutrinos. August 9 – James Van Allen (b. 1914), American space scientist. August 29 – Robert J. Gorlin (b. 1923), American pathologist. August 10 – Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (b. 1913), American mathematician and cryptanalyst. November 11 – Esther Lederberg (b. 1922), American microbiologist. November 22 – Asima Chatterjee (b. 1917), Indian organic chemist. References Category:21st century in science Category:2000s in science