List of Science & Technology Inventions Throughout 2018 - The development of increasingly sophisticated technology today has many roles, in almost every aspect of life. The technology was created to facilitate various things, both complicated and easy, science is no exception.
Technology and science are like twins who are difficult to separate. From year to year, the development of the world of science is advancing very rapidly, accompanied by technological discoveries that support the speed of researchers in the field of science.
The following are some of the latest discoveries from the world of science and technology throughout 2018, which summarized from various sources:
JANUARY: WHO Classifies Game Addiction as a Mental Disorder Released from WHO, Gaming Disorder defined in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) -11) as a pattern of gaming behavior ("digital-gaming" or "video-gaming") characterized by impaired control over the game.
There is an increase in the priority given to playing games instead of other activities, games take precedence over other daily interests and activities, and there is an increase in games despite negative consequences. By WHO, this game addiction is classified as a disorder caused by habit or addiction. The impact of playing games excessively can have bad effects on physical and psychological health, such as anti-social, depression, myopic eyes, headaches, and sleep disorders.
FEBRUARY: Britain's Oldest Complete Skeleton Has Dark Skin and Blue Eyes DNA analysis of Cheddar Man (the name for Britain's oldest complete skeleton) shows that he had dark skin and blue eyes. This skeleton is estimated to have lived 10,000 years ago. The initial assumption of this study was that Cheddar Man had pale skin and light hair.
The Guardian explains that this fossil was found more than a century ago in Gough's Cave in Somerset. Speculation has developed intensely regarding its origins and how it looked in the past because it lived shortly after the first settlers crossed from continental Europe to England at the end of the last ice age. The ancestors of white English living today are descended from this population. Cheddar Man on display at the Natural History Museum in England.
MARCH: Scott Kelly is no longer a twin after a year in space NASA studies have resulted in the discovery that Scott Kelly is no longer an identical twin to his brother after he has been in space for one year. This is not because their DNA has changed because basically, they remain identical twins. It's just that this study wants to study how a person's body reacts to its environment, in this case how DNA reactions are influenced by space.
The study results show that the changes that happened to Scott are very small, only 7 percent. Quoted from an article published by NASA, Researchers now know that as many as 93 percent of Scott's genes return to normal after landing. However, the remaining 7 percent is likely to be followed by long-term changes in genes related to her immune system, DNA repair, bone formation tissue, hypoxia, and hypercapnia.
APRIL: Pakistan Prints Warmest Temperature in April The city of Nawabshah in Pakistan set a global record in April with temperatures as high as 50.2 degrees Celsius. Previously, in 2017 Pakistan occupied the top 10 countries most vulnerable to weather changes. This entry adds to Nawabshah's entry into a long flat of extreme international heat since 2017, covering the highest temperatures held by Spain and Iran on record last summer.
The Washington Post reported that in May 2017, Pakistan's western city of Turbat hit 128.3 degrees Celsius, tying the country's all-time high and world record temperatures for that month, according to Jeff Masters, Weather Underground.
MAY: China's Rain Control Machinery for the Tibetan Plains announces plans to build the world's largest weather-control mechanism. This machine will have a function to modify the weather. Forbes said China's state-owned Aerospace Science and Technology company had plans to send thousands of rain-generating machines across the Tibetan Plateau, to increase rainfall across the region. These machines will produce very fine silver iodide particles which are then lifted into the atmosphere by upwelling winds. When these particles are dispersed into the atmosphere, they act as nucleation points for condensed water.
JUNE: Summit Will Be World's Fastest Super Computer Oak Ridge National Laboratory announces the launch of the world's fastest supercomputer, the so-called Summit. This computer is designed to solve energy problems, artificial intelligence, and to be the most powerful computing tool in the science community.
Summit was ranked first in the TOP 500, following in the footsteps of other supercomputers, namely Jaguar and Titan. "With the Summit researchers can simulate and explore complex phenomena and obtain results in disciplines ranging from quantum materials and chemistry, advanced fission and energy fusion, to basic bioenergy and bioscience, faster and in more detail," said ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia on the official website. ORNL. "In addition to traditional modeling and simulation, Summit will also serve as artificial intelligence and deep learning beings, capable of analyzing large amounts of data and automating critical steps of the discovery process."
JULY: Pink, the World's Oldest Biological Color Dr. Nur Gueneli, a doctoral student from Australia National University, discovered that the world's oldest color, pink, crushes billions of years of rock into the powder then extracts it and analyzes the molecules of ancient organisms from the substance. The rocks were found in rocks from the Sahara Desert. In Breakingnewsenglish Gueneli explains how important the discovery was. He said, "Imagine you can find dinosaur skin fossils that still have the color.
AUGUST: NASA Launches Parker Space Probe NASA launches Parker The Space Probe which will be the first mission to the sun is even in its inner core, the corona. The aircraft will be provided with 4.5-inch (11.43 cm) carbon-composite armor, which can withstand temperatures outside the spacecraft reaching nearly 2,500 Fahrenheit or 1,377 celsius. Quoted from the official website of NASA, Parker Solar Probe will carry out scientific investigations in dangerous areas of very strong heat and solar radiation.
The spacecraft will fly close enough to the sun to watch solar wind speeds rise from subsonic to supersonic and will continue to fly even though it is in the birthplace of the highest solar-powered particles. The primary mission of the Parker Solar Probe launch is to track how energy and heat travel through the solar corona and to explore what is accelerating the solar wind and solar energetic particles.
SEPTEMBER: WHO Calls a Quarter of People in the World Not Exercising to Avoid Risk of Disease WHO reports that more than a quarter of people in the world do not exercise to avoid the risk of serious disease. The results of the WHO study show that in 15 years there has been no progress towards achieving the target of global physical activity by 2025. In the journal published by The Lancet Global Health, the benefits of physical activity are very good and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, and breast and colon cancer. Additionally, exercise has a positive effect on mental health, delays the onset of dementia, and can help maintain balanced body weight.
OCTOBER: Increased Human Consumption Cause Wildlife Decrease Conservation group WWF said the "explosion in human consumption" led to a 60 percent decrease in all wildlife between 1970 and 2014. This was influenced by increasing human needs such as food production, clothing, and clothing. natural resources.
Before the explosive population explosion of the 20th century, human consumption was less than the rate of renewal of the Earth. The WWF Living Planet Report, however, notes that ecosystems are now rapidly depleting, with forests, coral reefs, wetlands, and mangroves all shrinking.
NOVEMBER: Large Impact Crater of Iron Meteorite Identified Under Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland A wide meteorite crater 31 kilometers long was found under the ice sheet in northern Greenland. The crater was formed from a one km long iron meteorite that hit the area and was hidden 1 km under the ice.
This crater was discovered for the first time by researchers from the Center for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen in July 2015. In a release written by ScienceDaily, their suspicion of this giant object is a meteorite crater, which was strengthened when the team sent a German research plane. from the Alfred Wegener Institute to fly over the Hiawatha Glacier and map the crater and the ice above it with a powerful new ice radar. Joseph MacGregor, a glaciologist at NASA, who participated in the study and is an expert in ice radar measurements.
DECEMBER: Japan Launches World's First 8K Super High Definition TV Channel Japan through NHK channel launched the world's first 8K High Definition TV channel by developing a super-hi vision since 1995.
Reporting from BBC.com, the advantages offered by this new channel is an increase in image resolution and may include 24 audio channels with immersive surround sound in hopes of being used in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games broadcasts. Several television manufacturers have announced the launch of televisions with this great capability even though it is still very expensive in terms of cost, especially if it is widely produced.
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