A. Glaciers Melting Faster Than ChanceAs the 21st century begins, scientists who study Earth's climate predict that the giant Ice-Caps in Greenland and Antarctica will melt slowly around the edges and lagging behind the global warming climate overall.But this decade was the warmest decade perikliman throughout recorded history, prove climate models wrong there.Glaciers have been melting faster than expected and the researchers had to figure out why this could occur.The uptick in the melting ice has not been confined to the Arctic and Antarctic. European glaciers are now considered to be entering a period of their last decade.Kilimanjaro's famous snow and low latitude mountain could disappear entirely. Thickness in the Arctic perennial sea ice fast disappearing, which is likely to bring to a summer ice-free Arctic Ocean.There are global consequences to this melting. Tide the sea water will make the city more vulnerable to disasters and islands such as floods that nearly destroyed New Orleans.Gunung glaciers around the world to bring fresh water billions of liters. In whatever way you think about it, the Earth with less ice will become a less friendly planet.2. Successfully Mapped the Human GenomeCoiled in the human genome in each human cell molecules that sit 23 if canceled and placed end to end, would stretch about three meters. They are molecules, better known as chromosomes, containing all the instructions necessary to build all parts of the human body.It took more than 10 years and the international cooperation of scientists to map the genome of this, but the year 2000 saw a rough draft of the entire human genome, followed by a version of which was completed in 2003.The Human Genome Project is funded by public and private competitors, Celera Genomics, is one of the largest scientific endeavors in history, one that is revealed in intimate detail about what are the human form as a whole.With information from our individual genome, scientists may uncover new clues about everything from body odor someone for mental illness.Since decoding the human genome, dozens of other species have their genomes sequenced, including pigs, dogs, bees, mosquitoes, mackerel, chimpanzees, yeast, corn, and rice. With the discovery of this mapping, the scientists can and will find new ways to cure diseases or improve yields.3. The surface of Mars Water Signs GivingIn 2008, NASA astronauts, Mars Phoenix landed on the Red Planet (Mars) to confirm the presence of water and look for signs of organic compounds.Eight years earlier, the Mars Global Surveyor to see what looks like a ditch carved into the side to drain the water. More recently, the Mars Exploration Rovers have discovered minerals that also showed the presence of ancient water. But the modern water proof it is difficult to understand.Then Phoenix, landed on the ground near the North Pole, and do some digging for samples to be used to analyze. During the dig, onboard cameras see a white powder in a freshly dug soil. In comparison to the current image is found by the next day, the powder slowly disappeared. After an intense analysis, the white powder confirmed as ice water.This discovery not only confirmed the presence of water on the Red Planet, with the hope that some kind of microbial life may be using the water supply to survive.4. Stem cells found in the New SourceIn 2001, President George W. Bush cut off federal funding for scientists working with embryonic stem cells - found in a ball, a small hollow of about 70-100 of human cells that could be anything in the human body - because of ethical issues.Embryonic stem cells are one of the most promising medical advances in the year, with the potential to cure diseases from diabetes to cancer genetic disorders, and more.In 2007, scientists from Kyoto University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working separately, essentially turned back the clock to the skin cells of adults, allowing the mature cells, which are programmed to become skin, to act as the cells Embryonic stem. Adult cells into pluripotent cells, or cells that could end up being almost all other types of cells.Adult cells pluripotent solve two major problems. ethical concerns and financial restrictions can be avoided, and the doctor was finally able to use cells with a person's own DNA to grow replacement organs which patients would be less likely to reject.5.Manusia Joining With Machinery (Cyborg)Cyborgs becoming a reality. In the last decade, much progress has been made by the person controlling the robot legs and computers with their minds.In 2000, researchers at Duke University Medical Center implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and then train them to reach for food using a robotic arm. As neurochip could one day restore motor function in paralyzed patients.A team of MIT Media Lab Europe to develop non-invasive method to remove the brain waves, and in 2004, used the signal for the first time to control the movement of video game characters.Robotic limbs operated with nerve signals its debut in 2001 at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. There, Jesse Sullivan, a double amputee, using a method to control both its robotic arm.And in 2009, Pierpaolo Petruzziello amputees learn to control the biomechanical hand connected to his nerves with a fair and electrode wires. Petruzziello be the first to create complex motion - fingers wiggling, punching, grabbing objects - the robot limbs, using only his mind.6. Alien Planet can be seen directlyThe first alien planets - called exoplanets - were detected in the early 1990s, but not directly. In 2000, astronomers detected by looking for a handful of stars "wobble," or little star dimming as an extrasolar planet passes in front of him. Today we have learned about 400 exoplanets.In 2008, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck infrared and the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii announced that they have "seen" exoplanets orbiting distant stars. Both observatories have taken pictures of foreign world.Keck infrared observations is the detection of three exoplanets orbiting a star called HR8799, 150 light years from Earth. Hubble saw a large planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut, 25 light years from Earth.This discovery raises a profound question: How long should wait until we see a world similar to Earth by extraterrestrial civilizations look back on us?7. New Human Ancestor FoundIn 2002, researchers in northern Chad dig a 6 - to 7-million skull-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis - known as Toumai. Only the skull bones have been found, so it is not confirmed whether Toumai walked upright on two legs. But other Toumai still make a strong case that it is very widespread human family lineage.Then came Ardi. In 2009, a nearly complete skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, aka "Ardi," in northeastern Ethiopia hit "Lucy" known as the skeleton, the most complete of an early human ancestor ever found.The Ardi 4.4-million-years old can walk on two legs, but also a skilled tree-climber. His teeth make it capable of consuming a variety of foods. And scientists theorize that men and women may have been paired at this time, significantly improves survival, because women can increase their parents while the male provides food.If studies prove correct, Ardi marks the closest we come to find the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.8. Existence of Dark Objects Proved existenceIn the summer of 2006, astronomers made the announcement that help people understand a little better cosmos: They have direct evidence confirming the existence of dark matter - although they still can not say what exactly the goods.Unprecedented evidence comes from the core gas and the stars threw up so crush between two large groups of galaxies in the Bullet Cluster.Until then, the existence of dark matter is inferred by the fact that the galaxy has only a fifth of what it takes to create the look of gravity that makes them whole. So the rest should be seen by telescopes: That's the magic is "dark."Observations of the Bullet Cluster, known officially as the galaxy cluster 1E0657-56, did not explain what dark matter. They did, however, gives researchers clues that dark matter particles act a certain way, that future research can build.9. Dug network of T-Rex BoneIn 2005, Mary Higby Schweitzer and her colleagues reported in Science the discovery of what looked like soft tissues - blood vessels, matrix cells and bone - the thigh bone fossil in the flesh a little T-Rex.Since then, T-Rex bones have revealed amino acids that are similar to the modern chicken, farm-related between dinosaurs and birds.Schweitzer invention comes in a decade to get that amazing guide other soft parts of the dinosaurs.In 2004, one of the few mummified dinosaurs ever found - an amazing preserved hadrosaur 66-million-years with intact skin most of the mineralization - unearthed from a farm in North Dakota.Then, in June 2009, researchers announced they have isolated a molecule associated with soft tissue of the hadrosaur's skin.10. Pluto Eris Rocks the size of the Solar SystemIn January 2005, Mike Brown and his team at Palomar Observatory, California found a 136 199 Eris, a small body of 27 percent larger than Pluto. Pluto and Eris has come to be the largest body known to orbit the sun 9.In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that the chances of finding a smaller rocky bodies in the outer solar system are so high that the definition of "planet" should be reconsidered. The end result: Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. Pluto acquired "minor planet markers" in front of his name: "134 340 Pluto."Mike Brown's 2005 discovery of Eris was the trigger that changed the face of our solar system, defining the planet Pluto and adding a growing family of dwarf planets.source: http://unikboss.blogspot.com/2010/11/10-penemuan-terbesar-dalam-satu-dekade.html