Plants and Animals
In 2014, biologists discovered that plants can rudimentarily detect this sense, which allows them to tell if they are being eaten.
Touch
From 2013 to 2016, this contagion ravaged West Africa and severely disrupted their society.
Ebola
This entrepreneur created the first self-landing first-stage rockets for a spacecraft in 2016 with his company SpaceX.
Elon Musk
In 2012, astronaut Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian to command this spatial vessel that orbits Earth.
The International Space Station (ISS)
E-cigarettes, such as Juuls and Vapes, contain many of the same chemicals as traditional cigarettes, including this addictive compound.
Nicotine
This man-made phenomenon is believed to be responsible for the extinction of many animal species and the destruction of ecosystems.
Global Warming
Lulu and Nana are two Chinese babies who were the first in the world to undergo this type of gene editing prior to birth.
CRISPR-Cas9
In 2020, LifeLabs, a community laboratory services provider for Canada, suffered a large data breach, raising questions regarding this domain of online safety.
Cybersecurity
In 2012, NASA launched this rover to Mars.
Curiosity
Throughout the decade, this facility, located on the France-Switzerland border, managed to synthesize antimatter.
CERN / Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Coral Bleaching is a serious detriment to marine ecosystems, resulting from this lowering in water.
pH
In 2019, scientists 3D-printed the first of this organ out of a patient's cells.
Heart
In 2011, a contestant named Watson won "Jeopardy!" against two champions. However, Watson wasn't a person, but this instead.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In 2019, this astronomical body was photographed for the first time, featuring a prominent accretion disk.
Black Hole
In 2012, this elementary particle, that is responsible for atoms having mass, was discovered, completing the Standard Model.
Higgs Boson
In 2019, scientists released the first ever footage of this gargantuan marine cephalopod.
Giant Squid
In 2016, tests were conducting in animals finding that some psychological traits of individuals are influenced by bacteria, living in this place of body.
Intestines
In 2010, iPhones started to be released with this feature, the first virtual assistant of its type.
Siri
In 2018, it was discovered that Saturn may soon be loosing these, as debris that had previously been orbiting the planet falls to its atmosphere.
Rings
In late 2019, Google made the first of this type of computer, which uses Qubits instead of traditional bits.
Quantum Computer
In 2011, this European country passed a law that requires grocers to exclusively offer plant-based plastic bags.
Italy
Scientists have argued about where humans first evolved in Africa, with East Africa being the predominant theory. However, throughout the decade, a rival birthplace has been suggested in this country in southern Africa.
South Africa
Self-driving cars have a multitude of ways of navigating their way on roads. Name 1 method that a self-driving AI would use to avoid obstacles at close proximity.
Radar, Lidar, Sonar.
In 2015, the LIGO observatory confirmed the existence of these, a type of wave that Einstein theorized.
Gravitational Waves
A result of climate change is the prevalence of acid rain, which is primarily composed of this compound.
H2O (Liquid Dihydrogen Monoxide)