Science & Technology
Bitcoin's genesis block, the H1N1 pandemic, new space telescopes, and the browsers and gadgets that defined 2009 in science and technology.
Every Science & Technology article in the 2009 knowledge base. Use the topic filters to narrow by sub-topic.
Large Hadron Collider First Proton Collisions
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, resumed operatio...
Water Discovered on the Moon
In 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 and NASA's LCROSS mission independently confirmed water and hydrox...
Windows 7 General Availability
Windows 7, the personal-computer operating system developed by Microsoft, was released to manufac...
SpaceX Falcon 9: Development and First Flight
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket — the orbital-class launch vehicle that would transform the commercial s...
2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider,...
Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus) Unveiled
On October 1, 2009, the journal *Science* devoted a special issue to the first comprehensive anal...
Burj Khalifa Tops Out (2009)
In September 2009, the Burj Khalifa reached its full height of 828 meters (2,717 feet), becoming ...
Google Chrome Browser: 2009 Milestones
Google Chrome entered 2009 as a Windows-only browser that had exited beta only weeks earlier — ve...
iPhone 3GS Launch
Apple released the iPhone 3GS on June 19, 2009, introducing video recording, voice control, and a...
Microsoft Bing Launch
On June 3, 2009, Microsoft officially launched Bing, a new search engine designed to replace the ...
Wolfram Alpha Launch
Wolfram Alpha, a computational knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Research, launched publicly ...
Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (STS-125)
Space Shuttle Atlantis completed the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telesc...
2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic
In April 2009, a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus of swine origin emerged simultaneously in Mexico ...
Kepler Space Telescope Launch
The Kepler Space Telescope launched aboard a Delta II 7925-10L rocket at 10:49:57 PM EST on March...
Amazon Kindle E-reader Expansion (2009)
Amazon advanced the Kindle platform significantly in 2009 through two major hardware releases and...
Bitcoin Genesis Block
On January 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, mined the first block ...