Science & Technology
A landmark year for discovery: the first self-replicating synthetic cell, graphene's Nobel, the LHC's first 7 TeV collisions, the world's tallest building, and the launch of the iPad, iPhone 4, Kinect, and Instagram.
Every Science & Technology article in the 2010 knowledge base. Use the topic filters to narrow by sub-topic.
Comet Elenin Discovery — Automated Astronomy Breakthrough
On December 10, Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin discovered a long-period comet using automated I...
SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon COTS Demo Flight 1
SpaceX achieved a milestone on December 8 when Falcon 9 launched Dragon spacecraft, becoming the ...
Verizon Launches 4G LTE Network
On December 5, 2010, Verizon Wireless launched its Long Term Evolution (4G LTE) network in 38 cit...
Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 Launch
Microsoft released the Kinect motion-sensing device for Xbox 360 on November 4, 2010, in North Am...
Windows Phone 7 Launch — Microsoft's Metro Reset
Windows Phone 7, launched worldwide on October 21, 2010, discarded Windows Mobile entirely for th...
2010 Nobel Prizes in Physiology/Medicine and Chemistry
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honored Robert Edwards for developing in vitro fer...
Instagram Launch
Instagram officially launched on October 6, 2010, as a photo-sharing social media application exc...
Graphene and the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics
On 5 October 2010, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to An...
Gliese 581g Discovery
On September 29, 2010, an international team of astronomers led by Steven Vogt of UC Santa Cruz a...
Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c — First Confirmed Multi-Planet Tr...
On August 26, 2010, NASA published the discovery of Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c in *Science*, confirm...
Foursquare Scaling — Location-Based Social Networking
Foursquare scaled rapidly in 2010 as location-based social networking became mainstream, by Augus...
Netflix Streaming Transformation — 2010 Inflection Point
By August 2010, Netflix completed its transformation from DVD rental service to streaming powerho...
Android 2.2 Froyo — Mobile Computing Acceleration
Google's Android 2.2 Froyo, rolling out to handsets through mid-2010, introduced JIT compilation ...
Tesla IPO — The First Major Automaker Public Offering Sin...
On June 29, Tesla became the first American automaker to go public in 54 years, raising $226 mill...
iPhone 4 Launch and Retina Display
On June 7, 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 4 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWD...
iOS 4 and the App Store Ecosystem
Released June 21, 2010, iOS 4 was the first version to drop the 'iPhone OS' name, adding multitas...
Stuxnet — The First Known Cyber-Physical Weapon
On June 17, 2010, Belarusian antivirus firm VirusBlokAda — contacted after a client's computers i...
YouTube in 2010 — The Mobile Video Milestone
By mid-2010, YouTube had become the dominant global video platform, with 200 million users consum...
Smartphone Platform Wars — Android Ascendant in 2010
In 2010, Android surged from 5% to 22.7% global market share, becoming the second-most-popular sm...
First Self-Replicating Synthetic Cell (JCVI-syn1.0)
On 20 May 2010, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced in the journal *Sci...
J. Craig Venter and Synthetic Biology Leadership in 2010
J. Craig Venter emerged as a defining figure in 21st-century biology in 2010 through his leadersh...
iPad Launch
On January 27, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first-generation iPad at a press event in ...
Large Hadron Collider — First 7 TeV Collisions
On 30 March 2010, at 13:06 CEST, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved its first proton–pro...
Google Buzz Launch and the 2010 Social Networking Wars
Google launched Buzz on February 9, 2010, as its answer to Facebook and Twitter, integrating a so...
Google Announces Withdrawal from Mainland China
On January 12, 2010, Google published a blog post by Chief Legal Officer David Drummond announcin...
Burj Khalifa Opening
On 4 January 2010 the Burj Khalifa was officially inaugurated in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, bec...