Science & Technology
Space milestones, the rise of mobile and AI, and the nuclear and scientific reckonings that defined technology in 2011.
Every Science & Technology article in the 2011 knowledge base. Use the topic filters to narrow by sub-topic.
Wikipedia SOPA Blackout
On **January 18, 2012**, Wikipedia's English-language site went completely dark for 24 hours to p...
Android Mobile Platform Rise (2011)
In 2011, Google's Android platform achieved a watershed moment, surpassing Apple's iOS in global ...
NASA Curiosity Rover Launch
On November 26, 2011, at 10:02 AM EST, NASA launched the Curiosity rover aboard an Atlas V 541 ro...
Phobos-Grunt Mars Mission
Phobos-Grunt (Фобос-Грунт, meaning "Phobos-Soil"), Russia's ambitious interplanetary sample-retur...
iPhone 4S & Siri Introduction
Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, at its Cupertino campus in the first keynote pr...
2011 Nobel Prizes
The 2011 Nobel Prizes, announced in the first two weeks of October, recognized transformative wor...
Launch of Tiangong-1
China launched Tiangong-1, its first space laboratory module, on September 29, 2011, setting the ...
Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Anomaly (OPERA)
In September 2011, the OPERA collaboration announced that it had measured beams of neutrinos appa...
Launch of NASA's Juno Spacecraft
NASA's Juno spacecraft, the second mission in the agency's New Frontiers program, launched toward...
Space Shuttle Program Ends (July 21, 2011)
On July 21, 2011, at 5:57 AM EDT, Space Shuttle *Atlantis* touched down on Runway 15 at Kennedy S...
Google+ Launch
Google officially launched **Google+** on **June 28, 2011**, as its most ambitious attempt to bui...
MESSENGER Enters Orbit Around Mercury
On March 18, 2011 (01:00 UTC; the evening of March 17 in the United States), NASA's MESSENGER spa...
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 PM Japan Standard Time, a magnitude 9.0–9.1 submarine megathrust earth...
IBM Watson Wins Jeopardy! (2011)
In February 2011, IBM's Watson question-answering system defeated two of the greatest Jeopardy! c...