The results of the year. Five non-openings of 2015

Over the year, the space probes flew to Pluto and to the asteroid cerer, genetic engineers edited DNA at the human embryos , NASA opened the “second Earth” - Colt wrote about all this. It seems that it is these events that should be called the main ones - both in terms of the volume of efforts, and in media attention.

By and large, these are still not scientific revolutions that Thomas Kun wrote about-rather, everyday life of a healthy science, the consequences of various truly turning events in the past. The probe to Pluto was sent back in 2006. The “second Earth” was found when analyzing the data array that the Kepler telescope collected from 2009 to 2013 in the calculation of this result. The method of editing genomes, tested on embryos, was invented in 2012-and then, in 2012, few people managed to call it the event of the year.

We tried to isolate from the flow of the scientific news of 2015 such events that have a chance to somehow turn science in the near future-for example, to change the very nature of science classes. And not necessarily for the better.