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2020s in science and technology
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This article is a summary of the 2020s in science and technology.
Biology and medicine
- DeepMind used artificial intelligence for the first time to predict protein folding.[1]
- Singapore became the first jurisdiction to approve the sale of cultured meat.[2]
- The vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against Coronavirus disease 2019 became the first vaccines developed using messenger RNA[3] and mark the fastest vaccine development and approval, taking only 10 months.[4]
- Oregon became the first jurisdiction to legalize the medicinal use of psilocybin for mental health treatment.[5]
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Energy
- QuantumScape revealed that it had created the first functioning prototype of a solid-state battery, promising to massively increase battery capacity.[6]
- The Chinese Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak was turned on for the first time.[7] The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor is being planned for commissioning later in the decade.
- Group14 Technologies has patented SCC55, a silicon-carbon composite, leading to 50% more in fully lithiated volumetric energy density than graphite used in conventional lithium-ion battery anodes.[8][9]
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Environmental sciences
- The United Nations has designated the 2020s as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.[10]
Space
Transport
Air
- In 2021, United Airlines revealed plans to purchase 15 supersonic Boom Overture aircraft by the end of the decade.[11]
Land
- Waymo became the first company to offer self-driving car services to the general public without a human supervisor in Chandler, Arizona.[12]
- Autonomous delivery vehicles began transporting food to customers in Texas in 2021.[13]
Computing and artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence-assisted coding began to emerge in the early 2020s.[14]
- El Salvador passed Bitcoin law to become the first country to give cryptocurrency and bitcoin the status of legal tender.
Robotics and machine learning
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Physics
Paleontology
Archaeology
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References
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