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25 May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft (pictured) becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station.

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Events, discoveries and inventions

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January

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1 January 2012: NASA's twin GRAIL satellites (artist's impression shown) begin studying the Moon's gravitational field.
 
4 January 2012: scientists create genetically engineered silkworms capable of producing bulk quantities of steel-strong spidersilk.
 
11 January 2012: astronomers report that nearly every star in the Milky Way galaxy may host exoplanets (artist's impression of Upsilon Andromedae d pictured).
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12 January 2012: Paedophryne amauensis, the world's smallest known vertebrate, is formally described.
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23 January 2012: stem cell therapy is successfully used to ease the symptoms of blindness in human volunteers (human embryonic stem cell shown).
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27 January 2012: the most detailed 3D image of the Amazon rainforest yet produced is published.
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31 January 2012: American scientists demonstrate a method of decoding human thoughts by studying the superior temporal gyrus (indicated).
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February

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3 February 2012: the Very Large Telescope array enters operation in northern Chile.
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4 February 2012: Dutch doctors successfully fit the first artificial jaw made with a 3D printer (ORDbot Quantum 3D printer pictured).
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15 February 2012: Nevada becomes the first US state to release official regulations for the public testing of autonomous cars (prototype autonomous Audi pictured).
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7 March 2012: scientists sequence the genome of the western gorilla.
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15 March 2012: scientists send the first coherent message using neutrinos (first recorded neutrino event pictured).
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19 March 2012: researchers report that the number of solar panels in the United States more than doubled between 2010 and 2011.
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5 April 2012: the Large Hadron Collider completes a landmark energy upgrade.
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12 April 2012: German scientists create the world's first quantum computing network using entangled rubidium atoms (rubidium sample shown).
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19 April 2012: international researchers develop synthetic DNA compounds.
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6 May 2012: scientists develop a drug capable of preventing the breakdown of cerebral protein production, potentially offering a new treatment for Alzheimer's disease (cerebral plaques pictured).
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20 May 2012: an annular solar eclipse occurs (eclipse photograph from Wolfforth, Texas, shown).
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25 May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station.
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30 May 2012: the tomato genome is fully sequenced by international researchers.
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5–6 June 2012: a transit of Venus, the last such event until 2117, occurs (transit image from Minneapolis shown).
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13 June 2012: scientists publish the complete genome of the bonobo (female pictured).
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29 June 2012: scientists develop an fMRI brain scanner which allows paralyzed people to communicate using thought alone (fMRI images shown).
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4 July 2012: CERN scientists report the discovery of a particle with significant similarities to the Higgs boson (Higgs collision signature shown).
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15 July 2012: the parasitic disease Dracunculiasis (extraction of a causative guinea worm pictured) is reportedly close to being eradicated.
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August

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6 August 2012: NASA's Curiosity rover, the largest such spacecraft yet launched, successfully lands on Mars (artist's impression pictured).
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14 August 2012: Boeing's X-51 hypersonic scramjet prototype (pictured in launch configuration) is destroyed following a test flight malfunction.
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21 August 2012: a study of major coastal cities asserts that Shanghai (skyline pictured) may be highly vulnerable to large-scale flooding in the near future.

September

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5 September 2012: the most detailed analysis of the human genome yet produced is published.
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12 September 2012: the monkey species Cercopithecus lomamiensis is formally described.
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17 September 2012: after nine months studying the Moon's gravitational field, NASA's GRAIL satellites report that the lunar crust is much thinner than previously estimated.
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19 September 2012: sea ice cover in the Arctic reaches the lowest extent ever recorded.
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October

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3 October 2012: scientists discover that the black mamba (pictured), best known for its lethal venom, also produces a highly effective painkiller.
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8–10 October 2012: the year's Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine (medal pictured) are awarded.
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17 October 2012: scientists discover a new exoplanet (artist's impression pictured) orbiting Earth's nearest alien star, Alpha Centauri.
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22 October 2012: a Da Vinci surgical robot (pictured) is used to perform the UK's first robot-assisted open-heart surgery.
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November

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6 November 2012: scientists report that regular leisure-time exercise can extend human life expectancy by over 4 years.
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21 November 2012: in a breakthrough for quantum cryptography, scientists send encoded quantum signals using a standard commercial fiber optic, potentially allowing near-unbreakable quantum data security to be commercialised.
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26 November 2012: a liquid natural gas tanker (example pictured) becomes the first large cargo vessel to attempt a winter crossing of the Arctic. As the Arctic sea ice melts in coming years, the sea route may become increasingly viable for large ships.
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29 November 2012: NASA reports the discovery of water ice on the surface of Mercury (pictured).
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December

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5 December 2012: scientists implant the first deep brain stimulation device (X-ray image pictured) to be used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in the United States.
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24 December 2012: British medical researchers discover two genes that are thought to greatly increase the risk of bowel cancer (carcinoid pictured).

Prizes

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Abel Prize

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Fundamental Physics Prize

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Kyoto Prize

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Nobel Prize

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Deaths

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Sources: The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph

 
10 March 2012: Frank Sherwood Rowland, a Nobel Prize-winning American chemist, dies aged 84.
 
23 July 2012: Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, dies aged 61.
 
25 August 2012: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, dies aged 82.
 
17 October 2012: Stanford Ovshinsky, a prolific American inventor and physicist, dies aged 89.
 
9 December 2012: Sir Patrick Moore, a prominent British astronomer and science popularizer, dies aged 89.
 
30 December 2012: Rita Levi-Montalcini, a Nobel Prize-winning Italian neurologist, dies aged 103.

January

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February

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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See also

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