2006 in science

Biology

March 16th: Opening to Mexico City of the IVe World forum of water .
April 18th, Los Angeles: A woman is reached of Bubonic plague. It has been the first case of plague in the United States for 22 years.
May 2nd, Geneva, Swiss: publication of the red List of the UICN 2006. On the 40 169 followed species, 16 119 are threatened of extinction, of which a third of the Amphibien S which are regarded as the best indicators of the environmental pollution, because most sensitive. 784 are officially extinct and 65 exist only in captivity or culture. The director of the IUCN, Achim Steiner was particularly clearly: the loss of biodiversity accelerates instead of slowing down .
June 23rd: First proven case of human transmission of the virus H5N1 in Indonesia.
June 23rd: Death of Harriet the tortoise , the oldest listed animal, at the 175 years age.
August 23rd, Europe: the European commission issues a 6 months embargo on rice coming from the the United States following the discovery of cargoes contaminated by GMO except if the exporter can provide a certificate proving that its cargo was tested scientifically and that it is not contaminated by the GMO.

the chemical element with the Atomic number 118, indicated in a temporary way Ununoctium , was synthesized with Doubna, in Russia.

June 9th, Greece : scientists identified the old machine of Anticythère of more than 2000 years as being oldest analog Computer.
August 22nd, Madrid: Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman, Terence CAT and Wendelin Werner receive the Médaille Fields . Perelman declines the offer.

June 23rd: A inactive Volcano underwater, called Empédocle , is discovered in the south-west of the Sicily.

January 15th: the space probe Stardust returns on Earth.
January 19th: the uninhabited spaceship New Horizons undertakes its voyage towards Pluton.
January 25th: the telescopes OGLE/PLANET/MOA allowed the discovery of the extra-solar plantète OGLE-2005-BLG-390L B.
March 9th: The observations of the probe Cassini show that Encelade , small a satellite of Saturn, could have under its surface a liquid water ocean, same manner as Europe, the moon of Jupiter.
March 10th: the American probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter becomes the fourth artificial satellite in activity around the Planet Mars.
April 11th: the probe Venus Express made a success of its insertion in Orbite around Venus.
August 24th, Astronomy: the 26e general meeting of the international astronomical Union redefined the concept of Planet. Consequently, Pluton loses its quality of planet and joined the new category of the dwarf planets.
September 3rd, the Moon: as envisaged, the Space probe Smart 1 was crushed on the Moon at the speed of 7 200 km/h.

June 23rd: the Belgian Federal government decides to make compulsory in its administration the data-processing format OpenDocument as from 2008. Belgium will be the first State in the world which will prohibit de facto the use of the formats owners such those of Microsoft.

May 31st, France, Justice: The professor Pierre Pellerin was put in bearing examination for “fraud worsened” on the consequences in France of the Catastrophe of Tchernobyl.

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