31st December 2019

2019 highlights

Amid all the doom and gloom around the world, some pretty impressive breakthroughs were achieved in 2019, as we hope you'll agree!

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30th December 2019

North Atlantic Current may cease temporarily in the next century

The North Atlantic Current transports warm water from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe – providing much of north-western Europe with a relatively mild climate. Scientists predict a small, but not insignificant (15%) chance of a temporary halt to the current in the next 100 years.

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29th December 2019

Units of time – orders of magnitude

The diagram here shows different measurements of time – from a yoctosecond (extremely short), to a yottasecond (extremely long), with a midpoint of one second.

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28th December 2019

New laser method provides ultra-fast observations of electrons

Scientists have demonstrated X-ray Laser-Enhanced Attosecond Pulse generation (XLEAP), a new method for observing the movements of electrons on timescales measured in attoseconds.

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27th December 2019

Volkswagen accelerates production of electric cars

Volkswagen will achieve its goal of 1 million electric cars per year two years earlier than planned – turning out a million battery-powered cars by 2023, instead of 2025. The company has also presented a future concept for autonomous charging via mobile robots.

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25th December 2019

Merry Christmas and a happy 2020!

FutureTimeline.net would like to wish our readers a merry Christmas and all the best for 2020!

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24th December 2019

2020 – Microsoft ends support for Windows 7

Customer service and security updates for home users of Windows 7 end on 14th January 2020, which puts many PCs around the world at risk of malware.

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22nd December 2019

2022 – The AIDA mission arrives at Didymos

[Updated with latest mission details, including the Hera component, plus a video animation]

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22nd December 2019

2021 – Crossrail opens in London

[Moved from 2019 to 2021, based on latest project schedule.]

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21st December 2019

2029 – Expansion of London's Heathrow Airport

[Moved from 2026 to 2029, based on latest information, with new reference added]

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21st December 2019

Nearly half of U.S. predicted to have obesity by 2030

About half of the adult U.S. population will have obesity and about a quarter will have severe obesity by 2030, according to a new study by Harvard University.

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19th December 2019

Genetic 'clock' predicts lifespan in vertebrates

Using the human genome, researchers have found that the 'natural' lifespan of humans is 38 years.

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18th December 2019

CHEOPS: Exoplanet mission blasts off

The CHEOPS telescope, a mission to study the formation of exoplanets and determine their precise radius, likely density and internal structure, was successfully launched today.

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16th December 2019

Military drones armed with machine guns

Turkey will become the first country in the world to deploy a drone equipped with a high precision machine gun.

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11th December 2019

First cross-country commercial freight run by a self-driving truck

Plus.ai has announced its first coast-to-coast commercial freight run, in collaboration with food company Land O'Lakes.

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10th December 2019

Drax aims to be world's first carbon negative company by 2030

Drax Power Station could become carbon negative by 2030, helping to remove millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.

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10th December 2019

ESA commissions world's first space debris removal

ClearSpace-1, planned for launch in 2025, will be the first mission to identify and remove an item of debris from orbit.

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9th December 2019

2026 – 50TB hard drives

A new technology – heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) – allows conventional hard drives to remain relevant and to reach 50 terabytes of capacity by 2026.

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6th December 2019

New treatment reduces pancreatic cancer cells by 90%

Scientists report that a molecule known as PJ34 triggers the self-destruction of pancreatic cancer cells, with a reduction of 90% in mouse models.

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6th December 2019

Artificial neurons developed to cure chronic diseases

Scientists report the creation of artificial neurons that reproduce the electrical properties of biological neurons onto semiconductor chips.

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5th December 2019

2078 – The world's electricity has been fully decarbonised

By the late 2070s, after nearly two centuries of use, carbon-based electricity is finally becoming obsolete.

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