2010 in science

The year 2010 involved numerous significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below.

The United Nations declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity.

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8 July 2010: the Solar Impulse (picturedhola ) becomes the first aircraft to complete a non-stop 24-hour flight using only solar power .
3 January 2010: British scientists create working artificial arteries (artery cross-section pictured).
15 February 2010: scientists state that the 1969 Murchison meteorite (fragment pictured) contained a large number of organic compounds .
1 March 2010: NASA confirms the presence of large quantities of water ice on the north pole of the Moon .
20 May 2010: scientists led by Craig Venter (pictured) create a living cell with an entirely artificial genome .
14 September 2010: Honda 's FCX Clarity (pictured), the world's first production-line hydrogen car , arrives in the United Kingdom.
17 November 2010: scientists at CERN (pictured) trap neutral antimatter atoms for the first time.
15 January 2010: Marshall Warren Nirenberg , a Nobel Prize -winning American biochemist, dies aged 82.
22 March 2010: Ky Fan , a Chinese-American mathematician and theorist, dies aged 95.
3 June 2010: Vladimir Arnold , a Russian mathematician, dies aged 72.
14 October 2010: Benoît Mandelbrot , a French-American mathematician, dies aged 85.