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 * The 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson from the USA for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2020/press-release/</ref>
 * Christopher Columbus discovered America. He landed in the United States on October 12, 1492. It is known as Columbus Day.<ref name="Columbus1492"/>

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 * Syukuro Manabe from the USA, Klaus Hasselmann from Germany and Giorgio Parisi from Italy won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/summary/</ref>
 * The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice from the USA and Michael Houghton from England for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2020/press-release/</ref>

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-* NASA in the USA launched it powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into deep space on 30 August 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<ref>https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-dark-universe-seeking-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches/</ref>
+* NASA in the USA launched its powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into deep space on 30 August 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<ref>https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-dark-universe-seeking-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches/</ref>
 * In a collaboration between a team of American and Japanese researchers, a beaked whale species which has long been called Kurotsuchikujira has been confirmed as the new cetacean species Berardius minimus (B. minimus), as published in the journal Scientific Reports on 30 August 2019.<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46703-w</ref>

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		+	* NASA in the USA launched it powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into deep space on 30 August 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<ref>https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-dark-universe-seeking-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches/</ref>
	* In a collaboration between a team of American and Japanese researchers, a beaked whale species which has long been called Kurotsuchikujira has been confirmed as the new cetacean species Berardius minimus (B. minimus), as published in the journal Scientific Reports on 30 August 2019.<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46703-w</ref>		* In a collaboration between a team of American and Japanese researchers, a beaked whale species which has long been called Kurotsuchikujira has been confirmed as the new cetacean species Berardius minimus (B. minimus), as published in the journal Scientific Reports on 30 August 2019.<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46703-w</ref>

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 * Researchers at the University of Southern California in the USA have created the lightest and smallest, fully autonomous crawling microrobot reported to date, called RoBeetle. RoBeetle weighs only 88 milligrams—approximately the equivalent mass of three grains of rice—and relies on a new type of actuator that functions as an artificial muscle, as reported in the journal Science Robotics on 19 August 2020.<ref>https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/5/45/eaba0015</ref>
 * Biologists from the USA and Panama have discovered a type of nocturnal hunting spider from the genus Selenops, about two inches across, that is able to steer while   falling, much like a wingsuit flyer, in order to return to the tree from which it fell, according to a study published on 19 August 2015 in the Journal of the Royal   Society Interface.<ref>http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/110/20150534</ref>

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 * American researchers have developed a new material and manufacturing process for creating artificial muscles that are stronger and more flexible than their biological counterparts, as revealed in the journal Science on 7 July 2022.<ref>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn0099</ref>
 * Team USA won the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup beating the Netherlands 2-0 in the final.

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 * Engineers at the University of Utah in the USA have developed chip that converts wasted heat to usable energy, as detailed in the Nature Nanotechnology journal on 1 July 2019.<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0483-1</ref>
 * The third Summer Olympic Games were held in St. Louis, United States in 1904. The various competitions were spread out over four-and-a-half months from July 1 to November 23, 1904. The 1904 Olympic Games were the first at which gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded for first, second and third place.<ref>http://www.olympic.org/st-louis-1904-summer-olympics</ref>

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 * American biochemical engineer Frances Arnold received the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of ‘directed   evolution’, which mimics natural evolution to create new and better proteins in the laboratory. The €1m prize is awarded biennially and Arnold is the first female   winner in its 12-year history.<ref>http://taf.fi/en/2016/05/24/biochemical-engineer-frances-arnold-wins-2016-millennium-technology-prize-for-directed-evolution-revolution/</ref>
 * American film director Bennett Miller won the award for Best Director at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his film Foxcatcher.

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		+	* Researchers at Caltech in the USA have identified geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet’s surface. The findings are described in a paper appearing in the journal Nature on 15 April 2026.<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10381-2</ref>
	* Scientists at Purdue University in the USA have developed a paint significantly whiter than the whitest paint currently available that reflects 98% of sunlight in an effort to curb global warming. The team’s research paper showing how the paint works publishes on 15 April 2021 in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.<ref>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.1c02368</ref>		* Scientists at Purdue University in the USA have developed a paint significantly whiter than the whitest paint currently available that reflects 98% of sunlight in an effort to curb global warming. The team’s research paper showing how the paint works publishes on 15 April 2021 in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.<ref>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.1c02368</ref>

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 * Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA have developed a robot, called RF-Grasp, that uses radio waves, which can pass through walls, to sense occluded objects, as revealed on 1 April 2021.<ref>https://news.mit.edu/2021/robot-senses-hidden-objects-0401</ref>
 * American and Ecuadorian researchers have discovered a new frog species, called Pristimantis mutabilis, in Ecuador that has the ability to change skin texture in   minutes. Their findings were published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society on 1 April 2015.<ref>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12222/abstract</ref>