The advances in the field of science and technology continue to offer new understanding and solutions to the problems faced by humanity by illuminating the secrets that remain hidden in the depths of the universe.
In this context, scientific developments and discoveries in the January were compiled.
Developments in space and technology
On January 15, SpaceX sent two spacecraft belonging to American and Japanese companies from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA with Falcon 9 rockets to conduct research on the Moon.
The American company Firefly Aerospace’s spacecraft “Blue Ghost” will conduct 10 experiments, including collecting dust samples from the Moon, measuring surface temperature and research on the surface of the Moon in the future.
The “Blue Ghost” spacecraft will try to descend to the volcanic plain Mare Crisium in the northern latitudes at the beginning of March.
Japan’s ISPACE company, which had fallen vehicles during landing on the Moon, plans to descend to the Moon for the second time with “Resilience” and plan to investigate food and water resources for future discoveries.
The New Glenn rocket, owned by the aviation and space company Blue Origin, owned by American businessman Jeff Bezos, was launched into space for the first test flight on January 16th.
Rocket, named after the first American astronaut John Glenn to travel in the orbit of the Earth, was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Base in Florida, USA.
44 new stars of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as well as “cosmic noon” and many stars were discovered.
Fengwu Sun, led by Fengwu Sun from the Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysics center, examined the images of the galaxy called “Dragon Arc”, 6.5 billion years away from Earth, after the “mass gravity” effect of JWST’s sensitive cameras and celestial bodies. 44 new stars identified in the galaxy.
In China, a “distributed electric driving technology” flying car was produced.
Researchers from the University of Southeast announced that the first electric flying car called “Kunpeng No.1”, which was used by the country’s “distributed electric driving technology” and called “Kunpeng No.1”, could go both on land and in the air.
Researchers, the vehicle can fly about 20 minutes at a height of 300 meters, he said.
Developments in the field of health
Scientists from the Van Andel Institute found that the risk of developing cancer could begin before it was born.
In the study conducted on mice, “epigenetic factors”, which determines how and when to capture cancer, were examined. Researchers pointed out that two different epigenetic situations give information about the risk of developing cancer in the future of life and that the risk may occur in the period before the birth.
It was found that epigenetic conditions examined in mouse offspring were associated with the risk of developing blood cancer types such as leukemia and lymphoma or cancer types such as lung and prostate cancer.
Developments in the realm of animals attracted attention
Researchers from Kyoto and Akita Prefectural universities have shown that chimpanzees can better solve complex problems when they are followed by viewers, such as caregivers.
Researchers, simple exercises, the number of familiar viewers increased in cases where the performance of chimpanzees decreased.
In 2018, the female killer whale, who carried the dead cub for more than two weeks, repeated this behavior, which researchers considered it “mourning”, 7 years later.
Max Planck Animal Behavior Institute in Germany revealed that bats could migrate hundreds of kilometers using hot air winds.
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States found that the migratory birds can emit social ties with other bird species during the flight and share information about the journey.
In the study, which was examined whether these birds were instinctively involved in the habitats of these birds, it was determined that old birds could create social ties with other species while migrating at night and share information about the journey.
Discoveries about human history
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute in the UK revealed that Scandinavians emigrated to England before the Vikings.
Genetically similar groups created for the examination of the “Twigstats” data analysis method, researchers, Northern Germany and Scandinavian regions of the Germanic tribes migrated to the south during this period.
Researchers from the University of Dublin Trinity College and Bournemouth showed that matriarchal communities live in the region in the Iron Age as a result of the examination of the tombs in the Dorset region of England.
Based on the data, the researchers who removed the genealogy of the group belonging to the Iron Age, where the graves belong, found that the societies here lived through the women’s lineage for thousands of years.
Advances in artificial intelligence technology
The Chinese developer Deepseek’s artificial intelligence tool was the most downloaded application in the US application stores, leaving Chatgpt behind.
The application, which is presented to the US application stores on January 10th, integrated the open source reasoning model called “R1” into the chat robot, has been downloaded more than the chat robot Chatgpt developed by the American OpenAI.
Deepseek’s chat robot was the most downloaded application in Apple’s Chinese store. This was followed by ByTedance’s “Dobao” and Moonshot AI’s “Kimi”.
The Chinese technology giant Alibaba released the version of the artificial intelligence model Qwen 2.5, which he claimed to have performed better than Deepseek V3.