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This page contains the scientific and technological developments of the 1990s. ==Science timeline== *1990 * * April - Hubble Space Telescope is launched; revolutionizes astronomy. * * September - The first successful somatic gene therapy trials begin. * * October - Human Genome Project formally begins. * * December 20 - The World Wide Web software is first tested by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. * 1992 * *January 14 - The first intracytoplasmic sperm injection in vitro fertilization produced baby is born by mechanically injecting a single, selected sperm cell into an egg. * *Detection of extrasolar planets orbiting stars other than the sun is confirmed. * 1994 * *The FlavrSavr tomato, the first genetically modified food sold in the United States is introduced. * *The Oriental Pearl Tower is completed in Shanghai, China, representing the newfound wealth and investment present in eastern China. * 1995 * *The Global Positioning System (GPS) becomes fully operational. * *In April the NSFnet backbone is shut down, making the Internet a unified and "centerless" network without any restrictions on traffic types and essentially causing the Dot com bubble by attracting large-scale corporate investment in the Internet. * * On June 5 the first Bose–Einstein condensates of Rubidium-87 and Sodium-23 are created at JILA and MIT. * *In December the Galileo probe orbits Jupiter, studying the planet and its moons extensively. * 1996 - Dolly the sheep is cloned. * * Construction starts on the International Space Station. * * Google begins indexing the World Wide Web. * 1997 * * April 1 - The Hale–Bopp comet swings past the sun for the first time in 4,300 years and leads to the Heaven's Gate suicides. * * July 4 - NASA's spacecraft Pathfinder lands on Mars and deploys a small roving vehicle, Sojourner, which analyzes the planet's geology and atmosphere. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1990s in science and technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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