2014 in science

overview of natural science-related events during the year of 2014

intergovernmental report on climate change

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thumb|upright=1.5|(a) Scanning tunneling microscope|STM image of germanene. (b) Profile (black line in (a)) showing step heights of ~3.2  Å. (c) High-resolution STM image (distorted by sample drift). (d) Profiles along the white continuous and dashed lines in (c) showing a ~9–10  Å separation between protrusions having heights of ~0.2  Å. (e) [[Electron diffraction pattern. (f) Model of germanene on Au(111).]] Germanene is a material made up of a single layer of germanium atoms. The material is created in a process similar to that of silicene and graphene, in which high vacuum and high tempera

21st-century annular solar eclipse

total lunar eclipse in April 2014

lunar eclipse

A dropleton or quantum droplet is a quasiparticle comprising a collection of electrons and holes inside a semiconductor. Dropletons give the first known quasiparticle characterization where the quasiparticle behaves like a liquid. The creation of dropletons was announced on 26 February 2014 in a Nature article, which presented evidence for the creation of dropletons in an electron–hole plasma inside a gallium arsenide quantum well by ultrashort laser pulses. Their existence was not predicted before the experiment.

Z(4430) is a mesonic resonance discovered by the Belle experiment. It has a mass of . The resonant nature of the peak has been confirmed by the LHCb experiment with a significance of at least 13.9 σ. The particle is charged and is thought to have a quark content of , making it a tetraquark candidate. It has the spin-parity quantum numbers JP = 1+.

2014 event for X-ray crystallography

thumb|A foldscope thumb|thumbtime=55|Assembling a Foldscope

index of bibliographic information on academic journals in the humanities and social sciences

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Inventor of abstract interpretation (1947–2014)

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