21st Century
- 2001 – The first draft of the human genome is completed.
- 2001 - Self Healing Materials by Keneth Matsumura.
- 2007 - James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin reported that they had reprogrammed regular skin cells to behave just like embryonic stem cells.
- 2010 – J. Craig Venter Institute creates the first synthetic bacterial cell.
- 2010 - The Neanderthal Genome Project presented preliminary genetic evidence that interbreeding did likely take place and that a small but significant portion of Neanderthal admixture is present in modern non-African populations.
- 2012 - Higgs Boson is discovered at CERN (confirmed to 99.999% certainty)
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“This century fulfills the office of road-laborer for the society of the future. We make the road, others will make the journey.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)