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The year 1998 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are included below.

Astronomy and space exploration

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Botany

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Computer science

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Geology

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Mathematics

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Paleontology

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  • September 11 – First portion of upper body (an upper arm bone, followed later by the skull) of "Little Foot" (Stw 573), a nearly complete young female Australopithecus fossil skeleton capable of walking upright is found in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa eventually dated at around 3.67 million years BP.[5]

Physics

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Physiology and medicine

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Technology

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Institutions

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Publications

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  • Jacques Heyman – Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach (Cambridge University Press)[17]

Awards

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Perlmutter, S.; et al. (January 1, 1998). "Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe". Nature. 391 (6662): 51–4. arXiv:astro-ph/9712212. Bibcode:1998Natur.391...51P. doi:10.1038/34124. S2CID 4329577.
  2. ^ Riess, Adam G.; et al. (September 1998). "Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant". The Astronomical Journal. 116 (3): 1009–38. arXiv:astro-ph/9805201. Bibcode:1998AJ....116.1009R. doi:10.1086/300499.
  3. ^ Palmer, Jason (October 4, 2011). "Nobel physics prize honours accelerating Universe find". BBC News. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  4. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (1998). "An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 85 (4): 531–53. doi:10.2307/2992015. JSTOR 2992015.
  5. ^ Geggel, Laura (December 11, 2018). "'Miracle' Excavation of 'Little Foot' Skeleton Reveals Mysterious Human Relative". Live Science. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  6. ^ Maldacena, Juan (1998). "The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity". Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 2 (4): 231–252. arXiv:hep-th/9711200. Bibcode:1998AdTMP...2..231M. doi:10.4310/ATMP.1998.V2.N2.A1.
  7. ^ "Ghostly particles rule the universe". BBC News. June 5, 1998.
  8. ^ Wakefield, A. J.; et al. (February 28, 1998). "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children". Lancet. 351 (9103): 637–41. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0. PMID 9500320. S2CID 439791. (Retracted, see doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60175-4, PMID 20137807,  Retraction Watch)
  9. ^ Goldacre, Ben (2009). "The Media's MMR Hoax". Bad Science. London: Harper Perennial. pp. 290–331. ISBN 978-0-00-728487-0.
  10. ^ Homer, Trevor (2006). The Book of Origins. London: Portrait. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-7499-5110-8.
  11. ^ "EMAS: The first bionic arm". National Museums Scotland. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  12. ^ "World's first hand transplant". BBC. September 25, 1998. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  13. ^ Poltorak, Alexander; et al. (December 1998). "Defective LPS signaling in C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr mice: mutations in Tlr4 gene". Science. 282 (5396): 2085–8. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.2085P. doi:10.1126/science.282.5396.2085. PMID 9851930.
  14. ^ With some small gaps. The C. elegans Sequencing Consortium (1998). "Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: A platform for investigating biology". Science. 282 (5396): 2012–2018. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.2012.. doi:10.1126/science.282.5396.2012. PMID 9851916.
  15. ^ "Is human chip implant wave of the future?". CNN. January 13, 1999. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  16. ^ "Baroness Susan Greenfield". Royal Institution. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  17. ^ ISBN 0-521-62249-2.
  18. ^ Wilford, John Noble (August 28, 1998). "Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2021.