2015
ID: 3271
Minsk II Agreements - German mediation ensures continued conflict
ID: 3271
2015
ID: 3272
Refugee crisis peaks - destabilizes European nation-states while strengthening EU centralization
ID: 3272
2015
ID: 3273
Greek bailout crisis - Germany leads tough negotiations under Merkel
ID: 3273
2015
ID: 3274
USA Freedom Act - Reformed Section 215, ended bulk phone metadata collection
ID: 3274
2015
ID: 3275
Section 215 Bulk Collection Ended - NSA stopped bulk telephone metadata collection
ID: 3275
2015
ID: 3276
Ralph Baric, Shi Zhengli and others publish in Nature Medicine on SARS-like bat coronaviruses, creating chimeric viruses with NIH funding
ID: 3276
2015
ID: 3278
First 5G trials begin
ID: 3278
2015
ID: 3280
New lease accounting standards issued (ASC 842) requiring most leases on balance sheets
ID: 3280
2015
ID: 3281
AlphaGo defeats world Go champion using mathematical deep learning
ID: 3281
2015
ID: 3282
Dow and DuPont announce merger, creating DowDuPont (later split into three companies)
ID: 3282
2015
ID: 3283
Transparent wood composites begin limited commercial production
ID: 3283
2015
ID: 4521
IPFS launched - content-addressed permanent web solving link rot through distributed hosting
ID: 4521
2015
ID: 4538
Environmental DNA (eDNA) detects all species from water samples - 1000x more efficient than surveys
ID: 4538
2015
ID: 4993
April 12, 2015
Pope Francis declares St. Gregory of Narek Doctor of the Church - first Armenian Doctor
ID: 4993
2015
ID: 3277
May 24, 2015
Pope Francis publishes 'Laudato Si'' encyclical on ecology and climate change
ID: 3277
2015
ID: 3279
June 2015
Obama White House illuminated in LGBTQ rainbow colors for Obergefell decision redefining marriage
ID: 3279