2014 science breakthroughs: no more ageing, cave art and landing on a comet

Accolade for Philae probe and its mothership, Rosetta, but top spot in journal Science’s list goes to genetic researchersAll three of its landing systems failed on impact and its detectors and transmitters stopped operating after only 57 hours. Yet the Philae probe that moored itself to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last month, together with its mothership Rosetta, were yesterday hailed as one of the journal Science’s Breakthroughs of 2014.The European Space Agency mission makes comet 67P