As another year comes to a close it is time to look back and see what humanity accomplished. From visiting a comet to “neuromorphic” chips and a new game-changing treatment for diabetes patients, 2014 was an exciting year filled with radical breakthroughs that will impact our lives for years to come.

Mainstream microchips that are used in home computers and cellphones are designed to calculate quickly, but they still work in a linear fashion, completing one task at a time.