1 March – Researchers report evidence of possibly the oldest forms of life on Earth. Putative fossilized microorganisms were discovered in hydrothermal vent precipitates in the Nuvvuagittuq belt of Quebec, Canada, that may have lived as early as 4.280 billion years ago, not long after the oceans formed 4.4 billion years ago, and not long after the formation of the Earth 4.54 billion years ago.[60][61][62] 2 March – The University of Alberta announces details of DeepStack, a new artificial intelligence program able to beat professional human players at poker for the first time.[63] 6 March – IBM announces "IBM Q", an initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems.[64] 7 March The Sentinel-2B satellite is launched as part of the European Space Agency's Copernicus programme.[65] NASA's Cassini mission reveals new images of Pan, a small moon of Saturn, which is now shown to have a bizarre 'flying saucer' shape.[66] 8 March – Scientists at the University of Texas report a new phase of matter, dubbed a time crystal, in which atoms move in a pattern that repeats in time rather than in space.[67] 9 March Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science publish details of a single atom memory storage system.[68] The CDH2 gene is found to be implicated in sudden death among young people and athletes.[69]