Top Science Stories

Both Discover and New Scientist have published their top science stories of 2004 -- and in case you missed them, or have a case for nostalgia, do check them out, cause they're actually quite a good read. Discover has a top 100 list, while New Scientist has broken their list out into four top 10 categories: news stories, technology, biology and space/astronomy. The lists are both too lengthy to post here, but follow the links above and you won't be disappointed, as both carry a summary with links to the details so you can read up to your curiosity's content.

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  1. Anonymous12:40 a.m., January 02, 2005

    The Year in Science: Top 100 Stories DISCOVER Vol. 26 No. 01 | January 2005
    1. Turning Point  
    2. SpaceShipOne Opens Private Rocket Era  
    3. NASA’s Rovers Find Evidence of Ancient Seas on Mars  
    4. Hello, Saturn  
    5. Killer Flu Incubates in Asia  
    6. Stem Cell Researchers Move Closer to Cloning Us  
    7. New Drugs Target Cancer  
    8. Low Carbs Put Squeeze on Farmers  
    9. Teleportation Gets Real  
    10. Australian Crater Implicated in Global Rubout  
    11. Estrogen Replacement Therapy May Increase Risk of Dementia  
    12. Fully Developed Galaxies Found in Cosmic Nursery  
    13. Origins of Farming Unearthed  
    14. Gas or Life?  
    15. Japan Sets Sail in Space  
    16. Secret Early American Sites Finally Revealed  
    17. Strange Worlds Found in Alien Solar Systems  
    18. Childhood Vaccines’ Link to Autism Is Debunked  
    19. Two New Elements Discovered  
    20. Money for Science: Slim Pickings Ahead?  
    21. Delay in Recalling Vioxx Points to Problems in FDA Approval Process  
    22. Proteins Make the Primate  
    23. Farthest, Coldest ‘Planet’ Spied Well Beyond Pluto  
    24. Polio Resurfaces in West Africa  
    25. Antidepressants Trigger Suicide Impulses in Teens  
    26. Molecules of Life Brew Between Stars  
    27. Frozen Ovary Restores Fertility  
    28. First Americans May Have Come From Australia  
    29. Monkeys, Humans Get Brain-Driven Prostheses  
    30. Little People Make Big Splash  
    31. FDA Rejects Over-the-Counter Sales of Morning-After Pills  
    32. These Parasites Really Get Under Your Skin  
    33. NASA’s Annus Horribilis  
    34. Prostate Cancer Test Questioned  
    35. Venter Sails, Collects Genes, and Laughs  
    36. New State of Matter Could Lead to Practical Superconductors  
    37. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Tied to Serotonin  
    38. Caution: Farmed Salmon May Cause Cancer  
    39. Cell Mutations Spark Aging  
    40. Security Scanner Sees Through Ship Containers  
    41. HIV Victims Can Be Infected Again and Again and Again  
    42. Geologists Create First New Period in 113 Years  
    43. Man-Made Particles Dim Sun  
    44. First Campfire Discovered in South Africa  
    45. Nanoscale 3-D Imaging Moves Closer to Reality  
    46. Are Tiny Fossils a Missing Branch in Our Evolution?  
    47. Code Breakers Stumped by Photon-Based System  
    48. Locust Plague Sweeps Across Asia  
    49. Endangered Species Act Reconsidered  
    50. NASA Takes a Wild Comet Ride  
    51. To Get Pregnant in Your Sixties  
    52. Mice Bred Without Fathers  
    53. Oldest University Unearthed in Egypt  
    54. R-Rated Films Tempt Teenagers to Smoke  
    55. Oceans Store Half of Human-Made Carbon Dioxide  
    56. Overweight People Suppress Their Hunger Hormone  
    57. Quark Experiment Points Way to Finding Elusive Higgs Boson  
    58. Surface Weather Affects Life at Bottom of the Sea  
    59. Your Brain on Meth: Forest-Fire of Carnage  
    60. Royal Tomb Reveals Secrets of the Maya  
    61. Prime-Time News  
    62. Air Pollution Linked to Genetic Mutations  
    63. Chemists Find New Electron Bonds  
    64. China Promises Pollution Cleanup  
    65. Black Holes Revealed As Forces of Creation  
    66. New Gene Reveals How Little We Know  
    67. U. S. Science Supremacy Threatened by Competition  
    68. Two-Degree Rise Drops Rice Yield By 10 Percent  
    69. Prionlike Proteins Help Form Memories  
    70. New Strains of Mad Cow Materialize  
    71. Thumb’s the Word  
    72. Inner Earth Revealed  
    73. Plate Tectonic Shifts Suck in Water  
    74. Francis Crick (1916-2004)  
    75. Archaeologists Swap Swords for Pickaxes  
    76. Weird Worms Feast on Whale Bones  
    77. Comet Caused Nuclear Winter  
    78. Dietary Study Jolts Scientists  
    79. Bald Men: This Mouse is For You  
    80. Ethical Conflicts Plague NIH  
    81. Scans Push Back Date of Bipedalism  
    82. Astronomers Measure Cosmos Width: 156 Billion Light-Years  
    83. Atomic Clock Shrunk  
    84. Secret of Superboy’s Strength Revealed  
    85. A Dog Outsmarts Some 3-Year-Olds  
    86. 2003 Halloween Storms Still Rock Solar System  
    87. Songbirds Have Southern Roots  
    88. Mirror-Image Animals Found  
    89. This Brave Little Chipmunk Braved the Ice Age  
    90. Early Birds Caught Wind  
    91. Will Your Next Computer Be Powered by Spinach?  
    92. Life’s Fifth Element Came From Meteors  
    93. Broccoli Kicks Cancer  
    94. Smallest Fish Found  
    95. Team of Archaeologists Crack Siberia’s Secrets  
    96. Report: Syphilis Killed Lenin  
    97. Rakish Rodent Reformed  
    98. Hearing Tied to Hormones in Midshipman Fish  
    99. Egyptians Not the First to Tame House Cats  
    100. Mutant White Elephant Spotted in Sri Lanka  

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  2. Anonymous12:46 a.m., January 02, 2005

    NEW SCIENTIST MAGAZINE
    The top 10 news stories of 2004
    1.Mysterious signals from light years away2.Petite skull reopens human ancestry debate
    3.Sweeping stun guns to target crowds
    4.Cassini finds a mystery in Saturn's rippling rings
    5.Hawking cracks black hole paradox
    6.Speed of light may have changed recently
    7.Scientists stirred to ridicule ice age claims
    8.Photo recognition software gives location
    9.'Anomalies' in first private spaceflight revealed
    10.Mysterious virus may thwart HIV

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