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The Large Hadron Collider. Credit AP.
In celebration of the approaching New Year, I present a list of the top ten science stories of 2008. Taken from the vast expanse of all fields of science, they may not be everyone's top ten, but they are among the top news makers and will have repercussions well past the ending days of 2008.
This list links out to the individual articles:
- The hunt for the God particle: The Large Hadron Collider is one the greatest scientific undertakings. Ever.
- Pushing invisibility's limits: Could an invisibility cloak protect against a tsunami?
- Ice on Mars: The Phoenix lander finds proof of water on the Red Planet
- Faster DNA Processing: Mapping your entire genome has never been so affordable.
- A new band of Lowland Gorillas: A band of over 100,000 gorillas was discoverd in the Congo
- A breakthrough in Alzheimer's Treatment: A new hope in the fight against Alzheimer's diease
- Equal Opportunity Genetics: A new law protects against genetic discrimination
- A people with no numbers: Located in Brazil, the Piraha tribe gets by in life without counting a thing
- The Doomsday vault: Buried deep in the frozen mountains of the Norwegian archipelago lays mankind's failsafe seed vault
- The ancient astronomical computer: the Greeks prove once again that they were among the most intelligent cultures of the ancient world
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