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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Science News: 2009 in Review

From NewScientist:

2009 review: Most popular articles of the year

From space storms to vampires to porn, here's a countdown of the year's most-read articles. Warning: contains sex stories. A lot of them.

2009 review: In sickness and in health

It was a year as hopeful as it was scary, with a flu pandemic, genome hackers and fresh hopes for Alzheimer's disease and HIV.

It's the environment, stupid

Thoughts of climate change were never far away, but with ice on fire and a salamander uglier than ET, there was more to 2009 than political brouhaha.

The year in space

Astronomers found water on the moon and saw the most distant object yet, but space radiation hit a record high and the Spirit rover struggled for life.

In green tech we must trust

More brainpower than ever before has been expended on technologies to cut the damage we do to the environment – here are some of the most interesting.

Top 10 physics stories of 2009

The most popular physics stories of the year include a report on an artificial black hole and an investigation into the best way to slice a pizza.

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