Top Science Stories

Time magazine's Top Ten science stories of 2007:

• stem cell breakthroughs
• human mapped (Craig Venter)
• brightest supernova recorded (SN 2006gy)
• hundreds of new species
• building a human heart valve
• "hot Jupiters" discovered
• a big birdlike dinosaur
• man's migration out of Africa (25-65 kya)
  
• the world's oldest animal (405 yr-old clam)
• real-life kryptonite

Might have been better to title this list "Top Ten Splashiest Science Stories of 2007." In terms of sheer potential, they missed this prime factorization quantum computing story.