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.
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