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Science's Breakthrough of the Year
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Science's Breakthrough of the Year [podcast]
TIME's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries 2007
The end of the year means tons of semi-pointless year-end lists, and TIME Magazine chimes in with a slightly more useful "Top 10 Scientific Discoveries" list. #1 goes to the stem cell breakthroughs of the year, including the researchers who reprogrammed skin cells to behave like stem cells. WIRED coverboy J. Craig Venter had to settle for #2 for his mapping of the human genome. Don't worry, though Craigger -- there's always next year.
Other big winners this year on TIME's list included the brightest supernova recorded (#3), hundreds of new species discovered (#4), and research toward growing a human heart valve.
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