The editors and reporters of SciAm.com have listed our top 25 science and health news picks of 2007 below (in no particular order), with the understanding that these are but a small sampling of the many notable stories of the year.—Lisa Stein, news editor, online

• Climate Change
  • Special Report: Climate Change
  • The North Pole Is Melting
  • Combating Climate Change: Farming Out Global Warming Solutions
  • Climate Changing Pollution Rising—Again
  • Combating Climate Change: Building Better, Wasting Less
  • Combating Climate Change: Industrial-Strength Efforts to Eliminate Excess Emissions
  • Climate Change Is Happening, Effects Will Be Severe, Now What Will It Cost to Fix It?
  • Climate Change Verdict: Science Debate Ends, Solution Debate Begins
  • Final Report: Humans Caused Global Warming
  • Al Gore: from Pol to Nobel Peace Prize winner

 

• Antibiotic-resistant Super-bug (MRSA)

 

• Nuclear Power Reborn

 

• Yangtze River Dolphin Disappears
  • Requiem for a Freshwater Dolphin
  • Baiji back from the dead?

 

• Robot-Assisted Rescuers Seek Answers in Wake of Utah Mine Collapse

 

• California Wildfires
  • Climate change spreads like wildfire (Ed. Note: Scroll down page)
  • California's natural born killers (BBC)

 

• iPhone
  • iPhone--To Steve, You Had Me at Cingular...
  • iPhone Hacks Annoy AT&T but Are Unlikely to Bruise Apple
  • Price Cut! Apple Slashes iPhone Price
  • Greenpeace: Apple iPhone More Brown than Green

 

• Kill the Virus, Stop the Cancer

   

• Is It Daylight Saving Time Already?
  
  
  

4 Comments

1. 1. GRLCowan 06:34 PM 12/22/07

   Who can forget the first wireless power transmission? Apparently anyone who thinks it was in 2007. See "Bill Brown's Distinguished Career", URL http://www.mtt.org/awards/WCB's%20distinguished%20career.htm
   
   That's wireless transfer of *electrical* power. Oil tankers crossing oceans don't go along wires, and are transmitting terawatts as we speak.

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2. 2. Hotpolitics 08:26 PM 1/2/08

   The following quote is excerpted from Ms. Stein's rather febrile opening paragraph concerning Al Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize: "The honor came on the heels of official worldwide recognition that climate change is not only a pressing problem, but one that was almost completely caused by humans..." Doesn't this editorializing comment, "almost completely caused by humans.." overstate the matter?

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3. 3. elizabethbeck101 12:11 AM 1/9/08

   ur geeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4. 4. elizabethbeck101 12:12 AM 1/9/08

   this article has a very interesting database. where did you find this info?? i want to go scope it out!! science is so fascinating

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