Top 25 Science Stories of 2007

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  • Is Human Growth Hormone the Key to Eternal Youth?

     

  • The Pillow Angel

     

  • Neandertal Genes

     

  • Stem Cell Research

     

  • Pet and E. coli Food Scares

     

  • TB Air Scare

     

  • Personalized Genome Scans

     

  • Steroids in Baseball

     

  • Parkinson's Gene Therapy Breakthrough

     

  • James Watson



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    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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