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As 2008 draws to a close, it's time to take a look back on the people, places and discoveries that shaped the world of science over the past year
December 15, 2008 |
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A look back on the people, places and discoveries that shaped the world of science over the past year
60-Second Science
Here are the 10 most-viewed stories on SciAm.com over the past year
Features
Images capture subjects as vast as a nascent ocean and as tiny as carbon nanotubes
In-Depth Reports
Here's how the LHC will search for the Higgs boson, dark matter and supersymmetry
Food is scarce in the developing world, and prices are soaring in industrialized nations. Does science hold the key to the next green revolution?
We look at the outcome of PEPFAR, President Bush's international AIDS program, and more...
Surface-penetrating radar reveals features composed of ice, not rock
A look at some of our extreme planetary neighbors right here in the Milky Way Galaxy
Is bisphenol A, a major ingredient in many plastics, healthy for children and other living things?
More than 130 Nobelists have written more than 200 articles for Scientific American. Here's a sampling, along with a look at the prizes themselves
As the world's eyes turned to Beijing for the Olympics, China struggled to reconcile its rapid growth with the health of its people and environment
A key part of the FBI's early investigation was finding whether the germ that killed five people in late 2001 was weaponized. Although they found the answer, scientists had to keep mum until the agency completed its inquiry
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