- The most viral science stories
Analysing top science stories for a number of years:Scientific AMerican 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 News 1 1 1 3 5 Astrophysics Particle Physics 2 1 1 Space (tech, astrobiol) 1 1 2 2 1 Genomics 1 1 1 2 Pharma Medical 1 1 1 Microbiology 2 1 2 3 Health 1 3 Geology Materials Chemistry Energy 1 2 1 1 Physics 2 Computing/Hardware 2 2 Mobile/Software 1 1 Climate/Environment 1 1 3 Paleontology 1 1 1 Ecology 1 Life Sciences (%) 11 33 33 57 50 Physical Sciences (%) 44 22 44 43 30 Engineering (%) 44 33 11 0 15 Constructors (%) 70 63 44 17 Scientific American (above) is compared to the American Association for the Advancement Science which published Science News (below).
AAAS/eurekalert 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2001 News 1 Astrophysics 1 1 1 Particle Physics Space (tech, astrobiol) 1 2 1 Genomics 1 1 3 2 Pharma Medical 2 3 2 1 Microbiology 1 2 2 1 1 Health 3 1 5 2 Geology 1 Materials Chemistry 1 Energy 1 Physics 1 1 3 1 2 3 3 Computing/Hardware Mobile/Software Climate/Environment 2 1 Paleontology/Antrhopology 2 1 1 1 Ecology 1 Technology 1 Maths 1 Physchology 1 Life Sciences (%) 60 80 40 60 60 60 40 Physical Sciences (%) 30 40 60 40 40 40 40 - Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=top-10-science-stories-2011&page=3,
2011:
The Japan Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis
Technology Fuels the Arab Spring
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos?
Record-Setting Extreme Weather
A Hint of Higgs
The End of the Space Shuttle Program
The Death of Steve Jobs
Gene Therapy Makes a Comeback
The Sun Sets on Solyndra
IBM Watson wins Jeapordy - 2010
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
The Haiti Earthquake and Cholera Outbreak
Major Advances in HIV and AIDS Prevention: the Thai HIV vaccine trial l
Synthetic Life
Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull
A New Direction for NASA
WikiLeaks
Return of the Electric Car
A Microbe That Lives on Arsenic… Or Does It?
Neandertal Genome Decoded
- The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/18/science-discoveries-review-2011,
2011
Graphene is going to be the ‘it’ material of the 21st century
Flying faster than the speed of light just might be possible after all
Modern humans have been hanging around Europe for thousands of years longer than we had thought
The female brain lights up in a very special way after an orgasm
The best candidate for finding life on another world has been pinpointed by astronomers
You can win the Nobel prize even though you are dead
Stem cells may not be the great white hope for medicine in the 21st century after all
Mars continues to be a tricky place to reach
Archaeopteryx may not have been the world’s first bird
And finally, we learned that the Higgs boson really does exist