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Top 25 Science Stories of 2002

Posted by michael on from the primary-sources dept.

1.Nc3 writes "Scientific American has released a list of their top 25 featured science stories of 2002. From Cryptography to Entomology to Astronomy, a lot of neat stuff happened this year."

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  1. BEC the winner! by airrage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I really think the winner is the SCIENTIFIC METHOD, and in such, that no matter how much you falsify and market your claims, i.e. fusion in coca-cola, cloned humans, flying pigs, altering gravity, you eventually have to publish and MORE IMPORTANTLY you have to have someone be able to REPRODUCE your results.

    To wit, I think those good-old boys who spent many a Saturday night figuring out how to get atoms to realize "damn it's cold" and stop and all huddle together at the bottom of a beaker -- well that takes the prize for me. Because it's little breakthroughs like this which fork into other areas of research and discovery. You take all the others and rip up the Noble Prize submission form, this one takes the cake.

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  2. what? by tps12 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No Segway?

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  3. How could they miss this? by rfischer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest story is obviously the sad tale of Jan-Hendrik Schon, and his falsified data. This one really rocked the science world because it calls into question the whole peer-review process.