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Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2004

Posted by michael on from the rated-s-for-shoulders-of-giants dept.

TarrVetus writes "Science Magazine's The Top Ten Science Breakthroughs of 2004 have been announced. The winner: The NASA Rovers and their evidence of water on Mars. The runner up was the Hobbit species found in Indonesia. Other breakthroughs include cloned human embryos and the first discovered pulsar pair."

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  1. 1st physical evidence for string theory by thievery1017 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... seems to blow all that other crap away, even if the news was released in december. evidence of water once being on mars is big... but hardly surprising enough to rank at #1.