My Picks of the 10.
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Image: The backside of the 88-inch cyclotron
at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory./LBNL
at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory./LBNL
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No. 10 Element 114 Confirmed
No. 10 Element 114 Confirmed
In a cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
a beam of calcium atoms slammed into a plutonium target,
producing a pair of element 114 atoms for the
second time in human history.
Years earlier, a Russian team made similar claims,
but their accomplishment remained in doubt.
It turns out that the Russians were right.
It turns out that the Russians were right.
But their results were somewhat disappointing.
Each atom lasted for only tenths of a second.
An older generation of scientists had hoped that humanity
would someday find a way to make extremely heavy elements
that last a long time.
That search continues.
Link to Number 10: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/discoveries-gallery/
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FlashForward, the novel that was adapted into the TV Hit for ABC 7.
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Just recently, I started reading (a Book), about
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No. 6 Jellyfish Stir Oceans
Until recently, marine animals were thought to play but a small part in stirring Earth’s waters. Scientists thought that hydrological
friction would absorb the forces of flippers and fins, just as desk fans can’t stir air in buildings across the street.
Link to Number 6: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/discoveries-gallery/5/
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No. 5 Bisphenol A in Plastics Harms Humans
Link to Number 5: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/discoveries-gallery/6/
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No. 3 Schizophrenia in the Genome
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No. 2 Ardi Usurps Lucy
Ever since a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton
named Lucy was unearthed from an Ethiopian riverbed in 1974,
humanity imagined that its first bipedal steps were taken on the savanna.
humanity imagined that its first bipedal steps were taken on the savanna.
Link to Number 2: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/discoveries-gallery/9/
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To Be Sure, many, many Scientific Breakthroughs took place in the
Previous
Decade of Wild Discovery.
We stand, once again, on the Shoulders of Giants and Wonder
at the Great Discoveries
Awaiting Us.
Wingman, 2010.
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