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Top Science Magazine’s Breakthroughs of 2006

by joe @ 12:25 pm on 12/25/2006.

Top 10 Science magazine`s breakthroughs of 2006:

  • The Poincare Conjecture: Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman apparently solved the venerable mathematical problem.
  • Neanderthal DNA: Researchers sequenced more than one million bases of nuclear DNA from a Neanderthal.
  • Shrinking Ice: Discovery that the world`s two great ice sheets were losing water at an accelerating pace.
  • 375-million-year-old fish: filling an evolutionary gap between sea creatures and land animals.
  • Invisibility cloak: The building of a cloaking device that renders an object invisible to microwaves.
  • Macular degeneration: Drug ranizumab improved the vision of about one-third of patients with an age-related condition.
  • Understanding of how species arise: Studies on the fruit fly and on butterflies aided our understanding of how species arise.
  • Structure of cells and proteins: New techniques to get clearer view of the fine structure of cells and proteins.
  • Memory: Insights into how the brain records new memories.
  • RNA molecules: New class of small RNA molecules discovered that shut down gene expression.

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    http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=343860&ssid=364&sid=ENV

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