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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