As I have written before (SN: 12/22-29/07, p. 404), ranking science stories each year is a quixotic enterprise. It may take years or decades to determine what turns out to have been the most significant scientific advances. So in this issue (Page 16) we just offer brief highlights of the year's most interesting results and then list many others. We do not attempt to rank them in the questionable manner used by the BCS system for ranking college football teams.
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