2013 Top Scientific Discoveries
In terms of scientific discoveries, 2012 was a hard act to follow. This year didn't offer anything quite as dramatic as the long-awaited discovery of the Higgs boson or another rover landing safely on Mars, but it still had its share of highlights, from see-through brains, to electronic sensors designed to work inside the body, to puzzling revelations about dark matter.
Here are our picks for the top discoveries, advances and other developments that shook up science this year.
Humankind goes interstellar
It’s only taken 36 years but, after a couple false starts, NASA finally declared that their Voyager 1 spacecraft had gone interstellar. Telltale measurements from the probe revealed that it had slipped out from the area where the sun’s electromagnetic influence reigns and tasted the space between stars. Not bad for a piece of vintage '70s hardware with only enough memory onboard to hold an average-size JPEG file.
Next stop: the Oort Cloud, which represents the edge of the sun’s gravitational influence and the end of the solar system. But don't hold your breath. It's going to take about 30,000 years to get there.
Source:http://www.wired.com/
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