 AP Photo If you ask journalists about how they choose the stories they cover, many will talk about importance. Fuelled by some nebulous “news sense”, they try to pick discoveries that are going to save lives, break records, or rock our understanding of the world. TAGGED: zoology, 2012, Top 10 ListsRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| As we grow older, it gets harder and harder to believe how quickly time passes by. This shouldn't come as a surprise, however, as researchers know that adults and children perceive time differently.Regardless, in... more ›› |
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| The Universe is beautiful.Which is interesting. It doesn’t have to be; it could be all colorless and weird and lumpy. Instead, it’s bursting with color, sculpted by vast forces, molded into fantastic shapes that... more ›› |
| From unprecedented heat waves that shattered "Dust Bowl" era records from the 1930s, to Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal New Jersey and New York, 2012 was the year Mother Nature had it out for the U.S. No country on... more ›› |
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