[Update: A Science News staffer who fears she is growing paranoid wants to know why we have steadfastly ignored SN's list of top 25 science stories of 2013. And so do I! Who is responsible for this calamity? Answer: All of us. Our rigorous (?) search for lists left you out, and it shouldn't have. And SN's No. 1 for 2013? "Your body is mostly microbes."]
Have you had your fill of the science stories of 2013?
Before you answer, you should take a look at the grandest list of lists that I've found. Tabitha M. Powledge put it together at On Science Blogs, collecting lists from here at the Tracker and everywhere else she could find them. If these were objects instead of files, we'd probably see her turn up in an episode of Hoarders on A&E. Doesn't Powledge ever throw anything out?
Good for us if she doesn't, because I found stories in her many lists that I'd missed last year, even after reading a dozen yearend lists. I was happy to be pointed to Betsy Mason's list of 2013's best images, and the New England Journal of Medicine's Journal Watch, which gave us its picks of top articles in several medical specialties. (Each has its own link; see Powledge's post to find them.)
She also gives us tantalizing hints about what we might expect in 2014.
-Paul Raeburn
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