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25 Biggest Scientific Discoveries

From the unfathomably small to the mind-blowingly huge, the most significant breakthroughs

Posted Aug 21, 2007 1:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – The invention of the wheel was pretty good. Fire, even better. But what has science done for us lately? USA Today lists the top 25 scientific discoveries; here are the top 10:

  1. Accelerating universe
  2. Human genome
  3. Climate accord

  1. Hubble launched
  2. Big Bang fingerprinted
  3. DNA fingerprinting
  4. Dolly cloned
  5. Worldwide web
  6. Ozone erosion
  7. Extrasolar planets
To learn about the rest, click the link below.

This photo, supplied by NASA-ESA, shows a wispy portion of the Veil Nebula -- the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5 - 10,000 years ago -- as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and released Tuesday, July 31, 2007. The intertwined rope-like filaments of gas result...
This photo, supplied by NASA-ESA, shows a wispy portion of the Veil Nebula -- the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5 - 10,000 years ago -- as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and...   (Associated Press)
%u2019s first generation of newborn stars condensed and ignited in the middle of a huge cloud of cold molecular hydrogen. (AP Photo/NASA-ESA)
%u2019s first generation of newborn stars condensed and ignited in the middle of a huge cloud of cold molecular hydrogen. (AP Photo/NASA-ESA)   (Associated Press)
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