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This video introduction to Science's year-end special issue features Andrew Cleland of University of California at Santa Barbara, Jack Harris of Yale University, and Science's Adrian Cho on the achievement of putting a human-made object into the quantum ground state. It's the first quantum machine and the top scientific story for 2010.
Breakthrough of the Year and Runners-Up, 2011
9 Billion?
Does Family Planning Bring down Fertility?
Are More People Necessarily a Problem?
Sequencing Cancer Genomes: Targeted Cancer Therapies
The Science Hall of Fame
Breakthrough of the Year 2010: The First Quantum Machine
Why Do Scientists Dance?
Defining Epigenetics