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The best of 2011: Science and Technology

  • The biggest story in the universe

    The discoveries are coming so fast—1,235 new planets—that the universe as we knew it is history

    By Kate Lunau

  • In the company of whales

    In the company of whales

    Sperm whales have distinct dialects, complex relationships and a set of traditions passed down between generations—what scientists are calling a ‘multicultural civilization’

    By Kate Lunau

  • Moving targets

    Anonymous morphs into a political movement

    The hacker group’s hit list has grown to include Arab dictatorships and opponents of WikiLeaks

    By Cigdem Iltan

  • Julian Assange has lost everything

    Why the leak of unredacted cables means WikiLeaks has outlived its usefulness

    By Jesse Brown

  • Grand theft tax break

    Why do governments subsidize so much of the video game industry’s operations?

    By Jesse Brown

  • The dark side of Steve Jobs

    An off-broadway show in New York looks at what it takes to make all those iPods

    By Claire Ward

  • Turned on and tuned in

    Turned on and tuned in: Steve Jobs as a child of the sixties

    The key to Jobs’s subversive style lay in technology and the democratization of information

    By Jay Teitel

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    Has RIM lost its way?

    A major network outage and investor unrest has Research In Motion vowing that it will fight back

    By Chris Sorensen

  • Rebuilding Sidney Crosby’s brain

    A little-known treatment by a Canadian-born chiropractor to the stars may be the key to his comeback

    By Cathy Gulli