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Discover Magazine picked the likely discovery of the Higgs Boson particle by CERN as the No. 1 science story of 2012.

Discover Magazine Top 10

Higgs Boson Particle by CERN !
Opportunity’s landing on Mars !
Mapping microbes in the human gut (possible cures to colitis, Chrones, asthma and cancer) !
Earth’s extreme weather – Record ice melts, flooding, superstorms, etc. (very strange, a number of other climate change stories also made the top 100 stories, but Discover listed them separately, rather than as one issue.
Older fathers create more genetic mutations in their children !
Era of private spaceflight begins !
Mind-controlled robots !
Universe’s dark matter mapped !
Social media causing sleep disorders !
Natural gas boom !

Others in the top 100

11. Solar energy boom in Germany !

12. Alien planet found around Alpha Centuri !

22. Superstorm Sandy !

31. Arctic ice melt accelerates !

37. Hidden ocean found on Titan !

39. Changes made to psychiactric diagnostic manual !

40. Type of brain cancer found to be caused by genes fusing !

41. Arsenic based life form found in Mono Lake discredited !

44. Experiment showing particles going faster than light shown to be flawed; Einstein’s theory of relativity upheld !

45. Highest skydive ever at 128,000 feet !

47. Wolves removed from Endangered Species List; wolf hunting begins again in the U.S. !

56. Voyager I leaves edge of the solar system !

57. Mumps and measles rebound !

82. Whooping cough near-epidemic !

90. Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride die !

91. Ray Bradbury dies (not sure he was a scientist at all) !

99. Polio virus nearly extinct, but survives in Afghanisatan, Pakistan and Nigeria !

Top 10 science story for 2012