It's the end of the year and it's time to sum up this year in science and that's a much better story than news. Multiple sites have than their pick of th best and most important science and technology stories this year - from weird to futuristic, from space to new element and quark combinations, from new biological organs to synthetic chromosomes ( Read more... )

Today's episode of science links is all about replacement body parts and interfacing them.

Remember, I mentioned 3D printing lately and all the wonderful things they can make for us. It turns out one of those things can be body parts. Scientists from Cornell University made a replacement ear by putting injection of living, cartilage-producing ( Read more... )