Sadness, worry, ecstasy, agony, controversy, paranoia, revenge, outrage, endurance, milestones, adulation and lies ā 2005 saw it all. And these were the big stories (some of which are premium content, requiring a subscription to view in full)
Rise and fall of the stem cell king
Woo Suk Hwang, South Koreaās āking of cloningā wowed the world with his apparent stem cell breakthroughs, but then everything started to unravel
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The ominous phrase ātipping pointā entered the vocabulary of climate science ā a stark warning that global warming may soon spiral out of control
After two-and-a-half years on the ground ā and $200 million in foam safety research ā Discovery blasted off, but was promptly grounded again
The deadly bird-flu virus H5N1 escaped the Asian henhouses this year and headed west, carrying fears of a global pandemic with it
Built to last just 90 days and to travel a mere 600 metres, the intrepid robots have logged an entire Martian year and covered more than 12 kilometres
Hereās looking at you, chimp
Researchers took delivery of a key tool to understanding human beings: the complete genome of our nearest relative, the chimpanzee
The world celebrated the centenary of the publication of five seminal papers that and forever changed our notions of space and time
Our furry ancestors came snarling out of the undergrowth, their teeth bared, and dinosaur was on the menu
It was the year that āintelligent designā, the creationist challenge to Darwinism, became a significant political force in the US
The Huygens probe and its mother ship, Cassini, started to peel away the hazy mysteries that surround Saturnās enigmatic moon
While the world recovered from the earthquake and tsunami in south-east Asia, it was rocked several times more, in Sumatra and Pakistan
