Best “Best of Science" 2014 in planet...

Best “Best of Science" 2014 in planet Earth.

• Wikipedia: 2014 in science
• Scientific American’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2014
• Ten of the biggest science and technology stories of 2014 on Phys.org
• BBC:Best long reads of 2014 (part one, part two)
• The Guardian: Weird and wonderful: the most popular science stories of 2014
• Quartz: 2014: The year in S P A C E
• Wired: The Best Science Visualizations of the Year
• Business Insider: The Most Jaw-Dropping Science Pictures Of 2014
• TheScientist: 2014’s Big Advances in Science
• Brain Pickings: The Best Science Books of 2014

Image: NASA’s Curiosity rover shared its very first picture of Earth from Mars. The photo was taken about 80 minutes after sunset on Jan. 31, 2014, NASA said. The rover tweeted the photo with the accompanying caption: “Look Back in Wonder… My 1st picture of Earth from the surface of Mars." (Via BI)