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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Space
NASA picks shuttles’ retirement homes
Museums in New York, California, Florida and Virginia will display the four spacecraft after their final mission in June.
- Science & Society
An update on scientific integrity
New administration rules are a step in the right direction, but much work remains, says a watchdog group.
- Earth
Great quake one of the biggest ever in Japan
BLOG: Magnitude-8.9 tremor will go down in seismology’s record books
- Space
Meteorites may hold fossils from space — or not
Skepticism greets claim that three space rocks may contain microfossils of extraterrestrial bacteria.
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- Space
LHC switching gears
The premier European collider will spend the next month smashing lead nuclei together.
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- Humans
Swedish academy awards
As Nobel season opens, one researcher looks back on a century of steadily increasing U.S. dominance.
- Climate
Annual Arctic ice minimum reached
Melt isn’t as bad as 2007, but still reaches number three in the record books.
- Computing
Most influential media Twitter feeds
Computer scientists find surprises when they rank top 100.
