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1. Madonna and Guy Ritchie After nearly eight years, two kids, one awful desert island movie and multiple failed Kabbalist interventions, the muscled pop star, 50, and British director, 40, called it quits this fall. Rumors of a split started over the summer when Madonna and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez hit it off so [...]

1. Campaign Reflections The long hard-fought Presidential campaigns were marked by vast stretches of downtime, like this moment of respite enjoyed by Cindy McCain in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas. As her husband John worked on a speech, TIME photographer Christopher Morris grabbed this shot of her enjoying a glass of white wine. 2. [...]

1. Large Hadron Collider Good news! The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the massive particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border — didn’t destroy the world! The bad news: The contraption didn’t really work either. In September, the 17-mile collider was switched on for the first time, putting to rest the febrile webchatter that the machine [...]

1. WALL-E Most smart filmmakers want to parade their facility with all the tools in the modern movie box. Andrew Stanton, the director and cowriter of the Pixar animated feature WALL-E, experimented with what talking pictures could plausibly do without. Talking, for example: the first third of the movie has almost no dialogue. How about [...]

1. First Neurons Created from ALS Patients President-elect Obama has pledged to lift the seven-year ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research — a boon for the field. But for some scientists, it almost doesn’t matter. Researchers at Harvard and Columbia reported a milestone experiment in July, using a new method — one that [...]

It was the year that the Large Hadron Collider was finally fired up — and then abruptly shut down — and 2008 also saw significant progress towards the detection of dark matter. Physicists got a little closer to making practical quantum computers and 2008 saw a few nifty inventions to harvest energy from human motion. [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – A slow, chronic reduction of blood sugar to the brain could trigger some forms of Alzheimer’s disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The study of human and mice brains suggests a reduction of blood flow deprives energy to the brain, setting off a process that ultimately produces the sticky clumps of protein [...]

Prematurity can have lasting effects (BBC NEWS) – A premature birth can cause lasting impairment to the child’s sensory powers, research suggests. A British study of 43 11-year-old children who had been born 14 weeks early found their ability to sense temperature was compromised. Prematurity may also affect pain perception, the journal Pain reports. The [...]

TIME – No one likes to walk into work after just a few fitful hours of sleep. But now there’s evidence that not getting enough sleep may have more serious consequences than dark circles under your eyes the next morning. Researchers at the University of Chicago report in the Journal of the American Medical Association [...]

Radio Flyer is developing a prototype of a wagon with digital controls and an MP3 player dock. (CNN) — Maybe you had one as a kid, or knew someone who did. It’s the iconic little red wagon with the Radio Flyer logo. If so, you might not recognize the newest product dreamed up by the [...]

(CNN) — Forty years ago this week, three men in a tiny spacecraft slipped their earthly bonds and traveled where no one else had before, circling the moon 10 times and bringing back an iconic image of a blue-and-white Earth in the distance, solitary but bound as one against the black vastness beyond. The voyage [...]

Here are the Top Selling Albums of the year. 1. As I Am (Alicia Keys): Alicia has the Keys to America’s number one selling album of 2008, and she’s taking it out for a joyride. 2. Noel (Josh Groban): This album is like a tenor-voiced Christmas rash that pops its little head out every time [...]