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Here are the stories you clicked on the most on our site
The top 10 most popular stories published in 2012:
1. Men and Women Can’t Be “Just Friends”

2. The World’s Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication
3. NASA Crushes 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Claims
4. How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy
5. Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Livingin Mothers’ Brains
6. Psychiatry’s “Bible” Gets an Overhaul 

7. “Once in a Civilization” Comet to Zippast Earth Next Year
8. The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance 

9. Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions
10. North Carolina Considers Making Sea Level Rise Illegal 

Honorable mentions: old stories that surfaced with a vengeance this year.
Why Do Cats Purr? April 3, 2006
Why does lactic acid buildup in muscles? And why does I tcause soreness? January 23, 2006
How Long Can a Person Survive without Food? November 8, 2004
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The link for #1 is wrong
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Yes. #4. How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy, was n eye-opener for me.
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Admittedly, all most popular American Sceintific Stories are really interesting and fascinating. However, I find both enlightening and preoccupaying that readers showed to be no interested in papers suggesting new road, clinical in nature, in the war against today’s growing epidemics, as CAD, type 2 DM, and Cancer.
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