The most popular space stories of the year include an exploration of the havoc a solar storm could wreak on Earth and a visualisation of what it would look like to fall into a black hole. Click here to see our readers鈥� favourite space stories of 2009.
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Most popular articles of the year From space storms to vampires to porn, here鈥檚 a countdown of the year鈥檚 most-read articles. Warning: contains sex stories. A lot of them
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Favourite picture galleries From carnivorous robots to exploding stars and bizarre medical devices, here are your favourites from the image galleries we posted this year
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Sex at the noughties鈥� end There was plenty to hold the attention of those with an academic interest in sexual attraction and reproduction
Digging up prehistoric monsters Dinosaur hunters and anyone with an interest in prehistoric creatures great and small were not disappointed
In sickness and in health It was a year as hopeful as it was scary, with a flu pandemic, genome hackers and fresh hopes for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and HIV
It鈥檚 the environment, stupid Thoughts of climate change were never far away, but with ice on fire and a salamander uglier than ET, there was more to 2009 than political brouhaha
In green tech we must trust More brainpower than ever before has been expended on technologies to cut the damage we do to the environment 鈥� here are some of the most interesting
