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<jats:p>Last summer, a federal court banned taxpayer-funded research on human embryonic stem cells. Although a higher court soon allowed the research to continue temporarily, the ongoing lawsuit has cast a shadow over the area that could linger well into 2011.</jats:p>

<jats:p> 2010 was a busy year for science and science policy. <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> lists some developments that tested the limits of our knowledge and influenced thinking about the global research enterprise. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> 's news staff takes a break from reporting to review some big ideas of the past 10 years and the technologies that made them possible. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Since the publication of the human genome sequence in 2001, scientists have found that the so-called junk DNA that lies between genes actually carries out many important functions.</jats:p>

<jats:p>In the past decade, cosmologists have deduced a very precise recipe for the content of the universe, as well as instructions for putting it together, transforming cosmology from a largely qualitative endeavor to a precision science with a standard theory.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that "biomolecules" such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long-dead plants, animals, and humans.</jats:p>

<jats:p>The past decade's half-dozen martian missions have made it clear that early in Mars history, liquid water on or just inside the planet did indeed persist long enough to alter rock and, possibly, sustain the origin of life.</jats:p>

<jats:p>By prompting a cell to overexpress a few genes, researchers have discovered in the past decade how to turn a skin or blood cell into a pluripotent cell: one that has regained the potential to become any number of cells in the body.</jats:p>

<jats:p>This past decade has seen a shift in how we see the microbes and viruses in and on our bodies, most of which are commensal and just call the human body home; collectively, they have come to be called the human microbiome.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Data on the 500-and-counting planets discovered outside of our solar system in the past decade are revolutionizing researchers' understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve.</jats:p>