top trends 2012

The "Higgs" of Higgs boson is well known to refer to Peter Higgs. What is largely unknown, is that the term "boson" owes its name to the pioneering work of the late Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose. Many Indian scientists were involved in the world's most ambitious experiment.

From finding the "God particle" to capturing rare pictures of Martian solar eclipse and from discovering a planet twice the size of earth made largely out of diamond to detecting five new planets close to earth - 2012 saw space demystified in some revolutionary ways.

Did you know that honeybees can tell a Monet from a Picasso? Have you met the dancing polar bear who thinks he’s John Travolta? Were you aware that a Playboy pic was shrunk to human hair size? All this and more happened in 2012.