Science. It works.

This is Kristina Killgrove. She works at the University of North Carolina and is a biological anthropologist whose research primarily focuses on theorizing migration in antiquity and on understanding urban development and collapse through the analysis of human skeletal remains.  She thinks that the best science story of 2011 is the sequencing of the Black Death genome.

Her blog: http://www.poweredbyosteons.org/

What other scientists think are the best stories of 2011: http://www.livescience.com/17668-scientists-studies-2011.html