Top 5 Most-Read ISNS Articles of 2011

by Chris J. Nicolini

We’ve covered a wide variety of topics for Inside Science News Service over the last year. Our team has reported on everything from wooden hockey sticks , globe-trotting turkeys , entanglement’s “spooky action” -- and just about everything in between .

So to wrap up the departing year, here are the Top 5 Most-Read stories ranked in order of unique views from the ISNS site .

Click the jump to view the list.

Here is the complete list in descending order:

# 5- Fire Ants Assemble As A ‘Super-Organism’ - New research on how ants can form rafts could create better waterproof jackets -- and robots that can assemble themselves.

# 4- Mystery Force May Be Due To Mirrors - 40-year old NASA space probes are still heating up the field of astronomy after identifying mysterious ‘anomaly’.

# 3- Thank Mom For Your Love Of Garlic - New research shows just how much tastes for different foods come from time spent in utero.

# 2- Like No Other View On Earth - NASA’s landmark photo providing the first glimpse of our home planet from deep space occurred 45 years ago today.

#1 - In the Quantum World, Diamonds Can Communicate With Each Other - Oxford physicists using bizarre principle of “entanglement” to cause a change in a diamond they do not touch.