The stimulus, for instance, will also aid in the renovation of the RIKEN SPring - 8 synchrotron, one of
the top photon science research facilities in the world, and the construction of data links between Japan's universities and RIKEN's K supercomputer, the world's fastest computer in 2011 and still ranked fourth today.
Stem cell breakthrough by Lanza and colleagues was voted the year's
top story, beating the Ebola outbreak, climate change crisis, entangled
photons, cosmic inflation, as well as the year's other
science stories ranging from topics in space exploration to mathematics, technology, paleontology, and the environment.