It was the year when a Martian robot became a Twitter star, and when an Austrian daredevil made YouTube's top 10 list by plunging to earth at supersonic speed. Those were just two examples of how science fared in social media last year, Mary Ann Giordano reports in the New York Times: "To put it in 140 characters or less, social media and science found each other in 2012. In surprising numbers, people posted, viewed and searched for science-related topics last year."
