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Birth of a New African Ocean
Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon?
Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station
Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer
Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth
Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler
Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada
Frozen Mice Cloned
No Naked Black Holes
Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test
A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread
Indian Moon Mission Launched
Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?
Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test
Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out
Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes
Drug Deletes Fearful Memories
Loebner Talks AI
3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations
Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed
Colliding Galaxies Reveal Colossal Black Holes
ESA Selects Next Generation Space Missions
Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone
Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms
IBM Measures Force Required To Move Atoms
Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing?
US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World
Brain Decline Begins At Age 27
Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop"
Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real?
Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV
Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel
Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes?
CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident
Family Dog Cloned, Thanks To Dolly Patents
Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas
New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal
New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet
Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator
Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
3 Ton Meteorite Stolen
Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs
First Superheavy Element Found In Nature
Google's PageRank Predicts Nobel Prize Winners
LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer)
LHC Success!
Lunar Oxygen and Water Production Tech Tested
NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Moister Mars
Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964
Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite
Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind
Ultra-low-cost True Randomness
Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West
Falcon 9 Is Now Fully Integrated At Cape Canaveral
Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study
Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore
Brains Work Best At Age of 39
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity
Evolutionary Scientists Test-Drive Spore, Gripe
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs?
Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed
How the City Hurts Your Brain
Human-Animal Hybrids Fail
LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million
Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm
Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
Major Advances In Knot Theory
Milky Way Heavier Than Thought, and Spinning Faster
Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances
Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow
Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid
Scientists Claim Breakthrough On Holographic Display
Should We Clone a Neanderthal?
The Universe As Hologram
US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy
Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From?
Why Doctors Hate Science
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock
X-Rays Emitted From Ordinary Scotch Tape
Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over
Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys
"All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun
$999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it?
'Hundreds of Worlds' in Milky Way
2007 Physics Nobel Prize For Giant Magnetoresistance
8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives
Achieving Mathematical Proofs Via Computers
Advance In Making Stem Cells From Skin
Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic
Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90
Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision
Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Banjo Used In Brain Surgery
Beer-Drinking Scientist Debunks Productivity Correlation
Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes
Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope
Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit
Can String Theory Accommodate Inflation?
Cassini Could Find Signs of Life on Enceladus
China Launches First Moon Orbiter
DIY Live Photos From ISS
Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets
Entry-Level Astronomy?
Evolving Rocks
First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip
Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer
Functional Neurons Created From Adult Somatic Cells
Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable
Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method?
Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor
Harvesting Energy from the Human Body
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon
Injectable Artificial Bone Developed
Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies
Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation"
Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought
Mysterious Peruvian Meteor Disease Solved
NASA Building Massively Heat-Resistant Chips
Nine Words From Science Which Originated In Science Fiction
Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit
One of HST's Cameras Is Back In Action
Origin of Cosmic Rays Confirmed
Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning
Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed
Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics
Roundest Object In the World Created
Russia to Search For Life on Europa
Saturn's Moons Harboring Water?
Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery
Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope
Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology?
Soyuz 4/5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today
Spacecraft Buzzes By Mercury
Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny
Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project
Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop
The Gene Is Having an Identity Crisis
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web
The Phoenix Has Landed
The Universe Damaged By Observation?
Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon
Twisted Radio Beams Could Untangle the Airwaves
Why Myths Persist
Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!
World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy
Your Chance to be an Astronaut
A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer
Artificial Life May Be Possible Within Ten Years
First Fossil Evidence That Velociraptors Hunted in Packs
Green Light for Human/Animal Hybrids
Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest
Russia Plans Its Own Moon Base
Solar System Look-Alike Found
"Nuclear Archaeology" Inspires Replica of Hiroshima's Little Boy
2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form
200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
A New Kind of Science Collaboration
A New Way To Produce Hydrogen
A Quantum Linear Equation Solver
A Third of Mars Could Have Been Underwater
Acorns Disappear Across the Country
Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption
Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies
Algorithms Can Make You Pretty
Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System
Arctic Sea Ice Rallies a Bit
Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System
Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth
Athletes' Brains Reveal Concussion Damage
B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams
Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief
Brain-Inspired Computer Made From Duroquinone
Bringing Giant Tortoises Back From Extinction
Bringing Science and Math Into Writing?
Cassini Geyser-Tasting a Bust
Causes of Death Linked To Weight
Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy
Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine
Current Scientific Publishing Methods Problematic
Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down?
Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth
Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life
Earth-Like Planets In Our Neighborhood
Every Man Is an Island (of Bacteria)
Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosmic Rays