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Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It
Birth of a New African Ocean
Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon?
Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer
Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth
Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler
Frozen Mice Cloned
Hubble Discovers Dark Spot on Uranus
Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station
No Naked Black Holes
Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test
Indian Moon Mission Launched
Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test
Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics
Oceans Empty By 2048?
Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out
Loebner Talks AI
Colliding Galaxies Reveal Colossal Black Holes
ESA Selects Next Generation Space Missions
Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone
IBM Measures Force Required To Move Atoms
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World
Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop"
Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real?
Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes?
CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident
Cancer Drug Found; Scientist Annoyed
New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal
Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator
3 Ton Meteorite Stolen
Bad Math Causes Explosion at CERN Collider
Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs
First Superheavy Element Found In Nature
Harvesting Energy from the Human Body
Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity?
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
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore
Brains Work Best At Age of 39
Evolutionary Scientists Test-Drive Spore, Gripe
Fastest Waves Ever Photographed
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs?
LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million
Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm
Major Advances In Knot Theory
Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow
Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid
Scientists Claim Breakthrough On Holographic Display
Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From?
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
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
67-Kilowatt Laser Unveiled
8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives
Achieving Mathematical Proofs Via Computers
Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data
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
Bayer Petitions For Approval of Biotech Rice
Beer-Drinking Scientist Debunks Productivity Correlation
Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope
Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit
British Government Slashes Scientific Research
Can String Theory Accommodate Inflation?
Cassini Could Find Signs of Life on Enceladus
China Launches First Moon Orbiter
DIY Live Photos From ISS
Entry-Level Astronomy?
First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip
Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board
Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method?
HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials
How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon
Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought
Mitochondria and the Prevention of Death
Mysterious Peruvian Meteor Disease Solved
NASA Building Massively Heat-Resistant Chips
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 Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection
Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics
Roundest Object In the World Created
Saturn's Moons Harboring Water?
Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity
Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope
Should Chimps Have Human Rights?
Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology?
Spacecraft Buzzes By Mercury
Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing
Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project
The Gene Is Having an Identity Crisis
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web
The Phoenix Has Landed
The Universe Damaged By Observation?
U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion
Why Myths Persist
Wireless Power Now A Reality
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal!
World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy
Your Chance to be an Astronaut
Expert Wants to Decertify Global Warming Skeptics
A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer
Artificial Life May Be Possible Within Ten Years
Billions Face Risks From Climate Change
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
Scientists Find 'Altruistic' Center of the Brain
Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars
Solar System Look-Alike Found
200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
2006 Was the Warmest Year Ever
A New Kind of Science Collaboration
A Symmetrical Cosmic Red Square
A Third of Mars Could Have Been Underwater
Alex the African Grey Parrot Dies
Algorithms Can Make You Pretty
America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
Arctic Sea Ice Rallies a Bit
Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System
Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth
B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams
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
Current Scientific Publishing Methods Problematic
Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down?
Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosmic Rays
Federal Science Gets More Politicized
Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa
Fluorescent Protein Research Lands Scientists Nobel Prize
Focus Fusion On Google Tech Talks
Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic
Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree?
Galactic Traffic Patterns
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable
German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken
Getting The Public To Listen To Good Science
Girl's Heart Regenerates With Artificial Assist
Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense"
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists
Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again
Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive"
Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun
LHC Shut Down By Transformer Malfunction
LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves
Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death
Low-Energy Neutrinos Detected In Real Time
MIT Finds Cure For Fear
MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit
Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons
Mars Camera's Worsening Eye Problems
Method of Reading Discovered
Microsoft Wants To Read Your Brain
Milky Way's Black Hole a Gamma Source?
Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis
NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona
NC State Creates Most Powerful Positron Beam Ever
New Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record
New Wonder Weed to Fuel Cars?
Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function
One of the Coolest Places In the Universe
Physicists Store, Retrieve a "Squeezed Vacuum"
Purdue Unveils a Tricorder
Rare Lone Neutron Star Found Nearby
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction
Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab
Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply
Robot Aims To Walk On Water
Robot Becomes One of the Kids
SMART Probe to Crash Into the Moon
Scientists Hope To Settle "Hobbit" Debate