Science Stories for 2007

Rare Lone Neutron Star Found Nearby 37
Rocket-Powered Bionic Arm Successfully Tested 159
Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary 222
Student Finds 5000-Year-Old Chewing Gum 143
New Nanoparticle Could Provide Simple Early Diagnosis Of Many Diseases 62
YouTube for Science? 96
Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor 401
Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot 1583
Super Pathway Discovered In Southern Ocean 167
Another Way To Erase Memories 232
NASA Decides No Fix Needed for Endeavor's Tiles 209
German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken 429
James Hansen on the Warmest Year Brouhaha 743
Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" 332
Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap 479
Quantum Computing and Optically Controlled Electrons 74
NASA Finds Star With a Tail 233
Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding 910
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US 161
MIT Team Creates Cancer Stem Cells 124
Images of Endeavour's Damaged Tiles 331
DNA Vaccine May Treat Multiple Sclerosis 127
Bigelow Aerospace Fast-Tracks Manned Spacecraft 122
Scientists Offer 'Overwhelming' Evidence Terran Life Began in Space 556
British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication 147
Echeria Coli Co-Opted To Make Gasoline 331
A Non-Toxic, Paper Battery / Supercapacitor 228
Does Going Digital Mean Missing Music? 751
3 Ton Meteorite Stolen 273
New Microscope Watches Cells in 3D 50
Spirit Outlasts Viking 2 Lander 137
Bone Hormone Linked to Obesity and Diabetes 218
Why We Need to Expand into Space 460
Baiji River Dolphin May or May Not Be Extinct 175
DARPA Develops Dolphin-like Tail For Divers 146
How to Reach 200 MPH on Hydrogen Fuel Cells 158
Perfect Crystals Grown by Cancelling Out Gravity on Earth 83
The Heretical Freeman Dyson 498
Gouge Found on Shuttle Endeavour's Underside 151
New 'Stellarator' Design for Fusion Reactors 171
Discouraging Students from Taking Math 509
China Sets Sights on Comprehensive Lunar Survey 122
Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study? 755
OHSU Turns Mouse into Factory for Human Liver Cells 93
DARPA Semifinalists Selected 89
Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? 232
NASA Tests Hydrogen-Fueled BMW 420
Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images 198
DARPATech Shows off Robot Doc and Cancer Breathalyzer 73
Human Origins Theory Tested By Recent Findings 272
Rare Meteor Event to Inform on Dangerous Comets 64
Largest-Known Planet Befuddles Scientists 385
Humanity's Genetic Diversity on the Decline 285
New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution 504
LG Phillips Patents Oil and Water Display 90
Surviving in Space Without a Spacesuit 481
8 Million Year Old Bacteria Thaws, Lives 345
Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision 227
Nukes Against Earth-Impacting Asteroids 491
Homeland Security Commissions LED-Based Puke-Saber 378
A 3-D View of the Brain 68
British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect 347
The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula 144
The Physics of Beer Bubbles 113
The Fermi Paradox is Back 713
The Potential of Geothermal Power 397
Brain Electrodes Help Injured Man To Speak Again 88
Mars Phoenix Probe Successfully Launched 78
Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online 74
Astronomer Offers Theory Into 400-Year-Old Lunar Mystery 66
The Science of Bridge Collapse Prevention 276
Newfound Planet Has Earth-Like Orbit 126
Stem Cell Fraudster May Have Actually Made Breakthrough 206
Winnie Wrote a Math Book 638
Monkeys and Humans Learn the Same Way 91
New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions 383
Building Artificial Bone 78
Smarter Teens Have Less Sex 1285
New Record For Solar Cell Power Efficiency 351
Mitsubishi Breaks Up Famous Computer Science Lab 86
Office Printers May Pose Health Risks 227
MIT Engineers World's First Schizophrenic Mice 159
Music From DNA Patented 203
Can Space Nerds Get Along? 161
NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info 583
New Carbon-based Paper Stronger Than Nanotubes 166
Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem 138
FDA Sees Nanotech Challenges In Every Product Category 21
Brian May, Rock Legend, Soon-To-Be Astrophysicist 169
The Future of Putting Chips Inside Our Brains 106
Explosion at Scaled Composites Kills 2, Injures 4 239
NASA Investigates Possible Sabotage by Worker 166
Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness 355
Matching Cancers With the Best Chemical Treatments 68
Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat 693
Computer Program Learns Baby Talk in Any Language 170
Public Discussion Opened on Space Solar Power 195
PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents 436
Top Ten Discoveries of the Mars Rovers 176
Replacing Copper With Pencil Graphite 122
Federal Science Gets More Politicized 567
Harvesting Energy from the Human Body 160
Adult Stem Cell Growth Treats Cornea Disorders 128
HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials 385
Northrop Grumman to own Scaled Composites 108
Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash 454
U.S. Science and Engineering Research Flattens 273
Cheap Paint-able Solar Cells Developed 254
Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars 410
Humans Evolved From a Single Origin In Africa 461
Magnetic Wobbles Cause Hard Drive Failure 276
Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' 375
Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet 326
Robot Aims To Walk On Water 125
Möbius Strip Riddle Solved 184
Chameleon Liquid Could Replace LCDs 175
Mitochondria and the Prevention of Death 453
MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit 383
World's Largest Telescope Up and Running 120
MIT Finds Cure For Fear 523
Springy Nanotubes Could Make Artificial Muscles 70
America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant 522
Fructose As Culprit In the Obesity Epidemic 821
Dark Energy May Lurk In Hidden Dimensions 164
Identify Galaxies Using Spare Wetware Cycles 136
New and Improved Deadly Snail Venom 52
Giant Squid Washed Ashore in Australia 149
Privacy is a Biological Imperative? 181
Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math 442
Scientists Find Water on Extra-solar Planet 220
Baby Mammoth Found Intact 227
Digitizing 100 Years of Astronomical Data 115
The Dusty Concern for the Mission to Mars 174
Potential Cure For Antibiotic Resistant Infections 127
Korea to Clone Drug Sniffing Dogs 158
Nicotine Is the New Wonder Drug 439
Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold 442
Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread 266
Robots Teach Autistic Kids Social Skills 171
Team Builds Viruses To Combat Harmful "Biofilms" 108
NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet 245
Mars Rovers Threatened By Dust Storms 145
Roswell UFO Festival 133
Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? 942
Microholography Could Lead to 500 GB Discs 158
Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature 613
Ancient Robot Was Programmed with Rope 141
Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday 202
DoD Offers $1 Million for Wearable Power Supply 167
50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation 198
Half-Squid, Half-Octopus Discovered Off of Hawaii 170
Upcoming Film Based On Arthur C. Clarke Story 131
Comet Probes Given New Duties 48
Swarm Theory Makes National Geographic 213
Panic Over Failing QuikSCAT Satellite Overblown 131
Explosives Camp 419
Researchers Prove Existence Of New Type Of Electron Wave 60
Researchers Claim Pheromones Trigger Brain Cell Growth 113
New Drug Helps to Dampen Bad Memories 255
Whirling Twirling Propeller Trike 136
Synthetic Biology For Natural Fuel 245
RoboCup 2007 Opens At Georgia Tech 52
Software Speeds Response To Road Accidents 100
Newly Declassified Window Film Keeps Out Snoops 193
What Happened Before the Big Bang? 394
Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Finally End Journey 210
Tangible Display Makes 3D Touchable 112
Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell 1267
Cart Locking System Released as Open Source 323
Far Future Will See No Evidence of Universe's Origin 340
Science Videos Search Engine 51
Galapagos Islands Environment "In Danger" 162
Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology 118
Visualizing "Answer People" In Online Discussions 123
Team Claims Synthetic Life Feat 112
Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator 470
Russia Claims Large Chunk of North Pole 242
Drugs to Prevent Cell Suicide 110
Integrated HIV Successfully Cut Out of Human Genome 185
Five Ideas That Will Reinvent Computing 283
Bigelow Aerospace Deploys Genesis 2 Space Module 94
Mars Rover Ready for Risky Descent into Crater 156
Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil 555
The United States Space Arsenal 297
Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab 303
Boeing's New 787 Wings — Amazingly Flexible 564
First Royal Mummy Found Since Tut is Identified 192
Brain Controlled Virtual World for the Disabled 57
Tunguska Impact Crater Found? 229
Fresh Security Breaches At Los Alamos 127
Space Elevator Rebuttal From LiftPort Founder 368
The British Steam Car Challenge 184
Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" 1497
X Prize Foundation Announces Lunar Lander Competitors 97
Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target 575
Experts Oppose Classifying Gaming Addiction As Mental Disorder 301
CERN Announces Collider Startup Delay 98
First Quantum Computing Gate on a Chip 166
Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation 221
Table Top USP Lasers Slice, Dice, and So Much More 79
Lunar Lens Takes A Step Forward 95
Eta Carinae, Soon To Be a Local Supernova 317
Brain/Machine Interfaces Approaching Usefulness 129
Firstborn Get the Brains 467
Lake Disappears into Andes 307
Subcommittee Stops Human Mars Mission Spending 343
Faster and Open Access to Scientific Results 50
Protecting Unexposed Film from Cosmic Radiation? 142
FAA Plans to Clean Up the Skies 249
Scientists Move Closer to Human Therapeutic Cloning 136
NASA Frees Their Robotics Software 112
USAF Developing New "SR-72" Supersonic Spy? 428
Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed 252
Vertical Farming 503
Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA 209
The Quest for the Car of the Future 434
Ancestry.com To Add DNA Test Results 223
Female Astronaut Sets Space Record 243
"Cascade B" Particle Discovered At Fermilab 140
The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy 979
The Fallacy of Hard Tests 404
Say Nothing About the Failing Satellite 193
US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics 444
First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10 235
Giant Dinosaur Bird Discovered 166
Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy? 836
Space Station Computers Partially Restored 158
Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s 661
Scientists Attempt to Replace Crude Oil With Sugars 179
Bones Could Become Conduits For Data Swaps 134
Perfect Silicon Sphere to Redefine the Kilogram 453
Mass of Dwarf Planet Eris 27% Greater than Pluto 220
Doctor Urges AMA To Classify Gaming Addiction 258
ISS Computer Failure 289
Human Genome More Like a Functional Network 304
ISS Goes Solar 176
Europe Unveils New Space Plane for Tourist Market 139
Plants 'Recognize' Their Siblings 331
Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed 403
Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War? 572
TV's "Mr. Wizard," Don Herbert, Dies At 89 255
Far-Fetched Time Travel Concept Receives Private Funds 505
Self-Healing Plastic Skin 104
Transit Method Reveals Many Extrasolar Planets 174
Satellite Images Used to Document International Atrocities 171
WETA Working on Robotic Lizard For Science 92
Probe Shows Jupiter Moon 'Puking' Into Space 152
"Puddles" of Water Sighted on Mars 237
Data Stored in Live Neurons 100
Shuttle Atlantis Launched Without Incident 102

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