Science Stories for 2010

Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? 571
'Colonizing the Red Planet,' a How-To Guide 288
'Zombie' Satellite Returns To Life 98
World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought 338
Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair 59
Nintendo Warns 3D Games Can Ruin Children's Eyes 229
Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South 88
Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything 241
NASA To Continue Funding Canceled Ares Project Until March 229
Microsoft Kinect With World of Warcraft 80
Satellite-Based Laser Hunts Woodpeckers From Space 53
North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia 187
Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life 96
The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too 250
Indian Launch Vehicle Explodes After Lift-Off 227
'Eternal' Solar Plane Stays Two Weeks Aloft 37
Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law 166
Android Phones At the Edge of Space 42
New Molecule Could Lead To Better Rocket Fuel 121
Solar Dynamo Still Anemic, Magnetism and UV Lax 156
Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line 464
The Tipping Point of Humanness 272
Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception 430
Latest Mars Photos Show Frosty Landscapes, Ancient Lakebeds 60
Using Kinect For a Touch-Free Interface In Surgery 53
8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study 174
New Tech Promises Cheap Gene Sequencing In Minutes 121
Mathematics As the Most Misunderstood Subject 680
Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory At South Pole 78
Scientists Decipher 3-Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils 217
Air Force Sonic Booms Ignite Crocodiles' Sex Drives 61
A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors 252
Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging 371
How To Cut a Nanotube? Lots Of Compression 38
Join a Worldwide Planet Search 54
Periodic Table of Elements To Get an Update 99
Exposing the Link Between Cell Phones and Fertility 112
'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget 760
First Measurement of Magnetic Field In Earth's Core 34
Physicists Improve Spin Information Storage 43
Browsing the Body 107
Scientists Identify Head of France's King Henry IV 64
'Pocket Airports' Would Link Neighborhoods By Air 257
String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions 307
Researchers Use Wireless To Study How Flu Spreads 64
'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World 384
Atomic Weight Not So Constant 147
Archaeologists Find 2,400-Year-Old Soup 108
Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind 245
EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Bees 410
Statistical Analysis of Terrorism 265
Study Suggests Saturn's Rings Made By Ancient Moon Death Spiral 34
A Bionic Leg That Rewires Stroke Victims' Brains 36
Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional 1505
First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged 89
LHC Prepares Marathon Higgs Hunt 101
Scientists Create Programmable Bacteria 117
High-Tech War Games Help Save Lives 142
NASA Solar Sail Lost In Space 111
Diabetic Men May Be Able To Grow Their Own Insulin-Producing Cells 148
Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired by Ants 106
When Computers Go Wrong 250
World's Smallest Battery Created 77
ChromeOS Laptop-Smashing Ad Equation Solved 164
Small Fujitsu Device Harvests Both Solar and Thermal Energy 36
Informative Shuttle Ascent Video 69
A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? 277
Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic 221
SpaceX's Dragon Module Successfully Re-Enters 156
Video Shows Why Recharging Kills Batteries 111
General Motors' NASA Robot On Tour 72
Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers 435
Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? 747
X Particle Might Explain Dark Matter & Antimatter 285
Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets 177
Team Use Stem Cells to Restore Mobility in Paralyzed Monkey 196
Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists 179
SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Make It To Orbit 200
NASA's 'Arsenic Microbe' Science Under Fire 152
NASA Records Solar Blast of Epic Proportions 123
Rogue Satellite Shuts Down US Weather Services 202
Tour of the Closet Sized Living Quarters On ISS 76
NASA Launches Micro Solar Sail 90
One Night Stands May Be Genetic 240
Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration 473
Google Earth Engine To Provide Climate Change Data 107
X-37B Robotic Space Plane Returns To Earth 55
A Mind Made From Memristors 320
NASA Delays Discovery's Final Launch To February 62
Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park 648
Optical Camouflage Puts Kinect Into Stealth Mode 60
Stable Roentgenium Claimed Found In Gold 160
NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA 380
Aquarium Uses Eel Powered Christmas Lights 96
NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) 405
Aussie Government Competition To Predict Commute Times 79
Dolly the Sheep Alive Again 233
The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier 186
Using Cinnamon In the Production of Nanoparticles 126
The Last Stop For Space Station-Bound Software 39
Curious NASA Pre-Announcement 286
Earth's Water Didn't Come From Outer Space 181
Being Too Clean Can Make People Sick 333
Aging Reversed In Mice 554
Woman Claims Ownership of the Sun 17
X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon 252
Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC 155
German Scientists Create Bose-Einstein Condensate Using Photons 61
FedEx Misplaces Radioactive Rods 165
Thin Oxygen-CO2 Atmosphere Discovered On Rhea 37
BEAR Robot Designed To Rescue Wounded Soldiers 104
Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria 164
Was There Only One Big Bang? 295
Scientists Attach Bar Codes To Embryos 69
Chicago Using Coyotes To Fight Rodents 222
The Genome of Your Thanksgiving Supper 84
Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive 173
SpaceX Gets First Private FAA Space Reentry License 108
Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats 716
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 221
Utah vs. NASA On Heavy-Lift Rocket Design 285
Spine Implant Helps Paralyzed People Exercise 39
US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever 213
Midwest Earthquake Hazard Downplayed 96
How the 'Tech Worker Visa' Is Remaking IT In America 436
New Microscope Reveals Ultrastructure of Cells 58
Traffic Jams In Your Brain 250
Graphene Nobel Prize Committee Criticized For Inaccuracies 63
Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust 335
Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality 223
Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way 111
Laser Camera Can See Around Corners 97
An Astronaut's View of Space Station Tech 115
Space-Time Cloak Could Hide Actual Events 129
UK Seeks Stronger Partnership In Space Technology With India 47
Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? 614
Problem-Solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku 86
New Imaging Method Reveals Brain Connections 95
LHC Scientists Create and Capture Antimatter 269
Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete 177
Graphene Can Be Made With Table Sugar 142
Most Detailed View of Dark Matter Mapped By Hubble 93
Hayabusa Captured Asteroid Dust Confirmed 60
The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater 250
Muscle Mice 116
Free-Form Linguistic Input In Mathematica 8 84
Video Games Found To Enhance Visual Attention 79
NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole 195
Aerial Drone To Hunt For Life On Mars 152
Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars 839
Robot Actress Makes Stage Debut In Japan 140
Google Preparing To Launch G-Town 251
Australian Researchers Devise Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer 63
Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU 302
Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back 158
Tetris May Reduce PTSD, But Pub Quiz Makes It Worse 65
Pluto Might Be Bigger Than Eris 257
Dissecting the Neural Circuitry of Fear 123
James Webb Space Telescope Cost Overruns Adding Up 153
Modeling Software Showed BP Cement As Unstable 160
Lizard Previously Unknown To Science Found On Vietnam Menu 133
Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat 155
Australian State Govt. To Fund iPads For Doctors 97
US Army Develops Tooth Cleaning Gum 160
Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights 348
Massive Gamma Ray Bubbles Discovered In Milky Way 115
Construction On Spaceship Factory Set To Begin In the Mojave 147
DIY Projects, Communities and Cultures 53
Pee On Your Phone STD Test 208
Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles? 293
Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Be So Central 196
The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs 824
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' 570
Factory To Make Biodiesel From Chicken Fat 207
Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood 229
How To Profit From Planetary-Scale Computing 178
Bees Reveal Nature-Nurture Secrets 84
Not Transparent Aluminum, But Conductive Plastic 96
Americans Less Healthy, But Outlive Brits 521
Religious Ceremony Leads To Evolution of Cave Fish 233
Another Leak Delays Final Discovery Launch 104
NASA's Stunning Close-Up Photos of Comet Hartley 2 62
Skin-Tight Bodysuits Could Protect Astronauts From Bone Loss 158
Scientists Overclock People's Brains 314
World's Northernmost Town Gets Nightlights 144
Chip Allows Blind People To See 231
Harry Potter Blamed For India's Disappearing Owls 252
Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor 478
The Science of Battlestar Galactica 465
Real-Time Holograms Beam Closer To Reality 79
Shuttle Launch Delayed Again, Possibly Until December 111
Miniature Human Livers Grown In Lab 154
Fermilab Confirms Evidence of 4th Flavor Neutrino 122
Breakthrough Portends Cure For the Common Cold 180
The Right Robotic Stuff 53
Is the ISS Really Worth $100 Billion? 503
Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified 88
How Much Math Do We Really Need? 1153
Cheap Metal-Insulator-Metal (MiM) Diode Created 137
Calculating Environmental Damage From Space Tourism Rockets 83
US Says Genes Should Not Be Patentable 127
UAV Helicopter Flies 12 Hours Charged By Laser 83
Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neanderthal Lineage 151
Fun With an Induction Cooktop? 147
US Objects To the Kilogram 538
Stopping Malaria By Immunizing Mosquitoes 100
The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets 380
From Touchpad To Thought-pad 92
Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' 841
40 Million Year Old Primate Fossils Found In Asia 91
NASA Working On Solar Storm Shield 85
NASA To Auction Automated Code Generation Patents 134
How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks 330
Quantum Computing Explained! (Well, Sorta) 145
NASA Parodies Reach New Level of Awkwardness 28
You Have Taste Receptors In Your Lungs 223
The Future of the Most Important Human Brain 252
Robotic Hands Grip Without Fingers 105
Flexible, Stretchable, Implantable LED Arrays Created 147
Potential 'Avatar' Gas Giant Exoplanet Discovered 142
Austria's 'Bionic Man' Dies In Car Crash 200
NASA Releases Failure Report On Outback Crash 72
Researchers Find 70-Year-Olds Are Getting Smarter 115
Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math 212
Mystery of the 'Chupacabra' May Be Solved 94
Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning 175
Astronomers Find Planets Around Weird Binary Star 69
Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass 184
Astonishing Speedup In Solving Linear SDD Systems 157
Programmable Magnets 120
NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon 421
Physicists Discover Universal "Wet-Dog Shake" Rule 97
Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit 301
Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory 166
India To Build Neutrino Observatory 102
Record-Breaking Galaxy Found In Deep Hubble Image 196
Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant 146
NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program 351
Degraded Electrodes Observed In Aging Batteries 108
UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water 191
International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space 140
Antenna Arrays Could Replace Satellite TV Dishes 183
2012 Mayan Calendar 'Doomsday' Date Might Be Wrong 144
Scientists Fight Back In Canada 277
MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System 117
The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body 227
Ontario School Bans Wi-Fi 287
President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters 795
UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun 377
Supercomputer Sets Protein-Folding Record 63

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