Science Stories for 2012

Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs 149
Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies At 103 36
NASA Releases New Photos of Saturn's Rings and Clouds 34
Christmas Tree Rocketry 29
Origin of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' Line Revealed 149
China's Controversial Brain Surgery To Cure Drug Addiction 385
Odds Favor Discovery of Earth-Like Exoplanet in 2013 90
Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth 175
NASA's Ion Thruster Sets Continuous Operation Record 165
Russia Says Next-Gen Spacecraft Design Ready 59
Britain Suspends Exploratory Drilling of Antarctic Lake 37
Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven 186
Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes 78
SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL Finally Jumps Its Own Height 111
What Debris From North Korea's Rocket Launch Shows 223
Bangladesh Slaughters 150,000 Birds After Worst H5N1 Virus Outbreak In 5 Years 76
Link Between Marijuana and Psychosis Goes Both Ways 358
UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain 179
Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs 215
How the Brain Organizes Everything We See 83
Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change 156
Christmas On Mars 41
China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years 233
FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon 204
NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station 200
World's Oldest Wooden Water Wells Discovered 50
Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold 248
West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought 247
Researcher Says the Hawaiian Islands Are Dissolving 55
Asteroid 2011 AG5 Will Miss Earth In 2040 143
Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity 470
Juggling By the Numbers 59
All Systems Go For Highest Altitude Supercomputer 36
Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot 223
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
New NASA Spacesuit Looks Like Buzz Lightyear's 81
Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims 233
Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study 240
MIT Research Shows New Magnetic State That Could Aid Quantum Computing 49
TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color 198
Researchers Create Ultrastretchable Wires Using Liquid Metal 94
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Microsatellite? 117
IQ 'a Myth,' Study Says 530
Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? 258
Property Rights In Space? 269
School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games 1168
Spider Discovered That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys 119
Possible Habitable Planet Just 12 Light Years Away 420
Cassini's Christmas Gift: In the Shadow of Saturn 32
The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust 338
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Twin Probes Crash Into the Moon 79
Ask Slashdot: Should Scientists Build a New Particle Collider In Japan? 292
Single Microbe May Have Triggered the "Great Dying" 171
NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies 286
Scientists Make Fish Grow "Hands" In Experiment Revealing How Fins Became Limbs 110
China's Chang'E 2 Succeeds In Thrilling Asteroid Flyby 88
Austria's Mobile Drug Lab Could Test Street-Drug Effects, Too 34
Virus Rebuilds Heart's Own Pacemaker In Animal Tests 45
Australia Plans To Drill 2,000-Year-Old Ice Core In Antarctica 62
When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really? 184
Views of the Asteroid Toutatis, From Earth As Well As Close-Up 23
Video Tour of the International Space Station 71
Spinal Fluid Chemical Levels Linked To Suicidal Behavior 85
Chinese Moon Probe Flies By Asteroid Toutatis 59
ATLAS Results: One Higgs Or Two? 73
People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever 129
Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? 254
Fast DNA Origami Opens Way For Nanoscale Machines 21
NASA Prepares Probes For Suicide Mission 65
Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording 168
Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic 131
Did Land-Dwellers Emerge 65 Million Years Earlier Than Was Thought? 41
Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years 214
Cassini Discovers First River On Another World 230
Earth Avoids Collisions With Pair of Asteroids 256
Learning Rocket Science With Video Games 64
Hubble Sees Tribe of Baby Galaxies 13+ Billion Light Years Away 60
Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? 238
Hacked Review System Leads To Fake Reviews and Retraction of Scientific Papers 67
Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime 167
Urbanization Has Left the Amazon Burning 93
New SARS-Like Virus Infects Both Human and Animal Cells 62
Laser Fusion Put On a Slow Burn By US Government 143
Air Force Sends Mystery Mini-Shuttle Back To Space 123
Kazakhstan Wants Russia To Hand Over Their Baikonur Space City 131
Researchers Build Water Soluble Chips 52
Four Cups of Coffee A Day Cuts Risk of Oral Cancer 151
Physicists Turn Pull Into Push 60
Altered Immune Cells Help Girl Beat Leukemia 130
Behavior of Birds Depends On Their Hatching Order 67
Brain Cells Made From Urine 116
Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt 132
Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons 115
Brain Pacemaker Helps Treat Alzheimer's Disease 62
Astronomers Detect and 'Weigh' Very Young Solar System 21
Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing 655
Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected 339
Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy 182
Flexible, Fiber-Optic Solar Cell Could Be Woven Into Clothing 65
Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety 174
SpaceX Awarded First Military Contract 140
Stay Home When You're Sick! 670
Apollo Veteran: Skip Asteroid, Go To the Moon 191
Nearby Solar System Looks Like Home 62
New Theory About the Source of Pioneer Space Probe Deceleration 156
Golden Spike Working On Private Moon Flights 121
Hagfish Slime Could Make Super-Strong Clothes 82
Tour the Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum (Video) 29
Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk 239
Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip 72
MIT-Led Mission Reveals the Moon's Battered Crust Is Riddled With Cracks 39
James Cameron Spills the Details From His Deep Dive 43
Scientists Race To Establish the First Links of a 'Quantum Internet' 82
Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars 453
Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) 299
The Earliest Known Dino? 69
NASA: New Mars Rover By 2020 79
Brain Disease Found In NFL Players 271
Fiber Optic Spanner (Wrench) Developed 65
Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours 143
Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science 858
A Brain-Based Explanation For Why Old People Get Scammed 209
Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It! 271
Vega Older Than Thought: Mature Enough To Nurture Life 130
Mars Rover Finds Complex Chemicals But No Organic Compounds 137
Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures 161
Who Owns Your Health Data? 99
Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs 296
No More "Asperger's Syndrome" 602
One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators 203
Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever 253
Black Hole Found That Takes Up 14% of Its Galaxy's Mass 65
Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model 101
UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact 783
Grim Picture of Polar Ice-Sheet Loss 412
In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad 170
A Blood Test That Screens For Cancer 71
New Small Fission Reactor For Deep-space Missions Demonstrated 122
NASA: Curiosity Has Found Plastic On Mars 293
Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon 206
MESSENGER Probe Finds Strong Evidence of Ice On Mercury 80
PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android 82
NASA Cancels Nanosat Challenge 35
Researchers Build Objects With 3D Printing Using Simulated Moon Rocks 59
Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers 252
Caltech and UVic Set 339Gbps Internet Speed Record 79
Scientific American's Fred Guterl Explores the Threats Posed By Technology 93
Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Technology 292
British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests 172
Workers Raise First Section of New Chernobyl Shelter 149
Seas Rising Faster Than Projected 605
Spectacular New Views of Saturn's Polar Vortex 49
Users Abandon Ship If Online Video Quality Is Not Up To Snuff, Says Study 155
Longest US Space Mission Planned For 2015 29
Large Hadron Collider May Have Produced New Matter 238
What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes? 129
Pioneering Transplant Surgeon Joseph Murray Dead at 93 24
Sub-Ice Antarctic Lake Vida Abounds With Life 122
Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations 211
Sandia Lab Celebrates Inventor of the Modern Clean Room 42
Newly Developed RNA-Based Vaccine Could Offer Lifelong Protection From the Flu 156
Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer 217
US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom 609
Antarctic Marine Wildlife Is Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Study Finds 180
Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain 171
Researchers Investigating Self-Boosting Vaccines 218
A.I. Advances Through Deep Learning 162
The White Noise of Smell 82
Implant Translates Written Words To Braille, Right On the Retina 75
Water Bottle Fills Itself From the Air 173
Could Testing Block Psychopaths From Senior Management? 422
Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene 243
Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D 117
The Science of Thanks Giving 55
Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? 447
Statistics Key To Success In Run-and-Gun Basketball 97
Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order 743
Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee 518
Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem 79
Genspace: New York City's Community Biolab (Video) 29
What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? 544
Harvard Develops Drug-Filled, Injectable Sponge That Expands Inside the Body 24
Particle Physicists Confirm Arrow of Time Using B Meson Measurements 259
Roaming Robot May Explore Mysterious Moon Caverns 29
Global Warming On Pace For 4 Degrees: World Bank Worried 439
Astronomers Get Picture of Nearby Exoplanet 24
Nanoparticles Stop Multiple Sclerosis In Mice 50
EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built 83
Ariane 5 Has No Chance, Says Elon Musk 188
A Better Thought-Controlled Computer Cursor 34
Linux On the TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator 49
Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious 85
NASA Discovers Most Distant Galaxy In Known Universe 105
Newly Released Einstein Brain Photos Hint At the Anatomy of Genius 130
NASA: Mission Accomplished, Kepler – Now Look Harder Still 28
Brain Scans of Rappers and Jazz Musicians Shed Light On Creativity 92
The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive 235
Google Lunar X Prize Teams Now In a Race With China As Well As Each Other 32
Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch 139
High Security Animal Disease Lab Faces Uncertain Future 105
Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC 86
NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops 226
Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists 227
Volcano May Have Killed Off New Bioluminescent Cockroach 108
Sequenced Pig Genome Could Help Combat Human Diseases 64
Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan 202
Visualizing 100,000 Stars In Chrome 68
Nate Silver Turns His Eye To the American League 50
Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? 367
Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music 37
Probable Rogue Planet Spotted 155
Total Solar Eclipse Bedazzles Northern Australians 52
Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' 183
Fabricating Nature and a Physical Turing Test 36
Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago 637
With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race 622
Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal 401
Evidence for Unconscious Math, Language Processing Abilities 168
Supersymmetry Theory Dealt a Blow 143
Artificial Self-Healing Skin Can Sense Touch 18
Duke University Creates Perfect, Centimeter-scale Invisibility Cloak 96
Global Warming Felt By Space Junk and Satellites 224
X-Ray Laser For Creating Supercharged Particles 55
Better Brain Implants With Ultrathin Carbon Fiber Electrodes 82
NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works 109
'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry 107
Cockatoo Manufactures, Uses Tools 75
NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security 242
Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080 345
Would Charles Darwin Have Made a Good Congressman? 155
NASA Pondering L2 Outpost, Return To Moon 122
Ear-Powered Medical Devices In Development 20
Proteins Made To Order 51
Canada's Supreme Court Tosses Viagra Patent For Vagueness 100
NASA Fires Up Experimental Space Internet For Robot Control 42
All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True 576
Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? 878
Discovery of Early Human Tools Hint at Earlier Start 109
Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone 135
Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars 336
Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars 228
Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System 368
MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game 113
Researchers Create Working Nano Laser 39
HIV Vaccine Safe Enough To Pass Phase 1 Human Trials 141
Neil deGrasse Tyson Pinpoints Superman's Home Star System 102
A Piezoelectric Pacemaker That Is Powered By Your Heartbeat 84
Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm 141
Killer Asteroids Are Good For Life 70

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