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Science Stories for 2008
August 2008
New Insect Species Purchased On EBay 50 comments
Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer 483 comments
NASA Installing Shocks On Ares 293 comments
Magpies Are Self-Aware 591 comments
Mars Lander Snaps the Most Detailed Pics Yet 130 comments
Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction 401 comments
Photoshop Allows Us To Alter Our Memories 358 comments
Obama's Evolving Stance On NASA 941 comments
Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water 257 comments
Stars Could Shine In Many Universes 309 comments
Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers 132 comments
Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara 305 comments
Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will? 608 comments
Cassini Finds Source of Icy Jets On Enceladus 37 comments
Biologists Create Genetic Map of Europe 287 comments
Brain Will Be Battlefield of the Future, Warns US 257 comments
The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science 180 comments
How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water 280 comments
'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net 107 comments
Mechanical Reasoners Battle It Out In Sydney Today 45 comments
Let the Games Be Doped 773 comments
Rat-Brained Robots Take Their First Steps 289 comments
Russian Invasion of Georgia Might Jeopardize Space Station 515 comments
Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare 394 comments
Inferring Personality From Email Addresses 309 comments
Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? 868 comments
First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby 95 comments
New Scientific Evidence Emerges In Anthrax Case 216 comments
Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition 473 comments
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts 1334 comments
Smart Contact Lenses 109 comments
Korea Delays Space Launch 16 comments
China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City 620 comments
Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes 500 comments
Watching China Turn Off the Pollution 427 comments
Why Shoot Down a Satellite? Analyzing an Analysis 238 comments
Scientists Closer To Invisibility Cloak 308 comments
NASA Spends $25M On Unmanned Planes, Awards Aviation Prizes 49 comments
Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration 218 comments
Robot Submarine To Dive Deep In the Caribbean 99 comments
Medical Consultations With Webcams Extremely Successful 84 comments
The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us 578 comments
Simulation Predicts Clumps of Dark Matter Within Galaxies 131 comments
Tracking Near-Earth Meteors With a 1.1 Petabyte Database 72 comments
Software To Improve AIDS Survival? 97 comments
Atom-Thick Balloon Inflated 120 comments
Fingerprint Test Tells Much More Than Identity 166 comments
Neanderthals and Humans Diverged 660K Years Ago 128 comments
Cassini To "Skeet-Shoot" Enceladus 41 comments
Silk Protein Photonics 26 comments
Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th 409 comments
ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew 158 comments
SpaceX Launch Failure Due To Timing Problem 244 comments
Viruses Infected By Viruses 341 comments
A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered 310 comments
2008 Lunar Lander Challenge Teams Announced 39 comments
Electronic Eyeball Uses Curved Image Sensor 35 comments
The DIY Dialysis Machine 476 comments
NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive 266 comments
Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete 295 comments
New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 722 comments
Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough 155 comments
First Definitive Higgs Result In 7 Years 197 comments
Hot Water, Hot Earth 236 comments
Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale 607 comments
A Quasi-Quasicrystal 121 comments
NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate 289 comments
The Viterbi Algorithm and Quantum Communications 91 comments
Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids 372 comments
Scotty's Final Mission 221 comments
Researchers Find Color In Fossils 77 comments
Massively Parallel X-Ray Holography 41 comments
SpaceX Launch Fails To Reach Space 263 comments
Brian May, Rock Legend, Publishes His Thesis 198 comments
New Results Contradict Long-Held Chemistry Dogma 316 comments
White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars 610 comments
Third Falcon 1 Launch May Be This Afternoon 76 comments
Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider 249 comments
SpaceX Conducts Full Thrust Firing of Falcon 9 79 comments
NASA Shakes, Bakes, and Rattles Lunar Spaceship 44 comments
Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case 339 comments
Towards an Exercise Pill 362 comments
August 2008
July 2008
NASA Announces Water Found On Mars 281 comments
NASA "Bed Rest" Contractor Blogs the Days 60 comments
Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed 188 comments
US To Launch Military Orbital Spaceplane 270 comments
Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age 66 comments
Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered 268 comments
Caltech Shows Off a Lensless, Miniaturized Microscope 110 comments
Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients 222 comments
NASA Turns 50 160 comments
How Do Geeks Exercise? 1806 comments
Alaska Looks To Volcanos For Geothermal Energy 230 comments
Modern LaTeX Replacement? 918 comments
How Do You Fix Education? 949 comments
Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two 212 comments
Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again 221 comments
Nukes Not the Best Way To Stop Asteroids, Says Apollo Astronaut 367 comments
Ohio Researchers Advance Heat Reclamation Technologies 124 comments
Cambridge N-Prize Team To Build Balloon-Assisted Rockets 93 comments
SETI@Home Adds New Search Method 191 comments
MIT Artificial Vision Researchers Assemble 16-GPU Machine 121 comments
EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design 184 comments
NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth 311 comments
NASA Opens Space Image Library 105 comments
No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys 701 comments
"Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies 208 comments
Scientists Find Trigger For Northern Lights 97 comments
Vint Cerf Preps Interplanetary Internet Protocol 177 comments
Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks 555 comments
Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist 1268 comments
Mars In 3D 62 comments
NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market 191 comments
First Images of Russian-European Manned Spacecraft 191 comments
Scientists Solve Riddle of Toxic Algae Blooms 237 comments
NASA May Hire Japanese Spacecraft For ISS Service Mission 87 comments
Floating Cities On Venus 501 comments
Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet 225 comments
One of the Coolest Places In the Universe 338 comments
Injections To Replace Heart Surgery? 56 comments
"Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct 161 comments
Web-Crawling Program Spots Disease Outbreaks 52 comments
FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches 411 comments
Mars Orbiter Finds Evidence For Ancient Rivers, Lakes 130 comments
Physicists Extend Moore's Law For Tiny Devices 85 comments
Earth and Moon From an Alien's Perspective 150 comments
You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years 493 comments
Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again 119 comments
Liquid Mirror Telescopes Set For Magnetic Upgrade 64 comments
Rockets To Race Over Wisconsin Skies 210 comments
NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening 344 comments
NASA Drone's Sensors Battle California Wildfires 58 comments
Live Giant Squid Dissection Tomorrow 95 comments
NASA Contractor Needs Urine 291 comments
Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada 378 comments
Phoenix Mars Lander To Begin Rasping Ice Shavings 80 comments
The Largest Recorded Tsunami Was 50 Years Ago 323 comments
Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself 214 comments
The Push For Quotas For Women In Science 896 comments
Send the ISS To the Moon 387 comments
NASA Engineers Work On Alternative Moon Rocket 340 comments
Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers 482 comments
Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet 191 comments
Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley 182 comments
Michael DeBakey, Consummate Medical Geek, Dead At 99 142 comments
Miniaturized DNA Sewing Machines 75 comments
Moon Rocks Still In Demand After Almost 40 Years 142 comments
Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics? 276 comments
Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed 240 comments
Ulysses Spacecraft Not Dead Yet 78 comments
Newly Discovered Young Galaxy Creates 4,000 Stars Per Year 81 comments
Researchers Improve Solar Cell Performance 292 comments
New Particle Found, the Bottom-Most Bottomonium 119 comments
Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think 239 comments
"Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste 438 comments
The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander 152 comments
Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes 48 comments
Wikipedia To Host Human Gene Repository 73 comments
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law 1574 comments
Moon May Have Once Had Water 89 comments
Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station 163 comments
Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research 639 comments
Doctors Turn To the Web For Disease Tracking 57 comments
Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement 400 comments
Simple Mod Turns Diodes Into Photon Counters 118 comments
How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes 133 comments
The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects 176 comments
First DNA Molecule Constructed from Mostly Synthetic Components 188 comments
Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head 517 comments
New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo 195 comments
Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts 171 comments
Cassini's Primary Mission Ends, Two-Year Extension Begins 46 comments
Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display 110 comments
Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof 172 comments
First Results From Messenger's Mercury Flyby 48 comments
Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy 121 comments
Einstein's Theory Passes Strict New Test 243 comments
What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? 545 comments
Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret 318 comments
New Map IDs the Core of the Human Brain 186 comments
Synthetic Molecules Emulate Enzyme Behavior 58 comments
First Images of Solar System's Invisible Frontier 112 comments
Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant 171 comments
Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough 205 comments
Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis 345 comments
The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth 223 comments
Adopt-a-Star To Fund Research 82 comments
UK Approves Human-Pig Embryo Stem-Cell Harvest 139 comments
A Grand Day Out For British Rocketman 122 comments
Roundest Object In the World Created 509 comments
July 2008
June 2008
A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology 158 comments
Cancer Resistance Technique Moves To Human Trials 168 comments
Nuclear Explosions Key To Spotting Fake Art 173 comments
Ares V Rocket Bigger and Stronger For Moon Mission 295 comments
Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System 220 comments
NASA to Launch Solar Sail 147 comments
Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking 244 comments
Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana 898 comments
Pieces of Ancient Earth May Be Hidden On the Moon 96 comments
Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? 727 comments
North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? 978 comments
Scientists Create Synthesized DNA Bases 125 comments
US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects 481 comments
"Wisdom of Crowds" Works For Individuals Too 158 comments
Tiny Satellite Set To Hunt Asteroids 78 comments
Drug Reverses Retardation In Mice 318 comments
NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift 487 comments
The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding 569 comments
IBM To Help Sequence the Chocolate Genome 95 comments
Mars Soil Appears To Be Able To Sustain Life 337 comments
DoE-Sponsored Project Readies Human Trial For Artificial Retinas 82 comments
Mars Had an Ancient Impact Like Earth 167 comments
Why the Cloud Cannot Obscure the Scientific Method 137 comments
The World's Nine Largest Science Projects 89 comments
Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books 257 comments
Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method? 387 comments
RFID Tags Can Interfere With Medical Devices 120 comments
Artist/Astronomer Exhibits Photos Of Spy Satellites 173 comments
First US Offshore Wind Power Park In Delaware 363 comments
Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death 304 comments
Odysseus's Return From the Trojan War Dated 160 comments
A Hippocratic Oath For Scientists 366 comments
Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass" 265 comments
First Image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo 82 comments
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World 508 comments
Multitasking Considered Detrimental 371 comments
Water Ice On Mars 364 comments
Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google 105 comments
Galaxy Zoo Produces a Rare Specimen 188 comments
NASA Launches Satellite To Monitor Oceans 55 comments
Fingerprints Recoverable From Cleaned Metal 178 comments
Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls 960 comments
Stephen Hawking Turned Down Knighthood 201 comments
US House Approves Over $300 Million For Science Agencies 176 comments
Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave 175 comments
First X-Ray Diffraction Image of a Single Virus 57 comments
A Really, Really Ex-Parrot 91 comments
Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars 393 comments
Trees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70° All Over the World 537 comments
Replacement For Aging Doppler Radar Being Tested 105 comments
California Cracks Down On Genetic Testing 165 comments
N-Prize Founder Paul Dear Talks Prizes For Nanosat Race 217 comments
Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers 1065 comments
The Accidental Astrophysicists 97 comments
Trio of Super-Earths Discovered 178 comments
GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources 525 comments
A 30-Picowatt Processor For Sensors 93 comments