Science Stories for 2011

Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations 406
Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing 61
Do 'Ultracool' Brown Dwarfs Surround Us? 224
Climate Scientists Ask For Help Fighting Somali Pirates 300
NASA Probe Orbiting Asteroid Vesta 132
Understanding the Payoffs From Investing In Space Flight 264
Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% 182
Robot Helps Quadriplegic Scratch an Itch 27
A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection 99
Mass Psychosis In the USA? 542
Scientists Derive Gelatin From Human Tissue 123
Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness 210
Marooned Off Vesta 55
Internet Use Found To Affect Memory 207
New Virus Jumps From Monkeys To Lab Workers 160
SpaceX Dragon As Mars Science Lander? 146
The Science Behind Fanboyism 272
IT Night Shift Workers: Fat and Undersexed 203
Acoustic Superlens Built From Soda Cans 59
Researchers Build "Squishy" Memory Device 84
James Webb Space Telescope Closer To the Axe 226
NSF Funds Mind-machine Interface Center 60
Lizards Beat Birds In Intelligence Test 104
The Stanford Prisoner Experiment - 40 Years On 175
New "Last Dinosaur" Find Backs Asteroid Extinction 157
Scientists Breeding Super Bees 248
The Dangers Of Amateur Astronomy In Afghanistan 137
Last NASA Spacewalk Marks End of Era 80
Robotic Refueling Experiment Set Up On Space Station 36
China Launching First Space Station Module In September 102
Snail Discovered That Can Survive Digestion By Birds 82
GPU-Powered Planetarium Renders 64MP Projection 108
Red Wine Counters Some Negative Health Effects of Microgravity 78
Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain 212
Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock 390
CmdrTaco Watches Atlantis Liftoff 130
Apollo 11 Flag Swatch Goes Unsold At L.A. Auction 120
Shuttle Atlantis Docks With International Space Station For the Last Time 91
Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools 118
Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors 280
Playdough For Fun and Profit 70
Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere 104
Comet-Sun Impact Caught On Video 61
Snow Falls On the Most Arid Desert On Earth 195
Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS 82
Law Enforcement Wants To Try 'Predictive Policing' 377
The Birth of Optogenetics 70
Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches On Final Flight 275
CmdrTaco at Kennedy Space Center 105
SKA Telescope Set To Generate More Data Than Current Net 73
NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink 182
Spanish Surgeon Performs First Synthetic Organ Transplant 91
EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science 154
Cassini Captures Audio of Storm On Saturn 51
Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope 409
Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks 238
Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Recording 105
Construction of ESA Galaxy Mapping Satellite Completed 45
Hubble Makes Millionth Observation 38
Nanomagnets Could Replace Transistors in Microprocessors 91
Bionic Eyeglasses May Boost Impaired Vision 43
Realistic Robot Designed For Dental Students 59
Space Station To Get HD Streaming Video Camera 50
NHS Moving To Cloud For Security 69
NASA's Next Mars Rover 104
Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements 215
Bionic Body Parts For the Disabled 25
Can the US Still Lead In Space Despite Shuttle's End? 365
Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect 28
Evolution Machine Accelerates Genetic Engineering 161
Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents 213
Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding 151
Magnetic Nanoparticles Fry Tumors 111
Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest 117
Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cubes of Any Size 139
Solar Impulse Airplane Makes Public Debut In Paris 26
Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam 38
Future Actions Predicted From Brain Activity 72
Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies 504
The Science of Human-Robot Love 137
NASA Funded Commercial Space Projects Heating Up 48
ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris 131
ESA Opens To Open Source Code Development 18
Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel 192
Mathematics Museum To Open In Manhattan 80
Happy Tau Day 298
LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' 272
Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs 134
Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys 59
First Photos of Asteroid 2011 MD 26
New Top Tier Science Journal Announced 57
Acoustic Stealth Technology Finally Created 83
Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic 257
Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals 209
Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand 114
The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland 477
Asteroid To Pass Near Earth On Monday 183
Could Wikipedia Become a Supercomputer? 165
New Process Allows Fuel Cells To Run On Coal 125
Moon Dust Back In NASA's Hands 73
Caltech Scientists Measure Dinosaur Body Temp 51
Dying Star Betelgeuse Spews Fiery Nebula 574
Data-Mining Ban Struck Down By US Supreme Court 176
Homemade 'Mars In a Bottle' Tortures Bacteria 154
Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA 123
Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday 146
OKCon11 Opens In Berlin 27
New Find Boosts Prospects For Life On Distant Moons 98
Human Eye Protein Senses Earth's Magnetism 103
Europe Set To Build Experimental Transport Spacecraft 61
Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon 291
The Iceman's Last Meal 116
Soldier Re-Grows Leg Muscle After Experimental Procedure 141
Turning Memories On/Off With the Flip of a Switch 86
Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats 638
SpaceX Sues Valador For Defamation 111
High Tech Elder Care May Be Mixed Blessing 96
Electronic Health Records Now In All US Military Hospitals 86
Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother 358
Weather Satellites Lose Funding 275
New Imaging Technique Helps Explain Unconsciousness 78
First Exploit On Quantum Cryptography Confirmed 86
Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector 210
Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space 153
Researchers Design Memory-Strengthening Implant 72
Massive Black Hole Devours Star 77
Are 'Nudging Technologies' Ethical? 227
No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age 473
'Dead Media' Never Really Die 85
The Average Human Has 60 New Genetic Mutations 246
Idle: New Species Named For SpongeBob SquarePants 74
Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed 128
11 Pathogens Pose Big Security Risk For Research 115
China Building World's Biggest Radio Telescope 121
New Technique To Help Develop MMORPG Content? 71
Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage 417
US Pays $2B To Develop Concentrating Solar Power Projects 219
Google and Slooh To Broadcast Lunar Eclipse 50
Reason Seen More As a Weapon Than a Path To Truth 289
Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth 569
Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide 838
Federally-Mandated Medical Coding Gums Up IT Ops 254
Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers 236
Biological Lasers 90
Fermi Lab's New Particle Discovery in Question 62
NASA's Aquarius Launched To Help Map the Oceans' Salt 64
Researchers Find Wood-Digesting Enzyme In Bacteria 86
CERN Lends a Hand To the Origin of Life 69
Research Suggests Tobacco Companies Add Weight Loss Drugs 281
Underwater Spider Spins Itself an Aqualung 91
Chinese Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Starts Churning Out the Science 103
The Modern Day Renaissance Man 59
Data Review Brings Major Setback In Higgs Boson Hunt 180
Making a Real Batcopter, With Parts From the Hardware Store 50
Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space 167
Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova 55
Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights 190
Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors 291
Physical Pain and Emotional Pain Use Same Brain Networks 154
Massive Explosion On the Sun 202
Historic Pairing: Shuttle Docked To the ISS 133
Man Creates Open Source Flashlight 172
Two Elements Added To Periodic Table 138
Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing 229
CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes 206
Compressed Time at the Australia Telescope Compact Array 34
Collatz Proof Proposed: Hailstone Sequences End In 1 90
New Superbug Strain Found In Cows and People 144
National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books 119
Using Averages To Bend the Uncertainty Principle 112
Students Win NASA Moon Robot Competition 28
Mars Rover Opportunity Surpasses 30km Driving 86
Jack Kevorkian Dead at 83 184
Rare Midnight Solar Eclipse Caught In the Arctic 24
Harnessing the Energy of Galloping Gertie 39
What Makes a Photograph Memorable? 60
Danish Amateur Rocket Test Was a Success 39
Largest DNA-Based Computational Circuit Created 57
Simulations Show Quantum Error Not As Bad As Believed 44
Researcher Claims Magnets Can Affect Blood Viscosity 175
AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks 89
'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life 145
Experimental "Smart Town" To Be Built In Japan 91
Project Icarus: the Gas Mines of Uranus 155
Why We Have So Much "Duh" Science 299
2011 World Science Festival Begins In NYC 19
Fetus Don't Fail Me Now: How Scientists Raise Children 233
Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior 68
World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer 354
Stamping Out Low-Cost Nanodevices 24
Note To Cheaters: Next Time Hire the Brains 349
Capturing Femtosecond Snapshots of Molecular Processes 22
No Moon Needed For Extraterrestrial Life 246
Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 520
World's Largest Amateur Rocket Prepares For Second Attempt 76
Green Crystal 'Rain' Discovered Near Infant Star 43
Human Brain Places Limit On Twitter Friends 176
Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment 1229
What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire 224
Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile 105
FDA Sued To Stop Antibiotic Abuse On Factory Farms 298
Discovery of Water In Moon May Alter Origin Theory 170
NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock 161
Human Skin Cells Converted Directly To Neurons 39
War Over Arsenic Based Life 155
Lockheed Martin Purchases First Commercial Quantum Computer 189
Seismologists Tried For Manslaughter For Not Predicting Earthquake 154
Student Finds Universe's Missing Mass 210
Drug Helps Overwrite Bad Memories 0
The Man Who Tastes Sounds 2
New Book Reports Soviets Behind Roswell UFO Scare 135
A Map of the Universe, 10 Years In the Making 130
Does Quantum Theory Explain Consciousness? 729
Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish 235
"Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids 156
10-Year Study Reveals Electron Shape 370
NASA Rejoins Space Race With Manned Deep Space Craft 179
Final Attempts To Contact Mars Spirit Rover Fail 95
Best Optical Illusion of the Year Contest 79
Australians Look To SkyNet For SKA Telescope 59
Upscaling Retro 8-Bit Pixel Art To Vector Graphics 325
New Bacterium Lives On Caffeine 121
The Spin of a Star Reveals Its Age 67
Using Fractal Interconnects To Improve Electronic Eyes 73
Skylon Spaceplane Design Passes Key Review 136
New Laser Data Transfer Rate Record Set At 26 Tbps 127
Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation 89
Smart Pajamas Monitor Patients With Sleep Disorder 42
Dark Energy Confirmed By Australian WiggleZ Sky Scan 131
Human Astrocytes Developed From Stem Cells 92
Will Graphene Revolutionize the 21st Century? 345
Scientists Take Charles Darwin On the Road 170
Signs of Ozone Layer Recovery Detected 363
NASA Sets Final Space Shuttle Flight For July 41
Space Station Becomes Dark Matter Hunter 40
Nano-Viewing Record Broken 65
Saturn's Super Storm 73
Implant Restores Paralyzed Man's Leg Movement 65
Video Game Playing Increases Food Intake In Teens 99
CDC Warns of Zombie Apocalypse 300
'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy 181
8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers 403
Social Influence and the Wisdom of Crowd Effect 143
Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake 202
Man Demonstrates His New Bionic Hand 124
US Preserves Smallpox For Defense 248
Hack Targets NASA's Earth Observation System 45
Coffee Wards Off Cancer 286
Worm Descendants From Columbia Disaster Relaunched 80
Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet 451

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