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Science Stories for 2008

Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? 877 comments
New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly 122 comments
The Fight Over NASA's Future 288 comments
How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule 143 comments
Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought 453 comments
Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008 255 comments
Chandrayaan M3 Instrument Confirms Iron-Bearing Minerals On the Moon 67 comments
Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas 553 comments
Valuable Objects Stimulate Brain More Than Junk 118 comments
30 Years of Star Wars Technology 146 comments
Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home 245 comments
Mapping Planets and Moons In 3D With Stereophotoclinometry 23 comments
Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided 191 comments
What Parrots Tell Us About the Evolution of Birds 62 comments
Storing Photons In a Solid State Device 68 comments
Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference 235 comments
NASA Outsources ISS Resupply To SpaceX, Orbital 151 comments
Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics 219 comments
Doubts Multiply About the "Long Tail" 194 comments
Space Is Just a Little Bit Closer Than Expected 130 comments
Inside the Active Volcano On Montserrat 42 comments
Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief 198 comments
Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211 comments
Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV 482 comments
SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight 110 comments
Water Detected At Record Distance From Earth 104 comments
Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases 100 comments
Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power 275 comments
Nobel Jurors Facing Bribery Probe 74 comments
Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer 259 comments
Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach 249 comments
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming 492 comments
Trick or Treatment 713 comments
Simulations May Explain Loss of Beagle 2 Mars Probe 98 comments
Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming 656 comments
Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs 142 comments
Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field 200 comments
Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now 197 comments
2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form 258 comments
Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii 251 comments
Spaceport America Gets FAA License 61 comments
Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy 167 comments
Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy 186 comments
O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing 64 comments
Injectable Artificial Bone Developed 105 comments
The Best Burglar Alarm In History 137 comments
Sleep Mailing 195 comments
MIT Injects Nanotubes To Help Fight Cancer 58 comments
The Manga Guide to Statistics 164 comments
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia 389 comments
Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults 64 comments
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest 417 comments
A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere 69 comments
The End of Individual Genius? 364 comments
Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ 278 comments
Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Exoplanet Sizes 62 comments
VASIMR Plasma Thruster To Be Tested Aboard ISS 81 comments
Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail 77 comments
Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole 77 comments
Photos of the Damage To the Large Hadron Collider 106 comments
Oldest-Known Human Brain Discovered 74 comments
Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? 479 comments
Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel 276 comments
Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin 58 comments
Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? 355 comments
SpaceX Successfully Tested Draco Thruster 88 comments
A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice 118 comments
Carbon Dioxide and Water Found On Exoplanet 151 comments
Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters 397 comments
Ants Used For Mind-Controlled Robotic Limbs 82 comments
Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed 392 comments
Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky 486 comments
'Lab On a Chip' Made From Paper and Tape 66 comments
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773 comments
This Is the Way the World Ends 394 comments
Saving 28,000 Lives a Year 263 comments
Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun 285 comments
What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines 737 comments
The Unforgettable Amnesiac 120 comments
Triple Helix — Designing a New Molecule of Life 152 comments
Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New Spacecraft 78 comments
TAAS Company Presents New Orbital Space Plane 80 comments
Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping 297 comments
A Quantum Linear Equation Solver 171 comments
Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Spur Research 82 comments
Light Echoes Solve Mystery of Tycho's Supernova 98 comments
Electrode Implant Gives Mute Man a (Synthesized) Voice 58 comments
Prototype Scanner Detects Cancer In Under 1 Hour 53 comments
Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food 153 comments
Next-Gen Mars Rover Mission Delayed 2 Years, To 2011 29 comments
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 46 comments
Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled 1093 comments
UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework 152 comments
Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242 comments
Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction 550 comments
Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System 208 comments
Measuring Engagement In Games 72 comments
Guitarist Hopes To Play Again With The Help of Bionic Hand 72 comments
Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation" 501 comments
Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers 439 comments
Quantum Test Found For Mathematical Undecidability 223 comments
Study Confirms That Cars Have Personalities 213 comments
World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found 108 comments
Acorns Disappear Across the Country 474 comments
Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer 204 comments
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311 comments
Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's 224 comments
Royal Society of Chemistry Slams UK Exam Standards 408 comments
Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186 comments
Obama Team Considers Cancellation of Ares, Orion 870 comments
Scientists Identify a Potentially Universal Mechanism of Aging 359 comments
Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life 308 comments
Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" 144 comments
Scientists Get Their Groove On On YouTube 77 comments
NASA and DoE Team On Dark Energy Research 106 comments
SpaceX Falcon Update With Pictures 30 comments
Stephen Hawking Going To Canada 204 comments
Down's Symptoms May Be Treatable In the Womb 170 comments
Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid 256 comments
Surgeons Weld Wounds Shut With Surgical Laser 151 comments
Sweet Molecule Could Lead Us To Alien Life 72 comments
Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 229 comments
Evolving Rocks 172 comments
90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted 333 comments
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids 138 comments
New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet 231 comments
Should We Clone a Neanderthal? 990 comments
New "Juno" Mission To Jupiter Announced 71 comments
Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space 176 comments
SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster 182 comments
Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth 389 comments
Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air 438 comments
Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere 101 comments
Object Lights Night Sky Across Canadian Prairies 125 comments
Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy 113 comments
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77 comments
Electron Strobe Makes Movies of Atoms 33 comments
Dark Matter Discovered Near Solar System? 179 comments
DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain 170 comments
E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation 268 comments
Massive Martian Glaciers Found 314 comments
Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply 322 comments
Woman Unable To Recognize Voices, Unless It's Sean Connery 68 comments
Scientists Grow New Eyes (In Tadpoles) 37 comments
Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End 243 comments
MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft 176 comments
Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station 507 comments
Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed 245 comments
NASA Exploring 8 New Space Expeditions 106 comments
Researchers Getting the Lead Out of Electronics 178 comments
Successful Stem Cell Replacement of Windpipe 116 comments
Researchers Discover How To Make the Perfect Phone Call 85 comments
Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica 7 234 comments
Lunar Oxygen and Water Production Tech Tested 56 comments
Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA 445 comments
Oldest Nuclear Family Found Murdered In Germany 186 comments
NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet 109 comments
The Neurological Basis of Con Games 218 comments
The ISS Marks 10 Years In Space 153 comments
Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China 278 comments
A Third of Mars Could Have Been Underwater 167 comments
LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million 163 comments
It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency 199 comments
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore 465 comments
Urine Passes NASA Taste Test 404 comments
Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator 683 comments
Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? 418 comments
Rubber Duckies For Global Warming Research 167 comments
Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible 118 comments
Pinpointing Creativity In the Brain 85 comments
NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking 83 comments
Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? 564 comments
Software Is Starting To Aid Mathematical Proofs 90 comments
Unhappy People Watch More TV 193 comments
VR Snow Game Functions As Pain Management 27 comments
India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon 203 comments
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction 399 comments
Obama's Impending NASA Decisions 405 comments
Fewer Shuffles Suffice 101 comments
DNA Strands Modified Into Tiny Fiber-Optic Cables 113 comments
Mars Rover Spirit Still Alive 185 comments
Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's 140 comments
Mind Control Delusions and the Web 631 comments
Vein Patterns Could Replace Fingerprints 152 comments
11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey 307 comments
Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution 436 comments
US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use 374 comments
Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Reaches 100km Lunar Orbit 152 comments
Mars Rover "Spirit" In Danger 222 comments
Identifying People By Odor As Effective As Fingerprinting 157 comments
Solar Cycle 24 May Have Finally Begun 72 comments
Google Can Predict the Flu 289 comments
The Gene Is Having an Identity Crisis 257 comments
Dogs To Sniff Out Smokers 136 comments
Titan Balloon Mission Being Drafted 82 comments
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists 610 comments
Scientists Discover Why Sharks Can Swim So Fast 103 comments
Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Dead 154 comments
China Defines Internet Addiction 201 comments
Drive From Sydney Museum Could Unlock NASA Moon Data 0 comments
German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant 639 comments
Very Large Telescope Captures New 27-Megapixel Deep Field 131 comments
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic 86 comments
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? 175 comments
Chandrayaan Enters Lunar Orbit 111 comments
Simulations Predict Where We Can Find Dark Matter 61 comments
Scientists Turn Tequila Into Diamonds 249 comments
How To Cut In Line and Not Get Caught 256 comments
Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles 339 comments
Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters 119 comments
Achieving Mathematical Proofs Via Computers 209 comments
How To Cloak Objects At a Distance 136 comments
LHC Forces Bookmaker To Lower Odds On the Existence of God 457 comments
First Whole Cancer Genome Sequenced 115 comments
Frozen Mice Cloned 272 comments
Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs 211 comments
ESA Unveils Re-Entry Module 101 comments
Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel 244 comments
Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosmic Rays 199 comments
World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD 61 comments
Researchers Calculate Capacity of a Steganographic Channel 114 comments
New Type of Particle May Have Been Found 281 comments
Cassini Could Find Signs of Life on Enceladus 126 comments
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out 467 comments
New Class of Pulsars Discovered 93 comments
Memory Molecule Identified 97 comments
Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443 comments
Major Advances In Knot Theory 230 comments
Private Firm Plots Robotic Lunar Exploration 75 comments
Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth 235 comments
How Vampire Bats Evolved To Live On Blood Alone 82 comments
Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function 139 comments
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care 1270 comments
Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope 85 comments
Math Prof Uncovers Secret Chord 177 comments
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Is Back In Business 70 comments
Mars Lander Faces Slow Death 212 comments
NSA and Army On Quest For Quantum Physics Jackpot 110 comments
Multiple Asteroid Belts Found Orbiting Nearby Star 135 comments
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web 87 comments
NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Moister Mars 94 comments
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? 496 comments
Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real? 337 comments
Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test 169 comments
Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit 201 comments
Brains Work Best At Age of 39 267 comments
Depressed Astronauts Might Get Computerized Solace 138 comments
Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project 255 comments
One of HST's Cameras Is Back In Action 47 comments
Perimeter Institute Launches Modern Physics Resource 30 comments
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