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Science Stories for 2009

Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ 568 comments
NASA WISE Telescope Starts Taking Pics 43 comments
Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid 305 comments
The Neuroscience of Screwing Up 190 comments
Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow 202 comments
Impressive Robot Hand From Shadow 101 comments
Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills 403 comments
Photovoltaic Eye Implant Could Give Sight To the Blind 15 comments
North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux 346 comments
Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning 238 comments
Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught 162 comments
Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" 305 comments
Real-World Synthehol In Development 273 comments
Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off 260 comments
Scientists Create First Functional Molecular Transistor 57 comments
50 Years of Domesticating Foxes For Science 347 comments
The Science of Santa 76 comments
Launching Frequently Key To NASA Success 145 comments
Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons 32 comments
More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet 107 comments
Is Neurostim Becoming a Reality? 249 comments
The Science of Avatar 275 comments
Feathered Dinosaurs Were Venomous Predators 8 comments
NASA and Space Station Alliance On Shaky Ground 73 comments
Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys 284 comments
Demo For NASA MMO Coming In January 84 comments
Typing With Your Brain 262 comments
Body Heat Energy Generation 214 comments
Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species 274 comments
New Antifreeze Molecule Isolated In Alaskan Beetle 108 comments
OSU President Cans Anthrax Vaccine Research On Primates 230 comments
Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148 comments
Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas 336 comments
Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture 241 comments
Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan 197 comments
Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light 30 comments
Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern 181 comments
Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons 46 comments
Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget 391 comments
Dark Matter Particles May Have Been Detected 156 comments
The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid 391 comments
Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139 comments
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361 comments
Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? 141 comments
Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated 715 comments
94 New Species Described By CA Academy of Sciences 52 comments
Nearby "Super Earth" May Have Atmosphere 7 comments
Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of Cancer 235 comments
Herschel's First Science Results, Eagle Nebula 91 comments
Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death 149 comments
Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors 110 comments
Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249 comments
Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205 comments
The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282 comments
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451 comments
Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242 comments
NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space 139 comments
Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics 334 comments
Bacterial Prisoner's Dilemma and Game Theory 95 comments
Mediterranean Might Have Filled In Months 224 comments
The Limits To Skepticism 1093 comments
Nanotech Ink Turns Paper Into a Low-Cost Battery 129 comments
House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention 209 comments
White House Plans Open Access For Research 74 comments
Mars Express Captures Phobos and Deimos 84 comments
Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? 114 comments
Science Gifts For Kids? 368 comments
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88 comments
Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered 128 comments
How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine 392 comments
Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show 236 comments
Robot Can Read Human Body Language 114 comments
The Science Credibility Bubble 1747 comments
Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels 139 comments
Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall 120 comments
Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software 419 comments
Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? 418 comments
NASA Tests Flying Airbag 118 comments
New Hubble Ultra Deep Field In Infrared 95 comments
LHC Reaches Record Energy 347 comments
Monkeys With Syntax 197 comments
Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials 425 comments
Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms 297 comments
New Sensory System Found In the Skin 8 comments
Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next 193 comments
Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo 260 comments
Tiger Woods Gives Science Education a Boost 5 comments
Yale Researchers Find New RNA Structures 90 comments
How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence 928 comments
DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours 129 comments
Aussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor 96 comments
Reducing One Amino Acid Could Increase Lifespan 286 comments
Air Force Extends Plug-and-Play Spacecraft 77 comments
How To See Through an Invisibility Cloak 201 comments
ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space 89 comments
Scientific Journal Nature Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak 736 comments
What Drugs Do Astronauts Take? 132 comments
Man Controls Cybernetic Hand With Thoughts 81 comments
SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing 295 comments
MIT and the DARPA Network Challenge 68 comments
Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer 91 comments
Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer 320 comments
Brazilian Twin Mystery the Result of Nazi Experiment? 14 comments
Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 112 comments
University Fails to Find Man Who Hasn't Seen Porn 32 comments
Brain of Patient H.M. Being Sliced, Streamed Live 199 comments
SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation 621 comments
Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout 874 comments
LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure 338 comments
NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container 55 comments
Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219 comments
Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers 83 comments
Scientists Create Artificial Meat 820 comments
LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts 305 comments
New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested 130 comments
In Motor Learning, New Brain Connections Form Rapidly 55 comments
Where the Global Warming Data Is 1011 comments
NASA Campaigns For Safer Launch Requirements 193 comments
STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights 117 comments
Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem 452 comments
Tapering Waveguide Captures a Rainbow 72 comments
Herschel Spectroscopy of Future Supernova 21 comments
Algae Could Be the Key To Ultra-Thin Batteries 54 comments
Cassini Captures Saturn's Northern Lights 33 comments
New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars 186 comments
Cancer Vaccine That Mimics Lymph Node 53 comments
Engaging With Climate Skeptics 822 comments
Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds 237 comments
Life and Work On the LHC At CERN 81 comments
The World's First Osmotic Power Plant 262 comments
Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132 comments
Tag Images With Your Mind 64 comments
Ants That Can Count 162 comments
Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game" 55 comments
STEREO Satellites Spot Solar Flare Tsunami 89 comments
Brain Scans Used In Murder Sentencing 328 comments
Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331 comments
New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time 575 comments
Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime 141 comments
Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space 83 comments
Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut 120 comments
Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls 224 comments
LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting 324 comments
Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort 801 comments
After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo 249 comments
Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? 554 comments
Light Resonators Used To Move Nano-Sized Objects 63 comments
New Research Forecasts Global 6C Increase By End of Century 746 comments
WHO Says Swine Flu May Have Peaked In the US 138 comments
Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? 1078 comments
Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market 237 comments
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115 comments
Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked 882 comments
Dark Energy, Life Searches Make Strange Bedfellows 68 comments
Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 314 comments
Dating Help For Nuclear Geeks 8 comments
Spaceworms To Help Study Astronaut Muscle Loss 73 comments
Heart Disease Plagued the Ancient Egyptians 12 comments
Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries 221 comments
Sugar-Sensitive Tattoos Could Make Life Easier For Diabetics 5 comments
When a DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt, Who Gets the Data? 114 comments
Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding 242 comments
IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines 428 comments
NASA Willing To Team With China; Rumors of a Budget Cut 200 comments
Engineered Bacteria Glows To Reveal Land Mines 248 comments
NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears 881 comments
New Zealand To Launch First Private Space Rocket 96 comments
Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen 375 comments
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning 87 comments
"Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered 255 comments
"Pathfinders" Take Shape For Galileo, Europe's GPS 105 comments
New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests 278 comments
The Space Garbage Scow, ala Cringely 221 comments
NIF Aims For the Ultimate Green Energy Source 234 comments
Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys 614 comments
Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres 111 comments
The Mass Production of Living Tissue 157 comments
Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721 comments
NASA To Try Powering Mars Rover "Spirit" Out of Sand Trap 118 comments
NASA's LCROSS Mission Proves Lunar Ice Suspicions 177 comments
Rosetta Fly-By To Probe "Pioneer Anomaly" 89 comments
The Math of a Fly's Eye May Prove Useful 90 comments
Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers 314 comments
Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers 167 comments
90% of 200 CUNY Students Can't Do Basic Algebra Problems 20 comments
Bug Wears Armor Made of Poo 6 comments
NASA, European Space Agency Want To Go To Mars 129 comments
Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco 105 comments
Mimicking Materials and Structures In Nature 92 comments
New Dinosaur Species Discovered In South Africa 2 comments
Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA 111 comments
Unknown 7m Asteroid Almost Impacted Earth 289 comments
US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast 154 comments
NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab 264 comments
What Computer Science Can Teach Economics 421 comments
Researchers Neutralize Parkinson's Dopamine Killers 105 comments
Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space 247 comments
Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? 978 comments
Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler 227 comments
Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House 1698 comments
Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope 50 comments
Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb 250 comments
Antimatter In Lightning 169 comments
Enzyme Found To Help Formation of New Axons 88 comments
CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System 102 comments
Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists 342 comments
Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth 39 comments
LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird 478 comments
NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight 203 comments
LaserMotive Finds Success In Space Elevator Competition 258 comments
Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels 475 comments
Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two 170 comments
Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart 808 comments
Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence 507 comments
Placebo Effect Caught In the Act In Spinal Nerves 167 comments
Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core 234 comments
The Tech Aboard the International Space Station 183 comments
2 Companies Win NASA's Moon-Landing Prize Money 110 comments
Scientists Build a Smarter Rat 302 comments
Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean 168 comments
Europe Launches Flood-Predicting Satellite and Test Probe 28 comments
NASA Trying To Reinvent Their Approach 123 comments
Fruit Bats Have Oral Sex Too 17 comments
Bacteria Could Survive In Martian Soil 90 comments
Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties? 145 comments
Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women 411 comments
Plowing Carbon Into the Fields 467 comments
Moon-Excavation Robots Face Off 61 comments
Why Computers Suck At Math 626 comments
Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars 177 comments
Masten Qualifies For $1 Million Space Prize 40 comments
Hunt For Earth-Like Planets Delayed 56 comments
How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA 279 comments
Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code 234 comments
How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? 823 comments
Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis 449 comments
Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules 227 comments
Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells 251 comments
Pliosaur Skull Found In Dorset 2 comments
Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students 551 comments
Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine 297 comments
"Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket 383 comments
The Best Medications For Your Genes 75 comments
Discovery of "Cancer-Proof" Rodent Cells 118 comments
Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man 536 comments
Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT 260 comments
New Optomechanical Crystal Allows Confinement of Light and Sound 91 comments
Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior 250 comments
"2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 600 comments
Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia 177 comments
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