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Science Stories for 2012

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