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Science Stories for 2013
December 2013
What Would French Fries Taste Like If You Made Them On Jupiter? 165 comments
Mars Express Orbiter Buzzes Martian Moon Phobos 39 comments
New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution 1010 comments
Mars One Selects Second Round Candidate Astronauts 216 comments
Brain Function "Boosted For Days After Reading a Novel" 110 comments
Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294 comments
Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? 189 comments
Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies 87 comments
The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon 132 comments
Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings 141 comments
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166 comments
NASA's LLCD Tests Confirm Laser Communication Capabilities In Space 107 comments
NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' 59 comments
First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 67 comments
Metamaterials Developed To Bend Sound Waves, Deflect Tsunamis 110 comments
Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice 209 comments
The Archaeology of Beer 89 comments
Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander 125 comments
Earth's Orbit Reshapes Sea Floor 55 comments
Apollo 8 Astronaut Re-Creates 1968 Christmas Broadcast To Earth 152 comments
Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength 44 comments
Smaller Than Earth-Sized Exomoon Discovered? 25 comments
Researchers Use Electroconvulsive Therapy To Disrupt Recall of Nasty Events 96 comments
Spacesuit Problems Delay ISS Repair Spacewalk 70 comments
Huge Pool of Ice-Free Water Discovered Under Greenland Ice 135 comments
Ask Slashdot: Working With Others, As a Schizophrenic Developer? 218 comments
Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump 90 comments
French Team Implants First Long-Term Artificial Heart 106 comments
Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' 157 comments
Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery 84 comments
Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data 108 comments
Scientists Reverse Muscle Aging In Mice 34 comments
How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo In Space History 108 comments
Astronomers Discover When Galaxies Got Their Spirals 56 comments
China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn 215 comments
How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources 365 comments
Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off 77 comments
Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades 189 comments
"Perfect" Electron Roundness Bruises Supersymmetry 150 comments
Using Supercomputers To Find a Bacterial "Off" Switch 30 comments
Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding 109 comments
NASA's Greatest Challenges In 2014 97 comments
Fomalhaut C Has a Huge Cometary Debris Ring And, Potentially, Exoplanets 32 comments
Scientists Print Retinal Cells 41 comments
Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests 562 comments
Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog 147 comments
Multidrug Resistance Gene Released By Chinese Wastewater Treatment Plants 111 comments
Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors 84 comments
Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits 554 comments
Interview: Ask Forrest Mims About Rockets, Electronics, and Engineering 120 comments
First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication 144 comments
Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math 170 comments
FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps 160 comments
Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee 76 comments
NASA Testing Lighter Space Suits For Asteroid Work 54 comments
The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder 246 comments
Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander 268 comments
No Longer "Noble"; Argon Compound Found In Space 110 comments
SpaceX Wins Use of NASA's Launch Pad 39A 99 comments
Programming Molecules To Let Chemicals Make Decisions 28 comments
Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully 250 comments
Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover Landing Slated For 13:40 UTC Saturday 90 comments
Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage 213 comments
NASA's Next Mars Mission Will Join the Interplanetary Internet 53 comments
'Darkness Ray' Beams Invisibility From a Distance 86 comments
Pulsar Gets the Munchies, Snacks On an Asteroid 54 comments
Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million 586 comments
Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa 74 comments
You Are What Your Dad Ate 130 comments
Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 216 comments
Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts 370 comments
Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown 49 comments
Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies 172 comments
Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram 433 comments
Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race 137 comments
New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason 674 comments
Private Mars One Mission Contracts Lockheed For Exploratory Mission 35 comments
Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified 182 comments
Nobel Winner Schekman Boycotts Journals For 'Branding Tyranny' 106 comments
Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After the Big Bang, Says Cosmologist 312 comments
Neural Prosthetic Acts Like "Bridge" Over Damaged Brain Areas 54 comments
Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Ancient Lakebed 74 comments
Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories 129 comments
Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking 377 comments
Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean 273 comments
How China Will Get To the Moon Before a Google Lunar XPrize Winner 173 comments
Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar 122 comments
New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering 92 comments
Do Earthquakes Spread Like Wildfire? 26 comments
Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System 175 comments
Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore 326 comments
Killer Qualities of Japanese Fault Revealed 58 comments
The Climate of Middle-Earth 163 comments
Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today 308 comments
Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? 670 comments
After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information 146 comments
U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 462 comments
Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers 259 comments
Cassini Gets Amazing Views of Saturn's Hexagon 50 comments
First Images of a Heart Injected With Liquid Metal 115 comments
Visual Guide – the Making of a DIY Space Capsule 40 comments
Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice 160 comments
Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace 171 comments
Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain 127 comments
Moon Express Unveils Next Moon Lander 79 comments
Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work 406 comments
Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species 93 comments
Medical Radioactive Material Truck Stolen In Mexico 98 comments
NASA Will Send Seeds to the Moon In 2015 92 comments
Plastic Waste Threatens Marine Diversity 48 comments
SpaceX Launch Achieves Geostationary Transfer Orbit 131 comments
A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement 186 comments
The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' 509 comments
New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates 263 comments
Three New Exoplanets Seen In Direct Photographs 43 comments
Mathematical Model of Zombie Epidemics Reveals Two Types of Living-Dead Strains 163 comments
New MIT Camera Takes 3D Photos in the Dark 45 comments
Crowdsourcing the Discovery of New Antibiotics 73 comments
Harvesting Power When Freshwater Meets Salty 151 comments
Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons 641 comments
Scientists Find Olfactory "Memory" Passed Between Generations In Mice 118 comments
Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties 46 comments
Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms 120 comments
Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders 234 comments
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes 332 comments
How Much of ISON Survived Its Closest Approach To the Sun? 84 comments
Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought 135 comments
Chinese Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover On Its Way After Successful Launch 101 comments
A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime 260 comments
Research Suggests One To Three Men Fathered Most Western Europeans 253 comments
Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit 132 comments
December 2013
November 2013
Google Supercomputers Tackle Giant Drug-Interaction Data Crunch 50 comments
Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? 90 comments
China's First Lunar Lander To Launch Today; Manned Mission Planned By 2030 137 comments
Ask Slashdot: Scientific Computing Workflow For the Cloud? 80 comments
Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle 356 comments
Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted 341 comments
Comet ISON Survives Perihelion (Barely) 62 comments
Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records 784 comments
Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria 78 comments
ESA's Long-Term Plan To Investigate the Invisible Universe 26 comments
U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks 23 comments
The Best Way To Blow the Whistle 141 comments
Psychologists Strike a Blow For Reproducibility 138 comments
Comet ISON Approaches Perihelion 39 comments
How Heroin Addicts Helped Scientists Link Pesticides and Parkinson's 109 comments
European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why 304 comments
Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad 961 comments
Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film 398 comments
Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools 710 comments
FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service 371 comments
BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" 321 comments
Beer Drinking Networks In Amazon Tribe Help Explain Altruism 157 comments
Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality 494 comments
Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition 194 comments
The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath 241 comments
New Dinosaur 'Siats Meekerorum' Discovered In Utah 33 comments
Detecting Chemicals Through Bone 23 comments
Scientists Forced To Reexamine Theories In Light of Massive Gamma-Ray Burst 128 comments
Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements 149 comments
Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future 453 comments
Mars Rock Older Than Thought 37 comments
Ask Slashdot: How Reproducible Is Arithmetic In the Cloud? 226 comments
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99 comments
At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos 109 comments
Bionic Eye Implant Available In US Next Month 102 comments
ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' 52 comments
HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who 203 comments
NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon 193 comments
Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives 238 comments
3D-Printed Dinosaur Bones "Like Gutenberg's Printing Press" For Paleontologists 39 comments
New Smart Glasses Allow Nurses To See Veins Through Skin 124 comments
Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA 343 comments
Mathematicians Team Up To Close the Prime Gap 194 comments
Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? 237 comments
CubeSat Launch Visible Around U.S. East Coast Tonight 34 comments
Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies 282 comments
Why Not Fund SETI With a Lottery Bond? 191 comments
Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat 93 comments
Chicxulub Impact Might Have Spread Life-Bearing Rocks Through the Solar System 161 comments
Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb 243 comments
MAVEN Ready To Launch Today 55 comments
12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too 134 comments
Comet ISON Nears Date With Sun 45 comments
Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites 51 comments
Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? 328 comments
U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium 172 comments
Smithsonian Releases 3D Models of Artifacts 47 comments
Experts Hail Quantum Computer Memory Stability Breakthrough 53 comments
First Lab Demonstration That the Ability To Evolve Can Itself Evolve 72 comments
Hotel Tycoon Seeks Property Rights On the Moon 248 comments
Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe 143 comments
Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated 366 comments
We're Safe From the Latest SARS-Like Disease...For the Moment 106 comments
Viruses Boost Performance of Lithium-Air Battery Used In Electric Cars 66 comments
Building an 'Invisibility Cloak' With Electromagnetic Fields 71 comments
Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC 263 comments
India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup 73 comments
Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun 342 comments
Sunlight Helps Turn Salty Water Fresh 58 comments
Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility 182 comments
Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World 445 comments
How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov 499 comments
NASA's Mars Orbiter Reaches Data Milestone 68 comments
GOCE Satellite Burned Up Over Falkland Islands 107 comments
Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" 328 comments
International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts 226 comments
NASA's Robonaut Gets Its Legs; Could a Moonwalk Be In Its Future? 63 comments
Study Explains Why Lunar Craters Are Bigger On the Near Side 85 comments
Sochi Olympic Torch Taken On Historic Spacewalk 80 comments
GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land 122 comments
Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It 63 comments
Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality 95 comments
"War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov 346 comments
Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists 134 comments
"Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced 16 comments
A Chat with Kristian von Bengtson, co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals (Video) 26 comments
Scientists Says Jellyfish Are Taking Over the Oceans 274 comments
Healthcare.gov Official Resigns, Website Still a Disaster 559 comments
Monkeys Use Minds To Control Avatar Arms 43 comments
Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency 382 comments
Chelyabinsk-Sized Asteroid Impacts May Be More Common Than We Thought 50 comments
Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results 340 comments
Oil Recovery May Have Triggered Texas Tremors 172 comments
Cold War Spoils: Amateur Builds Telescope With 70-Inch Lens 101 comments
After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way 166 comments
Robotic Surgery Complications Going Underreported 99 comments
India To Launch Mars Orbiter "Mangalyaan" Tuesday 109 comments
One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet 142 comments
10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova 214 comments
Hoax-Proofing the Open Access Journals 114 comments
Why Organic Chemistry Is So Difficult For Pre-Med Students 279 comments
Thanks to Neutrino Detector, We Might Get a Good Look At the Next Supernova 85 comments
Exploiting Tomorrow's Solar Eclipse To Help Understand Sea Levels 92 comments
HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? 400 comments
A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core 663 comments
A MathML Progress Report: More Light Than Shadow 84 comments
How Earth's Biosignature Will Change As the Planet Dies 95 comments
Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories 115 comments
Scientists Using Supercomputers To Puzzle Out Dinosaur Movement 39 comments
November 2013
October 2013
Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov 404 comments
Artificial Blood Made In Romania 232 comments
Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit 86 comments
Microsoft Research Uses Kinect To Translate Between Spoken and Sign Languages 79 comments
Kepler-78b: The Earth-Like Planet That Shouldn't Exist 110 comments
Root of Maths Genius Sought 251 comments
UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor 163 comments
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