Science Stories for 2014

Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming 341
Super-Sensitive Motion Sensor Could Be Used To Hunt For Extraterrestrial Life 38
Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God 755
BU Students Working On a Cheaper, Gentler Suborbital Rocket 43
10 Years In, Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers From Flash Memory Degradation 105
Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health 234
Russia Plans To Build World First DNA Databank of All Living Things 83
Belize's "Blue Hole" Reveals Clues To Maya's Demise 80
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet 681
2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack 130
Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? 363
Life In Space, In More Than 12,000 Photos 24
What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere 104
New Proposed Path for Manned Trips to Mars: Let Mars' Gravity Capture Spacecraft 105
5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile 219
Hubble Reveals a Previously Unknown Dwarf Galaxy Just 7 Million Light Years Away 70
New Paper Claims Neutrino Is Likely a Faster-Than-Light Particle 142
NASA Makes 3-D Printed Wrench Model Available 99
The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing 68
300 Million Year Old Fossil Fish Likely Had Color Vision 37
Scientists Say the Future Looks Bleak For Our Bones 115
NuSTAR Takes Beautiful X-ray Image of Sol 44
Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep 179
ESA Carries Out Asteroid Impact Drill 69
Does Journal Peer Review Miss Best and Brightest? 139
Meet the Doctor Trying To Use the Blood of Ebola Survivors To Create a Cure 33
How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years 441
Problem Solver Beer Tells How Much To Drink To Boost Your Creativity 73
Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity 48
Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline 323
Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? 156
NASA 'Emails' a Socket Wrench To the ISS 152
New Record Set For Deepest Dwelling Fish 33
Birds Fled Area Before Tornadoes Appeared 99
Massive Volcanic Eruptions Accompanied Dinosaur Extinction 78
How a 3D Printer Let a Dog Run For the First Time 26
Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died 170
NASA Video Shows What It's Like To Reenter the Earth's Atmosphere 75
Machine Learning Reveals Genetic Controls 14
The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots 391
Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated 197
Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' 719
Scientists Discover That Exercise Changes Your DNA 56
Kepler Makes First Exoplanet Discovery After Mission Reboot 28
Satellite Captures Glowing Plants From Space 40
India Successfully Test Fires Its Heaviest Rocket 56
Cause and Effect: How a Revolutionary New Statistical Test Can Tease Them Apart 137
After 40 Years As a Double Amputee, Man Gains Two Bionic Arms 66
Did Alcatraz Escapees Survive? Computer Program Says They Might Have 89
Startup Helps You Build Your Very Own Picosatellite On a Budget 21
Terrestrial Gamma Ray Bursts Very Common 70
NASA Tests Feasibility of 3D Printing on the Moon and Other Planets 58
NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration 200
A New Law For Superconductors 53
SpaceX To Attempt Falcon 9 Landing On Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship 81
Spacecraft Spots Probable Waves On Titan's Seas 82
Researchers Accidentally Discover How To Turn Off Skin Aging Gene 175
11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought 330
Brain Stimulation For Entertainment? 88
Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars 68
Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? 280
NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower 200
Mysterious Martian Gouges Carved By Sand-surfing Dry Ice 26
Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use 187
Want To Influence the World? Map Reveals the Best Languages To Speak 150
Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do 222
How Birds Lost Their Teeth 138
SpaceX Set To Create 300 New US Jobs and Expand Facilities 43
Raspberry Pi In Space 56
Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever 187
Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine 266
Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX 168
Deflating Claims That ESA Craft Has Spotted Dark Matter 85
Doctors Replace Patient's Thoracic Vertebrae With 3D-Printed Replica 55
Possible Dark Matter Signal Spotted 66
2014 Geek Gift Guide 113
Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? 1051
Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times 113
"Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality 153
Study of Massive Preprint Archive Hints At the Geography of Plagiarism 53
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics 244
Rosetta Results: Comets "Did Not Bring Water To Earth" 135
NASA Gets 2% Boost To Science Budget 121
James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him 235
A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals 100
Photoswitch Therapy Restores Vision To Blind Lab Animals 17
Robots Modeled On Ancient Fish Help Researchers Study Origins of Extinct Species 29
Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend 24
Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans 209
Titan's Dunes Took Tens of Thousands of Years To Form 12
Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane 329
Monochromatic Light As a Species-selective Insecticide 44
High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride 80
Material Possiblities: A Flying Drone Built From Fungus 52
Berkeley Lab Builds World Record Tabletop-Size Particle Accelerator 90
2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past 107
China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability 86
Asteroid Impacts May Have Formed Life's Building Blocks 46
Curiosity's Mars Crater Was Once a Vast Lake 42
Interviews: Rachel Sussman Answers Your Questions 24
How One Man Changed the Ecology of the Great Lakes With Salmon 118
Cultural Fault Lines Determine How New Words Spread On Twitter 46
James Watson's Nobel Medal Sells For $4.1 Million 201
Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Ends Hibernation To Start Mission 77
45-Year Physics Mystery Shows a Path To Quantum Transistors 56
A Common Logic To Seeing Cats and the Cosmos 45
NSF Accused of Misuse of Funds In Giant Ecological Project 116
Comet Dust Found In Antarctica 17
Orion Capsule Safely Recovered, Complete With 12-Year-Old Computer Guts 197
Nanotube Film Could Replace Defective Retinas 24
Researchers Design DNA With New Shapes and Structures 47
NASA's Orion Capsule Reaches Orbit 140
New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible 163
How Astronomers Will Take the "Image of the Century": a Black Hole 129
The Ancestor of Humans Was an "Artist" 500,000 Years Ago 59
FTC: Online Billing Service Deceptively Collected Medical Records 25
Electric Eel Shocks Like a Taser 29
Ocean-Going Robot Fleet Completes Fish Tracking Mission 10
Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby 334
New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails 341
Technical Hitches Delay Orion Capsule's First Launch 71
How High-Tech Temporary Tattoos Will Hack Your Skin 57
Why Pluto Still Matters 91
Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? 584
The Fastest Camera Ever Made Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second 122
Pantry Pests Harbor Plastic-Chomping Bacteria 45
Interviews: Malcolm Gladwell Answers Your Questions 48
Mathematical Trick Helps Smash Record For the Largest Quantum Factorization 62
The Moment of Truth For BICEP2 52
Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? 409
'Mirage Earth' Exoplanets May Have Burned Away Chances For Life 62
Ben Harris Shows off the Electric Vehicle Challenge Simulator (Video) 37
Study: HIV Becoming Less Deadly, Less Infectious 172
James Watson's Nobel Prize Goes On Auction This Week 355
Nature Makes All Articles Free To View 97
The Life of an ATLAS Physicist At CERN 34
Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth 128
Ability To Consume Alcohol May Have Shaped Human Evolution 89
Stars Traveling Close To Light Speed Could Spread Life Through the Universe 184
Who Needs NASA? Exoplanet Detected Using a DSLR 108
Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Favors Cooperation's Collapse 213
Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools 233
WHO Timeline for Ebola Containment Proves Hard To Meet 78
Physicist Kip Thorne On the Physics of "Interstellar" 289
Test Flight For NASA's Orion Capsule Slated for December 4 59
Hayabusa 2 Asteroid Probe Postponed By Weather Until Early December 24
Graphene May Top Kevlar As a Bullet-Stopping Material 129
New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism 62
Single Pixel Camera Takes Images Through Breast Tissue 81
Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? 138
Philae May Have Grazed Crater Rim 48
Swiss Scientists Discover DNA Remains Active After Space Journey and Re-entry 67
Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election 413
Researchers Discover an "Off Switch" For Pain In the Brain 83
Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice 51
Interviews: The Hampton Creek Team Answers Your Questions 47
Health Advisor: Ebola Still Spreading, Worst Outbreak We've Ever Seen 244
Canada's Ebola Vaccine Nets Millions For Tiny US Biotech Firm 70
LHC's 'Heart' Starts Pumping Protons Before Restart 50
NSF Commits $16M To Build Cloud-Based and Data-Intensive Supercomputers 29
ISS's 3-D Printer Creates Its First Object In Space 69
NASA To Deploy Four Spacecraft To Study Magnetic Reconnection 29
"Advanced Life Support" Ambulances May Lead To More Deaths 112
Conglomerate Rock From Mars: (Much) More Precious Than Gold 65
How the Pentagon's Robots Would Automate War 117
Raspberry Pi-Powered Body Illusion Lets You Experience Parkinson's 38
Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies 307
Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food 145
NASA Offering Contracts To Encourage Asteroid Mining 153
Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight 102
Multi-National Crew Reaches Space Station 70
Study: Space Rock Impacts Not Random 78
How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles 186
NASA Remasters 20-Year-Old Galileo Photographs of Jupiter's Moon, Europa 38
Elon Musk Talks "X-Wing" Fins For Reusable Rockets, Seafaring Spaceport Drones 96
Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak 145
Spaceport America Loses $1.7 Million Due To Virgin Galactic Delays 46
Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood 252
Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal 137
Extreme Shrimp May Hold Clues To Alien Life On Europa 75
Molecular Clusters That Can Retain Charge Could Revolutionize Computer Memory 36
CERN Releases LHC Data 42
Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate 367
Culberson As Chair of NASA Fundng Subcommittee Makes Europa Mission More Likely 57
CMI Director Alex King Talks About Rare Earth Supplies (Video 2) 11
People Trained To Experience an Overlap In Senses Also Receive IQ Boost 68
Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia 81
What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? 523
Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit 114
CMI Director Alex King Talks About Rare Earth Supplies (Video) 27
Researchers Discover Ancient Massive Landslide 44
Lunar Mission One Proposes To Take Core Sample, Plant Time Capsule On the Moon 69
Fish Tagged For Research Become Lunch For Gray Seals 48
Elusive Dark Matter May Be Detected With GPS Satellites 67
Laser Creates Quantum Whirlpool 59
Major Brain Pathway Rediscovered After Century-old Confusion, Controversy 114
Interviews: Ask Malcolm Gladwell a Question 111
Polyphonic Overtone Singing Explained Visually With Spectrograms 51
Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors 55
Electric Shock Study Suggests We'd Rather Hurt Ourselves Than Others 123
The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia 231
Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone 187
Fascinating Rosetta Image Captures Philae's Comet Bounce 69
Group Tries To Open Source Seeds 100
Big Talk About Small Samples 246
Magnetic Field In Meteorite Provides Clues About Formation of Solar System 26
Leonid Meteor Shower Hits Tonight, Peaks Tomorrow 20
Scientists Discover Diamond Nanothreads 79
After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest 88
Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides 74
How To Anesthetize an Octopus 105
Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps 337
How To Mathematically Predict Lightning Strikes 41
Researchers Develop $60 Sonar Watch To Aid the Visually Impaired 30
Boeing Readies For First Ever Conjoined Satellite Launch 67
Mathematics Great Alexander Grothendieck Dies At 86 49
Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and the History of Online CS Education 134
Comet Probe Philae To Deploy Drill As Battery Life Wanes 223
Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia 61
Thanks To the Private Space Industry, Things Are Looking Up For Space City USA 47
Researchers Use DNA To Record a Cell's Life History 48
SatNOGS Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize For Satellite Networked Open Ground Station 21
Comet Probe Philae Unanchored But Stable — And Sending Back Images 132
How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa 377
Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills 70
Google's Lease of NASA Airfield Criticized By Consumer Group 138
How Baidu Tracked the Largest Seasonal Migration of People On Earth 48
Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate 136
Interviews: Ask Rachel Sussman About Photography and the Oldest Living Things 35
Philae Lands Successfully On Comet 188
Researchers Demonstrate Electrically Activated Micro-Muscles 19
What Happens When Nobody Proofreads an Academic Paper 170
'Dark Magma' Could Explain Mystery Volcanoes 77
Rosetta's Philae Probe To Land On Comet Tomorrow 74
Fukushima Radiation Nears California Coast, Judged Harmless 114
Google To Lease and Refurbish Naval Air Base For Space Exploration 89
Earth's Oxygen History Could Explain "Darwin's Dilemma" In Evolution 78
The Strangeness of the Mars One Project 246
Manslaughter Conviction Overturned For Scientists Who Didn't Predict Earthquake 139
The Math Behind the Hipster Effect 176
NASA Tests Aircraft With Shape Shifting Wings 55
A/C Came Standard On Some Armored Dinosaur Models 34
Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" 275
Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes 297
Nevada Earthquake Swarm Increases Chance of Larger Quake 65
Prehistory's Brilliant Future 50
The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change 163
Orbiters Study Effect of Giant Comet-Caused Meteor Shower On Mars 48
Researchers Develop Remote-Controlled Cyber-Roaches 35
CERN May Not Have Discovered Higgs Boson After All 137

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