Science Stories for 2007

Ion-Mask Coating Could Make Waterproofing Electronics Easy 99
Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before 207
Online Collaboration Creates 'Map-Making For the Masses' 61
i-Snake, a New Robotic Surgeon 58
How and Why Knots Spontaneously Form 145
Communities of Mutants Form as DNA Testing Grows 161
Necessity of Dark Energy Questioned 200
Snortable Drug 'Replaces' Sleep For Monkeys In Trials 236
Annals of Improbable Research Goes Free Online 50
Hospitals Look to a Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer 163
Researchers Explore Quantum Dot Based NVRAM 49
First Reflected Light From an Exoplanet Seen 72
A Peek At the Origin of PS3's New Visualizer 48
Alexander Graham Bell - Patent Thief? 280
Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy 83
Embedded Linux On a Digital Stethoscope 111
How To Tell If It's Really Titanium 280
'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common 371
Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? 388
Giraffes May Be Six Separate Species 239
Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade 177
Researchers Simulate Building Block of Rat's Brain 224
44 Conjectures of Stephen Wolfram Disproved 158
GNU Octave 3.0 Released After 11 Years 222
NASA's Invention of the Year Award Goes to Synthetic Muscles 49
Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope? 179
Science Magazine's Top Stories of 2007 36
Universe May Be Running Out of Time 343
Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams 629
Chance for a Tunguska Sized Impact on Mars 184
Stem Cell Lines Derived to Avoid Immune Rejection 41
Deep Impact Probe to Look for Earth-sized Planets 59
Supernova Detonates In Empty Space 188
Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor 683
Swedish Athletes Back GPS Implants to Combat Drug Use 299
Solar System Date of Birth Determined 266
Presidential Candidates' Science and Tech Policies 413
Possible Active Glacier Found On Mars 143
NASA Ares Rocket Specs to Be Open Source 116
Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid 277
Enceladus "Sea" Mystery Deepens 166
Artificial Blood Vessels Grow On Nano-Template 49
Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From? 729
US Urged To Keep Space Shuttles Flying Past 2010 219
Synthetic DNA About To Yield New Life Forms 240
Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet 222
REEM-B, New Humanoid Robot Announced 72
Converting Light into Sound 86
The End of the Corporate Lab 150
Should Wikipedia Allow Mathematical Proofs? 469
World's Smallest Advent Calendar 73
Eat, Drink, and be Monitored 106
Toward On-Chip Quantum Computing 48
Saturn's Rings Are Ancient 61
Riding the Failure Cascade 195
Giving Avatars Real Bodies 88
Mars Rover Technology Used to Make Better Maps 49
Light-based Quantum Circuit Does Basic Maths 198
Will The Next Generation of Spacecraft Land In the Water? 318
Cause of Aurora Borealis Confirmed 172
Recent Human Evolution May Have Been Driven By Self-Selection 448
Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? 647
Scientists Trap Light In Nano-Soup 110
Group Plans to Bring Martian Sample to Earth 84
Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets 625
CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations 338
Ice Age Beasts Blasted from Space 202
Largest Ever Digital Survey of the Milky Way Released 75
Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats 222
Desktop Synchrotron to Capture Molecular Action 46
Can Time Slow Down? 444
Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager 120
Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented" 173
More Antarctic Dinosaurs 167
Citizen Science and Grid Computing 69
Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter 97
Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2007 179
Mars Rover Investigates Possibility of Ancient Microbial Life 50
Playing With Atomic Clocks At Home 167
Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever 584
Weird Science Offered As University Class 137
NASA Snaps Mysterious "Night-Shining" Clouds 198
Kidney Cells Make Implantable Power Source 88
Robots That Bounce on Water 137
SenseCam Aids Patients with Memory Problems 78
2008, The Year of the Spaceship 126
Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought 175
Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of) 236
Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious 129
New Wave Power Research Rising Off Oregon Coast 158
Nanorobots for Drug Delivery? 69
The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution 133
Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes 299
Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress 61
Nanotube-Excreting Bacteria Allow Mass Production 73
Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections 406
Saturn's Moons Built From Ring Material 115
Private Company First to Take on Lunar X Challenge 65
Balancing Robot Can Take a Kicking 207
Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media 448
YouTube Breeding Harmful Scientific Misinformation 816
Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Explosions 250
The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault 322
New NASA System to Keep Lightning Off The Launchpad 31
Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved 272
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars 447
Major Breakthrough In Spintronics Research 106
British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps 539
Final Repair Mission To Extend Hubble's Life 125
Microfluidic Chips Made With Shrinky Dinks 149
BBC Rules That Wi-Fi Radiation Findings Were Wrong 210
Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test 271
$999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it? 451
Dinosaur Fossil Found With Preserved Soft Tissue 248
Helium Leads to Geothermal Energy Resources 317
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind 163
Carnegie Mellon Gets $14.4M to Build Robo-Tank 213
Bolivian Salt Flats Aid Spacecraft Calibration 98
Duke Scientists Map 'Silenced Genes' 42
Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements 984
Recipe for a Storm — Forecasting a Hurricane Season 46
Robot Hand Learns How To Learn From Babies 76
Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS 219
Greenpeace Down on Games Industry, Logic Flawed? 138
Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches 243
New Nerve Gas Antidotes 110
NASA Requires JPL Scientists To Give Up Right To Privacy 446
New Results From Venus Express 90
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids 614
USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology 257
First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA 329
Student Maps Brain to Image Search 72
Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock 308
HP Skin Patch May Replace Needles 190
Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists 433
Gene Study Supports Single Bering Strait Migration 289
The Biggest Roadblocks To Information Technology Development 280
Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed 570
Wearable Motion Capture 91
Football Field-Sized Kite Powers Latest Freighter 251
New Super Scanner Can Scan Body in Under a Minute 129
New Neutron Scatter Camera to Detect Smuggled Nukes 125
China's First Lunar Satellite Sends Back Pictures 144
Nano Safety Worries Scientists More Than Public 167
Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages 439
Astronauts Hook Up Harmony in Lengthy Spacewalk 65
Creationists Violating Copyright 635
New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves 131
Mapping the Brain's Neural Network 143
Liquid Crystal Phases of DNA, Beginning of Life? 150
The Gap Between Stats and Understanding In Flu Cases 83
Interconnecting Wind Farms To Smooth Power Production 112
Methane-Eating Bacteria Could Combat Global Warming 218
The Universe Damaged By Observation? 521
Russia's New Cosmodome Approved 83
Earth's Moon is a Rarity 202
Turkey Day Chemistry in the Kitchen 131
Floating Computers Keep an Eye on the Oceans 86
NASA Goes Bargain Basement With New Satellite 150
Arecibo Observatory Loses Funding 185
Man Sized Sea Scorpion Fossil Found 216
Technology Innovation Areas For 2025 131
Stem-Cell-Like Cells Produced From Skin 265
The Obesity Epidemic — Is Medicine Scientific? 909
Are Aliens Living Among Us? 350
Cannabis Compound Said To "Halt Cancer" 383
Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds 531
FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence 250
Why Trolls and Flames Happen 331
Scientists Trap a Rainbow 147
Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server Technology 131
Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack 236
The Best Of What's New 2007 66
Open Source Math 352
MIT Students Show How the Inca Leapt Canyons 185
Two Companies Now Offering Personal Gene Sequencing 146
NASA Wins Nanotechnology Award 36
People Believe NASA Funded As Well As US Military 320
Robots Assimilate Into Cockroach Society 107
The Last DC Power Grid Shut Down in NYC 533
Meet the Drivers Behind NASA's Mars Rovers 67
Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface 308
Potential Landing Sites for EU Mars Rover Selected 79
Anatomically Strange Dinosaur Vacuumed Up Food 131
A New Theory of Everything? 511
Open Source, Genetically Engineered Machines From a Kit? 157
Holmes Comet Coma Grows Bigger Than The Sun 245
Backing Up Your Brain 204
The Nuclear Power Renaissance 927
From the Moon to Earth in HD 156
A Giant Step in Cloning 239
South Korea to Build Robot Theme Parks 125
The Rules of the Swarm 166
Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate 168
Genetically Engineered Mouse is Not Scared of Cats 286
Antique Fridge Could Keep Venus Rover Cool 229
Thought-Controlled Prosthetics 88
Speeding Up STM Imaging 44
Cosmic Rays From Galactic Black Holes 51
First Image Taken With an Ultra Low Field MRI 189
NASA Knows How To Party 341
Russia to Build New Spacecraft by 2020 101
AR Facade Moves Beyond the Lab 39
Adult Brains More Flexible Than Previously Thought 123
NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm 187
Is SETI Worth It? 806
Evidence of Historical Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis 244
Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon 206
A Panoramic View of Your Insides 74
Crater From 1908 Tunguska Blast Found 192
NASA Satellites to Predict Disease Outbreaks 67
Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance 229
Grid Computing Saves Cancer Researchers Decades 149
Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers 213
Causes of Death Linked To Weight 385
Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? 344
Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible? 304
Chefs As Chemists 266
Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System 145
Robot Becomes One of the Kids 186
NASA Performs Zero-G Robot Surgery for Mars, Iraq 106
Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again 171
Former Intel CEO Rips Medical Research 484
Deconstructing the PC Revolution 103
Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits 316
Study Suggests Genome Instability Hotspots 72
Graffiti as Password - Secure and Memorable 76
Stix Scientific Fonts Reach Beta Release 159
A New Way To Make Water, And Fuel Cells 107
Ten Strangely Cruel Science Experiments 357
The Economic Development of the Moon 408
New Catalyst May Be a Boost For Fuel Cells 130
Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinctions? 210
More Solar Panel Problems For ISS 118
Super-Magnet Sheds Light on Semiconductors 64
Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse 320
Nanotech To Replace Disk Drives Within Ten Years? 127
Patterns in Lottery Numbers 563
Single Nanotube Becomes World's Smallest Radio 152
Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses 154
Brains Hard-Wired for Math 246
Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set 860
PS3 Helps Folding@Home Reach World Record Status 51
Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds 227
First Fossil Evidence That Velociraptors Hunted in Packs 169
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal 284
Call for a Presidential Debate on Science 610
Lunar Lander Challenge Ends in Fire, Disappoinment 123
Space Station Solar Equipment Showing Damage 113
Origin of Cosmic Rays Confirmed 155

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