Science Stories for 2008

Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? 877
New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly 122
The Fight Over NASA's Future 288
How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule 143
Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought 453
Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008 255
Chandrayaan M3 Instrument Confirms Iron-Bearing Minerals On the Moon 67
Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas 553
Valuable Objects Stimulate Brain More Than Junk 118
30 Years of Star Wars Technology 146
Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home 245
Mapping Planets and Moons In 3D With Stereophotoclinometry 23
Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided 191
What Parrots Tell Us About the Evolution of Birds 62
Storing Photons In a Solid State Device 68
Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference 235
NASA Outsources ISS Resupply To SpaceX, Orbital 151
Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics 219
Doubts Multiply About the "Long Tail" 194
Space Is Just a Little Bit Closer Than Expected 130
Inside the Active Volcano On Montserrat 42
Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief 198
Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211
Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV 482
SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight 110
Water Detected At Record Distance From Earth 104
Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases 100
Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power 275
Nobel Jurors Facing Bribery Probe 74
Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer 259
Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach 249
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming 492
Trick or Treatment 713
Simulations May Explain Loss of Beagle 2 Mars Probe 98
Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming 656
Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs 142
Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field 200
Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now 197
2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form 258
Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii 251
Spaceport America Gets FAA License 61
Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy 167
Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy 186
O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing 64
Injectable Artificial Bone Developed 105
The Best Burglar Alarm In History 137
Sleep Mailing 195
MIT Injects Nanotubes To Help Fight Cancer 58
The Manga Guide to Statistics 164
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia 389
Strategy Games Improve Cognitive Functions In Older Adults 64
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest 417
A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere 69
The End of Individual Genius? 364
Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ 278
Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Exoplanet Sizes 62
VASIMR Plasma Thruster To Be Tested Aboard ISS 81
Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail 77
Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole 77
Photos of the Damage To the Large Hadron Collider 106
Oldest-Known Human Brain Discovered 74
Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? 479
Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel 276
Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin 58
Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? 355
SpaceX Successfully Tested Draco Thruster 88
A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice 118
Carbon Dioxide and Water Found On Exoplanet 151
Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters 397
Ants Used For Mind-Controlled Robotic Limbs 82
Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed 392
Future of Space Elevator Looks Shaky 486
'Lab On a Chip' Made From Paper and Tape 66
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773
This Is the Way the World Ends 394
Saving 28,000 Lives a Year 263
Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun 285
What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines 737
The Unforgettable Amnesiac 120
Triple Helix — Designing a New Molecule of Life 152
Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New Spacecraft 78
TAAS Company Presents New Orbital Space Plane 80
Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping 297
A Quantum Linear Equation Solver 171
Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Spur Research 82
Light Echoes Solve Mystery of Tycho's Supernova 98
Electrode Implant Gives Mute Man a (Synthesized) Voice 58
Prototype Scanner Detects Cancer In Under 1 Hour 53
Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food 153
Next-Gen Mars Rover Mission Delayed 2 Years, To 2011 29
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 46
Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled 1093
UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework 152
Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242
Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction 550
Alien Comet May Have Infiltrated the Solar System 208
Measuring Engagement In Games 72
Guitarist Hopes To Play Again With The Help of Bionic Hand 72
Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation" 501
Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers 439
Quantum Test Found For Mathematical Undecidability 223
Study Confirms That Cars Have Personalities 213
World's Oldest Marijuana Stash Found 108
Acorns Disappear Across the Country 474
Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer 204
Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python 311
Diet of Fast Food and Candy May Cause Alzheimer's 224
Royal Society of Chemistry Slams UK Exam Standards 408
Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186
Obama Team Considers Cancellation of Ares, Orion 870
Scientists Identify a Potentially Universal Mechanism of Aging 359
Excluding Intelligent Design Principles From the Search For Alien Life 308
Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" 144
Scientists Get Their Groove On On YouTube 77
NASA and DoE Team On Dark Energy Research 106
SpaceX Falcon Update With Pictures 30
Stephen Hawking Going To Canada 204
Down's Symptoms May Be Treatable In the Womb 170
Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid 256
Surgeons Weld Wounds Shut With Surgical Laser 151
Sweet Molecule Could Lead Us To Alien Life 72
Earliest LHC Restart Slated For Late Summer 2009 229
Evolving Rocks 172
90% of Gaming Addiction Patients Not Addicted 333
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids 138
New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet 231
Should We Clone a Neanderthal? 990
New "Juno" Mission To Jupiter Announced 71
Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space 176
SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster 182
Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth 389
Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air 438
Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere 101
Object Lights Night Sky Across Canadian Prairies 125
Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy 113
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77
Electron Strobe Makes Movies of Atoms 33
Dark Matter Discovered Near Solar System? 179
DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain 170
E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation 268
Massive Martian Glaciers Found 314
Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply 322
Woman Unable To Recognize Voices, Unless It's Sean Connery 68
Scientists Grow New Eyes (In Tadpoles) 37
Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End 243
MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft 176
Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station 507
Most of Woolly Mammoth Genome Reconstructed 245
NASA Exploring 8 New Space Expeditions 106
Researchers Getting the Lead Out of Electronics 178
Successful Stem Cell Replacement of Windpipe 116
Researchers Discover How To Make the Perfect Phone Call 85
Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica 7 234
Lunar Oxygen and Water Production Tech Tested 56
Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA 445
Oldest Nuclear Family Found Murdered In Germany 186
NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet 109
The Neurological Basis of Con Games 218
The ISS Marks 10 Years In Space 153
Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China 278
A Third of Mars Could Have Been Underwater 167
LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million 163
It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency 199
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore 465
Urine Passes NASA Taste Test 404
Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator 683
Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? 418
Rubber Duckies For Global Warming Research 167
Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible 118
Pinpointing Creativity In the Brain 85
NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking 83
Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? 564
Software Is Starting To Aid Mathematical Proofs 90
Unhappy People Watch More TV 193
VR Snow Game Functions As Pain Management 27
India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon 203
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction 399
Obama's Impending NASA Decisions 405
Fewer Shuffles Suffice 101
DNA Strands Modified Into Tiny Fiber-Optic Cables 113
Mars Rover Spirit Still Alive 185
Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's 140
Mind Control Delusions and the Web 631
Vein Patterns Could Replace Fingerprints 152
11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey 307
Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution 436
US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use 374
Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Reaches 100km Lunar Orbit 152
Mars Rover "Spirit" In Danger 222
Identifying People By Odor As Effective As Fingerprinting 157
Solar Cycle 24 May Have Finally Begun 72
Google Can Predict the Flu 289
The Gene Is Having an Identity Crisis 257
Dogs To Sniff Out Smokers 136
Titan Balloon Mission Being Drafted 82
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists 610
Scientists Discover Why Sharks Can Swim So Fast 103
Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Dead 154
China Defines Internet Addiction 201
Drive From Sydney Museum Could Unlock NASA Moon Data 0
German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant 639
Very Large Telescope Captures New 27-Megapixel Deep Field 131
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic 86
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? 175
Chandrayaan Enters Lunar Orbit 111
Simulations Predict Where We Can Find Dark Matter 61
Scientists Turn Tequila Into Diamonds 249
How To Cut In Line and Not Get Caught 256
Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles 339
Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters 119
Achieving Mathematical Proofs Via Computers 209
How To Cloak Objects At a Distance 136
LHC Forces Bookmaker To Lower Odds On the Existence of God 457
First Whole Cancer Genome Sequenced 115
Frozen Mice Cloned 272
Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs 211
ESA Unveils Re-Entry Module 101
Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel 244
Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosmic Rays 199
World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD 61
Researchers Calculate Capacity of a Steganographic Channel 114
New Type of Particle May Have Been Found 281
Cassini Could Find Signs of Life on Enceladus 126
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out 467
New Class of Pulsars Discovered 93
Memory Molecule Identified 97
Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443
Major Advances In Knot Theory 230
Private Firm Plots Robotic Lunar Exploration 75
Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth 235
How Vampire Bats Evolved To Live On Blood Alone 82
Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function 139
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care 1270
Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope 85
Math Prof Uncovers Secret Chord 177
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Is Back In Business 70
Mars Lander Faces Slow Death 212
NSA and Army On Quest For Quantum Physics Jackpot 110
Multiple Asteroid Belts Found Orbiting Nearby Star 135
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web 87
NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Moister Mars 94
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? 496
Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real? 337
Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test 169
Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit 201
Brains Work Best At Age of 39 267
Depressed Astronauts Might Get Computerized Solace 138
Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project 255
One of HST's Cameras Is Back In Action 47
Perimeter Institute Launches Modern Physics Resource 30

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