Science Stories for 2008

Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler 265
Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos 238
NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona 59
Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies 105
Small Bird Astounds Scientists With 11,200km Flight 99
Armadillo Aerospace Takes Level 1 Lunar Lander Prize 50
Underground Lab To Probe Ratio of Matter To Antimatter 82
Hubble Repairs Hindered By Antiquated Computer Systems 193
$29M To Start US Satellite Protection Program 74
Storing Qubits In Nuclei 90
Stellar Seismologists Record "Music" From Stars 102
Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria Could Provide Clean Energy 57
User Interface of Major Oscilliscope Brands? 281
Evolutionary Scientists Test-Drive Spore, Gripe 252
First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip 528
Scientists Erase Specific Memories In Mice 320
Inside the World's Most Advanced Planetarium 133
Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer 283
New State of Matter Could Extend Moore's Law 329
X-Rays Emitted From Ordinary Scotch Tape 190
Indian Moon Mission Launched 305
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable 419
Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells 198
Robotic Surgery On a Beating Heart 54
Simulation of the Mars Science Laboratory Sky Crane 195
Scientists To Post Individuals' DNA Sequences To Web 219
Researchers Discover The Most Creative Time of Day 154
Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 544
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False 259
NASA's IBEX Ready For Launch 28
B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams 343
Tax Write-Offs For Free (As In Speech) Work? 198
Researchers Build Logic Gates With RNA 58
Lunar Spacecraft Compete For $2 Million NASA Prize 48
"Stayin Alive" Helps You Stay Alive 31
Old Materials Resurface For "Prebiotic Soup" 263
CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident 149
Mars Lander Instrument Waving In the Martian Wind 46
The Smell of Space 70
Colliding Galaxies Reveal Colossal Black Holes 134
Internet Use Can Be Good For the Brain 114
Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are 592
Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys 180
Arctic Sea Ice Rallies a Bit 152
Patient "Roused From Coma" By a Magnetic Therapy 123
NASA To Repair Hubble By Remote Control 53
Study Shows Worm Grunters Imitate Moles 110
Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics 425
Banjo Used In Brain Surgery 164
Do Nerds Have Better Sperm? 178
The Quietest Sun 227
Mysteries Swirl Around Cyclones At Saturn's Poles 67
DIY Live Photos From ISS 42
CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" 316
Repairing Genetic Mutations With Lasers? 65
Current Scientific Publishing Methods Problematic 154
Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test 580
Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss 405
People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars 473
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit 696
Baldness Gene Discovered — 1 In 7 Men "At Risk" 297
Soyuz With Richard Garriott Successfully Launched 56
The Rise of the (Financial) Machines 403
A Robot To Destroy Breast Cancer Cells 81
Loebner Talks AI 107
Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight 38
Looking For Earth-Like Exoplanets 73
Arthropod Chain Gangs 43
How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement 888
Algorithms Can Make You Pretty 288
Messenger Sends First Full Fly-By Image of Mercury 55
Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? 292
Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over 857
Odd Planet Confuses Scientists 142
Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings 161
Watching Brain Cells In Action 37
Fluorescent Protein Research Lands Scientists Nobel Prize 79
Asteroid Explodes Over Sudan 114
Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone 111
Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet 142
UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle 121
Next-Gen Mars Rover In Danger of Cancellation 210
Solyndra's Thin-Film Solar Cells Draw $1.2 Billion In Orders 131
Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS 60
Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel 67
Fungus Fire Spores With 180,000 G Acceleration 69
Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth 397
Scientists Claim Breakthrough On Holographic Display 123
Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow 135
Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West 216
Spacecraft Buzzes By Mercury 62
No Naked Black Holes 317
Mimicking Electric Eel Cells 71
Birth of a New African Ocean 261
NASA Holding Space Vs. Earth Chess Game 36
Dispelling Myths About Geomagnetic Reversal 158
Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project 97
Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer 89
CERN Launches Huge LHC Computing Grid 46
6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night 67
Seeing With Your Skin? 138
Irrelevant Scientific Research Honored 93
Training Bacteria To Deliver Drugs? 29
No Space Porn (For Now) 260
Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics 125
Scientists Closer To Creating Artificial Noses 99
AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old 316
Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? 344
New Type of Atomic Microscope On the Way 50
Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics 299
Space Tourist Simonyi Prepares For Second Flight 31
New Robot Submarine From MIT 8
The 23 Toughest Math Questions 340
First Photos of the Reentry of the ATV "Jules Verne" 87
Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf 582
Another Way the LHC Could Self-Destruct 367
Tsunami Invisibility Cloak 172
Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow 118
Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold 141
World's Oldest Rocks Found 254
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit 518
Safe Stem Cells Produced From Adult Cells 207
Disappointing Cancer Study Results Go Unreported 77
Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk 310
Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674
Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing On Mars 61
Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook 756
China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch 307
Exploring Europe's Shipwrecks, Virtually 10
How To Import Raw Political Data For Crunching 34
Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts 784
NASA Upgrades Weather Research Supercomputer 71
NASA Uses Rubber Ducks In Climate Study 33
Ancient Yeast Used To Brew Modern Beer 106
LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) 298
SpaceX Flight 4 Launch Postponed 59
"Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe 583
SpaceX's Fourth Launch Attempt RSN 71
Saturn's Rings May Be Very Old 125
Bringing Giant Tortoises Back From Extinction 125
Mars Rover's Epic Trek For the Crater Endeavor 145
Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved 77
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator 696
Naphthalene Found In Outer Space 180
Endeavour Rolled Out As Rescue Ship 110
US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" 226
Second Snag This Week Could Delay LHC for Weeks 160
Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear 800
Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month 176
LHC Shut Down By Transformer Malfunction 293
Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? 567
7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell 719
IAU Names Fifth Dwarf Planet Haumea 94
China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station 340
Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors 250
First Image of a Planet Orbiting a Sun-Like Star 131
Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns 658
Congress May Kill NIH Open Access Research Rules 105
New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes 266
India Launches Open Source Drug Discovery 30
NASA Announces Next Mars Mission 152
NASA Patents To Be Auctioned 224
Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space 716
Indian Woman Convicted of Murder By Brain Scan 453
Nanotech Paint To Kill Bacteria 208
Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes 892
Tying Knots With Light 125
Phoenix Lander Photographs Martian Whirlwinds 92
45th and 46th Mersenne Primes Confirmed 47
Greek Hackers Target CERN's LHC 445
When Dinosaurs Battled Crurotarsans 181
Interplanetary Internet Tested In Space 124
NASA Developing Small Nuclear Reactor For the Moon 431
'Super Steel' Sought For Fusion Reactors 421
Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? 621
Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed 625
Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine 197
SpaceX Gets Operational License For Cape Canaveral 133
LHC Success! 1007
Learning the Scientific Method From Games 67
Biologist (Almost) Creates Artificial Life 539
LHC Flips On Tomorrow 526
"Water Bears" First Animals to Survive Trip Into Space Naked 235
US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds 314
Are 68 Molecules Enough To Understand Diseases? 133
China's First Spacewalk 148
In Leaked Email, NASA Chief Vents On Shuttle Program's End 424
Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier 214
The Open Source Humanoid Robot and Its Many Uses 93
Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" 215
Tabula Rasa Promotion To Send Gamers' DNA to Space 90
Canadian Researchers Say Hard Thinking Leads To Big Meals 150
Wi-Fi, Now Available On the ISS 142
Identifying a Culprit In a Bloodbath 47
Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Encounters Rare Asteroid 40
NASA To Explore "Secret Layer" of the Sun 75
Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth 196
Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory 381
Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered 485
Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction 270
Physicists Discover "Doubly Strange" Particle 260
Virtual Telescope Zooms In On Milky Way Black Hole 181
Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off 736
"Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST 114
"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week 280
Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US 455
Possible Monogamy Gene Found In People 440
How NASA Prepares To Rescue Hubble, In Photos 37
The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 571
New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon 290
ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years 141
Live Architecture — Grow Your Own Home 106
Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter 145
Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label 83
Shuttle Retirement In 2010 Under Review 210
Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire 550
Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans 712
Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing 455
To Boldly Go Where No Mento Has Gone Before 143
Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians 103
Rocket Racing League Flights With Armadillo Engine 73
Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance 418
MIT Secretly Built Mega-Efficient Nano Batteries 195
Scientists Use Virus To Reprogram Adult Cells In Mice 36
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research 460
Rover Exiting Crater To Continue Martian Marathon 150
New Map From Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope 34
45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? 396
Space Cube – the World's Smallest Linux PC 265
Computer Virus Aboard the ISS 290
First Oort Cloud Object May Have Been Discovered 110
"Shimmer Vision" Scopes See Better Using Heat 148
Scientists Discover Cows Point North 558
New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal 505
LHC Fully Documented Online 239
Software To Provide Astronaut Counseling 116
Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive 659
Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots 132
Solar Plane Breaks Endurance Record 134
California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen 495
NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse 1331
Could There Be Life On Titan? 122
How To See In Four Dimensions 227
Solving Sudoku With dpkg 190
Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer 113
Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes 88
DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi 285
NASA's Orion Mock-Up Fails Parachute Test 163
2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century 1039
Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans 559

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