Science Stories for 2009

Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ 568
NASA WISE Telescope Starts Taking Pics 43
Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid 305
The Neuroscience of Screwing Up 190
Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow 202
Impressive Robot Hand From Shadow 101
Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills 403
Photovoltaic Eye Implant Could Give Sight To the Blind 15
North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux 346
Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning 238
Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught 162
Critics Call For NASA TV To "Liven Up" 305
Real-World Synthehol In Development 273
Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off 260
Scientists Create First Functional Molecular Transistor 57
50 Years of Domesticating Foxes For Science 347
The Science of Santa 76
Launching Frequently Key To NASA Success 145
Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons 32
More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet 107
Is Neurostim Becoming a Reality? 249
The Science of Avatar 275
Feathered Dinosaurs Were Venomous Predators 8
NASA and Space Station Alliance On Shaky Ground 73
Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys 284
Demo For NASA MMO Coming In January 84
Typing With Your Brain 262
Body Heat Energy Generation 214
Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species 274
New Antifreeze Molecule Isolated In Alaskan Beetle 108
OSU President Cans Anthrax Vaccine Research On Primates 230
Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148
Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas 336
Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture 241
Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan 197
Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light 30
Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern 181
Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons 46
Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget 391
Dark Matter Particles May Have Been Detected 156
The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid 391
Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361
Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? 141
Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated 715
94 New Species Described By CA Academy of Sciences 52
Nearby "Super Earth" May Have Atmosphere 7
Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of Cancer 235
Herschel's First Science Results, Eagle Nebula 91
Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death 149
Using Hacked Wiimotes As Scientific Sensors 110
Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249
Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205
The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242
NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space 139
Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics 334
Bacterial Prisoner's Dilemma and Game Theory 95
Mediterranean Might Have Filled In Months 224
The Limits To Skepticism 1093
Nanotech Ink Turns Paper Into a Low-Cost Battery 129
House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention 209
White House Plans Open Access For Research 74
Mars Express Captures Phobos and Deimos 84
Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? 114
Science Gifts For Kids? 368
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88
Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered 128
How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine 392
Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show 236
Robot Can Read Human Body Language 114
The Science Credibility Bubble 1747
Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels 139
Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall 120
Company Trains the Autistic To Test Software 419
Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? 418
NASA Tests Flying Airbag 118
New Hubble Ultra Deep Field In Infrared 95
LHC Reaches Record Energy 347
Monkeys With Syntax 197
Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials 425
Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms 297
New Sensory System Found In the Skin 8
Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next 193
Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo 260
Tiger Woods Gives Science Education a Boost 5
Yale Researchers Find New RNA Structures 90
How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence 928
DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours 129
Aussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor 96
Reducing One Amino Acid Could Increase Lifespan 286
Air Force Extends Plug-and-Play Spacecraft 77
How To See Through an Invisibility Cloak 201
ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space 89
Scientific Journal Nature Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak 736
What Drugs Do Astronauts Take? 132
Man Controls Cybernetic Hand With Thoughts 81
SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing 295
MIT and the DARPA Network Challenge 68
Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer 91
Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer 320
Brazilian Twin Mystery the Result of Nazi Experiment? 14
Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 112
University Fails to Find Man Who Hasn't Seen Porn 32
Brain of Patient H.M. Being Sliced, Streamed Live 199
SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation 621
Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout 874
LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure 338
NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container 55
Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219
Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers 83
Scientists Create Artificial Meat 820
LHC Reaches Over One Trillion Electron Volts 305
New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested 130
In Motor Learning, New Brain Connections Form Rapidly 55
Where the Global Warming Data Is 1011
NASA Campaigns For Safer Launch Requirements 193
STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights 117
Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem 452
Tapering Waveguide Captures a Rainbow 72
Herschel Spectroscopy of Future Supernova 21
Algae Could Be the Key To Ultra-Thin Batteries 54
Cassini Captures Saturn's Northern Lights 33
New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars 186
Cancer Vaccine That Mimics Lymph Node 53
Engaging With Climate Skeptics 822
Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds 237
Life and Work On the LHC At CERN 81
The World's First Osmotic Power Plant 262
Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132
Tag Images With Your Mind 64
Ants That Can Count 162
Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game" 55
STEREO Satellites Spot Solar Flare Tsunami 89
Brain Scans Used In Murder Sentencing 328
Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331
New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time 575
Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime 141
Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space 83
Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut 120
Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls 224
LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting 324
Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort 801
After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo 249
Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? 554
Light Resonators Used To Move Nano-Sized Objects 63
New Research Forecasts Global 6C Increase By End of Century 746
WHO Says Swine Flu May Have Peaked In the US 138
Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? 1078
Anti-Smoking Vaccine Is Nearing the Market 237
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115
Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked 882
Dark Energy, Life Searches Make Strange Bedfellows 68
Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 314
Dating Help For Nuclear Geeks 8
Spaceworms To Help Study Astronaut Muscle Loss 73
Heart Disease Plagued the Ancient Egyptians 12
Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries 221
Sugar-Sensitive Tattoos Could Make Life Easier For Diabetics 5
When a DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt, Who Gets the Data? 114
Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding 242
IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines 428
NASA Willing To Team With China; Rumors of a Budget Cut 200
Engineered Bacteria Glows To Reveal Land Mines 248
NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears 881
New Zealand To Launch First Private Space Rocket 96
Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen 375
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning 87
"Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered 255
"Pathfinders" Take Shape For Galileo, Europe's GPS 105
New Dating Sites Match People Through DNA Tests 278
The Space Garbage Scow, ala Cringely 221
NIF Aims For the Ultimate Green Energy Source 234
Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys 614
Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres 111
The Mass Production of Living Tissue 157
Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721
NASA To Try Powering Mars Rover "Spirit" Out of Sand Trap 118
NASA's LCROSS Mission Proves Lunar Ice Suspicions 177
Rosetta Fly-By To Probe "Pioneer Anomaly" 89
The Math of a Fly's Eye May Prove Useful 90
Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers 314
Keeping Pacemakers Safe From Hackers 167
90% of 200 CUNY Students Can't Do Basic Algebra Problems 20
Bug Wears Armor Made of Poo 6
NASA, European Space Agency Want To Go To Mars 129
Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco 105
Mimicking Materials and Structures In Nature 92
New Dinosaur Species Discovered In South Africa 2
Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA 111
Unknown 7m Asteroid Almost Impacted Earth 289
US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast 154
NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab 264
What Computer Science Can Teach Economics 421
Researchers Neutralize Parkinson's Dopamine Killers 105
Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space 247
Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? 978
Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler 227
Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House 1698
Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope 50
Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb 250
Antimatter In Lightning 169
Enzyme Found To Help Formation of New Axons 88
CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System 102
Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists 342
Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth 39
LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird 478
NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight 203
LaserMotive Finds Success In Space Elevator Competition 258
Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels 475
Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two 170
Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart 808
Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence 507
Placebo Effect Caught In the Act In Spinal Nerves 167
Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core 234
The Tech Aboard the International Space Station 183
2 Companies Win NASA's Moon-Landing Prize Money 110
Scientists Build a Smarter Rat 302
Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean 168
Europe Launches Flood-Predicting Satellite and Test Probe 28
NASA Trying To Reinvent Their Approach 123
Fruit Bats Have Oral Sex Too 17
Bacteria Could Survive In Martian Soil 90
Computer Activities for Those With Speech and Language Difficulties? 145
Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women 411
Plowing Carbon Into the Fields 467
Moon-Excavation Robots Face Off 61
Why Computers Suck At Math 626
Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars 177
Masten Qualifies For $1 Million Space Prize 40
Hunt For Earth-Like Planets Delayed 56
How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA 279
Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code 234
How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? 823
Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis 449
Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules 227
Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells 251
Pliosaur Skull Found In Dorset 2
Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students 551
Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine 297
"Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket 383
The Best Medications For Your Genes 75
Discovery of "Cancer-Proof" Rodent Cells 118
Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man 536
Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT 260
New Optomechanical Crystal Allows Confinement of Light and Sound 91
Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior 250
"2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 600
Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia 177

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