Science Stories for 2011

Soyuz Lifts Off Again, Delivers Globalstar Satellites 40
Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads 149
Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? 168
Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? 283
Copyright Claim Sets Back Cognitive Impairment Testing 116
Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn 92
China Reveals Its Space Plans Up To 2016 218
What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? 225
How Doctors Die 646
FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal 172
Insects Rapidly Becoming Resistant To GM Corn 368
Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday? 233
Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel 309
IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent 455
Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply 421
Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar 725
SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? 167
America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy 900
Twin GRAIL Probes To Map Lunar Gravity Field 18
Weird Fossils Show Ancient Organism Reproducing 32
Satellite Piece Crashes Through Man's Roof 121
The Science of Santa 223
NASA To Investigate Mysterious 'Space Ball' 192
Linux-Powered Christmas Display Puts Rudolph To Shame 68
The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego 80
Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch 119
How the Tevatron Influenced Computing 66
New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops 571
Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? 229
Solar Cells Made From a Spreadable Nanoparticle Paste 66
Astronaut Photographs Comet Lovejoy ... From Space 25
ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA 66
New Particle Identified At LHC 164
Exoplanets Spotted Orbiting Dead Star 76
Liquid Metal Capsules Used To Make Self-Healing Electronics 135
New Kind of Metal Theorized To Be In the Earth's Lower Mantle 117
US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism 273
Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure 120
HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials 365
Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets 179
India To Cut Out Animal Dissection 145
Superannuated Scientists Still Productive 117
NASA Considers Sending Telescope To the Outer Solar System 152
Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle 134
Is Jupiter Dissolving Its Rocky Core? 181
Researchers Create "Mighty Mouse" With Gene Tweak 112
Fermilab's New Commercial Research Center 24
The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives 385
Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives 209
Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output 141
Smallest Known Black Hole Found 69
Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? 203
NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs 119
Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes 236
Hubble Captures the Violent Birth of a Star 102
How 3D Printing Could Help Keep the ISS In Orbit 200
Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation 85
Astronomers Find Gas Cloud About To Fall Into Black Hole 94
In Nuclear Power, Size Matters 230
NASA Developing Comet Harpoon For Sample Return 49
Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project 152
Out of Sight, Out of Mind 147
Russia Set To Extend Life of Nuclear Reactors Past Engineered Life Span 215
New Study Concludes Math Gender Gap Is Cultural, Not Biological 472
LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV 210
Isaac Newton's Notes Digitized 92
Life Possible On 'Large Regions' of Mars 154
Google Founder Offer $33M For Use of NASA Airship Hangar 86
Researchers Teach Subliminally; Matrix Learning One Step Closer 103
World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip 156
Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling 185
Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials 145
Computer Virus Forces Hospital To Divert Ambulances 213
NASA May Send Landers To Europa In 2020 156
Is the Earth Special? 745
'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into US Speech 331
Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? 845
Massive Radio Telescope Starts Observing the Skies 44
2nd SpaceX Demo Flight Slated For Feb. 7 42
Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare 157
You Really Are What You Know 188
LHC To Narrow Search For Higgs Boson 99
NASA Missing Hundreds of Moon Rocks 132
Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft 85
Rats Feel Each Other's Pain 200
17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle 255
Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa 102
IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls 93
NASA's Gypsum Find Clear Evidence There Was Water On Mars 162
Genome of Controversial Arsenic Bacterium Sequenced 56
Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents? 251
Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor 467
Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System 341
GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity 241
Quantum Coherence Found Fueling Photosynthesis 135
New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way 41
Earth's Core Made In Miniature 175
Video Gamers Advancing Genetic Research 23
'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan 50
US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life 301
Vaccine Developed Against Ebola 100
Graphene Spun Into Meter-Long Fibers 159
Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years 302
Physical Models In an Age of Computers 78
Research Data: Share Early, Share Often 138
Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable 42
Proteins Build "Cages" Around Bacteria 73
New Theory Challenges Need For Dark Matter 302
Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone 257
Ask Greg Leyh of The Lightning Foundry What Charges Him Up? 88
World's Fastest Cells Raced On Petri Dish 61
Toxic Montana Lake's Extremophiles Might Be a Medical Treasure Trove 133
What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like 92
On December 10, the Last Lunar Eclipse Until 2014 76
Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV 67
3D Video of Asteroid Vesta 26
Yeti Crab Cultivates Bacteria On Claw, Then Eats Them 49
ESA Ends Attempts To Pick Up Phobos-Grunt Signals 40
How a Computer Game Is Reinventing the Science of Expertise 60
Quantum Entanglement of Macroscopic Diamonds 160
Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements 157
Genome Researchers Have Too Much Data 239
Gene Therapy Approach 'Completely' Protects Mice From HIV Infection 190
FCC OKs On-Body Medical Networks 41
Voyager Probes Give Us ET's View 166
Using Toads to Predict Earthquakes 78
Fire Burns Differently In Space 146
UK Plans Space Based Radar System 70
Permafrost Loss Greater Threat Than Deforestation 272
Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time 491
How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars 101
Fighting Mosquitoes With GM Mosquitoes 521
Stephen Wolfram Joins The Life Boat Foundation and Bets On Singularity 214
E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy 85
Lightning-made Waves In Earth's Atmosphere Leak Into Space 72
Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator 326
'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics 515
Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility 307
Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication 754
Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13's Plutonium From the Ocean 263
Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures 1319
Restaurants Plan DNA-Certified Seafood Program 174
Huge Tesla Coils Will Recreate Natural Lightning 199
The Problem With Carbon-Cutting Programs 219
The Science of Humor 344
'Amateur' Astronomer Snaps Pic of Planet-Forming Disk 59
Spider Spins Ant-Repellent Silk 42
UK University Creates First Inkjet-Printed Graphene Circuit 60
NASA's Next Mission: Deep Space 182
In Australia, Immunize Or Lose Benefits 680
NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Set For Saturday Launch 64
Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought 413
Paul Allen Lends Personal ROV To Study Coelacanths 32
Tiny Insect Cyborgs Could Act As First Responders 25
The Myth of Renewable Energy 835
Electronic Contact Lens Displays Pixels On the Eye 126
Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See? 363
Bionic Implants and Spectrum Clash 98
The Physics of Wine Swirling 98
Lost Russian Mars Probe Phones Home 138
MIT Researchers Make Advance Toward Photonic Circuits 55
Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed 113
A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab 44
88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA 757
Ask Slashdot: Which Ph.D For Work In Applied Statistics / C.S.? 173
11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do 147
DARPA Requests Replacement To Antibiotics 193
Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School 119
DNA Test To Determine Kids' Sports Futures 240
Exoplanet Count Tops 700 128
In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration 815
Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking 438
Higgs Range Narrowed; Hunt Enters Final Stage 80
Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather 469
LHC Research May Help Explain the Universe's Matter/Antimatter Imbalance 113
Sand Dunes On Mars In Motion 55
Of Mice and Cancer 109
Study Says Quantum Wavefunction Is a Real Physical Object 373
Engineers Create World's Lightest Material 177
US Army Completes First Test Flight of Mach 6 Weapon 230
OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results 442
High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon 68
Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe 433
New Study Finds People Remember More Than They Think 172
The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs 290
Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved 161
Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon 251
Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock 209
Working On Man Made Lightning 67
Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge 358
$50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever 180
Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain 171
Life-Bearing Lake Possible On Icy Jupiter Moon 112
Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital 97
Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity 378
Romanian Accused of Breaking Into NASA 169
MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses 220
Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape 420
Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut 86
Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol 191
Deep-sea Camouflage Tactics Revealed 61
Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? 288
Bad Astronomer Phil Plait Responds 55
Plasma-Filled Bags Could Replace the Petri Dish 43
Cray Replaces IBM To Build $188M Supercomputer 99
Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material 298
In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner 619
Canary Islands Eruption Could Create New Land 93
Ask Slashdot: Crowdfunding For Science — Can It Succeed? 153
Commercial Space: Spirit of Apollo Or Spirit of Solyndra? 157
X-ray Facility To Simulate Conditions At Earth's Core 37
Russians Can't Make Contact With Busted Space Probe 117
Helium White Dwarf Stars Bear New Quasiparticle 28
Pristine Big Bang Gas Found 220
Programming Cells, With CellOS 58
The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory 215
IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years 1105
NASA Successfully Test Fires J-2X Engine. 119
NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating 132
FBI Takes Out $14M DNS Malware Operation 57
One-Molecule Nanocar Takes a Test Drive 51
Tying Molecules In Knots 12
End Bonuses For Bankers 548
Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment 252
Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered 134
Phobos-Grunt Launches To Retrieve a Sample of Phobos 65
The Stroke of Genius Strikes Later In Life Than It Used To 162
NASA Snaps New Photo of Incoming Asteroid 135
Spotted Horses May Have Roamed Europe 25,000 Years Ago 87
World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario 760
Gecko-Inspired Tape Can Be Reused Thousands of Times 95
One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals 412
Computer-Controlled Cyborg Yeast 61
Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? 841
Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism 247
Google Maps, Disease Risk, and Migration 34
Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness 189
AT&T Pushes 'Connected' Clothing For Healthcare 63
Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole 76
Mathematically Pattern-Free Music 234
Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard 260
Simulated Mars Mission 'Returns' After 520 Days 201
EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime 575
Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel 59
NASA Plans App Store For Scientists 36
China Completes First Space Docking Test 106
Watch the Fiery Re-entry of Progress Module 27
Fine Structure Constant May Not Be So Constant 273
3D Printed Bone Models Cut Cost of Surgery Operations 88
Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking 318

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