Science Stories for 2011

When Geeks Meet, Are They More Likely To Have Autistic Kids? 327
Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls 29
Light Barrier Repels Mosquitoes 135
Censored Religious Debate Video Released After Public Outrage 717
NASA: If There Was Life On Mars, It Was Likely Underground 59
Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 169
The Physics of Jump Rope 29
Intelligent Absorbent Removes Radioactive Material 107
Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers 254
India To Build A Thorium Reactor 277
Theologian Attempts Censorship After Losing Public Debate 943
New Algorithm Could Substantially Speed Up MRI Scans 115
NASA Wants To Make Tractor Beams a Reality 91
US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote 735
Human Blood Protein (HSA) From GMO Rice 89
Why Fingernails On a Chalkboard Sound Painful 176
Re-evaluating the Benefits of Cancer Screening 253
Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" 151
Progress Spacecraft Launch Successful 83
The Weight of an e-Book 243
Fish Evolve Immunity To Toxic Sludge 267
Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion 219
Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'Quantum Information Systems' 55
Droughts Linked To Global Warming 535
Quiet Cellular Antenna Tech To Boost S. African SKA Bid 38
Stanford's Open Source Human Motion Software 15
Asteroid Lutetia Revealed As a Protoplanet 102
Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules 46
Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found 156
Superluminal Neutrinos, Take Two 98
Stars Found To Produce Complex Organic Compounds 93
Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside 132
In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising 469
US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs 272
Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong 676
Google Releases Geothermal Potential Map of the US 401
Sensor Enables 3D Mapping of Rainforests 35
Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought 308
350 Years of Science Online 70
DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood 252
Mystery of an Ancient Super Nova Solved 96
US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled 299
HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys 569
Strange Video of Dancing Cloud Explained By Electric Discharge 91
Rosette Wins Loebner Prize 2011 57
Vint Cerf Answers Your Questions About IPv6 and More 150
Copiale Cipher Decoded 94
Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts 80
Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? 255
Manufacturing Dreams 114
Stanford Scientists Show Stretchable Skin-Like Sensor 19
10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater 134
Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans 473
Public Supports Geo-Engineering 164
Ask The Bad Astronomer 412
Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home To Earth 43
UK Team Misses Balloon Altitude Record, But Beats a Few Others 34
Ask Slashdot: How To Enter Private Space Industry As an Engineer? 283
Using Fuel Depots Instead of Giant Rockets 202
3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs 107
German Paleontologists Find a 'Near-Perfect' Dinosaur Fossil 99
German Satellite To Fall From Sky 107
DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones 186
Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? 371
Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tomorrow Morning 21
Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer (Again) 150
Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines 383
Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study 967
When Political Mapping Leaks Into Science Research 154
A Vigorous Discussion of Our Future In Space 111
Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) 2247
NASA To Test New Atomic Clock 79
NAND Gate Built From Bacteria 63
Youngest Exoplanet Discovered 16
Starships In a Century? 314
Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation 133
GLORIA To Give Amateur Astronomers Access To Robotic Telescopes 35
New Vaccine Halves Malaria Risk 147
Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS 402
EU Court Rules Against Stem Cell Patents For Research 84
Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2 210
Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight 59
Space Is (Not) the Place, Says Professor 376
Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route 363
Analysis of Galaxy Spin Reveals Universe Might Be Left-Handed 171
"World's Most Relaxing Music" Composed 239
Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space 272
Comet Nearly Hit Earth? Not So Fast 84
The Genetics of Happiness 129
Electrical Power From Humans 220
NASA Charters Flights Aboard Virgin's SpaceShipTwo 76
Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? 337
Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers 265
What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? 904
Pi Computed To 10 Trillion Digits 414
Scientists Discover Mechanism That Gives Shape to Life 138
Renaming the Very Large Array 176
DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115 175
FTL Neutrinos Explained... Maybe 226
Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life 298
Doing Science With Virtual Biologists 29
Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns 270
Scientists Recover Black Death RNA From Exhumed Victims 105
NASA CTO Says Help Desks May Disappear 131
NASA Game Lets You Build Complex Space Networks 47
The Mystery of Mars' Bizarre Plumbing 62
Scientists Build Wireless Bicycle Brakes 213
IBM Eyes Brain-Like Computing 100
Scientists Developed Artificial Structures That Can Self-Replicate 127
We Finally Know Why Oil and Water Don't Mix 222
T-Rex Bigger and Hungrier Than Previously Thought 104
Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered Via Crowdsourcing 21
The "Scientization" of Yucca Mountain 226
Company to Send DBA into Space 98
NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera 395
Is the OMB Trying To End Planetary Exploration? 236
Boeing Suggests Possible Manned Version of the X-37B Space Plane 87
Ancient Krakens Making Self-Portraits? 135
Researchers Dispute Closing of the Bruce Ivins Anthrax Case 82
Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs Prove Successful In South Korea 125
Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base 264
Man With Quadriplegia Controls Robot Arm With Mind 70
Astronauts As Alien Life Hunters? 172
The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama 334
Graphene 'Big Mac' — One Step Closer To Microchips 50
Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons 153
Oldest Submerged City Visualized With CGI 84
Mars Rover Curiosity Sealed Up For Launch 87
Graphene Creates Electricity When Struck By Light 132
LHC Gets Android App 53
The Importance — and Limits — of Very Large Data Sets 17
Australia's Iconic Parkes Telescope Turns 50 30
Indian Mathematician Takes Shot At Proving Riemann Hypothesis 160
Astronomers Find Three Exoplanets In Old Hubble Images 48
Can Relativity Explain Faster Than Light Particles? 315
Human "Cloning" Makes Embryonic Stem Cells 111
EU Sending a Probe To the Sun 160
US Scientists Invited To Russian Yeti Hunt 195
Neal Stephenson On 'Innovation Starvation' 437
Could Electron Counts Detect Major Earthquakes? 106
Dan Shechtman Wins Chemistry Nobel For Quasicrystals 74
Severe Arctic Ozone Loss 259
2011 Nobel Prize In Physics 119
Climate Change Driving War? 178
For Academic Publishing, Princeton Goes Open Access By Default 101
Should Science Be King In Politics? 737
Japan Re-Opens Some Towns Near Fukushima 178
NASA, Google Award $1.35M For Ultra-Efficient Electric Aircraft 89
New Close-Ups of Saturn's Geyser Moon 89
UK To Get £50m Graphene Research Hub 40
World's Most Powerful Telescope Begins Search For Origin of the Universe 82
Exploding Toilet Injures Two Government Workers 4
3 Share Nobel Prize In Medicine For Immune System Work 75
Children Helped Decorate Prehistoric Caves of France 72
Ask Slashdot: How to Exploit Post-Cataract Ultraviolet Vision? 350
Michael Nielsen's Free Video Courseware On Quantum Computing 54
Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years 458
Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot 140
SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability 227
2011 Ig Nobel Prizes 61
Put On Your 3D Glasses — Class Is About To Start 80
Mercury Turns Out To Be a Weird Little World 90
Why Chilies Are Hot and Yogurt Puts Out the Fire 184
Patent Trolls In Biotechnology 50
China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module 178
Panasonic To Unveil New Helper Robots 41
A Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Warm Earth Analogs 188
Tevatron Has Come To the End of Its Run 115
NASA To Demonstrate Largest-Ever Solar Sail in Space 91
Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics 92
Science Manual For US Judges 123
Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly 1345
150th Anniversary of Greenhouse Climate Theory 407
Encoding Messages In Bacteria 52
HIV Vaccine Trial Shows 90% Immune Response 386
Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court 1019
New Supercomputer Boosts Aussie SKA Telescope Bid 32
Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science 271
Scientists Restore Lost Brain Function In Rat With Synthetic Device 75
MRI Magnets Cause Nystagmus 120
Drunken Parrot Season Starts in Australia 97
Purdue Researchers Demonstrate Low-Power, Fast FeTRAM Memory 50
NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare 84
Developer Seeks FDA Approval For Therapeutic Game 48
Rite Aid Drug Stores Offer Virtual Doc Visits 138
Does Famous Exoplanet 'Fomalhaut b' Really Exist? 40
Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested 412
Irish Man's Death Ruled Spontaneous Combustion 224
The Mythical Tunnel Between CERN and Central Italy 303
Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge 206
AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough 417
NASA: Satellite Debris Probably Hit Pacific, But Room For Doubt 65
Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? 393
High School Student Launches a Trash Bag Aircraft 103
NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada 62
Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History 228
EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers 394
NASA Rolls Out Space Exploration Roadmap 128
MIT Working On Industrial-Scale Graphene Printing Press 60
Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts 203
Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons 190
Brain Imaging Reveals the Movies In Our Mind 141
Neil Armstrong To NASA: You're Embarrassing 409
Why We Love Things We Build Ourselves 263
Physicists Devise Magnetic Shield 90
CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos 1088
New Images of Tumbling US Satellite From Theirry Legaullt 100
UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project 86
Brain Power Boosted With Electrical Stimulation 153
What You Eat Affects Your Genes 249
Storing Hydrogen At Room Temperature 152
NASA Announces Space Apps Challenge 42
Deep-Sea Squid Mate and Run 62
NASA Looking To Power Spacecraft With Lasers 91
Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cell Produces Hydrogen 58
New Transistor Could Let Chips Interface With Living Systems 72
Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV 171
Atlas Takes Heat For Melting Glacier Claim 429
The Search For Apollo 10's "Snoopy" 116
Breath Detector To Help Find Earthquake Survivors 62
Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment 519
Gamers Piece Together Retrovirus Enzyme Structure 149
Seagulls Spreading Resistant Bacteria On Beaches 94
Stunning Time Lapse of the Earth From the ISS 180
Artificial Blood Vessels Created On a 3D Printer 33
Israel To Join CERN As First Non-European Member 351
Are Small Rocky Worlds Naked Gas Giants? 91
NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite 74
Inspector General Investigated For Muzzling Inconvenient Science 276
An Easy Recipe For Quantum Dots 35
Purdue Students Building Moon Lander Rocket 42
Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa 160
Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week 185
Printing a Building 112
Soyuz Capsule Return Marred By Mystery Communications Blackout 97
Don't Study the Video Game, Study the Gamer 163
Dinosaur Feathers Found In Amber 190
NASA's Big Telescope Avoids Death-by-Budget-Cut 123
Robot To Slowly Run Ironman Triathlon Course 71
First Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Two Stars 88
Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds 225
NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech 77
Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal 259
Algorithm Predicts New Superhard Materials 85
Star Rips Exoplanet To Shreds With X-Rays 62
Bejeweled Yields Cognitive Benefit In Older Adults 82
Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment 292
NASA Unveils Design for New Space Launch System 288
Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law 380
An $80 Open Source Chemical Analyzer 51

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