Science Stories for 2011

GE Unveils Fridge-Recycling Behemoth 52
Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer 209
Thermal Imaging Lie Detector In Development 183
Amazon's Bezos Seeks Spacecraft Patents 71
"Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains 627
NASA Sells Space Food, Shuttle Tiles To Schools 120
Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method 821
theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles 136
Boosting Battery Storage With Seaweed 59
IBM's Watson To Help Diagnose, Treat Cancer 150
50 New Exoplanets Found, Billions More Await 208
Appropriations Bill Threatens Future Space Science Missions 233
Glowing Cats a New Tool in AIDS Research 107
Polymer Gel Shows Promise For Smaller, Cheaper Batteries 108
How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive 133
NASA's Twin GRAIL Craft On Their Way To the Moon 42
Kepler Discovers 'Phantom' Exoplanet 78
Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? 698
New Skeleton Finds May Revamp History of Human Evolution 131
The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany 394
Defunct Satellite To Fall From the Sky 168
DoT Grants $15M To Test Car-To-Car Communication 263
Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans 331
UK Joins Laser Nuclear Fusion Project 199
Study Suggests Magnets Can Force You to Tell the Truth 320
Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash 102
Smartphones Can't Cure Acne, FTC Rules 205
Icelandic Rocks Suggest Meteorites Brought Gold To Earth 82
Carnegie Mellon Introduces RoboBowl To Spur Robotics Advances 32
Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side 284
Dark Matter Hinted at Again at Cresst Experiment 80
Could New Rover's Wheels Deliver Germs To Mars? 82
Satellite Captures Burning Man From Space 141
Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico 198
NASA Reveals New Images of Apollo Landing Sites 269
Paralyzed Patients Control Robot With Brain Waves 49
World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October 522
Ask Slashdot: Classroom Eco-Projects Suited To Alaska? 157
Hair Growth Signal Dictated By Fat Cells 146
Tanks Test Infrared Camouflage Cloak 309
See a Supernova From Your Backyard 182
Electric Motor Made From a Single Molecule 82
Using Stem Cells to Save Endangered Species 73
Floating Houses Designed For Low-Lying Countries 173
Cryogenic Truck Services Remote Telescopes 38
18-Year-Old Student Discovers Comet Break-Up 68
Bezos Discloses Failure of Blue Origin Rocket Test Flight 99
Report Warns of Space Junk Reaching a Tipping Point 105
Hubble Shoots Movies of Stellar Jets 30
Journal Editor Resigns Over Flawed Global Warming Paper 396
Biological 'Logic Circuit' Destroys Cancer Cells 98
Man Becomes Artist When He Sleeps 130
Chinese Submersible Planning For Record Dive 69
Astronomers Find Unusual Star 203
Portable Microscope Uses Holograms Instead of Lens 64
Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission" 93
First Von Neumann Architecture Quantum Computer 90
Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon 214
First Complete Lizard Genome Sequenced 105
Swiss Researchers Try to Make it Rain With Lasers 139
Generating Text From Functional Brain Images 82
Chemical Cocktail Turns Mice Clear 145
Russia Close To Findings On Soyuz and Proton 62
Will Climate Engineering Ever Go Prime Time? 281
Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid 481
Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels 113
Localizing Language In the Brain 79
Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination 668
Swarmanoid 'Bots Rule Air, Land, Bookshelves 41
Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System 100
Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight 360
Making Fuel With Newspapers and Bacteria 185
Baby Red Dwarf Found Just 27 Light Years Away 78
Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria 265
When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? 426
Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control 221
Joining Blood Vessels Without Sutures 54
Delivering Medicine By UAV 87
Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars 273
Ask Slashdot: Math Curriculum To Understand General Relativity? 358
Russian Resupply Crash Could Mean Leaving ISS Empty 291
Deus Ex Eyeborg Documentary Shows Today's Cyborgs 54
LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry 196
Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans 190
Emergent Gravity Disproved 102
Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon 116
Adrenaline May Damage DNA 173
Scientists Map Spiraling Light For Faster Net 62
CERN Studies Connection Between Cosmic Rays and Climate Change 193
Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle 136
Using GPS To Detect Secret Nuclear Tests 54
'Instant Cosmic Classic' Supernova Discovered 141
Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar 204
Imaging the Molecular Orbitals of Pentacene 70
Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate 961
NASA Creating Laser Communication System For Mars 104
The Least Amount of Exercise Needed To Extend Life 249
Could Assortative Mating Explain Autism? 286
When Algorithms Control the World 150
Russian Supply Vehicle To ISS Burns 184
NASA Discovers 7th Closest Star 137
Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets 91
Does Religion Influence Epidemics? 547
NASA Tries To Save Hubble's Successor 134
Origins of Lager Found In Argentina 77
Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story 1014
After Rick Perry's Stem Cell Treatment, Misplaced Enthusiasm? 340
No Higgs Just Yet 190
World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach 80
Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa 130
25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice 247
Sequencing the Weed Genome 315
Genome Researchers Wants Your Genes 165
New Mexico Spaceport Nearly Ready For Business 96
Study Shows Dogs Can Sniff Out Lung Cancer 78
Car Makers Explore EEG Headrests 77
Alaskan Village's Orange Goo Was Fungal Spores 47
Sun May Disrupt Spacecraft and Satellites In Coming Decades 70
American Grant Writing: Race Matters 464
Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission 198
13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough 410
RKK Energia Confirms Private Trip To the Moon 92
What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? 534
Computer Prediction Used to Design Better Organic Semiconductors 32
DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel 364
Company Wants You to Visit Near-Space In Their "Bloon" 135
IBM Shows Off Brain-Inspired Microchips 106
Super Scrabble Players Have Unusual Brains 142
Moon Younger Than Previously Thought 212
Virtual Lab Rat Saves Human Lives 69
Graphene In Space Offers Clues To Life On Earth 22
NASA Shoots Down Comet Elenin Doomsday Predictions 144
SpaceX Given Approval For ISS Mission 143
Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations 692
Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" 228
The Post-Idea World 368
NASA Opens New Office For Space Missions 104
Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found 76
Drug Companies Lose Special Protection On Facebook 181
Jupiter-Sized Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever (Barely) Seen 207
UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT 465
Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor — From Space 61
Cutting Edge Tech Slated For Next Mars Rover 143
Space Elevator Conference Prompts Lofty Questions 212
CERN Physicist Says Dark Matter May Be an Illusion 379
US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research 200
NAND Flash Can Verify a Device's Identity 34
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight 31
Fossil 'Suggests Plesiosaurs Did Not Lay Eggs' 79
'Electronic Skin' Grafts Gadgets To Body 31
Artificial Skin Made From Spider Silk 49
Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies 129
Scientists Modify Organism With Artificial Amino Acid 149
Human Brain Is Sensitive To Light In Ears 130
Cancer Cured By HIV 521
Australian Research Network Plans For 100Gbps 24
NASA Taps 7 Commercial Firms For Suborbital Flights 27
New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection 414
CERN To Tap Unused Desktop Power To Help Find Higgs Boson 118
Orange Goo Invades Alaskan Village 153
IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon 220
Perseid Meteor Shower To Be Hampered By Full Moon 43
Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Flare Since 2006 100
DARPA Set To Blast Falcon Mach 20 Test Flight 201
Building Blocks of DNA Confirmed In Meteorites 145
Microsoft Demonstrates Practical Homomorphic Computing 141
World's First Cybernetic Athlete To Compete 199
The Fate of the First Known Black Hole 67
Analyzing Culture With Google Books 20
Mars Rover Opportunity Set To Roll Into Its Ultimate Crater 48
Power Companies Brace For Solar Storms 111
Anti-Matter Belt Discovered Around Earth 208
Computers Could Grade Essay Tests Better Than Profs 323
SETI Finds Funds For the Allen Telescope Array (For Now) 137
Boeing Employees To Man CST-100 Crew Capsule 77
The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing 514
FOX To Host New Cosmos 206
Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps 585
Video Game-Like Programs Could Treat Schizophrenia 31
The History of Invisible Ink 41
Why Some People Don't Have Fingerprints 159
NASA's Juno Blasts Off To Investigate Jupiter 34
Probing Insulin Pumps For Vulnerabilities 81
New Chip Can Identify Liquids, Encode Messages 37
NASA Announces Discovery of Salty Water On Mars ... Maybe 204
NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter 164
NASA Briefing on New Mars Finding This Afternoon 231
Building Material Absorbs and Releases Heat 98
Giant African Rat Kills With Poisonous Mohawk 97
First Observational Test of the "Multiverse" 258
Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons 139
Use Your Car To Power Your House 271
800Mbps Wireless Network Made With LED Light Bulbs 175
NRC Study Lowers Hazard Estimate For Nuke Plants 168
NASA's Plan To Clean Up Space Program Launch Site Contamination 96
Archaeologist May Have Found the First Protractor 78
Ruling Upholds Gene Patent In Cancer Test 173
Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed 536
Evaluating the Capabilities of Chip-Sized Spacecraft 96
TN BlueCross Encrypts All Data After 57 Disks Stolen 140
New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models 954
Another Cell Phone-Cancer Study Emerges 212
South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog 139
How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments? 337
Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data 507
Researchers Say Dark Winters Led To Bigger Human Brains 167
New Type Of Artificial Lung Created 103
Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created 91
First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered 173
Car Window Touchscreens 125
Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 572
Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists 264
New Soyuz Launch Facility Near the Equator 127
The Rain On Saturn Falls Mainly From Space 75
Kepler to Investigate Newly Discovered Nebula 38
The Electric Airplane Is Coming 187
X-rays For Stargazing Turn Into Cancer Treatment 59
Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls 94
Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas 283
Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS 178
Heat 'Most Likely Cause' of Pioneer Anomaly 133
Hotspot Found On Moon's Far Side 96
Single Photons Do Not Exceed the Speed of Light 196
A Congressman and an Astronaut Propose a New Plan For NASA 221
Getting the Latest Rover To Mars 191
Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. 277
For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution 626
'The Code Has Already Been Written' 253
FDA To Scrutinize Mobile Medical Apps 142
Suggesting Innovative Uses For Retired Space Shuttles 127
New Blood Test Can Detect Alzheimers 102
Personal DNA Sequencing Machine One Step Closer 65
Astronomers Find Largest Known Extraterrestrial Water Reserve 183
Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit 86
iPhones Can Read Tattoo Ink For Medical Info 55
Release of 33GiB of Scientific Publications 242
Has LHC Seen a Hint of the Higgs? 96
Atlantis' Final Reentry Over Cancun, Mexico 26
Hybrid Human-Animal DNA Experiments Raise Concerns 311
Fond Memories of Nerd Camp 116
Atlantis Lands, Ending the Shuttle Era 256
Scientists Make Biochem "Brain" From DNA Strands 63
Scientists Study Impact of Wearing Medieval Armor 213
Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle 151
Space Shuttle Atlantis Last Night In Space Orbit 108
NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto 208
Computer Science Tools Flood Astronomers With Data 60
Dawn Takes First Pictures of Vesta From Orbit 54
Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? 306
Russia Launches Delayed Radiotelescope 35

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