Science Stories for 2013

Jade Rabbit Spotted By American Eagle (LRO) 58
What Would French Fries Taste Like If You Made Them On Jupiter? 165
Mars Express Orbiter Buzzes Martian Moon Phobos 39
New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution 1010
Mars One Selects Second Round Candidate Astronauts 216
Brain Function "Boosted For Days After Reading a Novel" 110
Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294
Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? 189
Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies 87
The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon 132
Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings 141
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
NASA's LLCD Tests Confirm Laser Communication Capabilities In Space 107
NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' 59
First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 67
Metamaterials Developed To Bend Sound Waves, Deflect Tsunamis 110
Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice 209
The Archaeology of Beer 89
Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander 125
Earth's Orbit Reshapes Sea Floor 55
Apollo 8 Astronaut Re-Creates 1968 Christmas Broadcast To Earth 152
Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength 44
Smaller Than Earth-Sized Exomoon Discovered? 25
Researchers Use Electroconvulsive Therapy To Disrupt Recall of Nasty Events 96
Spacesuit Problems Delay ISS Repair Spacewalk 70
Huge Pool of Ice-Free Water Discovered Under Greenland Ice 135
Ask Slashdot: Working With Others, As a Schizophrenic Developer? 218
Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump 90
French Team Implants First Long-Term Artificial Heart 106
Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' 157
Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery 84
Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data 108
Scientists Reverse Muscle Aging In Mice 34
How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo In Space History 108
Astronomers Discover When Galaxies Got Their Spirals 56
China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn 215
How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources 365
Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off 77
Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades 189
"Perfect" Electron Roundness Bruises Supersymmetry 150
Using Supercomputers To Find a Bacterial "Off" Switch 30
Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding 109
NASA's Greatest Challenges In 2014 97
Fomalhaut C Has a Huge Cometary Debris Ring And, Potentially, Exoplanets 32
Scientists Print Retinal Cells 41
Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests 562
Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog 147
Multidrug Resistance Gene Released By Chinese Wastewater Treatment Plants 111
Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors 84
Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits 554
Interview: Ask Forrest Mims About Rockets, Electronics, and Engineering 120
First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication 144
Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math 170
FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps 160
Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee 76
NASA Testing Lighter Space Suits For Asteroid Work 54
The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder 246
Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander 268
No Longer "Noble"; Argon Compound Found In Space 110
SpaceX Wins Use of NASA's Launch Pad 39A 99
Programming Molecules To Let Chemicals Make Decisions 28
Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully 250
Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover Landing Slated For 13:40 UTC Saturday 90
Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage 213
NASA's Next Mars Mission Will Join the Interplanetary Internet 53
'Darkness Ray' Beams Invisibility From a Distance 86
Pulsar Gets the Munchies, Snacks On an Asteroid 54
Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million 586
Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa 74
You Are What Your Dad Ate 130
Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 216
Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts 370
Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown 49
Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies 172
Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram 433
Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race 137
New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason 674
Private Mars One Mission Contracts Lockheed For Exploratory Mission 35
Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified 182
Nobel Winner Schekman Boycotts Journals For 'Branding Tyranny' 106
Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After the Big Bang, Says Cosmologist 312
Neural Prosthetic Acts Like "Bridge" Over Damaged Brain Areas 54
Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Ancient Lakebed 74
Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories 129
Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking 377
Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean 273
How China Will Get To the Moon Before a Google Lunar XPrize Winner 173
Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar 122
New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering 92
Do Earthquakes Spread Like Wildfire? 26
Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System 175
Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore 326
Killer Qualities of Japanese Fault Revealed 58
The Climate of Middle-Earth 163
Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today 308
Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? 670
After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information 146
U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 462
Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers 259
Cassini Gets Amazing Views of Saturn's Hexagon 50
First Images of a Heart Injected With Liquid Metal 115
Visual Guide – the Making of a DIY Space Capsule 40
Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice 160
Two Supermassive Black Holes About To Embrace 171
Scientists Boost the "Will To Persevere" With Current To the Brain 127
Moon Express Unveils Next Moon Lander 79
Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work 406
Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species 93
Medical Radioactive Material Truck Stolen In Mexico 98
NASA Will Send Seeds to the Moon In 2015 92
Plastic Waste Threatens Marine Diversity 48
SpaceX Launch Achieves Geostationary Transfer Orbit 131
A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement 186
The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' 509
New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates 263
Three New Exoplanets Seen In Direct Photographs 43
Mathematical Model of Zombie Epidemics Reveals Two Types of Living-Dead Strains 163
New MIT Camera Takes 3D Photos in the Dark 45
Crowdsourcing the Discovery of New Antibiotics 73
Harvesting Power When Freshwater Meets Salty 151
Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons 641
Scientists Find Olfactory "Memory" Passed Between Generations In Mice 118
Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties 46
Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms 120
Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders 234
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes 332
How Much of ISON Survived Its Closest Approach To the Sun? 84
Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought 135
Chinese Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover On Its Way After Successful Launch 101
A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime 260
Research Suggests One To Three Men Fathered Most Western Europeans 253
Indian Mars Probe Successfully Enters Sun-Centric Orbit 132
Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well 644
Google Supercomputers Tackle Giant Drug-Interaction Data Crunch 50
Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? 90
China's First Lunar Lander To Launch Today; Manned Mission Planned By 2030 137
Ask Slashdot: Scientific Computing Workflow For the Cloud? 80
Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle 356
Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted 341
Comet ISON Survives Perihelion (Barely) 62
Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records 784
Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria 78
ESA's Long-Term Plan To Investigate the Invisible Universe 26
U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks 23
The Best Way To Blow the Whistle 141
Psychologists Strike a Blow For Reproducibility 138
Comet ISON Approaches Perihelion 39
How Heroin Addicts Helped Scientists Link Pesticides and Parkinson's 109
European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why 304
Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad 961
Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film 398
Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools 710
FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service 371
BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" 321
Beer Drinking Networks In Amazon Tribe Help Explain Altruism 157
Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality 494
Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition 194
The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath 241
New Dinosaur 'Siats Meekerorum' Discovered In Utah 33
Detecting Chemicals Through Bone 23
Scientists Forced To Reexamine Theories In Light of Massive Gamma-Ray Burst 128
Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements 149
Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future 453
Mars Rock Older Than Thought 37
Ask Slashdot: How Reproducible Is Arithmetic In the Cloud? 226
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99
At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos 109
Bionic Eye Implant Available In US Next Month 102
ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' 52
HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who 203
NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon 193
Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives 238
3D-Printed Dinosaur Bones "Like Gutenberg's Printing Press" For Paleontologists 39
New Smart Glasses Allow Nurses To See Veins Through Skin 124
Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA 343
Mathematicians Team Up To Close the Prime Gap 194
Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? 237
CubeSat Launch Visible Around U.S. East Coast Tonight 34
Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies 282
Why Not Fund SETI With a Lottery Bond? 191
Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat 93
Chicxulub Impact Might Have Spread Life-Bearing Rocks Through the Solar System 161
Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb 243
MAVEN Ready To Launch Today 55
12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too 134
Comet ISON Nears Date With Sun 45
Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites 51
Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? 328
U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium 172
Smithsonian Releases 3D Models of Artifacts 47
Experts Hail Quantum Computer Memory Stability Breakthrough 53
First Lab Demonstration That the Ability To Evolve Can Itself Evolve 72
Hotel Tycoon Seeks Property Rights On the Moon 248
Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe 143
Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated 366
We're Safe From the Latest SARS-Like Disease...For the Moment 106
Viruses Boost Performance of Lithium-Air Battery Used In Electric Cars 66
Building an 'Invisibility Cloak' With Electromagnetic Fields 71
Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC 263
India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup 73
Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun 342
Sunlight Helps Turn Salty Water Fresh 58
Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility 182
Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World 445
How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov 499
NASA's Mars Orbiter Reaches Data Milestone 68
GOCE Satellite Burned Up Over Falkland Islands 107
Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" 328
International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts 226
NASA's Robonaut Gets Its Legs; Could a Moonwalk Be In Its Future? 63
Study Explains Why Lunar Craters Are Bigger On the Near Side 85
Sochi Olympic Torch Taken On Historic Spacewalk 80
GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land 122
Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It 63
Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality 95
"War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov 346
Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists 134
"Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced 16
A Chat with Kristian von Bengtson, co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals (Video) 26
Scientists Says Jellyfish Are Taking Over the Oceans 274
Healthcare.gov Official Resigns, Website Still a Disaster 559
Monkeys Use Minds To Control Avatar Arms 43
Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency 382
Chelyabinsk-Sized Asteroid Impacts May Be More Common Than We Thought 50
Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results 340
Oil Recovery May Have Triggered Texas Tremors 172
Cold War Spoils: Amateur Builds Telescope With 70-Inch Lens 101
After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way 166
Robotic Surgery Complications Going Underreported 99
India To Launch Mars Orbiter "Mangalyaan" Tuesday 109
One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet 142
10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova 214
Hoax-Proofing the Open Access Journals 114
Why Organic Chemistry Is So Difficult For Pre-Med Students 279
Thanks to Neutrino Detector, We Might Get a Good Look At the Next Supernova 85
Exploiting Tomorrow's Solar Eclipse To Help Understand Sea Levels 92
HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? 400
A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core 663
A MathML Progress Report: More Light Than Shadow 84
How Earth's Biosignature Will Change As the Planet Dies 95
Cornell Team Says It's Unified the Structure of Scientific Theories 115
Scientists Using Supercomputers To Puzzle Out Dinosaur Movement 39
Computing Inside a Living Cell 41
Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov 404
Artificial Blood Made In Romania 232
Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit 86
Microsoft Research Uses Kinect To Translate Between Spoken and Sign Languages 79
Kepler-78b: The Earth-Like Planet That Shouldn't Exist 110
Root of Maths Genius Sought 251
UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor 163

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