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IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines
Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon
New Kind of Orbit Could Ease Mars Communications
Front Row Seats To NASA's Lunar Impact
Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence
12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000
First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth
Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA
Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space
Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart
Birth of a New African Ocean
Candy Linked To Violence In Study
New Dinosaur Species Discovered In South Africa
Frozen Mice Cloned
32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope
Neural Implant To Give Control of Paralyzed Arms
Google's PageRank Predicts Nobel Prize Winners
Indian Moon Mission Launched
Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs
Clean Smells Promote Ethical Behavior
Europe Launches Flood-Predicting Satellite and Test Probe
For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss
LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird
Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls
Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth
Scientists Discover How DNA Is Folded Within the Nucleus
The Best Medications For Your Genes
What Computer Science Can Teach Economics
A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread
Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test
Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test
LHC Success!
Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler
Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes
Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed
NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Moister Mars
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web
Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964
Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies
Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone
Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada
Functional Neurons Created From Adult Somatic Cells
Dutch Town Lays Air-Purifying Concrete
Oldest Skeleton In New World Discovered
Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing?
Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West
The Phoenix Has Landed
Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics
Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?
US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles
Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare
Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery
How Water Forms in Interstellar Space at 10K
Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking
Lunar Oxygen and Water Production Tech Tested
Drug Deletes Fearful Memories
Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding
Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC
VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days
Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine
LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer)
Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery?
Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator
Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Brain Decline Begins At Age 27
Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home
New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal
Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope
New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet
Loebner Talks AI
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming
Roundest Object In the World Created
Man Sized Sea Scorpion Fossil Found
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World
Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shrinking
Mars Desert Research Station Simulates Mars Base
NASA To Repair Hubble By Remote Control
"Burning Walls" May Stop Black Hole Formation
$999 For a Complete DNA Scan, Worth it?
'Hundreds of Worlds' in Milky Way
11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics
13,000 Volunteer To Put Personal Genomes Online
Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress
Adopt-a-Star To Fund Research
Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize
Arecibo Observatory Loses Funding
Artificial Bases Added to DNA
Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet
Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert
Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016?
Building a Miniature Magnetic Earth
Cassini Spots Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager
Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission
Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages
Dinosaur Auction In Las Vegas
Dinosaur Fossil Found With Preserved Soft Tissue
Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
Earth Could Collide With Other Planets
Eat, Drink, and be Monitored
Emailaholics Reveal Their Habits
Evidence For Liquid Water On a Frozen Early Mars
Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles
First Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced
First Superheavy Element Found In Nature
Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes
Google Begat the End of the Scientific Method?
Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight
IBM Measures Force Required To Move Atoms
ISPs & P2P, Getting Along Without Getting Cozy
Inferring Personality From Email Addresses
Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction
Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen
Lawmakers Voice Support For NASA Moon Program
Lots of Pure Water Ice At Mars North Pole
Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before
Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find
Moon May Have Once Had Water
NASA Developing Small Nuclear Reactor For the Moon
NASA Will Man Destruct Switch Just In Case
Nano Safety Worries Scientists More Than Public
Nanomicroscopic Image Or Modern Art?
Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos"
New "Drake Equation" Selects Between Alien Worlds
Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station
Outer Space has a Smell
Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element
Phoenix Digs First Mars Soil Sample To Analyze
Physicists Discover "Doubly Strange" Particle
Planck Satellite Releases First Images
Possible Meteorite Imaged By Opportunity Rover
Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head
Robots That Bounce on Water
Room Temperature Semiconductor of T-Rays
Russia to Search For Life on Europa
Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of)
Russian Invasion of Georgia Might Jeopardize Space Station
Scotty's Final Mission
Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species?
Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite
Small Asteroid Making 400,000 Mile Pass By Earth
Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven
Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital
Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada
Successful Launch of ESA's Herschel and Planck
Tetris Improves Your Brain
The Beckoning Promise of Personal Fabrication
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind
The Physics of Zero-G Whipped Cream
The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb
Toward On-Chip Quantum Computing
Treasured Moon Rock Is Petrified Wood
US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors
Ulysses Spacecraft on its Last Legs
Using Google Earth to Find Ancient Cities
Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil
Why the Cloud Cannot Obscure the Scientific Method
Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret
World's First Battery Fueled By Air
Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed
Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out
Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes?
Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions
Family Dog Cloned, Thanks To Dolly Patents
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
Fictional Town "Eureka" To Become Real?
Major Advances In Knot Theory
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity
Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco
Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students
Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV
Falcon 9 Is Now Fully Integrated At Cape Canaveral
Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home
Human-Animal Hybrids Fail
CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop"
Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas
Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable
Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit
US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy
Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study
Largest Prehistoric Snake On Record Discovered In Colombia
Brains Work Best At Age of 39
LHC Repair To Cost At Least $21 Million
Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function
Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen
Electro-Scalpel "Sniffs Out" Tumors
Light Helps Injured Mice Walk Again
Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man
Thermonuclear Reactor To Use Coconut Shells
Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries
X-Rays Emitted From Ordinary Scotch Tape
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research
Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs?
How the City Hurts Your Brain
Injectable Artificial Bone Developed