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May 10, 2013
5/10/2013. Landau. CNN. CO2 levels hit new peak at key observatory
May 9, 2013
5/09/2013. Mooney. MoJo. The Most Controversial Chart in History, Explained
May 8, 2013
5/07/2013. McGregor. FT.com. US says China is stepping up cyber war
May 7, 2013
5/07/2013. Sherwood and Kalman. Guardian/UK. Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
May 6, 2013
5/06/2013. Chang and Grisales. McClatchy. Student: Test fire of '3D-printed' handgun successful
May 3, 2013
5/03/2013. Sirota. ITT. What's Speeding Global Warming
February 15, 2013
2/15/2013 Lowrey, NYT. Incomes Flat in Recovery, but Not for the 1%
February 3, 2013
2/03/2013 BBC. Etch A Sketch inventor Andre Cassagnes dies at 86
January 16, 2013
1/16/2013 EDIE. Influence of soot on climate change greatly underestimated
January 14, 2013
1/14/2013 BBC. Java still contains security flaws, experts claim
1/14/2013 Lee, BBC. 'Red October' cyber-attack found by Russian researchers
January 8, 2013
1/8/13 Gallis, NYT. It's Official: 2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in U.S.
January 7, 2013
1/7/13 CNN. Giant Squid Caught on Video
May 6, 2011
5/06/11 AP, Audio battlefield aims to help prepare new troops
March 15, 2011
3/15/11 Singel, Wired, Add-On Gives Power and Nuance to Do-Not-Track
January 13, 2011
1/12/11 World Watch Institute Report, Agricultural Innovation Is Key to Reducing Poverty, Stabilizing Climate
September 8, 2010
9/08/10 Grinberg, CNN, Asteroid buzzes Earth; another one coming
9/08/10 BBC, Demonstrating how the BP oil spill was plugged - video
August 27, 2010
8/27/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Study of Coal Ash Sites Finds Extensive Water Contamination
August 18, 2010
8/18/10 Falcon-Lang, BBC, video, Black hole mystery solved by magnetic star discovery
July 22, 2010
7/22/10 TechSpreadIt, False Flag Cyber Attack
7/22/10 EFF, Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns
July 17, 2010
7/17/10 Ho, CNN, Scientists baffled by unusual upper atmosphere shrinkage
July 16, 2010
7/16/10 Shoichet, CNN, 3.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Maryland
7/16/10 Walker, BBC, 'Lost' large-billed reed warbler breeding site found
7/16/10 BBC, Malaria-proof mosquito engineered
July 15, 2010
7/15/10 Keim, Wired, A Mud-Loving, Iron-Lunged, Jelly-Eating Ecosystem Savior
7/15/10 Drummond, Wired, Human Trials Next for Darpa's Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm
July 14, 2010
7/14/10 Singel, Wired, Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High
7/14/10 Greste, BBC, Biological bonanza in Kenya's threatened forest
7/14/10 Morelle, BBC, Gorillas 'play games of tag like humans'
7/14/10 Gill, BBC, Plants 'can think and remember'
July 13, 2010
7/13/10 Keim, Wired, Salmon Killer Disease Mystery Solved
July 12, 2010
7/12/10 Shachtman, Wired, Darpa Plots Death From Above, On-Demand
7/12/10 Keim, Wired, Human Evolution Recapped in Kids' Brain Growth
July 10, 2010
7/10/10 ENS, Academics, Politicians: Pending Global Treaty Threatens Free Internet, Fundamental Rights
7/10/10 ENS, Climate Change Means More Heatwaves, Premature Deaths, Scientists Warn
July 9, 2010
7/09/10 Kim, NYT, Extending Broadband Service to the Disconnected
7/08/10 Schoof, McClatchy, Scientists urge U.S. to move quickly to study Gulf oil spill
7/09/10 Moskvitch, BBC, Russian sub 'could stop oil leak'
7/09/10 BBC, Over 5 billion mobile phone connections worldwide
July 7, 2010
7/07/10 Satter, AP, 'Climategate' Inquiry Mostly Vindicates Scientists
July 6, 2010
7/06/10 Drummond, Wired, Holy Acronym, Darpa! 'Batman & Robin' to Master Biology, Outdo Evolution
7/06/10 Bolden-Monifa, Progressive, Study reveals same-sex parenting good for kids
July 5, 2010
7/05/10 CNN, Power outage hits Toronto, 200,000 customers affected
July 4, 2010
7/04/10 Vernon, Guardian, Grindr: a new sexual revolution?
7/04/10 CNN, Large-scale skimmer continues testing in Gulf
7/04/10 BBC, Giant skimmer 'A Whale' tested at BP oil spill site
July 3, 2010
7/03/10 AP, New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit
7/03/10 Squires, CSM, Voracious tree-eating beetles invade Italy
7/03/10 CNN, EPA scientists discuss chemicals used to break up oil in Gulf
July 2, 2010
7/02/10 Ferrie, CSM, Laos turns to hydropower to be 'Asia's battery'
July 1, 2010
7/01/10 Rich, NYT, Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage
June 29, 2010
6/29/10 Reuters, Google Tweaks Rerouting In Fight For China Business
6/29/10 Shachtman, Wired, Video: Pentagon's Shape-Shifting Bot Folds Into Boat, Plane
June 28, 2010
6/28/10 Grey, Telegraph, Giant Salmon Will Be First GM Animal Available for Eating
6/28/10 Squatriglia, Wired, 74-MPG City Car Makes a Smart Look Big
6/28/10 Singel, Wired, Obama Backs More Spectrum for Wireless
6/28/10 Vance, NYT, In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline
June 27, 2010
6/26/10 Cart, LAT, Politics embroil gulf research grants
June 25, 2010
6/25/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa Push: Solar Cells Tough Enough to Handle a War
6/25/10 Moses, SMH, Obama internet 'kill switch' bill approved
6/25/10 Rudolph, NYT, A Solar Bulb May Light the Way
6/25/20 Meikel, Guardian, Human foetus feels no pain before 24 weeks, study says
June 24, 2010
6/24/10 Wang, ProPublica, NOAA Confirms Oil Plumes Are From BP's Well
6/24/10 Single, Wired, You Don't Want ISPs to Innovate
6/24/10 Fountain, NYT, Advances in Oil Spill Cleanup Lag Since Valdez
6/24/10 BBC, Google's YouTube wins Viacom copyright case
6/24/10 Jha, Guardian, Lung-on-a-chip could be used to predict the effects of toxins or drugs
June 22, 2010
6/22/10 Leckart, Wired, Ask an Algorithm: Apocalypse 101
June 20, 2010
6/20/10 BBC, Giant wind turbines 'the future of UK green energy'
June 16, 2010
6/16/10 Kinver, BBC, Water CO2 calculator for UK homes goes online
June 15, 2010
6/15/10 Roberts, BBC, Lung cancer risk 'cut by B vitamin'
June 14, 2010
6/14/10 Montoya, AP, Scientists develop tech to track carbon dioxide
6/14/10 Madrigal, Wired, New U.S. Map Could Stop Species From Becoming Endangered
6/14/10 Ghosh, BBC, Artificial life 'needs regulation' - public survey says
6/14/10 Walker, BBC, Prehistoric mammal hair found in Cretaceous amber
6/14/10 Montlake, CSM, Scientists on hunt for climate-change clues explore rare tropical glacier
June 13, 2010
6/13/10 CNN, Sensors to calculate oil flow rate deployed
6/13/10 Jha, Guardian, It's official: the new black is very, very black
6/13/10 BBC, Scientists take first steps in growing working livers
June 12, 2010
6/12/10 Olorunda, TruthOut, Glass Society: The Partitioning, Prisoning and Privatizing of Public Life
June 11, 2010
6/11/10 Gill, BBC, Seal whiskers sense faraway fish
6/11/10 Shiels, BBC, US debates its broadband future
June 10, 2010
6/10/10 Eley, WSWS, Government scientists confirm massive oil plumes
6/10/10 Kinver, BBC, EU biofuels 'need to be certified for sustainability'
June 9, 2010
6/09/20 Black, BBC, Snakes in mysterious global decline
6/09/10 Tankersley, LAT, Scientists fish for the elusive ghost of the Deepwater Horizon
June 8, 2010
6/08/10 BBC, Huge seas 'once existed on Mars'
6/08/10 Walker, BBC, Mystery gray whale sighted again off Spain coast
June 7, 2010
6/07/10 Conant, AlterNet, Outrage as PG&E Plans to Spray Clouds With Toxic Chemical to Increase Rainfall
6/07/10 Keim, Wired, Ancient Beehives Yield 3,000-Year-Old Bees
6/07/10 French & Davenport, McClatchy, With 1 million gallons of dispersants in Gulf, worries mount
6/07/10 Couwels, CNN, New oil plume evidence uncovered
6/07/10 BBC, Banned GM maize sown in Germany
6/07/10 Walker, BBC, Humpback whales form friendships that last years
June 6, 2010
6/06/10 Friedman, BP Buys 'Oil' Search Terms to Redirect Users to Official Company Website
6/06/10 Wilkinson, BBC, Brain regulates cholesterol in blood, study suggests
June 2, 2010
6/02/10 Keim, Wired, Noise Pollution Could Frustrate Fish
May 31, 2010
5/31/10 Hill, Guardian, Why teenagers can't concentrate: too much grey matter
May 26, 2010
5/26/10 Roher, BBC, What is a 'top kill'?
May 25, 2010
5/25/10 Gill, BBC, Swarming 'swells' locusts' brains
5/25/10 Walker, BBC, Polar bears face 'tipping point' due to climate change
May 24, 2010
5/24/10 Weaver, Wired, Testosterone Makes People Suspicious of One Another
5/24/10 BBC, Seven atom transistor sets the pace for future PCs
5/24/10 Leahy, IPS, U.N. Body Urges Caution on Synthetic Bacteria, Geoengineering
5/24/10 Mills, CNN, Google rolls out encrypted Web search option
May 23, 2010
5/23/10 Beaumont, Guardian, US appoints first cyber warfare general
5/21/10 Courson, CNN, Experts testify on grim ecological fallout from Gulf oil spill
May 22, 2010
5/22/10 Rothschild, Progressive, Virginia AG Goes After Climate Scientist; 800 Virginia Professors Protest
May 21, 2010
5/21/10 Broad, Times, Surveillance Suspected as Spacecraft's Main Role
5/21/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa's Self-Learning Software Knows Who You Are
May 20, 2010
5/20/10 BBC, Google launches smart TV service
5/20/10 BBC, 'Unintended' statin side-effect risks uncovered
May 19, 2010
5/19/10 Buskirk, Wired, Sneak Peek: Obama Administration's Redesigned Data.gov
5/19/10 Calore, WebMonkey, Major Browser Vendors Launch WebM Free Open Video Project
5/19/10 BBC, Gulf oil now in powerful Loop Current, scientists say
5/19/10 IntelDaily, Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net
May 18, 2010
5/18/10 NDTV, Unique ID for every Indian above 5 years of age
5/18/10 Knight, CNN, Scientists discover frog with inflating nose
May 17, 2010
5/17/10 BBC, Hack attacks mounted on car control systems
May 15, 2010
5/15/10 CNN, What are oil dispersants?
5/15/10 Fahrenthold & Eilperin, WP, Challenge of cleaning up Gulf of Mexico oil spill 'unprecedented' at such depths
5/15/10 Viney, Guardian, How to thatch a roof
May 14, 2010
5/14/10 Cardinale, IPS, Ecosystem in Peril after Gulf Oil Spill
May 13, 2010
5/13/10 Wired - Wiki, Trigger Green Traffic Lights
5/13/10 Roig-Franzia, WP, Hemp fans look toward Lyster Dewey's past, and the Pentagon, for higher ground
5/13/10 Vaughan, Guardian, Arctic explorers take first-ever water samples at north pole
May 11, 2010
5/11/10 Madrigal, Wired, The Crystals at the Center of the Earth
5/12/10 Saey, Wired, Life on Earth Arose Just Once
May 10, 2010
5/10/10 Welsh, Wired, Mice Show Pain on Their Faces Just Like Humans
May 9, 2010
5/09/10 Bowley & Wyatt, NYT, Computer Trades Are Focus in Wall Street Plunge
May 7, 2010
5/07/10 Branigan, Guardian, Chinese workers link sickness to n-hexane and Apple iPhone screens
5/07/10 Shiels, BBC, US regulators maps 'third way' for net access for all
May 4, 2010
5/04/10 Daniels, AlterNet, Cyber Racism on College Campuses
5/04/10 Kravets, Wired, Groups Call 'Privacy' Legislation Orwellian
May 3, 2010
5/03/10 Sutter, CNN, 'Smart dust' aims to monitor everything
5/03/10 Grossman, Wired, Making Rain Clouds With Lasers
5/03/10 Wray, Guardian, Goodbye petabytes, hello zettabytes
5/03/10 Todd, CNN, BP to try unprecedented engineering feat to stop oil spill
5/03/10 Standaert, IPS, E-waste Processing Poisons Health, Environment
May 2, 2010
5/02/10 McKee, Guardian, Why genius isn't in the genes
May 1, 2010
5/01/10 Kaufman, NYT, New Technique Holds Hope for Oil Spill Cleanup
April 30, 2010
4/30/10 Goodin, The Register, Researchers spy on BitTorrent users in real-time
4/30/10 Stout, NYT, Antisocial Networking?
4/30/10 Video: Exponential Growth Meets Reality (must see)
4/30/10 Flood, Guardian, Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published
4/30/10 Black, BBC, Frog genome holds out conservation promise
4/30/10 Coward, Guardian, Can you hurt a chimp's feelings?
4/30/10 Squatiglia, Wired, Making Oil in Minutes, Not Millennia
4/30/10 Grossman, Wired, Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass
April 29, 2010
4/29/10 Drummond, Wired, Military Wants To Super-Charge Troop Smarts
4/29/10 Snyder, Wired, 1939's 'World of Tomorrow' Shaped Our Today
April 27, 2010
4/27/10 Kurczy, CSM, Loch Ness monster is real: former Scottish police chief
April 26, 2010
4/26/10 Saey, Wired, Mice Make Their Own Morphine
April 23, 2010
4/23/10 IntelDaily, Economics in Crisis: What Do We Tell the Students?
April 22, 2010
4/22/10 Chen, Wired, Mr. Fixit Goes Open Source With DIY Repair Site
4/22/10 Bullock, Wired, Growing Solar Panels Is Cheap, Efficient and (Relatively) Easy
4/22/10 Kintish, MoJo, Rules for Planet Hackers
4/22/10 Cutler, SocialBeat, Facebook steps up lobbying, deepens ties with intelligence agencies, FTC
April 19, 2010
4/19/10 Lehrer, Wired, Breaking Things Down to Particles Blinds Scientists to Big Picture
April 18, 2010
4/28/20 Stone & Vance, NYT, Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing
April 15, 2010
4/15/10 Calefati, MoJo, Steal This Country - Congo and Coltan
4/15/10 Gardner, Wired, Joos Orange Solar Charger
April 14, 2010
4/14/10 Adams, Guardian, All your Twitter belongs to the Library of Congress
April 7, 2010
4/07/10 Walker, BBC, Giant lizard species discovered in the Philippines
April 5, 2010
4/05/10 EDIE, Plastic-eating bugs could be answer for sea waste
March 31, 2010
3/31/10 Bellos, Guardian, The Amazonian tribe that can only count up to five
3/31/10 CNN, UK lawmakers take heat off 'Climategate' scientist
March 30, 2010
3/30/10 CNN, Hadron Collider breakthrough as beams collide
March 29, 2010
3/29/10 Pilon, WSJ, Data Theft Hits 3.3 Million Borrowers
March 28, 2010
3/28/10 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Gender Justice Is Good For Scientific & Technological Progress, New Report Finds.
March 26, 2010
3/26/10 Benno, PSL, Study shows that standardized testing favors the rich
March 25, 2010
3/25/10 Ritter, AP, New ancestor? Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia
3/25/10 Keim, Wired, Female Chimpanzees Drive the Culture
March 22, 2010
3/22/10 Mason, Wired, Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space
March 19, 2010
3/19/10 Cookson, FT, Doctors use stem cells to rebuild boy's windpipe
3/19/10 Amos, BBC, Esa's Cryosat ice mission given launch date
March 18, 2010
3/18/10 Ray, The Register, FCC shows off spectrum map
3/18/10 Lichtblau, NYT, F.B.I. Faces New Setback in Computer Overhaul
3/18/10 Cockerham, ADN, Collared wolves killed during predator control
3/18/10 Gill, BBC, Invisibility cloak created in 3-D
3/18/10 Chazan, BBC, Row over 'torture' on French TV (w/vid)
March 17, 2010
3/17/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras
March 16, 2010
3/16/10 Black, BBC, Climate 'Fix' Could Poison Sea Life
3/16/10 Shiels, BBC, US plans to give high-speed broadband to every American
March 15, 2010
3/15/10 Jackson, BBC, Meet USCybercom: Why the US Is Fielding a Cyber Army
3/15/10 Zapler, AP, U.S. officials to unveil sweeping proposal for broadband
3/15/10 Davies, Guardian, Genetic discovery promises healing without scars
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 BBC, HSBC admits huge Swiss bank data theft
3/11/10 EDIE, Green skills shortage highlighted by report
3/11/10 Shaughnessy, CNN, Pentagon trains workers to hack Defense computers
3/11/10 Ward, BBC, Down on the farm with the robots
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 Sample, Guardian, Genomes of an entire family sequenced in world first
March 8, 2010
3/08/10 Sturgis, Facing South, Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Renewable Energy's Limits
March 7, 2010
3/07/10 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists (includes video)
3/07/10 BBC, Azerbaijan's long lifers 'a dying breed'
March 5, 2010
3/05/10 AFP, Huge Methane Leak in Arctic Ocean: Study
3/05/10 Mason, Wired, Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Roberts, NYT, Study Finds Cohabiting Doesn't Make a Union Last
3/02/10 Roberts, NYT, U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 Guardian, Live blog: Parliamentary climate emails inquiry
3/01/10 Madrigal, Wired, Backpack Hydroelectric Plant Gives You 500 Watts on the Move
3/01/10 Ghose, Wired, Millions of Tons of Water Ice Found at Moon's North Pole
3/01/10 Wade, NYT, Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force
3/01/10 Markoff, NYT, U.S. to Reveal Rules on Internet Security
3/01/10 Sheppard, MoJo, The Chamber of Commerce vs. Climate Science
3/01/10 Santos, IPS, PHILIPPINES: Green Measures Expose Bias Against Urban Poor
3/01/10 BBC, Online 'more popular than newspapers' in US
February 24, 2010
2/24/10 ENS, Smart Centers Planned to Recycle Mountains of Toxic E-Waste
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 BBC, China tightens internet controls
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 Schmidt, AP - USA Today, Early, aggressive therapy eyed in blocking AIDS
2/22/10 Leahy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Tsunami of E-Waste Could Swamp Developing Countries
2/22/10 Johnson, Guardian, UN calls for action on growing electronic waste
February 20, 2010
2/20/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Climate change's impact on forests being measured via expanding tree trunks
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 Barry, Wired, Take That, Chevy Volt! Cal Poly Car Gets 2,752 MPG
2/19/10 Davies, Guardian, The great economics rift reopens
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, MK-ULTRA: The CIA's Mind Control Program
2/17/10 Drogan, LAT, In a doomsday cyber attack scenario, answers are unsettling
February 16, 2010
2/16/10 Drummond, Wired, Darpa Looks to Build Real-Life C3P0
February 14, 2010
2/14/10 McKie, Guardian, Push to ban trade in endangered bluefin tuna
February 12, 2010
2/12/10 McGeogh, SMH, America's Deadly Robots Rewrite the Rules of War
February 11, 2010
2/11/10 AP, Feds pass on surest solution to Asian carp advance
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Drummond, Wired, With Darpa's 'Transparent Earth,' Underground Doesn't Mean Out of Sight
2/09/10 Eilperin, WP, U.S. proposes new climate service
February 8, 2010
2/08/10 Singel, Wired, Google Making Gmail Into a Communications Hub
2/08/10 Galst, NYT, Making Solar Power Portable
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 IntelDaily, Video: Waking Up in the Universe; Growing Up in the Universe
2/07/10 Naughton, Guardian, Two futures of the internet: next cold war or up in the clouds
January 29, 2010
1/29/10 Adam, Guardian, Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals
January 27, 2010
1/27/10 UCS, CommonDreams, Scientists Warn Doing Nothing Will Likely Lock in Worst Consequences of Climate Change
January 26, 2010
1/26/10 McDougall, InformationWeek, Bill Gates Warns Of Dystopian Future
January 25, 2010
1/25/10 Andrews, ProPublica, Opportunities for Radiation Errors Increase With Technological Advances
January 24, 2010
1/24/10 Ni, LAT, A Chinese American immigration secret emerges from the dark days of discrimination
1/24/10 Krotoski, Guardian, Democratic, but dangerous too: how the web changed our world
1/24/10 BBC, New records of UK convicts sent to Australia go online
January 23, 2010
1/23/10 McGrath, BBC, Rare warbler found in Afghanistan
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Yost, AP, Government posting wealth of data to Internet
1/22/10 Dash, CNN, Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town
1/22/10 Morelle, BBC, Meet the creatures that live beyond the abyss
1/22/10 Gupta, Wired, New Hi-Res Flyover of Haiti Will Aid Recovery and Research
January 21, 2010
1/21/10 Broder, NYT, Past Decade Warmest Ever, NASA Data Shows
1/21/10 Higham & Ryan, BBC, Museum explores 'hidden history' of Muslim science
1/20/10 BBC, Video game success may be in the mind, study finds
1/21/10/ BBC, US to seek world cyber crackdown after Google China row
January 20, 2010
1/20/10 Rubin, LAT, Young people spend 7 hours, 38 minutes a day on TV, video games, computer
January 19, 2010
1/19/10 Mason, Wired, Cryosphere: Earth's Icy Extremes Seen From Space
1/19/10 NYT, The Age of External Knowledge
January 18, 2010
1/18/10 Bluemink, ADN, Persistence of Exxon Valdez oil may be explained by study
January 16, 2010
1/16/10 BBC, New strategies may cut screening errors, says US study
January 15, 2010
1/15/10 Adam, Guardian, Arctic Permafrost Leaking Methane at Record Levels, Figures Show
1/15/10 Wired, Access Blocked Sites
1/15/10 BBC, Oesophageal cancer cell errors threaten research
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 Milius, WIred, Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
1/11/10 BBC, Egypt tombs suggest free men built pyramids, not slaves
1/11/10 Adam, Guardian, Leading climate scientist challenges Mail on Sunday's use of his research
1/11/10 Erdman, CNN, NASA moves forward with Mars exploration plan
1/11/10 BBC, Jurassic tree survives big chill in trust garden
January 8, 2010
1/08/10 Fahrenthold, WP, Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 Silver, ITT, Comcast Launches 'TV Everywhere': Say Goodbye to Free Online Television
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 BBC, Dark matter 'beach ball' unveiled
January 5, 2010
1/05/10 Bourton, BBC, Two killer whale types found in UK waters
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 Grossman, Wired, Age of Solar System Needs to Be Recalculated
1/04/10 Broad, NYT, C.I.A. Data Sharing With Environmental Scientists Is Revived
1/04/10 Amos, BBC, Nasa's Kepler planet-hunter detects five worlds
December 31, 2009
12/31/09 Wong, LAT, 'Augmented reality' poised to become an everyday reality for consumers
12/31/09 Shiels, BBC, New visa proposal to help create the next big thing
December 30, 2009
12/30/09 AP, Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 Fildes, BBC, Secret mobile phone codes cracked
December 27, 2009
12/27/09 BBC, Study blames two genes for aggressive brain cancer
December 26, 2009
12/26/09 Mwanangombe, IPS, SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Turning Urine Into Gold
12/26/09 Prentice, BBC, Armchair deputies enlisted to patrol US-Mexico border
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 BBC, Molecules and synapses cement memories, say scientists
12/24/09 Walker, BBC, Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food
December 23, 2009
12/23/09 BBC, Amazon's Kindle has copyright protection hacked
12/23/09 Fildes, BBC, OLPC unveils slimline tablet PC
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 Patterson, CNN, NASA reveals first-ever photo of liquid on another world
December 16, 2009
12/16/09 Telegraph/UK, Geologist stands trial for triggering earthquakes in Switzerland
12/16/09 Sutter, CNN, Scientists spot nearby 'super-Earth'
December 15, 2009
12/15/09 BBC, Australia introduces web filters
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Bryner, Space.com, Don't Worry, Scientists Suggest, New Earth Just 'Few Years Away'
12/14/09 Mason, Wired, Video: Black Carbon Travels the Globe
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 Borenstein et al, AP, Science of Global Warming Not Faked, Inquiry Decides
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 Bowes, BBC, The language of Avatar revealed
12/11/09 Wired, Find Your Phone's IMEI Number
12/11/09 Johnson, Guardian, Google backs world's fastest internet cable
12/11/09 Allen, Guardian, Science forgotten in climate emails fuss
12/11/09 Gill, BBC, UK's Vista telescope takes stunning images of space
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Perkins, Wired, Earth's Atmosphere May Have Alien Origin
December 7, 2009
12/07/09 Pinto, TPM, Bush Climate Team Still Impacting The Debate, Report Finds
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 Miller, NYT, Local Governments Offer Data to Miners
12/06/09 Gowen, WP, Lack of computer access hampers some students
12/06/09 San Pedro, BBC, US agency's balloon hunt tests internet accuracy
December 5, 2009
12/05/09 Elliott, BBC, Giving old eyes a new lease of life
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 BBC, Grid computing tunes tiny transistors for future chips
12/04/09 BBC, UFO investigations unit closed by Ministry of Defence
December 3, 2009
12/03/09 Alexander, Guardian, Intelligent design is not science
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Fildes, BBC, Web giants unite against Digital Britain copyright bill
November 30, 2009
11/30/09 EDIE, University to publish all climate data
11/30/09 Wade, NYT, We May Be Born With an Urge to Help
November 26, 2009
11/26/09 Beckett, Guardian, The dark side of the internet
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Seeking Alpha, U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims: Why You Can't Trust Them
11/25/09 Mason, Wired, 3-D Solar Tsunami Video Shows the Extreme Waves Are Real
11/25/09 EDIE, Enviro Technology brings water-borne hydrocarbon fingerprinting to UK
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Acharya, IPS, INDIA: 'Glacier Man' Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers
November 21, 2009
11/21/09 BBC, Childhood abuse 'speeds up body's ageing process'
November 19, 2009
11/18/09 Ward, Charleston Gazette, Report Details 'Coal's Assault on Human Health'
11/19/09 AP, Computer glitch delays flights nationwide
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Zetter, Wired, Senate Panel: 80 Percent of Cyber Attacks Preventable
11/17/09 MIT Technology Review, The Coming Nuclear Crisis
11/17/09 Black, BBC, Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming
11/17/09 BBC, Tackling climate change with technology
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Amos, BBC, 'Large amounts' of water on Moon
11/13/09 Hoof, AFP, Invest in Nature Now, Save Trillions Later: Study
11/13/09 Butt, Guardian, Migration is spreading creationism across Europe, claims academic
November 11, 2009
11/11/09 Madrigal, Wired, New Milky Way Image Shows Best of All Spectra
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 Edwards, Telegrap[h, State to 'spy' on every phone call, email and web search
November 9, 2009
11/09/09 Robbins, BBC, Free market flawed, says survey
November 8, 2009
11/08/09 Gill, BBC, Early life stress 'changes' genes
11/08/09 Madslien, BBC, All change as gas reserves soar
November 7, 2009
11/07/09 Kaplan, LAT, Babies are found to cry in their mother tongue
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 Stein, WP, Study: Options are key in sex education curriculum
November 5, 2009
11/05/09 Keim, Wired, Gene Therapy Halts Fatal Brain Disease
11/05/09 Palmer, BBC, Tiny tech sparks cell signal find
November 4, 2009
11/04/09 Maugh II, LAT, Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher's ideas transformed anthropology
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 BBC, Scientists bring snow to Beijing
October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Yardley, NYT, Privacy Looms Over Gay Rights Vote
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 Sudworth, BBC, Web to be truly worldwide at last
October 29, 2009
10/29/09 CNN, Blame genetics for bad driving, study finds
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 Kein, Wired, Climate Change Caused Radical North Sea Shift
10/28/09 Gandossy, CNN, Census will report same-sex couples, gay groups see opportunity
10/28/09 Travis, Guardian, Innocent suspects' profiles still reaching DNA database
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 CNN, Meteorite-like object falls in Latvia
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 Lyall, NYT, Ever-Present Surveillance Rankles the British Public
10/24/09 Singel, CNN, Twitter anarchist raided under 'riot' laws
October 21, 2009
10/21/09 BBC, 'Giant' orb web spider discovered
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Morse, ITT, High-Tech vs. Humane Healthcare
10/20/09 Rodgers, BBC, At the centre of time
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Borenstein, AP, Europeans find 32 new planets outside solar system
10/19/09 Gribbin, Guardian, A very lucky universe
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Page, Regsister, DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent TCP/IP
October 15, 2009
10/15/09 Ahmed, CNN, Fast Internet access becomes a legal right in Finland
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 BBC, Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes
10/14/09 BBC, 'Magnetic electricity' discovered
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Colberg, NewsOK, Some software can turn mobile devices into tools of espionage, harassment
10/13/09 Hare, CNN, Does your social class determine your online social network?
10/13/09 Walker, BBC, Lizards filmed 'walking on water'
October 10, 2009
10/10/09 BBC, Jaw bone created from stem cells
October 9, 2009
10/09/09 CNN, Pentagon hacker 'suicidal' following U.S. 'bullying'
10/09/09 BBC, US spacecraft crash into the Moon
10/09/09 BBC, Superfast broadband extends reach
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Avery, News & Observer, Chemical Linked to Aggression in Girls
10/07/09 Borenstein, AP, You can watch NASA give the moon a one-two punch
October 6, 2009
10/06/09 Leggett, Wired, Bird Cam Captures Albatross, Killer Whale Rendezvous
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 BBC, Key cancer spread gene found
October 3, 2009
10/03/09 Vidal, Guardian. Tilting at windmills
October 2, 2009
10/02/09 AFP, US Navy creates command to maintain cyber supremacy
10/02/09 EDIE, Funding to find missing bees
October 1, 2009
10/01/09 Wilford, NYT, Fossil Skeleton From Africa Predates Lucy
10/01/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Stephen Hawking Stepping Down
September 30, 2009
9/30/09 BBC, 'Time telescope' could boost web
September 29, 2009
9/29/09 Mason, Wired, Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them
September 28, 2009
9/28/09 Wainwright, Guardian, BBC opens world's biggest online zoo
9/28/09 BBC, US 'to loosen' grip on internet
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 Google Earth Global Warming Simulator
9/25/09 Guardian, Google Earth launches climate simulator
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 Chang, NYT, In Surprise, Moon Shows Signs of Water
9/23/09 USA Today, Study: Torture damages brain, leading to misinformation
September 22, 2009
9/22/09 Morello & Keating, WP, Number of Foreign-Born U.S. Residents Drops
September 21, 2009
9/21/09 Hess, AP, Report: CIA Interrogations Informed by Bad Science
9/21/09 Yen, AP, Census: Recession had sweeping effect on US life
9/21/09 Wired, The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World
September 18, 2009
9/18/09 EFF, New Cookie Technologies: Harder to See and Remove, Widely Used to Track You
September 17, 2009
9/17/09 Weinberger, Wired, From Ivory Tower to Iron Bars: Scientists Risk Jail Time for Violating Export Laws
9/17/09 Singel, Wired, Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Public Domain Books
9/17/09 Hamada, IPS, GULF: Gender Discrimination in Citizenship Rights
September 13, 2009
9/13/09 BBC, Key gene 'controls disease fight'
September 11, 2009
9/11/09 Singh, Telegraph, Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'
9/11/09 Borenstein, AP, When someone is raised female and the genes say XY
9/11/09 Leggett, Wired, Universal 'Death Stench' Repels Bugs of All Types
September 10, 2009
9/10/09 Pal, Progressive, What's Wrong with Economists?
September 5, 2009
9/05/09 Maugh II, LAT, The Arctic's geological record indicates warming is human-caused
September 4, 2009
9/04/09 Gorman, WSJ, How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade
September 2, 2009
9/02/09 Chand, BBC, We are all mutants say scientists
9/02/09 BBC, Online politics reserved for rich
September 1, 2009
9/01/09 Dlouhy, SF Chron, EPA to Declare CO2 a Dangerous Pollutant
August 30, 2009
8/30/09 timesOnline, A motor rickshaw is transported on a donkey-cart in Lahore, Pakistan.
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Keller, TheSpec, New browser red-flags disputed facts on the web
August 28, 2009
8/28/09 McCullagh, CNET, Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 Johnson, LAT, Astrophysicists puzzle over planet that's too close to its sun
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 Cross, Guardian, CCTV: the worst of all possible worlds
8/25/09 EDIE, Household cleaner used on nuclear waste
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 Guardian, 'Dramatic' breakthrough in MS research
8/24/09 Pawlowski, CNN, What's a planet? Debate over Pluto rages on
August 23, 2009
8/23/09 Wright, NYT, Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 Kravets, Wired, Feds Urge Dismissal of High-Profile Spy Case
7/21/09 BBC, Ancient dial solves time riddle
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 Dando, Nature, Biologists napping while work militarized
8/20/09 Abel Wired, Open Source Textbook Company Now BMOC at 400 Colleges
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 PressTV, DNA evidence can be fabricated, scientists say
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Neergaard, AP, Scientists find rare gene behind short sleepers
8/14/09 Singel, Wired, Firefox Plug-In Frees Court Records, Threatens Judiciary Profits
8/14/09 BBC, Facial expressions 'not global'
8/14/09 Reid, BBC, Italian bloggers' silent protest
August 11, 2009
8/11/09 Hsu & Kang, WP, Users of government sites will be tracked according to plan
8/11/09 Johnson & Krisher, AP, GM says new Volt to get 230 mpg in city driving
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Singel, Wired, You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again
8/10/098 Amos, BBC, 'Crisis satellite' returns images
8/10/09 Benn, Guardian, Environment secretary calls for 'radical rethink' of UK food production
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 Goldacre, Guardian, Hit and myth: curse of the ghostwriters
8/08/09 Gross, CNN, Your family dog may be smarter than your toddler
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 Guardian, Internet attacks 'targeted Georgian blogger'
8/07/09 Guardian, nternet attacks 'targeted Georgian blogger'
August 6, 2009
8/06/09 Leggett, Wired, Clever Crows Prove Aesop's Fable Is More Than Fiction
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 CNN, Programs to change gays to straights don't work, report says
8/05/09 Gies, Wired, Your Mom's Facebook Status: I'm Crunching Climate Data!
August 4, 2009
8/04/09 Mittelstaedt, Globe&Mail, Modified Corn Seeds Sow Doubts
8/04/09 Feffer, FPIF, The Geopolitics of Facebook
8/04/09 Erdman, CNN, Scientists study 'garbage patch' in Pacific Ocean
August 2, 2009
8/02/09 Pagano, Independent, Are Wind farms a Health Risk? US Scientist Identifies 'Wind Turbine Syndrome'
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Robertson, AP, Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
8/01/09 Markoff & Shanker, CNN, Halted '03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk
July 30, 2009
7/30/09 Gill, BBC, Jellyfish help to stir the ocean
July 29, 2009
7/29/09 Drummond, Wired, Total Recall: Pentagon Looks to 'Optimize' Troops' Minds
7/29/09 EDIE, City becomes 'living laboratory' to tackle climate change
7/29/09 Amos, BBC, 'Disaster satellites' ready to fly
7/29/09 Kinver, BBC, 'Barcode' to help identify plants
July 28, 2009
7/28/09 Chong, LAT, More earthquake faults discovered at the Salton Sea
7/28/09 Maugh, LAT, Global warming played a role in Incas' rise, report says
July 27, 2009
7/27/09 EDIE, Contaminated land to be transformed into solar energy projects
7/27/09 Fildes, BBC, Barcode replacement shown off
July 26, 2009
7/26/09 Goldenberg & Carrington, Guardian, Revealed: The Secret Evidence of Global Warming Bush Tried to Hide
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 BBC, Clouds in climate 'vicious cycle'
July 23, 2009
7/23/09 Robertson, CNN, How robot drones revolutionized the face of warfare
7/23/09 Hodge, Wired, Danger Room in Afghanistan: Rebuilding Bamiyan
7/23/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Chandra's first decade
7/23/09 Zetter, Wired, FBI Processes 600 Billion Fingerprint Sets a Day -- Update: No It Doesn't
July 22, 2009
7/22/09 Encho, OpEdNews, Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government (Pt. 4b)
7/22/09 Galbraith, NYT, Slow, Costly and Often Dangerous Road to Wind Power
July 21, 2009
O;Laughlin, Guardian, Amateur astronomer spots Earth-size scar on Jupiter
7/21/09 Fildes, BBC, Thinkers meet to plot the future
7/21/09 BBC, River blindness 'can be beaten'
July 20, 2009
7/20/09 Perrotin, IntelDaily, Why Science won't save us
7/20/09 Tang, ITT, Your Crap, Our Compost
7/20/09 Jha, Guardian, Nasa's vision for the future
7/20/09 Fahrenthold, WP, Chemicals That Eased One Woe Worsen Another
7/20/09 Guardian, Googling on the moon
7/20/09 Bowes, BBC, Mapping America's giant trees
7/20/09 BBC, Medieval battle records go online
July 19, 2009
7/19/09 Sherine, Guardian, Rage against the machines
July 17, 2009
7/17/09 Aron, Guardian, Radar beams could protect bats from wind turbines
7/17/09 Walker, BBC, Tiny lizard falls like a feather
July 15, 2009
7/15/09 Keim, Wired, Obama's Computerized Hospital Vision May Have Blind Spot
July 14, 2009
7/14/09 Shiels, BBC, Microsoft Office takes to the web
July 13, 2009
7/13/09 Jha, Guardian, In search of time
7/13/09 BBC, Snooping through the power socket
July 10, 2009
7/10/09 BBC, Call for limits on web snooping
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Boyd, McClatchy, New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz
7/08/09 Harden et al, WP, North Korea Suspected in Cyberattack
7/08/09 Shiels, BBC, Google to launch operating system
July 7, 2009
7/07/09 Harrabin, BBC, 'Time to ditch climate policies'
7/07/09 BBC, Scientists claim sperm 'first'
7/07/09 Engstrom, FT, Copyright laws threaten our online freedom
7/07/09 Zabrenko, Reuters, New Climate Strategy: Track the World's Wealthiest
7/07/09 Walker, BBC, Aquatic deer and ancient whales
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 BBC, New dinosaurs found in Australia
July 2, 2009
7/02/09 Gill, BBC, Climate change is shrinking sheep
7/02/09 BBC, Moon probe returns first images
7/02/09 Hamilton, Guardian, How to create a drought-friendly garden
July 1, 2009
7/01/09 Hambling, Wired, Darpa's Smart, Flat Camera Is Packed With Beady Eyes
7/01/09 Keim, Wired, Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration
7/01/09 Johnson, Guardian, The library that never closes
7/01/09 Reuters, Permafrost Melting a Growing Climate Threat: Study
7/01/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Cyber Command Launched. U.S. Strategic Command to Oversee Offensive Military Operations
7/01/09 Walker, BBC, Ant mega-colony takes over world
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 BBC, Most complete Earth map published
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 Zetter, Wired, Deep-Packet Inspection in U.S. Scrutinized Following Iran Surveillance
6/29/09 Yen, AP, Study finds widening generation gap in US
6/29/09 Casey, AP, Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow
6/29/09 EDIE, New role for Spaans Babcock Archimedes screws generating electricity
June 27, 2009
6/27/09 Hren, AlterNet, Save Money By Saving Rainwater
June 26, 2009
6/26/09 AP, After 19 years, Ulysses solar probe to go dark
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Goyette & Daniel, Miami Herald, South Floridians sneak Iranians past Web censors
6/25/09 BBC, 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
June 24, 2009
6/24/09 Keim, Wired, Hidden Whale Culture Could Be Critical to Species Survival
6/24/09 Walker, BBC, Where giant plants dare to grow
June 22, 2009
6/22/09 Fontaine, News Tribune, Networked eyes on the battlefield
6/22/09 Guardian, How the west built Iran's 'lawful intercept functionality'
6/22/09 Lammers, AP, Work begins on world's deepest underground lab
6/22/09 Cellan-Jones, BBC, Hi-tech helps Iranian monitoring
6/22/09 Emery, BBC, The rise of Hate 2.0
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 The Register, Gay animals going at it like rabbits
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 Gorby, Wired, Microbes May Be More Networked Than You Are
6/16/09 Rampell, NYT, The Economic Impact of Climate Change
6/16/09 Mattern, IPS, SCIENCE: Hybrid Chestnut Trees Hold Promise as Carbon Sponges
6/16/09 Palmer, BBC, Hydrogen car to be 'open source'
June 15, 2009
6/15/09 Vandiver, Stars & Stripes, AFRICOM building research center
6/15/09 Criscione, CSM, The next 'moon landing?' Norway plans deep-sea CO2 storage.
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 BBC, Who goes to a creationist museum?
June 13, 2009
6/13/09 Goldacre, Guardian, Cocaine study that got up the nose of the US
6/13/09 BBC, Microsoft to give away anti-virus
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, CIA and Pentagon Deploy RFID "Death Chips." Coming Soon to a Product Near You!
6/12/09 CNN, State Department sponsors TED conference
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 Keim, Wired, Scientists Create a Form of Pre-Life
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 BBC, Hummingbirds 'faster than jets'
June 9, 2009
6/09/09 Tran, Guardian, Arnold Schwarzenegger to scrap school textbooks in favour of ebooks
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 Walker, BBC, Chimps mentally map fruit trees
June 7, 2009
6/07/09 CArpenter, BBC, Early rocks to reveal their ages
June 6, 2009
6/06/09 Baute, Toronto Star, How Did 100,000,000 Women Disappear?
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Labaton, NYT, Millions Face Blank Screens in TV Switch
6/05/09 Ahlers, CNN, Aerial images online endanger national security, critics say
6/05/09 BBC, US cuts off 'criminal' net firm
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 Leahy, IPS, BIODIVERSITY: Scientists Build a Macroscope of Life on Earth
May 31, 2009
5/31/09 AP, World's strongest laser unveiled at California lab
May 30, 2009
5/30/09 Peltz, AP, Hurricane barriers floated to keep sea out of NYC
May 29, 2009
5/29/09 Sanger & Shanker, NYT, Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
5/29/09 Whiteman, CNN, Report: Climate change crisis 'catastrophic'
5/29/09 BBC, US to set out cyber security plan
May 28, 2009
5/28/09 Black, BBC, Ocean monster shows hidden depths
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Tech Radar, US cops and military to get laser guns
May 26, 2009
6/26/09 Sample, Guardian, Rooks rival chimpanzees in their ability to use tools
May 22, 2009
5/22/09 Kelly, Wired, The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
5/22/09 Brown, WP, Study Detects Flu Immunity in Older People
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 Casey, AP, UN study advises caution over dams
May 20, 2009
5/20/09 NPR, A Global Shortage Of What?
5/20/09 Telegra[h, World's first battery fuelled by air
May 18, 2009
5/18/09 Falconer, MoJo, Uncle Sam's Human Lab Rats
5/18/09 EDIE, Australia to build World's largest solar power station
May 16, 2009
5/16/09 Bryan, AP, Study looks at early Navajo use of smoke signals
May 15, 2009
5/15/09 AP, Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia
5/15/09 P2PNet, US in Police State Top 10
5/15/09 Morris, Guardian, Scientists warn of new 'super rats'
5/15/09 Smink, BBC, A tunnel to unite old rivals?
May 13, 2009
5/13/09 Engler, FPIF, Science Fiction From Below
5/13/09 Landau, CNN, How human genes become patented
5/13/09 Shiels, BBC, Google unveils 'smarter search'
May 12, 2009
5/12/09 Zongker, AP, Project launched to fight frog-killing fungus
5/12/09 Drummond, Wired, Physicist's Fool-Proof War Formula (Just Add Media Accounts)
5/12/09 Feffer, FPIF, Cities Can Save the Earth
5/12/09 McGrath, BBC, Going bananas for energy in Africa
5/12/09 Sutter, CNN, New search engines aspire to supplement Google
May 11, 2009
5/11/09 Singel, Wired, NYTimes Reader Shows Graceful Future of Online News
May 8, 2009
5/08/09 Schmid, AP, Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise
5/08/09 Beatty, Guardian, British scientists crack swine flu code as world tally rises to 2,384
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 Morelle, BBC, Meet the brains of the animal world
5/07/09 Sturcke & Hirsch, Guardian, DNA pioneer condemns plan to keep details on database for 12 years
May 6, 2009
5/06/09 WorldFocus, Africans more genetically diverse than rest of world
5/06/09 Shiels, BBC, Zombie computers 'on the rise'
May 5, 2009
5/05/09 Wired, Get Your Copy of Windows 7 RC
5/05/09 BBC, US needs 'digital warfare force'
May 3, 2009
5/03/09 Johnson, Guardian, Web providers must limit internet's carbon footprint, say experts
5/03/09 Buchen, Wired, Culture May Be Encoded in DNA
5/03/09 Independent, An Invention That Could Change the Internet Forever
May 1, 2009
5/01/09 Storey, Guardian, Air traffic control: Radar helps birds navigate windfarm flight path
5/01/09 Gill. BBC, Africa's genetic secrets unlocked
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 BBC, Microsoft preps Windows 7 release
4/30/09 BBC, Web tool 'as important as Google'
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Hart, WP, Google Unveils New Tool To Dig for Public Data
4/29/09 CNN, Exploding star is oldest object seen in universe
4/29/09 BBC, Birds show off their dance moves
April 28, 2009
4/28/09 Denmead, Wired, 5.11 Tactical Light for Life Pro Flashlight
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, Pentagon's Cyber Command to Be Based at NSA's Fort Meade
4/27/09 Ghosh, BBC, Science cash 'to beat food riots'
April 26, 2009
4/26/09 Taylor, NYT, End the University as We Know It
4/26/09 Taylor, NYT, End the University as We Know It
April 25, 2009
4/25/09 Glock, IPS, TECHNOLOGY-BRAZIL: E-Waste Can Produce Marvels
April 24, 2009
4/24/09 Sorrel, Wired, Obama to Get Back BlackBerry at Last, Toughened by NSA
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Tady, ITT, Big Cable's Internet Rip-Off
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 Fox, FBI Uses Computer Viruses to Spy on Suspects
4/22/09 Hsu, WP, A Pentagon Cyber-Command Is in the Works
April 18, 2009
4/18/09 Moore, NYT, F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Poulsen, Wired, More FBI Hacking: Feds Crack Wi-Fi to Gather Evidence
4/17/09 Galbraith, NYT, A Plan for U.S. Emissions to Be Buried Under Sea
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 BBC, Spam 'produces 17m tons of CO2'
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 Gill, BBC, Ants inhabit 'world without sex'
April 14, 2009
4/14/09 Yates, CNN, Glass beads found off Georgia shed light on Spanish empire
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 Stein, WP, A Possible Step Toward Setting the Biological Clock
April 12, 2009
4/12/09 Buchen, Wired, Next-Gen Atom Smashers: Smaller, Cheaper and Super Powerful
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 Sarno, LAT, FCC seeks comments on national broadband plan
4/09/09 Black, BBC, Prize for 'Sun in the box' cooker
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 Gorman, WSJ, Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
4/08/09 Wong, CNN, The bionic body 2.0
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Corbin, Internet News, Groups Warn New Cybersecurity Bill Oversteps
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Mackey, NYT, Earthquake Warning Was Removed From Internet
4/06/09 Harris, ITT, No Sugar-Coating Immigration
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 Carey, NYT, Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory
4/05/09 Lazarus, LAT, Hooked on free Web services? Prepare to pay
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 EDIE, Water could be key to carbon capture
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 Sample, Guardian, 'Eureka machine' puts scientists in the shade by working out laws of nature
4/02/09 BBC, Virus battery could 'power cars'
4/02/09 Lindsay, AP, Technology opens promise, perils of ocean mining
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 Montgomery, KC Star, No remittance, no ignition: Auto 'electronic repo' in action
4/01/09 Grossman, Wired, Preponderance of Positrons Points to Dark Matter
March 31, 2009
3/31/09 Kleinfeld, NYT, Exams of Injured Workers Fuel Mutual Mistrust
3/31/09 Finkle, Reuters, Computer experts brace for "Conficker" worm
3/31/09, BBC, Giant laser experiment powers up
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 Keim, Wired, Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain
3/30/09 Fountain, NYT, Concrete Is Remixed With Environment in Mind
March 29, 2009
3/29/09 Peter, CSM, Cyber spy network with global reach raises alarms
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 BBC, Medical scan sensitivity boosted
3/27/09 BBC, Crabs 'sense and remember pain'
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Dowling, BBC, What we learned from the Exxon Valdez
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 Mendoza, AP, Study: Range of Pharmaceuticals in Fish Across US
3/25/09 Boyd, McClatchy, Pentagon exploring robot killers that can fire on their own
March 24, 2009
3/24/09 BBC, Brain waves 'foreshadow mistakes'
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 Mack, Wired, New Database Tells Big Brother You're Uninsured
3/23/09 Beiser, Wired, Store Power in Super Batteries
3/23/09 Topolski, Guardian, The monster impulse
March 20, 2009
3/18/09 Adam, Guardian, Leading Climate Scientist: "Democratic Process Isn't Working"
3/20/09 Meeserve, CNN, 'Smart Grid' may be vulnerable to hackers
3/20/09 BBC, Finches choose sex of offspring
3/20/09 Guardian, Rare reptile hatchling found in New Zealand
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Tady, ITT, Building A Broadband Bridge that Holds Weight
3/19/09 CNN, Many bird populations in trouble, report says
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 Vedantam, WP, A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Moses, SMH, Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
3/17/09 BBC, Arctic sea monster's giant bite
3/17/09 Singh, CNN, Scientists find new bacteria species
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Perez-Pena, NYT, Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web
3/16/09 Harkinson, MoJo, The Saline Solution
3/16/09 BBC, 'Brain decline' begins at age 27
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 BBC, Monkeys 'teach infants to floss'
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Borenstein, AP, Early 'Peking Man' was older, colder, study says
3/11/09 Birnbaum, Nation, The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 Erdman, CNN, City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away
3/10/09 BBC, Elephants reveal new trunk tricks
3/10/09 Hansell, NYT, The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster?
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 Fox, Reuters, Engineered cell engine is step to artificial life
March 8, 2009
3/08/09 Goldstein, McClatchy, High tech tool has members of Congress all a-Twitter
3/08/09 Therloff, LAT, How computers call the shots for L.A. County children in peril
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 BBC, Horses tamed earlier than thought
March 5, 2009
3/05/09 Hambling, Guardian, Nanotechnology goes to war
3/05/09 Barry, Wired, Swedish Solar Car Runs on Fool's Gold
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 CNN, Scientists discover new species in ocean's depths
3/03/09 Taub, NYT, Lighting Up the Darkness in Rural Africa
3/03/09 Stein, MoJo, Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon?
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Norton, Wired, Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
3/02/09 EDIE, Google Earth map to boost US renewable energy production
March 1, 2009
3/01/09 Sample, Guardian, Scientists' Stem Cell Breakthrough Could End Ethical Dilemma
February 25, 2009
2/25/09 Amos, BBC, 'Ghost peaks' emerge from the ice
February 24, 2009
2/24/09 Madsen, Online Journal, Stanford a cog in the U.S. intelligence dirty money laundering machine
2/24/09 AFP, Climate Change Risk Underestimated: Study
2/24/09 Schmid, AP, Beauty and the brain, women use more than men
2/24/09 Vargas, WP, Gay Bloggers' Voices Rise in Chorus of Growing Political Influence
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 Salmon, Wired, Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 Jha, Guardian, Nasa to launch Earth's first carbon dioxide tracking satellite
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 Roosevelt, LAT, Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice
2/20/09 Myslewski, THe Register, Storage breakthrough could bust density record
February 19, 2009
2/19/09 Landeau, CNN, Men see bikini-clad women as objects, psychologists say
February 15, 2009
2/15/09 BBC, Global warming 'underestimated'
2/15/09 Whitley, ABC, Could 'Liquid Wood' Replace Plastic?
February 12, 2009
2/12/09 Wall, Wired, Orbiting Carbon Lab to Provide Missing Climate Data
2/12/09 Dean, NYT, Tracking the Flight of Birds, With Tiny Backpacks
2/12/09 ENS, Just Breathing in Katrina-Flooded Homes Poses Health Risks
2/12/09 Schmid, AP, Researchers say animals plan for the future
2/12/09 Rincon, BBC, Sat collision highlights growing threat
February 11, 2009
2/11/09 Wolf, Reuters, U.S., Russian satellites collide in space
February 9, 2009
2/09/09 NYT, Madoff Won't Contest S.E.C. Civil Claims
2/09/09 EDIE, Irish firm unveils 'most efficient solar panel'
February 6, 2009
2/06/09 Keim, Wired, Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains
2/06/09 CNN, Texan who died in prison cleared of rape conviction
February 5, 2009
2/05/09 AP, Ants tricked into raising butterflies
2/05/09 Keim, WIred, Seeing Red: Tweak Your Brain With Colors
2/05/09 BBC, Number of alien worlds quantified
2/05/09 CNN, Court may exonerate man, years after his death, for rape
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 Porter, Guardian, The horror of the ID card system
2/04/09 BBC, Iraqi death researcher censured
2/04/09 Ritter, AP, Ancient fossil find: This snake could eat a cow!
February 2, 2009
2/02/09 Schmid, AP, New step reported in untangling nature vs nurture
2/02/09 CNN, New species found in Colombian forests
2/29/09 Harrabin, BBC, 'Green' gas could help heat homes
2/02/09 BBC, India to unveil low cost laptop
February 1, 2009
2/01/09 BBC, Cancer protection secret revealed
2/01/09 BBC, Cancer protection secret revealed
2/01/09 Johnson, Guardian, Google Earth, Google Ocean: mysteries of the seafloor are mapped for the first time
January 31, 2009
1/31/09 Rowe, Wired, Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in Lab
January 30, 2009
1/30/09 Buskirk, Wired, LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning
1/30/09 Crathy, CNN, TSA will keep an eye on fans at Super Bowl
January 29, 2009
1/29/09 EDIE, Experts slam media global warming claims
January 27, 2009
1/27/09 Eilperin, WP, Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs
1/27/09 Hart, IntelDaily, Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government
1/27/09 Condon, Cnet, Senate OKs delay of digital TV transition
1/27/09 Kinver, BBC, UK gets biofuels research centre
January 26, 2009
1/26/09 BBC, Single cell 'can store memories'
January 25, 2009
1/25/09 Rosenberg, Open Left, USGS Report: "Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems"
January 23, 2009
1/23/09 Chen, Wired, White House Tech More Tired Than Wired
1/23/09 Tessler, AP, Senate nears deal to delay digital TV transition
January 22, 2009
1/22/09 EDIE, Don't waste sewage - it's a resource
1/22/09 Castro, AP, Texas wrestles with science standards, evolution
1/22/09 CNN, Obama 'to get spy-proof smartphone'
January 21, 2009
1/21/09 Hart, WP, Technical Difficulties: Digital Switch
1/21/09 France, CNN, Obama unveils new presidential Web site
January 20, 2009
1/20/09 CNN, Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real
1/20/09 House, Bul. Atom Science, The limits of energy storage technology
January 16, 2009
1/16/09 Keim, Wired, Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users
January 14, 2009
1/14/09 Black, BBC, Challenge to plant methane link
January 13, 2009
1/13/09 Wired, South of the Future
1/13/09 BBC, Dangerous coding errors revealed
1/13/09 Morgan, BBC, New soil map for African farmers
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 Shachtman, Wired, Pentagon Wants Loving Chat-Bot to Calm Troops' Kids
January 7, 2009
1/07/09 BBC, Black holes 'preceded galaxies'
1/07/09 Guardian, A prenatal test for autism would deprive the world of future geniuses
January 6, 2009
Mini-turbines to harness energy from pressure in UK's gas pipelines
1/06/09 Galbraith, NYT, Regulators Push Energy Efficiency for TVs
January 4, 2009
1/04/09 Laris, WP, O Brave New World That Has Such Avatars in It!
January 1, 2009
1/01/09 Jackson, BBC, China finds major dinosaur site