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1. [Favorite] [>500] What Scientists Really Think About Religion 1,123 comments May 29, 2010

2. High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana 194 comments May 28, 2010

3. [>500] Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones 595 comments May 27, 2010

4. Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake 456 comments May 26, 2010

5. Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams 307 comments May 26, 2010

6. [Favorite] Mark Twain To Reveal All After 100 Year Wait 296 comments May 24, 2010

7. Citizen Scientists Help Explore the Moon 59 comments May 24, 2010

8. Local TV Could Go the Way of Newspapers 175 comments May 21, 2010

9. Critics Say US Antimissle Defense Flawed, Dangerous 310 comments May 19, 2010

10. Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Slashdot Headline 192 comments May 19, 2010







11. Judicial Nominations In the Internet Age 111 comments May 16, 2010

12. Microsoft Accuses Google Docs of Data Infidelity 177 comments May 15, 2010

13. Apple Is Nintendo's "Enemy of the Future" 270 comments May 14, 2010

14. [>500] Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ 728 comments May 13, 2010

15. Genetic Testing Coming To a Drugstore Near You 110 comments May 12, 2010

16. Hollywood Nervous About Kagan's Fair Use Views 226 comments May 11, 2010

17. Defense Chief Urges Big Cuts In Military Spending 429 comments May 10, 2010

18. Biggest Detector To Look For Gravitational Waves 109 comments May 10, 2010

19. The Boom (Or Bubble) In Federal Cybersecurity 72 comments May 9, 2010

20. Google Attorney Slams ACTA Copyright Treaty 154 comments May 8, 2010







21. [Favorite] [>500] iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales 901 comments May 6, 2010

22. Google Releases a Web-App Case Study For Hackers 95 comments May 5, 2010

23. Judge Closes Online Access To Info On Civil Case 63 comments May 4, 2010

24. "Lost" and the Emergence of Hypertext Storytelling 170 comments May 2, 2010

25. [Favorite] [>500] The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive 513 comments Apr 30, 2010

26. James Cameron To Develop 3D Camera For Mars Rover 139 comments Apr 30, 2010

27. Life's Building Blocks Found On Asteroid 24 Themis 115 comments Apr 30, 2010

28. Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming 365 comments Apr 29, 2010

29. Students Flock To GMU For a Degree In Video Game Design 220 comments Apr 29, 2010

30. Fair Use Generates $4.7 Trillion For US Economy 156 comments Apr 28, 2010







31. FTC Could Gain Enforcement Power Over Internet 131 comments Apr 28, 2010

32. Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming 282 comments Apr 27, 2010

33. Parody and Satire Videos, Which Is Fair Use? 264 comments Apr 27, 2010

34. Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info 236 comments Apr 27, 2010

35. The Mystery of the Missing Methane 98 comments Apr 25, 2010

36. Colleague Comes Forward To Defend Anthrax Suspect 161 comments Apr 23, 2010

37. EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes 156 comments Apr 23, 2010

38. [>500] Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills 514 comments Apr 22, 2010

39. Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City 237 comments Apr 22, 2010

40. China's Research Ambitions Hurt By Faked Results 336 comments Apr 19, 2010







41. Wisconsin Designates State Microbe 102 comments Apr 19, 2010

42. Newspaper Death Notices May Be a Dying Business 170 comments Apr 18, 2010

43. Web Coupons Tell Stores More Than You Realize 125 comments Apr 17, 2010

44. Ex-NSA Officlal Indicted For Leaks To Newspaper 115 comments Apr 16, 2010

45. [Favorite] Justice Stevens Leaves Profound Legacy in IP Law 106 comments Apr 16, 2010

46. [Favorite] Maybe the Aliens Are Addicted To Computer Games 496 comments Apr 15, 2010

47. New Russian Science City Modeled On Silicon Valley 197 comments Apr 14, 2010

48. Military Asserts Right To Respond To Cyberattacks 167 comments Apr 14, 2010

49. First Pulitzer Awarded To an Online News Site 48 comments Apr 13, 2010

50. Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space Market 188 comments Apr 12, 2010







51. Cell Phones Could Sniff Out Deadly Chemicals 136 comments Apr 12, 2010

52. "Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other" 419 comments Apr 11, 2010

53. NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs For Next 5 Years 264 comments Apr 9, 2010

54. Why Lenders Overlook Warning Signs of ID Theft 225 comments Apr 9, 2010

55. Rupert Murdoch Hates Google, Loves the iPad 411 comments Apr 7, 2010

56. [>500] Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine 521 comments Apr 6, 2010

57. [>500] Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs 561 comments Apr 5, 2010

58. Microsoft and Apple Rumble Into Middle Age 363 comments Apr 5, 2010

59. [Favorite] [>500] Science Attempts To Explain Heaven 692 comments Apr 4, 2010

60. Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google 267 comments Apr 4, 2010







61. Astronaut Careers May Stall Without the Shuttle 138 comments Apr 4, 2010

62. [Favorite] Game Development In the Heart of Africa 69 comments Apr 4, 2010

63. [Favorite] Twins' DNA Foils Police 207 comments Apr 3, 2010

64. [>500] White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards 533 comments Apr 2, 2010

65. US Changes How Air Travelers Are Screened 254 comments Apr 2, 2010

66. Real-World Outcomes Predicted Using Social Media 90 comments Apr 2, 2010

67. Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal 132 comments Apr 1, 2010

68. Garage Startup Develops "Personal Computer" 78 comments Apr 1, 2010

69. [>500] New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders 949 comments Mar 30, 2010

70. [Favorite] [>500] Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass 584 comments Mar 30, 2010







71. Self-Destructing USB Stick 220 comments Mar 30, 2010

72. Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? 434 comments Mar 28, 2010

73. Security Holes Found In "Smart" Meters 169 comments Mar 28, 2010

74. It's Time To Split Up NSA Between Spooks and Geeks 121 comments Mar 27, 2010

75. Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia 137 comments Mar 26, 2010

76. [>500] Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? 902 comments Mar 25, 2010

77. Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor 303 comments Mar 23, 2010

78. New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Criminal Havens 114 comments Mar 23, 2010

79. Laptop Computers Detect and Monitor Earthquakes 78 comments Mar 23, 2010

80. Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds 428 comments Mar 21, 2010







81. US Law Firms Targeted By Cyberscams 121 comments Mar 21, 2010

82. Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage 309 comments Mar 20, 2010

83. "Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform 202 comments Mar 20, 2010

84. [Favorite] US Military Shuts Down CIA's Terrorist Honey Pot 191 comments Mar 19, 2010

85. High-Tech Research Moving From US To China 396 comments Mar 18, 2010

86. [Favorite] The Bloodhound Will Stay On the Ground At 1,000 mph 242 comments Mar 17, 2010

87. Deposit Checks To Your Bank By Taking a Photo 493 comments Mar 16, 2010

88. Attack of the Killer Electrons 84 comments Mar 15, 2010

89. [Favorite] Ushahidi Crowd-Sources Crisis Response 71 comments Mar 15, 2010

90. GPS Log Analysis Uncovers Millions In NYC Taxi Overcharges 226 comments Mar 13, 2010







91. Final Decision Deferred On ".xxx" Domains 127 comments Mar 13, 2010

92. Scientists Need Volunteers To Look At the Sun 109 comments Mar 12, 2010

93. The Future of Wind Power May Be Underground 221 comments Mar 11, 2010

94. [>500] Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall 664 comments Mar 10, 2010

95. NSA Still Ahead In Crypto, But Not By Much 208 comments Mar 9, 2010

96. Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors 373 comments Mar 8, 2010

97. China's Human Flesh Search Engine 240 comments Mar 5, 2010

98. Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way 223 comments Mar 5, 2010

99. BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services 240 comments Mar 3, 2010

100. [Favorite] [>500] Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn 796 comments Mar 2, 2010








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101. An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" 222 comments Mar 1, 2010

102. How Slums Can Save the Planet 420 comments Feb 28, 2010

103. [>500] US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition 620 comments Feb 27, 2010

104. UN To Create Independent Panel To Review IPCC 337 comments Feb 27, 2010

105. The Surreal World of Chatroulette 151 comments Feb 21, 2010

106. Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure 131 comments Feb 20, 2010

107. Google Buys iPhone Search App, Kills It 221 comments Feb 19, 2010

108. New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early 425 comments Feb 18, 2010

109. [>500] The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors 527 comments Feb 17, 2010

110. New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games? 157 comments Feb 17, 2010







111. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow 1,136 comments Feb 16, 2010

112. [>500] Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store 503 comments Feb 16, 2010

113. 'Iceman' Gets 13 Years For 2nd Hacking Offense 288 comments Feb 15, 2010

114. [Favorite] The Ultimate Interstellar Valentine Mix Tape 75 comments Feb 14, 2010

115. [>500] Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US 585 comments Feb 13, 2010

116. Motorola To Split In Two 91 comments Feb 13, 2010

117. Are Silicon Valley's Glory Days Over? 333 comments Feb 12, 2010

118. [>500] Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina 848 comments Feb 10, 2010

119. Google To Challenge Facebook Again 197 comments Feb 9, 2010

120. White House Claims Copyright On Flickr Photos 169 comments Feb 7, 2010







121. Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills 131 comments Feb 7, 2010

122. Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees 238 comments Jan 31, 2010

123. Astronomers Discover the Coolest Known Sub-Stellar Body 60 comments Jan 30, 2010

124. Parallel Algorithm Leads to Crypto Breakthrough 145 comments Jan 29, 2010

125. Newsday Gets 35 Subscriptions to Pay Web Site 177 comments Jan 27, 2010

126. China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 387 comments Jan 26, 2010

127. [Favorite] Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago 356 comments Jan 25, 2010

128. Pope Urges Priests to Go Forth and Blog 281 comments Jan 24, 2010

129. [>500] Claims of Himalayan Glacier Disaster Melt Away 561 comments Jan 23, 2010

130. Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall 229 comments Jan 23, 2010







131. Newton's Apple Story Goes Online 114 comments Jan 18, 2010

132. NY Times To Charge For Online Content 483 comments Jan 17, 2010

133. Apple Seeks To Ban Nokia Imports To US 345 comments Jan 17, 2010

134. Lacking Buyers, NASA Cuts Prices On Shuttles and Old Engines 127 comments Jan 17, 2010

135. Protecting At-Risk Cities From Rising Seas 216 comments Jan 16, 2010

136. ESA Wants ISS Extended To 2020 85 comments Jan 15, 2010

137. Tech Tools Fostering "Mini Generation Gaps" 283 comments Jan 10, 2010

138. How Earth Avoided a Fiery Premature Death 113 comments Jan 10, 2010

139. The Long Shadow of Y2K 257 comments Jan 1, 2010

140. TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns 134 comments Jan 1, 2010







141. [Favorite] [>500] Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ 568 comments Dec 31, 2009

142. DRM and the Destruction of the Book 419 comments Dec 31, 2009

143. TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive 379 comments Dec 31, 2009

144. The Rise of Machine-Written Journalism 134 comments Dec 30, 2009

145. GSM Decryption Published 299 comments Dec 28, 2009

146. The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds 453 comments Dec 22, 2009

147. Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas 317 comments Dec 21, 2009

148. [Favorite] A Requiem For Saab 430 comments Dec 20, 2009

149. The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean 153 comments Dec 20, 2009

150. Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern 180 comments Dec 19, 2009







151. Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes 256 comments Dec 15, 2009

152. Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year 253 comments Dec 15, 2009

153. White House Plans Open Access For Research 74 comments Dec 12, 2009

154. Judges Can't "Friend" Lawyers in Florida 138 comments Dec 11, 2009

155. [>500] Scientists Create Artificial Meat 820 comments Nov 30, 2009

156. Genetic Algorithm Helps Identify Criminals 84 comments Nov 30, 2009

157. [>500] Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots 770 comments Nov 29, 2009

158. What the iPod Tells Us About the World Economy 361 comments Nov 28, 2009

159. Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google 282 comments Nov 27, 2009

160. Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds 198 comments Nov 27, 2009







161. [Favorite] [>500] Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers 618 comments Nov 25, 2009

162. Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game" 50 comments Nov 25, 2009

163. Wal-Mart, Amazon Battle For Online Retail's Future 253 comments Nov 24, 2009

164. Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works 467 comments Nov 23, 2009

165. Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls 221 comments Nov 23, 2009

166. UAVs Go Green With Fuel-Cell Powered "Ion Tiger" 83 comments Nov 22, 2009

167. WHO Says Swine Flu May Have Peaked In the US 136 comments Nov 21, 2009

168. Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage 479 comments Nov 20, 2009

169. Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come 147 comments Nov 20, 2009

170. Patent Issued For Podcasting 145 comments Nov 20, 2009







171. [Favorite] Building a 32-Bit One-Instruction Computer 261 comments Nov 19, 2009

172. Spaceworms To Help Study Astronaut Muscle Loss 71 comments Nov 19, 2009

173. [>500] Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys 609 comments Nov 15, 2009

174. [Favorite] [>500] Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721 comments Nov 14, 2009

175. Commodore 64 Runs Again On the iPhone 78 comments Nov 14, 2009

176. [Favorite] Two Sunken Japanese Submarines Found Off Hawaii 219 comments Nov 13, 2009

177. Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco 104 comments Nov 12, 2009

178. [>500] Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price 553 comments Nov 9, 2009

179. Massive Power Outages In Brazil Caused By Hackers 460 comments Nov 8, 2009

180. Swarm of Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Trawler 128 comments Nov 8, 2009







181. Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb 235 comments Nov 7, 2009

182. Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy 110 comments Nov 7, 2009

183. Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists 342 comments Nov 6, 2009

184. Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean 168 comments Nov 3, 2009

185. Paywalls to Drive Journalists Away in Addition to Consumers? 129 comments Nov 2, 2009

186. Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women 357 comments Nov 1, 2009

187. Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars 171 comments Oct 31, 2009

188. Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas 377 comments Oct 30, 2009

189. [Favorite] EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas 249 comments Oct 30, 2009

190. Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules 212 comments Oct 29, 2009







191. Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For IPhone 125 comments Oct 29, 2009

192. Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates 410 comments Oct 28, 2009

193. [>500] Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month 528 comments Oct 27, 2009

194. [>500] Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software 508 comments Oct 27, 2009

195. [>500] Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine 579 comments Oct 20, 2009

196. Maldives Government Holds Undersea Cabinet Meeting 271 comments Oct 18, 2009

197. California Moving Forward With Big-Screen TV Power Restrictions 337 comments Oct 17, 2009

198. EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists 404 comments Oct 13, 2009

199. Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale 98 comments Oct 13, 2009

200. EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy 176 comments Oct 12, 2009











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Reverse Chronological: 201 - 300

201. [Favorite] Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit 375 comments Oct 11, 2009

202. [>500] Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content 501 comments Oct 10, 2009

203. Why AT&T Should Dump the iPhone's Unlimited Data Plan 491 comments Oct 10, 2009

204. Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed 429 comments Oct 9, 2009

205. Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing 386 comments Oct 8, 2009

206. Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty 228 comments Oct 6, 2009

207. Algae First To Recover After Asteroid Strike 86 comments Oct 5, 2009

208. 50 Years of the Twilight Zone 101 comments Oct 3, 2009

209. Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant 159 comments Sep 29, 2009

210. Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute 150 comments Sep 29, 2009







211. Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims 81 comments Sep 29, 2009

212. [>500] Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid 606 comments Sep 21, 2009

213. Universal "Death Stench" Repels Bugs of All Types 248 comments Sep 18, 2009

214. Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight 177 comments Sep 17, 2009

215. [Favorite] Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste 361 comments Sep 16, 2009

216. [Favorite] [>500] The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School 703 comments Sep 8, 2009

217. Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers 192 comments Sep 7, 2009

218. Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens? 370 comments Sep 6, 2009

219. Symantec Wants To Use Victims To Hunt Computer Criminals 139 comments Sep 4, 2009

220. [>500] Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid 644 comments Sep 3, 2009







221. [>500] Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars 912 comments Sep 2, 2009

222. All Humans Are Mutants, Say Scientists 265 comments Sep 2, 2009

223. Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth 224 comments Sep 2, 2009

224. Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy 254 comments Sep 1, 2009

225. [Favorite] Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday 409 comments Aug 31, 2009

226. Laughing Gas Is Major Threat To Ozone Layer 224 comments Aug 30, 2009

227. [>500] James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" 655 comments Aug 29, 2009

228. Treasured "Moon Rock" Is Petrified Wood 204 comments Aug 28, 2009

229. [Favorite] [>500] Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages 505 comments Aug 27, 2009

230. Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days 433 comments Aug 27, 2009







231. Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers 116 comments Aug 26, 2009

232. Bioreactors Engineer Tissue To Mend Heart Damage 46 comments Aug 26, 2009

233. [>500] Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off 744 comments Aug 24, 2009

234. BrainPort Lets the Blind "See" With Their Tongues 131 comments Aug 22, 2009

235. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked 1,051 comments Aug 20, 2009

236. US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel 369 comments Aug 20, 2009

237. [Favorite] Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA 369 comments Aug 18, 2009

238. Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA Evidence 245 comments Aug 18, 2009

239. Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again 325 comments Aug 16, 2009

240. BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering 221 comments Aug 16, 2009







241. How To Send Email When You're Dead 163 comments Aug 16, 2009

242. Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter 54 comments Aug 15, 2009

243. Army Asks Its Personnel to Wikify Field Manuals 139 comments Aug 14, 2009

244. [>500] Parents Baffled By Science Questions 630 comments Aug 13, 2009

245. [Favorite] [>500] Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits 521 comments Aug 13, 2009

246. EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights 379 comments Aug 13, 2009

247. Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M 286 comments Aug 12, 2009

248. Green Cement Absorbs Carbon 211 comments Aug 11, 2009

249. A Standardized OS For Robots 181 comments Aug 11, 2009

250. Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children 471 comments Aug 9, 2009







251. Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? 333 comments Aug 9, 2009

252. Rival Green Groups Bid To Snatch .eco Domain 223 comments Aug 9, 2009

253. Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers 213 comments Aug 8, 2009

254. Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching 156 comments Aug 7, 2009

255. AOL Picking Up Journalists Shed By Conventional Media 94 comments Aug 7, 2009

256. Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" 297 comments Aug 5, 2009

257. 3D Images Reconstructed of 300M-Year-Old Spiders 88 comments Aug 5, 2009

258. Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals 220 comments Aug 4, 2009

259. [>500] "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas 590 comments Aug 2, 2009

260. Experts Puzzled By Bright Spot On Venus 107 comments Aug 1, 2009







261. Hackers Get Free Parking In San Francisco 221 comments Jul 31, 2009

262. IPhone App Tracks Sex Offenders 357 comments Jul 30, 2009

263. [Favorite] Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality 364 comments Jul 29, 2009

264. Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants 309 comments Jul 29, 2009

265. Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish 159 comments Jul 28, 2009

266. Bill Gates Remembers 1979 301 comments Jul 27, 2009

267. DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" 273 comments Jul 27, 2009

268. Could Cyber-Terrorists Provoke Nuclear Attacks? 176 comments Jul 27, 2009

269. Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? 219 comments Jul 26, 2009

270. [Favorite] [>500] Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" 616 comments Jul 25, 2009







271. The Rocky Road To Wind Power 280 comments Jul 23, 2009

272. NSA To Use Cloud Model For Intelligence Analysis 41 comments Jul 22, 2009

273. 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct 171 comments Jul 21, 2009

274. [>500] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad 572 comments Jul 20, 2009

275. Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out 204 comments Jul 20, 2009

276. South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs 154 comments Jul 20, 2009

277. Med Students Get Training In Second Life Hospitals 126 comments Jul 19, 2009

278. Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste 110 comments Jul 18, 2009

279. Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? 295 comments Jul 13, 2009

280. Traditional News Media Lead Blogs By 2.5 Hours 186 comments Jul 13, 2009







281. Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists 208 comments Jul 12, 2009

282. Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet 198 comments Jul 12, 2009

283. Apple To Sell WiFi-less iPhone In China 113 comments Jul 11, 2009

284. [>500] Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge? 518 comments Jul 9, 2009

285. Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo 422 comments Jul 9, 2009

286. Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court 223 comments Jul 8, 2009

287. [Favorite] [>500] British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online 550 comments Jul 7, 2009

288. US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement 392 comments Jul 7, 2009

289. Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy 134 comments Jul 7, 2009

290. If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free 246 comments Jul 6, 2009







291. Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape 125 comments Jul 6, 2009

292. We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? 394 comments Jul 5, 2009

293. Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever 193 comments Jul 4, 2009

294. CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' 134 comments Jul 4, 2009

295. You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation 132 comments Jul 4, 2009

296. The Chemistry of Firework Displays 60 comments Jul 4, 2009

297. Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students 349 comments Jul 3, 2009

298. NSA To Build 20 Acre Data Center In Utah 224 comments Jul 2, 2009

299. Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink 280 comments Jul 1, 2009

300. [Favorite] Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle 316 comments Jun 30, 2009











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301. The Galaxy's 62-Million Year Extinction Oscillator 193 comments Jun 30, 2009

302. [Favorite] Being Slightly Overweight May Lead To Longer Life 330 comments Jun 29, 2009

303. The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists 221 comments Jun 27, 2009

304. Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear 288 comments Jun 25, 2009

305. Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger 283 comments Jun 23, 2009

306. On the Humble Default 280 comments Jun 23, 2009

307. John Hodgman Asks Obama, "Are You a Nerd?" 142 comments Jun 23, 2009

308. US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors 168 comments Jun 22, 2009

309. Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story 96 comments Jun 22, 2009

310. [Favorite] [>500] Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet 596 comments Jun 20, 2009







311. FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell 448 comments Jun 17, 2009

312. iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry 325 comments Jun 17, 2009

313. NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice 375 comments Jun 16, 2009

314. Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague 263 comments Jun 15, 2009

315. CIA Officers Are Warming To Intellipedia 102 comments Jun 15, 2009

316. [Favorite] [>500] Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" 832 comments Jun 14, 2009

317. Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For 347 comments Jun 14, 2009

318. Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay? 167 comments Jun 13, 2009

319. NSA Ill-Suited For Domestic Cybersecurity Role 70 comments Jun 12, 2009

320. For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes 368 comments Jun 10, 2009







321. California To Move To Online Textbooks 468 comments Jun 9, 2009

322. China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest 316 comments Jun 9, 2009

323. [>500] iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy 788 comments Jun 8, 2009

324. Most Blogs Now Abandoned 290 comments Jun 8, 2009

325. Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument 136 comments May 31, 2009

326. How Common Is Scientific Misconduct? 253 comments May 30, 2009

327. Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record 384 comments May 29, 2009

328. 18 Android Phones, In 3 Flavors, By Year's End 152 comments May 29, 2009

329. [>500] Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change 712 comments May 27, 2009

330. Phony TCP Retransmissions Can Hide Secret Messages 187 comments May 27, 2009







331. Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease 174 comments May 27, 2009

332. Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years 237 comments May 26, 2009

333. A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban 197 comments May 26, 2009

334. DoD Sharing Threat Data With Critical Industries 53 comments May 26, 2009

335. [Favorite] Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find 125 comments May 25, 2009

336. [Favorite] Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan 457 comments May 24, 2009

337. World's Oldest Blogger Dies At 97 73 comments May 24, 2009

338. College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni 221 comments May 23, 2009

339. Pentagon Seeks a New Generation of Hackers 131 comments May 22, 2009

340. Infrared Fibers Can Protect Against Chemoterrorism 71 comments May 22, 2009







341. World's First Battery Fueled By Air 203 comments May 21, 2009

342. Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers 362 comments May 19, 2009

343. [>500] [>1,000] US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 1,183 comments May 18, 2009

344. [>500] Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker 546 comments May 18, 2009

345. [>500] Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? 502 comments May 18, 2009

346. Radiation-Resistant Plants Could Be Used In Space 131 comments May 17, 2009

347. Lawsuit Says Google's Sale of Keywords Is Illegal 232 comments May 16, 2009

348. [Favorite] [>500] Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? 669 comments May 15, 2009

349. How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages 207 comments May 15, 2009

350. Greece Halts Google's Street View 190 comments May 13, 2009







351. SGI Lives On, In Name At Least 107 comments May 12, 2009

352. NSA Wages Cyberwar Against US Armed Forces Teams 219 comments May 11, 2009

353. Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission 129 comments May 11, 2009

354. Work Resumes on Virtual Fence with Mexico 259 comments May 9, 2009

355. Google Urges National Inventory of Radio Spectrum 74 comments May 8, 2009

356. Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home 189 comments May 7, 2009

357. [>500] Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works 518 comments May 6, 2009

358. Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press 389 comments May 6, 2009

359. IP Enforcement Treaty Still Being Kept Secret 161 comments May 6, 2009

360. [Favorite] Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey 357 comments May 4, 2009







361. Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time 294 comments May 4, 2009

362. Can the New Digital Readers Save the Newspapers? 286 comments May 4, 2009

363. Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal 204 comments May 3, 2009

364. Tsunami Hit New York City Region In 300 BC 136 comments May 3, 2009

365. Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube 130 comments May 2, 2009

366. [Favorite] Canadian Pirates Sell Spurious Songs — In 1897 174 comments May 1, 2009

367. Iranians Outwit Censors With Falun Gong Software 165 comments May 1, 2009

368. Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe 265 comments Apr 30, 2009

369. Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets 185 comments Apr 29, 2009

370. Time Warner To Spin Off AOL 140 comments Apr 29, 2009







371. Scientists Build World's Fastest Camera 127 comments Apr 29, 2009

372. EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats 228 comments Apr 28, 2009

373. Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless 194 comments Apr 28, 2009

374. Unpaid Contributors Provide Corporate Tech Support 221 comments Apr 27, 2009

375. The Woman Who Established Fair Use 223 comments Apr 26, 2009

376. Taking Gaming To the Next Billion Players 116 comments Apr 26, 2009

377. Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon 208 comments Apr 25, 2009

378. Wikipedia Threatens Artists For Fair Use 232 comments Apr 24, 2009

379. [>500] Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents 825 comments Apr 23, 2009

380. Digital Schwarzenegger Set For New 'Terminator' 271 comments Apr 23, 2009







381. Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar 492 comments Apr 22, 2009

382. Consortium To Share Ad Revenue From Stolen Stories 93 comments Apr 22, 2009

383. Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case 311 comments Apr 21, 2009

384. NSA Overstepped the Law On Wiretaps 164 comments Apr 17, 2009

385. Are Human Beings Organisms Or Living Ecosystems? 325 comments Apr 15, 2009

386. Ponzi Schemes Multiply On YouTube 345 comments Apr 14, 2009

387. Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College 280 comments Apr 14, 2009

388. UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google 463 comments Apr 13, 2009

389. NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector 210 comments Apr 13, 2009

390. In Defense of the Anonymous Commenter 198 comments Apr 12, 2009







391. Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger 161 comments Apr 11, 2009

392. STEREO Spacecraft To Explore Earth's L4 and L5 65 comments Apr 10, 2009

393. Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins 321 comments Apr 8, 2009

394. Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction 484 comments Apr 6, 2009

395. Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie 466 comments Apr 6, 2009

396. Spammers Say the Darndest Things 107 comments Apr 5, 2009

397. [Favorite] Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work 444 comments Apr 4, 2009

398. Robot Makes Scientific Discovery (Mostly) On Its Own 237 comments Apr 3, 2009

399. Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills 184 comments Apr 3, 2009

400. Verizon Promises 4G Wireless For Rural America 130 comments Apr 3, 2009











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401. [>500] Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an IPod 649 comments Apr 2, 2009

402. Google Reveals "Secret" Server Designs 369 comments Apr 2, 2009

403. New Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity 191 comments Apr 2, 2009

404. Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity 173 comments Apr 2, 2009

405. [>500] [>1,000] Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? 1,075 comments Mar 31, 2009

406. [>500] Game Companies Face Hard Economic Choices 508 comments Mar 31, 2009

407. Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet 413 comments Mar 31, 2009

408. Volunteers Simulate Mission To Mars 231 comments Mar 31, 2009

409. Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision 203 comments Mar 29, 2009

410. [Favorite] Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told 411 comments Mar 28, 2009







411. New Speed Record Set For Wind-Powered Vehicles 138 comments Mar 28, 2009

412. Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date 208 comments Mar 21, 2009

413. [>500] Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format 743 comments Mar 11, 2009

414. Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing 266 comments Mar 11, 2009

415. Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed 96 comments Mar 10, 2009

416. [Favorite] [>500] US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles 922 comments Mar 9, 2009

417. [>500] Bill Would Blur Online Maps to Stop Terrorists 597 comments Mar 4, 2009

418. [Favorite] LEDs Lighting Up the African Darkness 182 comments Mar 4, 2009

419. The 300 Million Year Old Brain 68 comments Mar 4, 2009

420. Scientific Team Begins Trek to the North Pole 137 comments Mar 3, 2009







421. [Favorite] Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing 408 comments Mar 1, 2009

422. Scientists Build an Ark To Save Jungle Amphibians 127 comments Feb 28, 2009

423. [>500] Why Japan Hates the iPhone 882 comments Feb 27, 2009

424. [>500] Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada 501 comments Feb 24, 2009

425. Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water 268 comments Feb 17, 2009

426. Beamlines To Reveal Secrets of the Mummies 64 comments Feb 17, 2009

427. [Favorite] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia 266 comments Feb 16, 2009

428. "Microsaccades" Help To Refresh Your Field of View 96 comments Feb 15, 2009

429. [Favorite] Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter 260 comments Feb 14, 2009

430. [Favorite] Fly Me To Which Moon? 183 comments Feb 11, 2009







431. [>500] Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live 950 comments Feb 10, 2009

432. [Favorite] The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old 366 comments Feb 10, 2009

433. Scientists Reconstruct Millenium's Coldest Winter 290 comments Feb 9, 2009

434. DTV Converters In Short Supply 192 comments Feb 7, 2009

435. First-Person Shooter Modified For Fire Drill Simulation 158 comments Feb 5, 2009

436. Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up 183 comments Feb 4, 2009

437. [Favorite] Less Is Moore 342 comments Jan 28, 2009

438. We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories 398 comments Jan 27, 2009

439. Carbonite Stacks the Deck With 5-Star Reviews 197 comments Jan 27, 2009

440. Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny 126 comments Jan 11, 2009







441. [Favorite] More Brains Needed 232 comments Jan 9, 2009

442. How the City Hurts Your Brain 393 comments Jan 6, 2009

443. Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon 273 comments Jan 6, 2009

444. Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator 260 comments Jan 5, 2009

445. Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211 comments Dec 22, 2008

446. [Favorite] Are Newspapers Doomed? 333 comments Dec 20, 2008

447. [Favorite] Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 126 comments Dec 20, 2008

448. Light Echoes Solve Mystery of Tycho's Supernova 98 comments Dec 5, 2008

449. [>500] Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction 550 comments Dec 3, 2008

450. Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242 comments Dec 3, 2008







451. [Favorite] Acorns Disappear Across the Country 474 comments Dec 1, 2008

452. [Favorite] Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186 comments Nov 29, 2008

453. Grandma's on the Computer Screen this Thanksgiving 64 comments Nov 27, 2008

454. New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps 330 comments Nov 23, 2008

455. [Favorite] Police Cars to Transmit Real Time Video 149 comments Nov 22, 2008

456. Urine Passes NASA Taste Test 394 comments Nov 18, 2008

457. The Neurological Basis of Con Games 218 comments Nov 18, 2008

458. Oldest Nuclear Family Found Murdered In Germany 185 comments Nov 18, 2008

459. [>500] Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator 683 comments Nov 17, 2008

460. Unhappy People Watch More TV 193 comments Nov 15, 2008







461. [>500] As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland 521 comments Nov 12, 2008

462. 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb 470 comments Nov 11, 2008

463. The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? 496 comments Oct 27, 2008

464. Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies 105 comments Oct 25, 2008

465. Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet 356 comments Oct 24, 2008

466. Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? 454 comments Oct 23, 2008

467. [Favorite] Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth 415 comments Oct 21, 2008

468. Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand 374 comments Oct 20, 2008

469. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False 257 comments Oct 19, 2008

470. [Favorite] Banjo Used In Brain Surgery 149 comments Oct 14, 2008







471. Fungus Fire Spores With 180,000 G Acceleration 69 comments Oct 7, 2008

472. Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West 207 comments Oct 6, 2008

473. Training Bacteria To Deliver Drugs? 29 comments Oct 3, 2008

474. Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself 82 comments Oct 1, 2008

475. New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel 170 comments Sep 28, 2008

476. [>500] Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674 comments Sep 27, 2008

477. Google To Fund Ideas That Will Change the World 165 comments Sep 26, 2008

478. Google Pushes Back Against US Copyright Treaty 233 comments Sep 23, 2008

479. Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel 252 comments Sep 20, 2008

480. [Favorite] US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" 218 comments Sep 20, 2008







481. Don't Count Cobol Out 265 comments Sep 19, 2008

482. [>500] 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell 715 comments Sep 18, 2008

483. Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSD 171 comments Sep 17, 2008

484. Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors 168 comments Sep 17, 2008

485. [>500] Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? 613 comments Sep 10, 2008

486. [Favorite] Robert Heinlein's Pre-Internet Fan Mail FAQ 181 comments Sep 10, 2008

487. Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists 240 comments Sep 5, 2008

488. Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books 446 comments Sep 1, 2008

489. [>500] Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans 710 comments Aug 31, 2008

490. [>500] Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive 646 comments Aug 25, 2008







491. Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping 181 comments Aug 25, 2008

492. Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer 104 comments Aug 23, 2008

493. [Favorite] DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi 271 comments Aug 22, 2008

494. World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California 324 comments Aug 17, 2008

495. Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers 132 comments Aug 17, 2008

496. Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design 87 comments Aug 17, 2008

497. The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science 180 comments Aug 15, 2008

498. [>500] Let the Games Be Doped 773 comments Aug 13, 2008

499. [Favorite] Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition 472 comments Aug 12, 2008

500. Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration 180 comments Aug 10, 2008











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501. Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids 349 comments Aug 4, 2008

502. New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed 443 comments Jul 22, 2008

503. China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air 362 comments Jul 21, 2008

504. Texas To Build $4.93B Wind-Power Project 250 comments Jul 20, 2008

505. [Favorite] MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach 128 comments Jul 13, 2008

506. [>500] Pickens Plans On Wind Power 572 comments Jul 9, 2008

507. Senate Scrutinizes Privacy Issues of ISP User Tracking 108 comments Jul 8, 2008

508. [>500] VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG 506 comments Jul 5, 2008

509. There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute 393 comments Jul 5, 2008

510. [>500] Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success 581 comments Jun 20, 2008







511. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers 1,056 comments Jun 17, 2008

512. Data Center Designers In High Demand 136 comments Jun 17, 2008

513. Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years 168 comments Jun 3, 2008

514. [>500] Does Ballmer Need To Go? 554 comments May 6, 2008

515. [Favorite] Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom 417 comments Apr 30, 2008

516. [>500] Are C and C++ Losing Ground? 961 comments Apr 24, 2008

517. Apple Prepares for the Coming iPod Slump 339 comments Apr 24, 2008

518. Predicting Human Errors From Brain Activity 123 comments Apr 24, 2008

519. The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts 257 comments Apr 22, 2008

520. GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites 171 comments Apr 22, 2008







521. Private Efforts Fill Gaps In Earth's Asteroid Defenses 120 comments Apr 22, 2008

522. JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners 209 comments Apr 21, 2008

523. US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways 150 comments Apr 20, 2008

524. Home Wind-Power Turbines Make Headway 161 comments Apr 16, 2008

525. [Favorite] The Return of Ada 335 comments Apr 15, 2008

526. Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic 296 comments Apr 15, 2008

527. Malaysian Candidates Required to Have Blogs 41 comments Apr 15, 2008

528. Distance Record Broken For a Walking Robot 78 comments Apr 12, 2008

529. Mysterious Sound Waves Can Destroy Rockets 193 comments Apr 11, 2008

530. MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic James 243 comments Apr 10, 2008







531. GPS Trackers Find Novel Applications 156 comments Apr 10, 2008

532. Old Subway Cars As Artificial Reef 161 comments Apr 9, 2008

533. Scientists Discover Gene For Ruthlessness 292 comments Apr 6, 2008

534. Sweat Ducts May Act As Antenna For Lie Detection 120 comments Apr 6, 2008

535. Neuromarketers Pick the Brains of Consumers 160 comments Apr 4, 2008

536. [>500] Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot 701 comments Mar 26, 2008

537. Why OldTech Keeps Kicking 337 comments Mar 26, 2008

538. Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan 254 comments Mar 26, 2008

539. Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing 145 comments Mar 25, 2008

540. Columbia Holds Wake For Historic Cyclotron 72 comments Mar 25, 2008







541. [>500] Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? 971 comments Mar 24, 2008

542. [>500] The Wrath of the Apple Tribe 869 comments Mar 23, 2008

543. Why Your e-Books Are No Longer Yours 371 comments Mar 22, 2008

544. Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen 106 comments Mar 21, 2008

545. [>500] MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access 764 comments Mar 20, 2008

546. What's Your Favorite Monster? 245 comments Mar 17, 2008

547. Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? 317 comments Mar 11, 2008

548. Tenth Anniversary of First Commercial MP3 Player 166 comments Mar 10, 2008

549. [>500] Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group 554 comments Mar 7, 2008

550. [Favorite] Statue of Galileo Planned for Vatican 333 comments Mar 5, 2008







551. Identity Theft Rates Among Top Banks 85 comments Mar 4, 2008

552. A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer 101 comments Mar 3, 2008

553. Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan 78 comments Feb 26, 2008

554. New Tools Available for Network-Centric Warfare 70 comments Feb 26, 2008

555. [Favorite] Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? 308 comments Feb 25, 2008

556. Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes 219 comments Feb 25, 2008

557. Microsoft Should Acquire SAP, Not Yahoo 177 comments Feb 24, 2008

558. Very Large Array Gets Expanded Capability 92 comments Feb 24, 2008

559. Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet 395 comments Feb 23, 2008

560. Scientists Find Believing Can Be Seeing 167 comments Feb 21, 2008







561. [Favorite] Identical Twins Not Identical After All 150 comments Feb 21, 2008

562. Radio Telescopes on Moon to Study Cosmic Dark Ages 117 comments Feb 21, 2008

563. [>500] Obsolete Technical Skills 602 comments Feb 20, 2008

564. Airport Security Prize Announced 376 comments Feb 20, 2008

565. The Limits of Quantum Computing 221 comments Feb 19, 2008

566. iPhones Produced in China Smuggled Right Back in 147 comments Feb 19, 2008

567. Natural Selection Can Act on Human Culture 233 comments Feb 17, 2008

568. Hacker Could Keep Money from Insider Trading 149 comments Feb 17, 2008

569. Google's Addiction to Cheap Electricity 248 comments Feb 16, 2008

570. Is Microsoft just Screwing with Yahoo's Mind? 207 comments Feb 16, 2008







571. Athletes Can Blog at Olympics - with Restrictions 181 comments Feb 16, 2008

572. Computer Models Find Patterns In Asymmetric Threats 211 comments Feb 14, 2008

573. Facebook A Black Hole For Personal Info 238 comments Feb 12, 2008

574. An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming 220 comments Feb 12, 2008

575. Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China 454 comments Feb 11, 2008

576. [Favorite] Men Willing to Give up Sex for a 50in TV 139 comments Feb 11, 2008

577. Name the New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope 130 comments Feb 10, 2008

578. Robotic Telescope Installed on Antarctica Plateau 126 comments Feb 6, 2008

579. See-Through Fish Help Cancer Research 101 comments Feb 6, 2008

580. Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining 205 comments Feb 5, 2008







581. Online Parent-Child Gap Widens 200 comments Feb 5, 2008

582. Space Spotters Track Secret Satellites 110 comments Feb 5, 2008

583. NASA Wants "People People" for Astronaut Core 86 comments Feb 4, 2008

584. The Physics of Football 142 comments Feb 3, 2008

585. Yahoo Bid shows Microsoft on the Ropes 396 comments Feb 2, 2008

586. [Favorite] Cellphones Leapfrog Poor Infrastructure in Mali 100 comments Feb 2, 2008

587. AT&T's Plan to Play Internet Cop 251 comments Jan 17, 2008

588. [>500] [>1,000] Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest 1,507 comments Jan 16, 2008

589. What is Fair Use in the Digital Age? 190 comments Jan 16, 2008

590. Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace 334 comments Jan 15, 2008







591. Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? 334 comments Jan 15, 2008

592. Air Pollution Causes Sperm Mutations In Mice 53 comments Jan 15, 2008

593. [Favorite] Filming an Invasion Without Extras 169 comments Jan 14, 2008

594. "Cone of Silence" Possible Say Scientists 89 comments Jan 12, 2008

595. Evolving Blu-ray Format Will Leave Some Behind 46 comments Jan 12, 2008

596. Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered 130 comments Jan 11, 2008

597. Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree 125 comments Jan 11, 2008

598. [Favorite] Google's Prediction Market 94 comments Jan 7, 2008

599. Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets 486 comments Jan 6, 2008

600. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? 1,224 comments Jan 4, 2008











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601. Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? 174 comments Jan 4, 2008

602. Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs 113 comments Jan 4, 2008

603. Stern Measures Keep NASA's Kepler Mission on Track 73 comments Jan 3, 2008

604. [Favorite] Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation? 452 comments Jan 2, 2008

605. New Years Resolutions - An Engineering Approach 129 comments Jan 1, 2008

606. Google Products You Forgot All About 91 comments Dec 31, 2007

607. [Favorite] The City of the Future 269 comments Dec 30, 2007

608. The Curse of Knowledge Bogs Down Innovation 257 comments Dec 30, 2007

609. Musicians Have Many Money Options Online, Says Talking Head 113 comments Dec 30, 2007

610. The Death of High Fidelity 376 comments Dec 29, 2007







611. Solar Tree Bears Fruit 105 comments Dec 29, 2007

612. [Favorite] Domains May Disappear After Search 362 comments Dec 28, 2007

613. Chinese Government Sued Over Dog Height Censorship 254 comments Dec 28, 2007

614. Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope? 177 comments Dec 22, 2007

615. People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year 159 comments Dec 21, 2007

616. Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future 236 comments Dec 16, 2007

617. [>500] Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg 746 comments Dec 15, 2007

618. Eat, Drink, and be Monitored 104 comments Dec 15, 2007

619. Will The Next Generation of Spacecraft Land In the Water? 309 comments Dec 14, 2007

620. [Favorite] [>500] Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? 647 comments Dec 13, 2007







621. Can Time Slow Down? 441 comments Dec 12, 2007

622. Electric Cars to Help Utilities Load Balance Grid 245 comments Dec 10, 2007

623. SenseCam Aids Patients with Memory Problems 78 comments Dec 10, 2007

624. Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients 269 comments Dec 9, 2007

625. Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns 132 comments Dec 9, 2007

626. Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious 129 comments Dec 9, 2007

627. Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress 59 comments Dec 8, 2007

628. Airlines to Offer In-Flight Internet Service 179 comments Dec 7, 2007

629. Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media 417 comments Dec 6, 2007

630. Academic Games Are No Fun 158 comments Dec 5, 2007







631. The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins 166 comments Dec 4, 2007

632. [Favorite] NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech 404 comments Dec 3, 2007

633. Crime Wave Thwarted in Second Life 181 comments Dec 2, 2007

634. AT&T Playing Hardball With Apple? 169 comments Dec 1, 2007

635. Bolivian Salt Flats Aid Spacecraft Calibration 98 comments Dec 1, 2007

636. Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs 401 comments Nov 30, 2007

637. [Favorite] Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches 240 comments Nov 30, 2007

638. [>500] The Secret to Raising Smart Kids 613 comments Nov 29, 2007

639. [Favorite] Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw 231 comments Nov 27, 2007

640. The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America 207 comments Nov 26, 2007







641. Mapping the Brain's Neural Network 141 comments Nov 24, 2007

642. Thailand Bans Teen Info On the Net 136 comments Nov 24, 2007

643. New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves 131 comments Nov 24, 2007

644. [Favorite] The 110 Million Dollar Button 189 comments Nov 23, 2007

645. [Favorite] How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons 136 comments Nov 23, 2007

646. Are Aliens Living Among Us? 348 comments Nov 20, 2007

647. Murdoch's New Internet Strategy for the WSJ 62 comments Nov 19, 2007

648. Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet 376 comments Nov 18, 2007

649. [Favorite] How the Inca Leapt Canyons 184 comments Nov 17, 2007

650. US Control of Internet Remains an Issue 300 comments Nov 16, 2007







651. New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor 322 comments Nov 15, 2007

652. Close but no Cigar for Netflix Recommender System 113 comments Nov 14, 2007

653. Turning E-Mail into a Social Network 93 comments Nov 14, 2007

654. [>500] Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation 521 comments Nov 13, 2007

655. [Favorite] The Rules of the Swarm 165 comments Nov 13, 2007

656. Antique Fridge Could Keep Venus Rover Cool 220 comments Nov 12, 2007

657. Even the Masseuse is a Multimillionaire at Google 160 comments Nov 12, 2007

658. Thought-Controlled Prosthetics 88 comments Nov 12, 2007

659. [Favorite] Where are the Flying Cars? 360 comments Nov 10, 2007

660. Robot Run Warehouse Speeds Deliveries 142 comments Nov 10, 2007







661. Russian Phishers moving to China? 67 comments Nov 9, 2007

662. Expanding Fair Use To Reform Copyright Law 229 comments Nov 8, 2007

663. [Favorite] Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? 343 comments Nov 7, 2007

664. Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance 229 comments Nov 7, 2007

665. Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers 204 comments Nov 7, 2007

666. Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again 171 comments Nov 6, 2007

667. Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone 220 comments Nov 5, 2007

668. The Man Behind the Google Phone 94 comments Nov 4, 2007

669. Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years 458 comments Nov 3, 2007

670. Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinctions? 205 comments Nov 2, 2007







671. Picture Passwords More Secure than Text 259 comments Nov 1, 2007

672. [Favorite] Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds 227 comments Oct 30, 2007

673. First Fossil Evidence that Velociraptors Hunted in Packs 169 comments Oct 30, 2007

674. [Favorite] Wikipedia Begets Veropedia 257 comments Oct 29, 2007

675. [>500] Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone 547 comments Oct 28, 2007

676. [>500] Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline 614 comments Oct 23, 2007

677. Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers 311 comments Oct 23, 2007

678. Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes 158 comments Oct 20, 2007

679. New GPS Navigator Relies On 'Wisdom of the Crowds' 90 comments Oct 20, 2007

680. Crashed Spacecraft Yields Data on Solar Wind 44 comments Oct 20, 2007







681. Neuro-Reckoning May Reduce MMOG Time Lag 88 comments Oct 19, 2007

682. [Favorite] Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans 409 comments Oct 18, 2007

683. Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia 264 comments Oct 17, 2007

684. Attacking Criminal Networks On the Internet 109 comments Oct 16, 2007

685. The Dark Side of Iapetus 73 comments Oct 9, 2007

686. Google Hopes to Disaggregate Carriers with gPhone 183 comments Oct 8, 2007

687. Titan's Tropical Weather 102 comments Oct 2, 2007

688. Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow? 158 comments Sep 29, 2007

689. [>500] First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years 837 comments Sep 27, 2007

690. Future Looks Bright for Large Scale Solar Farms 325 comments Sep 22, 2007







691. Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World 212 comments Sep 16, 2007

692. New Technologies Attack the One-World Problem 157 comments Sep 14, 2007

693. New Wonder Weed to Fuel Cars? 484 comments Sep 10, 2007

694. [Favorite] Making War On Light Pollution 435 comments Sep 8, 2007

695. [>500] New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution 504 comments Aug 7, 2007

696. Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem 138 comments Jul 28, 2007

697. Humans Can Still Out-Bluff Machines 279 comments Jul 26, 2007

698. High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage 269 comments Jul 22, 2007

699. [>500] Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns 520 comments Jun 1, 2007

700. [Favorite] How the Pentagon Got Its Shape 473 comments May 28, 2007











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701. [Favorite] Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln 281 comments May 18, 2007

702. Cell Phones to Monitor Traffic Flow 87 comments Nov 19, 2005

703. "Spim" is Latest Online Annoyance 274 comments Nov 14, 2003

704. Gangs Extort Companies With DDoS Attacks 423 comments Nov 12, 2003

705. Users feel Password Rage 388 comments Sep 7, 2003

706. [>500] I, Spammer 808 comments May 22, 2003

707. Online Newspapers Turning a Profit 257 comments Apr 20, 2003

708. More Thoughts On How to Wire Senegal 182 comments Apr 14, 2003

709. [>500] Forty Percent of All Email is Spam 625 comments Mar 13, 2003

710. Peace Corps to Wire Senegal 171 comments Mar 6, 2003