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1. [>500] [>1,000] Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage 1,582 comments Dec 17, 2012

2. [Favorite] Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine 79 comments Dec 16, 2012

3. Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama 428 comments Dec 15, 2012

4. [>500] Solar Panels For Every Home? 718 comments Dec 14, 2012

5. Earth Avoids Collisions With Pair of Asteroids 243 comments Dec 13, 2012

6. Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime 135 comments Dec 12, 2012

7. Kazakhstan Wants Russia To Hand Over Their Baikonur Space City 121 comments Dec 11, 2012

8. US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns 176 comments Dec 10, 2012

9. F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base 317 comments Dec 9, 2012

10. UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations 131 comments Dec 9, 2012







11. FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban 188 comments Dec 8, 2012

12. Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites 146 comments Dec 5, 2012

13. The Rise of Feudal Computer Security 136 comments Dec 4, 2012

14. The Science of Roadkill 51 comments Dec 4, 2012

15. [Favorite] [>500] Just Say No To College 713 comments Dec 3, 2012

16. Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread 434 comments Dec 3, 2012

17. Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade 251 comments Dec 2, 2012

18. [>500] US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low 530 comments Nov 30, 2012

19. [Favorite] Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations 176 comments Nov 27, 2012

20. Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer 179 comments Nov 26, 2012







21. Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case 332 comments Nov 25, 2012

22. The World Falls Back In Love With Coal 263 comments Nov 23, 2012

23. The Science of Thanks Giving 52 comments Nov 22, 2012

24. [>500] With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers 587 comments Nov 21, 2012

25. [>500] Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works 811 comments Nov 20, 2012

26. Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over 203 comments Nov 20, 2012

27. Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage 114 comments Nov 17, 2012

28. Will It Take a 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' To Break Congressional Deadlock? 99 comments Nov 16, 2012

29. Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage 408 comments Nov 14, 2012

30. Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 461 comments Nov 13, 2012







31. Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business in China 94 comments Nov 12, 2012

32. Amid Fiscal Uncertainty Venture Capital is Way Down in Silicon Valley 381 comments Nov 11, 2012

33. Geomapping Racism With Twitter 371 comments Nov 11, 2012

34. Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080 317 comments Nov 10, 2012

35. [Favorite] Navy Seals Disciplined For Revealing Secrets As Consultants On Video Game 158 comments Nov 9, 2012

36. Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder 142 comments Nov 8, 2012

37. Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors Says Florida Task Force 341 comments Nov 7, 2012

38. Pixar Names Main Studio Building For Steve Jobs 65 comments Nov 7, 2012

39. New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles 270 comments Nov 6, 2012

40. [Favorite] Killer Asteroids Are Good For Life 66 comments Nov 5, 2012







41. Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars 210 comments Nov 4, 2012

42. Building the Ultimate Safe House 269 comments Nov 3, 2012

43. Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies 421 comments Nov 2, 2012

44. Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' 213 comments Nov 1, 2012

45. Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine 183 comments Oct 31, 2012

46. Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack 134 comments Oct 31, 2012

47. Sweden Imports European Garbage To Power the Nation 149 comments Oct 30, 2012

48. Designing DNA Specific Bio-Weapons 212 comments Oct 29, 2012

49. To Google Friends Or Not To Google, That Is the Question 105 comments Oct 28, 2012

50. [Favorite] Our Weather Satellites Are Dying 162 comments Oct 27, 2012







51. Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? 474 comments Oct 26, 2012

52. Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion 212 comments Oct 26, 2012

53. [Favorite] [>500] Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? 606 comments Oct 24, 2012

54. Apple, ARM, and Intel 234 comments Oct 23, 2012

55. The Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy 48 comments Oct 23, 2012

56. Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business 343 comments Oct 22, 2012

57. Righthaven Ordered To Turn Over Hard Drives To Creditors 41 comments Oct 21, 2012

58. Craig Venter Wants To Rebuild Martian Life In Earth Lab 111 comments Oct 20, 2012

59. How Do You Spot a Genius? 323 comments Oct 19, 2012

60. Beware the Rings of Pluto 82 comments Oct 17, 2012







61. Commercial Amphibious Vehicle Is Part ATV Part Jet Ski 76 comments Oct 16, 2012

62. Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier 121 comments Oct 15, 2012

63. As Gas Prices Soar So Does City Biking 342 comments Oct 14, 2012

64. A Supercomputer On the Moon To Direct Deep Space Traffic 138 comments Oct 14, 2012

65. WikiLeaks Losing Support From Anonymous 138 comments Oct 12, 2012

66. Small Telescopes Make Big Discoveries 37 comments Oct 11, 2012

67. Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light 378 comments Oct 10, 2012

68. Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up 246 comments Oct 10, 2012

69. Phil Zimmermann's New App Protects Smartphones From Prying Ears 118 comments Oct 10, 2012

70. The Case That Apple Should Buy Nokia 286 comments Oct 9, 2012







71. National Ignition Facility Fails To Ignite Support In Congress 181 comments Oct 8, 2012

72. NASA Prepares For Space Surgery and Zero Gravity Blood 141 comments Oct 7, 2012

73. We Don't Need More Highways 229 comments Oct 6, 2012

74. [>500] Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations 664 comments Oct 5, 2012

75. For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive 394 comments Oct 4, 2012

76. [>500] [>1,000] To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets 1,631 comments Oct 2, 2012

77. Obama Blocks Chinese Wind Farms In Oregon Over National Security 159 comments Oct 1, 2012

78. PlaceRaider Builds a Model of Your World With Smartphone Photos 79 comments Sep 30, 2012

79. [>500] A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet 541 comments Sep 29, 2012

80. Why It's Bad That Smartphones Have Banished Boredom 347 comments Sep 27, 2012







81. [>500] California Legalizes Self Driving Cars 508 comments Sep 26, 2012

82. Steve Jobs Joins House of Wax 44 comments Sep 26, 2012

83. Robot Snakes To Fight Cancer Via Natural Orifice Surgery 63 comments Sep 25, 2012

84. [>500] Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons 582 comments Sep 23, 2012

85. When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm 236 comments Sep 21, 2012

86. Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio 347 comments Sep 20, 2012

87. Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App 459 comments Sep 19, 2012

88. Designers Criticize Apple's User Interface For OS X and iOS 456 comments Sep 19, 2012

89. Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security 232 comments Sep 19, 2012

90. Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas 132 comments Sep 17, 2012







91. [>500] YouTube Refuses To Remove Anti-Islamic Film Clip 621 comments Sep 14, 2012

92. Scientists Themselves Play Large Role In Bad Reporting 114 comments Sep 13, 2012

93. Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker 150 comments Sep 12, 2012

94. Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes 280 comments Sep 11, 2012

95. [Favorite] Look-Alike Web Sites Hoodwink Republican Donors 254 comments Sep 10, 2012

96. Google Reinvents Micropayments — As Surveywall 92 comments Sep 10, 2012

97. Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You 474 comments Sep 9, 2012

98. [>500] Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit 896 comments Sep 7, 2012

99. Space Station Saved By a Toothbrush? 179 comments Sep 5, 2012

100. 'Magic Carpet' Could Help Prevent Falls Among the Elderly 87 comments Sep 5, 2012








Reverse Chronological: 101 - 200

101. Sprint Allows LTE Service Over Mobile Virtual Network 41 comments Sep 5, 2012

102. [>500] Do We Need a Longer School Year? 708 comments Sep 3, 2012

103. Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt 279 comments Sep 2, 2012

104. US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives 106 comments Sep 1, 2012

105. The Case Against DNA 152 comments Aug 31, 2012

106. Don't Build a Database of Ruin 209 comments Aug 29, 2012

107. [Favorite] [>500] How Long Do You Want To Live? 812 comments Aug 27, 2012

108. The Sweet Mystery of Science 167 comments Aug 27, 2012

109. StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap 52 comments Aug 26, 2012

110. App Can Prevent Users From Texting While Driving 127 comments Aug 25, 2012







111. Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing 468 comments Aug 24, 2012

112. [>500] Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention 501 comments Aug 23, 2012

113. Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier 204 comments Aug 22, 2012

114. Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality 201 comments Aug 22, 2012

115. [>500] [>1,000] The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy 1,444 comments Aug 21, 2012

116. When Flying Was a Thrill 343 comments Aug 20, 2012

117. [>500] Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist 829 comments Aug 18, 2012

118. How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution 221 comments Aug 17, 2012

119. [>500] Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin 566 comments Aug 13, 2012

120. What Happens To Google Employees When They Die? 131 comments Aug 12, 2012







121. Secret Security Questions Are a Joke 281 comments Aug 9, 2012

122. Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick 284 comments Aug 8, 2012

123. The Google-fication of Yahoo! 236 comments Aug 7, 2012

124. Wozniak Predicts Horrible Problems With the Cloud 322 comments Aug 6, 2012

125. [>500] Meat the Food of the Future 705 comments Aug 5, 2012

126. University Receives $5 Million Grant To Study Immortality 377 comments Aug 4, 2012

127. Air Force Claims To Have Solved Fatal F-22 Oxygen Riddle 141 comments Aug 4, 2012

128. Today, Everybody's a Fact Checker 143 comments Aug 3, 2012

129. [>500] Why the Tablet Market is Really the iPad Market 623 comments Aug 2, 2012

130. Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics 252 comments Aug 1, 2012







131. Half of India Without Electricity As Power Grid Crisis Deepens 406 comments Jul 31, 2012

132. Is China's Space Race An Opportunity For the US? 153 comments Jul 30, 2012

133. Did Apple Buy Fingerprint Security Firm For Mobile Wallet? 28 comments Jul 28, 2012

134. Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake 418 comments Jul 27, 2012

135. The Rise of the Junkweb and Why It's So Awesome 176 comments Jul 26, 2012

136. Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? 459 comments Jul 25, 2012

137. Apple Blames Earnings Miss On iPhone 5 Anticipation 229 comments Jul 25, 2012

138. [Favorite] [>500] The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox 502 comments Jul 24, 2012

139. The Decline of Google's (and Everybody's) Ad Business 297 comments Jul 24, 2012

140. [>500] Apple Gets the Importance of Packaging; Why Doesn't Google? 631 comments Jul 19, 2012







141. The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It 163 comments Jul 15, 2012

142. Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly? 297 comments Jul 14, 2012

143. Bloodsucking Parasite Named After Bob Marley 62 comments Jul 11, 2012

144. Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? 404 comments Jul 10, 2012

145. Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic 433 comments Jul 9, 2012

146. How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works 154 comments Jul 9, 2012

147. [>500] NY Couple On "Wanted" Poster For Filming Police 516 comments Jul 8, 2012

148. [Favorite] Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer 202 comments Jul 4, 2012

149. FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit 138 comments Jul 4, 2012

150. [>500] After Recent US Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power? 813 comments Jul 3, 2012







151. US Energy Transportation Network Gets Multibillion-Dollar Revamp 123 comments Jul 2, 2012

152. Tech Manufacturing Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen 114 comments Jun 25, 2012

153. [>500] Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations 613 comments Jun 24, 2012

154. Bryson Crash Reveals Threat of Headless Government 299 comments Jun 22, 2012

155. [>500] Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election 511 comments Jun 12, 2012

156. How Technology Promotes World Peace 152 comments Jun 12, 2012

157. [>500] History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author 679 comments Jun 10, 2012

158. [>500] History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author 650 comments Jun 10, 2012

159. Drones, Computer Viruses and Blowback 235 comments Jun 9, 2012

160. [>500] California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes 818 comments Jun 8, 2012







161. [>500] Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists 741 comments Jun 7, 2012

162. Cognitive Software Identifies America's Brainiest Cities 131 comments Jun 7, 2012

163. China Secretly Clones Austrian Village 327 comments Jun 5, 2012

164. Antivirus Firms Out of Their League With Stuxnet, Flame 230 comments Jun 4, 2012

165. How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs 356 comments Jun 3, 2012

166. SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign 165 comments Jun 2, 2012

167. Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging 397 comments Jun 1, 2012

168. Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? 386 comments May 30, 2012

169. Statisticians Investigate Political Bias On Wikipedia 179 comments May 30, 2012

170. [>500] [>1,000] Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey 1,217 comments May 29, 2012







171. Backdoor Found In China-Made US Military Chip? 265 comments May 28, 2012

172. [Favorite] Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines 214 comments May 28, 2012

173. [>500] Iran Reverse Engineers Cobra Attack Helicopter 518 comments May 26, 2012

174. Fire May Leave US Nuclear Sub Damaged Beyond Repair 226 comments May 25, 2012

175. Ten Cops Can't Recover Police Chief's Son's iPhone 231 comments May 23, 2012

176. Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet 367 comments May 21, 2012

177. Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO 217 comments May 19, 2012

178. GMU Prof Teaches How To Falsify Wikipedia — and Get Caught 183 comments May 17, 2012

179. World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure 158 comments May 17, 2012

180. [>500] The Mathematics of Obesity 629 comments May 16, 2012







181. [Favorite] An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible 306 comments May 15, 2012

182. High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming 457 comments May 14, 2012

183. Location Selected For $1 Billion Ghost Town 152 comments May 13, 2012

184. NASA's Hansen Calls Out Obama On Climate Change 461 comments May 12, 2012

185. [>500] How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? 639 comments May 11, 2012

186. Dish Network Announces Prime Time TV With No Ads 266 comments May 11, 2012

187. Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia 471 comments May 9, 2012

188. FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions 386 comments May 8, 2012

189. Scientists Solve Mystery of Ireland's Moving Boulders 111 comments May 8, 2012

190. [>500] Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans 541 comments May 7, 2012







191. Methane Producing Dinosaurs May Have Changed Climate 253 comments May 7, 2012

192. [>500] Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor 536 comments May 6, 2012

193. Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone 192 comments May 5, 2012

194. Star Wars Exhibition Explores Human Identity 62 comments May 1, 2012

195. Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster 278 comments Apr 29, 2012

196. The Science of Handedness 220 comments Apr 29, 2012

197. Monkeypox Scare Grounds Flight In Chicago 227 comments Apr 28, 2012

198. 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany 448 comments Apr 27, 2012

199. [>500] In Nothing We Trust 884 comments Apr 23, 2012

200. Is Middle Age Evolution's Crowning Achievement? 138 comments Apr 21, 2012








Reverse Chronological: 201 - 300

201. Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money 319 comments Apr 20, 2012

202. iTunes' Windows Problem 330 comments Apr 17, 2012

203. Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong 398 comments Apr 16, 2012

204. [>500] [>1,000] Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming 1,138 comments Apr 14, 2012

205. [>500] Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars 901 comments Apr 13, 2012

206. [Favorite] Magical Thinking Is Good For You 446 comments Apr 13, 2012

207. North Korea Shows Off Space Center and Launches Missile 263 comments Apr 12, 2012

208. Scientists Study Trajectories of Life-Bearing Earth Meteorites 198 comments Apr 12, 2012

209. Statistical Analysis Raises Civil War Death Count By 20% 135 comments Apr 11, 2012

210. America's Secret Underground Ice Fortresses 134 comments Apr 9, 2012







211. Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 363 comments Apr 8, 2012

212. Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships 119 comments Apr 7, 2012

213. Robotic Squirrels Battle It Out With Rattlesnakes 122 comments Apr 5, 2012

214. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call 1,005 comments Apr 4, 2012

215. Confidentiality Expires For 1940 Census Records 305 comments Apr 3, 2012

216. World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry 453 comments Apr 2, 2012

217. [>500] [>1,000] Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's 1,046 comments Apr 1, 2012

218. Obama Campaign Deploys New Cellular Weapon 76 comments Apr 1, 2012

219. Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away 101 comments Mar 31, 2012

220. Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre 184 comments Mar 30, 2012







221. Jeff Bezos To Retrieve Apollo 11 Rocket Engines 107 comments Mar 29, 2012

222. Parlez-vous Python? 160 comments Mar 28, 2012

223. Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad 382 comments Mar 26, 2012

224. [>500] What's Not To Like About New iPad? 538 comments Mar 25, 2012

225. Do Women Make Better Bosses? 403 comments Mar 23, 2012

226. [Favorite] Blackjack Player Breaks the Bank At Atlantic City 287 comments Mar 22, 2012

227. Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves 204 comments Mar 22, 2012

228. Clever Clues Clobber Crossword Computer 70 comments Mar 21, 2012

229. Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language 280 comments Mar 19, 2012

230. Mammoth "Metal Moles" Tunnel Deep Beneath London 293 comments Mar 18, 2012







231. Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty 238 comments Mar 17, 2012

232. Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites 119 comments Mar 15, 2012

233. [>500] How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial 869 comments Mar 12, 2012

234. Nuclear Disaster In Japan Could Have Been Mitigated, Say Industry Insiders 397 comments Mar 11, 2012

235. Employers Need Wind Power Technicians 170 comments Mar 10, 2012

236. Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight 270 comments Mar 9, 2012

237. The Privacy Richter Scale 75 comments Mar 8, 2012

238. The Worst Job In the Digital World 257 comments Mar 6, 2012

239. The eBook Backlash 417 comments Mar 5, 2012

240. [Favorite] Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? 366 comments Mar 4, 2012







241. Did the Titanic Sink Due To an Optical Illusion? 165 comments Mar 4, 2012

242. [>500] Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales 553 comments Mar 3, 2012

243. Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives? 484 comments Mar 2, 2012

244. [>500] [>1,000] The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon 1,205 comments Mar 1, 2012

245. North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities 216 comments Feb 29, 2012

246. [>500] Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 624 comments Feb 28, 2012

247. Santorum Defends Robocalls To Democrats 263 comments Feb 28, 2012

248. UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money 341 comments Feb 27, 2012

249. Vatican Attack Provides Insight Into Anonymous 312 comments Feb 27, 2012

250. [>500] Apple Has Too Much Money 556 comments Feb 26, 2012







251. Women More Likely To Unfriend Than Men 116 comments Feb 25, 2012

252. Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind 268 comments Feb 23, 2012

253. [>500] Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? 660 comments Feb 22, 2012

254. Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes 146 comments Feb 21, 2012

255. [Favorite] Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US 445 comments Feb 20, 2012

256. Space Team Reunites For John Glenn's Friendship 7 82 comments Feb 19, 2012

257. [>500] Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies 742 comments Feb 17, 2012

258. How Companies Learn Your Secrets 353 comments Feb 17, 2012

259. Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need 166 comments Feb 15, 2012

260. Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime 349 comments Feb 14, 2012







261. Best Practice: Travel Light To China 332 comments Feb 13, 2012

262. All-IP Network Produces $100B Real Estate Windfall 189 comments Feb 12, 2012

263. [>500] Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone 540 comments Feb 11, 2012

264. Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes 247 comments Feb 10, 2012

265. FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field 331 comments Feb 9, 2012

266. [>500] [>1,000] The Zuckerberg Tax 1,064 comments Feb 8, 2012

267. Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS 446 comments Feb 7, 2012

268. 4G Phones Are Really Fast — At Draining Batteries 301 comments Feb 7, 2012

269. A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won't Run On iPhone 4) 239 comments Feb 6, 2012

270. Simulators Take the Humans Out of Hiring 110 comments Feb 5, 2012







271. Philatelists Push Petition For Pluto Probe Postage 79 comments Feb 5, 2012

272. New Mobile Plan Pools Data On Unlimited Devices 58 comments Feb 4, 2012

273. [Favorite] [>500] How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA 831 comments Feb 3, 2012

274. Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? 335 comments Feb 2, 2012

275. Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley 488 comments Feb 1, 2012

276. The Hi-Tech Security at the Super Bowl 263 comments Feb 1, 2012

277. Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft 417 comments Jan 31, 2012

278. [>500] Some Critics Suggest Apple Boycott Over Chinese Working Conditions 716 comments Jan 30, 2012

279. Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors 450 comments Jan 30, 2012

280. Defending Your Cellphone Against Malware 142 comments Jan 29, 2012







281. Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade 241 comments Jan 28, 2012

282. Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out 216 comments Jan 28, 2012

283. Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads 287 comments Jan 26, 2012

284. Autonomous Vehicles and the Law 313 comments Jan 25, 2012

285. [>500] [>1,000] How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work 1,302 comments Jan 22, 2012

286. Banks Using Mobile Phone Usage To Gauge Credit Risk 196 comments Jan 22, 2012

287. Study Analyzes Recent Grads' Unemployment By Major 311 comments Jan 21, 2012

288. What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? 404 comments Jan 20, 2012

289. Town Turns Off the Lights To See the Stars 219 comments Jan 19, 2012

290. Statisticians Uncover the Mathematics of a Serial Killer 164 comments Jan 17, 2012







291. Martian Rocks Land In Morocco 95 comments Jan 17, 2012

292. Putting Medical Records Into Patients' Hands 207 comments Jan 16, 2012

293. [>500] New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves 632 comments Jan 15, 2012

294. Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power 303 comments Jan 15, 2012

295. [Favorite] [>500] The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred 525 comments Jan 14, 2012

296. TSA Makes $400K Annually In Loose Change 277 comments Jan 13, 2012

297. [>500] Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? 947 comments Jan 12, 2012

298. Facebook Helps Give Hacking a Good Name Again 51 comments Jan 11, 2012

299. How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years 495 comments Jan 9, 2012

300. Samsung Could Soon Start To Twist Google's Arm 119 comments Jan 9, 2012








Reverse Chronological: 301 - 400

301. Chance To Snap Up Your Own Observatory 61 comments Jan 8, 2012

302. DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project 167 comments Jan 7, 2012

303. Solo Explorer Begins Bicycle Journey To South Pole 139 comments Jan 6, 2012

304. Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level 100 comments Jan 6, 2012

305. Cleaning Up the Mess After a Major Hack Attack 94 comments Jan 4, 2012

306. [>500] What's Keeping You On XP? 879 comments Jan 3, 2012

307. [>500] Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games 546 comments Jan 3, 2012

308. Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed 180 comments Jan 2, 2012

309. The Second Moons of Earth 87 comments Jan 2, 2012

310. The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist 231 comments Jan 1, 2012







311. [Favorite] [>500] Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War 969 comments Dec 31, 2011

312. [>500] How Doctors Die 646 comments Dec 29, 2011

313. Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies 433 comments Dec 28, 2011

314. Will Hackers Try To Disrupt the Iowa Caucuses? 160 comments Dec 27, 2011

315. Israeli Spyware Sold To Iran 140 comments Dec 26, 2011

316. New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 119 comments Dec 26, 2011

317. The Science of Santa 141 comments Dec 25, 2011

318. Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 293 comments Dec 23, 2011

319. Do You Have the Right Stuff To Be an Astronaut? 213 comments Dec 22, 2011

320. Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship 412 comments Dec 21, 2011







321. Troops In Afghanistan Supplied By Robot Helicopter 139 comments Dec 21, 2011

322. Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor 333 comments Dec 20, 2011

323. High School Reunions — Facebook's Newest Victim? 154 comments Dec 20, 2011

324. Using WikiLeaks As a Tool In Investigative Journalism 38 comments Dec 19, 2011

325. The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives 362 comments Dec 18, 2011

326. Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children 268 comments Dec 17, 2011

327. Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier 449 comments Dec 15, 2011

328. [>500] Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" 539 comments Dec 14, 2011

329. [>500] Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord 559 comments Dec 13, 2011

330. Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy 448 comments Dec 12, 2011







331. Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Millionaires 429 comments Dec 11, 2011

332. [Favorite] [>500] Is the Earth Special? 726 comments Dec 10, 2011

333. Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model 467 comments Dec 9, 2011

334. 'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan 50 comments Dec 7, 2011

335. Syria Bans iPhone, Protest App 59 comments Dec 4, 2011

336. Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years 388 comments Dec 3, 2011

337. Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling 376 comments Dec 2, 2011

338. [>500] Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? 836 comments Dec 1, 2011

339. [>500] Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple 540 comments Nov 30, 2011

340. Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time 249 comments Nov 30, 2011







341. [>500] Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email 570 comments Nov 29, 2011

342. Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground 244 comments Nov 28, 2011

343. The Science of Humor 332 comments Nov 27, 2011

344. Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking 41 comments Nov 26, 2011

345. iTunes Flaw Allowed Spying On Dissidents 82 comments Nov 25, 2011

346. The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV 277 comments Nov 24, 2011

347. Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial 371 comments Nov 23, 2011

348. Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public 239 comments Nov 23, 2011

349. [>500] Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree 927 comments Nov 22, 2011

350. [Favorite] [>500] The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation 515 comments Nov 22, 2011







351. Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians 389 comments Nov 20, 2011

352. Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting 354 comments Nov 20, 2011

353. Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator 343 comments Nov 17, 2011

354. The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs 285 comments Nov 17, 2011

355. Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film 356 comments Nov 15, 2011

356. Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material 263 comments Nov 14, 2011

357. Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? 252 comments Nov 14, 2011

358. A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds 220 comments Nov 9, 2011

359. Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy 406 comments Nov 8, 2011

360. Help Rename the Department of Homeland Security 375 comments Nov 7, 2011







361. [>500] Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? 825 comments Nov 6, 2011

362. Apple's Secret Weapon To Influence Industry Pricing 396 comments Nov 5, 2011

363. [>500] Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android 787 comments Nov 3, 2011

364. [Favorite] [>500] When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem 627 comments Oct 29, 2011

365. Google Street View Moves Indoors 115 comments Oct 29, 2011

366. Copyright Troll Righthaven Ordered To Pay $119,000 72 comments Oct 27, 2011

367. [Favorite] Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? 253 comments Oct 25, 2011

368. Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools 271 comments Oct 24, 2011

369. Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up 202 comments Oct 24, 2011

370. A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers 100 comments Oct 23, 2011







371. DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones 186 comments Oct 22, 2011

372. How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks 190 comments Oct 21, 2011

373. Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders 115 comments Oct 20, 2011

374. Flowchart Guides Readers Through the 100 Best SF Books 221 comments Oct 19, 2011

375. Investors Campaign To Oust Murdochs From News Corp 150 comments Oct 18, 2011

376. The Genetics of Happiness 125 comments Oct 18, 2011

377. Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly 457 comments Oct 17, 2011

378. Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? 330 comments Oct 17, 2011

379. [>500] Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global 941 comments Oct 16, 2011

380. [Favorite] NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera 395 comments Oct 12, 2011







381. Mazda Stops Production of the Last Rotary Engine Powered Car 352 comments Oct 11, 2011

382. Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base 264 comments Oct 11, 2011

383. The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama 334 comments Oct 10, 2011

384. [>500] Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up 745 comments Oct 9, 2011

385. Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid 472 comments Aug 25, 2011

386. [>500] More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs 614 comments Aug 24, 2011

387. What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals 311 comments Aug 24, 2011

388. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story 1,014 comments Aug 23, 2011

389. [>500] Most People Have Never Heard of CTRL+F 563 comments Aug 20, 2011

390. HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices 367 comments Aug 20, 2011







391. AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan 347 comments Aug 19, 2011

392. [>500] Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games 636 comments Aug 18, 2011

393. Do Spoilers Ruin a Good Story? No, Say Researchers 237 comments Aug 16, 2011

394. Righthaven Loses Again 118 comments Aug 16, 2011

395. Drug Companies Lose Special Protection On Facebook 181 comments Aug 15, 2011

396. [>500] What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling? 537 comments Aug 14, 2011

397. US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking 270 comments Aug 12, 2011

398. Popularity Trumps Privacy For Many On Facebook 99 comments Aug 12, 2011

399. IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon 219 comments Aug 10, 2011

400. [>500] Technology Blamed for Helping UK Rioters 672 comments Aug 9, 2011








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401. Power Companies Brace for Solar Storms 111 comments Aug 8, 2011

402. DARPA Commits To Funding Useful Hacking Projects 43 comments Aug 7, 2011

403. [Favorite] [>500] The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing 513 comments Aug 6, 2011

404. Internet Eats Into Time-Warner Cable Porn Profits 177 comments Aug 5, 2011

405. Google Accuses Competitors of Abusing Patents Against Android 276 comments Aug 4, 2011

406. Are We Seeing the End of Big Oil? 230 comments Aug 2, 2011

407. Judge Blasts Prosecution of Alleged NSA Leaker 93 comments Aug 1, 2011

408. Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste 248 comments Jul 31, 2011

409. Hackers Could Open Convicts' Cells In Prisons 203 comments Jul 31, 2011

410. [>500] The End of the Gas Guzzler 882 comments Jul 29, 2011







411. Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US 408 comments Jul 28, 2011

412. Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter 340 comments Jul 28, 2011

413. [>500] [>1,000] House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech 1,014 comments Jul 27, 2011

414. Fighting Crime With Facebook 71 comments Jul 27, 2011

415. Is the Master's Degree the New Bachelor's? 327 comments Jul 25, 2011

416. James Murdoch's Defense Crumbles 270 comments Jul 25, 2011

417. Online Call To Shoot President Ruled Free Speech 363 comments Jul 24, 2011

418. Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit 86 comments Jul 23, 2011

419. The Loudness Wars May Be Ending 280 comments Jul 22, 2011

420. Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company 165 comments Jul 22, 2011







421. [Favorite] Can a Playground Be Too Safe? 493 comments Jul 21, 2011

422. Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? 289 comments Jul 19, 2011

423. [>500] Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' 719 comments Jul 18, 2011

424. [Favorite] [>500] Mass Psychosis In the USA? 542 comments Jul 16, 2011

425. Phone Customers Pay $2B Yearly In Bogus Fees 220 comments Jul 14, 2011

426. App Uses Facial Profiling To Identify Perps 62 comments Jul 14, 2011

427. [>500] The Wi-Fi Hacking Neighbor From Hell 581 comments Jul 13, 2011

428. Apple Chief Patent Lawyer Leaves After Android Loss 100 comments Jul 12, 2011

429. DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing 417 comments Jul 10, 2011

430. Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' 241 comments Jul 10, 2011







431. Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet 207 comments Jul 9, 2011

432. Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches 495 comments Jul 7, 2011

433. Defendant Says Righthaven Should Pay Legal Fees 83 comments Jul 6, 2011

434. China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change 436 comments Jul 5, 2011

435. News Corp. Subsidiary Under Fire For Hacking Dead Girl's Voicemail 250 comments Jul 5, 2011

436. America: Like It Or Unfriend It 268 comments Jul 4, 2011

437. Can the US Still Lead In Space Despite Shuttle's End? 361 comments Jul 3, 2011

438. [Favorite] FBI Wiretapped Hemingway 253 comments Jul 2, 2011

439. [>500] San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales 700 comments Jun 28, 2011

440. DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs 322 comments Jun 27, 2011







441. The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland 474 comments Jun 26, 2011

442. Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? 440 comments Jun 25, 2011

443. Android App Quality Pathetically Low Says Developer 336 comments Jun 22, 2011

444. More Users Are Shunning Facebook 403 comments Jun 21, 2011

445. [Favorite] [>500] The End of Paper Books 663 comments Jun 19, 2011

446. High Tech Elder Care May Be Mixed Blessing 96 comments Jun 19, 2011

447. Osage Oppose Wind Power At Tallgrass Prairie 147 comments Jun 18, 2011

448. Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows 256 comments Jun 16, 2011

449. Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot 370 comments Jun 11, 2011

450. Mexican Cartels Build Mad Max Narco Tanks 340 comments Jun 11, 2011







451. Los Angeles To Turn Off Traffic-Light Cameras 360 comments Jun 10, 2011

452. [>500] [>1,000] Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? 1,051 comments Jun 8, 2011

453. Officials Agree On Global Nuclear Stress Tests 122 comments Jun 8, 2011

454. Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban 182 comments Jun 7, 2011

455. What Makes a Photograph Memorable? 53 comments Jun 3, 2011

456. Why We Have So Much "Duh" Science 296 comments Jun 1, 2011

457. [Favorite] Human Brain Places Limit On Twitter Friends 169 comments May 31, 2011

458. What's Your College Major Worth? 432 comments May 30, 2011

459. What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire 187 comments May 29, 2011

460. FDA Sued To Stop Antibiotic Abuse On Factory Farms 264 comments May 28, 2011







461. Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish 219 comments May 26, 2011

462. The Petition to Classify Wikipedia a "World Wonder" 305 comments May 25, 2011

463. Smart Pajamas Monitor Patients With Sleep Disorder 41 comments May 23, 2011

464. Creator of China's Great Firewall Pelted With Shoes 218 comments May 22, 2011

465. Scientists Take Charles Darwin On the Road 167 comments May 21, 2011

466. Seduction Secrets In Video Game Design 61 comments May 20, 2011

467. Judge Puts Righthaven Cases In Colorado On Hold 36 comments May 20, 2011

468. Computer Records Hold Key In IMF Head's Sexual Assault Case 247 comments May 19, 2011

469. [>500] The Future of Shopping 592 comments May 18, 2011

470. When AIM Was Our Facebook 383 comments May 18, 2011







471. Righthaven Hit With Class Action Counterclaim 90 comments May 17, 2011

472. The Cost of US Security 448 comments May 16, 2011

473. The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing 301 comments May 15, 2011

474. Live Justice Comes To the Internet 85 comments May 15, 2011

475. [>500] Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound 537 comments May 14, 2011

476. Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System 237 comments May 13, 2011

477. The Psychology of Steam Wallet & Microsoft Points 190 comments May 10, 2011

478. Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets 484 comments May 6, 2011

479. Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30 299 comments May 5, 2011

480. [Favorite] [>500] The Internet's New Alternate Reality 869 comments May 3, 2011







481. [>500] Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice 692 comments Apr 25, 2011

482. Righthaven Defies Court In Domain Name Ruling 148 comments Apr 25, 2011

483. FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' 366 comments Apr 18, 2011

484. Armenia Makes Chess Compulsory In Schools 299 comments Apr 18, 2011

485. Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract 129 comments Apr 17, 2011

486. TSA Investigates... People Who Complain About TSA 320 comments Apr 15, 2011

487. Editing Wikipedia Helps Professor Attain Tenure 139 comments Apr 8, 2011

488. [>500] [>1,000] Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? 1,479 comments Apr 7, 2011

489. Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? 330 comments Apr 6, 2011

490. [>500] Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax 978 comments Apr 5, 2011







491. [>500] Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars 710 comments Apr 4, 2011

492. [>500] Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism 578 comments Apr 3, 2011

493. StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light 426 comments Apr 3, 2011

494. Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs 427 comments Apr 2, 2011

495. Convicted Terrorist Relied On Single-Letter Cipher 253 comments Apr 1, 2011

496. [>500] Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up 827 comments Mar 31, 2011

497. Google Faces Privacy Audits For Next 20 Years 110 comments Mar 30, 2011

498. The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes 368 comments Mar 29, 2011

499. [>500] Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development 820 comments Mar 28, 2011

500. How Viewing a "Virtual You" Can Help You Save 180 comments Mar 27, 2011









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501. If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat 154 comments Mar 26, 2011

502. How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile 144 comments Mar 22, 2011

503. Google Accuses China of Interfering With Gmail 124 comments Mar 21, 2011

504. Righthaven Copyright Lawsuit Backfires 86 comments Mar 20, 2011

505. Geologists Say California May Be Next 246 comments Mar 19, 2011

506. Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job 345 comments Mar 18, 2011

507. [>500] US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis 563 comments Mar 17, 2011

508. NASA Wants To Zap Space Junk With Lasers 147 comments Mar 16, 2011

509. [>500] Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown 753 comments Mar 13, 2011

510. Tech Expertise Not Important In Google Managers 294 comments Mar 13, 2011







511. [>500] Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan 725 comments Mar 12, 2011

512. Is Daylight Saving Time Bad For You? 289 comments Mar 12, 2011

513. Copyright Troll Complains of Defendant's Legal Fees 135 comments Mar 11, 2011

514. DNA Testing Proposed For All Felony Arrests In New Mexico 151 comments Mar 10, 2011

515. [Favorite] Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books 441 comments Mar 9, 2011

516. [>500] Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? 614 comments Mar 7, 2011

517. Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future 231 comments Mar 7, 2011

518. Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy 314 comments Mar 6, 2011

519. Google Finally Uses Remote Kill Switch On Malware 172 comments Mar 6, 2011

520. Apple Negotiates For Unlimited iTunes Downloads 133 comments Mar 5, 2011







521. [>500] Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy 840 comments Mar 3, 2011

522. Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market 239 comments Mar 2, 2011

523. WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize 202 comments Mar 1, 2011

524. Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills 274 comments Feb 28, 2011

525. [>500] Consumers Buy Less Tech Stuff, Keep It Longer 504 comments Feb 27, 2011

526. [Favorite] How Sun Bought Apple Computer (Almost) 277 comments Feb 26, 2011

527. [>500] [>1,000] Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs 1,032 comments Feb 25, 2011

528. Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data 410 comments Feb 25, 2011

529. Smart Phone Gets Driver Out of a Speeding Ticket 227 comments Feb 25, 2011

530. [Favorite] Secrets of a Memory Champion 276 comments Feb 24, 2011







531. Google Launches New Assault on Microsoft Office 108 comments Feb 24, 2011

532. Employer Facebook Password Requests Suspended 201 comments Feb 23, 2011

533. The Psychology of Horror In Video Games and Movies 119 comments Feb 23, 2011

534. Former Senator Chris Dodd Set To Head MPAA 181 comments Feb 22, 2011

535. [Favorite] [>500] LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective 575 comments Feb 21, 2011

536. Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants 433 comments Feb 19, 2011

537. National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide 182 comments Feb 17, 2011

538. Number of Facebook Friends Linked To Anxiety 142 comments Feb 16, 2011

539. Apple To Keep 30% of Magazine Subscription Revenue 381 comments Feb 15, 2011

540. The Dirty Little Secrets of Search 148 comments Feb 13, 2011







541. Court Says California Stores Can't Ask Customers For ZIP Codes 455 comments Feb 10, 2011

542. AOL To Buy Huffington Post 160 comments Feb 7, 2011

543. Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap 373 comments Feb 6, 2011

544. Internet Is Easy Prey For Governments 313 comments Feb 6, 2011

545. [>500] Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children 827 comments Feb 5, 2011

546. Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name 329 comments Feb 5, 2011

547. Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control 428 comments Feb 4, 2011

548. AT&T Sued For Systematic iPhone Overbilling 254 comments Feb 2, 2011

549. [Favorite] Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets 374 comments Feb 1, 2011

550. [>500] Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk 547 comments Jan 30, 2011







551. [>500] Model Says Religiosity Gene Will Dominate Society 728 comments Jan 29, 2011

552. Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths 349 comments Jan 29, 2011

553. [>500] Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber 573 comments Jan 28, 2011

554. Bomb Detecting Plants To Root Out Terrorists 55 comments Jan 28, 2011

555. DOJ Seeks Mandatory Data Retention For ISPs 218 comments Jan 26, 2011

556. Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology 336 comments Jan 24, 2011

557. Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen 181 comments Jan 23, 2011

558. [Favorite] Study Sez Txt Msgs Make Kidz Gr8 Spellrz 375 comments Jan 22, 2011

559. [>500] The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw 845 comments Jan 21, 2011

560. Facebook Images To Get Expiration Date 304 comments Jan 20, 2011







561. Road Train Completes First Trials In Sweden 284 comments Jan 20, 2011

562. Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' 354 comments Jan 19, 2011

563. How Facebook Ships Code 312 comments Jan 18, 2011

564. US Scraps Virtual Fence Along Mexican Border 437 comments Jan 15, 2011

565. Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices 448 comments Jan 14, 2011

566. RapidShare Threatens Suit Over Piracy Allegations 182 comments Jan 13, 2011

567. Workshops Begin In Australia On WikiLeaks Opera 44 comments Jan 13, 2011

568. [>500] Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones 738 comments Jan 12, 2011

569. Verizon To Offer iPhone Users Unlimited Data 327 comments Jan 10, 2011

570. Some WikiLeaks Contributions To Public Discourse 286 comments Jan 10, 2011







571. Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans 347 comments Jan 8, 2011

572. [>500] Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? 785 comments Jan 7, 2011

573. [Favorite] Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa 457 comments Jan 5, 2011

574. Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants 434 comments Jan 4, 2011

575. Android vs iPhone - Who Wins In 2011? 411 comments Jan 3, 2011

576. Kinect Creators To Make PC Controller 96 comments Jan 3, 2011

577. Why Published Research Findings Are Often False 439 comments Jan 2, 2011

578. Battle Escalates Between Airlines and Online Agents 277 comments Jan 2, 2011

579. Do Sleepy Surgeons Have a Right To Operate? 326 comments Jan 1, 2011

580. New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have 117 comments Dec 30, 2010







581. Cheaters Exposed Analyzing Statistical Anomalies 435 comments Dec 29, 2010

582. Wired Responds In Manning Chat Log Controversy 213 comments Dec 29, 2010

583. Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning? 328 comments Dec 28, 2010

584. Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists? 293 comments Dec 28, 2010

585. Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? 395 comments Dec 27, 2010

586. Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System 159 comments Dec 27, 2010

587. African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy 152 comments Dec 27, 2010

588. How To Be Popular On Facebook, Quantified 95 comments Dec 26, 2010

589. Apple Forces Steve Jobs Action Figure Off eBay 229 comments Dec 25, 2010

590. Record Set For World's Youngest Chess Champion 203 comments Dec 25, 2010







591. Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide 167 comments Dec 23, 2010

592. Labor Lockout Lingers At Honeywell Nuclear Plant 222 comments Dec 21, 2010

593. Can Zuckerberg Leap the Great Firewall of China? 100 comments Dec 20, 2010

594. Microchips Now In Tombstones, Toilets & Fish Lures 83 comments Dec 20, 2010

595. Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? 384 comments Dec 19, 2010

596. [Favorite] [>500] Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers 724 comments Dec 17, 2010

597. [>500] Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Wikipedia 549 comments Dec 17, 2010

598. [>500] Should Wikipedia Just Accept Ads Already? 607 comments Dec 16, 2010

599. America's Cubicles Are Shrinking 474 comments Dec 15, 2010

600. Internet Usage Catches Up With Television In US 119 comments Dec 15, 2010









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601. Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked 303 comments Dec 14, 2010

602. Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists 206 comments Dec 14, 2010

603. Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain 152 comments Dec 13, 2010

604. The New Reality of Gaming 122 comments Dec 7, 2010

605. Apple Impasse With Magazines Over Subscriber Data 243 comments Dec 6, 2010

606. Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS 483 comments Dec 5, 2010

607. With Better Sharing of Intel Comes Danger 286 comments Dec 5, 2010

608. Paid Developers Power the Linux Kernel 174 comments Dec 5, 2010

609. British Aircraft Carrier For Sale On Auction Site 164 comments Dec 2, 2010

610. [>500] Aging Reversed In Mice 546 comments Nov 29, 2010







611. The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead 417 comments Nov 29, 2010

612. [Favorite] [>500] How Apple Had a Spectacular Year 502 comments Nov 28, 2010

613. First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried 447 comments Nov 28, 2010

614. FedEx Misplaces Radioactive Rods 164 comments Nov 26, 2010

615. Homeland Security Drops Color-Coded Terror Alerts 180 comments Nov 25, 2010

616. [>500] Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems 869 comments Nov 24, 2010

617. Righthaven To Explain Why Reposting Isn't Fair Use 166 comments Nov 24, 2010

618. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 208 comments Nov 23, 2010

619. [>500] Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable 672 comments Nov 22, 2010

620. US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever 211 comments Nov 22, 2010







621. Laser Camera Can See Around Corners 97 comments Nov 19, 2010

622. Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? 358 comments Nov 17, 2010

623. China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner 332 comments Nov 15, 2010

624. NSA Adds Kahn Collection To Cryptologic Museum 34 comments Nov 14, 2010

625. [Favorite] What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? 125 comments Nov 9, 2010

626. Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits 145 comments Nov 7, 2010

627. In Praise of Procrastination 118 comments Nov 6, 2010

628. Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped 471 comments Nov 4, 2010

629. How Google Is Solving Its Book Problem 58 comments Nov 4, 2010

630. Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections 376 comments Nov 3, 2010







631. [>500] 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions 831 comments Nov 2, 2010

632. Is the ISS Really Worth $100 Billion? 489 comments Nov 1, 2010

633. Blekko Launches a Search Engine With Bias 129 comments Nov 1, 2010

634. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] How Much Math Do We Really Need? 1,148 comments Oct 31, 2010

635. Is Google Polluting the Internet? 336 comments Oct 30, 2010

636. Annual US Intelligence Bill Tops $80 Billion 217 comments Oct 30, 2010

637. Verizon To Pay $25M For Years of 'Mystery Fees' 147 comments Oct 28, 2010

638. British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests 328 comments Oct 27, 2010

639. MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic 136 comments Oct 27, 2010

640. [Favorite] [>500] Global Warming's Silver Lining For the Arctic Rim 573 comments Oct 26, 2010







641. Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles 329 comments Oct 26, 2010

642. New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code 210 comments Oct 25, 2010

643. Researchers Find 70-Year-Olds Are Getting Smarter 115 comments Oct 24, 2010

644. Sony Discontinues the Walkman 235 comments Oct 23, 2010

645. Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? 190 comments Oct 22, 2010

646. Giant Lab Replicates Category 3 Hurricanes 96 comments Oct 22, 2010

647. [Favorite] Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence 238 comments Oct 20, 2010

648. [>500] Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android 861 comments Oct 19, 2010

649. What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? 374 comments Oct 18, 2010

650. Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones 122 comments Oct 18, 2010







651. The Rise and Fall of America's Jet-Powered Car 338 comments Oct 17, 2010

652. [Favorite] How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA 445 comments Oct 16, 2010

653. Facebook, Microsoft Team Up Against Google 297 comments Oct 15, 2010

654. Digital Dashboard Device Detects Driver Drowsiness 116 comments Oct 15, 2010

655. Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist 327 comments Oct 13, 2010

656. [Favorite] Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration 255 comments Oct 11, 2010

657. HTML5 Draws Concern Over Risks To Privacy 163 comments Oct 11, 2010

658. New Tool Blocks Downloads From Malicious Sites 163 comments Oct 10, 2010

659. [>500] Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic 561 comments Oct 9, 2010

660. DMCA Takedown Notice Leveled Against Ohio Congressional Race Ad 130 comments Oct 8, 2010







661. US Negotiators Cave On Internet Provisions To ACTA 80 comments Oct 8, 2010

662. Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains 353 comments Oct 7, 2010

663. US Military Orders Less Dependence On Fossil Fuel 317 comments Oct 6, 2010

664. Lawrence Lessig Reviews the Social Network 223 comments Oct 4, 2010

665. [Favorite] Rube Goldberg and the Electrification of America 207 comments Oct 3, 2010

666. Paleontologists Unearth Giant Fossilized Penguin 107 comments Oct 2, 2010

667. [>500] Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials 625 comments Oct 1, 2010

668. [Favorite] Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist 138 comments Sep 24, 2010

669. Google, Apple Settle Justice Dept. Hiring Probe 73 comments Sep 24, 2010

670. China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan 470 comments Sep 23, 2010







671. Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur 60 comments Sep 22, 2010

672. [Favorite] Pope's Astronomer Would Love To Baptize an Alien 304 comments Sep 20, 2010

673. Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament 207 comments Sep 20, 2010

674. Public Clearinghouse Proposed For Evoting Failures 113 comments Sep 15, 2010

675. [>500] GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory 797 comments Sep 11, 2010

676. Wikipedia Entry Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia 93 comments Sep 10, 2010

677. American Business Embraces 'Gamification' 108 comments Sep 6, 2010

678. Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie 241 comments Sep 5, 2010

679. Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings 178 comments Sep 4, 2010

680. The Many Iterations of William Shatner 152 comments Sep 4, 2010







681. Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square 338 comments Sep 3, 2010

682. Winnie-the-Pooh Parodied In Wookie-the-Chew 53 comments Sep 3, 2010

683. [>500] [>1,000] Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang 1,328 comments Sep 2, 2010

684. [Favorite] [>500] AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do 589 comments Sep 2, 2010

685. [>500] Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' 551 comments Sep 2, 2010

686. [Favorite] Wikipedia Reveals Secret of 'The Mousetrap' 236 comments Sep 1, 2010

687. Neal Stephenson Unveils His Digital Novel Platform 155 comments Sep 1, 2010

688. Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices 291 comments Aug 31, 2010

689. Prosecutor Loses Case For Citing Wikipedia 311 comments Aug 30, 2010

690. Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans 307 comments Aug 28, 2010







691. [Favorite] Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera 119 comments Aug 28, 2010

692. Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant 493 comments Aug 22, 2010

693. Layoff Anxiety Is Top Risk To Space Shuttle 178 comments Aug 22, 2010

694. Star Wars Fans Look For Love In Alderaan Places 88 comments Aug 20, 2010

695. [>500] Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks 911 comments Aug 16, 2010

696. The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags 168 comments Aug 16, 2010

697. Rupert Murdoch Plans a Digital Newspaper For the US 237 comments Aug 14, 2010

698. Apple Manager Arrested In Kickback Scheme 213 comments Aug 14, 2010

699. China To Close 2,000 Factories In Energy Crackdown 242 comments Aug 10, 2010

700. Some LA Coffee Shops Are Taking Wi-Fi Off the Menu 312 comments Aug 9, 2010









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701. Kmart Briefly Offers $149 Android Tablet 245 comments Aug 8, 2010

702. What Are Google and Verizon Up To? 120 comments Aug 8, 2010

703. Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle 83 comments Aug 6, 2010

704. [Favorite] 'Old School' Arcade Still Popular In NYC 177 comments Aug 5, 2010

705. Are the New Kindles Tablets-In-Training? 134 comments Aug 1, 2010

706. US Ability To Identify Source of Nuclear Weapons Decays 114 comments Jul 30, 2010

707. Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books 122 comments Jul 29, 2010

708. [Favorite] If You Don't Want Your Car Stolen, Make It Pink 390 comments Jul 27, 2010

709. The End of Forgetting 326 comments Jul 26, 2010

710. Scientists Create Equation For a Perfect Handshake 144 comments Jul 26, 2010







711. [>500] WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets 960 comments Jul 25, 2010

712. Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T 328 comments Jul 24, 2010

713. Adapting the Post Office To the Digital Age 236 comments Jul 24, 2010

714. The Scalability of Linus 214 comments Jul 23, 2010

715. World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career 250 comments Jul 22, 2010

716. US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill 457 comments Jul 21, 2010

717. Scientists Discover Biggest Star 178 comments Jul 21, 2010

718. Pay-Per-View Journalism Is Burning Out Reporters Young 223 comments Jul 20, 2010

719. Airlines Get Billions From Unbundled Services 393 comments Jul 18, 2010

720. Gaming Without a Safety Blanket 73 comments Jul 17, 2010







721. 'Forest Bathing' Considered Healthful 249 comments Jul 7, 2010

722. Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' 422 comments Jul 6, 2010

723. Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report 337 comments Jul 5, 2010

724. Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books 168 comments Jul 5, 2010

725. High Depreciation May Slow Electric Car Acceptance 352 comments Jun 26, 2010

726. [Favorite] Why Being Wrong Makes Humans So Smart 311 comments Jun 21, 2010

727. AT&T Leaks Emails Addresses of 114,000 iPad Users 270 comments Jun 9, 2010

728. New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine 211 comments Jun 9, 2010

729. Military Taps Social Networking To Hunt Insurgents 63 comments Jun 8, 2010

730. [>500] Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues 695 comments May 31, 2010







731. Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller 214 comments May 31, 2010

732. [>500] Why Apple Is So Sticky 593 comments May 30, 2010

733. [>500] IRS Wants a Cut of Sales On eBay and Craigslist 516 comments May 30, 2010

734. Senators Question Removal of NASA Program Manager 67 comments May 30, 2010

735. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] What Scientists Really Think About Religion 1,123 comments May 29, 2010

736. High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana 197 comments May 28, 2010

737. [>500] Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones 602 comments May 27, 2010

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

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

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







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

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

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

744. [Favorite] Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Slashdot Headline 192 comments May 19, 2010

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

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

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

748. [>500] Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ 728 comments May 13, 2010

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

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

772. [>500] Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills 514 comments Apr 22, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

790. [>500] Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine 521 comments Apr 6, 2010







791. [>500] Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs 561 comments Apr 5, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

798. [>500] White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards 533 comments Apr 2, 2010

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

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









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

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

803. [>500] New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders 949 comments Mar 30, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

810. [>500] Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? 902 comments Mar 25, 2010







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

828. [>500] Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall 664 comments Mar 10, 2010

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

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

837. [>500] US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition 620 comments Feb 27, 2010

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

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

840. [>500] Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids 502 comments Feb 20, 2010







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

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

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

844. [>500] The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors 527 comments Feb 17, 2010

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

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

847. [>500] Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store 503 comments Feb 16, 2010

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

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

850. [>500] Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US 585 comments Feb 13, 2010







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

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

853. [>500] Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina 848 comments Feb 10, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

864. [>500] Claims of Himalayan Glacier Disaster Melt Away 561 comments Jan 23, 2010

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

866. Russia To Help NATO Build Anti-Missile Network 148 comments Jan 21, 2010

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

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

875. Next Generation of Windows To Run On ARM Chip 285 comments Jan 6, 2010

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

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

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

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

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







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

882. GSM Decryption Published 299 comments Dec 28, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

892. [>500] Scientists Create Artificial Meat 820 comments Nov 30, 2009

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

894. [>500] Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots 770 comments Nov 29, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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









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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

910. [>500] Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys 609 comments Nov 15, 2009







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

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

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

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

915. [>500] Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price 553 comments Nov 9, 2009

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

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

930. [>500] Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month 528 comments Oct 27, 2009







931. [>500] Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software 508 comments Oct 27, 2009

932. [>500] Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine 579 comments Oct 20, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

939. [>500] Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content 501 comments Oct 10, 2009

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







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

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

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

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

945. 50 Years of the Twilight Zone 101 comments Oct 3, 2009

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

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

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

949. [>500] Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid 606 comments Sep 21, 2009

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

957. [>500] Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid 644 comments Sep 3, 2009

958. [>500] Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars 912 comments Sep 2, 2009

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

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







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

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

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

964. [>500] James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" 655 comments Aug 29, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

970. [>500] Why the Google Android Phone Isn't Taking Off 744 comments Aug 24, 2009







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







981. [>500] Parents Baffled By Science Questions 630 comments Aug 13, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

994. 3D Images Reconstructed of 300M-Year-Old Spiders 88 comments Aug 5, 2009

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

996. [>500] "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas 590 comments Aug 2, 2009

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

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

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

1000. [Favorite] Northern Sea Route Through Arctic Becomes a Reality 364 comments Jul 29, 2009









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1001. Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants 309 comments Jul 29, 2009

1002. Sandia Studies Botnets In 1M OS Digital Petri Dish 159 comments Jul 28, 2009

1003. Bill Gates Remembers 1979 301 comments Jul 27, 2009

1004. DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" 273 comments Jul 27, 2009

1005. Could Cyber-Terrorists Provoke Nuclear Attacks? 176 comments Jul 27, 2009

1006. Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? 219 comments Jul 26, 2009

1007. [Favorite] [>500] Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" 616 comments Jul 25, 2009

1008. The Rocky Road To Wind Power 280 comments Jul 23, 2009

1009. NSA To Use Cloud Model For Intelligence Analysis 41 comments Jul 22, 2009

1010. 'Vanish' Makes Sensitive Data Self-Destruct 171 comments Jul 21, 2009







1011. [>500] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad 572 comments Jul 20, 2009

1012. Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out 204 comments Jul 20, 2009

1013. South Korea Deploys Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs 154 comments Jul 20, 2009

1014. Med Students Get Training In Second Life Hospitals 126 comments Jul 19, 2009

1015. Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste 110 comments Jul 18, 2009

1016. Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? 295 comments Jul 13, 2009

1017. Traditional News Media Lead Blogs By 2.5 Hours 186 comments Jul 13, 2009

1018. Swearing Provides Pain Relief, Say Scientists 208 comments Jul 12, 2009

1019. Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet 198 comments Jul 12, 2009

1020. Apple To Sell WiFi-less iPhone In China 113 comments Jul 11, 2009







1021. [>500] Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge? 518 comments Jul 9, 2009

1022. Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo 422 comments Jul 9, 2009

1023. Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court 223 comments Jul 8, 2009

1024. [Favorite] [>500] British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online 550 comments Jul 7, 2009

1025. US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement 392 comments Jul 7, 2009

1026. Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy 134 comments Jul 7, 2009

1027. If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free 246 comments Jul 6, 2009

1028. Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape 125 comments Jul 6, 2009

1029. We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? 394 comments Jul 5, 2009

1030. Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever 193 comments Jul 4, 2009







1031. CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet' 134 comments Jul 4, 2009

1032. You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation 132 comments Jul 4, 2009

1033. The Chemistry of Firework Displays 60 comments Jul 4, 2009

1034. Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students 349 comments Jul 3, 2009

1035. NSA To Build 20 Acre Data Center In Utah 224 comments Jul 2, 2009

1036. Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink 280 comments Jul 1, 2009

1037. [Favorite] Ranchers Have Beef With USDA Program To ID Cattle 316 comments Jun 30, 2009

1038. The Galaxy's 62-Million Year Extinction Oscillator 193 comments Jun 30, 2009

1039. [Favorite] Being Slightly Overweight May Lead To Longer Life 330 comments Jun 29, 2009

1040. The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists 221 comments Jun 27, 2009







1041. Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear 288 comments Jun 25, 2009

1042. Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger 283 comments Jun 23, 2009

1043. On the Humble Default 280 comments Jun 23, 2009

1044. John Hodgman Asks Obama, "Are You a Nerd?" 142 comments Jun 23, 2009

1045. US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors 168 comments Jun 22, 2009

1046. Print Subscribers Cry Foul Over WP's Online-Only Story 96 comments Jun 22, 2009

1047. [Favorite] [>500] Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet 596 comments Jun 20, 2009

1048. FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell 448 comments Jun 17, 2009

1049. iPhone Shakes Up the Video Game Industry 325 comments Jun 17, 2009

1050. NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice 375 comments Jun 16, 2009







1051. Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague 263 comments Jun 15, 2009

1052. CIA Officers Are Warming To Intellipedia 102 comments Jun 15, 2009

1053. [Favorite] [>500] Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" 832 comments Jun 14, 2009

1054. Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For 347 comments Jun 14, 2009

1055. Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay? 167 comments Jun 13, 2009

1056. NSA Ill-Suited For Domestic Cybersecurity Role 70 comments Jun 12, 2009

1057. For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes 368 comments Jun 10, 2009

1058. California To Move To Online Textbooks 468 comments Jun 9, 2009

1059. China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest 316 comments Jun 9, 2009

1060. [>500] iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy 788 comments Jun 8, 2009







1061. Most Blogs Now Abandoned 290 comments Jun 8, 2009

1062. Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument 136 comments May 31, 2009

1063. How Common Is Scientific Misconduct? 253 comments May 30, 2009

1064. Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record 384 comments May 29, 2009

1065. 18 Android Phones, In 3 Flavors, By Year's End 152 comments May 29, 2009

1066. [>500] Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change 712 comments May 27, 2009

1067. Phony TCP Retransmissions Can Hide Secret Messages 187 comments May 27, 2009

1068. Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease 174 comments May 27, 2009

1069. Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years 237 comments May 26, 2009

1070. A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban 197 comments May 26, 2009







1071. DoD Sharing Threat Data With Critical Industries 53 comments May 26, 2009

1072. [Favorite] Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find 125 comments May 25, 2009

1073. [Favorite] Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan 457 comments May 24, 2009

1074. World's Oldest Blogger Dies At 97 73 comments May 24, 2009

1075. College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni 221 comments May 23, 2009

1076. Pentagon Seeks a New Generation of Hackers 131 comments May 22, 2009

1077. Infrared Fibers Can Protect Against Chemoterrorism 71 comments May 22, 2009

1078. World's First Battery Fueled By Air 203 comments May 21, 2009

1079. Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers 362 comments May 19, 2009

1080. [>500] [>1,000] US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 1,183 comments May 18, 2009







1081. [>500] Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker 546 comments May 18, 2009

1082. [>500] Were Neanderthals Devoured By Humans? 502 comments May 18, 2009

1083. Radiation-Resistant Plants Could Be Used In Space 131 comments May 17, 2009

1084. Lawsuit Says Google's Sale of Keywords Is Illegal 232 comments May 16, 2009

1085. [Favorite] [>500] Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? 669 comments May 15, 2009

1086. How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages 207 comments May 15, 2009

1087. Greece Halts Google's Street View 190 comments May 13, 2009

1088. SGI Lives On, In Name At Least 107 comments May 12, 2009

1089. NSA Wages Cyberwar Against US Armed Forces Teams 219 comments May 11, 2009

1090. Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission 129 comments May 11, 2009







1091. Work Resumes on Virtual Fence with Mexico 259 comments May 9, 2009

1092. Google Urges National Inventory of Radio Spectrum 74 comments May 8, 2009

1093. Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home 189 comments May 7, 2009

1094. [>500] Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works 518 comments May 6, 2009

1095. Phony Wikipedia Entry Used By Worldwide Press 389 comments May 6, 2009

1096. IP Enforcement Treaty Still Being Kept Secret 161 comments May 6, 2009

1097. [Favorite] Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey 357 comments May 4, 2009

1098. Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time 294 comments May 4, 2009

1099. Can the New Digital Readers Save the Newspapers? 286 comments May 4, 2009

1100. Merck Created Phony Peer-Review Medical Journal 204 comments May 3, 2009









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1101. Tsunami Hit New York City Region In 300 BC 136 comments May 3, 2009

1102. Disney-Hulu Deal Is Ominous For YouTube 130 comments May 2, 2009

1103. [Favorite] Canadian Pirates Sell Spurious Songs — In 1897 174 comments May 1, 2009

1104. Iranians Outwit Censors With Falun Gong Software 165 comments May 1, 2009

1105. Intel Faces $1.3B Fine In Europe 265 comments Apr 30, 2009

1106. Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets 185 comments Apr 29, 2009

1107. Time Warner To Spin Off AOL 140 comments Apr 29, 2009

1108. Scientists Build World's Fastest Camera 127 comments Apr 29, 2009

1109. EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats 228 comments Apr 28, 2009

1110. Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless 194 comments Apr 28, 2009







1111. Unpaid Contributors Provide Corporate Tech Support 221 comments Apr 27, 2009

1112. The Woman Who Established Fair Use 223 comments Apr 26, 2009

1113. Taking Gaming To the Next Billion Players 116 comments Apr 26, 2009

1114. Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon 208 comments Apr 25, 2009

1115. Wikipedia Threatens Artists For Fair Use 232 comments Apr 24, 2009

1116. [>500] Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents 825 comments Apr 23, 2009

1117. Digital Schwarzenegger Set For New 'Terminator' 271 comments Apr 23, 2009

1118. Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar 492 comments Apr 22, 2009

1119. Consortium To Share Ad Revenue From Stolen Stories 93 comments Apr 22, 2009

1120. Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case 311 comments Apr 21, 2009







1121. NSA Overstepped the Law On Wiretaps 164 comments Apr 17, 2009

1122. Are Human Beings Organisms Or Living Ecosystems? 325 comments Apr 15, 2009

1123. Ponzi Schemes Multiply On YouTube 345 comments Apr 14, 2009

1124. Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College 280 comments Apr 14, 2009

1125. UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google 463 comments Apr 13, 2009

1126. NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector 210 comments Apr 13, 2009

1127. In Defense of the Anonymous Commenter 198 comments Apr 12, 2009

1128. Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger 161 comments Apr 11, 2009

1129. STEREO Spacecraft To Explore Earth's L4 and L5 65 comments Apr 10, 2009

1130. Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins 321 comments Apr 8, 2009







1131. Scientist Forced To Remove Earthquake Prediction 484 comments Apr 6, 2009

1132. Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie 466 comments Apr 6, 2009

1133. Spammers Say the Darndest Things 107 comments Apr 5, 2009

1134. [Favorite] Believing In Medical Treatments That Don't Work 444 comments Apr 4, 2009

1135. Robot Makes Scientific Discovery (Mostly) On Its Own 237 comments Apr 3, 2009

1136. Baby Chicks Have Innate Mathematical Skills 184 comments Apr 3, 2009

1137. Verizon Promises 4G Wireless For Rural America 130 comments Apr 3, 2009

1138. [>500] Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an IPod 649 comments Apr 2, 2009

1139. Google Reveals "Secret" Server Designs 369 comments Apr 2, 2009

1140. New Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity 191 comments Apr 2, 2009







1141. Australian Study Says Web Surfing Boosts Office Productivity 173 comments Apr 2, 2009

1142. [>500] [>1,000] Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? 1,075 comments Mar 31, 2009

1143. [>500] Game Companies Face Hard Economic Choices 508 comments Mar 31, 2009

1144. Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet 413 comments Mar 31, 2009

1145. Volunteers Simulate Mission To Mars 231 comments Mar 31, 2009

1146. Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision 203 comments Mar 29, 2009

1147. [Favorite] Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told 411 comments Mar 28, 2009

1148. New Speed Record Set For Wind-Powered Vehicles 138 comments Mar 28, 2009

1149. Researchers Ponder Conficker's April Fool's Activation Date 208 comments Mar 21, 2009

1150. [>500] Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format 743 comments Mar 11, 2009







1151. Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing 266 comments Mar 11, 2009

1152. Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed 96 comments Mar 10, 2009

1153. [Favorite] [>500] US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles 922 comments Mar 9, 2009

1154. [>500] Bill Would Blur Online Maps to Stop Terrorists 597 comments Mar 4, 2009

1155. [Favorite] LEDs Lighting Up the African Darkness 182 comments Mar 4, 2009

1156. The 300 Million Year Old Brain 68 comments Mar 4, 2009

1157. Scientific Team Begins Trek to the North Pole 137 comments Mar 3, 2009

1158. [Favorite] Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing 408 comments Mar 1, 2009

1159. Scientists Build an Ark To Save Jungle Amphibians 127 comments Feb 28, 2009

1160. [>500] Why Japan Hates the iPhone 882 comments Feb 27, 2009







1161. [>500] Superguns Helped Defeat the Spanish Armada 501 comments Feb 24, 2009

1162. Jet Pack Runs For Hours On Water 268 comments Feb 17, 2009

1163. Beamlines To Reveal Secrets of the Mummies 64 comments Feb 17, 2009

1164. [Favorite] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia 266 comments Feb 16, 2009

1165. "Microsaccades" Help To Refresh Your Field of View 96 comments Feb 15, 2009

1166. [Favorite] Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter 260 comments Feb 14, 2009

1167. [Favorite] Fly Me To Which Moon? 183 comments Feb 11, 2009

1168. [>500] Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live 950 comments Feb 10, 2009

1169. [Favorite] The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old 366 comments Feb 10, 2009

1170. Scientists Reconstruct Millenium's Coldest Winter 290 comments Feb 9, 2009







1171. DTV Converters In Short Supply 192 comments Feb 7, 2009

1172. First-Person Shooter Modified For Fire Drill Simulation 158 comments Feb 5, 2009

1173. Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up 183 comments Feb 4, 2009

1174. [Favorite] Less Is Moore 342 comments Jan 28, 2009

1175. We're In Danger of Losing Our Memories 398 comments Jan 27, 2009

1176. Carbonite Stacks the Deck With 5-Star Reviews 197 comments Jan 27, 2009

1177. Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny 126 comments Jan 11, 2009

1178. [Favorite] More Brains Needed 232 comments Jan 9, 2009

1179. How the City Hurts Your Brain 393 comments Jan 6, 2009

1180. Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon 273 comments Jan 6, 2009







1181. Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator 260 comments Jan 5, 2009

1182. Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211 comments Dec 22, 2008

1183. [Favorite] Are Newspapers Doomed? 333 comments Dec 20, 2008

1184. [Favorite] Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 126 comments Dec 20, 2008

1185. Light Echoes Solve Mystery of Tycho's Supernova 98 comments Dec 5, 2008

1186. [>500] Visual Hallucinations Are a Normal Grief Reaction 550 comments Dec 3, 2008

1187. Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242 comments Dec 3, 2008

1188. [Favorite] Acorns Disappear Across the Country 474 comments Dec 1, 2008

1189. [Favorite] Improving Wikipedia Coverage of Computer Science 186 comments Nov 29, 2008

1190. Grandma's on the Computer Screen this Thanksgiving 64 comments Nov 27, 2008







1191. New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps 330 comments Nov 23, 2008

1192. [Favorite] Police Cars to Transmit Real Time Video 149 comments Nov 22, 2008

1193. Urine Passes NASA Taste Test 394 comments Nov 18, 2008

1194. The Neurological Basis of Con Games 218 comments Nov 18, 2008

1195. Oldest Nuclear Family Found Murdered In Germany 185 comments Nov 18, 2008

1196. [>500] Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator 683 comments Nov 17, 2008

1197. Unhappy People Watch More TV 193 comments Nov 15, 2008

1198. [>500] As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland 521 comments Nov 12, 2008

1199. 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb 470 comments Nov 11, 2008

1200. The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? 496 comments Oct 27, 2008









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1201. Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies 105 comments Oct 25, 2008

1202. Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet 356 comments Oct 24, 2008

1203. Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone? 454 comments Oct 23, 2008

1204. [Favorite] Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth 415 comments Oct 21, 2008

1205. Computers Causing 2nd Hump In Peak Power Demand 374 comments Oct 20, 2008

1206. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False 257 comments Oct 19, 2008

1207. [Favorite] Banjo Used In Brain Surgery 149 comments Oct 14, 2008

1208. Fungus Fire Spores With 180,000 G Acceleration 69 comments Oct 7, 2008

1209. Virtual Fence Could Modernize the Old West 207 comments Oct 6, 2008

1210. Training Bacteria To Deliver Drugs? 29 comments Oct 3, 2008







1211. Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself 82 comments Oct 1, 2008

1212. New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel 170 comments Sep 28, 2008

1213. [>500] Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% 674 comments Sep 27, 2008

1214. Google To Fund Ideas That Will Change the World 165 comments Sep 26, 2008

1215. Google Pushes Back Against US Copyright Treaty 233 comments Sep 23, 2008

1216. Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel 252 comments Sep 20, 2008

1217. [Favorite] US Army To Develop "Thought Helmets" 218 comments Sep 20, 2008

1218. Don't Count Cobol Out 265 comments Sep 19, 2008

1219. [>500] 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell 715 comments Sep 18, 2008

1220. Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSD 171 comments Sep 17, 2008







1221. Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors 168 comments Sep 17, 2008

1222. [>500] Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? 613 comments Sep 10, 2008

1223. [Favorite] Robert Heinlein's Pre-Internet Fan Mail FAQ 181 comments Sep 10, 2008

1224. Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists 240 comments Sep 5, 2008

1225. Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books 446 comments Sep 1, 2008

1226. [>500] Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans 710 comments Aug 31, 2008

1227. [>500] Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive 646 comments Aug 25, 2008

1228. Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping 181 comments Aug 25, 2008

1229. Full Facial Transplant Is One Step Closer 104 comments Aug 23, 2008

1230. [Favorite] DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi 271 comments Aug 22, 2008







1231. World's Largest Solar Plants Planned In California 324 comments Aug 17, 2008

1232. Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers 132 comments Aug 17, 2008

1233. Getting Human Hands Back Into Digital Design 87 comments Aug 17, 2008

1234. The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science 180 comments Aug 15, 2008

1235. [>500] Let the Games Be Doped 773 comments Aug 13, 2008

1236. [Favorite] Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition 472 comments Aug 12, 2008

1237. Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration 180 comments Aug 10, 2008

1238. Gravity Tractor Could Deflect Asteroids 349 comments Aug 4, 2008

1239. New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed 443 comments Jul 22, 2008

1240. China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air 362 comments Jul 21, 2008







1241. Texas To Build $4.93B Wind-Power Project 250 comments Jul 20, 2008

1242. [Favorite] MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach 128 comments Jul 13, 2008

1243. [>500] Pickens Plans On Wind Power 572 comments Jul 9, 2008

1244. Senate Scrutinizes Privacy Issues of ISP User Tracking 108 comments Jul 8, 2008

1245. [>500] VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG 506 comments Jul 5, 2008

1246. There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute 393 comments Jul 5, 2008

1247. [>500] Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success 581 comments Jun 20, 2008

1248. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers 1,056 comments Jun 17, 2008

1249. Data Center Designers In High Demand 136 comments Jun 17, 2008

1250. Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years 168 comments Jun 3, 2008







1251. [>500] Does Ballmer Need To Go? 554 comments May 6, 2008

1252. [Favorite] Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom 417 comments Apr 30, 2008

1253. [>500] Are C and C++ Losing Ground? 961 comments Apr 24, 2008

1254. Apple Prepares for the Coming iPod Slump 339 comments Apr 24, 2008

1255. Predicting Human Errors From Brain Activity 123 comments Apr 24, 2008

1256. The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts 257 comments Apr 22, 2008

1257. GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites 171 comments Apr 22, 2008

1258. Private Efforts Fill Gaps In Earth's Asteroid Defenses 120 comments Apr 22, 2008

1259. JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners 209 comments Apr 21, 2008

1260. US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways 150 comments Apr 20, 2008







1261. Home Wind-Power Turbines Make Headway 161 comments Apr 16, 2008

1262. [Favorite] The Return of Ada 335 comments Apr 15, 2008

1263. Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic 296 comments Apr 15, 2008

1264. Malaysian Candidates Required to Have Blogs 41 comments Apr 15, 2008

1265. Distance Record Broken For a Walking Robot 78 comments Apr 12, 2008

1266. Mysterious Sound Waves Can Destroy Rockets 193 comments Apr 11, 2008

1267. MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic James 243 comments Apr 10, 2008

1268. GPS Trackers Find Novel Applications 156 comments Apr 10, 2008

1269. Old Subway Cars As Artificial Reef 161 comments Apr 9, 2008

1270. Scientists Discover Gene For Ruthlessness 292 comments Apr 6, 2008







1271. Sweat Ducts May Act As Antenna For Lie Detection 120 comments Apr 6, 2008

1272. Neuromarketers Pick the Brains of Consumers 160 comments Apr 4, 2008

1273. [>500] Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot 701 comments Mar 26, 2008

1274. Why OldTech Keeps Kicking 337 comments Mar 26, 2008

1275. Nuclear Nose Cones Mistakenly Shipped to Taiwan 254 comments Mar 26, 2008

1276. Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing 145 comments Mar 25, 2008

1277. Columbia Holds Wake For Historic Cyclotron 72 comments Mar 25, 2008

1278. [>500] Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? 971 comments Mar 24, 2008

1279. [>500] The Wrath of the Apple Tribe 869 comments Mar 23, 2008

1280. Why Your e-Books Are No Longer Yours 371 comments Mar 22, 2008







1281. Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen 106 comments Mar 21, 2008

1282. [>500] MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access 764 comments Mar 20, 2008

1283. What's Your Favorite Monster? 245 comments Mar 17, 2008

1284. Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? 317 comments Mar 11, 2008

1285. Tenth Anniversary of First Commercial MP3 Player 166 comments Mar 10, 2008

1286. [>500] Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group 554 comments Mar 7, 2008

1287. [Favorite] Statue of Galileo Planned for Vatican 333 comments Mar 5, 2008

1288. Identity Theft Rates Among Top Banks 85 comments Mar 4, 2008

1289. A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer 101 comments Mar 3, 2008

1290. Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan 78 comments Feb 26, 2008







1291. New Tools Available for Network-Centric Warfare 70 comments Feb 26, 2008

1292. [Favorite] Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? 308 comments Feb 25, 2008

1293. Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes 219 comments Feb 25, 2008

1294. Microsoft Should Acquire SAP, Not Yahoo 177 comments Feb 24, 2008

1295. Very Large Array Gets Expanded Capability 92 comments Feb 24, 2008

1296. Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet 395 comments Feb 23, 2008

1297. Scientists Find Believing Can Be Seeing 167 comments Feb 21, 2008

1298. [Favorite] Identical Twins Not Identical After All 150 comments Feb 21, 2008

1299. Radio Telescopes on Moon to Study Cosmic Dark Ages 117 comments Feb 21, 2008

1300. [>500] Obsolete Technical Skills 602 comments Feb 20, 2008









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1301. Airport Security Prize Announced 376 comments Feb 20, 2008

1302. The Limits of Quantum Computing 221 comments Feb 19, 2008

1303. iPhones Produced in China Smuggled Right Back in 147 comments Feb 19, 2008

1304. Natural Selection Can Act on Human Culture 233 comments Feb 17, 2008

1305. Hacker Could Keep Money from Insider Trading 149 comments Feb 17, 2008

1306. Google's Addiction to Cheap Electricity 248 comments Feb 16, 2008

1307. Is Microsoft just Screwing with Yahoo's Mind? 207 comments Feb 16, 2008

1308. Athletes Can Blog at Olympics - with Restrictions 181 comments Feb 16, 2008

1309. Computer Models Find Patterns In Asymmetric Threats 211 comments Feb 14, 2008

1310. Facebook A Black Hole For Personal Info 238 comments Feb 12, 2008







1311. An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming 220 comments Feb 12, 2008

1312. Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China 454 comments Feb 11, 2008

1313. [Favorite] Men Willing to Give up Sex for a 50in TV 139 comments Feb 11, 2008

1314. Name the New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope 130 comments Feb 10, 2008

1315. Robotic Telescope Installed on Antarctica Plateau 126 comments Feb 6, 2008

1316. See-Through Fish Help Cancer Research 101 comments Feb 6, 2008

1317. Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining 205 comments Feb 5, 2008

1318. Online Parent-Child Gap Widens 200 comments Feb 5, 2008

1319. Space Spotters Track Secret Satellites 110 comments Feb 5, 2008

1320. NASA Wants "People People" for Astronaut Core 86 comments Feb 4, 2008







1321. The Physics of Football 142 comments Feb 3, 2008

1322. Yahoo Bid shows Microsoft on the Ropes 396 comments Feb 2, 2008

1323. [Favorite] Cellphones Leapfrog Poor Infrastructure in Mali 100 comments Feb 2, 2008

1324. AT&T's Plan to Play Internet Cop 251 comments Jan 17, 2008

1325. [>500] [>1,000] Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest 1,507 comments Jan 16, 2008

1326. What is Fair Use in the Digital Age? 190 comments Jan 16, 2008

1327. Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace 334 comments Jan 15, 2008

1328. Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? 334 comments Jan 15, 2008

1329. Air Pollution Causes Sperm Mutations In Mice 53 comments Jan 15, 2008

1330. [Favorite] Filming an Invasion Without Extras 169 comments Jan 14, 2008







1331. "Cone of Silence" Possible Say Scientists 89 comments Jan 12, 2008

1332. Evolving Blu-ray Format Will Leave Some Behind 46 comments Jan 12, 2008

1333. Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered 130 comments Jan 11, 2008

1334. Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree 125 comments Jan 11, 2008

1335. [Favorite] Google's Prediction Market 94 comments Jan 7, 2008

1336. Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets 486 comments Jan 6, 2008

1337. [Favorite] [>500] [>1,000] Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? 1,224 comments Jan 4, 2008

1338. Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? 174 comments Jan 4, 2008

1339. Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs 113 comments Jan 4, 2008

1340. Stern Measures Keep NASA's Kepler Mission on Track 73 comments Jan 3, 2008







1341. [Favorite] Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation? 452 comments Jan 2, 2008

1342. New Years Resolutions - An Engineering Approach 129 comments Jan 1, 2008

1343. Google Products You Forgot All About 91 comments Dec 31, 2007

1344. [Favorite] The City of the Future 269 comments Dec 30, 2007

1345. The Curse of Knowledge Bogs Down Innovation 257 comments Dec 30, 2007

1346. Musicians Have Many Money Options Online, Says Talking Head 113 comments Dec 30, 2007

1347. The Death of High Fidelity 376 comments Dec 29, 2007

1348. Solar Tree Bears Fruit 105 comments Dec 29, 2007

1349. [Favorite] Domains May Disappear After Search 362 comments Dec 28, 2007

1350. Chinese Government Sued Over Dog Height Censorship 254 comments Dec 28, 2007







1351. Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope? 177 comments Dec 22, 2007

1352. People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year 159 comments Dec 21, 2007

1353. Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future 236 comments Dec 16, 2007

1354. [>500] Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg 746 comments Dec 15, 2007

1355. Eat, Drink, and be Monitored 104 comments Dec 15, 2007

1356. Will The Next Generation of Spacecraft Land In the Water? 309 comments Dec 14, 2007

1357. [Favorite] [>500] Does Active SETI Put Earth in Danger? 647 comments Dec 13, 2007

1358. Can Time Slow Down? 441 comments Dec 12, 2007

1359. Electric Cars to Help Utilities Load Balance Grid 245 comments Dec 10, 2007

1360. SenseCam Aids Patients with Memory Problems 78 comments Dec 10, 2007







1361. Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients 269 comments Dec 9, 2007

1362. Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns 132 comments Dec 9, 2007

1363. Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious 129 comments Dec 9, 2007

1364. Adaptive Thirty Meter Telescope Sees Progress 59 comments Dec 8, 2007

1365. Airlines to Offer In-Flight Internet Service 179 comments Dec 7, 2007

1366. Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media 417 comments Dec 6, 2007

1367. Academic Games Are No Fun 158 comments Dec 5, 2007

1368. The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins 166 comments Dec 4, 2007

1369. [Favorite] NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech 404 comments Dec 3, 2007

1370. Crime Wave Thwarted in Second Life 181 comments Dec 2, 2007







1371. AT&T Playing Hardball With Apple? 169 comments Dec 1, 2007

1372. Bolivian Salt Flats Aid Spacecraft Calibration 98 comments Dec 1, 2007

1373. Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs 401 comments Nov 30, 2007

1374. [Favorite] Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches 240 comments Nov 30, 2007

1375. [>500] The Secret to Raising Smart Kids 613 comments Nov 29, 2007

1376. [Favorite] Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw 231 comments Nov 27, 2007

1377. The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America 207 comments Nov 26, 2007

1378. Mapping the Brain's Neural Network 141 comments Nov 24, 2007

1379. Thailand Bans Teen Info On the Net 136 comments Nov 24, 2007

1380. New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves 131 comments Nov 24, 2007







1381. [Favorite] The 110 Million Dollar Button 189 comments Nov 23, 2007

1382. [Favorite] How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons 136 comments Nov 23, 2007

1383. Are Aliens Living Among Us? 348 comments Nov 20, 2007

1384. Murdoch's New Internet Strategy for the WSJ 62 comments Nov 19, 2007

1385. Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet 376 comments Nov 18, 2007

1386. [Favorite] How the Inca Leapt Canyons 184 comments Nov 17, 2007

1387. US Control of Internet Remains an Issue 300 comments Nov 16, 2007

1388. New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor 322 comments Nov 15, 2007

1389. Close but no Cigar for Netflix Recommender System 113 comments Nov 14, 2007

1390. Turning E-Mail into a Social Network 93 comments Nov 14, 2007







1391. [>500] Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation 521 comments Nov 13, 2007

1392. [Favorite] The Rules of the Swarm 165 comments Nov 13, 2007

1393. Antique Fridge Could Keep Venus Rover Cool 220 comments Nov 12, 2007

1394. Even the Masseuse is a Multimillionaire at Google 160 comments Nov 12, 2007

1395. Thought-Controlled Prosthetics 88 comments Nov 12, 2007

1396. [Favorite] Where are the Flying Cars? 360 comments Nov 10, 2007

1397. Robot Run Warehouse Speeds Deliveries 142 comments Nov 10, 2007

1398. Russian Phishers moving to China? 67 comments Nov 9, 2007

1399. Expanding Fair Use To Reform Copyright Law 229 comments Nov 8, 2007

1400. [Favorite] Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? 343 comments Nov 7, 2007









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1401. Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance 229 comments Nov 7, 2007

1402. Bill to Require Open Access to Scientific Papers 204 comments Nov 7, 2007

1403. Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again 171 comments Nov 6, 2007

1404. Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone 220 comments Nov 5, 2007

1405. The Man Behind the Google Phone 94 comments Nov 4, 2007

1406. Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years 458 comments Nov 3, 2007

1407. Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinctions? 205 comments Nov 2, 2007

1408. Picture Passwords More Secure than Text 259 comments Nov 1, 2007

1409. [Favorite] Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds 227 comments Oct 30, 2007

1410. First Fossil Evidence that Velociraptors Hunted in Packs 169 comments Oct 30, 2007







1411. [Favorite] Wikipedia Begets Veropedia 257 comments Oct 29, 2007

1412. [>500] Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone 547 comments Oct 28, 2007

1413. [>500] Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline 614 comments Oct 23, 2007

1414. Apple Says 250,000 iPhones Sold to Unlockers 311 comments Oct 23, 2007

1415. Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes 158 comments Oct 20, 2007

1416. New GPS Navigator Relies On 'Wisdom of the Crowds' 90 comments Oct 20, 2007

1417. Crashed Spacecraft Yields Data on Solar Wind 44 comments Oct 20, 2007

1418. Neuro-Reckoning May Reduce MMOG Time Lag 88 comments Oct 19, 2007

1419. [Favorite] Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans 409 comments Oct 18, 2007

1420. Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia 264 comments Oct 17, 2007







1421. Attacking Criminal Networks On the Internet 109 comments Oct 16, 2007

1422. The Dark Side of Iapetus 73 comments Oct 9, 2007

1423. Google Hopes to Disaggregate Carriers with gPhone 183 comments Oct 8, 2007

1424. Titan's Tropical Weather 102 comments Oct 2, 2007

1425. Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow? 158 comments Sep 29, 2007

1426. [>500] First New Nuclear Plant in US in 30 years 837 comments Sep 27, 2007

1427. Future Looks Bright for Large Scale Solar Farms 325 comments Sep 22, 2007

1428. Cleaning up the Most Toxic Pollution in the World 212 comments Sep 16, 2007

1429. New Technologies Attack the One-World Problem 157 comments Sep 14, 2007

1430. New Wonder Weed to Fuel Cars? 484 comments Sep 10, 2007







1431. [Favorite] Making War On Light Pollution 435 comments Sep 8, 2007

1432. [>500] New Explanation For the Industrial Revolution 504 comments Aug 7, 2007

1433. Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem 138 comments Jul 28, 2007

1434. Humans Can Still Out-Bluff Machines 279 comments Jul 26, 2007

1435. High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage 269 comments Jul 22, 2007

1436. [>500] Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns 520 comments Jun 1, 2007

1437. [Favorite] How the Pentagon Got Its Shape 473 comments May 28, 2007

1438. [Favorite] Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln 281 comments May 18, 2007

1439. Cell Phones to Monitor Traffic Flow 87 comments Nov 19, 2005

1440. "Spim" is Latest Online Annoyance 274 comments Nov 14, 2003







1441. Gangs Extort Companies With DDoS Attacks 423 comments Nov 12, 2003

1442. Users feel Password Rage 388 comments Sep 7, 2003

1443. [>500] I, Spammer 808 comments May 22, 2003

1444. Online Newspapers Turning a Profit 257 comments Apr 20, 2003

1445. More Thoughts On How to Wire Senegal 182 comments Apr 14, 2003

1446. [>500] Forty Percent of All Email is Spam 625 comments Mar 13, 2003

1447. Peace Corps to Wire Senegal 171 comments Mar 6, 2003