September 2011 Archives
30 September 2011
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Ig Nobels Honor Bladder Control, Beer Bottle Mating
Annual awards recognize humorous side of science
30 September 2011
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Podcast: Teleporting Rats, Space Storms, and Top Secret Bacteria
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
30 September 2011
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ScienceShot: Finger Drawings From a Prehistoric Preschool
Cave art in France was made by small children
29 September 2011
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ScienceShot: NASA Mission Finds Fewer Near-Earth Asteroids Than Expected
Estimates of the number of medium-sized rocks in near-Earth orbits may have been overblown
29 September 2011
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Solar Fuels Take Two Steps Forward
New advances could pave the way toward harnessing vast sources of renewable energy
29 September 2011
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Aerosols Altered Asian monsoons
Sulfate, soot, and other byproducts of human activity have dramatically changed rainfall patterns
29 September 2011
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ScienceShot: Freeloading Wolves
When it comes to hunting, not all members of a wolf pack do their fair share
28 September 2011
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Dance Your Ph.D. 2011: View the Entries
Check out the latest videos from the 2011 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest
28 September 2011
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Galaxy Clusters Validate Einstein's Theory
Light escaping from massive objects follows rules of general theory of relativity
28 September 2011
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Beam Me Up, Ratty
'Teleportation' study shows that spatial memories are stored in 125-millisecond packages
28 September 2011
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Live Chat: Have Neutrinos Broken the Speed Limit of Light?
Chat with experts about last week's controversial finding
27 September 2011
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ScienceShot: Coloring in Prehistoric Bugs
Fossilized beetles may look more red than they should
27 September 2011
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Antibiotic Resistance May Hitchhike Along Roads
Bacteria immune to common antibiotics may have spread throughout rural Ecuador by new roadways
26 September 2011
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A Different Kind of Secret Code
Glowing bacteria encode messages that only the intended receiver can decipher
25 September 2011
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ScienceShot: In a Scrape
Antarctic sea floor increasingly scoured by icebergs
25 September 2011
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Tick Tock, Modeling Emissions From Trees Around the Clock
A circadian clock controls isoprene emissions by trees and could lead to better ozone modeling
23 September 2011
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Podcast: Squid Mating Habits, a Dinosaur Extinction Controversy, and More
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
23 September 2011
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Space Storms to Pose Greater Risk to Flyers and Astronauts
Worsening space weather might rule out a crewed Mars mission for decades
23 September 2011
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Calculating the Language of Babel
Researchers teach "alien languages" to discover the origins of our own
23 September 2011
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Dance Your Ph.D.: Past Winners and Finalists
It all started as a live event in Vienna in 2008. Scientists from across Europe gathered to watch each other explain their Ph.D. theses with interpretive dance. It was supposed...
22 September 2011
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Physicists Devise Perfect Magnetic Shield
Hypothesized device would shield an object from a magnetic field without distorting the field
22 September 2011
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Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment
Others doubt the mind-boggling claim, which would overturn Einstein's theory of special relativity
22 September 2011
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Want Fatter Cows? Bring In a Zebra
In African savannas, the two hoofed animals may not be natural competitors
22 September 2011
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The Benefits of Being Promiscuous
To compensate for inbreeding, female beetles mate with many partners
21 September 2011
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ScienceShot: Place Your Bets on the Falling Satellite!
Oddsmakers calculate location of crash landing
21 September 2011
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Live Chat: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome—Science and Controversy
Experts answer your question about the science behind a debilitating disease
21 September 2011
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Study Casts Doubts on a Key Aging Gene
Gene linked to calorie restriction may not extend life
21 September 2011
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Same Mutation Causes Lou Gehrig's Disease and Dementia
Scientists have found the most common known culprit behind two devastating neurodegenerative disorders
20 September 2011
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Deep-Sea Squid Mate Indiscriminately
Failing to distinguish males from females, some cephalopods try to copulate with both
20 September 2011
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ScienceShot: A Whale Tête-à-Tête in the Northwest Passage
Melting sea ice allows four tagged bowhead whales to cross into northern Canadian straits
20 September 2011
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Was the 'Dinosaur Killer' Unfairly Charged?
Researchers still blame an asteroid for wiping out the dinosaurs, but what sent the killer to Earth is being questioned
20 September 2011
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Waste Water + Bacteria = Clean Energy
Researchers find green way to produce hydrogen fuel
19 September 2011
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Return of a Killer Volcano
Air pollution from extended Icelandic eruption could kill thousands in Europe
19 September 2011
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Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV
Promising but preliminary clinical trial could bring field closer to a potential cure
16 September 2011
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Earth's Ultimate Destruction—And Possible Reincarnation
Astronomers ponder the fate of our world
16 September 2011
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Podcast: Fluorescent Cats, Wimpy Dads, and the Potential Downsides of Folic Acid
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
15 September 2011
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Video: Two Suns Set on Alien World
Kepler spies first planet orbiting dual stars
15 September 2011
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Surprising Cells Rein In Killer Flu
Researchers identify cell responsible for flu's self-inflicted damage
15 September 2011
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'Dinofuzz' Found in Canadian Amber
80-million-year-old structures may represent earliest stages of feather evolution
14 September 2011
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ScienceShot: A Shield Made of Eggs
Thin, outer eggs may protect those below from attack by parasitic wasps
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