Mexico acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012

http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-acknowledges-2nd-mayan-reference-2012-232405916.html

Egyptian Mummification Rituals Uncovered at Natural History

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/11/egyptian-mummification-rituals-uncovered-at-natural-history/

Scientists Cryo-Freeze Coral Reef

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/29/0320239

EU Court Adviser Says Software Ideas Can't Be Copyrighted

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/29/165236

Physicist Uses Laser Light As Fast, True-Random Number Generator

http://it.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/29/216258

New Plastic Can Be Worked Like Glass

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-plastic-can-be-worked-like-glass.html

Archaeologists land world's oldest fish hook First deep-sea fish supper dated to 42,000 years ago.

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeologists-land-world-s-oldest-fish-hook-1.9461

Computer model spots image fraud Software measures extent of 'airbrushing' in digital images.

http://www.nature.com/news/computer-model-spots-image-fraud-1.9502

Steven Pinker: Human Nature’s Pathologist

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/science/human-natures-pathologist.html

How Do Eminent Physicists Tackle the Higgs Boson? With Chocolate

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/science/with-chocolate-at-stake-physicists-bet-on-whether-the-higgs-boson-will-be-found.html

Robotics Hardware Technology Harvard Licenses Technology For Tiny Swarming Robot

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/27/140210

Are scientists afraid of revolution?

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/savvy-scientist/are-scientists-afraid-of-revolution/136

The Truth About Detergents

http://www.detergenttruth.net/special.html

Top Ten Myths About the Brain

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644032-top-ten-myths-about-the-brain

Stem Cells Repair Damaged Neurons

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41269

The Dawn of Neuroeconomics

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41270

Mild Electric Shocks Speed Learning

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41271

How to Teach Creativity

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41274

Injection Lowers Bad Cholesterol Two Thirds

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/11/injection-lowers-bad-cholesterol-two.html

'A very compelling case for life': Newly discovered planet is just like Earth and could contain liquid water

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066185/Gliese-581g-Newly-discovered-planet-just-like-Earth-contain-liquid-water.html

Permian Extinction Dating Refined

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/100152-2011-11-25-permian-extinction-dating-refined.htm

Deadly Super-Virus Created in Lab

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41264

Bacteria Improve Accuracy of MRI Scans

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41263

How What We Eat Changes Our Genes

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41266

Stem Cells Could Create Humans-on-a-Chip

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41268

A shortage of genes explains why some people are short, study reveals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2065578/A-shortage-genes-explains-people-short-study-reveals.html

Robo-snake: The bendable robot arm that could save human lives

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066061/Scientists-discover-s/index.html

Robotic prison wardens to patrol South Korean prison

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15893772

5 Technologies that Saved the Pilgrims

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41249

Renewable Energy Is a Myth

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41248

Computing at Light Speed

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41246

Carbon Nanotubes Hide 3-D Objects in Plain Sight

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41243

New find sheds light on ancient site in Jerusalem

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/100051-2011-11-23-new-find-sheds-light-on-ancient-site-in-jerusalem.htm

Michio Kaku: The Energy of the Future

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41203

Darpa: Do Away With Antibiotics, Then Destroy All Pathogens

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/darpa-nano-antibiotics/

First night-flowering orchid found in Asia

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asia/orchid-first-night-flower/index.html?hpt=hp_mid

Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit: DIY handbook for 50 top civilization-saving tools

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/17/50_open_source_tools_civilization/

The Problems With Antibiotics: They Kill the Good Guys and Make You Fat by Mark Sisson

http://lewrockwell.com/sisson/sisson99.1.html

Not Six but 4.74 Degrees of Separation

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41210

What Can Plato Teach Me That I Can't Find on Wikipedia?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41209

Péter Fankhauser: Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_fankhauser_meet_rezero_the_dancing_ballbot.html

Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/21/1228223

MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly?

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/21/1814228

NASA Develops New Game-Changing Technology

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111121135804.htm

Revolution offers chance for Libyan archaeology

http://www.nature.com/news/revolution-offers-chance-for-libyan-archaeology-1.9396

First EU chief scientific adviser named

http://www.nature.com/news/first-eu-chief-scientific-adviser-named-1.9412

Whales In The Desert: Fossil Bonanza Poses Mystery

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/19/whales-desert-fossil-_n_1102761.html

The Surprising Cause of Melanoma (And No, it's Not Too Much Sun)

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/20/deadly-melanoma-not-due-vitamin-d-deficiency.aspx

You Brain Is Severely Dillusional

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41184

Is Immorality Our Default Mode?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41183

Are Girls' Brains Different from Boys'?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41181

Why Mozart Rocks So Hard. Artistic Genius Explained.

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41139

Why Prozac Is Still a Mystery

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41179

Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/099799-2011-11-19-follow-your-heart-darpas-quest-to-find-you-by-your.htm

Asthma Drugs Kill More than Asthma, FDA Ignores Risk

http://naturalsociety.com/asthma-drugs-kill-more-than-asthma-fda-ignores-risk/

World’s Lightest Solid Takes Inspiration From Eiffel Tower

http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/worlds-lightest-solid-takes-inspiration-from-eiffel-tower-2382/

The Man Who Was "Cured" of HIV

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41153

Impulsivity and Addiction Genetically Linked

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41171

FDA Bans Breast Cancer Treatment Avastin

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41172

Antibiotics that Fight Superbugs

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41174

Stopping Cancer Before it Starts

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41175

Feeding the World With a Single Protein Cell

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41176

The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41152

A History of the Sky (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNln_me-XjI

Working On Man Made Lightning

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/1540235

Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/2059214

The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/2228251

Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/1533254

Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/179228

EU Speaks Out Against US Censorship

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/2142214

Apple's New Patent Weapon — Location Services

http://apple.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/1337243

Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/17/1445237

Second experiment confirms faster-than-light particles

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/second-experiment-confirms-faster-than-light-particles/2011/11/17/gIQAlRlTWN_story.html

First Teeth Grew on Outside of Body

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643893-first-teeth-grew-on-outside-of-body

Chemotherapy 'could cause brain damage' in breast cancer patients Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2061793/Chemotherapy-cause-brain-damage-breast-cancer-patients.html#ixzz1e0JaRkge

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/194077-gop-blasts-obama-as-debt-reaches-15-trillion-

DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime

http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/15/1821238

Robotic bear pillow stops your snoring by gently mauling your face (video)

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/16/robotic-bear-pillow-stops-your-snoring-by-gently-mauling-your-fa/

Female Orgasm Video: This Is Your Brain On The Big 'O'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/female-orgasm-brain-video_n_1097659.html?1321470301

Jeopardy winner Roger Craig - Knowledge Tracking

http://vimeo.com/29001512

Liquid lakes close to moon's skin

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643883-liquid-lakes-close-to-moon-s-skin

Super-Rover Will Search for Life on Mars

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41128

China Will Overtake U.S. Space Program in 20 Years

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41126

Russia Liable for Failed Mars Mission

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41123

Smog-Eating Material to Wrap Buildings

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41122

Primerlife: More Human Than Human

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41005

Nazi Bunker to Become Europe’s Largest Solar Power Plant

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/15/nazi-bunker-to-become-europes-largest-solar-power-plant/

What Rushdie's Facebook Win says about our Future

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41113

Why we use Social Media

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41116

Why Telecom Operators Deliberately Slow or Stop Your Surfing

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41109

Proof found for unifying quantum principle Twenty-three-year-old conjecture set to guide future quantum field theories.

http://www.nature.com/news/proof-found-for-unifying-quantum-principle-1.9352

Just two fizzy drinks a day increases risk of heart disease... even if you’re not putting on weight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2061254/Just-fizzy-drinks-day-increases-risk-heart-disease--putting-weight.html

Device that harvests water from thin air wins the James Dyson Award

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/14/device-that-harvests-water-from-thin-air-wins-the-james-dyson-award/

Solar Skyscrapers are Nearly Here

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/14/solar-skyscrapers-are-nearly-here/

Study links Parkinson's disease to industrial solvent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15639440

Genetic Tweak Creates a Mouse With Super-Endurance

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-11/swiss-scientists-develop-high-endurance-mighty-mouse

Israel Develops Cancer Vaccine

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/11/israel-develops-cancer-vaccine.html

The controversial science of free will

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/13/the_controversial_science_of_free_will/

Could graphene be the new silicon?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/13/graphene-research-novoselov-geim-manchester

Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn't Honey Ultra-filtering Removes Pollen, Hides Honey Origins

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/

Motorcycle Powered by Sewage, Has Toilet for Seat

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/weird/Motorcycle-Powered-by-Sewage-133697088.html

Awakened: Sun’s convulsive behavior dismays scientists across the globe

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/11/14/awakened-sun%E2%80%99s-convulsive-behavior-dismays-scientists-across-the-globe/

A Star With Spiral Arms

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/099410-2011-11-12-a-star-with-spiral-arms.htm

The Neuroscience of Rick Perry's Brain Freeze

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41088

Human Nature as We Know it

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41089

Brain Enhancement Pills: Controversial, Widely Used

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41081

Face Recognition Makes the Leap From Sci-Fi

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/business/face-recognition-moves-from-sci-fi-to-social-media.html

First-Ever Artificial Blood Transfusion

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41075

Weight-Loss Breakthrough

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41073

Pristine Big Bang gas found

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643843-pristine-big-bang-gas-found

PEE POWER: Bristolian Scientists Make Breakthrough In Using Urine as a Viable Power Source

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/11/pee-power-bristolian-scientists-make-breakthrough-in-using-urine-as-a-viable-power-source/

Alaska Airlines flies planes fueled by cooking oil

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/11/alaska-airlines-flies-planes-fueled-by-cooking-oil/

Artificial leaf could grow a layer of ice in desert conditions

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/11/artificial-leaf-could-grow-a-layer-of-ice-in-desert-conditions/

Pituitary glands grown from mouse embryonic stem cells

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/09/pituitary-glands-embryonic-stem-cells

Next Idea Cracking the TV Genome

http://bigthink.com/series/71/series_item/4960

Marriage According to… Google

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40996

Update on the 15,000 Neutrinos That Seemed to Outrace a Beam of Light

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40927

539 - Vive le tweet! A Map of Twitter's Languages

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41004

The Rise of Adaptive Learning

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41046

Re-examining Significant Research: The Problem of False-Positives

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41043

Tomato juice tastes 'plane' better at high altitude says scientist

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20111111-38811.html

Google-backed internet institute raises eyebrows

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20111111-38815.html

Toyota Creates Robot Assistants To Move People From Point A To B

http://translogic.aolautos.com/2011/11/03/toyota-creates-robot-assistants-to-move-people-from-point-a-to-b/

A New Car, One Molecule High

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41047

Computers Diagnose Cancer Better

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41041

Japan Displays Amazing Avatar

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41039

Super-Black Material Aborbs 99% of Light

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41038

Is Technology Creating or Destroying Jobs?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41037

How magnets can help the body fight off prostate cancer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2059182/How-magnets-help-body-fight-prostate-cancer.html

The science of objectification The common wisdom is that naked women are seen as objects, but new research says it's more complicated than that

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/10/the_science_of_objectification/

Five Years Until Irreversible Climate Change

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41031

Africa's Scientific Renaissance

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41024

Mars Missions Ahead for U.S. (and Russia?)

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41029

Space Itself Remains a Mystery

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41026

New Study: Many Breast Tumors Will Spontaneously Regress

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/new-study-many-breast-tumors-will-spontaneously-regress

The F-35 Story

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/07/1846256

Honda's Intelligent Horse - biomimicry gives us the All-Terrain-Vehicle of the 23rd Century

http://www.gizmag.com/hondas-intelligent-horse/20398/

Superintelligent robots in homes by late 2020s, experts say By Dick Pelletier

http://www.positivefuturist.com/archive/410.html

New twisting artificial muscles propel nano-robots one step closer to medical applications

http://electromaterials.edu.au/news/UOW112032

PopSci Q&A: Seth Lloyd Talks Quantum Computing and Quoogling

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/seth-lloyd-particle-man

Vampire-like Predatory Bacteria Could Become A Living Antibiotic

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/11/02/vampire-like-predatory-bacteria-could-become-a-living-antibiotic/

Doctor trials laser treatment to change eye colour

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15596885

Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out?

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/06/1428230

Periodic Table swells as three new elements named

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8871840/Periodic-Table-swells-as-three-new-elements-named.html

Genetically modified rice created to produce human blood

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8871899/Genetically-modified-rice-created-to-produce-human-blood.html

You ≠ Your Brain

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40991

Bionic Bodies by 2014

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40988

Inequality Makes Us Unhappy

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40987

Brain Games that Prevent Depression

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40986

Consciousness: The Black Hole of Neuroscience

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40965

DNA gene find 'transforms' theories on how brain works

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15505641

WOW: AMAZING HUBBLE PHOTO OF BLACK HOLE

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2011/11/wow-amazing-hubble-photo-of-black-hole.html

EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/11/03/239204

Levitating lamp meets the future halfway

http://www.gizmag.com/silhouette-floating-lamp/20360/

IBM brings solar power to data centers

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/04/ibm-brings-solar-power-to-data-centers/

New record claimed for highest airship flight

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/04/new-record-claimed-for-highest-airship-flight/

Nails on chalkboard noise mystery solved

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20111104-38659.html

Chinese spacecraft dock in orbit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15562928

Signs of ageing halted in the lab

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15552964

Laws of physics 'are different' depending on where you are in the universe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056018/Laws-physics-change-depending-universe.html

U.S. Navy fires the railgun that can shoot a missile 100 miles at eight times the speed the sound for the 1,000th time

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056782/US-Navy-fires-electromagnetic-railgun-1-000th-time.html

Anti-Aging Breakthrough

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40952

Scientists take new look at fossil teeth, jawbone; uncover oldest modern humans in Europe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientists-take-new-look-at-fossil-teeth-jawbone-uncover-oldest-modern-humans-in-europe/2011/11/02/gIQAREqyfM_story.html

ENERGYME Street Lamps to be powered by clean ‘biological’ kinetic energy!

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/02/energyme-street-lamps-to-be-powered-by-clean-biological-kinetic-energy/

First-ever manned flight of an electric multicopter takes place in Germany

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/11/02/first-ever-manned-flight-of-an-electric-multicopter-takes-place-in-germany/

Taking Matternet Into Their Own Hands

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40905

Will China Use Its Space Station to Claim the Moon?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40930

'Rejuvenated' stem cells coaxed from centenarian

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643726-rejuvenated-stem-cells-coaxed-from-centenarian

Siberians share DNA with extinct human species

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/098795-2011-11-01-siberians-share-dna-with-extinct-human-species.htm

Electronic Cotton

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/11/electronic-cotton.html

Other Arm of Milky Wave Located

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/11/other-arm-of-milky-wave-located.html

Rice seed yields blood protein Human serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111031/full/news.2011.621.html