2011, The Year in Ideas

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41730

Subtle Electronic Effect in Magnetite Discovered: Long-Standing Puzzle in Study of Magnetism Finally Solved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140345.htm

Scientists Map Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111228134841.htm

2012: Shadow of the Dark Rift

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111228084059.htm

Brain Cell Malfunction in Schizophrenia Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111228111731.htm

New Theory Emerges for Where Some Fish Became Four-Limbed Creatures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111227142628.htm

Alzheimer's: Diet Patterns May Keep Brain from Shrinking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111229092036.htm

Are Superluminal Neutrinos Possible? Pions Don't Want to Decay Into Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111223114121.htm

11 scientific twists from 2011

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/27/9748604-11-scientific-twists-from-2011

Be a HERO and Help STOP SOPA Now!! I'll tell you How! This Video that Must Be SHARED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WJIuYgIvKsc

US Army unveils 1.8 gigapixel camera helicopter drone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16358851

Shipping Containers Become Solar-Powered Internet Hubs in Rural Africa

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/12/29/shipping-containers-become-solar-powered-internet-hubs-in-rural-africa/

Today's Email Is 'Not Acceptable'

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41724

Technology - SCITECH Vast, Secret Archive of Apple Records Offers Window Into History

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/29/stanford-archives-offer-window-into-apple-origins/

Solar Breakthrough: Cheap Quantum Dot Solar Paint

http://www.rightsidenews.info/2011122815260/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/solar-breakthrough-cheap-quantum-dot-solar-paint.html

Experimenting With Robotic Movement

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/27/2347236

Recent Discovery Contains Oldest Depiction of the Tower of Babel

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/28/1634247

IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/28/1313224

Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/28/0236205/prospects-darken-for-solar-energy-companies

Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/27/2258205

Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott

http://apple.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/27/0216217

America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy

http://politics.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/27/1910219

Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone?

http://apple.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/26/2310226

Demo of the Flyboard Zapata (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM8kEHjQz9U

Future of TV Sets: It's all about Content

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41702

The Robot Hiring Boom Has Arrived

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41515

What to Expect in Tech in 2025

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41698

How the Internet will Change in 2012

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41700

Apple has plans to use hydrogen in batteries allowing iPhones and iPods to hold a charge for WEEKS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078499/Apple-plans-use-hydrogen-batteries-allowing-iPhones-iPods-hold-charge-WEEKS.html

Research: Pineapple Enzyme Kills Cancer Without Killing You

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/research-pineapple-enzyme-kills-cancer-without-killing-you

The Memory Glasses: Google's AR-Amped Specs Reveal A Brave, Branded New World

http://www.fastcompany.com/1802371/how-google-could-get-us-all-wearing-glasses

Longevity Research On Fruit Flies Providing Promising Hope For Longevity

http://www.immortalhumans.com/longevity-research-on-fruit-flies-providing-promising-hope-for-longer-human-lifespan/

Paint-On Solar Cells Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221211324.htm

'Thought Talking' may be possible in 20 years, scientist says By Dick Pelletier

http://www.positivefuturist.com/archive/417.html

Sexual activity between teenage girls is higher then ever before, claims new research

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078369/Sexual-activity-teenage-girls-higher-claims-new-research.html

8 Incredible Technologies Used by the IDF

http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/12/26/8-incredible-technologies-used-by-the-idf/

The Arrogance of "Unlimited" Growth

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41671

GoDaddy Faces Boycott Threat From SOPA Opponents

http://www.pcworld.com/article/246932/godaddy_faces_boycott_threat_from_sopa_opponents.html

Shilling for traditional Chinese medicine: Nature leaves its readers a lump of coal before Christmas

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/shilling-for-traditional-chinese-medicine/

WISE Presents a Cosmic Wreath

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111223105312.htm

Researchers Use Light to Measure Cancer Cells' Response to Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220133755.htm

New Method for Watching Proteins Fold

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111223091457.htm

Multiple Sclerosis Linked to Different Area of Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111222195019.htm

Crucial Advances in 'Brain Reading' Demonstrated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140706.htm

New Sensor to Detect Lung Cancer from Exhaled Breath

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111223091331.htm

Increased Arm Swing Asymmetry Is Early Sign of Parkinson's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111213110529.htm

NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats from Saturn

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111223105435.htm

How the Brain Cell Works: A Dive Into Its Inner Network

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140507.htm

High Intestinal Microbial Diversity Safeguards Against Allergies, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208114853.htm

Computer Assisted Design (CAD) for RNA: Researchers Develop CAD-Type Tools for Engineering RNA Control Systems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111222142452.htm

We should scour the moon for ancient traces of aliens, say scientists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/25/scour-moon-ancient-traces-aliens

World Theory of Evolution Acceptance Chart (2006)

http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2011/12/Evolution-Science.jpg

Bare bones Raspberry Pi PC gets ready to launch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16316439

Mysterious Metallic Space Ball Falls to Earth in Africa, Baffling Authorities

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/101895-2011-12-23-mysterious-metallic-space-ball-falls-to-earth-in-africa-baffling.htm

Amazon Builds World’s Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/101896-2011-12-23-amazon-builds-worlds-fastest-nonexistent-supercomputer.htm

Future drone pilots may fly four warplanes at once

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/101907-2011-12-23-future-drone-pilots-may-fly-four-warplanes-at-once.htm

How the Tevatron Influenced Computing

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/23/1458208

Salman Khan: Let's Use Video To Reinvent Education

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/video-learning_n_1167574.html

Malaria Parasites Are Killed by a Novel Transition State Analog Drug in a Monkey Model

http://www.biotechdaily.com/?option=com_article&Itemid=294738506&cat=Drug+Discovery&ui=1960146697&vrf=b4fd16333f6764f18b6c5ce8da46b518&end=%2520

Massive 1,100+ year old Maya site discovered in Georgia’s mountains

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/12/23/massive-1100-year-old-maya-site-discovered-in-georgias-mountains/

New Way to Treat Common Hospital-Acquired Infection: Novel Approach May Offer Treatment for Other Bacterial Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110821141128.htm

At Last, a Reason Why Stress Causes DNA Damage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110821141135.htm

Oldest Fossils On Earth Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110821205241.htm

Ignored Virus Can Cause Liver Cancer, Study Suggests; Should We Be Screening Blood for Hepatitis G?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822101943.htm

Deadly Ancient Egyptian Medication? German Scientists Shed Light On Dark Secret of Queen Hatshepsut's Flacon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110819131513.htm

Practice Makes Perfect: Competitive Scrabble Players Push the Boundaries of Accepted Visual Word Recognition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110816083800.htm

Galaxies Are Running out of Gas: Why the Lights Are Going out in the Universe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822102057.htm

Yeast's Epic Journey 500 Years Ago Gave Rise to Lager Beer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822151019.htm

Males Believe Discussing Problems Is a Waste of Time, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822151021.htm

Milk Better Than Water to Rehydrate Kids, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817142849.htm

Confirmation That Vitamin D Acts as a Protective Agent Against the Advance of Colon Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110816083745.htm

Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: A Twisted Tale

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822154748.htm

Happiness Can Deter Crime, a New Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822091859.htm

Scale Models: How Patterns Stay in Sync With Size as an Embryo Grows and Develops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822092305.htm

Traumatic Brain Injury Increases Risk of Parkinson's Disease, Researchers Say; Threat Doubles With Exposure to the Pesticide Paraquat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822102101.htm

Are Stellar Explosions Created Equal? Scientists Recheck a Standard Model for Supernovae On Which Cosmic Distance Measurement Is Based

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110822101938.htm

Earth Must Have Another Moon, Say Astronomers

http://news.discovery.com/space/earth-has-two-moons-111222.html

Babies Track Word Patterns Long Before Word-Learning Starts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111209150156.htm

Mediterranean Diet Gives Longer Life, Swedish Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220154122.htm

Why Humans Are So Sociable These Days

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220205212.htm

How Exposure to Irregular Light Affects Plant Circadian Rhythms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111214135810.htm

Gene Therapy for Ears

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111219135021.htm

New Eco-Friendly Foliar Spray Provides Natural Anti-Freeze

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111214135814.htm

Increase in Resting Heart Rate Over 10-Year Period Linked With Increased Risk of Heart Disease Death

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220172620.htm

How Pregnancy Changes a Woman's Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140633.htm

New Method Significantly Reduces Production Costs of Fuel Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220133709.htm

Ironing out Details of Earth's Core: Researchers Obtain Highest-Pressure Vibrational Spectrum of Iron

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220102530.htm

How Normal Cells Fuel Tumor Growth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221105817.htm

Astronomers Discover Deep-Fried Planets: Two Earth-Sized Planets Around Dying Star That Has Passed the Red Giant Stage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140343.htm

Prejudice Comes from a Basic Human Need and Way of Thinking, New Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140627.htm

The Biology Behind Severe PMS

http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8249597570984018989#editor/target=post;postID=5089244895702481115

Boron Nanoribbons Reveal Surprising Thermal Properties in Bundles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220133801.htm

Pregnant Women Advised to Stay Cool for Baby's Sake: Australian Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111215095615.htm

Predicting Crowd Behavior to Improve Cities

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41645

Google to Release Tablet Computer in Six Months

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41639

Relentless Learning: A New Definition of Business Success for the 21st Century

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41529

The Twizy: Europe's Electric Concept Car

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41640

Breakthrough in Treatment to Prevent Blindness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140712.htm

US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/21/0222244

Computer Chips that Repair Themselves

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41649

Pluto's blushing complexion riddle solved by boffins alert print comment tweet Hubble spectrograph shines light on dwarf planet's colouring

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/22/pluto_colouring/

Christmas 2061: space getaways, 'Holodeck' adventures, and more By Dick Pelletier

http://www.positivefuturist.com/archive/416.html

Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/21/scientists-study-psychological-effects-birdsong

In the Depths of Antiquity: Fraud and Suppression of Information in Archeology by Michael A. Cremo

http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/cremo1.1.1.html

Marines’ Robot Cargo-Copter Takes Flight in Afghanistan

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/101713-2011-12-20-marines-robot-cargo-copter-takes-flight-in-afghanistan.htm

Party drinks linked to lung disease

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/6179282/Party-drinks-linked-to-lung-disease

Found! 2 Earth-Size Alien Planets, the Smallest Exoplanets Yet

http://www.space.com/13990-2-earth-size-alien-planets-kepler-smallest-worlds.html

Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm

Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self

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

Why You Need a Time Machine: Dr. Kaku Explains String Theory

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41614

The Countdown to Discovering Alien Life

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41621

Nano-Engineered Bioconstructs Perform Photosynthesis Faster Than Nature Does

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/101709-2011-12-20-nano-engineered-bioconstructs-perform-photosynthesis-faster-than-nature-does.htm

Turning history on its side

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/turning-history-on-its-side-20111221-1p4eg.html

Scientific community abuzz regarding potential cancer breakthrough

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/19/scientific-community-abuzz-cancer-breakthroug/

IBM Says We’ll Have Mind-Reading Computers Within Five Years

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/12/20/ibm-says-we%E2%80%99ll-have-mind-reading-computers-within-five-years/

Brian Cox demonstrates why atoms are empty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16200089

How Gay Media Helped Sink the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

http://link.huffingtonpost.com/auh5.52s/TvETeUOdFvjiEry4Bc008

TEDxCMU -- Luis von Ahn -- Duolingo: The Next Chapter in Human Computation (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4

What it's Like when the Net Giants 'Defriend' You

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41605

Permafrost science heats up in the United States Programme will examine effect of Arctic warming on frozen soils.

http://www.nature.com/news/permafrost-science-heats-up-in-the-united-states-1.9681

Self-propelled microrockets detect dangerous bacteria in food, clinical and environmental samples

http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=23679.php

Engineered virus which hacks & controls brain: Do you mind?

http://rt.com/news/dna-virus-infecting-brain-897/

“Super memory” pill–and possibly an Alzheimer’s cure–could be around the corner

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/super-memory-pill-possibly-alzheimer-cure-could-around-162010613.html

Scientists discover what makes flies fly

http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_11_12_12_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=23393

Comet Lovejoy plunges into the Sun and survives

https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/0519215/comet-lovejoy-plunges-into-the-sun-and-survives

Why women need fat Evolution shows that women's dieting beliefs aren't just unrealistic -- they're unnatural. An expert explains

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/19/why_women_need_fat/

Why Mozart Rocks So Hard. Artistic Genius Explained.

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41139

Vienna sex school opens

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068218/Vienna-sex-school-opens-Yes-

The IT Crowd Piracy Ad (funny video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxO6CZptck&feature=player_embedded

Big Think Expert Cocktails: The Henry Rollins, The Raketini of Innocence, and More!

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41545

Chimpanzee Research on Way Out

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41575

Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/16/1943257

Harald Haas: Wireless Data From Every Lightbulb (video)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/16/harald-haas-wireless-data_n_1153538.html?ref=daily-brief

Everything You Need to Know About Fast Food

http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/everything-fast-food/

What If An Electric Ferrari

http://realitypod.com/2011/12/what-if-an-electric-ferrari/

Rape affects almost 20% of US women, study says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16192494

Immortality as Selfishness, Death as an Engine of Innovation

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41527

Can the Entire Internet be Summarized?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41534

Harnessing Sea Power, with Style

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41438

The Race to Replace Silicon Semiconductors

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41439

Building the body electric Eyes can be grown in a frog’s gut by changing cells’ electrical properties

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336783/title/Building_the_body_electric

How will you (probably) decay and die? Hank Pellissier Hank Pellissier

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pellissier20111208

Is Your Desk Job Killing You?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41473

MIT Report: How to Keep from Getting the Flu

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41476

Supercomputer runns iggest simulation of the Universe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2073961/Supercomputer-runs-biggest-simulation-universe-took-20-days.html%5C

Early man shed his fur AFTER we first 'stood up' - when we found racing around on two feet was far too hot

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2073681/Did-early-man-shed-fur-help-stay-cool-racing-feet.html

Velociraptor didn't slash prey, it 'hooked' victims and ate them alive - and its claws may have led to the evolution of flight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2074423/Velociraptor-didnt-slash-prey-like-Jurassic-park--hooked-victims-ate-alive.html

It Pays to Be Stubborn: Conflict Resolution, Steven Pinker-Style

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41394

Can Humans Learn Matrix-Style?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41483

How Music Is Good for Your Brain

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41485

Darwin censored by the Turkish government's porn filter

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100123035/darwin-censored-by-the-turkish-governments-porn-filter/

Bombardier Global 8,000

http://www.popsci.com/bown/2011/product/bombardier-global-8000

Meet Gordon, the World’s First Flash Supercomputer

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/101195-2011-12-12-meet-gordon-the-worlds-first-flash-supercomputer.htm

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen unveils commercial spaceship

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8954652/Microsoft-co-founder-Paul-Allen-unveils-commercial-spaceship.html

Wikipedia founder threatens to 'turn off' site as protest against U.S. anti-piracy bill Co-founder says a global strike would put 'maximum pressure' on U.S. government Protest at Stop Online Piracy Act Critics allege that Act 'could criminalise' sites such as Wikipedia where anyone can publish content

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2073485/Wikipedia-owner-threatens-turn-site-protest-U-S-anti-piracy-bill.html

X-37B: Mission Of Mysterious Boeing Space Plane Extended (PHOTOS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/x-37b-space-plane-photos_n_1125924.html

Cetacean Cures Dolphins heal amazingly quickly from shark bites, with no swelling, infection, and seemingly little pain, but how do they do it?

http://the-scientist.com/2011/12/01/cetacean-cures/

Vast and Fertile Ground in Africa for Science to Take Root

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/fertile-ground-in-africa-for-computer-science-to-take-root.html

Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion Henrik Ehrsson uses mannequins, rubber arms and virtual reality to create body illusions, all in the name of neuroscience.

http://www.nature.com/news/out-of-body-experience-master-of-illusion-1.9569

Is the Earth Special?

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/10/1335245

Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader?

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/10/028244

Treatment for Blood Disease Is Gene Therapy Landmark

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/health/research/hemophilia-b-gene-therapy-breakthrough.html

Neuroscientists Find Greater Complexity in How We Perceive Motion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111205140404.htm

Breast Cancer Survivors Struggle With Cognitive Problems Several Years After Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212093738.htm

Brain's Cortex Plays an Essential Part in Emotional Learning

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111209105332.htm

Star Explosion Leaves Behind a Rose

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212100227.htm

Ecstasy Drug Produces Lasting Toxicity in the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111205165114.htm

Researchers Design Alzheimer’s Antibodies: Surprisingly Simple Method to Target Harmful Proteins

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111209105746.htm

Evolution Reveals Missing Link Between DNA and Protein Shape

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111207175635.htm

Massive DNA Search Uncovers New Mutations Driving Blood Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212144230.htm

Disappearance of the Elephant Caused Rise of Modern Humans: Dietary Change Led to Modern Humans in Middle East 400,000 Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212124606.htm

Study Debunks Myths About Gender and Math Performance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212153123.htm

Women Are Best at Being Social On Social Media

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111128115258.htm

First Realistic 3-D Reconstruction of a Brain Circuit

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111207132914.htm

Decades-Old Treatment Guidelines for Anorexia Challenged

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111209105754.htm

Sexism and Gender Inequality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111030151659.htm

World Record for One-Loop Calculations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111206114217.htm

Test for Alzheimer's Disease Predicts Cognitive Decline in Parkinson's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212124713.htm

Targeted Proton Transfer Within a Molecule: Smallest Conceivable Switch

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212132634.htm

Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/space/astronomers-find-biggest-black-holes-yet.html

Search Resumes for Evidence of Life Out There

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/space/astronomers-resume-search-for-evidence-of-life-out-there.html

Meet the world's heaviest insect, which weighs three times more than a mouse... and eats carrots

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2068547/Weta-insect-Heaviest-world-weighs-3-times-mouse.html

A U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41354

Most Advanced Robot Ever? (video)

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1264811886001/most-advanced-robot-ever/?playlist_id=162838

Nexeon tips magic dust into our batteries

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/nexeon-tips-magic-dust-into-our-batteries-6271847.html

New '3-D' Transistors Promising Future Chips, Lighter Laptops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111206151536.htm

New you by 2021: healthier, stronger, younger-looking

http://www.positivefuturist.com/archive/415.html

Police to test laser that 'blinds rioters'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8949060/Police-to-test-laser-that-blinds-rioters.html

Rats free each other from cages Altruistic acts raise questions about whether the rodents feel empathy.

http://www.nature.com/news/rats-free-each-other-from-cages-1.9603

First ancient proteome revealed Mammoth femur yields 126 prehistoric proteins.

http://www.nature.com/news/first-ancient-proteome-revealed-1.9601

'The Knowledge' enlarges your brain The hippocampi of London taxi drivers swell as they learn the city's streets.

http://www.nature.com/news/the-knowledge-enlarges-your-brain-1.9602

Ostrich penis clears up evolutionary mystery

http://www.nature.com/news/ostrich-penis-clears-up-evolutionary-mystery-1.9600

Quantum Dot TVs On Sale in 2012

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41502

Higgs Boson Search: CERN Releases New Data Said To Narrow Hunt For 'God Particle'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/higgs-boson-cern-god-particle_n_1145593.html

The Internet: Triumph of human evolution

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/04/the_internet_triumph_of_human_evolution/singleton/

The science of warp From time travel to interstellar communication, an expert explains what sci-fi gets right and wrong

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/11/the_science_of_warp/

Could the desert sun power the world?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/11/sahara-solar-panels-green-electricity

Researchers Create a Statistical Guide To Gambling

https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/12/11/1829256/researchers-create-a-statistical-guide-to-gambling

Egyptian scientists to make diabetes drug out of bitter fruit

http://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2011/12/egyptian_scientists_to_make_di.html

How Exercise Boosts the Brain

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41376

Tooth Pulp Stem Cells Promote Regeneration of Spinal Cord Injury

http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/tooth-pulp-stem-cells-promote-regeneration-of-spinal-cord-injury/81246025/

New Breakthrough in Malaria Fight

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/100635-2011-12-03-new-breakthrough-in-malaria-fight.htm

A Drug That Wakes the Near Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-minimally-conscious.html

Beautiful Hainan Gibbons endangered due to deforestation (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIFqrrzlChw

The Point of Play is That it Has No Point

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41358

Gene Therapy Protects Against HIV

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41362

Can Inbreeding Produce Healthier Offspring?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41361

Sell Your Bone Marrow for $3,000

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41364

Tracking Censorship Through Copyright Proposals Worldwide

http://politics.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/01/1827238

Fire Burns Differently In Space

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/01/1447208

TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/01/237221

30 Years of the BBC Micro

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/12/01/1335254

Slow Down, You Think Too Fast

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41339

How do We Choose our Mates? The Big Bang Theory vs. the Algorithm

http://bigthink.com/ideas/41337

Top 5 Aerial Weapons That Could Change the Future of Warfare

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/top-5-aerial-weapons-that-could-change-the-future-of-warfare/

EmTech: Get Ready for a New Human Species

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38932/

Weak wifi? Use a baking tray

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/8870961/Weak-wifi-Use-a-baking-tray.html

Ancient 1894 Roper steam cycle to cross the block in Las Vegas

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/11/30/ancient-1894-roper-steam-cycle-to-cross-the-block-in-las-vegas/

Engineers pioneer use of 3D printer to create new bones

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15963467

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

Israeli Technology Moves Gigs of Data Per Second!

http://nmen.org/israeli-technology-moves-gigs-of-data-%d7%92e%e2%80%9c-per-second/

Star Trek Is Just Around the Corner

http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/10/star-trek-is-just-around-corner.html

Earth's Real Problem: Future Underpopulation

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40893

What Science Knows About Dreams

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40884

In the Future, We Will Wear the Internet

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40830

Stop Subjecting Your Baby To Mozart! (Give Her Drama Lessons Instead)

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40866

Study Proves Gays Aren’t “Born that Way”

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011102914841/life-and-science/culture-wars/study-proves-gays-arent-born-that-way.html

BlueBiped: A human-like walking robot that requires no power source

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/10/29/bluebiped-a-human-like-walking-robot-that-requires-no-power-source/

What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years?

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/10/17/0333248

Pi Computed To 10 Trillion Digits

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/10/17/0320259

All-Electric DeLorean Car To Hit the Streets In 2013

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/10/17/2217221

Electrical Power From Humans

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/10/17/1749258

Dark Matter Gets More Mysterious

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40737

Why Peak Oil Is a Dangerous Lie

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40736

Spaceport America

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40732

Meet the Foam Changeshaper Robots

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40757

New Camera Promises 'Living' Images

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40749

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tram

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40748

“Dark matter” mystery deepens

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/111017_darkmatter.htm

European ban on stem-cell patents has a silver lining

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111024/full/478441a.html

Brazilian scientists fight for cut of oil royalties

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111024/full/news.2011.610.html

Antibody offers hope for multiple sclerosis treatment

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111024/full/news.2011.609.html

1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/10/28/030244

Can the Earth Support Seven Billion?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40796

The 'flying Humvee' gets off the ground as U.S. military plans first all-terrain, bullet-proof warcraft by next year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2054005/The-flying-Humvee-gets-ground-U-S-military-plans-terrain-bullet-proof-warcraft-year.html#ixzz1bzFrlxjY

Speed-of-light experiment to be repeated

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8855507/Speed-of-light-experiment-to-be-repeated.html

IQ 'can change in teenage years' By David Shukman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15369851

Quantum Levitation (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ws6AAhTw7RA

‘Star Wars’ as alternative to missile defense

http://rt.com/politics/missile-defense-earth-nato-085/

Antibiotics Could be to Blame for Skyrocketing Mental Illness Rates

http://naturalsociety.com/antibiotics-could-be-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-mental-illness-rates/

Clovis Theory Speared

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/10/clovis-theory-speared.html

Will We Engineer a New Human Species?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40780

A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Close

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40778

Can Technology Save American Health Care?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40775

Rethinking Higher Education

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40852

Dreams read by brain scanner for the first time

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20934-dreams-read-by-brain-scanner-for-the-first-time.html

HKU Astronomers Discover Complex Organic Matter in the Universe

http://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_6633.html

Amazon, Algorithms and the Art of Book Publishing

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40811

Protest against Patent on Broccoli at the European Patent Office

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/098449-2011-10-26-protest-against-patent-on-broccoli-at-the-european-patent-office.htm

Airborne Metro: A Giant Nuclear-Powered Airport That Flies 3,000 Passengers Across the Sky

http://volumatrixgroup.com/2011/10/26/airborne-metro-a-giant-nuclear-powered-airport-that-flies-3000-passengers-across-the-sky/

Genetically Modified Algae Are Magnetic, For Ease of Manipulation

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/098413-2011-10-26-genetically-modified-algae-are-magnetic-for-ease-of-manipulation.htm

Redrawing the World's Energy Map

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40828

Greenland: Cradle of Life on Earth?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40834

How the Universe Will End

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40829

Burn, Picasso, Burn! Art Finally Catches Up With Science

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40633

Sexual Stereotypes Debunked

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40676

Borrowing from Brightly-Colored Birds: Physicists Develop Lasers Inspired by Nature

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012113557.htm

Potential New Drugs Plug Brain's Biological 'Vacuum Cleaner' and Target HIV

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012113550.htm

Erasing History? Temporal Cloaks Adjust Light's Throttle to Hide an Event in Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012113554.htm

New Saudi Arabias of Solar Energy: Himalaya Mountains, Andes, Antarctica

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012113547.htm

T. Rex Was Bigger and Grew Faster Than Previously Thought, Computational Analysis Reveals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012185634.htm

First Physical Evidence Bilingualism Delays Onset of Alzheimer's Symptoms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013121701.htm

Next Stage of Heart Function Testing: New Highly Sensitive Technique Gives Better Clues to Future Cardiac Events in Heart Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111010074900.htm

Distant Galaxies Reveal the Clearing of the Cosmic Fog; New VLT Observations Chart Timeline of Reionization

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012083641.htm

Oldest Fossil Rodents in South America Discovered; Find Is 10 Million Years Older and Confirms Animals from Africa

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111011192420.htm

Clearing the 'Cosmic Fog' of the Early Universe: Massive Stars May Be Responsible

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012113756.htm

Hospital Superbug Debugged

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013184807.htm

High Blood Pressure Is Linked to Increased Risk of Developing or Dying from Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926182618.htm

From Blue Whales to Earthworms, a Common Mechanism Gives Shape to Living Beings

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013153943.htm

Schizophrenia Genetics Linked to Disruption in How Brain Processes Sound

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013153945.htm

Scientists Discover an Organizing Principle for Our Sense of Smell Based On Pleasantness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926104624.htm

Glow-In-The-Dark Millipede Says 'Stay Away'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926131805.htm

Older Fathers No Detriment to Their Children's Grades, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110922093955.htm

Changing Race by Changing Clothes? Stereotypes and Status Symbols Impact If a Face Is Viewed as Black or White

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926173121.htm

Fat Around Heart May Be Early Indicator of Coronary Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110816084450.htm

DNA Construction Software Saves Time, Resources and Money

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110816133115.htm

Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/097801-2011-10-14-paul-allen-the-singularity-isnt-near.htm

Goodbye, Knowledge Workers. Hello, Insight Workers!

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40650

E.O. Wilson Still Revolutionizing Biology

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40670

The woman who aged from 23 to 73 in 'a few days' Doctors speculate she may have entirely new syndrome

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2048678/Nguyen-Thi-Phuong-Vietnamese-woman-went-age-23-73-days.html

The New Market in Computer Capacity

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40644

Electric Vehicle Charging Breakthrough

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40643

Egyptian Archaeologist Admits Pyramids Contain Alien Technology

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/843/019/Egyptian_Archaeologist_Admits_Pyramids_Contain_Alien_Technology.html

Scientists sequence the full Black Death genome and find the mother of all plagues | Not Exactly Rocket Science

http://olddogg.com/science/scientists-sequence-the-full-black-death-genome-and-find-the-mother-of-all-plagues-%7C-not-exactly-rocket-science/

The Race for Antarctica's Lost Lakes

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40626

Earth's Oceans Delivered by Comets?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40624

Ray Kurzweil: The Six Epochs of Technology Evolution

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40291

Human Psychology in Space

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40623

Neutrinos Didn't Break Light Speed

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40627

Canary Islands El Hierro showing Inflation

http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/10/canary-islands-el-hierro-showing.html

Aurora as Seen from Space

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/097634-2011-10-11-aurora-as-seen-from-space.htm

Investor Says Momentum Builds for Breakup of Research in Motion

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/investor-says-momentum-builds-for-blackberry-break-up/

Vitamins linked with higher death risk in older women

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15238610

India's nuclear future put on hold Safety fears derail plan to import reactors.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111006/full/news.2011.581.html

Contraceptive risk of HIV long suspected

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111007/full/news.2011.582.html

Low-impact Hobbit home only cost US$4,650 to build

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/10/hobbit-house-built-for-4650.html

Breathing New Life Into Earth: Evidence of Early Oxygen in the Oceans of Our Planet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110816112118.htm

Cosmological Evolution of Dark Matter Is Similar to That of Visible Matter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110721102021.htm

Dark Beer Has More Iron Than Pale Beer or Non-Alcoholic Beer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084511.htm

When You Can Recite a Poem but Not Remember Who Asked You to Learn It a Few Days Earlier

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084516.htm

Like Humans, Chimps Are Born With Immature Forebrains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811121326.htm

If Fat Dogs Are Cool, Could Fat People Be, Too?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110812162549.htm

Physicists Localize 3-D Matter Waves for First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007161644.htm

Reefs Recovered Faster After Mass Extinction Than First Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110930102802.htm

Raising 'Good' Cholesterol Levels Reduces Heart Attack and Stroke Risk in Diabetes Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007103225.htm

A New Species of 'Gigantic' Mollusc Has Been Discovered in the Antarctic Waters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111006084232.htm

Electricity from the Nose: Engineers Make Power from Human Respiration

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111003234642.htm

Brain Memory Finding May Help Schizophrenia Research

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/10/05/brain-memory-finding-may-help-schizophrenia-research/

Why the Brain Loses Touch With Reality

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40576

Oral Sex Worse Than Smoking?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/40564

US drones infected by key logging virus

http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2011/10/201110816388104988.html

Scientists Report Breakthrough in Quest For "Prosthetic Exoskeleton"

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/10/06/_walk_again_project_miguel_nicolelis_reports_breakthrough_in_que.html

Author Samuel R. Delany on the evolution of sci-fi

http://www.pri.org/stories/arts-entertainment/books/author-samuel-r-delany-on-the-beauty-of-sci-fi-prose6224.html

You Can Wash Away Your Troubles, With Soap

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111005180516.htm

Triple Rainbows Exist, Photo Evidence Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111005111001.htm

Evidence Found for the Genetic Basis of Autism: Models of Autism Show That Gene Copy Number Controls Brain Structure and Behavior

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111003151819.htm

Illusory Memories Can Have Salutary Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111005170739.htm

First Comet Found With Ocean-Like Water

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111005131654.htm

Think You’re in Poor Health? It Could Increase Your Odds of Dementia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111005170716.htm

Acoustic Cloak: Closer to Achieving the Acoustic Undetectability of Objects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110920095255.htm