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What It Takes to Make a Fancy Hand Ax: A Fancy Brain
Natural Disaster Report: Hurricane Threatens Haiti, Indonesian Volcano Erupts
The Secret Knowledge of Taxi Drivers Could Be Added to Online Maps
Impact: Earth! Lets You Smash Your Home Planet to Bits
Happy Meal Set to Become a Sad Meal in San Francisco
Researchers Try to Improve Math Skills With Electrical Zaps to the Brain
Holographic Video Device Could Bring Star Wars Tech to Your Living Room
Two Studies Undermine Fish Oil’s Role as a Brain Food
Chatbot Debates Climate Change Deniers on Twitter so You Don’t Have to
Laser-Powered Helicopter Breaks Records, Is Pretty Cute
Follow the “Truthy” Tweets to Find Twitter’s Political Spammers
Sexy Black Truffle Porn: Not as Exciting as You Hoped
Miniature Human Liver Grown in Lab; Seems to Work Like the Real Thing
iPhone Alarm Bug Gave Thousands of Europeans an Excuse to Sleep in
Don’t Try This at Home: Flamingos Get Their Blush From Oily Rump Glands
“Octopus Head War” Pits Korean Health Officials Against Fishermen
Everest Gets 3G Coverage; Avalanche of Tweets & Status Updates to Follow
Plastic Chemical BPA Linked to Lower Sperm Count & Quality
Take the “Ultimate Intelligence Test” to Find out if You’re Ultimately Smart
How “Snowball Earth” Could Have Triggered the Rise of Life
For Bees, Solving Tricky Math Problems Is All in a Day’s Work
Photos: Insects Trapped in Amber Offer a Glimpse of Prehistoric Bug Life
To Animate a Drunken Mess, Use New Algorithms for Wrinkled Clothing and Flushed Faces
Google Street View’s Privacy Blunder Just Keeps Getting Worse
The Guggenheim/YouTube Art Experiment: See Winning Videos Here
Spaceport America Dedicates Its Runway; Flights *Could* Begin in 2011
Running by the Books: Math for the Marathoner
“Life Ascending” Wins the Royal Society’s Science Book Prize
Robot, Build Thyself: Machine Made of Lego Builds Models Made of Lego
Coming Soon to the Internets: Digitized Dead Sea Scrolls
Pretty Liquid Crystal Experiments Could Reorganize Electronic Displays
Ontario Parents Try to Protect School Kids From Dangerous WiFi Rays
From the Case Files: The Peanut Butter Cookie and the Lungs of Doom
Could an Experimental Memory Drug Put an End to “Senior Moments”?
Implantable LEDs Could Be Medical Sensors, or Sweet Glowing Tattoos
Dance, Fembot, Dance–Right Into the Uncanny Valley
Bone Bite Marks Suggest That T. Rex Dabbled in Cannibalism
Get Your Steampunk On: This Guy’s Building a Computer From 1837
NASA and Etsy Team Up to Get Their Space Craft(ing) On
2 New Ways to Kick Heroin: A High-Blocking Injection, a Long-Lasting Implant
What’s That Flavor? I Can’t Taste It Over All This Noise
Plastic Chemical BPA Is Officially Toxic in Canada
X Marks the Spot of a Dramatic Asteroid Collision
Punching Robot Totally Breaks Asimov’s First Rule
Obama Administration Lifts Deep-Water Drilling Moratorium
The Platypus Can Poison You 80 Different Ways
Does a 200-Year-Old Gourd Contain the Blood of a Beheaded King?
2 Ways to Keep an Eye on Illegal Logging: Watch on Tiger-Cam; Bug the Trees
How & Why to Write a Bacterial Opera for the Ig Nobel Awards
Um… That “Goldilocks” Exoplanet May Not Exist
Study: A “Pessimistic” Dog Is More Likely to Destroy Your Slippers
Offshore Wind Farming Gets a Giant Google Boost
Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Cruising the California Highways
“Whale Wars” TV Show Leads to Real-Life Feud Between Activists
Digital Retouching Reaches a Whole New Level, and a New Cup Size
A New Exoskeleton Allows Paralyzed People to Walk Again
Tropical Animals May Get a Dangerous Metabolic Jolt From Climate Change
Alcohol Makes You Think Everyone Is Out to Get You
Robo Tanks to Guard Nuclear Facility. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Toxic Sludge Floods Hungarian Countryside, Threatens the Danube River
Thrifty Brits Make Natural Gas out of Sewage and Beer-Brewing Leftovers
Climate Change Activists’ Head-Exploding Ad May Have Gone a Bit Far
It’s a Rat! It’s a Toy Car! It’s RatCar?
Biotech on the Bayou
The One True Path?
Dr. James’s Fever Powder, circa 1746
Shivering Shavenbaby
Ekaterina Heldwein: Crystallizing killers
Google Street View Goes to Antarctica, Brings Maps to the Penguins
Ig Nobel Awards Honor Pioneering Work on Bat Fellatio, Whale Snot, & More
U.S. Apologizes for Deliberately Infecting Guatemalans With Syphilis
Space Tourists Will Get Their Own Special Space Beer
Long-Lost Letters From DNA Pioneers Reveal Conflicts and Tensions
Russian Company Plans to Open Orbital Space Hotel in 2016
After 9 Years Retirement, Lab Chimps May Return to Medical Testing
My, What Biometrically Unique Ears You Have
The Mass of Hurricanes Converted to More Familiar Units: Cats & Dogs & Elephants
Sunbather Singed by Shiny Hotel’s Reflected “Death Rays”
Bicycle Bubble/Monorail Transportation System—Crazy or Genius (or Both)?
Don’t Give Up Hope: Earth Has Not Yet Selected an Alien Ambassador
It’s a Bra! It’s a Dust Mask! It’s Both! And Now, It’s for Sale
Modded iPod Nano Bot Dances to Its Own Music
Touching a Boo-Boo Really Does Make It Feel Better
The First Ever Flight of a Pedal-Powered, Wing-Flapping Vehicle
How to Get Rid of Invasive Tree Snakes: Bomb Them With Parachuted, Poisonous Mice
The Public Speaks: Best Insulting New Names for High Fructose Corn Syrup
That’s a Relief: Ice Cream Doesn’t Cause Brain Damage
The Fruit That Hit Newton’s Head Is Down With the Fruit of Darwin’s Head
Hackers Infect Twitterverse With Worm Using Old, Known Bug
Does a Common Cold Virus Boost Chances of Childhood Obesity?
FDA Committee Punts on Question of Biotech Fish
It Has 3,700 Facebook Friends, 1,800 Twitter Followers, & It’s a Tree
A Happy Global Warming Side Effect: Less Bubonic Plague
Found: A Part of the Brain That Knows When the Brain Is Wrong
An iPhone App, a Refractometer, an Objectively Perfect Cup of Coffee