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Zooming in on extrasolar planets and hunting for oceans
Onset of the "Great Dying" extinctions linked to volcanism
Science academies: ocean acidification must be on CO2 agenda
Getting up close and personal with a supermassive black hole
Springtime on Titan? Cassini mission sees seasonal changes
Tolerating genetic drift while evolving new functions
Animal, vegetable, or not quite mineral?
Planes, trains pound automobiles in transit lifecycle study
Zero to 60 in full sunlight: revving up a solar racer
Kicking a planet out of the Solar System... physically
Getting a theory of everything by ditching tenet of physics
Potential wind power is 23 times current US electricity use
Calculating the sounds of water
NASA's human space flight committee ponders our future
Manufacturing universes in a fractal multiverse
Government report: climate change here, mitigation needed now
Photolithographic research in hot pursuit of Moore's Law
Snowfall on Mars? NASA's Phoenix Lander recorded it
NAS argues math education can start in preschool
Committee: US space program needs big picture focus
From string theory mathematics to high-T superconductivity
US and Europe agree to collaborate on Mars missions
The public trusts scientists -- but not their conclusions
Ancient global warming shows the limits of our knowledge
Volcanic activity again linked to mass extinction
Acoustic warfare: moths jam bats' echolocation
Flipping a nanoswitch with light
Cesium atoms are able to take a "quantum walk"
Many small steps led to Apollo 11's giant leap for mankind
LHC delayed again due to vacuum leaks
Green diode lasers a big breakthrough for laser-display tech
A simpler approach to predicting sea level rise
Gaining a long-term view of ocean acidification
40-year-old data tackles very modern physics problem
Microsoft tried to patent studying evolution
Water: going, going, gone
Cosmic gravity wave background glimpses the early universe
Arrow of time no longer double-ended
Researchers find ghostly images are a quantum phenomenon
Making fake Hawking radiation with SQUIDs
Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change
Why putting climate change on trial is a terrible idea
Antiferromagnetism could speed up your hard drive--eventually
Warming climate could cause key crop yields to plummet
Focus on climate mitigation; give geoengineering a chance
Nerve cells have an energy efficiency an engineer would love
Carbon chains used to make ultrathin catalysts