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1. [News] Lasers Used to Make First Boron-Nitride Nanotube Yarn

   By Moontanman, December 4, 2009
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2. [News] Huge Explosion Reveals the Most Massive Star Known

   By Moontanman, December 4, 2009
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3. [News] Super Earths May Be Superior at Fostering Life

   By Moontanman, December 4, 2009
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   • December 4, 2009

4. [Review] Probiotics: sorting the evidence from the myths

   By Michaelangelica, December 3, 2009
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   • December 3, 2009

5. GW Denialist Plot recealed

   By Michaelangelica, December 3, 2009
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   • December 3, 2009

6. [News] The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Sobering Update on the Science

   By Michaelangelica, December 1, 2009
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   • December 2, 2009

7. [News] Stoke up the fires to fight climate change

   By Michaelangelica, November 30, 2009
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   • December 1, 2009

8. [News] The Royal Society puts historic papers online

   By Galapagos, November 30, 2009
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   • December 1, 2009

9. 1979-The Dechmont Woods Alien Abduction of Robert Taylor

   By Moontanman, November 30, 2009
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10. Best UFO landings

    By Moontanman, November 30, 2009
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11. [News] Origin of Life: Generating RNA Molecules in Water

    By Galapagos, November 27, 2009
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    • November 30, 2009

12. [News] Spinons -- confined like quarks

    By Michaelangelica, November 30, 2009
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    • November 30, 2009

13. [News] Caltech scientists find emotion-like behaviors, regulated by dopamine, in fruit flies

    By Galapagos, November 25, 2009
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    • November 27, 2009

14. [News] Generating electricity from air flow

    By Tormod, November 22, 2009
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    • November 26, 2009

15. [News] Ants Use Bacteria to Make Their Gardens Grow

    By Galapagos, November 25, 2009
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    • November 26, 2009

16. [News] Extensive Valley Network on Mars Adds to Evidence for Ancient Martian Ocean

    By Moontanman, November 24, 2009
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    • November 24, 2009

17. [News] Common Plastics Chemicals Phthalates Linked to ADHD Symptoms

    By Moontanman, November 24, 2009
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    • November 24, 2009

18. Supervolcano eruption deforested India 73,000 years ago

    By C1ay, November 24, 2009
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    • November 24, 2009

19. Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System

    By C1ay, November 23, 2009
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    • November 23, 2009

20. [News] Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

    By Moontanman, November 20, 2009
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    • November 22, 2009

21. [News] First Aquarium in US to Breed Dwarf Cuttlefish

    By Moontanman, November 21, 2009
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    • November 21, 2009

22. [News] Cognitive Dysfunction Reversed in Mouse Model of Down Syndrome

    By Moontanman, November 20, 2009
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    • November 20, 2009

23. [News] Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-Ocean Settings During Mass Extin

    By Moontanman, November 20, 2009
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    • November 20, 2009

24. Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry

    By C1ay, November 13, 2009
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    • November 20, 2009

25. [News] Advanced Nuclear Fuel Sets Global Performance Record

    By Moontanman, November 19, 2009
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    • November 19, 2009