January 2008

Data

58. Discovery Channel 2020: Living-Cell TV

91. Disgraced Korean Cloner Accidentally Created Novel Stem Cells

87. Magnetic Brains Give Birds An Inner Compass

86. World’s First Trees Unearthed

93. Andean Crops Cultivated Almost 10,000 Years Ago

89. Common Food Additive Doubles Kids' Hyperactivity

85. Semi-Identical Twins Discovered

98. Twin Probes Watch Sun’s Fury in 3-D

97. Hot-Tailed Squirrels vs. Rattlesnakes

96. And Here's Why You Have an Appendix:

95. Secrets of Egg Formation Glimpsed

92. First Fossil Of A Leaf Insect Found

90. Angkor Was a Vast City

88. Did Mice Domesticate The House Cat

84. Chimps Show Altruistic Streak

82. Fossils of a 300-Million-Year-Old Forest Found

81. Longest Mammal Migration Tracked

100. Tiny Origin of The World’s Largest Flower

99. Who Shrunk the Dogs Down

94. Saturn Seen In New Light

83. Why Loneliness Is Bad for You

80. Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie

79. Salamander Tongue Strikes Like A Crossbow

77. The Biggest Squid Ever Captured

76. Immune Cells Show Off Their Deadly Grip

78. Tablets Of Unknown Ancient Script Surface

75. Were the First Americans Wiped Out By an Asteroid?

74. Musical Scales Mimic the Sound of Language

73. Parasite Invades Its Host’s DNA

72. Crust Formed Early In Earth’s History

71. Tooth IDs Famed Egyptian Queen

61. Unsustainable Soil Use Can Cause Civilizations to Collapse

69. Frozen Baby Mammoth Unearthed

67. Mars Rover Delves Into Crater

65. Physicists Expose Light’s Weird Quantum Nature

62. Human Egg Harvesting Succeeds

68. Glue Clues From Geckos

63. The First Robot That Walks Like a Human: Lazily

70. How the Body Protects the Gut

66. Great Ancient City Unearthed in Syria

64. Cloned Hamburger, Anyone?

56. Calculus Was Developed in Medieval India

59. Medieval Mosque Shows Amazing Math Discovery

57. Distinctive Dinosaur Death Throes

55. New Technique Nails Down the Amp

54. High Altitude Determines Who Survives in Tibet

53. High-Intensity MRI Could Catch Alzheimer’s, MS

52. Amazing Battery Made of . . . Paper

51. Wastewater Decimates Minnows

60. Diamonds From Outer Space

49. Chilies Domesticated 6,000 Years Ago in the Americas

48. Robotic Ankle Takes First Step

47. 248-Dimensional Math Problem Solved

46. E. coli Outbreak Prompts Massive Meat Recall

41. Black Hole Feasts At Milky Way’s Center

43. Human Genome Reveals Signs Of Recent Evolution

50. Created: A Glass That Bends

45. Astronauts’ Image Tarnished

44. Ebola Outbreak In Congo Downsized

42. California Bans Phthalates In Plastic Toys

38. Math Advance Threatens Computer Security

37. How Killer Electrons Form in Space

36. Space Tourism Survives Fatal Blast

34. Sleuths Track Mystery Bee Die-Off

35. First New Class Of HIV Drugs in 10 Years

32. Tooth DNA Dates The First Americans

31. Court Limits Access To Experimental Drugs

40. Ceramic Tubes Rein In Carbon Dioxide Pollution

39. Plants Using Quantum Computers

33. How to Erase a Single Memory

26. Controversy Over Cervical Cancer Vaccine

27. Dying Star Leaves Trail Like a Comet

25. African Lightning Stirs U.S. Hurricanes

30. How Hurricanes Influence Climate

24. Fish Fats Protect Retinas in Mice

29. First Step to Wireless Electricity

28. Free at Last: Medical Workers Released in Libya

23. Acid Rain Intensifies Threat To Marine Life

22. Pesticide Effects on Sex Last Generations in Rats

19. Soot Began Harming Arctic A Century Ago

18. FDA Says Cold Medicine is Not For Children Under 6

15. Male Circumcision: A New Defense Against HIV

14. Biologists Perform Genome Transplant

13. Australia Faces a Waterless Future

12. New Vaccine Blocks Bird Flu

20. Fault Lines In Science Policy

17. Is Pollution Weeding Out Male Babies?

16. Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Space

11. Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Breast Cancer

10. T. Rex Time Machine

8. Can Vitamin D Save Your Life?

4. Arctic Thaw

2. Reawakening the Dormant Mind

9. The Genome Turns Personal

7. Dark Matters

6. Conservation Gets A Green Light

5. Rx for the FDA

3. Planetpalooza

1. China’s Syndrome