January 2009

Data

#1: The Post-Oil Era Begins

#2: The LHC Begins Its Search for the "God Particle"

#3: The FDA Tackles Tainted Drugs From China

#4: Slime Is Turning the Seas Into Dead Zones

#5: Nations Stake Their Claims to a Melting Arctic

#6: Phoenix Lander Strikes Ice on Mars

#7: Invisibility Becomes More than Just a Fantasy

#8: Cavemen: They're Just Like Us

#9: Your Genome, Now Available for a (Relative) Discount

#10: Coming to the Americas

#11: Effective Kidney Transplants Without a Lifetime of Powerful Drugs

#12: Plastics Come Under Fire

#13: China Takes Its First Space Walk

#14: All Flus Lead to Asia

#15: The Lost Cities of the Amazon

#16: Researchers Produce Human Blood from Stem Cells

#17: Cell Reprogramming Could Help Cure Diabetes—and Other Diseases

#18: Two Alzheimer’s Drugs Show Promise

#19: Salmonella Outbreak Shines Light on Food Safety

#20: The “Doomsday Vault” Stores Seeds for a Global Agriculture Reboot

#21: Plants Inspire a Better Way to Store Solar Energy

#22: Mercury Reveals Its Secrets

#23: Black Holes Birth Baby Stars

#24: Gene Therapy Returns (Some) Sight to (Some) Blind People

#25: EPA Searches Soul, Tries to Figure out If It's a Climate Cop

#26: Sun Catcher Promises Cheaper Solar Power

#27: Astronomers Spy the Youngest Planet Ever Found

#28: Lithium May Be the Answer for Lou Gehrig’s Disease

#29: A New Law Bans Genetic Discrimination

#30: Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror

#31: Fish Farming Threatens Wild Salmon

#32: DNA Sleuthing Cracks the Anthrax Case

#33: The First Known Case of Virus-Attacks-Virus

#34: Anti-Malaria Gene Boosts HIV Vulnerability

#35: Scientists Find the Key to Bringing Dead Zones Back to Life

#36: Creationism Lurks in Public High Schools

#37: Shorebird Population Is in Rapid Decline

#38: Cholesterol Drugs Are Prescribed for High-Risk Kids

#39: Amazonian Tribe Doesn't Have Words for Numbers

#40: The First Known Binary Black Hole System

#41: A Synthetic Genome Is Built From Scratch

#42: Geneticists Uncover the Origin of Blue Eyes

#43: Next-Level Quantum Spookiness

#44: The Baffling Bee Die-Off Continues

#45: Huge Population of Lowland Gorillas Found

#46: FDA Approves Food From Cloned Animals

#47: Biologists Watch HIV Replicate in Real Time

#48: Cyber Attacks May Be Connected With Real War

#49: Plant Migration Tied to Climate Change

#50: Confirmed: 1969 Meteorite Brought Genetic Building Blocks From Space

#51: Physicists Build the World’s Smallest Transistor

#52: Musical Ability Seems to Be 50 Percent Genetic

#53: Bizarre Aquatic Creatures Are Secretly "Lesbian Necrophiliacs"

#54: An “Elite” Immune System Can Prevent AIDS

#55: Polar Bears (Finally) Make the Endangered Species List

#56: Memory Training Can Make You Smarter

#57: Schizophrenia Linked to Large Genetic Alterations

#58: Smart People Are Better Able to Keep a Beat

#59: Low-Fat Is Officially Inferior to Low-Carb

#60: Mars Became Lopsided After Massive Asteroid Collision

#61: A New Drug Delivers “Fitness” Without the Workout

#62: Researchers Discover Why Wound-Licking Works

#63: Lizardlike Tuatara Sets a Speed Record for DNA Change

#64: Spain Gives Great Apes Legal Rights

#65: Long-Prophesied Circuit Element Could Revolutionize Computing

#66: Natural Selection Helped Indonesians Find the Perfect Canoe

#67: Drilling, Not Earthquake, Caused Giant Hot Mud Volcano

#68: Solved: The Mystery of Gravity-Defying Sap

#69: Physicists Create a Perfect Place to Store Electricity

#70: A Single Electron Is Caught on Film

#71: Slime Molds Show Surprising Degree of Intelligence

#72: Prozac Cures Lazy Eye

#73: Giant Ice Meteors Fall From Clear Skies

#74: Viruses Are Put to Work Building Superbatteries

#75: Chilies' Fire Is Self-Defense Against a Surprising Foe

#76: Europe’s Oldest Hominid Makes Its Debut

#77: X-Rays Reveal Ship-Wreckage to Be 2,000-Year-Old Astronomy Computer

#78: The Galaxy that Spins a Giant Magnetic Web

#79: The Ancient Rat as Big as a Bull

#80: Invented: Self-Healing Rubber Made From Vegetable Oil and Pee Ingredient

#81: Smart-Matter Robots Reassemble Themselves

#82: The New Immune System Weapon: A DNA Catapult in Your Gut

#83: Bulletproof Paper Is Stronger Than Kevlar

#84: 9,000-Year-Old Milk Cartons Found

#85: Smackdown Over Ancient "Hobbit" Continues

#86: You, Too, Have a Photographic Memory

#87: Speedy Sperm Explains Flower Power

#88: Bacteria Can Control the Weather

#89: Archaeologists Find the World’s Oldest Arrowheads

#90: The Platypus Genome Is a Mash-Up of Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals

#91: Humans Have 5 Universal Facial Muscles—and 10 Optional Ones

#92: A 380-Million-Year-Old Fish Gives Birth

#93: Physicists Discover the Source of Earth’s "Mystery Hiss"

#94: Seaweed Creates Its Own Sunscreen

#95: Organic Matter Found in Saturn's Mystery Moon

#96: Ancient Traders Sailed the South American Seas

#97: All-Powerful Astronomers Turn "Dwarf Planets" Into "Plutoids"

#98: You're More Like a Sponge Than a Comb Jelly

#99: Jupiter Grows (and Loses) a New Spot

#100: This Animal Has the Strongest Bite on Earth