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August 2007
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31: Five Scientists Who Made the Modern World
31: YouTube+ for Science from PLoS
30: One Species’ Genome Discovered Inside Another’s
30: Displaying Data Well
30: Mars Rovers Getting Ready for Another Adventure
29: Science Journal Publishers Stay Stupid
28: JMU Adds School of Engineering
28: Ocean Foam
26: First Year of Google WiFi
25: Financial Engineering
24: Studying Martian Soil for Evidence of Microbial Life
24: Lunar Landers X-Prize
23: Vertical Rotation Personal Windmill
23: Sexy Math
23: Mining the Moon
23: Revolving Doors
22: Textbook Revolution
22: Brain Drain Benefits to the USA Less Than They Could Be
21: Regular Aerobic Exercise for a Faster Brain
20: Common Virus May Contribute to Obesity
19: ‘Looming Crisis’ from NIH Budget
19: Peak Soil
19: More on Amazing Aerogel
18: Microchip Cooling Innovation
17: Megaflood Created the English Channel
17: NSF Graduate Research Fellow Profiles
16: Nanotechnology Investment as Strategic National Economic Policy
15: Raised Without Antibiotics
14: Discover the Supercollider
13: Best Research University Rankings - 2007
12: Galactic Dust with the Ability to Reproduce?
10: Lake Under 2 Miles of Ice
10: Overrelience on Perscription Drugs to Aid Children’s Sleep?
08: Great Speech by Marissa Mayer on Innovation at Google
08: Nectar-Feeding Bats
08: Young Engineers Build Bridges with Spaghetti
07: Bacteria Frozen for 8 Million Years In Polar Ice Resuscitated
06: Harvard Course: Understanding Computers and the Internet
06: Aerogels - Cool Substances
05: Authors of Scientific Articles by Country
05: AlienFly RC Mosquito Helicopter
04: Where is “Everybody”
03: Fun for People - Hard for Computers
02: Google: Patent System in Crisis
01: YouTube Architecture

July 2007
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30: Contradictory Medical Studies
29: High Pay for Engineering Graduates - July 2007
29: Research on Why Healthy Living Leads to Longer Life
28: Evolutionary Design
28: National Science and Technology Medals
27: Highly Paid Professor
27: Time
26: Light-harvesting Bacterium Discovered in Yellowstone
26: Camera Fashion
25: Laser Tool Creates “blueprints” of Archeology Sites
25: Robot Hall of Fame
24: Creating a Nation of Wimps
24: New York City Travel Photos
20: Robo Insect Flight
19: New York Steam Pipes
18: Quantum Random Number Generator
17: Second Life for Scientist
15: Lifestyle Drugs and Risk
12: Evolution at Work - Blue Moon Butterfly
11: Science Interview with John Edwards
10: Well Preserved Baby Mammoth Discovered in Permafrost
10: Engineering - Economic Benefits
09: Interesting Lobsters
08: 1=2: A Proof
07: Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership
05: Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2007
05: Obesity Epidemic Explained - Kind Of
04: USA Losing Brain Drain Benefits
03: Chocolate Every Day Will Keep the Doctor Away
03: Home Engineering: Windmill for Electricity
02: Microfinancing Entrepreneurs
02: Learn Physics with Free Space Flight Simulator
01: Single Electron on Video
01: Try to Answer 6 Basic Science Questions

June 2007
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30: World’s First Commercial-Scale Subsea Turbine
30: Science Focus in New UK Government
29: Singapore Research Fellowship
28: Origins of the Domestic Cat
28: Korean Engineering Education
27: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Takes Big Open Access Step
27: Einstein Fellowship for Teachers
26: More Automotive Engineering Jobs
26: Computer Game and Real World Education
26: Evo-Devo
25: Robotarium X - Robot Zoo
25: Tracking the Ecosystem Within Us
24: Backyard Wildlife: Fox
22: Another Humanoid Robot
22: Training Grants a Boon to Research and Scientists
21: Two Top Google Engineers Move to Benchmark Capital
20: Using Bacteria to Carry Nanoparticles Into Cells
20: Robot Navigation Using Prediction
20: Building an Electricity Producing Wind Turbine
19: Re-engineering Engineering Education
19: Engineers: Future Prospects
19: Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation
18: EasyJet EcoJet
17: Scanning Electron Microscope Rose Art
15: Scientific Review
15: River Blindness Worm Develops Resistance to Drugs
13: Shaw Laureates 2007
13: Goldwater Science Scholarships
13: Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration
12: High Resolution Darwin Documents
11: Singapore Students Engineer New Products
11: Self Healing Plastic
10: Order Your CatCam
10: Boston Travel Photos
08: Educating Engineering Geeks
08: Life-patents
07: Antibacterial Products May Do More Harm Than Good
07: National Underwater Robotics Challenge
06: Inventor TV Shows
06: Researchers Create Molecule-Sized Test Tubes
05: S&P 500 CEOs - Again Engineering Graduates Lead
05: Engineering Graduate Job Market
05: Reducing the Impact of a Flu Pandemic
04: Making Robots from Trash
04: Video of the Falkirk Wheel Canal Lift
03: Awesome Cat Cam
03: Tuberculosis Risk
02: BumpZee Science and Engineering Communities
02: Freeware Math Programs
02: Radical Life Extension
01: Inner Life of a Cell: Full Version
01: Winter Air Refrigeration

May 2007
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31: DNA Repair Army
30: Communicating Science to the Public
30: Open Source Education Curricula
29: Robots Renew Computer Science
28: Open Access and PLoS
27: High School Students Interest in Computer Programing
27: Lego Autopilot First Flight
25: Evolution In Action
25: Finding Open Scientific Papers
24: Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB)
24: New Neurons in Old Brains
24: Award for Us
24: High-efficiency Power Supplies
23: Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone
23: Programming with Pictures
22: Remote-Controlled Submarines
22: Water Buffaloes, Lions and Crocodiles Oh My
21: Building Engineering Outside the Box
21: International Student Collaboration
21: Chemistry of Common Items
20: Engineering, Math and Physics Applets
18: Deep-Sea Alien Abode Discovered
17: CERN Prepares for LHC Operations
17: Bird Species Plummeted After West Nile
17: Hot Ice Planet
16: Proof - Movie
16: Bacterium Living with High Level Radiation
16: Science Topics Explained on One Page
15: Treadmill Desks
14: Self-assembling Nanotechnology in Chip Manufacturing
14: Deforestation and Global Warming
12: Microorganisms on Spaceships
11: Think Tech Hawaii Podcasts
11: New Yorker on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
10: Diversity Efforts for the Life Science Work Force
10: Opossum Genome Shows ‘Junk’ DNA is Not Junk
09: $10 Million for Engineering Education Scholarships
09: Encyclopedia of Life
08: South Pacific to Stop Bottom-trawling
06: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
05: 3-D Images of Eyes
05: Purple Frog Delights Scientists
04: Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
04: CDC Advice on the Use of Masks to Prevent Flu
04: Being Bad is Best for Bacteria
03: Grand Visions
01: Why do We Sleep?

April 2007
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30: Design for the Unwealthiest 90 Percent
29: Home Experiments: Quantum Erasing
28: Backyard Wildlife: Turtle
27: Hacking Your Body’s Bacteria
26: Funding for Science and Engineering Researchers
26: When Fair Use Isn’t Fair
26: More on the Bee Deaths
23: Fruit Better Than Vitamins
21: Innovation with Math
21: Eat Less Salt - Save Your Heart
20: 10 Lessons of an MIT Education
19: Toy and Entertainment Engineering Camp
19: Quantum Theory Fails Reality Checks
18: $600 Million for Basic Biomedical Research
17: Innovative Alarm Clocks
16: 2007 National Science Board Public Service Award
15: PhysicsQuest
15: Two Screens Are Better Than One
15: What do Engineers Need To Know?
15: Eco-Vehicle Student Competition
14: Dark Cosmos
14: T-rex Treasure
13: Report on Faculty Salaries
12: Quake Lifts Island Ten Feet Out of Ocean
12: Universal Blood
11: ScienceMatters@Berkeley April 2007
11: Software Patents - Bad Idea
11: Math and Nature
10: Stanford Center for Professional Development Seminars
10: And Now for Something Completely Different
09: Changing the Circadian Clock with the Seasons
09: Lego Autopilot Project Update
09: Young Scientists Design Open-Source Program at NASA
08: Math’s Architect of Beauty
08: Bedbugs Are Back
08: CERN Pressure Test Failure
07: Bisphenol A
07: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
07: Solar Power Innovation: 10 Times Cheaper needs 10 Times less Sun
06: Solar Flares May Threaten GPS
05: Science Journalism
04: $500 Million to Reduce Childhood Obesity in USA
04: Cats Control Rats … With Parasites
03: Drug-resistant Flu Virus
03: Fellowship Winners
03: Ranking Universities Worldwide
02: Lead the Way - Cleveland
02: Micro-Wind Turbines for Home Use
02: Big Atlantic Sharks Disappearing, Study Warns
01: Toyota iUnit
01: Yale Cultivates Young Scientists
01: Engineering Job Sites

March 2007
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31: Neuroengineers Use Light to Silence Overactive Neurons
31: USC Innovation Institute Reinventing Itself
30: What Makes Scientists Different
29: More on Disappearing Honeybees
28: Global Technology Leadership
27: Schoolgirls Find Vitamin C is Missing
27: Virus Traps
25: Open Access Science Education Journal
25: Engineering Students Design Innovative Hand Dryer
24: The sub-$1,000 UAV Project
23: Navigating Through The Bloodstream
23: Deadly TB Strain is Spreading, WHO Warns
22: Biologists Solve B-12 Vitamin Puzzle
22: Antibiotics Too Often Prescribed for Sinus Woes
21: Swiss dig world’s Longest Tunnel
21: Bdelloid Rotifers Abandoned Sex 100 Million Years Ago
21: Boeing CEO’s Speech to Engineering Students
20: Mechanical Hit Counter
19: Learning About the Human Genome
19: 248-dimension Math Puzzle
18: Relationships Among Scientific Paradigms
18: Google Summer of Code 2007
18: China Leads in Producing Post Graduate Engineers
17: Researchers Learn What Sparks Plant Growth
17: £25 Gadget Saves Energy
16: Magnetic Switching Data Storage
16: Immense Amount of Ice Found on Mars
15: Bornean Clouded Leopard
14: Magnificent Flying Machine
14: Open Access Journal Wars
13: NCAA Basketball Tournament Challenge 2007
13: Surfing a Wave for 12 km
13: A Career in Computer Programming
13: Particles and Waves
12: Open Source 3-D Printing
11: Attacking Bacterial Walls
11: Invasive Plants: Tamarisk
10: Non-Newtonian Fluid Demo
09: USA Science and Engineering Degree Data - 2007
09: Robo-Salamander
08: $15 Million for San Jose State College of Engineering
08: Electric Cars
08: Use the Force
07: When Galaxies Collide
07: Your Online Identity
06: Engineering a Better Blood Alcohol Sensor
05: A Life-changing Gift
05: Science and Engineering Internships
05: Engineering Quiet, Efficient Planes
04: NSF Cafe Scientifique: Arlington, Virgina
04: Engineering Activities: for 9-12 Year Olds
04: FDA May Make Decision That Will Speed Antibiotic Drug Resistance
03: Basic Concepts: List of Posts
01: European Innovation Scoreboard
01: NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials
01: Atom-thick Carbon Transistor
01: How to Deal with False Research Findings

February 2007
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28: $60 Million in Grants for Universities
28: Editorial: Engineers of the Future
27: Medical Study: Antioxidant Supplements Don’t Extend Life
27: Tracking Changes in Individual Molecules
27: Economic Gains from Science
27: Asimo Robot: Running and Climbing Stairs
26: Saving Mankind
26: Fighting Elephant Poaching With Science
26: Correlation is Not Causation
25: Nanoparticles to Battle Cancer
25: Micro RNA Editing
24: Communication Emergence in Robots
24: Car Elevator (for parking)
23: Wave Energy
23: NSF Robotics Report
23: Savanna Chimpanzees Hunt with Tools
23: Stimulate Innovation
22: Missing laptop found in ET hunt
22: Scientifically Illiterate
22: Online Mathematics Textbooks
22: Antarctic Robo-sub
22: Sudoku Science
21: Water Jacket
21: Karl Popper Webcast
21: Hiring Software Developers
21: Mobilizing Tomorrow’s Engineers
20: Pixar Is Inventing New Math
20: Biomolecules in Motion
20: Wakamaru Robot Blog
20: Seeing Patterns Where None Exists
19: Go Badgers
19: Page: Marketing Science
19: Leading Causes of Death
19: Himalayas Geology
18: Iowa Grapples with Engineer Shortage
18: VirtuSphere
18: Robot Looks for Ivory-billed Woodpecker
18: $35 million to the USC School of Engineering
17: Digital Pen
17: Aussies Look to Finnish Innovation Model
17: Using IT to Improve Construction
16: Cost of Powering Your PC
16: Women Working in Science
16: Trash + Plasma = Electricity
15: Cool Falkirk Wheel Canal Lift
15: IBM Believes New DRAM will Double Performance
15: Article on Sergey Brin
15: Undersea Restaurant
14: More Lego Learning
14: Bionanotechnology Future
14: Catnap Benefits
14: Chimps Used Stone “Hammers”
13: The Avocado
13: Patenting Life - a Bad Idea
13: Pakistan Engineering Education
13: Water in Earth’s Deep Mantle
12: Skin Bacteria
12: DNA Transcription Webcast
12: Mini Helicopter Masters Insect Navigation Trick
12: Biomedical Engineering Opinion
12: Mystery Ailment Strikes Honeybees
11: Schoofs Prize for Creativity 2007
11: Nice Looking Toaster
11: No Sleep, No New Brain Cells
10: Light to Matter to Light
10: Arctic Seed Vault Design
09: Declining Science and Maths Degrees in UK
09: 8 Year Old Math Prodigy Corrects Science Exhibit
09: Engineers - Changing Career Needs
08: International Linear Collider
08: World’s Largest Dry-Transport Ship
08: Chinese Stem Cell Therapies
07: Educational Institutions Economic Impact
07: Meteorite, Older than the Sun, Found in Canada
07: Zero Ink Printing
06: Over 100 Dinosaur Eggs Discovered
06: African Union - Science Meeting
06: Contour-Surface Drawings
04: Nanotech Engine Research
04: LEGO Sumo Robotic Championship
03: