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April 2008  
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 13: Study challenges notion of ‘pandemic’ flu
• 12: Eating Breakfast Keeps Teenagers Leaner
• 12: Inspirational Engineer
• 11: NASA Science Website
• 10: Mutualism - Inter-species Cooperation
• 10: Self-assembling Nanofibers Heal Spinal Cords in Mice
• 09: Computer Science Unplugged
• 08: Clay Versus MRSA Superbug
• 08: $25 Million to Princeton for Engineering Education
• 07: First Lungless Frog Found (0)
• 07: Engineers Without Borders
• 06: Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown
• 06: More Efficient Water Heaters
• 06: Coopers Rock State Forest, West Virginia
• 05: False Teeth For Cats
• 05: Scientists Witness the Birth of a Brain Cell
• 05: Aztec Math
• 04: Bacteria Survive On All Antibiotic Diet
• 04: FIRST Robotics in Minnesota
• 04: Vega Science Lectures: Feynman and More
• 03: ‘Refrigerator’ Without Electricity
• 03: High Fructose Corn Syrup is Not Natural Food
• 02: Orzel: What Everyone Should Know About Science
• 02: Royal Ant Genes
• 01: Androgenesis
• 01: Cancer Deaths Increasing, Death Rate Decreasing

March 2008  
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 31: Babbage Difference Engine In Lego
• 31: Don’t Eat What Doesn’t Rot
• 30: Warning on Two Cholesterol Drugs
• 30: Ethanol Scam
• 29: Appetite for Destruction
• 28: Thompson and Tits share 2008 Abel Prize (Math)
• 28: Squid Materials Engineering
• 28: Propeller Innovation by Engineering Students
• 27: Solar Energy: Economics, Government and Technology
• 27: Secrets of Spider Silk’s Strength
• 26: Mutation Rate and Evolution
• 26: Jobs Increasing for German Engineers
• 25: 2008 Intel Science Talent Search
• 25: Ballast-free Ships
• 25: Engineering Education Online Seminars
• 24: Science Serving Society - Speech Austalian Minister for Innovation
• 23: 6 Inch Bat Plane
• 22: Students Create “Disappearing” Nail Polish
• 22: Scientific American Frontiers Webcasts
• 21: Giant Star Fish and More in Antarctica
• 21: Google Summer of Code Projects
• 20: Radiation Tolerant Bacteria
• 20: $10 Million X Prize for 100 MPG Car
• 20: NASA You Have a Problem
• 19: Explaining the Missing Antimatter
• 19: Baby Sand Dollars Clone Themselves When They Sense Danger
• 18: Photos by Fritz the Cat
• 18: Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace
• 17: Drug Price Crisis
• 17: NCAA Basketball Challenge 2008
• 16: Contractor Warned NYC About Crane
• 16: Bird Brain Language Research
• 15: Grade School Engineering
• 15: Peru Meteorite Provides Puzzles
• 15: HMMI Nurtures Nation’s Best Early Career Scientists
• 14: Antarctica’s Unique Meteorites
• 14: Technology and Fun in the Classroom
• 13: Secret Life of Microbes
• 13: Grand Flood
• 13: #1 Engineering Blog
• 12: Dolphin Rescues Beached Whales
• 12: Dino-Era Feathers Found Encased in Amber
• 11: Easy File Sync Over the Internet
• 11: Google Tech Webcasts #4
• 11: Home Repairs
• 10: Deep-Sea Denizen Inspires New Polymers
• 10: Seeking Solar Supremacy
• 10: Dr. Tara Smith
• 09: Photos: Rocky Gap State Park, Maryland
• 09: Scientists and Engineers in Congress
• 08: Visitors to the Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog
• 08: Google Summer of Code 2008
• 08: Laws of Physics May Need a Revision
• 07: Programmers
• 07: Vaccine For Strep Infections
• 07: Honda Engineering
• 06: Antarctic Fish “Hibernate” in Winter
• 06: 2008 Draper Prize for Engineering
• 05: Phun Physics
• 04: Flint and Steel: What Causes the Sparks?
• 04: BlimpBot Foiled by Air Conditioning
• 03: Better Higher Education Will Change Lives
• 03: Programmers at Work
• 02: Exercise to Reduce Fatigue
• 02: Clouds Alive With Bacteria
• 02: Pynchonverse Science
• 01: Placebo Effect

February 2008  
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 29: Home Engineering: Physical Gmail Notifier
• 29: Entrepreneurial and Innovative Engineers
• 29: Scientists Reconsider Autism
• 28: Robin Williams Saves the Day
• 28: Global Wind Power Installed Capacity
• 28: Collegiate Inventors Competition
• 27: NSF CAREER Award Winners
• 27: Ancient Sea Monster
• 27: At the Heart of All Matter
• 26: Education is Opportunity
• 26: Funding Medical Research
• 25: Your Inner Fish
• 25: YouTube Access Denied
• 25: Bacteria Can Transfer Genes to Other Bacteria
• 24: Car Powered Using Compressed Air
• 24: Virus Engineered To Kill Deadly Brain Tumors
• 24: Offering Residency to Foreign Engineers and Scientists
• 24: Scientists Search for Clues To Bee Mystery
• 23: Bats Are Dying in North-East USA
• 23: Electron Filmed for the First Time
• 23: Thailand’s Contribution to the ISEF
• 22: Cats Prevent Heart Attacks
• 22: Google Lunar X Prize - First 10 Teams
• 21: Leafhopper Feeding a Gecko
• 21: High School Students in USA, China and India
• 20: The Economic Consequences of Investing in Science Education
• 20: Leaping Tigress
• 20: The Risks of Scanning
• 19: Some Bacteria Might Fight Cancer
• 19: Grand Challenges for Engineering
• 19: One Reason Bacteria Gain Tolerance So Quickly
• 18: Science Explains: Flame Color
• 18: Really Old Coral - Over 2,000 Years Old
• 18: Parasitic Worms Reduce Hay Fever Symptoms
• 17: Superconducting Surprise
• 17: Dead Zones in the Ocean
• 16: Polar Bears and Huskies
• 16: Engineering Education at Smith College
• 16: One Step Closer to Holographic TV
• 15: China’s Technology Savvy Leadership
• 14: The Man Who Unboiled an Egg
• 14: As I was Saying… More Dinosaur Discoveries
• 13: Harvard Liberal Arts Faculty Votes to Make Their Research Open Source
• 13: Non-Vaccination Risks
• 13: Bollworm Evolves Resistance to Genetically Engineered Cotton
• 13: Clean Clothes Without Soap
• 12: Giant Duck-Billed Dinosaur Discovered in Mexico
• 12: Electrical Brain Stimulation Boosts Memory
• 12: Darwin Day
• 11: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
• 11: The Science of Kissing
• 11: Scientists on Changing Their Minds
• 10: Water Pump Merry-go-Round
• 10: Million-Degree Plasma May Flow throughout the Galaxy
• 09: National Science Board Report on Improving Engineering Education
• 09: Biofuels use Could Worsen Global Warming
• 08: NSF Awards $50 Million for Collaborative Plant Biology Project
• 08: Surprising New Diabetes Data
• 07: Cancer Killing Ideas From Honeybees
• 07: A New Epoch - Anthropocene
• 07: BBC In Our Time Science Podcast Archive
• 06: Nature Recreation Declining
• 05: Energy-Efficient Microchip
• 05: The World’s Hottest Chili
• 04: Water: Supercool and Strange
• 04: The Decoy Effect
• 03: Internet Undersea Cables
• 03: Treated Mosquito Nets Prevent Malaria
• 02: Genetic Research Suggests Cats ‘Domesticated Themselves’
• 02: Rainforests
• 01: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• 01: Great Self Portrait

January 2008  
Detailed Monthly Archive

• 31: Jumping Savannah Cat
• 30: Common Ancestor 6-10,000 Years Ago For All Blue-eyed People
• 30: Boiling Water And Plastic Spikes Bisphenol A Levels
• 30: Swimmers’ Sunscreen Killing Off Coral
• 29: Fight to curtail antibiotics in animal feed
• 28: Geothermal Power in Alaska
• 28: Weird Creatures
• 27: From Ghost Writing to Ghost Management in Medical Journals
• 27: Robot Finds Lost Shoppers and Provides Directions
• 27: Thinking Slime Moulds
• 26: IT Employment Hits New High Again
• 26: Synthesizing a Genome from Scratch
• 26: Elbaite with Albite
• 25: Science and Engineering Instructional Webcasts
• 24: Fancy Camera Flash Trigger
• 24: SelFISHing
• 23: Plants, Unikonts, Excavates and SARs
• 23: New Questions on Treating Cholesterol
• 22: Invest in Science for a Strong Economy
• 22: Country H-index Rank for Science Publications
• 21: Who Killed the Software Engineer?
• 21: Bacteria Race Ahead of Drugs
• 21: Sails for Modern Cargo Ships
• 20: Bicycle Engineering Blog
• 20: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Snow
• 20: Robot Nurse
• 19: Google India Women in Engineering Award 2008
• 18: Palm Tree Flowers After 100 Years and Self-destructs
• 18: Chess Match of the 20th Century
• 17: Parasite Rex
• 17: In Tunguska, Siberia 99 Years Ago
• 16: Statistics for Experimenters Review
• 16: Norman Borlaug and Wheat Stem Rust
• 14: Crystal Growth - Manganese Oxides
• 14: The Role of Science in Economy
• 14: Discussing Medical Study Results
• 13: Science Webcasts
• 13: Young IT Workers Demands
• 12: The Science of Happiness
• 12: The Loop Stitch
• 12: Robots 2007
• 11: Understanding the Evolution of Human Beings by Country
• 10: Biggest Black Hole’s Mass = 18 Billion Suns
• 10: Rubick’s Cube Solving Lego Mindstorms Robot
• 09: Computer Science PhD Overview
• 09: EduBloggers F-meme
• 09: Kids in the Lab: Getting High-Schoolers Hooked on Science
• 09: Super Soaker Inventor Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half
• 08: Really Widescreen Monitor (2880×900)
• 08: Preparing Computer Science Students for Jobs
• 07: UbuntuScience
• 07: 50 Species of Diatoms
• 07: $500,000 for Innovation in Engineering Education
• 06: 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids do
• 06: Science and Engineering Education Collaboration in Virginia
• 06: Mapping Where Brains Store Similar Information
• 05: Lemon Tree in Japan Bears Eleven Kinds of Fruit!
• 05: Evolution is Fundamental to Science
• 04: Robot Fly
• 03: Geothite
• 02: DNA Seen Through the Eyes of a Coder
• 02: Problems with Scientific Research Funding
• 01: Young Geneticists Making a Difference
• 01: Cu2C03(OH)2