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1. [News] Can robots make ethical decisions?

   By freeztar, September 19, 2009
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   • September 20, 2009

2. UfO reports from China!

   By Moontanman, September 14, 2009
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   • September 19, 2009

3. [News] Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars

   By Moontanman, September 16, 2009
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   • September 18, 2009

4. [News] New Air Force Magnetron May Help Defeat Enemy Electronics

   By Moontanman, September 18, 2009
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   • September 18, 2009

5. [News] Sustainable Fertilizer: Urine And Wood Ash Produce Large Harvest

   By Moontanman, September 18, 2009
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   • September 18, 2009

6. [News] Early Life On Earth: Could Salt Crusts Be Key Ingredient In Cooking Up Prebiotic Mole

   By Moontanman, September 18, 2009
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   • September 18, 2009

7. [News] Tiny Tyrannosaur: T. Rex Body Plan Debuted In Raptorex, But 100th The Size

   By Moontanman, September 18, 2009
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   • September 18, 2009

8. [News] Chemobrain: The Flip Side Of Surviving Cancer

   By Moontanman, September 18, 2009
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   • September 18, 2009

9. Capturing tomorrow's satellite data with today's instruments

   By C1ay, September 18, 2009
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   • September 18, 2009

10. Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass

    By C1ay, September 17, 2009
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    • lemit
    • September 18, 2009

11. [News] First Solid Evidence For A Rocky Exoplanet: Mass And Density Of Smallest Exoplanet Fi

    By Moontanman, September 17, 2009
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    • September 17, 2009

12. [News] Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals

    By Moontanman, September 16, 2009
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    • September 16, 2009

13. Open-source camera could revolutionize digital photography

    By C1ay, September 15, 2009
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    • Michaelangelica
    • September 16, 2009

14. Extremophile Yields a Key Cog in Life’s Protein Factory

    By C1ay, September 16, 2009
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    • September 16, 2009

15. [News] New class of UAVs look more like UFOs

    By Moontanman, September 15, 2009
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    • sanctus
    • September 15, 2009

16. [News] Ketamine Reduces Suicidality In Depressed Patients, Study Suggests

    By Moontanman, September 14, 2009
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    • September 14, 2009

17. [News] Hedonism As The Explanation Of Value

    By Moontanman, September 14, 2009
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    • September 14, 2009

18. [News] Cigarettes, Not Swedish Snuff Linked To Increased Risk Of MS, Study Finds

    By Moontanman, September 14, 2009
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    • September 14, 2009

19. [News] Global Warming Causes Outbreak Of Rare Algae Associated With Corals, Study Finds

    By Moontanman, September 14, 2009
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    • September 14, 2009

20. [News] A skull that rewrites the history of man

    By Moontanman, September 14, 2009
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    • September 14, 2009

21. Cassini Finds Recent and Unusual Geology on Enceladus

    By Tormod, July 26, 2005
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    • quasarwolf
    • September 13, 2009

22. [News] Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swed

    By Moontanman, September 13, 2009
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    • September 13, 2009

23. [News] Ancient Oceans Offer New Insight Into Origins Of Animal Life

    By Moontanman, September 11, 2009
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    • Moontanman
    • September 13, 2009

24. [News] Where's the Super Food?

    By Moontanman, September 11, 2009
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    • maikeru
    • September 13, 2009

25. Spectacular First Images from the Rejuvenated Hubble

    By C1ay, September 10, 2009
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    • DougF
    • September 12, 2009