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1. Caltech, UC Berkeley to Investigate How Brain Activity Controls Complex Behavior

   By InfiniteNow, October 9, 2006
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2. Strange Moonlight

   By C1ay, October 4, 2006
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   • Southtown
   • October 9, 2006

3. Chandra Reviews Black Hole Musical: Epic But Off-Key

   By C1ay, October 6, 2006
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   • ronthepon
   • October 8, 2006

4. Astronomers get first look inside quasars

   By Tormod, October 6, 2006
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   • infamous
   • October 7, 2006

5. Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy

   By Jay-qu, October 4, 2006
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   • October 4, 2006

6. Astronomers Gain Important Insight on How Massive Stars Form

   By C1ay, October 3, 2006
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   • October 3, 2006

7. A plan for reintroducing megafauna to North America

   By Mercedes Benzene, October 2, 2006
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   • October 2, 2006

8. Stellar birth control in the early universe

   By Tormod, October 2, 2006
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   • October 2, 2006

9. Improbable "Buckyegg" Hatched

   By C1ay, September 29, 2006
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   • hallenrm
   • October 1, 2006

10. NASA's New Mars Camera Gives Dramatic View of Planet

    By C1ay, September 30, 2006
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    • September 30, 2006

11. Solar flares cause GPS failures

    By C1ay, September 27, 2006
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    • JimmieKeyes
    • September 30, 2006

12. Hubble Discovers Dark Cloud in the Atmosphere of Uranus

    By Jay-qu, September 28, 2006
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    • September 28, 2006

13. Tarantulas produce silk from their feet

    By C1ay, September 28, 2006
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    • Racoon
    • September 28, 2006

14. Einstein at least 99.95 percent right

    By Tormod, September 14, 2006
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    • Mohit Pandey
    • September 28, 2006

15. Synthetic DNA

    By C1ay, September 26, 2006
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    • hallenrm
    • September 27, 2006

16. Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System

    By C1ay, September 22, 2006
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    • arkain101
    • September 25, 2006

17. NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe

    By Jay-qu, September 21, 2006
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    • Zythryn
    • September 24, 2006

18. Ocean Cooling Suggests Global Warming 'Speed Bump'

    By Turtle, September 24, 2006
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    • September 24, 2006

19. Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists 1 2

    By Tormod, September 20, 2006
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    • September 23, 2006

20. Paramecia Adapt Their Swimming to Changing Gravitational Force

    By C1ay, September 20, 2006
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    • ronthepon
    • September 20, 2006

21. Deep-sea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines

    By Mercedes Benzene, September 18, 2006
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    • Turtle
    • September 18, 2006

22. IAU names dwarf planet Eris

    By Tormod, September 15, 2006
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    • Southtown
    • September 18, 2006

23. An artificial cornea is in sight

    By C1ay, September 18, 2006
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    • September 18, 2006

24. Electric Ice

    By C1ay, September 14, 2006
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    • HydrogenBond
    • September 16, 2006

25. Building a Brain Virus

    By Tormod, September 13, 2006
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    • ronthepon
    • September 14, 2006