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chimpanzees
Technology

Chimps are Unnecessary for Most Research and Should Be Used Sparingly, Report Says

By Rebecca Boyle

Wound-Treating Jelly Regenerates Fresh, Scar-Free Skin
Engineering

Wound-Treating Jelly Regenerates Fresh, Scar-Free Skin

By Rebecca Boyle

Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
Ocean

Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean

By Rebecca Boyle

Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle
Private Space Flight

Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle

By Rebecca Boyle

A Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson — But Wait For 2012
Science

A Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson — But Wait For 2012

By Rebecca Boyle

Download Knowledge Directly to Your Brain, Matrix-Style
Technology

Download Knowledge Directly to Your Brain, Matrix-Style

By Rebecca Boyle

Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015
Environment

Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals
Animals

Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals

By Rebecca Boyle

A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes
Space

A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It Unfolds, in Real Time
Diabetes

Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It Unfolds, in Real Time

By Rebecca Boyle

Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns
Black Holes

Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns

By Rebecca Boyle

Kepler Team Confirms First Earth-like Planet in a Habitable Zone, And Finds 1,094 More Worlds
Science

Kepler Team Confirms First Earth-like Planet in a Habitable Zone, And Finds 1,094 More Worlds

By Rebecca Boyle

Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diamonds, A Huge Leap in the Scale of Quantum Entanglement
Physics

Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diamonds, A Huge Leap in the Scale of Quantum Entanglement

By Rebecca Boyle

Clear of Solar Pollution, Voyager Glimpses Star Formation in the Milky Way For the First Time
Space

Clear of Solar Pollution, Voyager Glimpses Star Formation in the Milky Way For the First Time

By Rebecca Boyle

Bacterial Lamp Can Eat Your Sewage and Light Up Your House
Energy

Bacterial Lamp Can Eat Your Sewage and Light Up Your House

By Rebecca Boyle

Should a New Recipe for Engineered Bird Flu, Potent Enough to Kill Millions, Be Published?
Environment

Should a New Recipe for Engineered Bird Flu, Potent Enough to Kill Millions, Be Published?

By Rebecca Boyle

Q&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets
Exoplanets

Q&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets

By Rebecca Boyle

Nation’s Densest Network of License Plate Data-Trackers Raises Privacy Concerns
Technology

Nation’s Densest Network of License Plate Data-Trackers Raises Privacy Concerns

By Rebecca Boyle

Remotely Operated Via Kinect, Handy Robot Cleans Your House
Technology

Remotely Operated Via Kinect, Handy Robot Cleans Your House

By Rebecca Boyle

New Glow-in-the-Dark Material Charges In One Minute, Glows Infrared for Two Weeks
Science

New Glow-in-the-Dark Material Charges In One Minute, Glows Infrared for Two Weeks

By Rebecca Boyle

The Most Capable Robot Geologist Ever Built Now Heads to Mars to Find Life
Mars

The Most Capable Robot Geologist Ever Built Now Heads to Mars to Find Life

By Rebecca Boyle

Image Recognition Software Can Help Cops ID Gang Graffiti Automatically
Technology

Image Recognition Software Can Help Cops ID Gang Graffiti Automatically

By Rebecca Boyle

Honduran Teen Invents Cheap, Simple Eye-Tracking Device For Disabled
Projects

Honduran Teen Invents Cheap, Simple Eye-Tracking Device For Disabled

By Rebecca Boyle

First Government-Approved Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Stopped in Its Tracks By Economy
Health

First Government-Approved Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Stopped in Its Tracks By Economy

By Rebecca Boyle

Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human Doctor Can
Cancer

Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human Doctor Can

By Rebecca Boyle

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Could Go Drill For Ice on Mars
Science

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Could Go Drill For Ice on Mars

By Rebecca Boyle

Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time
Science

Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time

By Rebecca Boyle

Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly
Space

Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly

By Rebecca Boyle

Rice Is Genetically Modified to Produce Human Blood Protein
Science

Rice Is Genetically Modified to Produce Human Blood Protein

By Rebecca Boyle

Chinese Officials Deny Hacking U.S. Environment-Monitoring Satellites
Technology

Chinese Officials Deny Hacking U.S. Environment-Monitoring Satellites

By Rebecca Boyle

PopSci Q&A: How Digging Through Discarded Data Uncovered A Real Tattooine
Science

PopSci Q&A: How Digging Through Discarded Data Uncovered A Real Tattooine

By Rebecca Boyle

New X Prize Is a Race To Sequence the Genomes of One Hundred One-Hundred-Year-Olds
Science

New X Prize Is a Race To Sequence the Genomes of One Hundred One-Hundred-Year-Olds

By Rebecca Boyle

iPod Creator Introduces Cute Home Thermostat That Learns Your Habits
Technology

iPod Creator Introduces Cute Home Thermostat That Learns Your Habits

By Rebecca Boyle

To Save Fuel, Cars Will Drop Off Drivers, Then Search For Parking Spaces on Their Own
Technology

To Save Fuel, Cars Will Drop Off Drivers, Then Search For Parking Spaces on Their Own

By Rebecca Boyle

How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets
Exoplanets

How Comets In Distant Solar Systems Could Deliver Oceans to Exoplanets

By Rebecca Boyle

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity
Particle Physics

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity

By Rebecca Boyle

Blackberry Service Finally Restored on All Planets
Phones

Blackberry Service Finally Restored on All Planets

By Rebecca Boyle

Did an Ancient Kraken Create Its Own Friends? What About a Modern Jellyfish?
Fish

Did an Ancient Kraken Create Its Own Friends? What About a Modern Jellyfish?

By Rebecca Boyle

Optimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans
Science

Optimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans

By Rebecca Boyle

How a Team of Enthusiasts Are Mapping Dark Matter
Science

How a Team of Enthusiasts Are Mapping Dark Matter

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: With Semantic Search, PR2 Robot Can Plan Its Own Sandwich-Hunting Mission
Technology

Video: With Semantic Search, PR2 Robot Can Plan Its Own Sandwich-Hunting Mission

By Rebecca Boyle

Smart Child Porn Detection Algorithm Will Help Cops Sift Through Illicit Imagery
Technology

Smart Child Porn Detection Algorithm Will Help Cops Sift Through Illicit Imagery

By Rebecca Boyle

Five Reasons You Should Care About the New Ozone Hole Over the Arctic
Environment

Five Reasons You Should Care About the New Ozone Hole Over the Arctic

By Rebecca Boyle

Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Scientist Who Prolonged His Own Life With His Research
Health

Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Scientist Who Prolonged His Own Life With His Research

By Rebecca Boyle

Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls
Bats

Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls

By Rebecca Boyle

Nissan Developing Mind-Reading Cars That Anticipate Drivers’ Next Moves and Act Accordingly
AI

Nissan Developing Mind-Reading Cars That Anticipate Drivers’ Next Moves and Act Accordingly

By Rebecca Boyle

Disarming HIV Could Protect the Immune System and Potentially Lead to a Vaccine, New Study Shows
Vaccines

Disarming HIV Could Protect the Immune System and Potentially Lead to a Vaccine, New Study Shows

By Rebecca Boyle

IBM Patents a Mapping Algorithm To Re-Route Drivers Along Retail-Heavy Roads
Technology

IBM Patents a Mapping Algorithm To Re-Route Drivers Along Retail-Heavy Roads

By Rebecca Boyle

Space Weather Is Worsening; Could Mean Risk for Astronauts and Delay Manned Mars Missions
Science

Space Weather Is Worsening; Could Mean Risk for Astronauts and Delay Manned Mars Missions

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Hydraulic Beverage-Making Typewriter Turns Words Into Mixology
DIY

Video: Hydraulic Beverage-Making Typewriter Turns Words Into Mixology

By Rebecca Boyle

Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cells Could Serve Up Unlimited Hydrogen Supply
Technology

Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cells Could Serve Up Unlimited Hydrogen Supply

By Rebecca Boyle

Gamers Solve AIDS-Related Enzyme Puzzle, Helping Scientists Search for Novel Drugs
Diseases

Gamers Solve AIDS-Related Enzyme Puzzle, Helping Scientists Search for Novel Drugs

By Rebecca Boyle

Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe
Stem Cells

Seeking Advanced Stem Cell Treatment, Peyton Manning Flies to Europe

By Rebecca Boyle

All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says
Space

All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA Heads Back to the Moon, to Uncover Its Origins and to Inspire A New Generation
Technology

NASA Heads Back to the Moon, to Uncover Its Origins and to Inspire A New Generation

By Rebecca Boyle

Researchers Use Brain Scans to Translate Thoughts Into Words
Technology

Researchers Use Brain Scans to Translate Thoughts Into Words

By Rebecca Boyle

New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed Blood Vessels Better than Stitches
Medicine

New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed Blood Vessels Better than Stitches

By Rebecca Boyle

Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything
Particle Physics

Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything

By Rebecca Boyle

Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials
Evolution

Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials

By Rebecca Boyle

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation
Evolution

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation

By Rebecca Boyle

Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever
Space Telescope

Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever

By Rebecca Boyle

Crop Circles
Agriculture

Creating Crop Circles With Lasers and Microwaves

By Rebecca Boyle

Controversy Should Not Stop Us From Developing Memory-Erasing Drugs, Neuroethicist Argues
Health

Controversy Should Not Stop Us From Developing Memory-Erasing Drugs, Neuroethicist Argues

By Rebecca Boyle

Earth-Generated Panspermia: Scientists Describe How Earth Rocks Could Have Seeded the Rest of the Solar System With Life
Solar System

Earth-Generated Panspermia: Scientists Describe How Earth Rocks Could Have Seeded the Rest of the Solar System With Life

By Rebecca Boyle