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September 30
- Tsunami Warning System Didn't Help Samoans
- Big Quakes Weaken Faults on Other Side of Earth
- Two Deadly Quakes: Is Earth Unusually Active?
- Clock Turned Back on Aging Muscles, Researchers Claim
- Spiritual Women Have More Sex
September 29
- Study Questions Whether Women Are More Selective at Dating
- Earthquakes and Tsunamis: How They Work
- Pollution Travels the Globe, Study Confirms
- Major South Pacific Quake Spawns Tsunami
- Warning: Homegrown Tobacco Still Deadly
- Mighty T. rex Killed by Lowly Parasite, Study Suggests
- High Heels Lead to Foot Pain
- Parents Lie to Children Surprisingly Often
September 28
- Electric Fish Equipped With 'Dimmer' Switch
- The Best Approach for Avoiding Zombies
- Secret to Champagne Flavor is Right Under Your Nose
- Evidence for Stone Age Multitasking
- Hyenas Surprisingly Good at Cooperative Tasks
- 850 Mostly Blind, Pale Creatures Discovered Underground
September 27
- Dead Salmon 'Responds' to Pictures of People
September 26
- Flowers Help Pollinators Get a Grip
September 25
- The Challenge of Making Real 'Surrogate' Skin
- Crowd Control: How the 'Sonic Cannon' Works
- High School Student Develops Chemical-Detecting Robot
- Scientists See Numbers Inside People's Heads
September 24
- Children Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs
- Exhausted? How to Get Your Willpower Back
- The Truth About Lying
- Brain Learns to Detect Danger as a Baby Learns to Crawl
- Smart Phone Knows Where You Are Even Indoors
- Why People Hoard Stuff
- Plumbing of a Supervolcano Revealed
September 23
- What Seniors Need to Know about the Flu
- Evolution Can't Go Backward
- Engineering Better Disease Detectors, Energy Storage
- Powerful Ideas: River Turbines Could Electrify New York City
- People in Vegetative State Can Learn
- Full Moon Does Not Affect Surgery Outcomes
September 22
- The Science (and Art) of Depression Medication
- Texas Educators: Neil Armstrong Not a Scientist
- Why It's So Hard to Make Nuclear Weapons
- What is a 100-Year Storm?
- Why Healthcare Will Always Cost a Fortune
- Why Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe
September 21
- Why Autumn Begins Tuesday
- Robot Hops to Military Duty
- Cammy: A New Canadian Lake Monster?
- Why Odd Egg-Laying Mammals Still Exist
- New Worm Species Discovered on Dead Whales
- Have We Become a Nation of Narcissists?
- Sinking River Deltas Threaten Millions
- Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
- Even Ancient Trilobites Were Social
- When You Could Fling a Frisbee from Canada to Zimbabwe
September 18
- Scientists Move Cells with Joystick
- Effort to Shush Loud TV Commercials
- Sea Stars Grow Faster as Water Warms
September 17
- Arctic Ice at 3rd Lowest in Recent Decades
- For Wings, Nature Loves a Twist
- Man-Sized Dinosaur Was a Tiny T. Rex
- Why Flamingos Stand on One Leg
- Reminder: Dan Brown's 'Lost Symbol' Is Fiction
- What Are the Signs of Diabetes?
September 16
- Can Robots Make Ethical Decisions?
- Teen Birth Rates Higher in Highly Religious States
- Medical Imaging Skills Harnessed to Understand the Sun
- The Science of Hunger: What 1 Billion People Feel
- Bite Mark CSI Found Faulty
- Therapy Fixes Color Blindness in Monkeys
- BYU Written with DNA
- Chronic Pain Makes 50-year-olds Feel 80
- Hurricanes Spawning More U.S. Tornadoes
September 15
- Chimps Catch Yawns from Cartoon
- Validity of 'Repressed Memories' Challenged in Court
- Fake Videos Alter Perception of Reality
- Rome Can Be Built in a Day
- British Skeleton Suggests Ancient Murder Mystery
- Animals Think About Thinking, Research Suggests
- Why Some People Can't Keep Weight Off
- Electricity Harvested From Trees
- Do Brains Shrink As We Age?
September 14
- The Science in ‘Fringe’ 2nd Season
- Study: Showerheads Loaded With Bacteria
- Ancient Aphrodite Figures Hint at Pagan Resistance
- Survey: Media Accuracy at New Low
- It's Raining Less Than Scientists Thought
- Key Found to Muscle Loss After Age 65
- Velociraptor Claws Made for Climbing
September 11
- Predicting Extraterrestrial Weather
- Smell of Death Is Ancient
- New Glass Resists Small Explosions
September 10
- Ancient Chinese Remedy May Work for Flu
- Powerful Ideas: Reducing China's Carbon Emissions a Breeze
- Arctic May Be Changed Forever, Study Finds
- Movie 'Whiteout' Gets Antarctic Science Right
- Top Tennis Players Simply See Better
- Sunken WWII Navy Patrol Boat Found
- Chimps Pack Specialized Tool Kits
September 9
- Do Scientists and Journalists Get Along?
- Does Aging Cause Loss of Taste?
- Mice Levitated in Lab
- Infection Could Hasten Alzheimer's Memory Loss
- New 'Smart Choices' Food Labels Are Deceptive
- Severed Lizard Tail Has a Mind of Its Own
September 8
- Powerful Ideas: To Hot Rocks in Earth, Just Add Water
- Milestone: 50 Percent of Fish Are Now Farmed
- Houseplants Make Air Healthier
- New Flexible Building Survives Powerful Test Earthquake
- Why 09/09/09 Is So Special
September 7
- Powerful Ideas: Cars Could Run on Watermelons
September 4
- Scientists See Rare Turtle for First Time in the Wild
- Lasers Turn Light Into Sound
- Brain Scans Often Unnecessary
- Engineering Students Build Underwater 'Bot
- Teachers More Religious Than Other College Grads
September 3
- Your Brain Is Organized Like a City
- Wolves Beat Dogs on Logic Test
- Arctic Temperatures Are Warmest in 2,000 Years
- POLL: Are Humans Causing Global Warming?
- What's Wrong with Miyuki Hatoyama's Alien Abduction Story
- Amber Alerts Undermined by False Alarms
- Some Mice Pig Out But Don't Get Fat
- Eating at Night May Put on Pounds
- Seizure Makes Woman Mistake Herself For a Man
September 2
- New Understanding of the Heart's Evolution
- Tipping Points: What Wall Street and Nature Have in Common
- Studying the Sex Secrets of a Snail Parasite
- FAQ: The Science and History of Wildfires
- Accidental Poisoning Deaths Spike Upward
- Farming Causes as Much Erosion as Rivers and Glaciers
- Nostrils Take Turns Smelling
- What Really Happens When Your Blood Boils?
- Hide-'n-Seek Reveals Tricks Video Game Makers Might Use
September 1
- Venomous Fish
- Why Pacific Hurricanes Hit the Americas So Rarely
- Tightwads and Spendthrifts Attract, Marry, Fight
- Marriage Works: An Exaggerated Message
- Why Did People Become White?