All content archive
August 2010
Filter
401 articles
- August 31
-
- Trekking the Coastal Mountains of Colombia
- Slabs of North American Continent Are Layered Like Cake
- Why Do Hurricanes Curve Out to Sea?
- How Are Memories Stored in the Brain?
- For Bonobo Males, Mom Is the Best Wingman
- Lou Gehrig Might Not Have Died From Lou Gehrig's Disease
- The Newfound Fatigue Fighter: Hunger
- Images: Journey to Kamchatka's Volcanoes
- Why Do Hurricanes Often Curve Out to Sea?
- Why Antarctic Fish Don't Freeze
- Clues to Obama's Muslim Problem
- Dead Spacecraft on Mars Lives on in New Study
- The End of Cell Phone Chargers Is Near
- Why Don't Antarctic Fish Freeze?
- Tiny Creatures Crossed Antarctica on Ancient Seaway
- Taking An In-Depth Look at 3-D Glasses
- Expedition Explores Violent Russian Volcanoes
- Classic NASA Photos Rocket onto Flickr
- Why Older People Repeat Stories
- High-Tech Effort Underway to Protect Magna Carta
- Mercury Keeps Invasive Pythons Off the Menu
- August 30
-
- What's Sea Ice?
- Hurricane Earl Climbs to Category 4 Storm
- Rare Siberian Tigers to Get Haven on Chinese-Russian Border
- Photos Show Strange Elongated Martian Crater
- Report: U.S. Institutions Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
- How to Avoid Being Attacked By a Dog
- Most Fragile Eggs Belonged to Huge Flightless Birds
- Can More Sleep Make Athletes Better?
- Remains of Ancient Feast to Honor Dead Shaman Discovered
- Velociraptor Had a Kickboxing Cousin
- New Type of El Niño Emerges as Climate Changes
- Hurricane Hunters Fly into Earl
- Dolphin Snot Offers Less Painful Source of DNA
- Smoking Rates Linked to Education and Cigarette Taxes
- Belief in Witchcraft Widespread in Africa
- August 29
- August 28
- August 27
-
- What's Black Lung?
- 5 Years After Katrina, Gulf Ecosystems On the Ropes
- The Technologies That Will Save the Trapped Chilean Miners
- Future Mining Safety Tech Saves Lives with Advanced Sensors
- Hurricane-Hunting Tech: A Brief History
- Mars As Big as Full Moon Tonight? All a Hoax
- Isotope Shortage Makes Vital Medical Scans Costlier, Riskier
- New Cosmic Photo Reveals Eye-Catching Rosette Nebula
- Astonishing Octopus Is Master of Disguise
- Another Ice Island Breaks Off Arctic Glacier
- Are Organic Eggs Safer?
- Cavemen Accused of Wiping Out Cave Bears
- What If Hurricane Katrina Hit New Orleans Today?
- Stressed Out: Teens and Adults Respond Differently
- August 26
-
- Relics from Tragic Race to South Pole Up for Sale
- Hurricane Season Steps Up With Danielle and Earl
- What Exactly Do They Do During an Autopsy?
- Sun's Fluctuations Caused Partial Collapse of Earth's Atmosphere
- Newfound Alien Planets May Include Smallest One Yet
- Trapped Miners: Advice from Psychologists and Astronauts
- Miners Face Health Risks, Even on Good Days
- Are Tattoos Risky?
- Ancient Mayan Reservoirs Discovered in City Ruins
- Chile Mine Collapse: Facts About the Amazing Survival Story
- 'Love Hormone' Increases Trust, But Not Foolishness
- Astronauts and the Elderly Share Balance Issues
- Opposites Don't Attract: People Choose Partners Like Them
- Aquanauts Living on Ocean Floor Prepare to Surface
- Female Whale Sharks Are Sperm Banks, Study Suggests
- Bullies on Bullying: Why We Do It
- August 25
-
- Rare Fire Tornado Seen in Brazil
- MIT to Debut Oil-Slick Absorbing Robot
- Man vs. Nature: Why Floods Still Win
- Super Black Holes Traced to Collisions of Earliest Galaxies
- What Happens Inside a Landfill?
- Which US Cities Are Most Vulnerable to Hurricanes?
- Lab-grown Corneas Restore Sight in Some Patients
- Whooping Cough Makes Whopping Comeback
- Yoga Shows Potential to Ward Off Certain Diseases
- Mini Frog, Among Smallest in the World, Discovered
- Fossilized Creek Beds Offer Up Ancient Climate Change Clues
- Bigger Rodents Escape the Mainland to Island Getaways
- August 24
-
- Mice Learn to Sniff Out Bird Flu
- Sloth and Gluttony Hard to Shake Even For the Healthy
- How Loud Can You Play Music Without Damaging Your Hearing?
- Hurricane Katrina History and Numbers (Infographic)
- Fly-Overs Measure Thickness of Melting Arctic Ice
- What Do the Empire State Building's Lights Mean?
- Energy Use Dips Due to Recession and Tech Advances
- Alien Solar System Looks Strikingly Like Ours
- What's Inside a Mosque?
- Private Browsing Mode Not Really That Private
- Bugs Benefit From Bifocal Eyes
- Low Fly-Overs Measure Thickness of Melting Arctic Ice
- Moochers and Do-Gooders Both Shunned, Study Finds
- Eggshells Look More Colorful Through the Eyes of Birds
- Gene for Fatal Brain Disorder Discovered in Dogs
- Danielle Becomes Second Hurricane of Atlantic Season
- August 23
-
- Can the Growing Obesity Problem Be Curbed?
- Hand Sanitizer at Work May Lower the Number of Sick Days
- Death Valley Mystery: What Makes Rocks Wander
- Phht! Helium Prices Will Balloon As World Runs Out
- New Fireball on Jupiter Spotted By Skywatchers
- Natural Disasters: Top 10 U.S. Threats
- My Grand Gene Scheme: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
- What's the Biggest Animal in the World?
- Sneaky New Virus Removes Your Antivirus Protection
- Bursting Bubbles Could Inject Drugs Right into Cells
- Frog Egg Cells Key Ingredient in Robotic Nose
- Sleep Secrets Revealed in Human Hair
- Mental Health Problems Rampant In Kids Displaced by Katrina
- Enlighten '10 Goes Deep Under the Ocean
- Deep Ocean Research Just a Click Away
- Genes May Overpower Diet in Battle of the Bulge
- Why It's OK for Birds to Be Gay
- August 22
- August 20
-
- Deep Ocean Diving Just a Click Away
- How Are Earthquakes Measured?
- Mysterious 'Bearded' Antelope Photographed in Kenya
- Asteroid Threat Early Warning System Proposed
- Fruit Flies Use Edges to Set Cruise Altitude
- Mysterious 'Bearded' Antelope Photographed
- Malware Implicated in Fatal Spanair Plane Crash
- Hidden Properties of Crystals Uncovered
- Big San Andreas Quakes More Frequent than Thought
- Teachers Asked to 'Unfriend' Students on Facebook
- People in 'Active Cities' Are Slimmer
- A Dozen Extraordinary Egg Facts
- 7 of the Greatest Scams Ever
- Size of Ash from Icelandic Volcano Stuns Scientists
- Colliding Particles Shed Light on Antimatter Mystery
- Math Equations Reveal How Fat Cells Are Born
- Kids with 'Wandering Eye' Shunned by Peers
- August 19
-
- 'Ribbit Radio' Helping to Root Out Frog-census Errors
- Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?
- Why Do Roosters Have Wattles?
- Fidel Castro's Conspiracy Theories: Worth Considering?
- World's Plants Growing Less Thanks to Warming, Drought
- Gulf Plume Resists Oil-Eating Microbes
- Mangrove Forest Inventory Shows Steep Declines
- Dark Energy Mystery Illuminated By Cosmic Lens
- Internet Connectivity Could Increase Malware Attacks
- Online Searches for Cameron Diaz Puts Your Computer at Risk
- Is It Safe to Hold in a Sneeze?
- Facebook 'Place' Feature Challenges Foursquare
- Ocean Garbage Patch Still a Mystery
- Cheating Birds Picky About Sperm, Not Sex
- Ecologist Studies Air-Polluting Kudzu Vines
- Viruses May Cause More Cancer than Previously Thought
- For the U.S. Military, Video Games Get Serious
- Shy Sloth Slow to Have Sex
- Cultured Chimps Invent and Share Back-Scratching Tool
- Rare, Endangered Toads Flown Back to Native Habitat
- August 18
-
- Women's right to vote: Which countries led and which still lag?
- What Causes Hoarding?
- What Animal Is the Fastest Swimmer?
- Fearful Snail Becomes Better Breeder
- Giant 'Terror Birds' Fought Like Muhammad Ali
- Women's suffrage anniversary: Which countries led the way?
- How Does Salmonella Get Inside Eggs?
- Age Confirmed for 'Eve,' Mother of All Humans
- First Frozen Coral Sperm and Egg Bank Created
- Massive Mega-Star Challenges Black Hole Theories
- Postnatal Depression Can Be Prevented, Study Shows
- Clearer Images of Melanoma Promised by New Method
- Creation Museum Creates Discomfort For Some Visitors
- Brains of Introverts Reveal Why They Prefer Being Alone
- Surprise 2nd Quake Discovered Behind Deadly Tsunami
- Ocean's Color Can Re-Route Hurricanes
- August 17
-
- How Do Marriages, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships Differ?
- Oh, Brother: Boys Seem to Delay Sisters' Maturation
- Mind-Controlling Parasites Date Back Millions of Years
- Head-On Crash Between Solar Wind and Earth's Magnetic Field
- Mass Coral Die-off Triggered by 93-Degree Ocean
- How Do Marriages, Unions and Domestic Partnerships Differ?
- Hearing Loss in Teens Spikes Mysteriously
- Smartphones Face Serious Cybercrime Assault
- Is It Safe to Cut Off the Mold and Eat the Rest?
- Newfound Cracks in Northwest Shake Up Quake Outlook
- Passwords Need at Least 12 Characters to Be Safe
- Fossils of Earliest Animal Life Possibly Discovered
- Mass Die-off at Coral Reef Triggered by 93-Degree Ocean
- Kids' Maturity May Play a Role in ADHD Diagnoses
- Need a Mood Lift? Grab Your Surfboard
- 'Thirdhand Smoke' Especially Harmful For Asthma Sufferers
- August 16
-
- What Are False Positives and False Negatives?
- Could Dinosaurs Swim?
- Can Chewing Gum Give You Gas?
- Proof of Aliens Could Come Within 25 Years, Scientist Says
- iPad Goes 9-to-5 as a Valuable Business Tool
- Eating Healthier Proteins May Lower Heart Disease Risk
- Beer-drinking Women May Be Courting Psoriasis
- Is Walking to School Good for Kids?
- Russia Wildfires Not Due to Climate Change, Scientists Say
- Scientists Use Math to Build Better Stents
- New Emergency Contraception Pill Approved by FDA
- World's Tallest Island Glacier Disappearing
- Laser Beams Control Beating Embryo Heart
- Financially Dependent Men More Likely to Cheat
- How to Generate Tropical Storms: Just Add Phytoplankton
- August 15
- August 14
- August 13
-
- Can You Really Laugh Until You Cry?
- New Image Reveals Massive Greenland Iceberg
- Go! Free National Park Days
- Hiking the Himalayas
- Where Are the Oldest Rocks on Earth Found?
- New Telescope Would Search Planets, Probe Dark Energy
- Medical Journal Retracts Jesus Miracle Paper
- Traffic Jams Ahead Unless More Cables Laid
- Robot to Expose Hidden Secrets of the Pyramids
- Are Cheap Green Laser Pointers Dangerous?
- Arguments Are Good for Your Health, Study Suggests
- Ancient Hawaiian Glaciers Hold Clues to Past Climate Change
- Russian Wildfires Create Towering Dirty Clouds
- For Better Bubbles, Pour Champagne at an Angle
- August 12
-
- 13 Strange Things That Happened on Friday the 13th
- Could Humans Live Without Bacteria?
- Problem Children Torment Parents Even After They Grow Up
- Should Women Calculate Their Maximum Heart Rate Differently Than Men?
- Chemical Engineer Purifies Water with Prickly Pear
- Birth Order Affects Child’s Intelligence and Personality
- New Kind of Star Explosion Discovered
- In photos: The ancient Roman baths of Bath, England
- Suicide Stereotypes Exposed as Myths
- Killer Thrills: How Safe Are Amusement Parks?
- Cosmetic Surgery Fails to Boost Body Image
- Anxious Monkeys Shed Light on Human Temperament
- Poll: Teen Girls Not Fooled by Airbrushed Fashion Photos
- Part of Stomach Removed Through Patient's Mouth
- Wanted Alive: Lost Amphibians
- Fast-Food Should Be Served with Fat-Busting Meds, Study Says
- Mental Health Problems Rising Among College Students
- Newly Identified Monkey Species Revealed in Colombian Amazon
- How Parents Can Get Infants to Sleep, Once and For All
- August 11
-
- Mug Shots: 10 Lost Amphibians
- Two Stargazing Landmarks Attain Star Status
- Which Single Piece of Currency is Worth the Most?
- Canadian Rocks Stake a Claim as Earth's Oldest
- Ancient Phoenician City 'Relocated'
- Star Birth Frenzy Revealed in New Photo
- Air Rage and the Psychology of Steven Slater’s Outburst
- Shipwreck Alley's Sunken Treasures
- New Secret to Building Muscle Revealed: Pump Less Iron
- Strange Honeycomb Cloud Patterns Explained
- Web Celeb: Jet Blue Flight Attendant Becomes ‘American Hero’
- Deepest Probe of a Magnet's Workings Could Boost Computers
- New Ovarian Cancer Test Shows Promise
- All-Nighters Just as Bad as Sleep Deprivation
- How Different Cultures View Work
- Discovery Pushes Human Tool Use Back 800,000 Years
- Negative Stereotypes Stick With You
- College Student Hacks Watch into Gesture Interface Mouse
- Mini-Microscope May Be Big in Developing World
- Metallic Glass Could Encase Future Apple Products
- Whose Ribbit Is It? Even Frog Experts Can Goof
- 5-Minute Tests Predict Suicide Risk
- August 10
-
- What's the World's Biggest Airplane?
- Ancient Supercontinent Underwent Rapid Rotation, Study Suggests
- Haiti Quake Caused by Previously Unknown Fault, New Data Show
- Kindergarten Whiz Kids Earn More as Adults
- Stay Warm! Cold Weather Linked to Increase in Heart Attacks
- Few Genetic Variations Separate Great Danes and Dachshunds
- Could Wildfires Threaten US Nuclear Reactors?
- Perseid Meteor Shower Unleashes Bright Fireball
- Gene Linked to Tuberculosis Susceptibility Identified
- Haiti Quake Caused by Previously Unknown Fault
- Why Does Your Nose Run When You Eat Spicy Food?
- 'Blind' Mole Rats Can See, Study Confirms
- New Technique Grows Heart Cells in Petri Dish
- Study Reveals Why We Laugh at Disgusting Jokes
- Mysterious 1924 Everest Deaths Linked to Storm
- Tiny Creatures Are Ocean's 'Vacuum Cleaners'
- August 9
-
- Images: Everest, 1924
- What Does the Prostate Gland Do?
- Photos: The World's Tallest Mountains
- Ancient Meteorite Impact Shattered Santa Fe
- Why Do Athletes Train at High Altitudes?
- Could Cockroaches Really Survive A Nuclear Winter?
- War on Brain Tumors Now Includes Magnets and Sound
- Diabetics Could Avoid Pinpricks With New Device
- What Causes Mudslides?
- 280-Degree Camera Catches Bee’s Eye View
- Deer-Startling Device Gets a Tryout in Utah
- Study: Antidepressants Don't Help Autistic Children
- Beautiful Women Are Denied Manly Jobs
- Sexism in the Workplace Hurts, New Study Finds
- Tiny Insects Detect Danger from Warm Goat Breath
- Ground Shaken by Mexico Quake Still Moving
- Anxiety May Increase With Age
- Brain Has Backup Circuit for Fear
- Using Blue Whales' Perfect Pitch to Drive People Insane
- Artificial Ocean Dead Zones Help Predict Real Thing
- Girls Entering Puberty at Younger Ages, Study Suggests
- August 8
- August 7
- August 6
-
- Enormous Ice Chunk Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
- 7 Ways the Earth Changes in the Blink of an Eye
- FAQ: How Do Astronauts Take Spacewalks?
- Invasive Lionfish Captured in Virgin Islands National Park
- Colliding Galaxies Swirl in Dazzling New Photo
- Ice Chunk Larger Than Manhattan Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
- Is Having a Pet Good for Your Health?
- Family Dinners Increase Parent-Teen Communication
- Giant Fold in Earth’s Crust Explained
- Lawsuit Filed Over Airport Scanner Privacy, Health Concerns
- Pygmy Hippo Birth Spotlights Dwarf Animals
- 3-D Images Reveal New Composition of the Sun
- NASA Drone Will Fly Into Hurricanes to Look at Lightning
- Bizarre Frogs Rafted Atop Ancient Continents
- Personality Set for Life By 1st Grade, Study Suggests
- August 5
-
- Why Do Women Have Breasts?
- Deep-Diving Robot Finds Microbial Zoo in Underwater Sinkhole
- Giant Fold in Earth's Crust Explained
- Which US Cities Have the Most Millionaires?
- Thinking About God Calms Believers, Stresses Atheists
- Amazingly Fast Eruption on the Sun Photographed
- New Robot Climbs Walls Like an Ape Going Up a Tree
- Shoppers Revive Plasma TVs
- Teens Lead the Way in Shift Away from Email
- Expedition Strikes Ancient Bedrock Beneath Greenland Ice
- What Causes the Tides?
- 'Scary Stuff': Most Common U.S. Bat Headed to Extinction
- Bat Rabies Hops Species More Than Expected
- Brain's Link Between Sounds, Smells and Memory Revealed
- Which U.S. Cities Have the Most Millionaires?
- Rainforest Life Faces Double Threat to Existence
- Rocking Geochemistry
- Critics Say Cal’s Genetic Tests Ignore ‘Asian Flush’ Risks
- The Incredible Explosion of Dog Breeds
- Gene Map to Give Insight into 5,200-year-old Iceman
- August 4
-
- How to Anticipate a Possible Aurora
- A Guide for Watching Earth's Auroras
- Amazing Auroras
- Why Do Dogs Love Water But Cats Hate It?
- Popular Opinion? Bah!
- Baby Boom for Endangered Black-Footed Ferrets at National Zoo
- Facebook Credits Now Available at 7-11 Stores
- Billionaires Pledge to Donate Half Their Fortunes
- Violent Dreams May Presage Brain Disorders Decades Later
- Saturn's Aurora Heartbeat Discovered
- Why Would Moms Not Want to Breastfeed?
- Russia Waking to the Need for More National Parks
- Gamers Go Where Computers Can't in Solving a Protein Puzzle
- Earth's Inner Core Might Be on the Move
- Ancient Cat-Size Croc Had Armored Tail
- Total Body Tan is a Total Myth, Study Finds
- It Was Alive! Ancient Blob Recreated in 3-D
- How Did Dogs Get to Be Dogs?
- Booty Calls Exposed by Science
- August 3
-
- Why Don't Fad Diets Work?
- Images: Russian National Parks
- Colin Becomes Third Named Atlantic Storm of Season
- Does Breastfeeding Make Breasts Sag?
- Flow of Vast Undersea River Revealed
- Polarstern Cruises The Polar Waters
- Robotic Submarine Returns in Triumph, with Samples from Under Arctic Ice
- World's Largest Tiger Reserve Created
- Double-Blade Helicopter Breaks Rotary Wing Speed Record
- Spectacular Northern Lights Show Signals Sun Is Waking Up
- Census of Marine Life: Key Findings
- Taking Over the World With My Bear Hands
- Why Everyone Should Wear Red All the Time
- Torpedo-Shaped Robot Dives Under Arctic Ice
- Political Body Language: Left vs. Right
- Ocean Life Gets Its Own, Enormous Who's Who
- All-Nighters May Increase Fat Levels in Blood
- Tongue Piercing May Cause Gapped Teeth
- Sisters Curb Sibling Depression
- Malware Threat Outpaces Antivirus Software
- Sleeping Late on Weekends Not a Remedy for Lost Snooze Time
- Confronting Racial Bias Has Surprising Motivation
- August 2
-
- Why Do Squirrels Chase Each Other?
- Gallery: Creatures from the Census of Marine Life
- How Amazon Rainforests Outlast Drought: Maybe It's in the Roots
- How Does Caffeine Help Athletes?
- Arctic, South Pacific Landscapes Added to World Heritage List
- Size Matters to Spiders: Smaller Males Have Advantages
- Mysterious 'Space Glow' Leads to Search Engine
- Teens View Reality Makeover TV as ‘Inspirational’
- Smokers' Brains Can Control Cravings
- For Lizards with Ant Problems, Stress Can Be a Savior
- Pathological Internet Use May Cause Teen Depression
- What's the Biggest Dam in the World?
- How Amazon Forests Outlast Drought: Maybe It's the Roots
- Social Snubs May Be Seriously Sickening
- New Sites Added to World Heritage List
- Facebook Replaces Email, Instant Messaging Online
- Nano-pen Draws 15,000 Images of Chicago Skyline
- 11 Technologies in Danger of Going Extinct
- Obese Employees Take More Sick Leave
- Caring for Animals May Have Shaped Human Evolution
- What Is Sleep Apnea?
- August 1
