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August 31
- Bonding with a Captor: Why Jaycee Dugard Didn't Flee
- Jaycee's Abductor: What Makes a Monster
- Coldest, Driest, Calmest Place on Earth Found
- The Buzz About New Bug Sprays
- What Makes a Psychopath? Answers Remain Elusive
- Powerful Ideas: Bacteria Clean Sewage and Create Electricity
August 28
- Jaycee Dugard Abduction Case Highlights Failure of Psychics
- Job Insecurity Worse For Your Health Than Unemployment
- Microbe Metabolism Harnessed to Produce Fuel
- New Theory for Why We Cry
- More Wind Power: Not So Simple
- Summer Bloom in the Barents Sea
August 27
- Louisiana Native Takes on Storm Season
- Scientists Create Clear Image of Tiny Molecule
- Darn! I'm Just an Internet Hoax!
- Internet Addicts Get First U.S. Treatment Clinic
- Powerful Ideas: Mutant Bacteria + Polyester = More Biofuel
August 26
- How to Swat a Mosquito
- Death Calculator Predicts Your Odds of Kicking the Bucket
- What You Should Know About Glaucoma
- Device Lets the Tongue See
- Rat Race: New Evidence that Running is Addictive
- World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few
- Robotic Fish Could Patrol Waterways
- Ancient Bird's Feathers Had Iridescent Glow
- Health Care Debate Based on Lack of Logic
August 25
- Heat Waves Getting Worse
- Study Suggests Alcohol Ads Target Teens
- Eyeless Creature Discovered in Undersea Tunnel
- Obese People Have 'Severe Brain Degeneration'
- New Theory Questions Why We Sleep
August 24
- Majority of Americans Believe Health Care Reform 'Myths'
- Powerful Ideas: Spray-On Solar Cells
- Should Species be Relocated to Prevent Extinction?
- Robots Learn to Lie
- Freak Hurricane Wave Strikes Maine
- The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising
- Powerful Ideas: Wind Turbine Blades Change Shape
August 23
- Gigantic Lightning Jets Shoot from Clouds to Space
August 22
- Ancient Arthropods Used Borrowed Homes
August 21
- Human Lifespans Nearly Constant for 2,000 Years
- Robot Cats Purrrrfect for Elderly
- Better Prediction Sought for Devastating Floods
- Lizards Bask in Sun for Vitamins
- Powerful Ideas: Beer Waste Makes Fuel
August 20
- What You Should Know About Arthritis
- Sea Creature Releases Glowing Decoy 'Bombs'
- Breakthrough Makes LED Lights More Versatile
- Spectacular Fossil Discovery: 100 Years Later
- Giant Plant Eats Rodents
August 19
- The Truth About Record-Setting U.S. Life Expectancy
- X-rays Expose N.C. Wyeth Painting Hidden Under Another
- Neurotic? Why You're Likely to Die Prematurely
- New Patch Could Replace Needle Shots
- Sagebrush Coordinate Self-Defense Against Bugs
August 18
- Prehistoric 'Runway' Used by Flying Reptile
- Tasmanian Devils Being Wiped Out By Social Ties
- The Human-Dog Hybrid Hoax
- Study: Foreclosures Causing Major Mental Depression
- Sloth and Primate Fossils Found in Underwater Cave
- Hunting: So Easy a Cave Man Could Do It
- Cloaking Technology May Protect From Natural Disasters
- Getting It Straight on Gay Mental Health
August 17
- Good Vibrations Generate Electricity
- Social Snubs Can Hurt, Physically
- Frogs Find Home in Elephant Dung
- Computer Game Aims to Offer Real Energy Solutions
- Most U.S. Money Laced With Cocaine
- Terrifying 'Sleep Paralysis' Needs More Attention
August 16
- Pollution Reduces Rain Vital to Crops
- Caffeine Causes and Cures Headaches
- Augmented Reality Reveals History to Tourists
August 14
- NASA Drops Probes Into Volatile Volcano
- Robotic Systems Help People with Disabilities
- Facebook Can Incite Jealousy
August 13
- Mermaid Sightings Claimed in Israel
- Some People Just Need Less Sleep
- Fire Used to Make Better Tools 75,000 Years Ago
- Monkeys (and Humans) Prefer Mimics
- Timber Structure Older than Stonehenge Found in London
- Thanks, Fido! Cancer Drugs Tested on Pets
August 12
- How to Know if You Have Alzheimer's
- High-Fat Diet May Make You Stupid and Lazy
- Climate Controls Mountain Heights, New Study Shows
- Sight & Sound Processed Same by Brain
- Bend-But-Don't-Break is Chemist's Area of Expertise
- Zombie Ants Controlled by Fungus
- Students Recall More Hollywood than History
August 11
- Babies' Brains Churning With Activity
- ‘Flying Frog’ and Miniature Deer Discovered in Himalayas
- Key to Affordable Health Care Revealed
- Quakes and Typhoons: What's Up with Mother Nature?
- Men Not Choosy in One-Night Stands
- Secret Lives of Roadrunners Revealed
August 10
- Study: Machismo Cuts Men's Lives Short
- Optimistic Women Live Longer, Healthier
- Powerful Ideas: Fungus Sex Forced for Fuel
- Humans Walked After Tree-Climbing Era, Study Indicates
- Hole in the Earth
- Orangutans Make Musical Instrument
- Great Debate: Should Organ Donors Be Paid?
- How a Desert Rat Feasts on Poisonous Plants
August 9
- Ants Ruin Plants' Sex Life
August 8
- Dogs as Smart as 2-year-old Kids
- WWII Shipwrecks Sought in 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'
- Why 'Willy' Could Never Be Free
August 7
- Charge: T. Rex Was a Chicken and a Baby Killer
- Secret to Cicada's Abundance: Bacteria
- Ganges Delta: Gorgeous, Wild and Deadly
- Is the Future in Good Hands?
August 6
- Discovery Really Scratches an Itch
- Bird's Tool Use Called 'Amazing'
- Robot Chefs Run a Restaurant
- Why Americans Don't Act on Climate Change
- No Evidence That Therapy Can Turn Gays Straight
- How to Get Cancer: Move to the United States
August 5
- 'Two-Headed' Snake Fakes Predators
- How to Tell Liver Spots from Moles and Cancer
- Mystery Surrounds Prevalence of Twins in Indian Village
- Bug Plays Dead, Sacrifices Neighbor
- Innovation Needed: But Can America Still Lead?
- Mind And Body Researcher Started Training At Age 5.
- Study: Healthy Pregnant Women Should Exercise
- Kids Today on Tighter Leash, But Wild at Home
August 4
- Pneumonic Plague: Should We Worry?
- A Brief History of U.S. Innovation
- Hybrid Car Rebates Don't Work
- We Learn More from Success than Failure
- Powerful Ideas: Shrimp Cocktail Helps Make Biodiesel
August 3
- Temptation Harder to Resist Than You Think, Study Suggests
- Brain Exercises May Delay Dementia
- Turbulence: Leading Cause of In-flight Injuries
- Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids
- Video Games Lack Female and Minority Characters
- Lack of Vitamin D in Children 'Shocking'
August 2
- Humans 2.0: Replacing the Mind and Body
August 1
- Obama: Key to Future Is Innovation