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Ear to the Ground: Scientists Create Magnetic Soap to Cope With Oil Spills

A/V Booth: The Amazing Spider-Goat!

Ear to the Ground: NASA: The World Won’t End in 2012

Ear to the Ground: Scientists List Their Favorite Discoveries of 2011

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Make Killer Flu Virus Even Deadlier

Ear to the Ground: And the Worst Natural Disaster Is …

Ear to the Ground: Extinction: Another One Bites the Dust

Reports: Global Warming Just Got Hotter

Reports: Stopping the Insanity

A/V Booth: Why an Unusually Melty Arctic Means Trouble

Ear to the Ground: Link Between Natural Gas Fields and Health Issues Remains Largely Undocumented

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Investigate Fish Shrinkage

Ear to the Ground: This Is the Rocket That Will Take Us to Mars (video)

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Deliberately Infected Guatemalans With Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Ear to the Ground: Get Ready for Medicinal MDMA

Arts and Culture: Jodie Foster Helps Fund the Search for Alien Life

Ear to the Ground: If You’re Under 35, You’ve Never Experienced ‘Normal’ Earth Climate

Arts and Culture: Animal Harm

Ear to the Ground: Autism Study Shifts Focus From Nature to Nurture

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Find the ‘Holy Grail of Heart Research’

Cartoons: Possibly Carcinogenic

Cartoons: The Grim Beeper

A/V Booth: This Is What It Looks Like When a Black Hole Destroys a Galaxy

Ear to the Ground: ‘Rogue’ Planets Found Roaming Through Space

Ear to the Ground: Research Finds Straight Men Like Looking at Fat Women, Penises

Ear to the Ground: Climate Shift Has Cut Global Wheat Crops, Study Finds

Ear to the Ground: Take Two Walnuts, Jog and Call Me in the Morning

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Predict the End of Religion in These 9 Countries

Ear to the Ground: Millions of Dead Fish Puzzle Californians

Ear to the Ground: Baby Dolphins Are Washing Up Dead Along the Gulf

Ear to the Ground: The Lopsided Law of Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Survey Says Teachers Lack Backbone When It Comes to Evolution

Ear to the Ground: Stem Cells Blamed for Baldness

Ear to the Ground: Conservative Brains Have More Fear, Less Courage

Ear to the Ground: Farm Animals Hog 80 Percent of U.S. Antibiotics

Ear to the Ground: A New Twist in the Quest for Extraterrestrials

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeak This Ear

Arts and Culture: Beauty and the Brain

Ear to the Ground: More News, Less Turkey

Ear to the Ground: Jet Lag Makes You Dumb (If You’re a Hamster)

A/V Booth: How Robots Clean Up an Oil Spill

Reports: From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg

Ear to the Ground: Biologist Wins Nobel Prize for Conceiving IVF Techniques

Arts and Culture: Video Games Are Good for Your Brain

Ear to the Ground: Bollywood Jesus

Ear to the Ground: Stephen Hawking Says Creation Was Godless, Inevitable

Ear to the Ground: Heavy Drinkers Live Longer Than Nondrinkers

Reports: Riding the Milky Way in Tucson

Ear to the Ground: Drink Up, Ladies

Arts and Culture: Nigel Warburton on Why Video Games Are Good

Ear to the Ground: Breakthrough Test for Alzheimer’s

Ear to the Ground: You Just Ate a Clone, Guv

Ear to the Ground: Alcohol: For the Rheumatoid Arthritis That Ails You

A/V Booth: Full Face Transplant Recipient

Reports: Heat Wave Silences Climate Skeptics

Ear to the Ground: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Flower Heaven

Reports: If Only Information Flowed as Freely as Oil

Ear to the Ground: Book Claims Monogamy Goes Against Our Nature

Ear to the Ground: Still Searching for Water on the Backup Planet

A/V Booth: Behold: The World’s Oldest Leather Shoe

Reports: Cyberspace Dunderheads

Ear to the Ground: Tanning Machines Cause Cancer, Study Finds

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Create ‘Synthetic Cell’

Ear to the Ground: Forget Polar Bears, We’re Killing Our Food

Ear to the Ground: Bon Voyage and Farewell, Atlantis

Ear to the Ground: Why Stephen Hawking Is Worried About Aliens

Ear to the Ground: Earth Day Edition

A/V Booth: First Stunning Images From NASA’s Solar Observatory

Ear to the Ground: Iceland Ash Edition

Ear to the Ground: The ‘Trustworthiness of Beards’ Edition

Ear to the Ground: War and Taxes Edition

Ear to the Ground: Your Periodic Table Is Missing an Element

Ear to the Ground: Can Seeing an Illness Protect You From It?

A/V Booth: Sam Harris: ‘The Separation Between Science and Human Values Is an Illusion’

Ear to the Ground: Red Alert: NASA Launches Toyota Probe

Ear to the Ground: Noam Chomsky Edition

Ear to the Ground: The Prince of Tides

Ear to the Ground: ‘Health Care Reform Is Law’ Edition

Ear to the Ground: NPR Strike Edition

Ear to the Ground: Mega Media Edition

Ear to the Ground: Liz Cheney Edition

Ear to the Ground: Full-Frontal Snow Edition

Ear to the Ground: What Do Toyota and Big Tobacco Have in Common?

Ear to the Ground: Climate Change: The Evidence Piles Up

Ear to the Ground: Science Diet: It’s in the Genes

Ear to the Ground: Fun With Geography Edition

Ear to the Ground: Free Umbrella Edition

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Find Huge Quantities of Water Ice on the Moon

Ear to the Ground: Millennial Edition

Ear to the Ground: God Save the Queen ... and Room for Dessert

Ear to the Ground: NASA Needs More Moonage Daydreamers

Ear to the Ground: High Blood Pressure Linked to Dementia

Ear to the Ground: That Weekend Rest Isn’t Helping

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Denies Blowing Up Iranian Scientist

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Blizzard-Free Edition

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Hanukkah Hangover Edition

Arts and Culture: Richard Ellis on Dinosaurs

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Gay Animals Edition

Ear to the Ground: Lab-Grown Pig Even Vegetarians Can Eat

Reports: Purloined E-Mails Don’t Change the Facts

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List

Ear to the Ground: That’s One Big Bang for Mankind

Cartoons: There’s Water In Them Craters

Ear to the Ground: And on the Eighth Day, God Created Aliens

Ear to the Ground: Goofy Stimulus Projects Have Real Value

A/V Booth: One Step Closer to Mars

Cartoons: Vaccine

Ear to the Ground: Condoms, Not Laws, Help Cut Abortions

Ear to the Ground: NFL Players Give Away Their Brains

Arts and Culture: Godless Darwin Movie Too Sciency for God-Loving America

Ear to the Ground: Good News and Bad News About Swine Flu

Ear to the Ground: Study: Girlie Girls Prefer Girlie Boys

Ear to the Ground: Putin’s Pecs and Political Roid Rage

Ear to the Ground: Say Goodbye to Florida

Reports: Happiness Consultants Won’t Stop a Depression

Ear to the Ground: Astronauts and Obama Have Different Worlds in Mind

Cartoons: Man or Mouse

Ear to the Ground: Coffee Cure for Alzheimer’s?

Ear to the Ground: FDA Experts Recommend Pain Drug Ban

A/V Booth: Nerd Alert: IBM Does ‘Jeopardy’; Scientists Invent Ambulatory Goo

Ear to the Ground: Water Is the New Oil

Ear to the Ground: Stephen Hawking ‘Very Ill’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Considering Radical Solutions to Climate Crisis

Reports: Inside Bush’s War on Birth Control

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Reports: Population Boom in the Freezer

Ear to the Ground: Geek Love Endures on Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Stem Cells Are Go

Ear to the Ground: Global Warming Satellite Launch Is a Failure

Cartoons: Isolating the Gay Gene

Ear to the Ground: Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Ear to the Ground: Methane Hints at Life on Mars

A/V Booth: Lou Dobbs Blames Global Warming on ‘Solar Sunspot Activity Cycle’

Reports: Let’s Pledge to Stop Being Stupid About Teen Sex

Ear to the Ground: Genes Under Pressure

A/V Booth: Meet Obama’s Green Team

Arts and Culture: Richard Ellis on ‘Diagnosis: Mercury’

Ear to the Ground: FDA Plastic Decision ‘Creates a False Sense of Security’

Reports: The Molecular Full Monty

Reports: The Idiots Who Rule America

Arts and Culture: Simon Lewis on Traumatic Brain Injuries

Ear to the Ground: Projectorgate 2008: Astronomers Fact-Check McCain

Ear to the Ground: Palin Finally Accepts Global Warming

A/V Booth: Who Invited God to the DNC?

Ear to the Ground: Interior Dept.: Talk to the Hand

Ear to the Ground: The Power of Invisibility, Brought to You by the U.S. Military

Ear to the Ground: Water on Mars

Reports: Equality, by the Numbers

Reports: Ray Bradbury on Literature and Love

Ear to the Ground: Scoping Out Sexual Discrimination in Science

Ear to the Ground: Official Says Cheney Pushed EPA Censorship

Cartoons: Watermelon

Reports: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on American Eugenics

Ear to the Ground: Greetings From Mars

Ear to the Ground: We May Not Be Alone, Says Vatican

Reports: Render Unto Darwin That Which Is Darwin’s

Ear to the Ground: Study: Beware of Vitamins

Reports: Seven Years of Scandal

Reports: On Secular Fundamentalism

Ear to the Ground: The Ice Is Falling

Ear to the Ground: Climate Change on Calif. Curriculum?

Ear to the Ground: Scientist: HIV Vaccine at Square One

Reports: You Are More Than What You Eat

Reports: Take Me Out to the BALCO

Reports: Huckabee Doesn’t Cut It

Cartoons: U.N. Report

Reports: Hold Politicians’ Feet to the Fire

Reports: Al Gore and the Blue Sky Theory

Ear to the Ground: Arctic Land Grab Update: Russia Claims Victory

Ear to the Ground: Space Object Implicated in Widespread Illness

Ear to the Ground: The 10 Most Polluted Places in the World

Ear to the Ground: Soldiers and Doctors Struggle With Brain Injury

A/V Booth: Charlie Chaplin on the Villainy of War

Ear to the Ground: ‘Extinct’ Dolphin Seen

Ear to the Ground: The 10-Year Weather Forecast

Ear to the Ground: Russia Claims Much of Arctic

Ear to the Ground: So Much for the Motormouth Myth

Ear to the Ground: Not Your Father’s Heat Wave

Ear to the Ground: The Battle Over Sex Education

A/V Booth: Three Questions for Al Gore

Ear to the Ground: ‘Find of Century’ in Egypt

Reports: Science Progresses Despite Politics

Reports: America Likes an Idiot, but It Needs Al Gore

A/V Booth: Imagine a President Who Doesn’t Believe in Evolution

Ear to the Ground: Scientists Find ‘Habitable’ Planet

Ear to the Ground: Climate Crisis Threatens Billions

Ear to the Ground: Thinning of Antarctic Ice Alarms Scientists

Reports: A World Where Lies Are True

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Grill White House Spin Man

Ear to the Ground: How Flying Saucers Could Save the World

Ear to the Ground: Warmest Winter in at Least 125 Years

A/V Booth: ‘This Pale Blue Dot’

Digs: A Coalition of the Unwilling

Ear to the Ground: Retired Generals, Admiral Warn Against Attack on Iran

Ear to the Ground: The Health Risks of Modesty

Ear to the Ground: Bad News From Global Warming Experts

Ear to the Ground: From the People Who Brought You Stonehenge

Ear to the Ground: Forgetting Addiction

Ear to the Ground: When Gay Sheep and the Blogosphere Collide

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