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Date / TimeStory
Sunday June 09, 2013 @01:49AM Asteroid Passes (Just) 65,000 Miles From Earth
Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:52AM Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004
Sunday June 02, 2013 @12:35PM Surgeries On Friday Are More Frequently Fatal
Friday May 31, 2013 @07:20PM TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports
Friday May 31, 2013 @06:30PM GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S.
Thursday May 30, 2013 @03:25PM Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem
Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:27PM 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype
Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:12AM New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid
Friday May 17, 2013 @07:45PM NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:08PM 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers
Thursday May 09, 2013 @08:25AM San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels
Thursday April 18, 2013 @07:45AM Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant
Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:20AM North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official
Tuesday April 09, 2013 @11:48AM Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence, Suggests Study
Tuesday April 09, 2013 @11:01AM Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Has Taken Its Battery Certification Flight
Monday April 08, 2013 @08:55PM "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation
Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:01PM Why Do Pathogen Researchers Face Less Scrutiny Than Nuclear Scientists?
Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:12PM Leak Found In Fukushima Tank Holding Radioactive Water
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:39AM Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence
Sunday March 24, 2013 @11:33AM Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:33AM North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike
Friday March 01, 2013 @05:28PM Hit the Wrong Button, Drone Goes Boom
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:39AM Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats
Friday February 22, 2013 @08:42PM First Dedicated Asteroid-Tracking Satellite Will Be Canadian
Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:20AM Japanese Probe Finds Miswiring of Boeing 787 Battery
Thursday February 21, 2013 @03:18AM How To Safeguard Loose Nukes
Saturday February 16, 2013 @02:39AM California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers
Friday February 15, 2013 @06:52PM Russian Meteor Largest In a Century
Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:17PM Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph
Tuesday February 12, 2013 @09:28AM North Korea Conducts Third Nuclear Test
Sunday February 10, 2013 @09:42AM Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings
Tuesday January 29, 2013 @09:27AM Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty"
Tuesday January 22, 2013 @01:01PM Bomb Blasts Alter Brain Lipid Levels
Friday January 18, 2013 @08:56AM Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU
Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:12PM Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing
Thursday January 17, 2013 @10:09AM DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security
Friday January 11, 2013 @10:21PM NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head
Friday January 11, 2013 @08:03PM FAA To Investigate 787 Dreamliner
Friday January 04, 2013 @08:02PM Scary Toothbrush Prompts Shutdown of World's Busiest Airport
Sunday December 30, 2012 @01:16PM Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam
Saturday December 29, 2012 @07:34PM Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave
Saturday December 22, 2012 @08:20PM Asteroid 2011 AG5 Will Miss Earth In 2040
Thursday December 20, 2012 @01:09PM Using Technology To Make Guns Safer
Monday December 17, 2012 @03:16AM Austria's Mobile Drug Lab Could Test Street-Drug Effects, Too
Saturday December 15, 2012 @11:12PM Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware?
Saturday December 15, 2012 @12:42PM Spinal Fluid Chemical Levels Linked To Suicidal Behavior
Thursday December 13, 2012 @11:13AM Current Radio Rules Mean Sinclair ZX Spectrum Wouldn't Fly Today
Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:52PM How Yucca Mountain Was Killed
Thursday December 06, 2012 @10:51AM Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk
Tuesday November 27, 2012 @09:15AM Cambridge University To Open "Terminator Center" To Study Threat From AI
Thursday November 22, 2012 @01:14PM This Is What Happens When You Deep Fry a Frozen Turkey
Sunday November 18, 2012 @07:58PM German Police Stop Man With Mobile Office In Car
Monday November 05, 2012 @02:18AM Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg
Saturday November 03, 2012 @07:51AM Building the Ultimate Safe House
Thursday November 01, 2012 @02:47PM Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy
Thursday November 01, 2012 @11:14AM Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump
Friday October 26, 2012 @07:05PM Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy?
Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:06PM Scientists Link Deep Wells To Deadly Spanish Quake
Sunday October 21, 2012 @04:59PM States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs
Sunday October 21, 2012 @01:31AM Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link
Friday October 19, 2012 @08:02PM China's Yearly Budget For High-Speed Rail: $100 Billion
Friday October 19, 2012 @06:18PM TSA Moving X-ray Body Scanners To Smaller Airports
Thursday October 11, 2012 @08:17AM Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV
Tuesday October 09, 2012 @09:23AM Halliburton's Missing Radioactive Cylinder Found
Sunday October 07, 2012 @12:28PM Felix Baumgartner Prepares for Supersonic Skydive Attempt in New Mexico
Sunday October 07, 2012 @09:32AM NASA Prepares For Space Surgery and Zero Gravity Blood
Saturday October 06, 2012 @09:40PM Space Junk May Require ISS Maneuver In Advance of SpaceX's Dragon
Saturday October 06, 2012 @04:18PM Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic
Saturday October 06, 2012 @09:34AM Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City
Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:36AM Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites
Friday September 28, 2012 @08:45PM Air Force Foresaw Fatal F-22 Problems; Rejected $100,000 Fix As Too Expensive
Friday September 21, 2012 @12:35AM US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer
Thursday September 20, 2012 @10:17AM Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court
Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:20PM DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not
Tuesday September 11, 2012 @12:51PM FAA Permits American Airlines To Use iPads In Cockpit "In All Phases of Flight"
Sunday September 09, 2012 @01:27PM Yosemite Expands Scope of Hantavirus Warning: More than 20,000 At Risk
Thursday September 06, 2012 @09:28AM TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New
Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:31AM Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy
Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:10AM 'Magic Carpet' Could Help Prevent Falls Among the Elderly
Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:13AM MIT Works On Mars Space Suit
Tuesday September 04, 2012 @09:55AM US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives
Monday September 03, 2012 @01:54PM CDC Says 10,000 At Risk of Hantavirus In Yosemite Outbreak
Saturday August 25, 2012 @11:23AM App Can Prevent Users From Texting While Driving
Thursday August 23, 2012 @12:02AM FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System
Wednesday August 22, 2012 @11:59PM Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @11:02AM Rover Fuel Came From Russian Nuke Factory, But Supplies Running Low
Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:23AM West Nile Virus Outbreak Puts Dallas In State of Emergency
Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:09AM Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function
Friday July 27, 2012 @12:37PM How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe
Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:22AM Skydiver Leaps From 18 Miles Up In 'Space Jump' Practice
Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:20AM Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets
Sunday July 22, 2012 @12:51PM Subcontractor Tells Fukushima Workers To Hide Radiation Exposure
Monday July 16, 2012 @01:40PM What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
Tuesday July 10, 2012 @11:47AM South Pole Neutron Detectors Given New Role in Predicting Space Weather
Monday July 09, 2012 @01:43AM Samsung Blames Galaxy SIII Burn On "External Energy Source"
Sunday July 08, 2012 @05:05PM Cat Parasite May Increase Risk of Suicide In Humans
Friday July 06, 2012 @08:41PM WHO Says Afghan School "Poison Attacks" Probably Mass Hysteria
Tuesday July 03, 2012 @11:46AM Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe?
Saturday June 23, 2012 @08:38PM Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations
Saturday June 23, 2012 @05:47PM Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths
Thursday June 21, 2012 @09:22AM FDA: Software Failure Behind 24% of Last Year's Medical Device Recalls
Thursday June 21, 2012 @08:32AM Android App Lets You Steal Contactless Credit Card Data
Wednesday June 20, 2012 @01:12PM Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes"
Sunday June 17, 2012 @04:59PM Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network
Saturday June 16, 2012 @03:55PM Japan Restarts Two of Its 50 Nuclear Reactors
Saturday June 16, 2012 @02:38PM Black Death Discovered In Oregon
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:32AM Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep
Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:21AM Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids?
Sunday June 03, 2012 @04:50PM New Evidence Indicates Amelia Earhart Survived For a Time on Pacific Atoll
Sunday June 03, 2012 @01:35AM Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash
Thursday May 31, 2012 @10:27AM Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple
Tuesday May 29, 2012 @01:06AM Japan Readies Robot For Work At Crippled Nuclear Reactor
Saturday May 19, 2012 @07:19PM Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers
Thursday May 17, 2012 @12:25PM NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death
Friday May 11, 2012 @08:18PM USPS To Ban International Shipping On Lithium Ion Powered Gadgetry
Thursday May 10, 2012 @08:41AM TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump
Thursday May 10, 2012 @08:35AM Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose
Monday May 07, 2012 @12:10PM Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down
Saturday May 05, 2012 @05:25PM Running Apps From Your Car's Dashboard
Friday May 04, 2012 @07:52PM Botched Repair Likely Cause of Combusting iPhone After Flight
Friday May 04, 2012 @07:47AM Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @10:34AM Scientific Jigsaw Puzzle: Fitting the Pieces of the Low-Level Radiation Debate
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @09:26AM Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @08:22AM The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash
Friday April 27, 2012 @08:16AM Terminal Mixup Implicates TSA Agents In LAX Smuggling Plot
Tuesday April 24, 2012 @07:46AM Volcano Near Mexico City Becomes More Active
Saturday April 21, 2012 @04:58PM Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit
Thursday April 19, 2012 @08:30AM GSA Emails Recount Inside Story of Exploding Toilets
Thursday April 19, 2012 @07:15AM Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue
Friday April 13, 2012 @07:51PM Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars
Friday April 13, 2012 @07:36PM Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth
Thursday April 12, 2012 @04:55PM University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats
Thursday April 12, 2012 @04:36PM Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound
Thursday April 12, 2012 @11:11AM Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital
Tuesday April 10, 2012 @12:29PM Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor
Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:18AM New Tech Makes Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verifiable
Friday April 06, 2012 @11:29PM Data Safety In a Time of Natural Disasters
Friday April 06, 2012 @11:14PM USGS Suggests Connection Between Seismic Activity and Fracking
Thursday April 05, 2012 @04:56PM World Is Ignoring Most Important Lesson From Fukushima
Tuesday April 03, 2012 @12:03PM Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids
Tuesday April 03, 2012 @09:59AM NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe
Tuesday April 03, 2012 @08:06AM Biosecurity Board Recommends Full Publication of Bird Flu Studies
Saturday March 31, 2012 @03:55PM Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami
Friday March 30, 2012 @11:04PM JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation
Sunday March 25, 2012 @08:16PM Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad
Sunday March 25, 2012 @04:58PM You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA
Saturday March 24, 2012 @10:56PM Space Junk Forced Astronauts Into ISS Escape Capsules
Friday March 23, 2012 @06:23PM As Nuclear Reactors Age, the Money To Close Them Lags
Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:25PM Blackjack Player Breaks the Bank At Atlantic City
Tuesday March 20, 2012 @12:57PM The Risk of a Meltdown In the Cloud
Thursday March 15, 2012 @08:10AM Algorithm Finds Thousands of Unknown Drug Interaction Side Effects
Sunday March 11, 2012 @07:37AM Nuclear Disaster In Japan Could Have Been Mitigated, Say Industry Insiders
Friday March 09, 2012 @07:16PM Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe To Avoid Cancer Warning
Thursday March 08, 2012 @09:10AM What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040?
Tuesday March 06, 2012 @09:35AM After Legal Fight, NCI Researchers Publish Study Linking Diesel Exhaust, Cancer
Friday March 02, 2012 @10:32PM Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales
Tuesday February 28, 2012 @12:08PM Those Sleeping Pills May Be Killing You
Tuesday February 28, 2012 @09:20AM Facebook Tests 'Safe' User Tag For Disasters
Sunday February 26, 2012 @02:55PM UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money
Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:38AM Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US
Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:36AM Study Says E-prescription Systems Would Save At Least 50k Lives a Year
Friday February 17, 2012 @07:29PM Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice
Thursday February 16, 2012 @05:29PM US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case
Tuesday February 14, 2012 @09:36AM Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban
Tuesday February 14, 2012 @09:15AM Laser Scanner May Allow Passengers To Take Bottled Drinks On Planes Again
Monday February 13, 2012 @12:55PM Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You!
Friday February 10, 2012 @02:24PM NASA Wants Green Rocket Fuel
Thursday February 09, 2012 @02:35PM US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors
Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:46AM Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies In Plane Crash
Monday January 30, 2012 @11:19AM Maine Senator Wants Independent Study of TSA's Body Scanners
Friday January 27, 2012 @10:29PM Sea Water Could Cause Uranium Pollution From Nuclear Fuel Rods
Friday January 27, 2012 @08:16PM Close Approach By Asteroid 2012 BX34
Friday January 27, 2012 @07:29PM Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig
Thursday January 26, 2012 @03:16PM Object Lesson in Non-Transparency At Energy.gov
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @10:15PM The High-Radiation Lives and Risks of Nuclear-Nomad Subcontractors
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @10:57AM Chevy Volt Passes Safety Investigation
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @10:26AM International Organization To Assess Earth Defense From Space Dangers
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:22AM Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:44PM The Doomsday Clock Is Moved Closer To Midnight
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:28PM Doctor Warns of the Hidden Danger of Touchscreens
Sunday January 08, 2012 @07:11PM World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say
Sunday January 01, 2012 @05:37AM Lax Security At Russian Rocket Plant
Thursday December 22, 2011 @08:49AM EU Shipping Sector Cyber Security Awareness "Non-Existent"
Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:58AM Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive
Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:46AM Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety
Sunday December 18, 2011 @01:04AM The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives
Friday December 16, 2011 @08:18PM Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children
Friday December 16, 2011 @08:12PM Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat to Children
Friday December 16, 2011 @07:10PM The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011
Friday December 16, 2011 @12:26PM Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown
Thursday December 15, 2011 @03:27PM Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones
Thursday December 15, 2011 @09:17AM Russia Set To Extend Life of Nuclear Reactors Past Engineered Life Span
Thursday December 15, 2011 @09:17AM NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers
Tuesday December 13, 2011 @09:54AM Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence
Thursday December 08, 2011 @09:27AM Wielding Supercomputers To Make High-Stakes Predictions
Thursday December 08, 2011 @09:06AM MythBusters Bust House
Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:30AM iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane
Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:01AM Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility
Tuesday November 29, 2011 @01:54AM Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication
Friday November 18, 2011 @01:42AM All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe

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