Top news for December 21, 2008

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Highlights From SpaceX’s Starship Test Flight

The Zombies of the U.S. Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill

A Seal’s Spray Adds a Chapter to the Science of Spitting

A Navy SEAL was convinced exposure to blasts damaged his brain, so he donated it to science to prove it

Unlocking the Future of Microelectronics With Argonne’s Redox Gating Breakthrough

Major US Study Confirms a New #1 Cause of Disease Worldwide

Finding Love Again Isn’t Enough: Women Find It Harder To Adjust to Late-Life Divorce Than Men

Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time

Unlocking Quantum Secrets: The Revolutionary Dance of Nanoparticles

Physicist Claims Universe Has No Dark Matter And Is 27 Billion Years Old