| 1. | Why infertility will stop humans colonising space | 14 Feb 11, 15:33 | 297 | 73 |
| 2. | Moonquakes Surprisingly Common | 3 Sep 11, 12:01 | 363 | 61 |
| 3. | How Severe Can Climate Change Become? | 26 Feb 11, 00:11 | 121 | 53 |
| 4. | Why college athletes deserve six-figure salaries | 15 Sep 11, 13:26 | 188 | 49 |
| 5. | No sex until 3rd date? Studies track new love rules | 18 Sep 11, 23:50 | 270 | 49 |
| 6. | How I Became a Master of Memory | 13 Oct 11, 18:28 | 364 | 38 |
| 7. | Humans Hard-Wired to Respond to Animals | 11 Sep 11, 11:14 | 299 | 37 |
| 8. | Scientists Warn Chemicals May Be Altering Breast Development | 23 Jun 11, 16:23 | 219 | 30 |
| 9. | Human Swallows Pill. Mosquito Bites Human. Mosquito Dies. | 12 Jul 11, 17:24 | 214 | 24 |
| 10. | Top 10 Sun Myths | 3 Sep 11, 16:25 | 220 | 22 |
| 11. | Inside Planet Mars (Infographic) | 14 Sep 11, 19:13 | 415 | 21 |
| 12. | Scientist urges human papilloma virus jabs for boys to stem oral cancer rise | 21 Feb 11, 15:53 | 140 | 20 |
| 13. | Robots Invent Their Own Language | 13 Sep 11, 12:05 | 237 | 20 |
| 14. | Rare view of Earth from the International Space Station | 19 Sep 11, 19:14 | 295 | 19 |
| 15. | Apes film rises to No. 1 at box office | 8 Aug 11, 19:41 | 140 | 18 |
| 16. | Zombie Facts: Real and Imagined (Infographic) | 8 Oct 11, 19:30 | 227 | 18 |
| 17. | Guys who go bald at 20 have higher prostate cancer risk | 17 Feb 11, 16:21 | 175 | 17 |
| 18. | Bus driver unaware his vehicle had no back wheels | 28 Jul 11, 18:12 | 132 | 16 |
| 19. | State Boots Student With Down Syndrome From High School Football Team \u2013 Help Get Him Back on the ... | 12 Aug 11, 02:32 | 118 | 16 |
| 20. | Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus | 4 Sep 11, 23:14 | 260 | 16 |
| 21. | Study: Harmful Medical Devices Got FDA Approval Too Easily | 16 Feb 11, 00:21 | 143 | 15 |
| 22. | The Cruelest Cuts: Games that were Banned or Modified by the Australian Classification Board | 21 Jun 11, 22:27 | 92 | 15 |
| 23. | Synthetic life could help humans colonize Mars | 23 Aug 11, 03:38 | 188 | 15 |
| 24. | Faster, Smaller, Better: Does Physics Put an Upper Limit on Brain Efficiency? | 4 Sep 11, 19:04 | 272 | 15 |
| 25. | Are Doctors Really to Blame for the 'Overdose Epidemic'? | 3 Nov 11, 12:30 | 173 | 15 |
| 26. | A Brief History of the Toilet [Slide Show] | 19 Sep 11, 12:21 | 258 | 14 |
| 27. | Find the DNA in a Banana | 13 May 11, 13:17 | 190 | 13 |
| 28. | Astronomy without a telescope: The unlikeliness of being | 1 Aug 11, 21:05 | 203 | 13 |
| 29. | 9 Geeky 80s Gadgets We Loved | 5 Aug 11, 03:17 | 153 | 13 |
| 30. | Evidence of Active Water on Mars | 22 Aug 11, 07:04 | 237 | 13 |
| 31. | 9/11 Anniversary: 10 years of Terror Attacks - (Interactive) | 6 Sep 11, 09:16 | 158 | 13 |
| 32. | Fossil eyes show wraparound three-dimensional vision, half a billion years ago | 4 Nov 11, 13:07 | 252 | 13 |
| 33. | West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars (PIC) | 30 May 11, 16:00 | 172 | 12 |
| 34. | Planet of the Apes Infographic | 3 Aug 11, 16:51 | 139 | 12 |
| 35. | The Internet May Soon Include All of the Things Around You | 26 Aug 11, 22:17 | 180 | 12 |
| 36. | Man does ironing on middle lane of closed M1 motorway | 19 Apr 11, 14:15 | 152 | 11 |
| 37. | The Brain "I See," Said the Blind Man With an Artificial Retina | 17 Sep 11, 19:51 | 219 | 11 |
| 38. | Study: 1 in 25 Business Leaders May Be Psychopaths | 21 Sep 11, 14:27 | 192 | 11 |
| 39. | Renewable Energy Consumption in US (Infographic) | 21 Nov 11, 13:22 | 180 | 11 |
| 40. | 20-million-year-old ape skull unearthed in Uganda | 2 Aug 11, 21:27 | 202 | 10 |
| 41. | Top 10 Video Game Taunts | 5 Sep 11, 16:54 | 124 | 10 |
| 42. | How Your Tax Dollars Save Lives: Gene Therapy | 27 Oct 11, 16:51 | 153 | 10 |
| 43. | First 3D Movie of Orgasm in the Female Brain | 2 Dec 11, 12:58 | 162 | 10 |
| 44. | Meet the Obscure, Useful Metals Lurking in Products All Around You | 7 Dec 11, 13:31 | 174 | 10 |
| 45. | 7 Cars That Could Win a Drag Race Against Gravity | 4 Jun 11, 16:40 | 131 | 9 |
| 46. | Will Cybercriminals Run the World? | 15 Jul 11, 08:59 | 123 | 9 |
| 47. | Five Myths About Memory (And why They Matter in Court) | 17 Aug 11, 16:28 | 181 | 9 |
| 48. | Bolivia's salt flats where the sky and ground merge like heaven on Earth | 18 Aug 11, 18:42 | 127 | 9 |
| 49. | Egypt Trip Really is Great Sheikhs | 28 Aug 11, 12:25 | 202 | 9 |
| 50. | Why some people don't have fingerprints | 9 Sep 11, 20:01 | 154 | 9 |
| 51. | 5 Things That Internet Porn Reveals About Our Brains | 21 Sep 11, 20:41 | 195 | 9 |
| 52. | Are There Mysterious Forces Lurking in Our Atoms and Galaxies? | 8 Nov 11, 21:48 | 164 | 9 |
| 53. | How to Rappel From a Chopper in 5 Easy Steps | 19 May 11, 17:27 | 109 | 8 |
| 54. | The 41 Places to Go in 2011 | 14 Aug 11, 17:01 | 134 | 8 |
| 55. | APOD: 2011 September 18 - A Sharp View of the Sun | 18 Sep 11, 13:02 | 230 | 8 |
| 56. | The Vexing Mental Tug-of-War Called Morality | 26 Sep 11, 23:32 | 189 | 8 |
| 57. | Coffee Facts for National Coffee Day (Infographic) | 29 Sep 11, 21:25 | 162 | 8 |
| 58. | World's 10 Worst Toxic Pollution Problems [Slide Show] | 25 Nov 11, 13:02 | 183 | 8 |
| 59. | Why wildlife programmes continue to capture the public imagination | 13 Jun 11, 18:01 | 131 | 7 |
| 60. | A Vintage Guide to Summer Vacation | 6 Aug 11, 19:11 | 96 | 7 |
| 61. | NASA funds 30 new space research projects | 9 Aug 11, 23:53 | 149 | 7 |
| 62. | Ten Most Ridiculous Tech Lawsuits of the 21st Century | 16 Aug 11, 10:02 | 135 | 7 |
| 63. | 8 Insane Musical Instruments | 19 Aug 11, 14:24 | 141 | 7 |
| 64. | The life hereafter: Funeral technology old and new | 19 Aug 11, 23:34 | 99 | 7 |
| 65. | How to Become a Backyard Astronomer | 14 Sep 11, 15:53 | 137 | 7 |
| 66. | Small Fish Use Sneaky Sex Tactics | 23 Sep 11, 12:01 | 155 | 7 |
| 67. | APOD: 2011 September 25 - A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun | 25 Sep 11, 12:58 | 210 | 7 |
| 68. | Buildings house secret servers that keep the Internet running | 3 Oct 11, 20:58 | 198 | 7 |
| 69. | How "Probiotic" Microbes Control Your Mind | 3 Oct 11, 16:38 | 134 | 7 |
| 70. | A 2-dimensional electron liquid solidifies in a magnetic field | 5 Nov 11, 13:16 | 159 | 7 |
| 71. | APOD: 2011 November 6 - Orange Sun Oozing | 7 Nov 11, 15:23 | 162 | 7 |
| 72. | Students Love Sweet Soda (Infographic) | 15 Nov 11, 12:32 | 162 | 7 |
| 73. | 6 Diseases Back from the Dead | 19 Nov 11, 16:42 | 125 | 7 |
| 74. | How Tiny Worms Could Help Humans Colonize Mars | 1 Dec 11, 15:52 | 204 | 7 |
| 75. | The Brain Seeing the Person Behind the Face | 28 Feb 11, 04:00 | 191 | 6 |
| 76. | Space shuttle Discovery docks with International Space Station for the last time | 28 Feb 11, 18:43 | 153 | 6 |
| 77. | How the Secret Service stalks cyber criminals | 11 Jul 11, 22:24 | 149 | 6 |
| 78. | The science and magic of beer | 29 Jul 11, 21:05 | 124 | 6 |
| 79. | New Study Shows Dolphins Able To Detect Electricity (Video) | 31 Jul 11, 20:24 | 129 | 6 |
| 80. | Russians abort satellite launch during spacewalk | 4 Aug 11, 13:51 | 132 | 6 |
| 81. | 8 Movies From Comic-Con That We Can't Wait To See | 4 Aug 11, 18:18 | 150 | 6 |
| 82. | Hacked in 60 Seconds: Thieves Could Steal Cars via Text Messages | 22 Aug 11, 19:49 | 161 | 6 |
| 83. | The National Zoo's Animals React to the Earthquake | 25 Aug 11, 13:38 | 127 | 6 |
| 84. | 10 Species You Can Kiss Goodbye | 28 Aug 11, 17:30 | 185 | 6 |
| 85. | 13 Cars We've Loved That Haven't Loved Us Back | 20 Sep 11, 15:52 | 162 | 6 |
| 86. | What You Don't Know Can Kill You | 9 Oct 11, 08:40 | 181 | 6 |
| 87. | APOD: 2011 November 18 - A Colorful Side of the Moon | 18 Nov 11, 12:51 | 148 | 6 |
| 88. | Maybe You Do Need a Hole in Your Head\u2014to Let the Medicine In | 23 Nov 11, 15:20 | 143 | 6 |
| 89. | Chantix smoking pill can raise heart risk, FDA warns | 17 Jun 11, 23:57 | 110 | 5 |
| 90. | New Evidence of Age-Related Decline in the Brain's Master Circadian Clock | 27 Jul 11, 04:31 | 157 | 5 |
| 91. | Megabugs: The World's Largest Insects | 27 Jul 11, 19:01 | 132 | 5 |
| 92. | A Photo History of the Space Shuttle Program | 1 Aug 11, 15:17 | 134 | 5 |
| 93. | Pakistan Floods, One Year Later | 5 Aug 11, 21:12 | 99 | 5 |
| 94. | A Panorama of Mars from Larry's Lookout (Pic) | 8 Aug 11, 21:04 | 151 | 5 |
| 95. | 3 Bugs That Can Teach Us a Lot About Solar Power | 22 Aug 11, 15:22 | 155 | 5 |
| 96. | Why some people don't get the flu | 31 Aug 11, 12:40 | 203 | 5 |
| 97. | \u2018Sex On Six Legs\u2019 | 17 Sep 11, 12:27 | 181 | 5 |
| 98. | Your Brain's Family Album, From Hydra to Human | 4 Oct 11, 23:44 | 102 | 5 |
| 99. | APOD: 2011 October 18 - Movie: Approaching Light Speed | 18 Oct 11, 17:09 | 125 | 5 |
| 100. | APOD: 2011 November 11 - In the Arms of M83 | 11 Nov 11, 16:39 | 160 | 5 |
| 101. | Inside the Lab That Studies NFL Brains | 22 Nov 11, 16:41 | 117 | 5 |
| 102. | The Sperm Crisis: A Tough Nut to Crack | 30 Nov 11, 16:15 | 181 | 5 |
| 103. | How Pot, Cocaine, and Hunger Intersect in the Brain | 6 Dec 11, 13:31 | 154 | 5 |
| 104. | 12 Coolest Robots from the 2011 FIRST Championship | 5 May 11, 16:15 | 125 | 4 |
| 105. | 23 Ways Your Car Is Better Than Your Dad's | 24 Jun 11, 00:18 | 114 | 4 |
| 106. | Sound Tracking: Harmonics Enable Bat to Focus on Prey Despite Noise | 29 Jul 11, 15:40 | 130 | 4 |
| 107. | The Body Odd - Your brain isn't programmed for the 21st century. Here's why | 4 Aug 11, 00:12 | 114 | 4 |
| 108. | The World's 18 Strangest Elevators | 10 Aug 11, 18:47 | 133 | 4 |
| 109. | Top 10 Strange Objects Sent into Space | 12 Aug 11, 17:58 | 133 | 4 |
| 110. | Here's how the London riots spiked the Internet (Infographic) | 13 Aug 11, 16:48 | 117 | 4 |
| 111. | Sex helps cope with effects of ageing | 27 Aug 11, 12:11 | 136 | 4 |
| 112. | 5 Questions for the Brain's Code-Breaker | 28 Aug 11, 03:15 | 182 | 4 |
| 113. | The Ins and Outs of Rhino Reproduction | 16 Sep 11, 13:51 | 153 | 4 |
| 114. | APOD: 2011 September 20 - Kepler 16b: A Planet with Two Suns | 20 Sep 11, 10:15 | 211 | 4 |
| 115. | How the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Works(Infographic) | 1 Oct 11, 18:46 | 170 | 4 |
| 116. | APOD: 2011 October 8 - MESSENGER s First Day | 8 Oct 11, 12:47 | 177 | 4 |
| 117. | 6 Wild Ideas from DARPA's Starship Conference | 8 Oct 11, 09:25 | 106 | 4 |
| 118. | Old Thunder Thighs: T. Rex's Weight Topped 9 Tons | 14 Oct 11, 15:01 | 128 | 4 |
| 119. | Top Ten Superbug Super-Villains | 17 Oct 11, 16:49 | 122 | 4 |
| 120. | APOD: 2011 November 14 - Waterfall, Moonbow, and Aurora from Iceland | 14 Nov 11, 12:20 | 160 | 4 |
| 121. | Germs Really Are Everywhere (Infographic) | 24 Nov 11, 18:47 | 151 | 4 |
| 122. | The incredible shrinking laboratory or 'lab-on-a-chip' | 29 Nov 11, 14:14 | 160 | 4 |
| 123. | Team investigates function of 'junk DNA' in human genes | 1 Mar 11, 07:42 | 141 | 3 |
| 124. | How to Fly a Zeppelin Airship | 30 Jun 11, 21:29 | 102 | 3 |
| 125. | How to be the First Responder to 10 Disasters | 7 Jul 11, 11:46 | 123 | 3 |
| 126. | Newly developed molecule tested as a delivery vehicle to image and kill brain tumor | 5 Aug 11, 23:40 | 126 | 3 |
| 127. | Japanese Domino's Unveils Elaborate, Carefully Thought-Out Plans to Sling Pizza on the Moon | 2 Sep 11, 22:15 | 99 | 3 |
| 128. | The statistical error that just keeps on coming | 10 Sep 11, 08:15 | 170 | 3 |
| 129. | Scientists explain why the office party so often ends in embarrassment | 12 Sep 11, 17:08 | 142 | 3 |
| 130. | APOD: 2011 October 13 - The Color of IC 1795 | 13 Oct 11, 12:11 | 170 | 3 |
| 131. | APOD: 2011 October 15 - NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge | 15 Oct 11, 15:28 | 161 | 3 |
| 132. | APOD: 2011 October 24 - HH 222: The Waterfall Nebula | 24 Oct 11, 14:00 | 159 | 3 |
| 133. | APOD: 2011 October 25 - IC 1805: The Heart Nebula in HDR | 26 Oct 11, 01:21 | 106 | 3 |
| 134. | How Data Helped Get Me in Shape | 3 Dec 11, 23:02 | 79 | 3 |
| 135. | Check the mirror: Sickness shows in your face | 5 Dec 11, 13:10 | 153 | 3 |
| 136. | Solar Sails Fly From Science Fiction Into Reality | 23 Feb 11, 03:50 | 145 | 2 |
| 137. | A Graphic Story from The Recession (Comic) | 3 Mar 11, 08:43 | 106 | 2 |
| 138. | Wave Power: 5 Bright Ideas to Capture the Ocean\u2019s Energy | 6 Apr 11, 18:20 | 142 | 2 |
| 139. | The lighter side of lab life | 28 Jul 11, 01:41 | 111 | 2 |
| 140. | 30 Years of the Space Shuttle (Interactive Graphic) | 31 Jul 11, 16:01 | 135 | 2 |
| 141. | Vital Signs: Confusion That Comes and Goes | 9 Aug 11, 17:41 | 126 | 2 |
| 142. | Five new stamp designs to feature characters from Disney, Pixar movies | 20 Aug 11, 11:33 | 143 | 2 |
| 143. | 3 Spacecraft That Refuse to Quit | 31 Aug 11, 02:27 | 190 | 2 |
| 144. | APOD: 2011 September 21 - Pleiades Deep Field | 21 Sep 11, 11:08 | 192 | 2 |
| 145. | Why Emergency Room Visits Are Increasing (Infographic) | 28 Oct 11, 17:34 | 119 | 2 |
| 146. | Spark of Truth: Can Science Bring Justice to Arson Trials? | 31 Oct 11, 21:21 | 139 | 2 |
| 147. | APOD: 2011 June 22 - MESSENGER s Degas View | 22 Jun 11, 15:46 | 156 | 1 |
| 148. | How to pull if you're a T\u00fangara frog | 11 Aug 11, 00:17 | 89 | 1 |
| 149. | Fifteen minutes' exercise a day can boost life expectancy | 17 Aug 11, 09:34 | 129 | 1 |
| 150. | 10 Wildest and Weirdest Car Restorations from Monterey Weekend | 25 Aug 11, 00:21 | 99 | 1 |
| 151. | 8 Amazing Animal Migrations | 7 Sep 11, 13:27 | 204 | 1 |
| 152. | Emotional Balance Is Regulated by Molecular Factors Behind Stress Response, Study Finds | 7 Sep 11, 21:37 | 149 | 1 |
| 153. | You Docs: Little Things That Have a Big Brain Bonus | 13 Sep 11, 23:11 | 166 | 1 |
| 154. | World's Most Interesting Floating Hotels (PICS) | 24 Sep 11, 11:22 | 116 | 1 |
| 155. | APOD: 2011 September 26 - Dry Ice Pits on Mars | 26 Sep 11, 13:29 | 210 | 1 |
| 156. | APOD: 2011 September 29 - Cocoon Nebula Wide Field | 29 Sep 11, 17:31 | 164 | 1 |
| 157. | 4 Sports Injuries That Are Pushing the Envelope of Modern Medicine | 1 Oct 11, 21:55 | 131 | 1 |
| 158. | APOD: 2011 October 5 - Comet and CME on the Sun | 5 Oct 11, 14:37 | 131 | 1 |
| 159. | APOD: 2011 October 6 - M82: Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind | 6 Oct 11, 13:30 | 143 | 1 |
| 160. | Gallery - Planetary probe hall of fame | 22 Nov 11, 06:37 | 83 | 1 |
| 161. | Rolling Across the Rocky Plains of Mars (PIC) | 16 Jul 11, 01:57 | 138 | 0 |
| 162. | Monkey see, monkey do? The role of mirror neurons in human behavior | 2 Aug 11, 12:34 | 115 | 0 |
| 163. | Think fast: The neural circuitry of reaction time | 11 Aug 11, 19:50 | 92 | 0 |
| 164. | Scandybars: Gooey Cross-Sections of Classic Candies (How Many Can You Recognize?) | 20 Aug 11, 19:52 | 101 | 0 |
| 165. | What Your Dinner Menu Says About U.S. History | 25 Aug 11, 03:15 | 101 | 0 |
| 166. | APOD: 2011 September 22 - Arp 272 | 22 Sep 11, 19:11 | 143 | 0 |
| 167. | APOD: 2011 October 7 - The Comet Hartley 2 Cruise | 7 Oct 11, 16:48 | 164 | 0 |
| 168. | APOD: 2011 October 31 - Ghost of the Cepheus Flare | 31 Oct 11, 14:12 | 157 | 0 |
| 169. | How to Fix Our Most Vexing Problems, From Mosquitoes to Potholes to Missing Corpses | 17 Nov 11, 14:02 | 168 | 0 |
| 170. | Space Artifacts at Auctions Draw High Bids and Higher Scrutiny | 2 Dec 11, 21:23 | 126 | 0 |
