[Technology Review]
A team of researchers at a Blacksburg, Virginia company called NanoSonic has developed "Metal Rubber," a filmy brown material that can extend to three times its original length and conduct electricity as well as a bar of steel.

[Science News]
Top science news of 2004.

[haveblue.com]
HaveBlue's patented, proprietary systems allow sailing vessels, for the first time, to utilize the hydrogen in water (H2O) in conjunction with renewable technologies such as photovoltaic (solar), wind, and hydroelectric to renew a significant portion of the energy required for that vessel's operation. The dream moves one step closer to reality.

[RedNova]
Taxonomists using DNA bar codes.

[New Scientist]
A new technique that persuades human eggs to divide as if they have been fertilized could provide a source of embryonic stem cells that sidesteps ethical objections to existing methods.

[clusterballoon.org]
Cluster ballooning.

[Science Blog]
Scientists at The Wistar Institute, working in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Helsinki, have discovered structural similarities among viruses that infect hosts from all three domains of life. These structural similarities suggest that the viruses, despite their genomic variations and differences in hosts, may have evolved from a common ancestor billions of years ago.

[The New York Times]
Overview of the problem of memory loss accompanying aging.