[New Scientist Space]
LiftPort Group, a private U.S. company on a quest to build a space elevator by April 2018, stretched a strong carbon ribbon 1 mile into the sky from the Arizona desert outside Phoenix in January tests. Only 61,999 miles to go...

[Travel Gear Blog]
A blog. About gear. For travelling.

[BBC News]
A hand-written manuscript penned by Robert Hooke containing the minutes of the Royal Society from 1661 to 1682 has been found in a house in Hampshire, where it is thought to have lain hidden in a cupboard for about 50 years.

[The Independent]
An astonishing mist-shrouded "lost world" of previously unknown and rare animals and plants high in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea has been uncovered by an international team of scientists.

[PhysOrg.com]
Swiss company Actelion develops drug, orexin-RA-1, that increases REM sleep and dreaming.

[ABC News Online]
UPDATE: SuitSat a failure.

[The Nation]
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online. In addition, Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency.