[Reuters]
NASA reverses decision, will repair the Hubble space telescope.

[news.scotsman.com]
An artificial liver has been grown for the first time from stem cells, it emerged last night. The breakthrough is considered the vital first step towards creating a fully artificial liver that could be used to tackle ever-growing waiting lists for transplants.

[Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories]
This privacy-enhanced computer display uses a ferroelectric shutter glasses and a special device driver to produce a computer display which can be read only by the desired recipient, and not by an onlooker.

[Yahoo! News]
New research has found that eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old. On measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables.

[TCS Daily]
What ever happened to the Multiverse?

[Seed Magazine]
A 380 million-year-old fossil has filled a gap in understanding how fish evolved into the first land animals.

[The Charlotte Observer]
Google Earth proves useful in spotting ancient ruins.

[Yahoo! News]
Red wine might work to protect the brain from damage after a stroke and drinking a couple of glasses a day might provide that protection ahead of time.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
A new study claims to have found a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive function. The researchers found that people with a Body Mass Index—a measure of body fat—of 20 or less could recall 56 per cent of words in a vocabulary test, while those who were obese, with a BMI of 30 or higher, could remember only 44 per cent. The fatter subjects also showed a higher rate of cognitive decline when they were retested five years later: their recall dropped to 37.5 per cent, whereas those with a healthy weight retained their level of recall.

[LiveScience]
Neanderthals are often thought of as the stray branch in the human family tree, but research now suggests the modern human is likely the odd man out. In the broader sweep of human evolution, the more unusual group is not Neanderthals, whom we tend to look at as strange, weird and unusual, but it's us, modern humans.

[Wired]
The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. George Gilder on the dawning of the petabyte age.

[NewScientistTech]
Self-assembling gel stops bleeding in seconds.

[BBC News]
A team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has discovered a way to trigger bone production, raising hopes of a treatment for osteoporosis.

[Times Online]
What is starting to emerge is a more accurate—and recognisable— picture of human nature than classical economic theory provided. In many ways, it is a positive one, helping to explain the human capacity for kindness and co-operation, and the centrality of fairness to social norms. We are not acquisitive automatons conditioned always to follow narrow self-interest.

[Popular Mechanics]
Breakthrough Awards 2006.

[BBC News]
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a spectacular picture of the Opportunity rover sitting on a crater's rim.

[EurekAlert!]
In the November issue of The American Naturalist, a group of 12 ecologists and conservationists provide a detailed proposal for the restoration of North America's lost megafauna. Using the same species from different locales or closely related species as analogs, their project "Pleistocene Rewilding" is conceived as carefully managed experiments in an attempt to learn about and partially restore important natural processes to North American ecosystems that were present for millennia until humans played a significant role in their demise 13,000 years ago.

[Life Extension Daily News]
Buoyed by recent genetic breakthroughs, researchers at Northwestern University and across the country have hopes of achieving a feat long thought to be impossible: enabling people to replace damaged body parts or even regrow missing limbs. Like salamanders and other lower species, humans possess genes that direct the body to make new arms and legs after an injury. But in humans, the genes lie dormant, inactivated after evolution favored the swift patching of wounds through scarring over the slow regeneration of body parts. The discoverer of those genetic switches, Northwestern developmental biologist Hans-Georg Simon, and other researchers think they can find a way to turn on the dormant genes. A person who lost a leg might be able to generate a new one.