[PhysOrg.com]
The International Space Station this year will grow faster in size, power, volume and mass than ever before, significantly expanding its capabilities.

[HoneyBrown.ca]
Bumptop—a promising prototype which may someday provide a badly-needed upgrade to today's tired desktop GUI.

[Time]
Steven Pinker gives an overview of what we currently know of human consciousness.

[The New York Times]
Scientists have built a working memory chip that is roughly the size of a white blood cell—about 1/2000th of an inch on a side.

[Nature]
The emerging picture of microbes as gene-swapping collectives demands a revision of such concepts as organism, species and evolution itself.

[BBC News]
Up to a quarter of computers on the net—including yours!—may be used by cyber criminals in so-called "botnets."

[Yahoo! News]
Damage to the insula, a silver dollar-sized spot deep in the brain, seems to wipe out the urge to smoke, a surprising discovery that may shed important new light on addiction.

[Technology Review]
Is battery technology about to get a LOT better? EEStor thinks they have an answer.

[New Scientist]
Millions of new pieces of space junk may have been generated during a Chinese test of an anti-satellite weapon last week. The debris could be dangerous for existing satellites—and even for astronauts aboard the International Space Station and the space shuttle—for years to come.

[Guardian Unlimited]
Fermi Paradox solved? Rasmus Bjork, a physicist at the Niels Bohr institute in Copenhagen, calculates that even if alien ships could hurtle through space at a tenth of the speed of light it would take 10 billion years, roughly half the age of the universe, to explore just 4% of the galaxy.

[SFGate.com]
Interesting prototype for a new kind of ship, the Proteus.

[NewScientistTech]
An electronic security system that identifies people by monitoring the unique pattern of electrical activity within their brain is being tested by European scientists.

[BBC News]
Scientists have found that capsaicin, an ingredient of chile peppers, triggers cancer cell death by attacking mitochondria—the cells' energy-generating boiler rooms. The study showed that the family of molecules to which capsaicin belongs, the vanilloids, bind to proteins in the cancer cell mitochondria to trigger apoptosis, or cell death, without harming surrounding healthy cells.

[Space.com]
Astronomers have mapped the positions of vast, invisible isles of dark matter in the sky, within which normal "bright" matter galaxies are embedded like glittering gems. The three-dimensional map spans not only space, but also time, and stretches back to when the universe was only about half its present age.

[Scientific American]
Researchers at the Longevity Genes Project, initiated by Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, have now discovered a gene that apparently protects the brain as well as prolonging life.

[PhysOrg.com]
Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does.

[whfoods.org]
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[BBC News]
Scientists at Harvard University say they have discovered a new source of stem cells by recovering functioning stem cells from amniotic fluid—the liquid that surrounds the baby in the womb.