[The Independent]
New evidence shows soft drinks may cause serious cell damage.

[Yahoo! News]
Evidence shows that the giant limestone blocks of the Pyramids were poured, not chiseled.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
Scientists may be close to a true and effective treatment for baldness.

[PhysOrg.com]
U.S. astronomers have presented the most solid proof yet of the existence of dark matter, a mysterious substance believed to make up more than a quarter of the universe.

[ScienceDaily]
Researchers have created a "virus sponge" that could filter a patient's blood in a process similar to kidney dialysis, removing the virus from the patient's body.

[BBC News]
NASA unveils a model for the successor to the Hubble space telescope.

[News In Science]
Warmer sea temperatures are linked to the severity of a coral disease, according to a study on Australia's Great Barrier Reef that offers a dire warning about global warming's potential impact on the world's troubled reefs. In some locations, scientists found a 25-30% loss of coral and centuries-old corals were killed.

[NWF Daily News]
The world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one website, open to everyone. The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. The project will take about 10 years to finish.

[The Washington Post]
People in the military are beginning to anthropomorphize battlebots.

[Technology Review]
An efficient new method to generate what appears to be a novel type of stem cell could be a boon to diseases linked to lack of blood flow. Scientists in Massachusetts and Florida have developed a way to coax embryonic stem cells into a more adult form of stem cell that has the potential to form blood vessels. The new type of cells helped repair tissue in animals that had had heart attacks or eye damage due to diabetes.

[The New York Times]
Five Swiss sailors have crossed the Atlantic on a specially built solar-powered catamaran, a 45.9-foot-long craft with 3,600 pounds of batteries to store power drawn from the sun. The claim they staked is to pilot the first motorized vessel to cross the Atlantic without oil or steam power.

[BBC News]
The mystery of how eating less boosts longevity is closer to being solved. Studies have shown that severe calorie restriction markedly extends lifespan in mice and many other species—but the reasons for this remained elusive. But now US research on nematode worms, published in Nature, has uncovered a gene linked to this unusual effect. In the future, the find could lead to drugs that mimic the consequences of calorie restriction but negate the need for severe fasting regimes.

[NewScientist]
A pocket-sized device that runs on two AA batteries and copies DNA as accurately as expensive lab equipment has been developed by researchers in the United States.

[NewScientist]
Transgastric surgery, performed through the mouth, offers the possibility of incision-and-scar-free appendectomies and other organ surgies.