[NewScientist]
Dark energy may not be needed to explain why the expansion of space appears to be speeding up. If our universe is like Swiss cheese on large scales—with dense regions of matter and holes with little or no matter—it could at least partly mimic the effects of dark energy

[ScienceDaily]
Researchers calculate the odds of life starting on Earth rather than inside a comet at one trillion trillion (10 to the power of 24) to one against.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light—an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

[LiveScience]
A team of chemists has developed a mathematical computer model to measure the "heat" inside a chili pepper.

[The Huffington Post]
AT&T demonstrates why we desperately need net neutrality.

[NewScientist]
An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory.