[LiveScience]
Emotions run amok in sleep-deprived brains.

[Wired Science]
Yucatan jungles are feral Maya gardens.

[PhysOrg.com]
A new, patent-pending technology developed over the last five years called "Warp processing" gives a computer chip the ability to improve its performance over time. The benefits of Warp processing are just being discovered by the computing industry.

[The University of Manchester]
Researchers have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells—and now plan to develop an artificial nerve that will bring damaged limbs and organs back to life.

[BBC News]
Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer James Watson has been suspended by his research institution in the U.S. over remarks he made in a British newspaper.

[ScienceDaily]
By injecting embryonic stem cells from a wood mouse into the early embryo of a house mouse, an international team of scientists has produced normal healthy animals made up of a mixture of cells from each of the two distantly related species. This is the first time that stem cells from one mammalian species have been shown to contribute extensively to development when introduced into the embryo of another, very different species.

[Sentient Developments]
You either get it or you don't.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
There isn't just one dimension of time, Itzhak Bars of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles tells New Scientist. There are two. One whole dimension of time and another of space have until now gone entirely unnoticed by us.

[MSNBC]
Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.

[Spiegel Online]
A team of researchers led by Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen has found that growing and using biofuels emits up to 70 percent more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels.

[TechConsumer]
Seven companies decide open source is the future of cellphone technology.

[Tikkun]
Do extremism and an unconditional adherence to religious dogma result from a failure of a portion of the frontal lobe to fully develop or, if fully developed, to activate? Studies suggest that faithful adherence to a single reasoning strategy on tests such as the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test means that parts of the frontal lobes are inactive, have failed to fully develop, or have even been damaged. Thus, unqualified disdain for divergent beliefs,for personal interpretation, and for creative theories like Darwin’s theory of evolution, may indeed have, at least a partial, biological explanation: a reduced utilization of that section of the brain which has played such a vital role in humanity’s creative advances—the frontal lobes.