[Forbes]
Update on the current state of stem cell research.

[BBC News]
A fossil fish uncovered in Australia is the oldest-known example of a mother giving birth to live young. The 380 million-year-old specimen has been preserved with an embryo still attached by its umbilical cord. The find, reported in Nature, pushes back the emergence of this reproductive strategy by some 200 million years.

[NASA]
Phoenix Lander lands safely on Mars.

[Biomimicry News]
Researchers have been unable to build an ideal "photonic crystal" to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil.

[Reuters]
Excited astronomers have said that they've for the first time caught a supernova on camera just as it was exploding. In real time, they are seeing events that occurred 88 million years ago—but in Earth time they are just occurring and the astronomers can watch the supernova as if it really were exploding just now.

[Discover Magazine]
Did humans colonize the world by boat? Research suggests our ancestors traveled the oceans 70,000 years ago.

[techdo.com]
Our relative position in the universe.

[The New York Times]
World’s poor pay price as crop research is cut.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
How a magnet turned off my speech.

[PennState]
Physicists demonstrate how information could escape from black holes.

[BBC News]
Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London.

[guardian.co.uk]
The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods. As scientific guidelines are ignored and catches become ever bigger, why has the international community failed to act?

[SeattlePI]
Chart showing relative impact of various biofuel sources.

[ScienceDaily]
A new study in mice suggests that plants' flavonoids have beneficial effect on Alzheimer's disease.

[ScienceDaily]
Paleontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces—sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a Brigham Young University study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones.

[ScienceDaily]
Secondhand smoke exposure can cause cell damage in thirty Minutes.

[PopSci.com]
Hewlett Packard has announced a new electrical component born of theoretical physics. The device, a nanoscale component called a "memristor," requires no power to retain data, which it can store more densely than a hard drive and access about as fast as a computer’s RAM memory—potentially allowing it to replace both components in the future. Memristors can function in either a digital mode, in which a memory cell is “on” or “off,” or in analog mode, in which each cell holds some value in between. These values grow every time the cell receives an electrical signal, mimicking the way neurons in the brain build stronger memories the more they are stimulated.