[Stanford News Service]
Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
The Amazon rainforest was covered by a vast sprawl of interconnected villages between 1,500 and 500 years ago.

[The New York Times]
Internet traffic beginning to route around the United States. Intelligence agency snooping to blame?

[ScienceDaily]
Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of a substance other than insulin by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

[TED]
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web. [video]

[Green Living Technologies]
Green walls.

[Los Angeles Times]
Chile peppers' spice is a built-in pesticide.

[guardian.co.uk]
The human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, a new report predicts, including pharmacological land mines and drones directed by mind control.

[The Register]
Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it.

[ScienceNews]
Mathematicians claim to have proven that if we have free will, so do subatomic particles.

[istartedsomething.com]
Technology demo of a new 3D video viewer concept by a collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research. [video]

[PhysOrg.com]
In scientific first, researchers correct decline in organ function associated with old age.

[ScienceDaily]
The trigger for brain plasticity has been identified. The signal comes, surprisingly, from outside the brain.

[vimeo]
Aurora: Is this what our computer interface will look like in the future? [video]

[Space.com]
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has confirmed the existence of water ice on Mars.

[Nature]
Skin cells from an elderly patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been "reprogrammed" to generate motor neurons, the type of nerve cells that die as the disease progresses.

[BBC News]
German doctors have carried out a complete double arm transplant. The patient was a 54-year-old farmer who lost his limbs in an accident six years ago.