[Wired]
SpaceX's Falcon 1 has became the first privately built liquid rocket to orbit the Earth, following in the footsteps of SpaceShipOne which became the first privately-built crewed spaceship to fly suborbitally in October 2004.

[Space.com]
As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren't vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered. Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can't be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon "dark flow."

[National Geographic News]
What you smell may influence emotions in your dreams, according to a new study.

[Wired]
Barack Obama condemned the current administration's handling of NASA and called on Congress to take action to protect the United States' access to the International Space Station.

[MSNBC]
Trapped inside a Lebanese weevil covered in ancient Burmese amber, a tiny colony of bacteria and yeast had lain dormant for up to 45 million years. Raul Cano drilled a tiny hole into the amber and extracted more than 2,000 different kinds of microscopic creatures. Activating the ancient yeast, Cano now brews barrels of pale ale and German wheat beer through the Fossil Fuels Brewing Company.

[Mail Online]
New global warming threat as scientists discover massive methane "time bomb" under the Arctic seabed.

More.

[Reuters]
Scientists have discovered a "chemical equator" that divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the largely uncontaminated atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere.

[DenverPost.com]
CERN's Large Hadron Collider has been damaged and will be out of commission for at least two months for repairs.

[MIT News]
In recent years, demonstrations of memory's failures have convinced many scientists that human memory does not store the details of our experiences. However, a new study from MIT cognitive neuroscientists may overturn this widespread belief: They have shown that given the right setting, the human brain can record an amazing amount of information.

[Discovery Channel]
Nearly 40 percent of fish species in North America are imperiled, according to a new survey by fish experts, the U. S. Geological Survey, and the American Fisheries Society, up 92 percent from the last survey done in 1989.

[OneGeology]
OneGeology is an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world and a flagship project of the International Year of Planet Earth. Its aim is to create dynamic geological map data of the world available via the web.

[Pruned]
If blanketing UK cities with a thick scopic fog of CCTV cameras weren't enough, the countryside may soon find itself placed under similar heavy surveillance. But this, curiously enough, might be a good thing.

[ScientificBlogging]
Tardigrades, or water-bears, can survive exposure to open-space vacuum, cold, and radiation.

[National Geographic News]
Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas. Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeleton—along with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula—could provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated.

[LiveScience]
Secrecy and competition to achieve breakthroughs have been part of scientific culture for centuries, but the latest Internet advances are forcing a tortured openness throughout the halls of science and raising questions about how research will be done in the future.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
Our inability to produce a chemical present in every other primate may be linked to a series of chronic diseases.

[Discovery Channel]
Sea level rise may be double what is expected.

[ReadWriteWeb]
Google Chrome, Google's upcoming new browser, looks very interesting.