[The New Yorker]
Where will synthetic biology lead us?

[treehugger]
Researchers have found that E. coli can be used to recover uranium from tainted waters and can even be used to clean up nuclear waste.

[internetnews.com]
Firefox is cleared of U.S export rules. Mozilla's top lawyer explains why the "no-violation" letter is a major milestone for open source and the First Amendment.

[ScienceBlogs]
Gene therapy gives full-color vision to color-blind monkeys.

[Wired]
360-degree panorama of the Milky Way.

[marketwire]
Armadillo Aerospace makes record-breaking rocket flights to qualify for $1 Million NASA prize presented by X PRIZE Foundation.

[AnandTech]
Beginnings of the holodeck?

[NASA]
Images from the refurbished Hubble.

[ScienceDaily]
Aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of the fish consumed globally, according to a new report by an international team of researchers.

[The New York Times]
Researchers suggest that we were naked and furless for more than a million years before we started wearing clothes.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study.

[Scientific American]
Will a speed bump power the grid?

[Miller-McCune]
Researchers have found a unique sequence on the X chromosome suggesting that as anatomically modern humans arrived in Asia, they interbred with archaic hominids called Homo erectus.

[PhysOrg.com]
Scientists have made a crucial discovery of genes that have evolved in humans after branching off from other primates.