[PhysOrg.com]
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the same tiny space.

[University of Pennsylvania]
A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. The team believes that the cognitive deficits caused by sleep deprivation, such as an inability to focus, learn or memorize, may be reversible by reducing the concentration of a specific enzyme that builds up in the hippocampus of the brain.

[BBC News]
The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future.

[Wired]
The truth about autism: scientists reconsider what they think they know.

[ScienceDaily]
The biological safety of nanotechnology, in other words, how the body reacts to nanoparticles, is a hot topic. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed for the first time to carry out successful experiments involving the injection of so-called "nanowires."

[Technology Review]
Heat diode paves the way for thermal computing.

[BBC News]
Researchers have devised a way to write memories onto the brains of flies.

[OpenWetWare]
An effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.

[Wired]
35 years of the world’s best microscope photography.

[ars technica]
Wi-Fi Direct protocol to ease peer-to-peer WiFi connections.

[Guardian.co.uk]
Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission gave Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the extra-planetary exposure it has always deserved. A Twitter feed from the satellite sent crashing onto the moon's surface channelled the voice of an improbably created sperm whale that discovers itself hurtling towards a different outer-space collision in Adams's much-loved story.

[PhysOrg.com]
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed 3D holograms that can be touched with bare hands.

[10/GUI]
An interesting new take on the graphical user interface. [video]

[Wired]
Wireless network signals produce see-through walls.

[PhysOrg.com]
Patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) also tend to have additional gastrointestinal (GI) tract conditions, such as gastric reflux and hiatal hernia, which form at the opening in your diaphragm where your food pipe (esophagus) joins your stomach.

[ScienceDaily]
Radiofrequency-tonsillotomy, which enables surgeons to reduce the size of the tonsillar tissue instead of removing the tonsils entirely, seems to be an effective and safe method of treating children with symptoms of enlarged tonsils.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
Arctic Ocean acid "will dissolve shells of sea creatures within 10 years."

[National Geographic News]
Scientists have announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.

[Guardian.co.uk]
Autism affects 1% of the adult population, the same rate as for children, says a large study, which undermines claims that the MMR vaccine is to blame.