[Wired]
How algal biofuels lost a decade in the race to replace oil.

[Newsvine]
Solution to killer superbug found in Norway?

[Billings Gazette]
The nonprofit American Prairie Foundation, is methodically acquiring ranches and crafting a 3.5-million-acre wildlife reserve out of private property and adjoining federal land. The inconspicuously named Prairie Project could be the largest privately funded conservation land venture on the planet and the biggest free-roaming bison range in the United States. Yellowstone Park, at 2.21 million acres, would be a distant second.

[PhysOrg.com]
U.S. researchers have found an antibody that hunts down prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage.

[Las Cruces Sun-News]
Researchers at New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute have partnered with Las Cruces-based Biad Chili Products LLC to produce a super-flavored chile, bred to have five times the aroma and flavor compounds of similar chiles grown today.

[Skytopia]
The unravelling of the real 3D Mandelbulb.

[Guardian.co.uk]
Has dark matter finally been detected?

[BBC News]
Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers—skin and lung—a move they say could revolutionise cancer care.

[Times Online]
Scientists have proved for the first time that HFCS, used in thousands of food products and soft drinks, can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.

[PhysOrg.com]
The chemical Bisphenol A used in plastic containers and drinks cans has been shown for the first time to affect the functioning of the intestines, according to a French study.

[The Atlantic]
Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very genes that give us the most trouble as a species, causing behaviors that are self-destructive and antisocial, also underlie humankind's phenomenal adaptability and evolutionary success.

[NPR]
Intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure of a child's brain, according to a study in the journal Neuron. The study found that several different programs improved the integrity of fibers that carry information from one part of the brain to another.