New Insight Into Gaseous and Dust Discs Around Stars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028074043.htm

New Software Eases Analysis of Insect in Motion

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027124757.htm

Raising Giant Insects to Unravel Ancient Oxygen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029132924.htm

Low Elevations Hold Climate Surprises for Mountain Plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028113821.htm

Spice in Curry Could Prevent Liver Damage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029152755.htm

High Level of Practical Intelligence a Factor in Entrepreneurial Success

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027153543.htm

Miniature livers 'grown in lab' Organ for transplant There is a shortage of organs for transplant Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11654943

UAV Helicopter Flies 12 Hours Charged By Laser

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/29/2338256

Calculating Environmental Damage From Space Tourism Rockets

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/30/1310220

U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents By ANDREW POLLACK

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/30drug.html

Microsoft’s Push Into Gesture Technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/technology/30chip.html

Clone zone: Bringing extinct animals back from the dead By Rebecca Morelle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11615811

Newly Discovered Gene Enables Fish to 'Disappear'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029132928.htm

‘Wireless’ Humans Could Form Backbone of New Mobile Networks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028074037.htm

Friends With Cognitive Benefits: Mental Function Improves After Certain Kinds of Socializing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028113817.htm

Researchers report a big leap in mapping genetic variants Scientists identify more than 15 million places in the human genome where the genetic code differs from person to person.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-genomes-20101028,0,827545.story

How men kissing each other on the lips in friendship is 'no longer taboo'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1324799/How-men-kissing-lips-friendship-longer-taboo.html

Sodas, other sugary beverages linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes: study

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10354&Section=Disease&source=DHB_101030

Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/2258252/Electric-Car-Goes-375-Miles-On-One-6-Minute-Charge

Brain's Journey from Early Internet to Modern-Day Fiber Optics: Computer Program Shows How Brain's Complex Fiber Tracks Mature

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027092205.htm

Facebook Study Finds Race Trumped by Ethnic, Social, Geographic Origins in Forging Friendships

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028132313.htm

New Strategy to Kill Bugs -- Even Those in Hiding

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026090832.htm

Emotion Processing in Brain Is Influenced by Color of Ambient Light, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025151507.htm

Getting Older Leads to Emotional Stability and Happiness, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028113819.htm

Wild Scottish Sheep Could Help Explain Differences in Immunity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028162156.htm

Newly Discovered Regulatory Mechanism Essential for Embryo Development and May Contribute to Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028152512.htm

B-Complex Vitamins May Help Slow Progression of Dementia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027155126.htm

Too Much Glucosamine Can Cause the Death of Pancreatic Cells, Increase Diabetes Risk, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027111349.htm

New Insight Into Links Between Obesity and Activity in the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026172025.htm

Is time running out for the wristwatch? By Andrew McFarlane

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11634105

Earth-sized worlds much more common than giant planets By Pallab Ghosh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11647089

The gene that makes you lean to the Left: How genetic variant determines your political views

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324494/Scientists-gene-gives-people-liberal-views.html

Humans mastered tool making earlier than thought

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69R3RO20101028

Modern Humans Emerged Far Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossils from China Suggest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025172924.htm

The First Photograph of a Human?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/the-first-photograph-of-a-human/65196/

Women in their 20s 'should freeze their ovaries': Provocative call from leading IVF expert

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1324400/Women-20s-freeze-ovaries-says-leading-IVF-expert.html

The Hundred Year Starship: The Nasa mission that will take astronauts to Mars and leave them there forever

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324192/Nasa-plan-Hundred-Year-Starship--mission-astronauts-Mars-leave-forever.html

Structural Genomics Accelerates Protein Structure Determination

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027170926.htm

Scientists Helping Keep in-Demand Smoked Salmon Safe to Eat, Thanks to New Mathematical Model

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026161255.htm

Making Bone in the Laboratory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027091526.htm

Small Particles Show Big Promise in Beating Unpleasant Odors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027124736.htm

Bicarbonate Adds Fizz to Players' Tennis Performance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025221739.htm

Tale of the Headless Dragonfly: Ancient Struggle, Preserved in Amber

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026161257.htm

'Gender-Bending' Chemicals Affect Reproduction in Fish, Research Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026111613.htm

Eggshells Could Help Combat Climate Change, Research Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026111607.htm

New Evidence Supports 'Snowball Earth' as Trigger for Early Animal Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027133146.htm

Emotional Intelligence Predicts Job Performance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027153041.htm

Dream recording device 'possible' researcher claims By Pallab Ghosh

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11635625

We're all carrying 100 genes linked to diseases such as cancer By Fiona Macrae

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1324348/We-carry-100-genes-linked-diseases-like-cancer-diabetes.html

Space Telescope Listens In on Stellar Symphony

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/077689-2010-10-27-space-telescope-listens-in-on-stellar-symphony.htm

Hormone Found In Rich People Linked To Longer Life

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/10/hormone-found-in-rich-people-linked-to.html

Armenian archeologists: 5,900-year-old skirt found

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J3IHM81.htm

Tabletop Instrument Makes Synchrotron X-Rays: Simpler and Cheaper Way to Produce Tightly Focused High-Energy Beams

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101024144136.htm

Robotic Gripper Runs on Coffee ... and Balloons

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161140.htm

Microwave Oven Key to Self-Assembly Process Meeting Semi-Conductor Industry Need

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161142.htm

Stable Way to Store the Sun's Heat: Storing Thermal Energy in Chemical Could Lead to Advances in Storage and Portability

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161219.htm

Six New Isotopes of the Superheavy Elements Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026161251.htm

How to Avoid Fraud in Biometric Identification

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025090104.htm

Odor Coding in Mammals Is More Complex Than Previously Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025123850.htm

Clues About Carbon Dioxide Patterns at End of Ice Age

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161152.htm

Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years Into the Future

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026123343.htm

Risk of Cancer Due to Radiation Exposure in Middle Age May Be Higher Than Previously Estimated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161028.htm

Newly Discovered Snub-Nosed Monkey Sneezes in the Rain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101026203638.htm

Can meditation change your brain? Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/26/can-meditation-change-your-brain-contemplative-neuroscientists-believe-it-can/

CHINA UNVEILS 260MPH TRAIN LINE

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/207624/China-unveils-260mph-train-line

Stephen Hawking: I didn't learn to read until I was eight and I was a lazy student

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322807/Stephen-Hawking-I-didnt-learn-read-8-lazy-student.html

Scientists close to developing cancer-killing pill which exploits flaw in disease's DNA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1323481/Cancer-killing-pill-exploits-flaw-diseases-DNA-close-development.html

Diabetics see the light with blood-sugar test

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1323690/Diabetics-light-blood-sugar-test.html

Phew! 2012 Doomsday Date May Be Wrong Mayan Calendar's Doomsday Date May Be Off by 50 to 100 years, Research Shows

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mayan-calendars-2012-doomsday-prophecy-wrong/story?id=11926347&page=1

Are there plenty more fish in the sea? By Susan Watts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11619320

Walkman will soon be history

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2010/10/137_75278.html

How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/26/186253

Magnesium May Stave Off Sudden Cardiac Death

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=10339&Section=Disease&source=DHB_101026

Why women live longer than men: Male bodies are much more genetically 'disposable' By Niall Firth

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1323571/Why-women-live-longer-men-Male-bodies-genetically-disposable.html

There's life on Mars: Famous scientist accuses NASA of hiding data

http://www.helium.com/items/1994442-evidence-of-martian-life

Dolphins Walk on Water

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/10/dolphins-walk-on-water.html

Low female desire: All in the mind? A study finds brain differences in women with weak sex drives and supports drug companies' search for "pink Viagra" By Tracy Clark-Flory

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/10/26/sex_brain/index.html

Plagiarism Sleuths Tackle Full-Text Biomedical Articles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025121901.htm

Pre-Columbian Societies in Amazon May Have Been Much Larger and More Advanced Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018074612.htm

Plant-Based Plastics Not Necessarily Greener Than Oil-Based Relatives, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021104741.htm

Discovery May Help Scientists Boost Broccoli’s Cancer-Fighting Power

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022072556.htm

Egg Meets Sperm: The Female Side of the Story

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021131609.htm

Falling in Love Only Takes About a Fifth of a Second, Research Reveals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022184957.htm

Marathons Damage the Hearts of Less Fit Runners for Up to Three Months, MRI Data Suggest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025005836.htm

New Concept in Microscopy: Self-Reconstructing Laser Beams

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101012101922.htm

Daily Vibration May Help Aging Bones Stay Healthy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025101636.htm

Beauty from the Bottom Up: Flamingos Add Natural 'Make-Up' to Their Feathers to Attract Mates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025101634.htm

Fighting Wrinkles With Lasers Scientifically Unraveled

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021141000.htm

Exercising in the Heat May Improve Athletic Performance in Cool and Hot Conditions, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161144.htm

Aspirin Use Associated With Lower Risk of Cancer Death for Men With Prostate Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025133750.htm

Statin Use Associated With Statistically Significant Reduction in Colorectal Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018092145.htm

Why Does Lack of Sleep Affect Us Differently? Study Hints It May Be in Our Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161023.htm

Energy Saving Lamp Is Eco-Winner: Swiss Researcher Evaluates Environmental Friendliness of Light Sources

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022102841.htm

Molecular Guardian of Cell's RNA Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025133828.htm

Haiti Earthquake Caused by Unknown Fault; Blamed Fault Ready to Produce Large Earthquake

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161154.htm

Peace of Mind Closes Health Gap for Less-Educated, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025123902.htm

Stop the Bleeding: New Way to Restore Numbers of Key Blood-Clotting Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025123900.htm

Unexpected Findings of Lead Exposure May Lead to Treating Blindness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161146.htm

Ancient chimp virus brought 'back to life' Scientists have identified the receptor used by a virus that plagued chimpanzees' ancestors.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101025/full/news.2010.561.html

Cuban Treatment for Diabetic Foot Ulcers Heads for Europe By Patricia Grogg

http://ipsnews.net/newsTVE.asp?idnews=53260

Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van

http://tech.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/25/1743217

Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem

http://news.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/25/1440216

The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/25/1259210

New Programming Language Weaves Security Into Code

http://developers.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/25/2134247

Discovery Puts New Spin on Universe's Most Powerful Magnets By Charles Q. Choi

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/most-powerful-magnetic-stars-discovery-101014.html

Neutron Stars Are Doomed if Vacuum Energy Goes Wild By Charles Q. Choi

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/vacuum-energy-star-explosions-101020.html

Atomic-Level Manufacturing: Manufacturing With Every Atom in Its Proper Place May Be Coming Soon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019111527.htm

Largest Parity Violation and Other Adventures in Table-Top Physics: Atomic Experiments Push Boundary of Known Physical World

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019111708.htm

Japanese Giant Hornets: World's most dangerous insect?

http://www.helium.com/items/1992353-japanese-giant-hornets-worlds-most-dangerous-insect

Netflix Eats Up 20 Percent Of U.S. Downstream Bandwidth

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371260,00.asp

Life on earth could be transformed by NASA space technology

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-life-earth-nasa-space-technology.html

Discovery could lead to new asthma treatments Bitter taste receptors found in lungs

http://www.source.ly/10zLE

A New Way to Weigh Planets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021104743.htm

'Lubricin' Molecule Discovered to Reduce Cartilage Wear

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020184136.htm

Nanotube Thermopower: Efforts to Store Energy in Carbon Nanotubes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019212906.htm

Scientists Open Electrical Link to Living Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021103115.htm

First Implanted Device to Treat Balance Disorder Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021090028.htm

Women really are more generous as study proves they donate more to charity

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322605/Women-really-generous-study-proves-donate-charity.html

Taking aspirin may cut risk of bowel cancer by a quarter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1322750/Taking-aspirin-cut-risk-bowel-cancer-quarter.html

Researchers Break Speed Barrier in Solving Important Class of Linear Systems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021113008.htm

Scorpion Has Welcome Sting for Heart Bypass Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022063524.htm

70-Year-Olds Smarter Than They Used to Be, Swedish Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022123551.htm

New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022113117.htm

Plants Play Larger Role Than Thought in Cleaning Up Air Pollution, Research Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021152401.htm

Horror Film-esque "Body Rot" Disease Hits Uganda Jiggers Blamed for Epidemic Which Has Killed 20 Ugandans and Sickened More than 20,000 in Just 2 Months

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/22/world/main6981857.shtml

Taking a Closer Look at Plaque

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020195603.htm

Malarial Mosquitoes Are Evolving Into New Species, Say Researchers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020151324.htm

Younger Brains Are Easier to Rewire -- Brain Regions Can Switch Functions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021124922.htm

Light on Silicon Better Than Copper?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021113010.htm

Scientists share secrets of their own DNA warts and all with the world

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/scientists-share-secrets-of-their-own-dna-warts-and-all-with-the-world/story-e6frg6so-1225937235025

Scientists open electrical link to living cells

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-scientists-electrical-link-cells.html

NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/10/21/234229

Star, Not So Bright: Model Explains Evolution of Unusual Black Hole Binary System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020131704.htm

Astronomers Say They've Found Oldest Galaxy So Far

http://www.aolnews.com/science/article/astronomers-believe-they-have-found-oldest-galaxy-so-far/19682184?icid=main|main|dl1|sec1_lnk3|179269

Eating Mostly Whole Grains, Few Refined Grains Linked to Lower Body Fat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020101648.htm

New Mothers Grow Bigger Brains Within Months of Giving Birth: Warmer Feelings Toward Babies Linked to Bigger Mid-Brains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020111217.htm

Clinton robot maker wins Air Force contract Robot-maker Remotec Inc. has landed a new contract to help keep U.S. military personnel safe from the "evolving threats" of improvised explosive devices.

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/harris/2010/10/clinton-robot-maker-wins-air-force-contract.html

Gene linked to depression 'fixed' in mice Brain - depression Could gene therapy help depression? Gene therapy in mice appears to be able to "correct" a gene defect strongly linked to depression in people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11589292

Flu Shots For The Elderly Are Ineffective

http://www.doctoryourself.com/flushot.html

Humans able to back up their brain and its memories within two decades, claims top scientist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322218/Humans-able-brain-decades-claims-scientist.html

Psychology Is Too PC - James Watson

http://bigthink.com/ideas/24474

'Drivel' on Facebook More Valuable Than We Think

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018074410.htm

Making the Internet Faster

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019121427.htm

Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an Exoplanet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019140028.htm

The Hair Brush That Reads Your Mind

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019152616.htm

'Virtual Satellite Dish' Thanks to Lots of Simple Processors Working Together

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018112354.htm

Plastic Monitors Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018151254.htm

Gene Variant May Protect Against Alcoholism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101019162203.htm

The science of optical illusions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11553099

McMaster researchers say not all stem cells the same

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-mcmaster-stem-cells.html

Why McDonald's Happy Meal hamburgers won't decompose - the real story behind the story

http://www.naturalnews.com/030074_Happy_Meal_decompose.html

Study reveals new potential benefit of testosterone: Could HRT for men cut the risk of heart disease?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1321983/Could-HRT-men-cut-risk-heart-disease.html

Scientists use gold to discover breakthrough for creating biorenewable chemicals

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-scientists-gold-breakthrough-biorenewable-chemicals.html

NTU researchers develop world's smallest on-chip low-pass filter

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-ntu-world-smallest-on-chip-low-pass.htm

International Effort Brings an Open Standard For Docking In Space

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/19/2251230/International-Effort-Brings-an-Open-Standard-For-Docking-In-Space

Higher Education Curricula Not Keeping Pace With Societal, Tech Changes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018174416.htm

Using Discards, Scientists Discover Different Dinosaurs' Stomping Grounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101014160941.htm

New Class of Highly Electronegative Chemical Species Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101008162702.htm

Planet Hunters No Longer Blinded by the Light: New Way to See Faint Planets Previously Hidden in Their Star's Glare

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015105935.htm

Unexpected Magnetic Order Among Titanium Atoms Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018151300.htm

Egg Allergy: Not a Reason to Avoid Flu Vaccine After All, Experts Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018121440.htm

Why Cocaine Is So Addictive: Activation of Specific Neurons Linked to Alterations in Cocaine Reward

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018121438.htm

Western Diet Exacerbates Sepsis, Mouse Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018211818.htm

Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft He was considered a possible heir apparent; his departure is bad news for the software giant By Dan Gillmor

http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/index.html?story=/tech/dan_gillmor/2010/10/18/microsoft_roy_ozzie

I Win, You Lose: Brain Imaging Reveals How We Learn from Our Competitors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101013122553.htm

Mice That 'Smell' Light Could Help Scientist Better Understand Olfaction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101017133637.htm

Unlike Us, Honeybees Naturally Make 'Quick Switch' in Their Biological Clocks, Researcher Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101013102535.htm

Mystery Solved: How Genes Are Selectively Silenced

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018102239.htm

Moving Monopoles Caught on Camera: Researchers Make Visible Movement of Monopoles in Assembly of Nanomagnets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018074540.htm

When Vertebrae Cross Dress: How Sloths Got Their Long Neck

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018163102.htm

Internet users to exceed 2 billion this year

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69I24720101019

Stone Age flour found across Europe Starch residues on stone tools suggest early humans ate a balanced diet.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101018/full/news.2010.549.html

Genetic Trigger of Depression Identified: Potential Target for Novel Class of Therapeutic Agents

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101017133639.htm

Adding Human Intelligence to Software TurKit lets programmers combines code with input from an army of online human workers. By John Pavlus

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26535/?a=f

"The Moral Landscape": Why science should shape morality Sam Harris, the notorious atheist, explains his controversial stance on religion -- and his provocative new book By Katherine Don

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http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes/

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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-10/video-water-meets-superhydrophobic-nanotube-array-slow-motion

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1320419/Humans-using-half-planets-worth-resources-need-Earths-2030.html

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1320416/Eating-watermelon-lowers-blood-pressure.html

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1320507/Cancer-purely-man-say-scientists-finding-trace-disease-Egyptian-mummies.html

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http://www.articlesafari.com/2010/09/whites-asians-did-not-come-from-africa/

Eerie female robot learns to 'sing' by copying human singer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1320440/Female-robot-learns-sing-copying-human-pop-star-Japan.html

String, energy, and cats: String Theory for Dummies

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First test tube baby Louise Brown was grown in a JAR

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1320175/First-test-tube-baby-Louise-Brown-actually-grown-jar.html

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http://forgetomori.com/2008/science/enlarge-your-penis-data-bandwidth/

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1320180/British-inventor-builds-floating-home-120-000-plastic-bottles.html

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101013173839.htm

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101012101249.htm

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101011223927.htm

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