Patient stem cells used to make dementia-in-a-dish; help identify new treatment strategy

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-patient-stem-cells-dementia-in-a-dish-treatment.html

A One-Way Trip to Mars? Many Would Sign Up

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/science/a-one-way-trip-to-mars-many-would-sign-up.html

Venus Gets Weirder: CO2 Oceans May Have Covered Surface

http://www.space.com/28112-venus-weird-superfluid-oceans.html

Stem cell transplant may help patients with MS

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stem-cell-transplant-may-help-manage-ms/

Nix That: 5 Top Retracted Science Papers of 2014

http://www.livescience.com/49266-retracted-science-papers-2014.html

Personality Trumps Intelligence When Learning

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/personality-trumps-intelligence-when-learning

Fingerprints Can Be Cloned From Photos, Used to Hack Accounts

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/fingerprints-can-be-cloned-from-photos-used-to-hack-accounts

The 41 Best Space Movies

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/12/no_author/41-best-outer-space-moviese280a8/

CAN AIDS BE CURED? Researchers get closer to outwitting a killer.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/can-aids-cured

CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs&feature=youtu.be

Nicholas Negroponte: Satellites Could Bring Everyone Online (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW-3Vh41-KM&

NASA's Ape-like RoboSimian Set for DARPA Robot Challenge

http://www.space.com/28106-nasa-robosimian-robot-darpa-challenge.html

The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let_us_run_climb_and_dance

First scientific report shows police body-cameras can prevent unacceptable use-of-force

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141224103101.htm

Egg and sperm race: Scientists create precursors to human egg and sperm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141225143546.htm

RUSSIA BEGINS PROJECT ‘NOAH’S ARK’ DNA DATABASE OF ALL LIVING THINGS

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=29494

Echolocation acts as substitute sense for blind people

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141223132542.htm

E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit Their Habit

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/e-cigarettes-help-smokers-quit-their-habit

Sperm attacked by woman's immune system - Inside the Human Body: Creation - BBC One (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoAUfnKcA3I

Nicholas Carr’s dire warning: How technology is “making the world less interesting”

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/24/nicholas_carrs_dire_warning_how_technology_is_making_the_world_less_interesting/

Imagination and Reality Look Different in the Brain

http://www.livescience.com/49244-imagination-reality-brain-flow-direction.html?cmpid=558763

Hybrid-electric aircraft takes to the skies

http://www.gizmag.com/hybrid-electric-aircraft/35342/

NASA tests gecko tech to pick up and recycle space trash

http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-gecko-grippers-space-trash/35346/

Amphibious HexH2o drone shoots both aerial and underwater video

http://www.gizmag.com/hexh20-amphibious-drone/35347/

2014: A space odyssey

http://www.gizmag.com/2014-year-space-roundup/34919/

MUV-e folding scooter inches closer to release

http://www.gizmag.com/muve-three-wheel-electric-scooter/35354/

Harvard coloring tech could be an attractive alternative to paint

http://www.gizmag.com/harvard-metal-film-color/35350/

Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/mathematicians-make-major-discovery-prime-numbers/

NASA's Incredible, Futuristic, And Totally Real Plan To Establish A Human Colony On Venus

http://www.businessinsider.com/colony-on-venus-2014-12

Reversing Aging Processes with One Protein: a 2014 Breakthrough

http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/articles/2014/12/reversing-aging-processes-one-protein-2014-breakthrough

Science's Breakthrough of the Year 2014! (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o9rsq3TYQk

Molecular Mechanism behind Health Benefits of Dietary Restriction Identified

http://www.alnmag.com/news/2014/12/molecular-mechanism-behind-health-benefits-dietary-restriction-identified

Technion Robot Likes Hanukkah Candles – but What about the Blessings?

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/technion-robot-likes-hanukkah-candles-but-what-about-the-blessings-video/2014/12/23/

Graham Hancock on Pleistocene Nonconformity

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2014/12/graham-hancock-on-pleistocene.html

Google unveils first real self-driving car prototype, set to hit streets next year

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/google-unveils-first-real-self-driving-car-prototype-set-hit-streets-next-year/

See invisible motion, hear silent sounds. Cool? Creepy? We can't decide (video)

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_rubinstein_see_invisible_motion_hear_silent_sounds_cool_creepy_we_can_t_decide

How Graphene Can Be Used to Create Energy Out of Thin Air

http://energyfanatics.com/2014/12/20/how-graphene-can-create-energy-thin-air/

Bacteria: We Wish You a Merry Christmas

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/12/bacteria-we-wish-you-merry-christmas?et_cid=4332227&et_rid=749571723&type=cta

Today in Lab History: First Successful Kidney Transplant

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/12/today-lab-history-first-successful-kidney-transplant?et_cid=4332227&et_rid=749571723&type=cta

Get an Astronaut’s View Inside Orion

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/videos/2014/12/get-astronaut%E2%80%99s-view-inside-orion?et_cid=4332227&et_rid=749571723&type=cta

Sedentary Lifestyle Made Human Bones Lighter

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/12/sedentary-lifestyle-made-human-bones-lighter

The scientist planning to upload his brain to a COMPUTER: Research could allow us to inhabit virtual worlds and 'live forever'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2879803/The-scientists-planning-upload-brain-COMPUTER-Research-allow-inhabit-virtual-worlds-live-forever.html

Instant-start computers possible with new breakthrough

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141218154508.htm

Lost memories might be able to be restored, suggests research into marine snail

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141220104133.htm

2014 science breakthroughs: no more ageing, cave art and landing on a comet

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/18/science-breakthrough-ageing-cave-art-comet-philae-rosetta-genetics

The First People

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=634176

Kahneman’s Mind Clarifying Work: How Mysterious Coinages Can Help

http://bigthink.com/errors-we-live-by/kahnemans-mind-clarifying-work-mysterious-coinages-can-help-in-science

Chinese Search Engine Says It Has Reached Deep Learning Breakthrough

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/chinese-search-engine-says-it-has-reached-deep-learning-breakthrough

Shock study: Marriage rate declines with porn use, threatening economy, society

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/shock-study-marriage-rate-declines-with-porn-use-threatening-economy-society/article/2557461

GENETICS Think You're All European or African? Most Are Mixed

http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics/think-youre-all-european-or-african-most-are-mixed-141218.htm

Carnivore Comeback: Bears and Wolves Are Thriving in Europe

http://www.livescience.com/49191-bears-wolves-carnivores-thriving-europe.html

Quantum physics just got less complicated: Wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty are same thing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141219085153.htm

Ibuprofen Linked to Long Lifespan in Several Species

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/12/ibuprofen-linked-long-lifespan-several-species

How exercise changes our DNA

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/how-exercise-changes-our-dna/

NASA Just Emailed A Wrench To The International Space Station

http://www.iflscience.com/space/how-nasa-emailed-wrench-space

Strange Rock from Russia Contains 30,000 Diamonds

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2014/12/19/strange-rock-from-russia-contains-30000-diamonds/

Crows are smarter than you think: Crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced rational thinking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141218131427.htm

Amputee simultaneously controls two prosthetic arms with his mind

http://www.cnet.com/news/amputee-simultaneously-controls-two-prosthetic-arms-with-his-mind/

New record for deepest fish

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30541065

INTERNET ADDICTION AFFECTS 6 PERCENT OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE

http://www.eurasiareview.com/18122014-internet-addiction-affects-6-percent-people-worldwide/

PARKINSON’S DISEASE REVERTED AT EXPERIMENTAL STAGE

http://www.eurasiareview.com/18122014-parkinsons-disease-reverted-experimental-stage/

DEVELOPING A RELIABLE WIND ‘SUPER GRID’ FOR EUROPE

http://www.eurasiareview.com/18122014-developing-reliable-wind-super-grid-europe/

Ball Lightning with Louis Proud

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2014/12/ball-lighening-with-louis-proud.html

Great wall of trees keeps China's deserts at bay

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429994.900

Hugs help protect against stress, infection, say researchers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141217101316.htm

Life expectancy increases globally as death toll falls from major diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141217201551.htm