The strangest liquid: Why water is so weird

Key to the understanding of water's mysteries is the way its molecules interact with one another.
— New Scientist

Pig lungs in human transplants move step closer

Scientists used a ventilator and pump to keep animal lungs alive and "breathing" while human blood flowed in them.
— The Telegraph

Could life exist on Jupiter moon?

Europa may harbor an ocean beneath its thick crust of ice.
— BBC News

Bees See Your Face as a Strange Flower

Bees can learn to recognize human faces, or at least face-like patterns.
— LiveScience

Bosom bombers: Women have explosive breast implants

Authorities alarmed by possibility of surgically placed explosives.
— WorldNetDaily

Vegetative state patients can respond to questions

Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.
— BBC News

Powering cube satellites

An electric propulsion technology for miniature satellites aims to give them more mobility.
— MIT News

Pill That Will Help You Live to 100

The breakthrough has come after scientists identified three "super-genes."
— Daily Express

Ancient Mongolian Tomb Holds Skeleton of Western Man

The remains of a 2,000-year-old skeleton found in eastern Mongolia reveal a man of multi-ethnic heritage.
— Discovery News

Solar storms could cause blackouts at 2012 Olympics

Scientists have detected the signs of a fresh cycle of sunspots that could peak in 2012.
— The Independent

Giant squid invade California

Shoals of giant squid are invading the Californian coast, providing rich pickings for fishermen.
— The Telegraph

3 Neanderthal teeth found in Poland

It's believed the teeth may be from 100,000 to 80,000 years ago.
— Discovery Online

Labyrinths of the Mind: An excerpt from 'Magic, Mysticism & the Molecule'

Micah Hanks writes about Raymond Moody and the psychomanteum.
— Gralien Report

Future Soldiers May Get Brain Boosters and Digital Buddies

The soldiers of the future might controversially boost their brains with drugs and prosthetics.
— LiveScience

Animals on drugs: 11 unlikely highs

Whatever you do, don't give elephants LSD.
— New Scientist

Cat predicts 50 deaths in RI nursing home

Cat spends its days pacing from room to room, rarely spending any time with patients except those with just hours to live.
— The Telegraph

Incoming: The Cosmic Cue Balls

There may be "orphan" stars and planets wandering the universe.
— Inexplicata

Pentagon’s Black Budget Tops $56 Billion

Black projects are known only by their code names like "Chalk Eagle" and "Link Plumeria."
— Danger Room

Tribe brings back dead with "clothing" ritual

The "kutkot" ritual entails dressing up the remains of the dead in cloth so that they take on a human form again.
— Reuters

What in the World?

A new photo by astronauts on the International Space Station shows the artificial archipelagos off the coast of Dubai.
— LiveScience

Pictures: "Mythical" Temple Found in Peru

A thousand-year-old temple complex has been found under the windswept dunes of northwestern Peru.
— National Geographic News

Moscow's stray dogs

35,000 stray dogs roam Russia’s capital.
— Financial Times

Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There

Advances in sensor-based computing herald changes for data gathering.
— NY Times

Cascadia quake zone gets wired up

Seismometer array will monitor natural hazards.
— Nature

Pondering the Future Makes Us Lean Forward, Literally

Study participants swayed backward when thinking of the past and forward with future thoughts.
— LiveScience

What to get the man who has everything?

An underwater plane of course.
— Daily Mail

Kansas 5-year-old draws UFO after reporting 'round plane with bolts'

A Kansas parent is wondering if their 5-year-old's comments about "a round plane with bolts" and subsequent drawing could be an actual UFO sighting.
— Examiner.com

Experts discuss asteroid-warning system

Workshop advances ways global community can respond to threats to Earth.
— Space.com

New 'Destroyer' Dinosaur Found, Was T. Rex Relative

A 29-foot-long "destroyer" dinosaur once reigned over the Wild West, according to a new study of a fossil T. rex relative found in New Mexico.
— National Geographic News

Drug could turn soldiers into super-survivors

A compound that stops the body from shutting down after severe blood loss could keep soldiers alive for long enough to make it to hospital.
— New Scientist