NASA spacecraft Dawn's incredible journey

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dawn-20110624,0,6421064.story

New way to make lighter, stronger steel -- in a flash

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609173718.htm

Dreams of Fusion Power: I'm Not the Only One

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2011/05/16/dreams_of_fusion_power_im_not_the_only_one_106237.html

Lithium Battery Industry Keeps Going, And Going ...

http://m.npr.org/story/136029474?url=/2011/05/09/136029474/lithium-battery-industry-keeps-going-and-going

Fwd: Graphene paper composite

'By using a proprietary process, the UTS team claims to have made a material that, when compared to steel, is six times lighter, is five to six times less dense, is two times harder and has ten times the tensile strength and 13 times the bending rigidity.'

http://green.autoblog.com/2011/05/08/graphene-composite-material-is-thin-like-paper-10-to-13-times-s/

Radiation

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

What triggers mass extinctions? Study shows how invasive species stop new life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230100050.htm

What's inside a Dalek?

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3691

Chasing Immortality

http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j30/kurzweil.asp

Life in 2060: A Futurizon Report by Ian Pearson

http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38267:life-in-2060-a-futurizon-report-by-ian-pearson&catid=291:technology&Itemid=1036

Leonardo Da Vinci Automovile (1495)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qeZrejZp0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Scientists To Drill Deeper Than Ever Before, Hope To Sample Mantle

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/scientists-drill-into-mantle_n_840546.html

First permanent anti-fog coating developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316104117.htm

Big Minds Debate Theory of Everything | Physics, Cosmology & String Theory |

http://www.livescience.com/13129-physics-string-theory.html

8 Shocking Things We Learned From Stephen Hawking's Book

http://www.livescience.com/8869-8-shocking-learned-stephen-hawking-book.html

Could Atom Smasher be Used as a Time Machine?

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/16/atom-smasher-used-time-machine/?test=faces#

Geomagnetic reversal

At present, the overall geomagnetic field is becoming weaker; the present strong deterioration corresponds to a 10–15% decline over the last 150 years and has accelerated in the past several years...

The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting from northern Canada towards Siberia with a presently accelerating rate — 10 km per year at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 40 km per year in 2003,^[11] and since then has only accelerated ^[12]. In the last decade magnetic north was shifting roughly one degree every five years.^[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301200638.htm

Navy Breaks World Record With Futuristic Free-Electron Laser

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/18/navy-breaks-world-record-futuristic-laser-getting-real/#

Fountain of youth from the tap? Environmental lithium uptake promotes longevity, scientists demonstrate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218111709.htm