Google plans service to store users’ data: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition.

Auto Grocery Shopping On Amazon (by Kristen Nicole at Mashable)
Subscribe & Save is a new option being offered by Amazon… [I]nstead of waiting until [you’re] halfway through that last roll of toilet paper, Amazon can send it out to you and you don’t have to give it a second thought. Convenient, right?… Many have tried this method for offering Internet-savvy consumers an alternative to the laborious chore of trekking to the grocery store and doing their own shopping. But with Amazon’s track record and widespread appeal, this new program really could draw a lot of supporters from users out there.

In-Store Wi-Fi Is Free, but Not Commercial-Free
AnchorFree, a company in Sunnyvale, Calif., has introduced a service that lets merchants offer free advertising-supported Wi-Fi to customers on store premises.

Disabled could think their way around Second Life
TOKYO (Reuters) – People with severe paralysis could find new opportunities from shopping to doing business or making new friends in the virtual world of Second Life by just thinking about it, if experiments being conducted by a Japanese university bear fruit.

Fake photos can alter real memories
Some researchers are worried that digitally altered photos could alter our perceptions and memories of public events — and they have the pictures to prove it.
Yes, but the ability to change memories can be a good thing, too.  It can help reduce the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, for example.

Bad Behavior in Youth Linked to Career Problems Later
Young children who behave badly in school can do just fine academically, new research suggests. But if the bad behavior persists until age eight, education can be compromised, and professional success later in life is less likely.
Not only that, kindergarten teachers can tell which kids are the most likely to be so compromised.  Why can’t we develop family intervention programs for those kids?

Depression Linked to Bone Loss in Younger Women
Finding could aid efforts to prevent osteoporosis, researchers say.

Non-White Women More Prone to Breast Cancer Pain
It may be undertreated compared to white patients, research suggests

Special MRI Shows Secondhand Smoke Damages Lungs
Researchers say their study is the first to prove a connection

Drug Combos Effective Against Rheumatoid Arthritis
Older and newer medicine together often bring relief, study finds

Low Levels of ‘Good’ Cholesterol May Slow Stroke Recovery
A meat-linked compound may also hinder progress, study finds

The Dance of Evolution, or How Art Got Its Start
What is the evolutionary value of art and why do we humans spend so much time at it?

In the Dark, Plants Prepare for Light
Every grade-schooler knows that plants need light to grow, but just how plants respond to light is a deceptively complex process that has long puzzled scientists. A new study sheds light on this enigma by showing that plants actually get ready to respond to light (by growing, flowering or straining toward the light) while it’s still dark.

Evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ Created Florist’s Paradise
From the ubiquitous daisy to the fantastical orchid, flowering plant species are as diverse as they are numerous. Turns out, these bloomers went through an evolutionary “Big Bang” of sorts some 130 million years ago, a brief era of explosive floral diversification at a time when dinosaurs walked the Earth.

Has first evidence of another universe been seen?
Astronomers announced in August 2007 the discovery of a large hole at the edge of our universe. Since then, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton and colleagues have claimed it is an “unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.”
So much for those scientists who have said for years that the universe is the same in all directions.  Which I always thought had to be wrong. (Thanks to AMERICAblog)