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Learning to navigate London's complex streets leads to significant structural changes in the brain.

Read More: via the Wellcome Trust

Science Online NYC, which Ars is organizing in conjunction with Nature and Rockefeller University, is having its seventh installment this Thursday.

Read More: Details and signups

Voyager 1 has confirmed the existence of a "stagnation zone" where the influences of the Sun and interstellar space largely balance out.

Read More: NASA's announcement

A US House committee has passed a bill that would eliminate the anonymity of grant reviewers.

It looks like elements 114 and 116 will now have names: Flerovium for the Flerov Laboratory, and Livermorium for Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Read More: Livermore's announcement

The Mars Science Laboratory rover had a successful liftoff over the weekend.

Read More: NASA's updates

NASA is hosting images of a storm on Saturn, one that's studied by Ars contributor Kunio Sayanagi, who's quoted in the press release.

Read More: The press release from the JPL

For those of you with Flash installed, a cool way to get a sense of the scale of various biological objects.

Read More: Courtesy of the U of Utah

The first company to get approval to run a stem cell trial has now backed out of the entire research area.

Read More: Geron's announcement