Science
Jules Verne ready to fly E-mail
Monday, 26 March 2007
Jules Verne, the first of five automated spacecraft designed to carry cargo to the International Space Station, is ready to fly.

 
LAN upgrade for Space Station E-mail
Monday, 26 March 2007
The International Space Station's Expedition 14 crew have been working on a local area network upgrade that will be ten times faster than the existing network.

 
Human gene 'cures' colour-blind mice E-mail
Monday, 26 March 2007
Mice normally see a limited range of colours - similar to the palette available to people with red-green colour blindness - but researchers have found that inserting a relevant human gene gives them much broader colour vision.

 
Chocolate does it again, and this time without sugar E-mail
Monday, 26 March 2007
Chocoholic researchers find that unsweetened cocoa improves blood vessels, which is a good indicator of a healthy heart.
 
Does antibacterial soap contain toxic chemicals? E-mail
Monday, 26 March 2007
Chloroform, already suspected to cause cancer, has been found by researchers to form when people use antibacterial soaps.
 
Arctic triggered climate change may have reached tipping point: study E-mail
Sunday, 25 March 2007
Melting Arctic sea ice may have reached a tipping point triggering global climate change according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. The climate change could reach into Earth's temperate regions.

 
NYU professor Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan awarded 2007 Abel Prize E-mail
Sunday, 25 March 2007
According to the Abel Prize committee, Varadhan won: "for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviation".
 
Very rare Long-whiskered Owlet seen in Peru E-mail
Saturday, 24 March 2007
The Long-whiskered Owlet is a very rare species of tiny owl. Discovered in 1976, it has not been seen in the wild until it appeared suddenly in February 2007 to researchers working in the Area de Conservación Privada de Abra Patricia in the northern jungle of Peru.
 
Charles Simonyi: software pioneer, aviator, and space tourist E-mail
Saturday, 24 March 2007
Dr. Charles Simonyi will become the fifth space tourist (what is officially called by NASA as a spaceflight participant) in the upcoming Expedition 15 mission to the International Space Station.
 
Granddaddy of all crustal rock found in Greenland E-mail
Saturday, 24 March 2007
Scientists find 3.8 billion year old rocks that were part of the Earth’s early crust on the Isua Greenstone Belt in Greenland.
 
UFO crash site in France E-mail
Friday, 23 March 2007
The world's UFO spotters have crashed the French government's X-Files archive within hours of it going online.
 
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