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Video: Watch: Air Force launches new GPS navigation satellite
An Atlas 5 rocket boosted a new GPS satellite into space, the latest in a series of upgraded navigation beacons with improved accuracy and longevity.
cbsnews.com (8 days ago)
New spectre of cloned babies: Scientists create embryos in lab that 'could grow to full term'
The prospect of cloned babies has moved a step closer after scientists extracted stem cells from human embryos created in a laboratory.
dailymail.co.uk (8 days ago)
Amazing ESO photo shows Orion's hidden fiery ribbon
This image shows glowing particles of interstellar dust, which are invisible to the naked eye
cbsnews.com (8 days ago)
Ghana launches space program with ambitious goals
College students plan to send mini-satellite just 200 yards into the air, hoping one day to launch real satellites into orbit
cbsnews.com (9 days ago)
Cloning fears as scientists create human embryos from SKIN in stem cell 'milestone'
Oregon researchers successfully used skin to generate embryonic stem cells for the first time in a breakthrough expected to aid the development of stem cell therapies that avoid fertilised human embryos.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Are your tweets sexist? New site Twee-Q can analyse them - and claims Justin Bieber, Barack Obama...
A new online tool called Twee-Q, from Swedish equal opportunities group Crossing Boarders and UK author Joan Smith, can analyse your tweets and tell you if value one gender's opinion over another.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Video: Google CEO says health condition won't affect his work
Larry Page, the CEO of Google, announced he suffers from vocal chord paralysis. Charlie Rose reports.
cbsnews.com (9 days ago)
Farming on Mars: NASA ponders food supply for 2030s mission
Tn order to establish a sustainable community, the space agency is investigating how to grow crops on the red planet
cbsnews.com (9 days ago)
Netflix cuts back on expiration dates after streamaggedon
Rental service takes measures to combat confusion following broadcasting of inaccurate movie expiration dates
cbsnews.com (9 days ago)
Britain's biggest pike: Mammoth fish with head a FOOT long discovered
The skull of what is thought to be Britain's biggest pike has been found by the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire. It is a foot long and is believed to have come from a record-breaking fish weighing 50lbs.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Mount Everest is LOSING its snow and ice as researchers find glaciers in the region have shrunk...
Italian researchers analysed satellite imagery and topographic maps and weather records to work out exactly how rising temperatures was affecting Everest.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Have scientists found the lost 'white city of gold' in dense Central American jungle? Radar scans...
University of Houston scientists using laser mapping systems have found evidence of human settlements after using laser mapping to 'see' through dense forest in Honduras.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Dogs experience 'runner's high' because their brains produce the same chemicals found in...
Researchers from the University of Arizona have found that when humans and dogs run, their bodies produce a chemical that is also found in cannabis. This suggests we have evolved to be good at running because we are hard-wired to enjoy it.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
New York City's out of this world: Amazing images show how Manhattan would look transplanted to...
Nickolay Lamm came up with the series as a way of reminding us 'how lucky we are to be living on Earth', where the conditions are perfect to support life, which would be impossible anywhere else.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Risk to London 'worse than feared' from rising sea levels
Melting ice from the poles could make sea levels rise by up to three feet by the end of the century and leave London vulnerable to 'great floods', researchers have found.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
At last, we'll find out what's going on in a teenager's head: Scientists will study brains to see...
Scientists at Cambridge University have begun a £5.4million study to understand the workings of the adolescent brain, personified by Harry Enfield's Kevin The Teenager (pictured).
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Don’t bring back the mammoth, scientist warns
foxnews.com (9 days ago)
Can BBM save Blackberry? Chat software to be opened up on iOS and Android
The BBM software will be available as a free app this Summer - and CEO Thorsten Heins (pictured) also revealed a new low cost Q5 handset with a keyboard.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
America's first space station Skylab turns 40
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the ground-breaking space station
cbsnews.com (10 days ago)
