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 The premeditated attacks on zoo visitors made by Santino the chimpanzee were described Monday in Current Biology. The 30-year old chimpanzee, which has lived in a Swedish zoo most of his life, often gets agitated when zoo visitors begin to gather on the other side of the moat that surrounds his enclosure, where he is the dominant and the...
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 President Barack Obama is expected to lift restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research today, in a move that will overthrow the Bush policy that has been in place for the last eight years.The new guidelines will be issued by the National Institutes of Health within the next four months, in a move aimed at...
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 Following a successful launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Kepler mission has now begun. Scientists are eagerly waiting for Kepler to execute its mandatory maneuvers and begin searching for analog Earths in other corners of our galaxy.The goal of the Kepler mission is to explore the structure and diversity of...
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 As the Discovery crew prepares for takeoff, we will take some time and talk about how two apparently ordinary lives have turned into two extraordinary life stories. STS-199 Mission Specialists Joe Acaba and Richard Arnold were two teachers dreaming of space, and now they are two astronauts preparing for mission.Becoming an astronaut is a...
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Washington - An old-fashioned magnetic stress test convinced NASA managers that the ageing Discovery shuttle could launch next Wednesday, saving about a month's time in the programme's hectic final two years.
With the pressure of ten launches by September 2010 weighing on them, NASA hit a glitch last month over worries about cracked...
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Are we alone in the universe? Are there other planets like Earth? Scientists will attempt to answer those questions with a telescope being launched into orbit on Friday.
The Kepler spacecraft is to launch at 10:49 pm (0349 GMT Saturday) aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Scientists are quick to point out that...
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 An asteroid about the size of one that blasted Siberia a century ago just buzzed the Earth on March 2, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported.Measuring between 69 feet and 154 feet in diameter, asteroid 2009 DD45 passed just 41,010 miles (66,000 kilometers) above Earth, between our planet and the moon at 13:44 universal time, with a...
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 According to China Daily, China ended its lunar probe's 16-month lunar mission by successfully crashing the Chang'e I into the moon. The lunar probe, which was sent into space back in late October 2007 to analyze the surface of the moon using camera and other instruments, hit the lunar surface at 1.50 degrees south latitude and 52.36...
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 NASA worked for nine years to build the $278 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which crashed on Tuesday and fell into the waters near Antarctica. It only took five minutes thus to finish what the biggest space experts had built in nearly a decade. Climate scientists now work in finding out where are the world’s carbon dioxide...
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 A scientific journal has announced that the psychedelic fish living in the oceans from Indonesia has been recently classified as a new species. This fish’s characteristic is the one connected to the fact that it bounces under the ocean like a rubber ball.This kind of frogfish was discovered by the scuba diving instructors who were...
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