July 15, 2008
Bo is waiting for the bus, but he has a short time memory, so he forgets to get in the bus every time the bus arrives.
August 25, 2007
Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across.
August 21, 2007
Archaeologists in Egypt discover what might be the oldest human footprint ever found. The outline was found imprinted in mud, which has since turned to stone. "This could go back about two million years," they say.
Rare dead star found near Earth.
Fat from the tummy or bottom could be used to grow new breasts in a treatment which could be carried out in an hour - or a lunch break.
A virus contracted through oral sex is the cause of some throat cancers, say US scientists.
An exoplanet - as astronomers call planets around a star other than the Sun - is found, and completes a full orbit of its star in just 13 days. Astronomers have say it is the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.
A man has a rare sleep disorder which causes him to become violent when he sleep-walks. He has destroyed furniture, attacked his wife and injured himself during the night - but remembers nothing.
Experts create invisibility cloak.
The memory of mice suffering from Alzheimer's disease is restored, a study shows. Scientists increased the activity of an enzyme called Uch-L1 which is involved in memory function. They then tested the mice and found that they had regained the ability to form new memories.
Pluto loses status as a planet. Researchers say Pluto fails to dominate its orbit around the Sun in the same way as the other planets.
A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars are discovered beyond our Solar System. They circle each other rather than orbiting a star.
Every movement, gurgle and chuckle made by a baby in the first three years of its life is being recorded by a scientist in the US.
The government’s sudden closure of a company recently created to preserve cells from the umbilical cords of babies, days after a newspaper published the news that dozens of families are turning to foreign firms for this service, throws into relief a point of conflict between public interest and private law.
A Yale professor, aviator and later senator, brokers a special dispensation with the Peruvian government to take Inca bones and ritual tomb objects out of Peru.
A scientist kidnaps a pigmy couple believing he has found the missing link between ape and man.
Researchers find out that underneath a famous painting depicting the first known New Zealand landscape, there is another painting: a surprisingly detailed view on the Antarctica, painted 200 years ago.
