January 29, 2008

• Exercise during leisure time, as opposed to physical labor, has been shown to be a factor in telomere
  Telomere
  A telomere is a region of repetitive DNA sequences at the end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes. Its name is derived from the Greek nouns telos "end" and merοs "part"...
  
   length. Those who exercised regularly had cells that were biologically 10 years younger. (NewScientist)

January 28, 2008

• A new Alzheimer's treatment involving a beta-secretase
  Beta-secretase
  Beta-secretase 1 also known as beta-site APP cleaving enzyme 1 , memapsin-2 , and aspartyl protease 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the BACE1 gene.β-Secretase is an aspartic-acid protease important in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease,...
  
   inhibitor, which prevents amyloid plaque formation in the brain has successfully completed first phase testing in healthy patients. (ScienceDaily)

January 19, 2008

• Scaled Composites
  Scaled Composites
  Scaled Composites is an aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman that is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States...
  
  , a private spaceflight company, was fined for unsafety following an explosion at the Mojave Spaceport
  Mojave Spaceport
  thumb|right|235px|A retired [[Boeing 767-200]] that flew for [[Ansett Australia]] being cut open for scrap at Mojave AirportThe Mojave Air and Space Port , also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of...
  
  . (LA Times)

January 14, 2008

• MESSENGER
  MESSENGER
  The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging space probe is a robotic NASA spacecraft in orbit around the planet Mercury. The spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004 to study the chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field of Mercury...
  
  , a NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   mission ,flies by Mercury
  Mercury (planet)
  Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...
  
  , the second spacecraft to do so and the first in thirty-three years. (BBCNews)

January 4, 2008

• Intel Corporation
  Intel Corporation
  Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...
  
   leaves the One Laptop per Child project's board amid controversy over its marketing of the Classmate PC
  Classmate PC
  The Classmate PC, formerly known as Eduwise, is Intel's entry into the market for low-cost personal computers for children in the developing world. It is in some respects similar to the One Laptop Per Child trade association's Children's Machine , which has a similar target market...
  
   in developing countries. (Reuters)

January 3, 2008

• Researchers publish the first time observation of a planet
  Planet
  A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
  
   in a newly forming planetary system
  Planetary system
  A planetary system consists of the various non-stellar objects orbiting a star such as planets, dwarf planets , asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and cosmic dust...
  
  , TW Hydrae
  TW Hydrae
  TW Hydrae is an orange dwarf star approximately 176 light-years away in the constellation of Hydra . The star is the closest T Tauri star to the Solar System. TW Hydrae is similar in mass to the Sun, but is only about 5-10 million years old...
  
  , in the journal Nature
  Nature (journal)
  Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
  
  . (BBCNews)