Science News, April 2003
Recent Hubble Image: The Egg Nebula
A Soyuz space capsule carrying two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut landed in Kazakhstan : It's like riding in one of the Mercury spacecraft- they can't even open the capsule form the inside once it lands!
50th Anniversary of the Discovery of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick, in Cambridge in 1953 :
Looks like we're gonna need it.
The oldest verified sample of DNA has been pulled from soil deep within the permafrost of Siberia : Previously, the oldest confirmed DNA was about 20,000 years old and came from Senator Strom Thurmond.
Parallel Universes supported by data from Microwave Anisotropy Probe and 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey : There may be an infinite number of yous reading an infinite number of news bytes!
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer will put a telescope into Earth orbit that will scan a million galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic history to reveal how galaxies acheived their present state.
An Infrared Counterpart to Hubble: The Space Infrared Telescope Facility has large mirrors that will detect infrared light.
Rekonstruction : A Massively Multiplayer Online Game that will support over a million players simultaneously!! Apparently the world will be dynamically created as you play and will never repeat exactly. They plan release in Fall 2004.
