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March 17, 2007
- At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, NASA scientists studying pictures from the Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the flanks of the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. The caves may be the only natural structures capable of protecting life from micrometeoroids, UV radiation, solar flares and high energy particles that bombard the planet's surface. (BBC News)
March 2, 2007
- A new invertebrate species, Orthrozanclus reburrus, is described in Science after eleven fossils of it were found in the Burgess Shale. (Reuters)
February 27
- The New Horizons spacecraft makes a flyby of the planet Jupiter on its way to Pluto. BBC News
- A hail storm damages the external tank of STS-117 while sitting on the launch pad, and will delay the launch by at least multiple weeks. (SpaceRef.com)
February 25
- The Rosetta spacecraft successfully swings by the planet Mars on its way to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (BBCNews)
February 11
- Researchers identify genetic clues to type 2 diabetes. (Boston Globe)
February 7
- ICANN reports that its root nameserver is under a massive denial-of-service attack from an unknown source. At the same time, servers managed by US Defense Department and UltraDNS are also being targeted. (BBCNews)
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- February 2: An IPCC meeting at Paris, France, ends with a report that finds a probability of 90 % or higher that human actions are creating a warming trend in the world's climate, causing global warming. (Reuters)
- January 30: The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) device on board the Hubble Space Telescope has an electrical failure and shuts down. Mission members do not expect that the camera can be brought back to full working order. (BBCNews) (full story on wikinews)
- January 24: Scientists are celebrating the virgin birth of a komodo dragon at the Toronto Zoo. There are fewer then 4000 komodos left on earth. (CBC News)
- January 23: A rare eel-like creature identified as a frilled shark is discovered and caught in Awashima Marine Park, Japan. (Reuters) (CNN)
- January 22: The Indian Space Research Organisation announces the successful recovery of a space capsule, launched on January 10, 2007. This represents a first test of a human rated payload by this space agency. (SpaceRef.com)
- January 22: An American team of researchers at the University of Rochester have successfully stored, and recovered an image using a single photon. (CBC News)
- January 22: Scottish scientists have genetically engineered hens that produce useful drugs in their eggs. Furthermore, the hens are capable of passing on this trait to their offspring. (Science News Online)
- January 18: An analysis of a rocket launch at January 11, 2007 concludes that China tested the military use of its payload by destroying an orbiting satellite. If correct, this would be the first publicly known test of that technology in at least 20 years. (BBCNews) (Reuters)
- January 16: A fossilized human skull found at Pestera cu Oase, Romania, is dated to be about 35,000 years old and described to have features of mixed origin, both from modern Homo Sapiens and older branches of the Homo genus. (BBCNews)
- January 12: The genome of Trichomonas vaginalis, the organism causing trichomoniasis, is decoded and first results published in Science. (BBCNews)
- January 8: Researches announce the successful use of stem cells recovered from the amniotic fluid, growing them into a large variety of cell types in the lab. (BBCNews)
- January 4: NASA publishes in Nature that Cassini-Huygens found methane lakes on Titan, a moon of Saturn. (BBCNews) (NASA) (Saturn Daily)
