• Monkeys in Japan showed off some pretty good dental hygiene habits. Here, they are seen teaching their young to floss.
• Researchers in California have claimed that they are “knocking at the door” of artificial life and that they will be able to complete a second genesis in five—okay, maybe ten—years.
• In good news for the environment, a wind-up eco-media player may put the battery life of the iPod to shame, while in bad news, space junk has struck again: Scientists have faced a real challenge in dealing with the excess debris floating around in space, and this week a one-centimeter piece of an old "payload assist motor" gave the crew of the International Space Station a close call. Flying objects are a real hazard in space, where they travel tens of thousands of miles per hour, but the crew took shelter in the Russian Soyuz capsule and ...
