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A new study where embryonic stem cells were turned into functioning neurons and successful implanted into the brains of laboratory mice represents a crucial step toward deploying customized cells to repair damaged or diseased brains.

Curiosity, a state-of-the-art rover that will be launched on Nov. 26 with the Mars Science Laboratory probe, will attempt to answer the question on whether life can or could have lived in the Red Planet.

Russia’s space officials have considered the Phobos-Grunt mission, which aimed to bring soil from a Martian moon back to Earth, “lost”.

A 4-inch piece of debris from the destroyed Chinese Fengyun 1C was seen to head towards the International Space Station prompting NASA’s Mission Control to warn the Expedition 30 crew of a possible collision.

A new generation robotic lander capable of performing science and exploration research on the moon, asteroids or on Mars will soon be developed with the successful completion of the final flight in a series of tests for the robotic lander prototype.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is on track for launch in 2018 with the approval of the US Congress of the 2012 budget for NASA, which includes $530 million for the JWST.

NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)-K has been scheduled for launch in the fall of 2012 after the Agency Project Management Council (APMC) approved the third generation upgrade of the orbiting communications network.

Science enthusiasts should mark May 20, 2012 in their calendars as this is the date of a spectacular annular (“ring”) eclipse that will be visible from parts of eight western U. S. states and in many other countries all over the world.

Astronomers have discovered alien planet number 700 and the number are expected to pile up as scientists improve their planet-hunting techniques.

Performing a surgery while a patient is inside a magnetic resonance (MRI) machine was next to impossible until the invention of neuroArm, the world’s first robot with this capability.

Rise in ocean temperature due to global warming triggered coral bleaching, the frequency of which is increasing, which caused the mass death of corals worldwide.

Astronomers have discovered for the first time the complete description of a black hole which allowed them to reconstruct the history of the object from its birth around six million years ago.

Rainfall data from space collected by the NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Mission (TRMM) satellite showed that deadly tornadoes and temperature drops of up to 20% are expected to accompany severe storms in some parts of the United States.

NASA has announced a one day delay in the launching of $2.5 billion Mars Rover to replace a suspect battery on the rover’s rocket.

The Russian Phobos Grunt mission almost has a zero chance to be revived as Russian space officials have only until today to send the unmanned spacecraft to Mars moon.

NASA will try to find out if the Red Planet ever had life and what made it “hostile” for life with two new missions, one that will roam the surface and another that will orbit the planet and dip briefly into its upper atmosphere.

Magnetic fields play an important role in the formation of dense molecular clouds which sets the stage for the birth of stars and planetary systems like our own.

An event scientists call the Great Dying, 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Era, killed off more than three-quarters of life forms on Earth.

A recent study has found that zircons, considered as the Earth’s “time capsules” being one of the oldest bits of minerals, are not as pure as geologists thought them to be and that research data drawn from them could be doubtful.

Three new flight engineers who will compose Expedition 30 arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday for a four-month stay on the orbiting complex. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, were delivered by Soyuz TMA-22 which blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday.

The Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, known as “Alps under the ice, are the least understood tectonic feature on Earth, because they are completely hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. But scientists have finally discovered how the mountains, which are buried three km below the East Antartic Ice Sheet, were formed 250 million years ago.

China’s unmanned Shenzhou 8 which executed the nation’s first in-space docking has departed from the prototype space lab module Tiangong and is expected to return to Earth today.

The 27-member countries of the European Union will start using millimeter-wave scanners after the EU announced the ban on the use of X-ray body scanners in all European airports due to health and safety reasons.

Jupiter’s moon Europa could be a potential habitat for life after a body of liquid water trapped in the moon’s icy surface has been discovered

Even galaxies experience mid-life crisis. This was found out by a team of Australian astronomers whose research showed that Milky Way and Andromeda are in transition from being young and star-forming into old and stagnant galaxies.

A new study revealed that healthy heart muscle cells increased by 30 percent in animals with ischemic heart disease after receiving cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs).

Large Hadron Collider researchers have discovered the reason why there is more matter than anti-matter which heralds the facility’s first “new physics”.

Flying in space can be a reality once you qualify to join NASA’s next class for the Astronaut Candidate Program.

Doomsday 2012 scenarios include the eruption of supervolcano, but NASA said its geological records holds no clues that such supereruptions have happened during the Earth’s 4.5 billion-year lifetime.