Astronauts set up new Columbus lab
With two of their three spacewalks completed, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex focused Thursday on getting the new Columbus lab up and running. rssfeeds.usatoday.com
Controllers park space freighter
Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is parked up in front of the International Space Station (ISS). news.bbc.co.uk
UK grants planning permit to tidal power project
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has given planning permission for a prototype tidal power project in the northeast England, industry minister John Hutton said on Monday. feeds.reuters.com
Protein scraps help fill in dino family tree
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scraps of protein from the bones of a 68 million-year-old dinosaur and a mastodon carcass confirm their places in the family tree of life on Earth, researchers reported on Thursday. feeds.reuters.com