Neandertals, ancient humanlike denizens of Europe and the Middle East with controversial evolutionary links to Homo sapiens, inhabited areas at least 2,000 kilometers further east than researchers have commonly assumed, according to a new DNA analysis of previously recovered fossils.  http://louisgjgsheehan.blogspot.com

Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues extracted sequences of mitochondrial DNA, which is

No room is left at the bottom. A team of physicists has shown how a common type of electron microscope can spot single hydrogen atoms — the smallest atoms of them all.  http://louis4j4sheehan4esquire.blogspot.com

Previously, electron microscopes had trouble imaging single atoms lighter than carbon.

http://louis4j4sheehan4esquire.blogspot.com  The University of California, Berkeley team visualized defects and impurities — including atoms of hydrogen— on graphene, the one-atom-thick,

Maybe someone spiked the Tang? In 2007, NASA’s astronaut corps made headlines more for sex, violence, and booze than for space exploration.http://louisdjdsheehan.blogspot.com

The run of bad news started in February with the arrest of astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak, charged with battery, attempted burglary, attempted kidnapping, and attempted murder after an attack on a woman in an Orlando parking lot. http://louisdjdsheehan.blogspot.comThe details soon became fodder for late-night comedians: