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)
The Rosetta spacecraft successfully swings by the planet Mars on its way to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (BBCNews)
In a poster session at the Cosyne 07 academic conference, researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and the University of Nevada present a neural-level computer simulation of half a mouse brain at one tenth its normal speed; the massively parallel simulation, covering the equivalent of one second's brain activity, is run on an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer with 4096 processors, each one having 256 MB of memory (for a total memory size of 1 TB). The presentation's title is "Towards real-time, mouse-scale cortical simulations". (BBC News) (NordicHardware.com)
Researchers identify genetic clues to type 2 diabetes. (Boston Globe)
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)
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)
February 2007 in science Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
