Exercise during leisure time, as opposed to physical labor, has been shown to be a factor in telomere length. Those who exercised regularly had cells that were biologically 10 years younger. (NewScientist)
A new Alzheimer's treatment involving a beta-secretase inhibitor, which prevents amyloid plaque formation in the brain has successfully completed first phase testing in healthy patients. (ScienceDaily)
Scaled Composites, a private spaceflight company, was fined for unsafe conditions following an explosion at the Mojave Spaceport. (LA Times)
MESSENGER, a NASA mission, flies by Mercury, the second spacecraft to do so and the first in thirty-three years. (BBCNews)
Intel Corporation leaves the One Laptop per Child project's board amid controversy over its marketing of the Classmate PC in developing countries. (Reuters)
Researchers publish the first time observation of a planet in a newly forming planetary system, TW Hydrae, in the journal Nature. (BBCNews)
January 2008 in science Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
