The SpaceX Falcon 1 is launched for the first time. The mission achieves a partial success, after the second stage rocket engine cuts off earlier than planned. co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6474021.stm (BBCNews)
A team of mathematicians finish computing Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials for the split real group G(R) of type E8. MIT News Office, American Institute of Mathematics
At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, NASA scientists studying pictures from the Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the flanks of the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. The caves may be the only natural structures capable of protecting life from micrometeoroids, UV radiation, solar flares and high energy particles that bombard the planet's surface. (BBC News)
A newly found invertebrate species, Orthrozanclus reburrus, is described in Science after eleven fossils of it were found in the Burgess Shale. (Reuters)
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