The National Ignition Facility opens becoming the largest laser in the world. It will be used to validate aging nuclear warheads, better understand the middle of stars and planets; and possibly kick start fusion power. (SFGate)
HDMI 1.4 features are announced, including new networking and upstream audio abilities. (CNet)
The International Institute for Species Exploration names its top 10 new species. (CNN)
An almost complete 47-million-year-old fossil of a lemur-like animal called 'Ida' is hailed as a key ancestor to primates. (ABC)
Wolfram Alpha, a new computational search engine, will use algorithms to scour the internet and ideally give direct pertinent information. (Reuters)
Soya plants around Chernobyl provide clues to evolving plants for space exploration. (NewScientist)
Fujitsu creates the fastest supercomputer CPU that computes at 128 billion times per second, beating the previous Intel leader by 2.5 times. (PhysOrg)
Google launches new search tools to refine categories and chronology within search results. (PCMag)
NASA launches STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. (WashingtonPost)
May 2009 in science Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
