SPACE
Repairing a long-serving telescope Having celebrated its 19th birthday in April, the Hubble Space Telescope is now at the apex of its capabilities, following a 13-day space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the ageing observatory
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Google Wave aims to reinvent email The internet giant has introduced Google Wave, which one of its developers claims is 鈥渨hat email would look like if it were invented today鈥�. We take a peek
PRIMATE EVOLUTION
Laughter is not uniquely human By tickling 25 juvenile apes 鈥� including three human infants 鈥� and recording the sounds they made, researchers have gathered evidence to support the idea that laughter is shared by all the great apes
SPACE TRAVEL
The science of Battlestar Galactica It was praised to the skies for its handling of the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥�, but BSG was also the story of a dangerous journey through interstellar space. We spoke to space medicine specialist Kevin Fong about the effect of space travel on human bodies and minds
ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
Why cats can鈥檛 grasp string theory A new study has found that domestic felines don鈥檛 seem to understand cause-and-effect connections
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
TV-watching tots miss out on vital chat Buying some time to relax by sticking infants in front of the television may be harming their cognitive development
TECH
Robots in da house Domestic robots might help with chores, but learning to get along with several different robots could confuse their owners. So roboticists have created a single 鈥減ersonality鈥� that jumps wirelessly from robot to robot as required
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