All these planets are yours but Titan. Leave Titan alone...
Astronomers Spy Surface Ice Through Titan's Haze
Because so little light can escape its atmosphere, Titan is shrouded by an opaque curtain that has prevented planetary scientists from learning much about what lies beneath the haze. But work published today in the journal Science provides the clearest picture yet of Titan's surface. The findings indicate that the planet is covered, at least in part, by frozen water.  [Scientific American] 

A new source for stem cells found in childrens baby teeth...

Potent Stem Cells Found in Baby Teeth
When his six-year-old daughter pulled out her baby tooth, Songtao Shi of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Md., washed it off to prepare it for the tooth fairy. Holding his daughter's partial tooth, the stem cell researcher noticed living tissue inside and wondered whether it might contain relatively young stem cells. Shi took the tooth to his lab and found that he was indeed able to isolate such cells from the tooth pulp left in the crown.  [Scientific American]

Hmmm...don't tell the kids or they'll be wanting more than a quarter.

 

Mapping the human gene completed ahead of schedule...

Human genome finally complete. The biological code crackers uncovering the DNA blueprint for human life say the job has been finished two years early. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]

Woo hoo!

 

Off we go, into the wild blue yonder...
Starchaser unveils manned spacecraft prototype. Starchaser, a British company competing for the X Prize, unveiled Thursday a small capsule the... [spacetoday.net]

After looking at pictures of the capsule I'm sure the guys wife is asking the question asked of most great inventors, "Are you NUTS???"

 

From the depths of the ocean...
Super squid surfaces in Antarctic: "A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

Undoubtedly there is a TV movie in the works somewhere.

 

Stop yer monkeying around....

Rare, Remote Chimps Found
Chimpanzees in a remote Central African rainforest may have had little or no contact with humans until recently, said a report in the April 2003 issue of the International Journal of Primatology.

The so-called naïve chimpanzees were discovered in Goualougo Triangle in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo. The 100-square-mile rainforest area is a 34-mile hike through dense forests and swampland from the nearest village. [Discovery Channel Daily News]

Hmmm. Now we know what blondes evolved from. Or have they?

 

Finding intelligent life through your screen saver...
Three and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look: "After more than a million years of computation by more than 4 million computers worldwide, the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced a list of candidate radio sources that deserve a second look." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]