Astronaut Chris Hadfield retires from Canadian Space Agency

	Astronaut Chris Hadfield retires from Canadian Space Agency Canadian Chris Hadfield has announced his retirement and his intention to move back to Canada following a 21-year career as an astronaut — most of it in the U.S.. The newly minted Canadian icon made the announcement at the Canadian Space Agency ...
	Chinese spacecraft blasts off from Gobi desert A Chinese-manned spacecraft has blasted off with three astronauts on board for a 15-day mission to an experimental laboratory, the latest step towards the development of a space station. The Shenzhou 10 launched from the Gobi desert in China's far west ...
	India, US science body launch space solar power initiative Washington, Jun 11 (PTI) India and a top US science body have forged an international organisation to develop space solar power, an initiative that has the potential of solving humanity's energy needs and greatly mitigating climate change. Post your ...
	UK Minister receives Shark Trust award The Shark Trust has awarded Richard Benyon, UK Minister for Natural Environment and Fisheries, a Shark Champion Award in recognition of his personal commitment to shark conservation and the UK government's tireless resolve to end the removal of ...
	Dark Matter Theory Proposes a Simple Donut-Shaped Electromagnetic Field Most of our universe's mass lies unseen as an invisible agent known as dark matter, and while the nature of dark matter has puzzled scientists for decades, a new study says that's it's all really quite simple: it's made up of particles with a donut-shaped ...
	Lightweight Galaxy Is the Smallest Ever Found An ultra-faint collection of 1,000 stars orbiting the Milky Way is the most lightweight galaxy ever discovered, scientists say. The dwarf galaxy known as Segue 2 is bound together by a tiny clump of dark matter. Scientists who measured it using Hawaii's Keck ...
	SEE: Visionary pair imagines how humans will look in 100000 years Forget cyborgs — humans of the future might look more like Pokémon characters. In 100,000 years, people might have larger heads, Google Glass type contact lenses and sideways-blinking oversized Disney eyes that glow green with cat-like night vision.
	Saturn's icy moon Dione had a watery past? New images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that Saturn's moon Dione may have once had a geologically active subsurface ocean. Images of Dione's 800-kilometres-long mountain Janiculum Dorsa suggest that the moon may have once been very ...
	On a different wavelength: Scientists set out to create 'superspectral' camera A team of engineers is setting out to create the world's first camera sensor capable of 'seeing' across a wide range of wavelengths. Backed by a grant of £1.5m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), researchers from the ...
	Study dates arrival of humans in Asia Lake Toba, Sumatra bears the scars of a massive eruption 74,000 years ago. The question is: did modern humans arrive in Asia before or after this time?(Source: NASA). Related Stories. Earliest human evidence in Southeast Asia, Science Online, 21 Aug ...