News Briefs 05-10-2012

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.”

• A new alignment of exoplanets.
• Are we making quantum leaps?
• The Milky Way’s new perspective.
• Stars racing across black hole’s edge could prove Einstein’s theory.
• A satellite with a novel message for the globe.
• Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars, realized?
• Using science-faction to shape the future.
• Looking through Saturn’s rings.
• To build on the Moon… or blow it up?
• Australian scientists track whales using military sonobuoys.
• Australia’s Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope opens up the sky.
• Mouse eggs created from stem cells.
• 11 year-old discovers well-preserved mammoth carcass.
• Is venom the new painkiller of choice?
• Learning by way of daydream?
• The jars of a Maya queen.
• From lead to gold.
• The countdown to Stratos’ record-setting leap.
• Jobs, one year after.
• MAD Magazine’s science-fiction covers.
• This week’s evidence of the looming robot uprising… self-building ‘bots.

Quote of the Day:

“It's always funny until someone gets hurt… Then it's just hilarious.”

Bill Hicks