January 2008 in science

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Events in science and technology

January 29 2008

*Exercise during leisure time, as opposed to physical labor, has been shown to be a factor in telomere length. Those who exercised regularly had cells that were biologically 10 years younger. [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13238-couch-potato-lifestyle-may-speed-up-ageing.html (NewScientist)]

January 28 2008

*A new Alzheimer's treatment involving a beta-secretase inhibitor, which prevents amyloid plaque formation in the brain has successfully completed first phase testing in healthy patients. [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123101629.htm (ScienceDaily)]

January 19 2008

*Scaled Composites, a private spaceflight company, was fined for unsafety following an explosion at the Mojave Spaceport. [http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-rutan19jan19,1,1753575.story?coll=la-headlines-health (LA Times)]

January 14 2008

*MESSENGER, a NASA mission ,flies by Mercury, the second spacecraft to do so and the first in thirty-three years. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7183846.stm (BBCNews)]

January 4 2008

*Intel Corporation leaves the One Laptop per Child project's board amid controversy over its marketing of the Classmate PC in developing countries. [http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0326574120080104 (Reuters)]

January 3 2008

* Researchers publish the first time observation of a planet in a newly forming planetary system, TW Hydrae, in the journal "Nature". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7168517.stm (BBCNews)]

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