Russia was first in space, the United States was the first on the moon and Japan will now be the first nation to send a robot-astronaut to space that can communicate with humans.
Today a seminar was held in CERN about the Higgs search status. There were rumors they finally found the particle that would complete the standard model of partical physics.
A group of students built an autonomous unmanned solar powered drone boat and sent it to a journey to cross the Atlantic. What even cooler, you can actually track it online using the Transatlantic Tracker.
The latest DNA analysis of around 7,000 years old male hunter-gatherer from Spain may shed some new light over the theory of why European's skin became lighter in color.
Space Exploration Technologies, a private space company launched a rocket couple a days ago, and sent its Dragon space capsule to dock on the International Space Station.