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May 30, 2009 (Saturday)
- The National Ignition Facility opens becoming the largest laser in the world. It will be used to validate aging nuclear warheads, better understand the middle of stars and planets; and possibly kick start fusion power. (SFGate)
May 28, 2009 (Thursday)
May 22, 2009 (Friday)
- The International Institute for Species Exploration names its top 10 new species. (CNN)
May 19, 2009 (Monday)
- An almost complete 47-million-year-old fossil of a lemur-like animal called 'Ida' is hailed as a key ancestor to primates. (ABC)
May 18, 2009 (Monday)
- Wolfram Alpha, a new computational search engine, will use algorithms to scour the internet and ideally give direct pertinent information. (Reuters)
May 15, 2009 (Friday)
- Soya plants around Chernobyl provide clues to evolving plants for space exploration. (NewScientist)
- Fujitsu creates the fastest supercomputer CPU that computes at 128 billion times per second, beating the previous Intel leader by 2.5 times. (PhysOrg)
May 12, 2009 (Wednesday)
May 11, 2009 (Tuesday)
- NASA launches STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. (WashingtonPost)
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