“I know it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to, but you guys did a great job.”
Astronaut Steven Swanson talks to colleagues on the International Space Station about their attempts to unstuck a jammed piece of equipment on the outside of the ISS. Eventually Swanson’s colleagues Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba ended up just securing the stuck cargo platform (Reuters).
NASA is refusing to say whether it will go with the results of its online poll to pick a name for a new node on the International Space Station. The suggestion that accrued the most votes was ‘Colbert’, after the US comedian (Boston Globe).
“There will be thousands of cases in our archives that could benefit from this technique.”
Martin Bill, of the UK’s Forensic Science Service, says a new DNA technique could lead to developments in numerous ‘cold cases’ (Daily Telegraph).