Heavenly Palace in orbit
China launched its first prototype science lab into space on 29 September. Called Tiangong 1, or Heavenly Palace, the 10.4-metre-long uncrewed lab is an important step in China’s plans to have a large, crewed space station orbiting Earth by 2020.
Cheaper DNA
It’s not quite the much-anticipated $1000 genome, but some people will soon be getting their “exome” – the 1.5 per cent that codes for proteins – sequenced for just $999. Last week at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, 23andMe of Mountain View, California, invited existing customers to sign up to participate in the project.…
