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. (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. (ScienceDaily)

January 19, 2008

• Scaled Composites, a private spaceflight company, was fined for unsafety following an explosion at the Mojave Spaceport. (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. (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. (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. (BBCNews)