May 2009 in science

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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)

• HDMI 1.4 features are announced, including new networking and upstream audio abilities. (CNet)

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)

• Google launches new search tools to refine categories and chronology within search results. (PCMag)

May 11, 2009 (Tuesday)

• NASA launches STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. (WashingtonPost)