CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A privately owned company put a spacecraft into orbit and brought it back safely on Wednesday in a groundbreaking test flight NASA hopes will lead to cargo runs to the International Space Station after the space shuttles are retired next year. Reuters: Science News

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A U.S. company has received the first batch of medical isotopes made from low-grade uranium instead of weapons-grade material, a shift that could help cut the threat of nuclear proliferation, the National Nuclear Security Administration said on Monday. Reuters: Science News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA failed to delete sensitive data on computers and hard drives before selling the equipment as part of its plan to end the Space Shuttle program, an audit released on Tuesday shows. Reuters: Science News

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Scientists in Kenya have located one of the world’s rarest and oddest-looking flies after a long hunt for an insect dubbed the „terrible hairy fly,” experts said on Wednesday. Reuters: Science News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A strange, salty lake in California has yielded an equally strange bacterium that thrives on arsenic and redefines life as we know it, researchers reported on Thursday. Reuters: Science News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA will not attempt to fly space shuttle Discovery this year as it investigates what caused cracking in the ship’s fuel tank during a launch try in November, officials said on Friday. Reuters: Science News

LONDON (Reuters) – China is set to become the world’s most important center for innovation by 2020, overtaking both the United States and Japan, according to a public opinion survey to be published on Monday. Reuters: Science News

GENEVA (Reuters) – European scientists reported on Monday the creation and capture of anti-hydrogen atoms in a novel magnetic trap and said it put them on track to solving one of the great cosmic mysteries — the make-up of anti-matter. Reuters: Science News

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The botched launch of three of its satellites will delay Russia’s bid to challenge U.S. dominance of the market for satellite navigation technology by at least six months, analysts said on Monday. Reuters: Science News