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• The XM-25 Individual Air Burst Weapon, which fires precision-timed grenades to take out enemy fighters around corners, behind walls and inside caves, and which begins testing this summer.
• The town of Hora on the Greek island of Naxos, with almost exclusively white buildings. Energy Secretary Steven Chu thinks all the world's buildings should be this color to reflect sunlight and thus combat global warming.
• This composite photo, provided by Nature magazine, shows newborn transgenic marmoset offspring Kei, left, and Kou. Insets show their feet under ultraviolet light. Under UV light the skin on the soles of the feet glow green. Scientists have shown that a gene they slipped into a monkey was transmitted to the offspring, a step experts called a milestone for creating animals with versions of human diseases for study. The transgenic marmoset are part of the Targeted Basic Research Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and of the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a group headed by Erika Sasaki, Laboratory Head of the Central Institute of Experimental Animals, and Professor Hideyuki Okano of the Keio University School of Medicine.
• May 27: The Soyuz TMA-15 craft lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying a Belgian, a Canadian and a Russian spaceflyer to the International Space Station.
• May 25: The Russian space agency's low-tech but effective way to move rockets to the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• A possible Vulture high-altitude, long-range unmanned surveillance and communications aircraft that would be solar-powered and stay aloft for 5 years. Developed by the Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, it and other futuristic military systems may be imperiled by budget cuts.
• May 20: Space shuttle Atlantis is backdropped by the blackness of space and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere.
• Three crew members aboard the International Space Station drink their own urine in the first test of the orbital platform's high-tech water-recycling system. They said it tasted great.
• An Ember robot, a small military communications and surveillance self-guided machine that soldiers would be able to carry in a pocket.
• May 20: An Iron Age handle inscribed with the Hebrew name "Menachem," which was the name of an Israelite king, discovered in an excavation in Jerusalem. Archaeologists digging on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives have discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old jar handle bearing ancient Hebrew script, a find significantly older than most inscribed artifacts dug up in the ancient city, an archaeologist said.
• This December 2008 photo, released by NASA, shows a black chunk of rock found in the Sudan desert, the first time astronomers have tracked an asteroid from space, toward Earth, into the atmosphere and down on the ground as a meteorite.
• A metal jar belonging to Hatshepsut, the powerful pharaoh-queen who ruled over ancient Egypt for 20 years beginning around 1479 B.C.
• Caption: An experimental 'cold fusion' device produced this pattern of 'triple tracks' (shown at right), which scientists say is caused by high-energy nuclear particles resulting from a nuclear reaction.
• In a Friday, Aug 15, 2008 file photo, currency, part of the artifacts collection of the Titanic, is shown at a warehouse in Atlanta. After years of litigation over the wreck and its artifacts, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith is expected to rule soon on the largest collection of Titanic salvage. The judgment -- in one of the nation's top maritime courts -- is intended to ensure the 5,900 pieces of china, ship fittings and personal belongings won't end up in a collector's hands or in a London auction house, where some Titanic artifacts have landed.
• March 23: Shown is the new Zeebo game console for developing countries in San Francisco. The Zeebo is targeted at consumers in emerging markets like India, China, Brazil and Eastern Europe who may not be able to afford the latest high-end consoles, or the games published for them.
• March 10: Cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and astronaut Mike Fincke work on the exterior of the International Space Station during a spacewalk.
• Brain areas activated by considering how involved God (or another perceived supernatural entity) is. These are areas that also help us understand the intentions of others and the emotional significance of these intentions.
• A soldier wears Lockheed Martin's HULC exoskeleton along with full combat gear.
• In this undated picture made available, Monday, March 9, 2009, Santino the stone-throwing chimp, is watched by a group of visitors at Furuvik zoo in Sweden. A canny chimpanzee who calmly collected a stash of rocks and then hurled them at zoo visitors in fits of rage has confirmed that apes can plan ahead just like humans, a Swedish study said Monday. Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared. According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited until around midday before he unleashed a 'hailstorm' of rocks against visitors, the study said.
• Two berthed submarines are clearly visible in this Google Earth image of a Royal Navy base at Faslane, Scotland. Previous Google Earth images of the area had been blurred out.
• A Google Earth close-up of what may be nuclear-missile storage sheds near Coulport, Scotland.

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