* Marine biologists discover a new species of jellyfish off the California coast. The yet unnamed jellyfish cousin is the first deep-ocean invertebrate known to emit red bioluminescence, which it probably uses to attract meals.
* Endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda are dying from respiratory illnesses. They may be picking up the diseases from tourists, who are being asked to keep at least 20 feet away and stay no more than an hour.
* cosmos I, a privately financed spacecraft with eight 50-foot solar sails, disappears after being launched from a Russian submarine.
* Physicists discover a NEW SUBATOMIC PARTICLE, Y(4260), that is produced by collisions between electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.
* Archaeologists say that human footprints in the ash of a Mexican volcano are 40,000 years old. If they are correct, humans lived in the Americas more than 25,000 years earlier than previously thought.
* After years of litigation with four Northwest Indian tribes, scientists win the right to study a 9,300-year-old skeleton known as kennewick man, one of the oldest and most complete in North America.
* A six-nation consortium decides France will be home to the first large-scale sustainable fusion reactor, set for operation by 2016.
* The parts of the brain that govern alertness and anxiety are switched off when a woman is having an orgasm, say Dutch scientists. They also find that those areas remain active if she is faking.
* Belgian researchers clone human embryos, for the first time using unripe eggs matured in a dish.
* A Caltech scientist discovers the first PLANET WITH THREE SUNS, 149 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The planet orbits only one star, which appears yellow, but is also illuminated by an orange sun and a red sun.
* Workers unearth 249 ancient Tombs and more than 500 antiquities at a middle school construction site in Handan in northern China.
