Another alarming study regarding global warming has surfaced, revealing that tropical species are also in trouble. According to the UCLA and the University of Washington, warming can cause population of animals and insects in the tropics to decline, which adversely hurts the ecosystem. See the full article for details.

More inspiring images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have been released to give us a glimpse of crashing galaxies. To celebrate the telescope's 18th anniversary, the Space Telescope Science Institute unleashed rare pictures of merging galaxies that you don't want to miss. See the article for more details.

Promising development to protect the atmosphere is underway, as NASA just shed light on the launch of its Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS). What's believed to be the most extensive field campaign ever to study the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere, the project employs three airborne laboratories that intends to explain how pollutants cause climate changes in the Arctic sea. Fly to the full article for more details.

It's always a wonder how the future will look like even if we have centuries of history as reference on how technology moves forward. Some experts say a responsive household is what we'll see a few years from now, and we couldn't agree more. Definitely not after seeing the electroluminescent rug that glows with every footstep. Learn all about it at the full article.

It seems impossible to prevent changes that constantly reshape our planet, especially when some happen in the short span of a year. Other drastic changes also take decades, though the results are still irreversible. A recently published book titled Fragile Earth has very enlightening pictures that prove how the place we live in changes shape in so many ways, and you can learn more by checking out the full article.

It may not be long until researchers find a way to track memory-sustaining proteins and techniques to manipulate those. Just recently, a study by Mark Mayford and Naoki Matsuo from the Scripps Research Institute shows that it's possible to pinpoint memory proteins in mice. Squirm your way to the full article for more details!

Love, the prevalent emotion during Valentine's Day which just passed, is still very mysterious to some. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) conducted a study to find out if love is really blind, and the results say yes. Check out the full article to learn more.

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), everyone who enjoy viewing the dark sky at dawn are in for a surprise on February 1. Venus and Jupiter will come so close to each other that your eyes won't be able to resist. For more details, check out the full article.

In South Korea, they make glow-in-the-dark kittens. Or at least, a group of cloning experts there were recently able to clone cats that glow in the dark under ultraviolet light. More on this at the full article!

Now that making a leisure trip to space is possible, even Korean MMORPG giant NCsoft plans to send someone beyond the atmosphere. Spokesman Kim Ju-young is not certain whether it's for the company's social contribution program or to promote Tabula Rasa, but the idea of sending Richard Garriott (known as Lord British to fans of his games) to space sounds solid.

This October, NCsoft will confirm if Lord British will take the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2008 to drop by the International Space Station and spend a full week there. Space Adventures, the private space travel company, has reserved a seat on the fall 2008 trip for Garriott.

Being the son of Spacelab astronaut Owen Garriott and after working with Space Adventures, it doesn't come as a surprise that Lord British is fond of space travel. According to NCsoft, he decided to take the trip. NCsoft CEO Kim Taek-jin may do the same in 2009, but there are no official confirmations as of now.

Ko San, currently in training to become Korea's first astronaut, already has US$ 30 million on his bill before even before reaching space. However, NCsoft is capable of dishing out the money, especially after spending billions of Korean won to develop Tabula Rasa. Being a prominent figure in the online gaming scene, Lord British could very well make the promotional trip pay off in spades.