A worm was recently discovered inside laptops aboard the International Space Station. The detected virus was designed to steal passwords and send them to a remote server. Fortunately, none of the Space Station's critical workstations were affected by virus. Only laptops used for emails and nutritional experiments were mostly affected. More details in our full article.

Thanks to the efforts of Argo Medical Technologies, paraplegics may soon be given the chance to know what it's like to stand up and walk again. Engineer Amit Goffer, founder of the Israeli high-tech company, developed an electronic exoskeleton called "ReWalk", which can help people paralyzed from the waist down to stand, walk, and even climb stairs.

For better or for worse, the first particles have finally been injected into the world's largest atom smasher. Scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, will be observing the behavior of the first proton particles injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) earlier this month. Find out more in our full article after the jump.

Scientists from the University of Reading were able integrate a suspension of rat brain cells inside a robot in an effort to study the learning process of neurons. Through the study, scientists hope to observe how memories are laid down and perhaps provide some insight into diseases such as Alzheimer's. Find out more about the rat-brained robot in the full article.

Sometime next year, NASA will launch a mission which will literally smash open some of the secrets our lunar satellite has been holding for millions of years. The LCROSS team headed by Anthony Colaprete is currently searching for the best impact sites inside various shadowed craters which may contain a good amount of frozen water. Find out more in our full article after the jump.

The mysterious nature of dark matter has always been a point of contention for some scientists. However, a recent simulation using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers has created a mockup of dark matter clumps possibly existing in the inner regions of the Milky Way. Find out more about this dark matter puzzle in our full article after the jump.

It seems like Nintendo wasn't going to take all the allegations from Greenpeace sitting down. In the recent "Playing Dirty" report released by the environmentalist group, it outlined how major video game console manufacturers failed to comply with safety regulation in creating environmentally friendly products. You can find out Nintendo's response in our full article after the jump.

Greenpeace recently poured the hate on Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft for their negligence in rolling out environmentally friendly hardware. Entitled "Playing Dirty", a recent document released by the environmentalist group explained how the three companies still fail to ensure that their current line of consoles were free of unsafe chemicals and materials. Find out the details of this document by reading our full story on it.

A new environmental disaster was spotted in southern Texas when a widening sinkhole as long as two football fields ended up swallowing an 18-wheeler truck and some oil equipment. Officials from Liberty County mentioned that there were no casualties so far and that the formation posed no threat to civilian areas. You can find out more about this by reading our full article after the jump.

A new NASA mission has been proposed which involves landing several astronauts on the Apophis asteroid, predicted to strike the Earth by 2030. The mission will have a more observational nature rather than a violent one as astronauts will deliver samples taken off the space rock for scientists to study back on Earth. More details regarding this in our full article.