- New Bar Discovered in Milky Way – New data from the Spitzer Infrared Telescope confirms theory that our galaxy is not a typical spiral galaxy. Instead the Milky Way is a rarer, barred spiral galaxy.
- Scientists Propose Releasing African Megafauna In North America – In a bid to stave of the extinction of large mammals in Africa and Asia, a group of biologists and conservationists are suggesting the transplantation of elephants, rhinos, lions, cheetahs, camels and other megafauna into a North American ecosystem that was left devoid of large mammals at the end of the Pleistocene.