The American astronaut, Kathleen Robins, the Russians Sergey Rykov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov launched on Wednesday to the International Space Station aboard a Russian-made "Soyuz" rocket.

 New research suggests prehistoric people travelled from China’s northern coastline to North America as recently as 11,000 years ago

The study suggests they may have travelled along a previously unknown coastal route.

An international research team develops a way to say “hello” with your mind

 In a recent experiment, a person in India said “hola” and “ciao” to three other people in France. Today, the Web, smartphones, and international calling might make that not seem like an impressive feat, but it was. The greetings were not spoken, typed, or texted. The communication in question happened between the brains of a set of study subjects, marking one of the first instances of brain-to-brain communication on record.

Chinese Mars Exploration Rover Zurong has found evidence of liquid water in the planet's low latitudes, the warmest regions on Mars.