October 28, 2008 (Tuesday)
- Google settles the Book Search lawsuits for $125 million, and will start sharing search profits with authors. (AP)
- Scientists identify the "hate circuit" and the psychological similarities of hate and love, with the key difference being that for love, the part of the cerebral cortex involved in judgment and reasoning is turned off. (Reuters)
- The Phoenix Mars Lander is slowly being shut down to preserve energy as Mars sunlight dims. Shutting down in stages will permit several more weeks of experiments to take place. (Reuters)
- Using strong red LEDs on the skin significantly reduced wrinkles. (NewScientist)
Read more about this topic: October 2008 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word october:
“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)