Ununoctium, or "Element 118" has been discovered, according to Russian and U.S. scientists, and was detected for 1/1000th of a second.  The heaviest element known to occur naturally, uranium, has 92 protons.  The new element has 118.  Apparently the discovery of this element was faked once before; the creation of element 118 will need to be duplicated by another lab before its discovery is made really official.

 While some scientists investigate bacteria that could potentially survive on Mars, others explain the technical reasons why we haven't found any on Mars yet.  Next they'll probably suggest we take some bacteria there, just to see if we can find it later.

That Antarctic hole in the ozone layer looks to be getting pretty big.  10.6 million square miles. 

This just in:  It appears evidence has been found that parasites roamed the intestines of dinosaurs.  Now if we could only link them to dinosaur extinction. . .