A new species of titanosaur--and with a neck around 56 feet long, one of the largest--is being unearthed in Argentina. You can view photos of the fossils here and a video version of the story here.

 NASA has scheduled the launched of the shuttle Discovery for next Tuesday--although an inspection turned up microscopic cracks on the vehicle's heat shields.

The Washington Post reports a new strain of antibiotic-resistant staph virus is currently killing more Americans than HIV. The virus Staphylococcus aureus is causing "a significant public health problem." I visited an elderly man who was succumbing to a staph infection a couple weeks ago. Who knows if this was the strain he had.

 You've heard of dinosaur tracks, but how about reptile tracks? A fossil slab containing a jumble of reptile trackways has been found in Canada and is being touted as the earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles, supposedly pushing the evolution of the cold-blooded animals back another 1 to 3 million years "earlier than previously thought." This has got to drive the people who make those phylogeny charts nuts.