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On Thursday, July 11, 2008, two astronauts were able to remove and explosive bolt from their capsule. Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, two Russian spacewalkers, were able to accurately disconnect the bolt attached to the Soyuz capsule, which is going to bring the astronauts home this fall. Afterwards they instantly slid inside the blast-proof container.

A tribe of South America's aborigines, who remain isolated from the rest of the world, has been identified and photographed in a place found between the boarders of Brazil and Peru. According to the Brazilian government, it took the pictures of the tribe with the goal of proving its existence and assuring a protection of their land.

The photographs were taken from an airplane. They show some of the members of the tribe waving their bows and arrows. All of the members are red-painted. It is interesting to note that according to Survival International over a half of today's known 100 isolated tribes live in Brazil or Peru.

A glacial lake suddenly emptied in Southern Chile because of the high world temperatures. According to Gino Casassa, a glacier scientist, it was caused by the melting of the Colonia glacier that filled the lake and increased pressure on the ice.

A great and precious discovery was made by a team at the European Light Source (ESRF) Grenoble, France – a snake with two legs. Using X-rays they showed that the snake embedded in Lebanese limestone, discovered in 2000 and having only one leg visible, had another one hidden under the limestone slab. The creature of about 92 million year old is known as Eupodophis descouensi and is 85 cm long. 

The smallest planet outside the Solar System was discovered by Spanish astronomers, led by Ribas and named “GJ 436T”. It is located 30 light years^[1] from Earth and was detected using a new technique. According to Ignasi Ribas of Spain’s CSIC scientific research institute, this technique “will allow us to discover in less than 10 years the first planet resembling Earth in terms of mass and orbit”.

Cryonics represents the process of freezing human bodies using extremely low temperatures. The aim is to preserve the bodies and later reanimate them in the future. Scientists that deal with cryonics say that in case a person had died of incurable disease he or she can be revived in future when the cure for the disease has been found. A human that has been frozen using cryogenics is said to be in cryonic suspension. It is worth mentioning that the process of bringing a person into cryonic suspension is illegal in case the person is alive. Those who want to undergo this procedure should be pronounced legally dead, meaning that their heart has stopped beating.

As Saturn's rings^[1] are the brightest they are considered the jewel of the solar system. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope^[2].

A Frenchman has a full face transplant.

Judy Smongesky, 55, got the 1965 Ford Mustang^[1] car as a gift when she graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Her father bought it from a used-car dealer in Bellflower in Los Angeles County for $1,114. It was her dream car. They had the engine rebuilt in 1974 and painted it green, then blue-gray.

Because of the fear to be arrested a man lived and continues to live on a tree. Jaya Naik is 50 years old and is a resident of Chindri Maliguda, a village located close to the Koraput^[1] district headquarter, some 500km south of state capital Bhubaneswar. As a result of a dispute he had with his father and brother over irrigation of land, the man was arrested in 2002 along with his wife and 17-year-old son.