Balloon: Winnipeg Free Press featured an article about the Shamona Harnett Scientists gathering at NASA's balloon facility in Lynn Lake, Canada to launch a large unmanned balloon. This balloon launch is one of three launches that will carry high-tech equipment that gathers cosmic-ray particles.

SS: Spaceflight Now featured an article about the results presented at the Fourth International LISA Symposium on gravitational radiation. Dr. John Baker, Code 661 and his colleagues created a novel computer that modeling gravitational waves. Dr. Baker is quoted in the article explaining the importance of understanding different aspects of gravitational waves.

ES: CNN.com and Space.com both featured on-line articles detailing scientists belief that the Earth's gravity field has bulged more in the middle in the past four years, and they suspect that the same is true for the planet itself. The observations, based on satellite measurements, reverse a trend at least two decades in the making in which the planet and its gravity field became progressively more round. Chris Cox, of Raytheon, and colleague B.F. Chao detail these changes in the Earth's mass in this week's edition of the journal Science.