Deep freeze survivors
Multicelled animals may have withstood Snowball Earth – the global ice age which ended 635 million years ago. While no animal fossils have ever been found from this time, a team led by Gordon Love of the University of California, Riverside, has detected the remains of steroids found only in sponges, implying they survived the freeze.
Iranian satellite launch
Iran has launched a communications satellite into orbit. The Iranian Space Agency says it launched the Omid satellite into low Earth orbit on 2 February using a homegrown Safir-2 liquid-fuelled rocket, a variant of the Shahab-3 ballistic missile.
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