[News of the Week] Around the World

In science news around the world this week, a student lab worker has become the first person in the United States to catch cowpox, India may join the U.S. MoonRise mission, Japan's whaling season was cut short, IBM's factoid-spewing supercomputer Watson is turning its talents to medicine, and the U.S. House of Representatives approved a budget that would trim roughly $5 billion from current federal spending on research.amazing pets find the best rss really good stories