Felisa Wolfe-Simon, of NASA revealed a new finding to the world in early December about a bacterium (GFAJ-1) isolated from Mono LaKE, California, that could grow using arsenic in absence of phosphorus. Phosphorus is one of the six elements known essential for life while arsenic is considered as toxic for life forms. Later major flaws [...]
A researcher from Japan plans to use a new cloning technique to make this happen If you thought “Jurassic Park” and the large, reconstructed skeletons seen in museums were the closest we’d ever come to seeing extinct creatures come to life, you might want to think again. Akira Iritani, a professor at Kyoto University in [...]
A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say. Miikka Terho, 46, from Finland, was fitted with an experimental chip behind his retina in Germany. Success was also reported in other patients. Read more at BBC.
The winners of Nobel prize 2010 has been announced. All winners is listed below. 1) The Nobel Prize in Literature: Mario Vargas Llosa The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”. Press release. [...]
A thumbnail-sized frog with a long snout, a brilliant green katydid with bright pink eyes and a mouse with a white-tipped tail are among 200 species scientists have discovered in the remote mountains of Papua New Guinea. Read more at abc News.
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