According to a report published in BBC, a Californian team have managed to convert human skin cells directly into functioning brain cells. Experiment was conducted with foetal skin cells which was converted into neurons. Technique validation is already published in Nature journal where experiment was conducted with mice. Technique: Virus was used to introduce four [...]
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.
God did not create the universe, world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book that aims to banish a divine creator from physics. Hawking says in his book “The Grand Design” that, given the existence of gravity, “the universe can and will create itself from nothing,” according to an excerpt published Thursday in The [...]
Mathematician Vinay Deolalikar at the Hewlett-Packard Labs in California claims to have solved one of the most complex problems of mathematics, the P vs. NP problem. It involves a method of determining whether a problem is solvable by computer and is itself one of seven intractable problems for which the Clay Mathematics Institute in Boston [...]
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