Given up sex but started stealing DNA
While looking at the way "Bdelloid rotifers", a small specie of invertebrates living in freshwater without having sex while still maintaining a good set of gens, researchers from Harvard University in Cambridge reached at the conclusion that those animals have resorted to stealing foreign DNA. Th ...
2008-05-31    /    142 views    /    0 comments    /    2 from 2 vots

Weird Radiation ring Around a Dead Star
Using the Spitzer Telescope NASA discovered a weird ring of material that circled around the magnetic debris of an exploded star. The body of this dead star named "SGR 1900+14' is a magnetar. Magnetars are the cores of huge stars that exploded like others in a supernova but after death they are s ...
2008-05-30    /    139 views    /    0 comments    /    1 from 3 vots

Robotic arm was controlled by monkeys
In their attempt of realizing a fully operable robotic arm to replace the lost limb of amputees, Dr Andrew Schwartz researcher at the Pittsburgh School University of Medicine trained two monkeys to control a robotic arm. In order for the monkeys to complete this task a small probe less than a mil ...
2008-05-29    /    88 views    /    0 comments    /    -1 from 1 vots

Microsoft shows off its new multi touch operating system
At the "All Things Digital" conference in San Diego, Bill Gates announced that new forms of communication and interaction with the computer will be used to replace the traditional mouse and keyboard and gave a demonstration of its new operating system. With touch inputs, the new system allows use ...
2008-05-29    /    337 views    /    0 comments    /    3 from 3 vots

The first sequencing of a woman DNA
In their journey of better understanding of DNA, Dutch scientists from Leiden University Medical Center have completed the first sequencing of a woman DNA. The encoded DNA belongs to one of their female researchers, clinical geneticist Marjolein Kriek. The sequencing of Marjolein Kriek DNA took a ...
2008-05-28    /    266 views    /    0 comments    /    0 from 2 vots

Phoenix is in the far north of Mars
Good news from NASA: it seems that Phoenix, the space ship sent to help research various aspects from Mars has reached its destination and landed safely. The landing itself is a big success since from the 13 spacecrafts that attempted landing on Mars before, only 5 have succeeded. Now Phoenix is ...
2008-05-27    /    398 views    /    0 comments    /    -1 from 3 vots

Chances to be hit by asteroids greater than expected
Until recently it was thought that the chances for big space rocks to hit Earth are about one at a million, but a recent study lead by a Columbia University geophysicist named Dallas Abbott indicates that those odds may not be correct. Geologists have considered that cannot be calculate the numbe ...
2008-05-26    /    319 views    /    0 comments    /    -1 from 3 vots

Faster Internet one step away
Today, the fastest Internet connection is the broadband provided through fiber-optic lines. This type of connection is now up to 10 times faster than broadband by cable lines. But a new Internet generation is on the way since it is estimated that with just some updates broadband via fiber-optic line ...
2008-05-24    /    342 views    /    0 comments    /    1 from 3 vots

Israel will create a medical drone to evacuate the wounded
Israeli defense companies along with some respected scientists are developing a drone that will be capable of flying over the battlefield at about 10 000 feet altitude only with 1 medic on board, retrieve the injured soldiers and then fly away with 150 knots to safety. The UAV (unmanned aerial v ...
2008-05-23    /    291 views    /    0 comments    /    1 from 3 vots