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

Could the China earthquake have been predicted?
In the afternoon of the May 12, 2008, a terrible earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit a mountainous region in Western China inhabited by 15 million people. The worst earthquake that hit China in the last three decades has caused major life loss but according to locals, the disaster coul ...
2008-05-16    /    742 views    /    0 comments    /    2 from 2 vots

Have been discovered a new ocean under our planet mantle
In time on analysis over seismic waves has been discovered a new ocean large as Arctic Ocean. There was discussions before regarding existence of an underground frozen ocean under mantle deep at 1200 - 1400 km, but now because of analysis equipments improvements, researches brings new concrete pr ...
2007-02-22    /    568 views    /    0 comments    /    1 from 1 vots

Two Africa
Taking in consideration the process of separation of the continent Africa, in the future will exists two continents. This phenomena can be seen in Ethiopia where has been produce a little separation. The two parts of Africa are diverging annually one from another with 16 mm, but in case of an sei ...
2007-01-30    /    510 views    /    0 comments    /    -1 from 1 vots