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Distant star sheds light on the birth of planets
Astronomers poring over a young star 180 light years from Earth have found evidence that stellar birth can lead to the formation of a planet only millions of years later, a mere blink on the cosmic timescale.
Two explosions may have shaped early multicellular life
The Ediacara fossil: Fractofusus andersoni Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that occurred 542 million years ago. Now Virginia Tech paleontologists, using rigorous analytical methods, have identified another explosive evolutionary event that occurred about [...]
Las Vegas to Build World’s First 30 Story Vertical Farm
30 stories… Las Vegas the tourist mecca of the World is set to begin development of the World’s first vertical farm. The $200 million dollar project is designed to be a functional and profitable working farm growing enough food to feed 72,000 people for a year and provide another tourist attraction to the city that [...]
Scientists find missing evolutionary link using tiny fungus crystal
The crystal structure of an RNA molecule bound to a protein. The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex, as outlined in this recent study. By studying the three-dimensional version of the [...]
Frogs may be on the brink of extinction
This frog needs your help. The year of 2008 has now been named among conservationists, the Year of the Frog in response to the impending doom in store for frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians across the planet. According to this article at Telegraph.co.uk, this is going to be the biggest mass extinction since the [...]
Happy New Year 2008
The year is now 2008, but you probably already knew that…I hope.
Does time slow in crisis? Nope, say researchers.
I guess Keanu hasn’t heard the news. In The Matrix, hero Neo wins his battles when time slows in the simulated world. In the real world, accident victims often report a similar slowing as they slide unavoidably into disaster. But can humans really experience events in slow motion? Apparently not, said researchers at Baylor College [...]
College classes freely available on the net
Even this kid could tap into the wealth of information. An increasing number of colleges have started using technology to distribute audio and video of college lectures, class notes, and otherwise previously unavailable content to the masses, via the internet. And the price of all this valuable college-level content? Absolutely free, aside from the basic [...]
Parallel universes, could they really exist?
Just a couple parallel universes An article published yesterday suggested the idea that our universe may be no more than a “speck of cosmic dust” amongst the infinite number of parallel worlds. This idea isn’t really anything new, however, an increasing number of scientists are beginning to at least warm up to the idea of [...]
Synthetic DNA close to yielding new life forms
Scientists at LS9, Inc. hard at work A recent recent article on The Washington Post went into detail about how the idea creating artificial life forms through artificial DNA may be soon turned reality. Up until recently, even the most advanced laboratories couldn’t really do much more than add a few extra genes to something [...]
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