The Mysterious Thing About a Marvelous New Synthetic Cell
In 2010, a team of scientists announced that they had created a synthetic living cell. The team, led by Nobel laureate Ham Smith, microbiologist Clyde Hutchison III, and genomics pioneer Craig Venter, fashioned the full genome of a tiny bacterium called Mycoplasma mycoides in their lab, and implanted the DNA into the empty cell of another related microbe. They nicknamed it Synthia. Some news sources claimed that the team had, for the first time, created artificial life. Others noted that they h..>> view originalHawaii finds and loses a second native mammal
According to a new study published this week in American Museum Novitiates, Hawaii has one more native land dwelling mammal than it thought it did. Or it would, if that mammal, a newly discovered species of bat, had not gone extinct eleven hundred years ago.Today, Hawaii only has one living native land mammal in residence, another type of bat called the Hawaiian hoary bat. This new bat species, named Synemporion keana, lived alongside the hoary bat before it went extinct around 11,000 years ago..>> view originalBillionaire Paul Allen Pledges $100 Million To Fund Cutting-Edge Life Sciences Research
This weird little fish can walk up waterfalls
Cryptotora thamicola. (New Jersey Institute of Technology) The cavefish Cryptotora thamicola is blind as a – well, blind as a cavefish. But according to a study published Thursday in Scientific Reports, the fish uses a unique method of movement that allows it to walk like a four-legged animal. In fact, it can even climb its way up a waterfall. "It possesses morphological features that have previously only been attributed to tetrapods," or four-footed mammals and amphibians, study co-author ..>> view originalScience-religion conflict may lie in our brains
"Long before it's in the papers" March 24, 2016 RETURN TO THE WORLD SCIENCE HOME PAGE Science-religion conflict may lie in our brains March 24, 2016 Courtesy of Case Western Reserve University and World Science staff The conflict between science and religion may originate in our brain structure, researchers have found. Clashes between the..>> view originalPrairie Dogs are Serial Killers: Study
The fact that vegetarian prairie dogs are vicious and ruthless murderers in reality comes as somewhat of a surprise. Only man is his own worst enemy. From grand theft to brutal terrorism, it is us humans that top the list of savagery in the animal kingdom. However, recent evidence points out several other species that kill on a routine basis.Finishing off others without any reason seems to be something at which other creatures than man are specialists as well. To stop the competition that is a ..>> view originalSolar storms trigger intense Northern Lights on Jupiter
Newly released images from space show a rare view of Jupiter's X-ray version of the Northern Lights. Based on observations from the Chandra X-ray telescope, the vivid aurora is depicted as a magenta glow surrounding the planet's north pole. In reality, the X-rays lie in a portion of the light spectrum not visible to human eyes.Astronomers say this aurora on Jupiter, which occurred in 2011, covers an area larger than Earth's entire surface.New research published in the Journal of Geophysical Res..>> view originalThree Cool Things We've Learned From NASA's Mars Gravity Map
By Michael Greshko PUBLISHED Thu Mar 24 16:49:04 EDT 2016 NASA has released a stunning new map of Mars that shows the planet’s terrain in a way not visible to the naked eye—using gravity to reveal new details about everything from the core to the atmosphere. “It’s giving you a signal of the lumps and bumps of the planet’s surface,” says Richard Zurek of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who wasn’t involved with the mapping. “It’s pret..>> view originalCeres' Puzzling Bright Spots, Giant Mountain Feature in New Close-Up Photos
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Ceres is coming into focus, but many mysteries about the dwarf planet remain. Newly released images captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal a close-up look at Ceres' odd bright spots and giant mountain, and hint at the existence of ice sheets at the dwarf planet's poles. "Clearly, we have a lot of work to do to put together a self-consistent story [about Ceres]," Dawn's deputy principal investigator Carol Raymond, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasade..>> view originalJapanese Whalers Return with 333 Whales
By MarEx 2016-03-24 17:32:56 In a statement released today, the Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR), the body behind the Japanese government’s whaling program, announced the return of the Japanese whaling fleet from its Antarctic operations. It is the first time that the Japanese whalers have returned to the Southern Ocean to slaughter whales since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled its whaling program to be illegal in 2014. The statement confirmed that 333..>> view original
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