Posted in Science on Jan 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Scientists announced that they have successfully produced a complete synthetic genome in the lab by cover together the DNA of the smallest known free-living bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium. The image shows a micrograph of a synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium genome during a roughly 0.6-second period. (J. Craig Venter Institute)
Posted in Science on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Scientists in California declare they have created embryos that are clones of two men, a big step in the direction of developing scientifically valuable stem cells. The newly reported embryos were made with ordinary skin cells. But it’s not the first time human cloned embryos have been made. In 2005, for example, scientists in Britain [...]
Posted in Science on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA, doesn’t look much like an observatory but like a Boeing 747 airplane.
Posted in Science on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
When Mariner 10 flew past Mercury three times in 1974 and 1975, the same hemisphere was in sunlight during each encounter. As a consequence, Mariner 10 was able to image less than half the planet. Planetary scientists have wondered for more than 30 years about what spacecraft images might reveal about the hemisphere of Mercury [...]
Posted in Science on Jan 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The deeper astronomers look into the cosmos, the more they discover it’s a bizarre and violent universe. The explore result from this week’s annual meeting of U.S. astronomers vary from blue orphaned baby stars to threatening “rogue” black holes that travel our galaxy, devouring any planets doomed to be within their limited reach.