Member 1702Divers find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon (AP)20-05-2008 14h32AP - Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys. Robot digger set to land Sunday at Martian pole (AP)20-05-2008 08h07AP - Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet's north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission. The three-legged Phoenix Mars lander fitted with a backhoe arm is zeroing in on the unexplored arctic region where a reservoir of ice is believed to lie beneath the Martian surface. Millions of tiny starfish inhabit undersea volcano (AP)20-05-2008 08h07AP - Marine scientists surveying a large undersea mountain chain were amazed to find millions of tiny starfish swirling their arms to capture food in the undersea current. UK lawmakers approve embryo research (AP)20-05-2008 08h07AP - British lawmakers voted Monday to approve controversial plans to allow the use of animal-human embryos for research. The proposed laws, the first major review of embryo science in Britain for almost 20 years, have provoked stormy debate pitting Prime Minister Gordon Brown and scientists against religious leaders, anti-abortion campaigners and a large number of lawmakers. Extinct Tasmanian Tiger's DNA Revived in Mice (LiveScience.com)20-05-2008 09h50LiveScience.com - DNA from an extinct creature has been resurrected in a live animal for the first time. The genetic material, extracted from the extinct Tasmanian tiger, proved functional in mice. "As more and more species of animals become extinct, we are continuing to lose critical knowledge of gene function and their potential," said researcher Andrew Pask, a molecular biologist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Reviving genes from extinct animals can't bring them back to life, but it could help retrieve this potentially valuable knowledge. ... Weather around the U.S.A. (AP)19-05-2008 22h02AP - Weather around the U.S.A. NASA gives go-ahead for Discovery shuttle launch on May 31 (AFP)20-05-2008 17h44AFP - NASA has given the green light to launch the space shuttle Discovery on May 31 for a mission to the International Space Station, officials said. Protesters vow action over kangaroo cull (AP)20-05-2008 16h17AP - An animal rights activist threatened "direct action" to stop the killing of 400 kangaroos because of overpopulation in Australia's capital after two protesters unsuccessfully tried to disrupt the cull Tuesday. Extinct Tasmanian tiger gene brought back to life: scientists (AFP)20-05-2008 16h14AFP - Scientists said Tuesday they had "resurrected" a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger by implanting it in a mouse, raising the future possibility of bringing animals such as dinosaurs back to life. Robot to Dig Martian Arctic (SPACE.com)20-05-2008 20h02SPACE.com - A soft touchdown in Mars' northern arctic plains set for Sunday is just the first step for NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. If the dust clears, solar-power arrays deploy and all equipment checks out, Phoenix will then have some digging to do. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 4467 Member 1313 Member 4263 Member 2814 Member 1400 Member 1366 Member 1576 Member 2963 Member 5089 Member 1824 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 | |
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