Nov 07 2009
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Tiny metal particles have been shown to cause changes to DNA across a cellular barrier - without having to cross it.
Nov 05 2009
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A sharp-eyed camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the Phoenix lander encased in dry ice in the depths of winter on the northern polar plains of Mars.
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Although Pratchett has publicly raged against Alzheimer’s and announced at the Alzheimer’s Research Trust Conference last year that he would “eat a dead mole’s arse” if he thought it would cure him, he says he has come to terms with death.
Nov 04 2009
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Argleton: the phantom town that Google created
Neither Google, nor the company that supplies its mapping data for this part of Britain, were able to explain how the phantom town made its way on to Google Maps, The Telegraph said.
Nov 03 2009
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“This study has important implications for estimates of the total biodiversity of free-living micro-organisms,” says Thierry Heger of the Swiss Federal Research Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland. The fact that microbes can travel huge distances makes it less likely that there are large numbers of endemic species, Heger says.
Oct 30 2009
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At 2100, on 29 October 1969, engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) prepared to send data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet.
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Drought beats cotton giant Cubbie
Cubbie Station sits on the upper reaches of the mighty Murray-Darling river system, and its water storage capacity is equal to that of Sydney Harbour.
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“It’s an amazingly engaging sequence, because it is so beautiful and graceful, and yet totally observed,” says Adam Chapman, a BBC producer who helped film the behaviour with cameraman Doug Anderson.
Oct 29 2009
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Scientists estimate there are anywhere between 50 million and 120 million red crabs on the island. And every year they make their pilgrimage towards the ocean to breed. It is while they make these journeys that the crabs suffer casualties. Mr Orchard estimates the red crab road toll is over 500,000 every migration season.
