Posted on Thursday January 31, 2008 by Richard
Beautiful yet deadly. China’s worst snow in 50 years has already killed more than 65 people and delayed hundreds of thousands who wanted to get back for their only holiday of the year, the Lunar New Year. But it has also created beautiful scenes like the one above - evidence of the extraordinary power of [...]
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Posted on Tuesday January 29, 2008 by Richard
NASA scientists have now managed to get images of 2007 TU24, the asteroid that came pretty close to hitting Earth on January 29 (see my previous post for more explanation and a star map). It’s not an amazing photo, but it’s still quite fascinating anyway if you think about it..
So what would we do [...]
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Posted on Monday January 28, 2008 by Richard
Rain, snow, maybe hail… it’s very rare for anything to come out of the sky and hit you really hard on the head. But the U.S. government now admits that there is a new and dangerous possibility: a bus-sized spy satellite that is currently hurtling back to Earth, completely uncontrolled. It is due to hit [...]
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Posted on Sunday January 27, 2008 by Richard
Life’s so complex that only a civilization far more advanced than our own could ever produce it artificially, right?
Wrong. Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland have successfully created the full genome for a species of bacteria, completely from scratch, the first time ever that life on our planet has been [...]
Filed under: Health, Nature, Science, Technology | Tagged: bacteria, biology, DNA, Environment, genes, life, progress, research | 1 Comment »
Posted on Saturday January 26, 2008 by Richard
The Adriatic Sea
Italy, home of coffee, art and… tectonic plate collisions. What!?
A new fault has been discovered on the edge of the tectonic plate Italy sits on, making it slowly sliding over the plate that Croatia and other members of the Balkan Peninsula lie on. The result: Italy is gradually getting closer and closer to [...]
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