Stem cells are the blank slate on which all specialised cells in our bodies are built and they are the foundation for every organ and tissue in the body. Maturing and resisting it has long been a prominent point in traditional and modern literary works in human history. From the unfortunate Qin Shi Huang's exploration...
Utilizing old DNA, consisting of examples of human remains roughly 45,000 years, has shed light on a previously unknown facet of human development. Dr. Yassine Souilmi, Team Leader at the College of Adelaide's Australian Center for Old DNA, co-led the recent research study released in Nature Ecology and Development. "It was extensively thought the genes of...
RIKEN physicists have created an LED that emits in a narrow region in the far ultraviolet that is safe for humans but deadly for viruses and bacteria. Credit: RIKEN RIKEN physicists have engineered an exceptionally efficient LED that is lethal to microorganisms and viruses while being safe for humans. Someday it may help nations overcome...
Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, centre, Eva Olsson, left and Thors Hans Hansson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics announce the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, from left to right on the screen, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, during a press...
A European robin (Erithacus rubecula) singing in Gennevilliers, France. Credit: Alexis Lours/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY When the COVID pandemic began, it was an international crisis for humans-- but as humans took shelter, reports of wildlife reclaiming what were once human-dominated spaces abounded. But biologists are noticing the patterns were not repeated around the world. Last year, a research...
Credit: Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty Images A study describes how scientists conducted the first successful DNA sequencing on old Egyptian mummies. Egyptologists, writers, scholars, and others, have suggested the race of the ancient Egyptians since at least the 1970s. Some today think they were sub-Saharan Africans. We can observe this interpretation portrayed in Michael Jackson's 1991...
Mitochondria are the energy powerhouses in eukaryotic cells. One popular hypothesis claims these organelles were a pre-requisite to the transition from simpler prokaryotes like bacteria and archaea to larger, more complex eukaryotic organisms. The new study challenges this assumption. Credit: Jason Drees In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on...
Info Dump There is no shortage of debate regarding the nature of the dark matter, a mysterious substance that many physicists believe makes up a large proportion of the total mass of the universe, despite never having observed it directly. Currently, a physicist from the UK called Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark...
Two Thylacine in a cage. Credit: Wikipedia Scientists in Australia and the United States are starting a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction. The last known Tasmanian Tiger, technically named Thylacine, passed away in the 1930s. The group behind the effort claims it can accomplish this using stem cells and gene-editing technology....
A vandalized pipeline in Nigeria The Ashcraft Centre for Social Science Research has expressed its condemnation of the destruction of national assets, particularly in the telecommunications, oil and gas, transportation, and power sectors. In response to this situation, the group has organized a zonal summit in Port Harcourt to address the legal responsibility of stakeholders...
