Posts from the category Science

For all the Mammals, nature and evolution preferred scarring over regeneration when we have wounds or limbs loss. Scientists found that the absence of the gene P21 in mice gives them the ability to regenerate lost or damaged tissue. This investigation is taking place at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and researchers…

One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light-years across. One shows in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the Universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena.

See it in Full Size, It feels almost as being there. The Opportunity Rover is a pretty awesome vehicle. It has outperformed its mission expectations by over 200%, it is in the fifth year of what was supposed to be a 90 sol (martian days) mission. Opportunity Rover Opportunity, mission designation MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover…

We produce 500 billion of Plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are discarded polluting oceans, killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for a solution. The 16 year-old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has…

Albert Einstein was a genius but also he made some mistakes, specially with the details of his equations and theories. In the book Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius (W.W. Norton, $12.93), Hans Ohanian writes that Albert often let his intuition overrule flawed proofs and shaky math. DISCOVER Magazine also posted a story on…