A star located about 110 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Hercules, has been identified by an international team of astronomers as ” the first brother of the Sun ” found. Both stars must have formed in the same cloud of gas and dust just over 4,500 million years ago. “We know where […]
May 14 2014 | Posted in
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More than a decade after the tracks that could be one of the most important underwater discoveries of recent years, and now it has been announced that team is very close to the treasure. A group of U.S. experts says that, 500 years after its collapse, it has found whereabouts of Santa Maria of Christopher […]
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The method to clone animals such as Dolly the sheep to be patented, but not the resulting animals, according to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. has ruled . The judge Timothy Dyk has argued that ” the genetic identity of their donor father Dolly makes it impossible to […]
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The quality of the air we breathe in most cities in the world is worse, warned yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO), increasing the risk of people suffering respiratory, heart and other diseases related pathologies contamination. Almost 90 % of the cities for which data has been collected in 91 countries – 1600 exceed those […]
May 9 2014 | Posted in
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NASA will decide the fate of its two space missions, the Opportunity rover on Mars and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on the moon depending on the availibity of the findings in the 2015 US budget. In the event that the U.S. space agency decides to terminate these missions would create a precedent unthinkable until […]
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Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have discovered the mechanism that causes breast cells affected by the disease to become hard to create, in the form of irregular lumps in the breast tissue malignancies. Excessive hardening of the breast tissue, which is displayed through hard nodules in the chest, is a symptom […]
May 7 2014 | Posted in
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The GDF11 protein has another joy to researchers. According to two articles published in the online edition of Science not only gets the heart cells in mice rejuvenated, but also improves their intellectual. Specifically, researchers at Harvard University found that injecting the protein in mice with an age equivalent to 70 human years, resulted in […]
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As if it were an apparition, groups of retirees who walk through the SA -322 road next to Retortillo Baths (Salamanca) are stopped, perplexed, at the offices of Spain Berkeley Minera SA, the Australian parent, just built in through the oaks. These are the first visible sign Retortillo – Holiness project; a plan that, when […]
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If Apple wants to hurt Samsung two years ago and in the long war of patents, will be loaded more grounds in view of the mixed results of recent weeks experienced assault in a court in San Jose (California). A jury ended up giving decision in favor of Apple in two of the five offenses […]
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Android TV is what the new smart TV product that Google is preparing will be called. It is a”set-top -box” similar to Fire style TV, recently launched by Amazon. It is easier to use and less ambitious than the previous Google TV initiative launched by the company. The focus this time is to compete […]
Flight controllers of Ames, NASA has confirmed that its automatic Ladee probe crashed in the lunar soil, on the far side of the satellite, as planned but still have not located the lunar impact. The device, the size of a vending machine for drinks, had virtually ran out of the fuel and, since the end […]
Apr 25 2014 | Posted in
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The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) in Brazil has released the rules for the extraction of unconventional gas in the country using the technique of hydraulic fracturing commonly known as “fracking”. The regulations require that gas extraction does not harm the environment or human health, according to a statement released by the regulator on the hydrocarbon […]
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