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- Three years ago, researchers used artificial DNA sequences to encode data, added the sequences to the DNA of radiation-resistant bacteria, allowed the bacteria to multiply, then extracted the message part of a DNA strand and retrieved the encoded information – a technique that could preserve data in a nuclear disaster. Or as Graham Hancock points out in Supernatural (Amazon US & UK), bacteria could be used to spread stored data through space.
- Gold and Death: The secret curses of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
- First European pyramid found – in the heart of Bosnia!
- Hobbit As Monkey?
- Ancient ritual cauldron unearthed in Bulgaria.
- Iron Age ‘industrial estate’ uncovered in Inverness.
- Dig in Thebes uncovers traces of cult to Hercules.
- Indian archaeologists have found a 2200-year-old Sangam temple – beneath the ruins of a recently revealed 9th century Pallavas temple. Also mentions evidence of large structures found on seabed.
- Java Sea yields boatload of treasures lost 1000 years ago.
- Ancient physicians were delivering surprisingly sophisticated, knowledgeable and effective health care 2,000 years before Christ.
- Stone Rows: A practical solution.
- The planetary collision believed to have created the Moon may explain why scientists can’t agree on how old the earth’s core is.
- Scientists discover accurate method to date oceanic crust.
- Ideas that could further space exploration are coming from such animals as ants, fish and squirrels.
- Review of Hiding in the Mirror: the Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond, by Case physicist Lawrence Krauss. Amazon US & UK.
- Almost 100 years ago, physicist J J Thomson ventured into the interior of atoms and discovered the electron.
- Small is beautiful to Harvard zoologist, Piotr Naskrecki, author of The Smaller Majority. Amazon US & UK. That leaf-tailed gecko looks like he has Spiderman tattooed on his belly.
- This spider gene might one day be harnessed to build super strong materials.
- Why your dog is smarter than a wolf.
- Field of Nightmares: Iowa farmer finds 11-foot python in corn field.
Quote of the Day:
The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
Freeman Dyson
