I understand the importance of making plants more resistant to certain environmental conditions through normal cross-breeding etc. But scientist have went a little far in putting a human gene into a variety of Rice under experimentation. [news.independent.co.uk]
I liken the Hubble Telescope to a national prize. Science has gotten a lot of bang for it’s buck over 700,000 images running on 15 year old technology. I bet you don’t have any computers that are 15 years old…
After spending 190+ days in space the crew from the Expedition 11 crew left the ISS and returned to earth yesterday safe and sound. [NASA]
This is really sad news but not all the surprising. They say it’s all on red tape they have to get the paperwork squared away. This blows me a away why are they still dealing with paper.. [SpaceToday]
So what do you do with 400,000 scraps of Papyrus that has ancient wittings on them that have up until recently been un-readable. Those of you that a history buffs are going to want to read this. [The Independent]
I don’t know about you but this bothers me just a little. But I guess that’s why scientist get paid the big bucks. Seems some scientist are working pretty hard to drill all the way to the Earths Mantle. It…
My hands are about as clumsy as they come and my brain is always racing at about a 100 miles an hour and my typing at a mere 5 miles an hour. Can someone just plug me into the keyboard…