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- The final nail in the Jurassic Park coffin: Next generation sequencing reveals absence of DNA in sub-fossilized insects
- Who's got guts? Young infants expect animals to have insides
- Robots take over economy: Sudden rise of global ecology of interacting robots trade at speeds too fast for humans
- A ray of hope for the 'death-ray' building
- Tingling sensation caused by Asian spice could help patients with chronic pain
| Posted: 11 Sep 2013 03:46 PM PDT It is hardly possible to talk about fossil insects in amber without the 1993 movie Jurassic Park entering the debate. The idea of recreating dinosaurs by extracting DNA from insects in amber has held the fascination of the public for two decades. Claims for successful extraction of DNA from amber up to 130 million-years-old by various scientists in the early 1990s were only seriously questioned when a study at the Natural History Museum, London, was unable to replicate the process. The original claims are now considered by many to be a text-book example of modern contaminant DNA in the samples. Nonetheless, some scientists hold fast to their original claims.Research can now confirm that the existence of DNA in amber fossils is highly unlikely.  |
| Who's got guts? Young infants expect animals to have insides Posted: 11 Sep 2013 01:10 PM PDT A team of researchers has shown that 8-month-old infants expect objects they identify as animals to have insides.  |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2013 06:31 AM PDT Recently, the global financial market experienced a series of computer glitches that abruptly brought operations to a halt. One reason for these "flash freezes" may be the sudden emergence of mobs of ultrafast robots, which trade on the global markets and operate at speeds beyond human capability, thus overwhelming the system.  |
| A ray of hope for the 'death-ray' building Posted: 11 Sep 2013 06:29 AM PDT A London skyscraper -- nicknamed "The Walkie Talkie" -- that unwittingly projected scorching sunbeams onto the streets below has highlighted the need for city planners to use a more integrated approach to planning.  |
| Tingling sensation caused by Asian spice could help patients with chronic pain Posted: 10 Sep 2013 05:53 PM PDT The science behind the tingling sensation caused by eating a popular Asian spice has been explained by researchers.  |
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