1) The Large Hadron Collider
~ A 'massive particle accelerator straddling the Swiss-French border'. It was supposed to create the conditions under which the big bang happened. Many people thought it was going to create a black hole the size of Europe but it didn't. It didn't even work all that long. Two weeks into the project and it had to be shut down due to a helium leak. It should, however, be up and running again sometime in June.
2) Life On Mars
~ NASA's Phoenix Lander visited the polar regions of Mars where it found more ice! Nothing has confirmed that there was once life on mars, but it's looking more likely each day.
3) Creating the Base for Life
~ Geneticist J. Craig Venter stitched together 582,000 base pairs needed to create a new type of bacteria.
4) China in Space
~China has completed their first space walk this year, during their third trip into outer space. Their next project is have human on the moon in 2020.
5) 5 Gorilla, 6 Gorilla, 7 Gorilla, More!
~The western lowland Gorilla, an endangered species, has doubled in number in the Republic of Congo. Go Them!
6) Out of This World!
~Last June Swiss astronomer Michel Mayor found 45 plants (smaller than Earth) orbiting their own star in other galaxies. It's unsure, at the moment, if any of these planets have life or can support life, but it is still a big advancement in science.
7) The Invisibility Cloak!
~ I would write more about it, but I don't understand physics. But if you are interested check out the article here!
8) Create Your Own Woolly Mammoth
~ Penn State biochemistry professor Stevan Schuster has reconstructed at least if not over 80% of a Woolly Mammoth's genome. He did this by piecing together billions of DNA sequences from clumps of hair left from the Woolly Mammoth. Kudos to you Stevan Schuster!
9) Increase in Smarts
~'Between 1979 and 2006, the percentage of scientifically literate adults doubled — to 17%... Currently, 25% of the population of the U.S. ... qualify as "civic scientifically literate." In practical terms says the investigator, that means that only one in four adults can read and understand the stories in the weekly science section of The New York Times.' (I didn't feel like paraphrasing sorry.)
10) Stone Age Family
4,600 year old graves were uncovered. 'Among the remains was a foursome interred together — an adult male and female and two boys, one of them 8 to 9 years old, the other 4 to 5. ' Due to some defensive wounds found on the skeletons, it seems as if the villagers were killed in a raid. The foursome was the oldest family remains to be uncovered.
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