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A group of Israeli scientists have achieved the unthinkable when they germinated a 2,000 year-old seed of date palm. The seed, nicknamed Methuselah was found in the ruins of Herod’s palace, and after 26 months, it grew into a 1.2 metres tall plant.
Now the world’s oldest successful germination, Methuselah was found in the 60’s in […]

Laboratory tests on the vehicle explorer “Phoenix” confirmed the existence of water on the planet Mars, NASA said today.
The U.S. space agency said yesterday that the robotic arm of “Phoenix” deposited one sample in an instrument that identified water vapor. “We have water on Mars, said William Boynton, thermal analyzer scientist at the University […]

A huge step has just been made in the race to achieve a permanent lunar colony. Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, have managed to set up a successful bacterial culture on a substrate made with lunar soil, plus the supplementation of air, water and light. They used a kind of […]

Today’s article is not about DNA, although its far-reaching implications prompted us to share this story with our readers.
Last August, astronomers working on the analysis of data being acquired by NASA’s WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) satellite announced that they found a huge void in the universe. A void is a region of space that […]