Plan to Build a Genetic Noah’s Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species
The project leaders want to assemble high-quality genome sequences of all 66,000 vertebrate species on Earth, including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
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The project leaders want to assemble high-quality genome sequences of all 66,000 vertebrate species on Earth, including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
The red marks on the above flake represent the oldest known drawing in the archaeological record, according to new research.
The finding subsequently suggests humans may very well have played an active role in the extinction of Madagascar’s megafauna.
An incurable affliction that gradually destroys a person’s ability to walk, speak, and eventually breathe can also deteriorate the mind, new research suggests.
The Apple Watch, already marketed as a heart rate monitor, will now have sensors capable of taking someone’s electrocardiogram, but how useful is it exactly?
These findings cast new light on the origin of primate communication.
A tiny hole in a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space Station has turned into a strange game of international telephone.
The disparity between where we are with space travel, and where the bright minds of the 80s thought we would be by now is, quite frankly, massively disappointing.
This competition is about more than model supremacy: Lives and property are at stake.
Archaeologists unearthed a pot of gold coins dating back to the 5th century AD under an abandoned theatre near Milan, Italy.
"We have to change our mindsets. We’re no longer Higgs or supersymmetry hunters. We’re mapmakers.”
At this point we have no idea just how far-reaching the presence of fluoxetine in the environment could be, nor its full impact on antibiotic resistance, and that's very worrying.
Scientists have discovered what they believe to be three new species of snailfish nearly 25,000 feet below the ocean’s surface in the Atacama Trench.
The decision could mean the end of a bitter legal dispute that began four years ago.
Researchers in Australia recently implanted a bridled nail-tailed wallaby with a microchip and trained it to use a cat door to find food and escape predators.
A man is suing a cryonics firm for allegedly not respecting his late father’s wishes — or contract — to have his entire body cryogenically preserved.
