A biotech company that is working toward the Jurassic Park-style cloning of woolly mammoths has announced that they have made a crucial breakthrough in producing elephant stem cells, a key step in recreating the furry pachyderms, a species that has been extinct for over four thousand years. According to a statementread more
One of the maverick solar physicists that changed the way we look at the behavior of the Sun says that we may already have reached the peak of the current solar cycle—bringing with it increased chances for stronger solar storms—as signaled by a complete flip of the Sun’s magnetic field. The currentread more
What are termed natural disasters are testing the capacity of governmental humanitarian aid worldwide. A 6.8 magnitude quake struck Morocco on Friday. The most powerful earthquake to hit Morocco in over a century has left more than 2,800 dead as of Tuesday morning. As shown across news outlets and socialread more
A new analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that some species of ice-age megafauna, including woolly mammoths, wild horses and steppe bison, survived much further into the modern era than previously thought. The recovered genetic material taken from soil samples from Canadian permafrost, indicates that some of these species didn’tread more