Washington, March 27 : Scientists at the Pentagon have completed the first phase of their plan to regrow soldiers' limbs, by turning human skin into the equivalent of a blastema - a mass of undifferentiated cells that can develop into new body parts.
Now, researchers are on to phase two: turning that cellular glop into a square inch of honest-to-goodness muscle tissue.
The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) just got a one-year, 570,000 dollars grant from Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research arm, to grow the new tissues.
Washington, March 27 : In a new research, scientists have determined that though chimpanzees share many of our genes, dogs are a better model for understanding human social behavior, as they have lived with us for a long period.
"Shared environment has led to the emergence of functionally shared behavioral features in dogs and humans and, in some cases, functionally analogous underlying cognitive skills," lead author Jozsef Topal explained to Discovery News.
London, March 27 : US billionaire Charles Simonyi has become the first space tourist to make a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) twice.
According to a report by BBC News, Simonyi, aged 60, was part of the three-member crew aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome.
The software tycoon, who has paid 35 million dollars (24 million pounds) for his trip, will be the last tourist for the foreseeable future.
London, March 27 : Scientists at NASA have identified dozens of mounds or domes in the northern plains of Mars, which they say bear a striking resemblance to mud volcanoes.
According to a report by BBC News, the domes on the Red Planet were detected using images taken by NASA''s Mars Odyssey spacecraft, and Carlton Allen and Dorothy Oehler of NASA''s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Infrared data also show the domes cool more quickly at night than the surrounding rock, as one might expect if they were made of sediment.
Oslo - Russian-born Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov of France was Thursday named winner of the Abel Prize, sometimes known as the "Nobel Prize for mathematics."
Gromov was cited for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry."
The 65-year-old Gromov became a French citizen in 1992 and is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques at Bures- sur-Yvette, France.
London, Mar. 26 : Over a year, the average Brit queues up for more than 67 hours or almost three days, a report in The Telegraph says.
The poll of 3,000 Britons revealed the biggest amount of time spent queuing is to pay for the weekly shop, accounting for almost 53 minutes each month.
A further 33 minutes is spent waiting to pay for items such as clothes and DVDs in shops and we queue for 35 minutes every month to get a drink in a bar or pub.
Washington, March 27 : Scientists at the Pentagon have completed the first phase of their plan to regrow soldiers' limbs, by turning human skin into the equivalent of a blastema - a mass of undifferentiated cells that can develop into new body parts.
Washington, March 27 : In a new research, scientists have determined that though chimpanzees share many of our genes, dogs are a better model for understanding human social behavior, as they have lived with us for a long period.
London, March 27 : US billionaire Charles Simonyi has become the first space tourist to make a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) twice.
London, March 27 : Scientists at NASA have identified dozens of mounds or domes in the northern plains of Mars, which they say bear a striking resemblance to mud volcanoes.
Oslo - Russian-born Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov of France was Thursday named winner of the Abel Prize, sometimes known as the "Nobel Prize for mathematics."
London, Mar. 26 : Over a year, the average Brit queues up for more than 67 hours or almost three days, a report in The Telegraph says.
