Spinach leaves to be used as working human heart tissue

Making  or recreating damaged heart tissues has always been a challenge for the scientists. But here is some unique and latest discovers: Use of spinach leaves to be used as working human heart tissues.

Scientists have tried many methods including the latest 3D-printing to recreate such delicate and intricate networks, but the technique was unsuccessful. Now Nature has come to the help in a revolutionary way.

Researchers are hopeful that such techniques could prove useful when it comes to treating the victims of heart attacks whereby new healthy layers of heart muscle could be created, writes Daily Mail.

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Iran discovers uranium reserves - key ingredient of nuclear power plants and bombs

Iran's nuclear head has announced that Iran has discovered  additional uranium reserves, a rare element that is a key ingredient of nuclear power plants and bombs.

The discovery of could make it harder for the West to monitor Iran's controversial nuclear programme.

It may added that it was previously thought that Iran would have to import uranium from other countries in order to power its nuclear plants, which would have made it easier for the West to monitor the develop of the controversial project.

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Oldest manuscript of Holy Koran found in Birmingham

In a rare find, a historical manuscript of Holy Koran has been discovered in the University of Birmingham.

A radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between AD 568 and 645 with 95.4% accuracy. The test was carried out in a laboratory at the University of Oxford. 

The result places the leaves close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632.

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Huge Oil Reserves found in Australia may badly effect Saudi and Iranian Oil Exports in coming days

The discovery of 233 billion barrels of unconventional oil under an area spread over 16 million acres, located near the remote town of Coober Pedy, Australia, may trigger an energy war in coming days. The total reserves of Saudi Arabia stand at 263 billion barrels.

Coober Pedy is located in a nearly, uninhabitable region of Southern Australia where temperatures can reach 118 degrees, which forces many of the town's 1,695 residents are forced to live in underground caves. 

This has been disclosed by Dr. Kent Moors, an energy advisor to 20 world governments and consultant to OPEC, the IEA, EIA, and National Intelligence Community in an exclusive interview with Money Morning TV.

"This single, energy discovery could deliver an economic and geopolitical deathblow to Iran and Saudi Arabia, and that's exactly what the US government wants." he stated.

The find is equivalent of 12% of the world's entire reserves.

This revelation has also been backed up by South Australia's mining minister, Tom Koutsantonis who said, "what we're seeing up there is a very, very big deposit. They think they can extract vast reserves of oil out of South Australia which would have a value of about $20 trillion."

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17-Years old Archivist discovers Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong in warehouse forgotten for Four Decades

Archivist Karen Nelson displays her 'finds'

While the world may have forgotten about it, but a 17 years old archivist, Karen Nelson, made a cosmic discovery while tidying up a storage space at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently.

The discovery of twently forgetten vials was pheneomenal as these contined the moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong, the first man who landed on the monn, some four decade ago in 1969.

The vials "were vacuum sealed in a glass jar," Karen Nelson told Chao. "We don't know how or when they ended up in storage."

The vials were kept company all those years by a copy of the paper "Study of carbon compounds in Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 returned lunar samples," which was published in the Proceedings of the Second Lunar Science Conference in 1971 (and which you -- space geek that you are - can read in its fascinating PDF entirety here).

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'Grand Canyon' found in the Red Sea

We have heard a lot about the Grand Canyon in the USA - but not about a similar world under water in the Red Sea until very lately.

The features could be the result of ancient rivers scouring through the rock strata before the Red Sea flooded millennia ago

Now an under sea mapping by a Royal Navy ship finds a new underwater features can be very wisely called as the under water Grand Canyon. 

The British Navy ship made discovery on mission to update Admiralty charts recently.

HMS Enterprise discovered the 250 metre-deep canyon in the Red Sea during a nine-month mission to improve understanding of the waters east of Suez. The 3D images were created after the ship left the Egyptian port of Safaga and were made using the Devonport-based survey ship's multibeam echo sounder.

The echo sounder, which is fitted to Enterprise's hull, produces the images from the echoes returning from the sound pulses it sends out.

Commander Derek Rae, commanding officer of HMS Enterprise, said: 'These features could be the result of ancient rivers scouring through the rock strata before the Red Sea flooded millennia ago.

'Some may be far younger and still in the process of being created by underwater currents driven by the winds and tidal streams as they flow through this area of the Red Sea, carving their way through the soft sediment and being diverted by harder bed rock.

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Ice found on Mercury: NASA

NASA scientists have confirmed a vast amount of ice at the north pole — on Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.

The ice is thought to be at least 1½ feet (0.3 meters) deep — and possibly as much as 65 feet (20 meters) deep.

The findings are from NASA's Mercury-orbiting probe, Messenger, and the subject of three scientific papers released Thursday by the journal Science.

The frozen water is located in regions of Mercury's north pole that always are in shadows, essentially impact craters. It's believed the south pole harbors ice as well, though there are no hard data to support it. Messenger orbits much closer to the north pole than the south.

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"If you add it all up, you have on the order of 100 billion to 1 trillion metric tons of ice," said David Lawrence of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. "The uncertainty on that number is just how deep it goes."

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New Earth-sized planet found

Astronomers have found a planet only an astronomical stone's throw away, at four light years, raising the chances that there is a habitable planet orbiting in Earth's neighbourhood.

Researchers say the newly discovered planet is too close to its sun to support known forms of life - it has a surface temperature estimated at 1200C. But previous studies suggest that when one planet is discovered orbiting a sun there are usually others in the same system.

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The Earth-sized planet, the discovery of which was announced by Stephane Udry and Xavier Dumusque, of the Geneva Observatory, orbits one of the suns in the three-star Centauri system, roughly 40 trillion kilometres away.

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Mystery Over Shiny Particles On Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover had been on Mars 61 days when she gathered her first scoop of soil.

Before the one-ton robot could finish sifting through her first small bucket of dust, however, all the excitement shifted to a shiny object found in the sand near the rover.

They saw that a light-toned particle was embedded in a clump of Martian soil, leading researchers to believe that the material could be native to Mars. This find completely overturned their original argument: These mystery particles are not something from the rover.

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Following the discovery, a third scoop of soil was collected. This sample will now be run through Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument to figure out what it's made of, and hopefully find out what's making the sand so shiny.   

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China Finds Cancer-Causing Toxin In Baby Formula

A cancer-causing toxin linked to mildewed cattle feed has been found in baby formula in China, an official said Monday, the latest quality problem to plague the nation's dairy industry since a 2008 tainted formula scandal that caused six babies' deaths.

Aflatoxin was found in five batches of Nanshan Bywise brand formula made last year by Hunan Ava Dairy Industry Co. in Hunan province's Nanshan city that were being sold in Guangzhou, said a man surnamed Gong from the Guangzhou Administration of Industry and Commerce General Office.

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Discovery takes its last ride

Hitching a ride on the back of a Boeing 747, the space shuttle Discovery made a dramatic flyover of Washington before touching down near its final resting place, a museum outside the US capital.

Riding atop a modified plane Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after sunrise Tuesday for its last journey in the skies.

The journey marks the ends of the space shuttle era with space exploration now left in the hands of the private sector.

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World's smallest frog discovered

[ via BBC News ] 11 Jan

A frog species that appears to be the world's smallest has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team.

At 7mm (0.27 inches) long, Paedophryne amauensis may be the world's smallest vertebrate - the group that includes mammals, fish, birds and amphibians.

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Quasicrystals likely came through Meteorites

[ via BBC News ] 3Jan

Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space, a study shows.

Quasicrystals have an unusual structure - in between those of crystals and glasses.

Until two years ago, quasicrystals had only been created in the lab - then geologists found them in rocks from Russia's Koryak mountains.

In PNAS journal, a team says the chemistry of the Russian crystals suggests they arrived in meteorites.

Quasicrystals were first described in the 1980s by Israeli researcher Daniel Schechtman, who was awarded last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery. Schechtman's ideas were initially treated with doubt or scorn by some of his peers, who thought the structures were "impossible".

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Physicists closing on the "God Particle"

[ via Huffington Post ] 13 Dec

Physicists in Geneva are closing in on an elusive subatomic particle that, if found, would confirm a long-held understanding about why matter has mass and how the universe's fundamental building blocks behave.

Few people outside physics can fully comprehend the search for the Higgs boson, which was first hypothesized 40 years ago. But proving that the "God particle" actually exists would be "a vindication of the equations we've been using all these years," said one Nobel laureate.

Scientists announced Tuesday that they had found hints but no definitive proof of the particle that is believed to be a basic component of the universe. They hope to determine whether it exists by next year.

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Evidence of Past Water found on Mars

[ Yahoo News ] 9 Dec

A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet -- a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock. Gypsum -- commonly known as plaster of Paris -- typically forms from water flowing through rock.

The rover, called Opportunity, and its twin, Spirit, arrived on opposite sides of Mars in January 2004. Over the years, the rovers, aided by several orbiting spacecraft, have returned a convincing body of evidence that Mars was not always as cold and dry as it is today.

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Da Vinci 'zoo' code cracked: Amateur artist discovers hidden animals on Mona Lisa

[ Mail Online ] 6 Dec

An artist claims to have cracked a 500-year-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa - by spotting a series of zoo animals hidden in the painting.

An amateur artist finds heads of a lion, an ape and a buffalo on Mona Lisa

Ron Piccirillo believes it is possible to see the heads of a lion, an ape and a buffalo floating in the air around the subject's head along with a crocodile or snake coming out of the left hand side of her body.

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Earth's "Heartbeat" detected from space

Space 30 Nov

It may sound strange - and so it did to scientists, fr they too for the first time, detected earth's heartbeat from space, a phenomena called the Schumann resonance. 

What has been discovered is that "Lightning flashes in the skies above the Earth about 50 times every second, creating a burst of electromagnetic waves that circle around the planet's atmosphere. Some of these waves combine and increase in strength, creating something akin to an atmospheric heartbeat that scientists can detect from the ground and use to better understand the makeup of the atmosphere and the weather it generates."

This detection was surprising because the resonance was thought to be confined to a particular region of the atmosphere, between the ground and a layer of Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere.

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Ghost Mountains Mystery Solved

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Gamburtsev Mountains (Photo National Geographic)

The discovery of  Gamburtsev Mountains, of  the size of the European Alps, but totally buried beneath the Antarctic ice since 1950 has made scientists guessing about the mystery shrouding these extraordinary natural features.

A recent survey now suggests the range first formed over a billion years ago,  long before complex life had formed on the planet, when the then continents were drifting together to create a giant landmass known as Rodinia.

The resulting collision pushed up the mountains, and also produced an underlying thick, dense "root" that sat down in the crust. Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, the peaks would have gradually eroded away. Only the cold root would have been preserved.

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Malaria: Blood entry route discovered

Full Story: BBC Health 10 November 2011

Researchers and sciencetist at Sanger Institute in Cambridge have finally identified the route all strains of the most deadly malaria parasite use to enter red blood cells.

The discovery, scientists believe, gives us a "great hope" for the development of a vaccine, which could provide an effective antidote for this very common, yet deadly disease.

It may be added here for information that Malaria affects 300 million people each year and one million, mostly children die only in sub-Saharan Africa.

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NASA discover crack in Antarctica Glacier

Full Story: G1 News 3 November 2011

Crack in Pine Island Glacier Photo: NASA

IceBridge, a group of NASA scientists and technicians who analyze the changes in ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland since 2009 has found a large crack in Pine Island Glacier. Scientists estimate that the break will increase, causing an iceberg about 880 km ² is separated. 

A press statement by IceBridge project leader reported: 

"In the flight observed a large crack that indicates that a large piece of ice is about to leave. It is a crack 280 meters wide and 60 feet deep, higher than the Statue of Liberty. "

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