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• First draft of Neanderthal genome is unveiled

  The first draft of the genome of a 38,000 year-old Neanderthal is complete, scientists announced today. Early glimpses of the genome, which was sequenced by Svante Pääbo , of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Read More...
  Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 1:43 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Genomics, Extinction, Neanderthals, gene sequences, dna sequence

• Ten extinct beasts that could walk the Earth again

  THE recipe for making any creature is written in its DNA. So last November, when geneticists published the near-complete DNA sequence of the long-extinct woolly mammoth , there was much speculation about whether we could bring this behemoth back to life Read More...
  Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:58 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Extinction, Jurassic Park, mannoth genome project

• Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million

  Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. T he Read More...
  Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:57 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Extinction, dna sequence, Jurassic Park

• The Sky Is Falling - The odds that a potentially devastating space rock will hit Earth this century may be as high as one in 10. So why isn’t NASA trying harder to prevent catastrophe?

  Breakthrough ideas have a way of seeming obvious in retro­spect, and about a decade ago, a Columbia University geophysicist named Dallas Abbott had a breakthrough idea. She had been pondering the craters left by comets and asteroids that smashed into Read More...
  Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:08 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Apocalypse, Existential risks, Existential risk, Extinction, Asteroids

• Earth's orbit linked to extinctions

  A tiny change to the Earth's orbit can affect the climate on Earth by altering the amount of sunlight received by different regions of the globe. Utrecht University researchers mapped out which species lived in which time periods. With this inform... Read more
  Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:48 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Extinction, Earth orbit