The Human Genome Project is mapping out the genetic blueprint of the body. As a result, effective gene therapies for a number of diseases are now within reach : a
A 43,000 year old plant, the world's oldest living organism, has been found in Tasmania. The plant whose botanical name is Lomatia Tasmanica, belongs to the sterile shrub category and can be found
An asteroid between one and four kilometres in diameter that splashed into the Southern Ocean 1,500 kilometres southwest of Chile, just over two million years ago, may have worsened a period of
Most of the population of China - one-fifth of all people living today - owes its genetic origins to Africa, an international scientific team has reported in research that undercuts any claim that
The oldest living Australian species, a beetle whose ancestral roots stretch back almost 200 million years, has been discovered by scientists in South Australia. The bronze and white spiny beetle
The British university which is holding in its storage 200 strains of fungi collected in Thailand is likely to return them after months of dispute. In a sudden change of stance, the University of
For the first time scientists have a direct estimate of the total number of bacteria on earth and it is an almost unbelievable figure. The scientists from the University of Georgia estimate the
A team of French and Russian scientists is about to leave for the Taimyr peninsula in northern Siberia to dig up the carcass of a mammoth preserved for some 50,000 years in the permanently frozen
H. Paul Johnson and Dudley Foster, the pilot of their three-person research submarine are hunting the smallest, most elusive game imaginable, in one of the most hostile environments on the planet.
