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World's Most Dangerous Drug. Underwater mcmurdo sound. Wingsuit Basejumping - The Need 4 Speed: The Art of Flight. 9/11 survivor tells how he 'surfed' 15 floors down the collapsing tower. New Alien-like Species Discovered Off Coast Of California | Science and Technology. (Before It's News) Pensoft Publishers After nearly 25 years of searching, three scientists have finally found Waldo. No, not the loveable bespectacled character in children’s picture books, but rather an unusual clam discovered off the coast of California and British Columbia. Paul Valentich-Scott from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, and Diarmaid O Foighil from the University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology first began discussing this unusual clam back in 1989.

Valentich-Scott discovered his strange specimens off the coast of Santa Barbara and Morro Bay, California, while O Foighil uncovered his while trawling for invertebrates off Vancouver Island, British Columbia. At a scientific conference Valentich-Scott and O Foighil were chatting about clams during a break in the proceedings. Neither scientist could identify the animal, and both were amazed by its thin, translucent shell and long willowy tentacles. On The Net: Chemical 'clock' tracks ageing more precisely than ever before. Steve Horvath DNA methylation suggests cancerous tissue ages faster than healthy tissue. Greying hair and wrinkles are external signs of ageing, but they are not very precise. Now research shows that a code written into the body's epigenome — the chemical tags that modify DNA — can accurately tell the age of human tissues and cells. This ‘clock’ could provide insights into why certain tissues age faster than others, and why those tissues may be more cancer-prone.

In the past few years, researchers have been homing in on regions of DNA that accrue lots of chemical tags called methyl groups as people age. Such methylation can selectively switch off genes. “What was not yet known was that one can develop an age predictor that really works well across most tissues and cell types,” says Steve Horvath, a bioinformatician at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Psychology Blog (Psych-facts/Neurolove) The Experimental Talking Clock (Frank Lambert; 1878) Jurassic Spark: Early Ancestor of Mammals Found. What is nearly 200 million years old, furry, weighed less than a paper clip and scurried beneath the feet of dinosaurs? A team of fossil-finders, led by researchers at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, suggest the answer may include one of your relatives - a distant cousin of modern mammals.

Classified as a new species, the newly discovered miniature mammal is the closest known relative to living mammals. It displays crucial mammalian features - a large brain and detached ear bones - yet it is forty million years older than any mammalian fossil previously found. A team of U.S. and Chinese researchers led by Zhe-Xi Luo of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History identified and named the early Jurassic fossil as a new species, Hadrocodium wui - Hadro, meaning "full," and codium, meaning "head. " Compared even to today's living mammals with the same overall skull size, Hadrocodium had a large brain vault.

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