What did science bring us last week? Amazing long life of brain cells, telepathic rats and travel to Mars for two – that’s what science has brought us on this week.
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Pessimists Can Live Longer
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Low expectations of happiness in the future may allow people to live. longer.
A recent study of older Germans showed that people with more pessimistic outlook on life live longer and healthier than their more optimistic comrades.
Rat telepathy?
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Scientists have managed to create something extremely close to the merging of minds in pairs of laboratory rats by connecting the brains of animals with an electronic channel so that they can work together on a solution puzzles. And this connection of minds remained strong even then, when the rats themselves were separated by many thousands of kilometers.
This experiment was performed by a neuroscientist at the University of Duke Miguel Nicolelis, who is well known for his work to create mind-driven artificial limbs.
Monkeys use nut mining tools
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Moreover, monkeys do not just use tools to crack nuts. They use them with skill.
This conclusion was made by scientists who discovered similar strategies for using tools in people and Brazilian bearded capuchins who use stones to crack nuts. And the people and monkeys who need to break a nut, take some time to install the nut in the very a stable position on the stone “anvil” so that the best pieces do not drove off after a blow.
Wanted married couple to fly to Mars
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New nonprofit project led by the world’s first space tourist, suggests launching the first managed mission to Mars in 2018, and this expedition may include in its composition of married couples.
The project, led by American millionaire Dennis Tito, not aimed at making a controlled landing on the surface of Red planets, and to seize the opportunity of a rare planetary confrontations to make a quick flight around Mars.
Sawtooth Shark
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Recent studies of a mysterious fossil have discovered remains an ancient marine predator that had a spiral in its mouth sawtooth growth with teeth, which served as a deadly cutting tool.
Helicorpion was a bizarre creature, extinct about 225 million years ago. Like modern sharks, Helicorpion had cartilage bones instead of calcified, therefore the only the traces left by him in the fossil remains were strange crown spirals of teeth that look like nothing more than have sharks of our days.
Brain cells can survive the body
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According to a recent study, brain cells can live by at least twice as long as organisms in which are located.
Study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “found that mouse neurons, implanted in rats can live in new bodies until deep old age, exceeding the lifespan of the mouse itself in fact doubled.
When the Illiada was published
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Scientists who decipher the genetic history of people by mutations of their genes, applied the same technique to one of the most ancient and revered texts of the western world to unravel the date, when it was written.
This text is Homer’s Illiad, and Homer, if any man really ever existed – according to received according to scientists, allegedly wrote it in 762 BC Nativity, plus or minus 50 years. “Illiada” tells the history of the Trojan War – if such a war also ever had the place to be is between Greeks and Trojans.
Ancient shoes that ended in the temple
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More than two thousand years ago, at a time when Egypt ruled the kings of the Greek dynasty, someone, perhaps a group of people, hid the most valuable thing they owned was their shoes.
Seven shoes were placed in a vessel in an Egyptian temple in Luxor, three pairs and one unpaired shoe. Two couples belonged to children and were about 18 centimeters long. Another pair in a vessel, 24 in length centimeter belonged to a lame adult.
Found bones of Cleopatra’s sister?
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A Vienna archaeologist lecturing in North Carolina states that he allegedly managed to identify the bones of the slain Cleopatra’s sister or half-sister. But not everyone agrees. opinion.
And the reason for this is that the circumstances connecting bones discovered in an ancient Greek city with a relative Cleopatra Arsinoe IV, for the most part random. Yes, scientists did a DNA test, but biennial bones too often moved and changed hands so that you can get uncompromised results.
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