Ian Barnett takes a look at this month’s Science news How the leopard really got its spots The mechanism by which big cats get their markings has been determined by a group of scientists at King’s College London. The research confirms Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing’s 60-year-old theory that pairs of chemicals, called morphogens, work together [...]
Ian Barnett takes a look at this month’s Science news. Ancient oceans may have covered Mars The Mars Express, a spacecraft of the European Space Agency, has found evidence that an ocean once covered parts of the Martian surface billions of years ago. Sediments, resembling an ocean floor, and indications of stretches of shoreline provide [...]
A look back on last month’s Science news Stem cell surgery success in first trial The world’s first retinal implant operations have proved successful, according to researchers at Advanced Cell Technology. Two patients in the US had manipulated embryonic stem cells injected into one of their eyes. Both patients were registered as blind: one patient [...]
Hilary Boden shares the latest science news Introducing Flerovium and Livermorium Names for the two newest members of the periodic table have been proposed; a full ten years after the elements were discovered. Elements 114 and 116 will become known as Flerovium and Livermorium respectively if the names are officially endorsed by the table’s governing [...]
