Archive for Mihaela Lica
Deep Sea Exploration beneath the Caribbean
More than 5000 beneath the sea level, in the Cayman Trough, lay the world’s deepest undersea volcanoes that are scheduled to be explored with a robot submarine - Autosub6000.
British scientists of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, were offered £462,000 by the Natural Environment Research Council to explore what they call the “lost world” that will [...]
Neanderthals Were Smart, Researchers Say
Neanderthals vanished from Europe more than 28000 years ago, but they lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 10000 years.
There are no clear answers to why they vanished. For many years the explanations were reduced to Homo sapiens were more intelligent and more advanced than Neanderthals and they survived by producing better tools.
New research shows [...]
Did Tutankhamen Have Children?
There’s something not many knew about King Tut: he was buried with two female fetuses which, since their discovery in Tutankhamen’s tomb back in 1922 have been stored at the Cairo University’s Faculty of Medicine.
Robert Connolly from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology has recently declared for Discovery News:
“I studied [...]
Serial Criminals Behave Like Animals
Studies on bees, fish and animal predators help police and profilers catch criminals - and vice versa.
The method is called “geographic profiling” and it starts from the premise that like animals, serial killers like to create a “safe” zone around their habitat and travel to more distant locations to commit crimes.
“They want to operate in [...]
New Natural Rubber Resources Discovered
A group of scientists from the Ohio State University were grant $ 3 million to build a processing plant that will turn dandelion root sap into rubber. They affirm that this will be more efficient that harvesting rubber from rubber trees, and the good news is that the dandelion rubber has the same quality. Who [...]
5Aug2008 | Mihaela Lica | 2 comments | Continued
The Soldiers of the Future in New Armors
A fish from West Africa will probably inspire “bomb proof” armors for the soldiers of the future.
Polypterus senegalus, also known as the Senegal Bichir or the Dinosaur Eel has some special scale characteristics that make it almost indestructible. The scales are about 500 millionths of a meter thick, displayed in four layers of different [...]
Environment Friendly Hydrogen Vehicles Coming Soon
Hydrogen vehicles are not “news” but the mass production of such transportation means is. The production costs of such vehicles are still very high and the development of fuel cell and hydrogen production are still challenging. While many companies are still producing fuel cell vehicles, the market is simply not ready to adopt them due [...]
23Jul2008 | Mihaela Lica | 1 comment | Continued
Study on Crickets Shows that Men and Women Need Different Diets
Who said that men and women are equal? Well, sure they are, at least in theory, when we talk about “rights,” but not when it comes to what they eat. Recent studies show that men and women need different diets.
Starting from the premise that diets strongly influence lifespan and reproduction, scientists from the University of [...]
Reef-Building Corals Facing Extinction
A study published by Science Express identifies more than one third of the world’s reef-building coral species as endangered.
The news released by Conservation International is disconcerting not only for the environmentalists and scientists involved in the study, but also for tourists, marine enthusiasts and local populations.
Corals are used in different industries, including pharmaceutic (to extract [...]
No Pure Scandinavian Race
New research from the University of Copenhagen refutes the “pure Scandinavian race” myth.
According to news from the University of Copenhagen, scientist Linea Melchior and other forensic scientists analyzed DNA from 18 individuals buried on two ancient burial grounds (Bøgebjerggård and Skovgaarde). They found that there was enough genetic variation in their remains as one would [...]
Thanks for sharing this, Kay. I suppose they stopped doing it because the problem is gone? I think they were ...
This is strange as i have recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and to be honest my two German Wirehaired ...
God's particle is simple.... But "simplicity of God is the problem for man in Complicity..."
I have better theory than Steephan ...
There are so many pieces of the puzzle missing. Can it really be said for certain that Neanderthals did die ...
omg are you nuttsif you ask me this is suicide nay man slaughter
if you are going to fire it why ...
Great memmories left ancestors for us... great that we finally find it :) 
This is an amazing find. I love to see history resurface and brought out for all of us to see ...
My (remarkably unscientific) guess: Neanderthal's lacked Homo sapien's ability to commit horrible atrocities. We probably genocided them out of ...