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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers have developed a new DNA test that can allegedly determine whether or not a person is capable of completing a marathon – or at the very least, finishing in a respectable time. According to Emily Davies of the Daily Mail, the genetic test, called XRPredict+, was developed by Jamie Timmons, the head of systems biology at Loughborough University. XRPredict+ focuses on a key group of 30 genes which determine how an...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A handwritten letter sent from one of the scientists responsible for discovering the structure of DNA will be auctioned off next month in New York City, according to various media reports. In the letter, which was written on March 19, 1953, British molecular biologist and biophysicist Francis Crick explains to his then-12-year-old son Michael how he and colleague James Watson were able to create a model for the genetic...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A rare blend of tea made from the leaves of the coffee plant is actually healthier than either of the individual beverages, containing more antioxidants than tea while also containing a natural chemical that possesses anti-inflammatory effects, a team of European scientists has discovered. According to Richard Gray, Science Correspondent with The Telegraph, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the UK and the Joint...
[ Watch the Video: One Small Step, One Giant Leap Speech ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The words spoken by Neil Armstrong when he became the first man to step foot on the moon will forever be an indelible moment in the history of space travel, but in a new BBC documentary, the late NASA astronaut's brother reveals that the words were not as spontaneous as Armstrong claimed. In an interview...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online European researchers are in the process of building an unmanned probe that would travel to the moon, where it would search for subsurface ice on the lunar surface, within the next six years. The $800 million (£500 million) project, which is detailed in an October 21 article by Telegraph Science Correspondent Richard Gray, is currently being planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) and is on pace to take place sometime in 2018....
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Dieters, rejoice! Researchers have reportedly developed a method that will allow people to drop excess weight, lose their double chins, and trim their waistlines by essentially burning off fat from within. The secret, according to Telegraph Science Correspondent Richard Gray, is the injection of miniature capsules containing heat-producing cells into specific locations on a person's body. The cells essentially let off signals...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The journey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft towards interstellar space continued over the weekend, and officials with the US space agency continue to monitor the 35-year-old probe's progress as it grows ever closer to becoming the first man-made instrument to ever leave the solar system. As redOrbit.com's own Lawrence LeBlond reported last week, it is difficult to know when the vehicle, which is currently 11 billion miles from the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Scientists at the Beijing University of Agriculture have genetically modified a pair of calves in an attempt to make their meat more tender, tastier, and more appealing to discerning palates. Professor Ni Minhong and colleagues at the school's department of advanced science and technology produced a pair of cloned cows, named Jing Qin 1 and Jing Qin 2, that had been implanted with an extra gene, Telegraph Science Correspondent...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Critically endangered frogs rescued from possible extinction at the hands of a deadly fungus have successfully bred for the first time at the London Zoo, various media outlets reported Sunday. According to Telegraph Science Correspondent Richard Gray, the mountain chicken frogs had been rescued from the island of Montserrat, where they had been threatened by the spread of the Chytrid fungus. Chytridiomycosis, a disease associated...
A $300-plus million dollar deep sea observatory which will detect high-energy particles bombarding the Earth from outer space has just received priority funding from the European Union (EU), according to a report by Telegraph Science Correspondent Richard Gray. According to Gray, scientists are hoping that the £210 million ($326 million) Multi-Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) will be able to observe trace materials left behind by neutrinos as they pass through our planet....
