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14:46 • 28.11.15Mystery of the sitting 'mummies': 1,000-year-old skeletons from a pre-Incan civilisation found buried looking out to seaThe exact reason for this position is still unclear, but archaeologists believe it must have had some ritual significance. The Incas, and likely cultures before them including the Ichma ...
22:12 • 27.11.15Constitutional reforms unnecessary – NGO president“My opinion is that it doesn’t address our country’s needs. It isn’t timely at all, ” Arshak Gasparyan told our correspondent today, commenting ...
17:23 • 27.11.15Details of Russia’s first face transplant surgery revealed“The operation demanded major amendments to our existing legislation, including a special Health Ministry directive…”
21:19 • 26.11.15Ultrasound captures rat brain in microscopic 3D“If you take ultrafast images of the bubble cloud, and then you take one and you subtract the previous one, you see all the bubbles individually, time after time…”
16:45 • 26.11.15Black widow spider web gives up DNA secrets"In the past, identification of spiders has relied on morphology, especially looking at the genitalia of spiders because they're very different between different species of spider…"
14:50 • 25.11.152015 likely to be warmest on record says UN weather body“2015 is likely to be the hottest year on record, with ocean surface temperatures at the highest level since measurements began. It is probable that the 1C threshold will be crossed…”
16:08 • 24.11.15Competitive scientific programs Armenia’s priority – Armen Ashotyan“Our priority task is implementing competitive scientific projects and training young sciences…”
15:18 • 24.11.15Mutant mosquitoes 'resist malaria'"It's not the finished product yet but it certainly looks promising. It does look like the genetic editing works…"
10:05 • 24.11.15Water bears are huge DNA thieves, study findsGoldstein, first author Thomas Boothby and colleagues found that tardigrades obtain about 6,000 foreign genes mostly from bacteria ...
19:00 • 23.11.15Google to Scotty: Search giant makes a Star Trek communicatorAmit Singhal, senior vice president and software engineer at Google, told the magazine that the company built a fully-working prototype of a the pin-badge communicator inspired by the ones used ...
09:40 • 23.11.15Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people"It's obvious this country should be able to export into Europe and it will. And it will not need to do anything all… it needs to do is just sit there because Europe will start to need it…"
15:05 • 21.11.15Digital currency that makes people walkThe founders of the project, Nissan Bahar and Franky Imbesi have attracted more than $10m (£6.6m) of initial funding from mainly Japanese investors to help launch the currency ...
10:49 • 21.11.15Zuckerberg planning 2-month paternity leave“We’ve also been thinking about how we’re going to take time off during the first months of her life,” he wrote in a post accompanying some photos of baby gear. “This is a very personal ...
22:00 • 20.11.15YouTube offers Google copyright supportCopyright holders are able to make requests to Google - or other sites - to take down content under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ...
18:46 • 20.11.15Facebook testing break-up tool"See less of a former partner's name and profile picture around Facebook without having to unfriend or block them. Their posts won't show up in News Feed ...