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...married. That was back in 1974, when they were young Red Guards tilling the unforgiving earth in remote Gansu province. "We got married for convenience," says Zhu. "Now I get to live my life for myself." She sips her bordeaux and crooks a finger at a well-muscled specimen circling the bar. As he starts approaching, she takes a last puff of her cigar and grins: "It's wonderful being a modern Chinese woman...
...been moved. Insects can offer this information because they are so predictable: a species will tend to stick to certain foods and environments, and given the same weather conditions, its members will develop at the same pace. Comparisons with baseline data will quickly tell the age of a particular specimen--and thus the time of death--and whether it has been transferred from its normal habitat...
...goal is to extract a tissue specimen from his mother while it's still possible and store it, to await the day when?if?cloning becomes technically safe and socially acceptable. Two weeks ago, as his mother's health weakened, the family began considering bringing up the subject with her because they need her cooperation to take the sample. Meanwhile, Bill has already contacted two labs about tissue storage, one as a backup. "I'm in touch with a couple of different people who might be doing that," he says, adding that both are in the U.S. "It seems like...
...goal is to extract a tissue specimen from his mother while it's still possible and store it, to await the day when--if--cloning becomes technically safe and socially acceptable. Late last week, as his mother's health weakened, the family began considering bringing up the subject with her because they need her cooperation to take the sample. Meanwhile, Bill has already contacted two labs about tissue storage, one as a backup. "I'm in touch with a couple of different people who might be doing that," he says, adding that both are in the U.S. "It seems like...
Discovered in northwestern Australia, the prize specimen was dated by two separate scientific teams as either 4.3 billion or 4.4 billion years old. That puts it within a geological blink of Earth's fiery birth out of a swirling cloud of solar dust and gases 4.56 billion years ago. But how could any crystalline object solidify under such torrid conditions? The answer, the scientists reported in Nature, is that the planet was already bathed in cooling water...