Articles form May 2008

Japanese Brewery introduces “Space Beer”

Japan’s famous Sapporo Holdings Ltd. is planning to launch a new product which will take beer to a whole new level. This new type of beer will be produced in collaboration with scientists at the Okayama University in Japan, by using a third generation of barley grains which have spent five months on the International [...]

Possible ice on Mars

Scientists have discovered that when NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars, it exposed what seems to be ice when the soil was blown away.
Still, scientists are unsure whether this was actually ice or not. They will get full confirmation when the probe excavates and analyzes the layers in the nearby workspace.
The Phoenix is equipped [...]

T-Rex’s killer could fly and weighed 250 kg

As tall as giraffes, winged reptiles killed hundreds of land dinosaurs, and not marine fauna as it was initially believed.

“Winged lizards” as they are called by specialists, presented a special category, which reached gigantic dimensions. The Quetzalcoatlus reptiles can be taken as an example. These reptiles weighed 250 kg,had a wing span of over [...]

New threat to spotted owl exposed

Recent studies have shown that there are certain blood parasites and strains in Spotted Owl, which make them have a much more fragile immune system that previously thought. This study was the first to show a Spotted Owl infected with avian malaria.
The initial study was conducted in order to investigate blood-borne parasites in birds of [...]