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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - October 2015

Oct 2015

Oct 11, 2015

Scientists Created Virtual Rat Brain

Scientists have created a virtual rat brain made up of 30,000 neurons, 55 layers of cells and 207 different neuron subtypes.
For 10 years, a global initiative called the Blue Brain Project - hosted at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) - has been attempting to digitally create a section of juvenile rat brain.

Oct 10, 2015

Scientists Recovered First Genome of Ancient Human from Africa

A team of scientists recovered the genome from a 4,500-year-old human skeleton in Ethiopia — the first time a complete assemblage of DNA has been retrieved from an ancient human in Africa.
The DNA of the Ethiopian fossil is strikingly different from that of living Africans.

Oct 09, 2015

Blue Skies, Water Ice on Pluto

In a significant finding, the first colour images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes returned by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft revealed that the planet's hazes are blue.
The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but the way they scatter blue light has gotten the attention of the New Horizons science team.
New Horizons has detected numerous small, exposed regions of water ice on Pluto.

Oct 08, 2015

NASA Completes Heat Shield Testing

NASA has successfully completed key heat shield tests for the future exploration spacecrafts that will scout the Red Planet for signs of life.
NASA’s Adaptive Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) is a mechanically-deployable heat shield concept using carbon fabric, a flexible heat shield that expands to open like an umbrella.
During the tests, the surface temperatures on the test article reached 1,704 degrees Celsius.

Oct 03, 2015

Google Inc. now officially Alphabet Inc.

Google Inc. completed the move to reorganize as Alphabet, and its stock will begin trading as Alphabet on the Nasdaq under the same tickers “GOOG” and “GOOGL”.
Google had said earlier that it would create a new company that would oversee both its highly lucrative Internet business and its growing flock of other ventures like building self-driving cars and researching ways to prolong human life.

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