When we get into this field, the extensive and complex biological engineering begins to make me take a step back at the big WOW! factor. Many believe that the biological programming which helps birds to navigate, and plants to photosynthesis can be learnt in all detail if they can learn more on these matters. I'm no scientist, but the fact that such complex programing (biological programming from the start) can be installed in living things makes me wonder if there could be some higher all seeing entity that fashions things so. Some guiding force. I just can't imagine these things coming about by accident and if such things evolve... Well surely evolving from some unseen and undiscovered guiding force or mighty entity.
From Metro News Astronomers say the planet may hold water on its surface and is the best candidate yet of a habitable planet in the ongoing search for an Earth twin (Picture: AP/NASA)
A planet bearing strikingly similar characteristics to Earth and potentially capable of supporting life has been discovered in the Milky Way.
Dubbed ‘Earth 2.0’, Kepler-186f is the closest match to our own planet ever discovered and renews hopes that life in outer space may be a reality.
Slightly bigger and colder than Earth, the planet is said to be in the ‘Goldilocks zone’ because it sits at just the right distance from its star where temperatures allow water, and therefore potentially life, to exist.
‘Kepler-186f is the first validated, Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star,’ said Elisa Quintana of the SETI Institute and Nasa’s Ames Research Center.
‘It has the right size and is at the right distance to have properties similar to our home planet.’
Dr Quintana is the lead author of a scientific paper detailing the planet’s discovery, 500 light years from Earth, in this week’s issue of the Science journal.
The group of scientists have been keeping watch over 150,000 stars in the universe looking out for slight drops in brightness when a planet passed in front, according to theNew York Times.
Further analysis of the planet will now take place to determine whether indeed it does hold water.
Over 2,000 planets outside our ownsolarsystem have been found in the last 20 years but Kepler is particularly good news because the star it orbits is similar to 70 per cent of those in the Milky Way and therefore finding other similar planets is now a real possibility.
Nanites coated in a bio residue can be injected into the bloodstream. These nanites are so small that 5,000 can ring the perimeter of a human hair. The tiny nanites carry doses of x-rays to a tumour giving the cancerous cells direct exposure to thousands of these nanotech mites that congregate attention solely upon a tumour leaving the surrounding tissue undamaged. It is a way of concentrating x-rays upon source without damaging surrounding tissue.
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