Dolapo's Corner

China's 'Jade Rabbit' Set For Moon Landing China's first-ever lunar rover is due to touch down on the moon today, with millions expected to eagerly watch the event. China's lunar rover launched on December 1 China is preparing to land a rover on the surface of the moon making it only the third nation to do so and taking a big step towards becoming a global player in space. It's been 37 years since a rover has landed on the moon and millions of people around the world are expected to be following the operation thi...

U.S. scientists have discovered a second DNA code and the finding has the scientific community buzzing. As laid out by a report from AFP via Yahoo! News on Thursday, the second DNA code suggests that the body speaks two different languages ​​and the discovery could have important implications regarding the diagnosis of certain diseases. This second DNA code was recently published in the U.S. journal Science and a research team headed by Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, a University of Washington associate professor of genome sciences and of medicine, is responsible for the ground-breaking discovery. Regarding the second DNA code, Stamatoyannopoulos gave the following statement: “For over 40 years we have assumed that DNA changes affecting the genetic code solely impact how proteins are made. Now we know that this basic assumption about reading the human genome missed half of the picture. These new findings highlight that DNA is an incredibly powerful information storage...

It could happen tomorrow, it could happen in a billion years, but whenever it is, calculations by physicists at the University of Southern Denmark indicate that the risk of the Universe collapsing is even greater than previously thought. The doomsday scenario that's been refined by the Danish researchers is known as "The Big Slurp." The Big Slurp would occur when there is a radical shift in the forces that govern the Universe. This violent process is called a phase transition and is very similar to what happens when, for example, water turns to steam. Pivotal to the Big Slurp scenario is the Higgs Boson, the particle which is believed to play a role in giving mass to elementary particles. Proponents of the Big Slurp theory say that a phase transition in the Universe could happen if a quantum fluctuation bubble from an alternate Universe appeared in ours. Specifically, the Big Slurp would be triggered by the Higgs-field associated with the Higgs-particle in the bubble diff...