Medicine & TechnologyScientists have recently renewed and improved the genome sequence of water fleas, known as Daphnia Pulex from the earlier model built seven years ago.
Thanks to the latest from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may now be poised to understand the origins of our galaxy more clearly. A team of scientists led by astrophysicist Nicolas Lehner of the University of Notre Dame used the Hubble to find a massive gas halo surrounding the Andromeda Galaxy, our closest neighbor.