“Since the freshwater giants began to decline in the mid-1990s, an unusual volunteer effort including fishermen and aboriginal peoples has helped the fish rebound.”link
Giant Prehistoric Fish Found In Canada
“Since the freshwater giants began to decline in the mid-1990s, an unusual volunteer effort including fishermen and aboriginal peoples has helped the fish rebound.”link
White Hair Soon To Be Reversible To Original Color
Back to his roots?: Using the new drug, TV presenter Phillip Schofield could turn his white hair back to dark brown
No, it's not a pigment of your imagination: Breakthrough drug can restore white hair to its original colour
In a discovery that could brighten up the lives of millions, scientists have created a drug that restores white hair to its natural colour.
They hope the drug, converted into a shampoo, could eventually be used as an alternative to dyes to hide greying locks.
The drug was found to trigger the production of pigmentation in hair samples tested in a lab.
These pigments restored the hair to its original colour, from the white or grey it had become.
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First Direct Images of Planets Around Other Stars
Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system.
Earth-like worlds might also exist in the three-planet system, but if so they are too dim to photograph.
The other newfound planet orbits a star called Fomalhaut, which is visible without the aid of a telescope. It is the 18th brightest star in the sky.
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Acid attack on Afghan schoolgirls
Attackers in Afghanistan have sprayed acid in the faces of at least 15 girls near a school in Kandahar, police say.
They say the attack happened shortly before at least six people were killed in a bomb blast near a government building in the city.
Doctors say the six girls were wearing Islamic burkas or veils which provided them with some protection.
Correspondents say the attack is likely to have been carried out by those opposed to the education of women.
Leshan Giant Buddha
“At 233-feet tall, the statue depicts a seated Maitreya Buddha with his hands resting on his knees.
His shoulders are twenty-eight metres wide and his smallest toenail is large enough to easily accommodate a seated person. There is a local saying: “The mountain is a Buddha and the Buddha is a mountain”. This is partially because the mountain range in which the Leshan Giant Buddha is located is thought to be shaped like a slumbering Buddha when seen from the river, with the Leshan Giant Buddha as its heart.”
The baby elephant that has been adopted by a sheep
It's as close to the lion lying down with the lamb as you are likely to see - exceot the lamb is a full-grown sheep and its snoozing partner is a baby elephant.
The unlikely bond between Themba the elephant and Albert the sheep has taken nature reserve wardens by surprise.
The six-month-old elephant was orphaned after his mother died in a fall down a cliff.
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Mayans' buried highway through hell
Legend says the afterlife for ancient Mayas was a terrifying obstacle course in which the dead had to traverse rivers of blood, and chambers full of sharp knives, bats and jaguars.
Now a Mexican archaeologist using long-forgotten testimony from the Spanish Inquisition says a series of caves he has explored may be the place where the Maya actually tried to depict this highway through hell.
The network of underground chambers, roads and temples beneath farmland and jungle on the Yucatan peninsula suggests the Maya fashioned them to mimic the journey to the underworld, or Xibalba, described in ancient mythological texts such as the Popol Vuh.
A Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
Dr. Gero Hütter isn't an AIDS specialist, but he 'functionally cured' a patient, who shows no sign of the disease.
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease.
The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.
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