Comment Re:Retroposons (Score 1) 77
To further clarify, retrotransposons do not "pepper the brain tissue". They are confined to the genome which is in the nucleus of a cell.
Comment Re:Location Choices (Score 1) 17
Tyler's Tap Room has been good for accommodating large parties- though I've only been there for happy hour times. If someone wants to volunteer to help clean up my backyard/patio, I have a nice/dog-friendly "viking pad" near the map locale.
Comment Re:You don't own it (Score 1) 211
Yeah, Dan B. is correct (for every research-intensive university that I've ever been affiliated with) and unless you publish in an open-access journal, the journal owns the copyrights to your writing.
The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old 755
CaptainCarrot writes "Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer has summarized for his readers the new results released by NASA from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which has been surveying the 3K microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang. Some of the most interesting results: The age of the universe is now known to unprecedented accuracy: 13.73 billion years old, +/- 120 million. Spacetime is flat to within a 2% error margin. And ordinary matter and energy account for only 4.62% of the universe's total. Plait's comment on the age result: 'Some people might say it doesn't look a day over 6000 years. They're wrong.'"
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