2012

Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest

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“The Infinite Quest” is an animated adventure that is part of the new “Doctor Who” series, where it fits in its third season, aired in 2007 featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. It’s written by Alan Barnes and directed by Gary Russell.

Renato Dulbecco in 1966

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Italian biologist, doctor and geneticist Renato Dulbecco died of a heart attack. With Howard Termin and David Baltimore in 1975 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.

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A group of physicists at the Australian University of New South Wales in Sydney and the American University of Purdue in Indiana created a transistor operating as a single phosphorus atom positioned precisely on a silicon crystal.

Global map of Earth's forests (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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NASA led a project that allowed the creation of a high-resolution map of the Earth’s forests and their height using data from the ICESat satellite combined with data from other space missions and the WorldClim database.

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Alice Mary Norton, this is her birth name, was born on February 17, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1934 she legally changed her name to Andre Alice Norton, a more masculine name that seemed more suited to a market in which readers were mostly boys. For her 70-year career she’s known as the Grande Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy.