2016

Mitochondria structure: 1 : inner membrane, 2 : outer membrane, 3 : Cristae, 4 : Matrix

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An article published in the journal “Nature” describes a study that investigated a key moment in the evolution, when cells acquired mitochondria (image ©Wikigraphists of Atelier Graphique). Researchers Toni Gabaldón and Alexandros Pitis of the Centre for Genomic Regulation, an international institute for biomedical research based in Barcelona, ​​Spain, conducted a study whose conclusions suggest that the acquisition of mitochondria came late in the evolution of cells.

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Project SkyBender to provide Internet access over a 5G wireless network through drones was suppsed to be a secret but various information on the tests conducted by Google – but perhaps it would be more correct to call it Alphabet – leaked. According to the news now become public knowledge, the Google team is working in New Mexico to a technology that uses millimeter wavelengths to deliver speeds up to 40 times faster than 4G/LTE mobile networks.

The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

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The novel “The Hydrogen Sonata” by Iain M. Banks was published for the first time in 2012. It’s part of the Culture series.

The Gzilt civilization contributed to the formation of the Culture but in the end it didn’t join. After 10,000 years, the Gzilt are going to move to a different plane of existence called the Sublime and that’s supposed to be an occasion to celebrate. However, other civilizations have sent spacecraft to take possession of what Gzilt are abandoning creating tension and the Zihdren-Remnant, what remains of an ancient civilization that influenced the Gzilt, sent a mysterious message.

Vyr Cossont is a musician who, on the eve of the transition to the Sublime, is reinstated in the Gzilt army. Why are the Gzilt authorities interested in her past encounter with a member of the Culture? What is the meaning of the mysterious acts of war involving the Gzilt? Various Minds of the Culture officially want to celebrate the Gzilt passage to the Sublime but actually are investigating these strange events.

The tablet key to undestand the ancient Babylonians' mathematical knowledge (Image courtesy Mathieu Ossendrijver / Science. All rights reserved)

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An article published in the journal “Science” describes the discovery of the ancient Babylonian mathematical knowledge. Putting together the translation of various cuneiform tablets, Mathieu Ossendrijver, professor of the History of Ancient Science at Humboldt University in Berlin, concluded that the Babylonians knew the basics of calculus over 14 centuries earlier than previously thought and they used it to calculate the motion of the planet Jupiter.

Fossil of Dollocaris ingens (Photo courtesy Jean Vannier, University of Cologne)

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An article published in the journal “Nature Communications” describes the extraordinary study on the eyes of fossilized specimens of Dollocaris ingens, a crustacean that lived about 160 million years ago, in the middle Jurassic. In the deposits of La Voulte, in the southeast of France, fossils were found in which various soft tissues were also well preserved and this allowed to reconstruct their eyes, giving us an idea of ​​how they saw and indirectly of the environment in which they lived.