30000 year old plant regenerated

It was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species.

The Russian research team recovered the fruit after investigating dozens of fossil burrows hidden in ice deposits on the right bank of the lower Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, the sediments dating back 30,000-32,000 years.

Tot articolul: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russians-regenerate-flowering-plant-from-30000-year-old-frozen-burrow-of-ice-age-squirrel/2012/02/20/gIQAB1ejPR_story.html?tid=pm_pop

Bule inghetate

One intrepid experimenter with a good camera, a cold night and a soap-bubble-maker creates sheer joy in this gallery of frozen bubbles: "It's very cold tonight, so we played with bubbles. If you blow them upwards enough they have time to freeze on the way down."

Sursa: http://boingboing.net/2009/01/05/frozen-soap-bubbles.html

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Larger-than-life Gillette Fusion Power razors were attached to the backs of Zamboni (ice resurfacer) machines, making it seem as though the razors were giving the ice a smoother “shave”.

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