{"id":752,"date":"2010-11-15T22:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=752"},"modified":"2010-11-13T23:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T12:17:48","slug":"science-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/11\/science-updates-752.html","title":{"rendered":"Science Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large Hadron Collider: <em>Scientists at the world&#8217;s biggest atom smasher have recreated Big Bang conditions by switching the particles they use for collisions from protons to much heavier lead ions<\/em> &#8211; leading to what one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40075578\/\">scientist<\/a> called a &#8220;a very, very, very small bang&#8221;, and obviously we are still here.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning of the end? Scientists have begun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19717-genetically-altered-mosquitoes-thwart-dengue-spreaders.html\">genetically modifying insects<\/a>! The cause is worthy (ridding the world of dengue fever), but mosquitoes are evil enough without having a Frankenstein variety on the loose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred, and remained distinctly different, for a very long time, in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/archaeology\/neanderthal-human-mating.html\">both Asia and Europe<\/a>. And, &#8220;<em>It argues for very little adaptive advantage on the part of these modern humans<\/em>.&#8221; This is getting so confusing that a total rethink may be required. Perhaps the interbreeding and separation was by design, not by nature? (I&#8217;m thinking some kind of <em>Planet of the Apes<\/em> scenario&#8230;)\u00a0 Perhaps the Neanderthals did not become extinct, but just evolved a little? When someone cracks this, potentially we will have a new take on what race means, or even accept that our lineage is chaotic rather than linear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large Hadron Collider: Scientists at the world&#8217;s biggest atom smasher have recreated Big Bang conditions by switching the particles they use for collisions from protons to much heavier lead ions &#8211; leading to what one scientist called a &#8220;a very, very, very small bang&#8221;, and obviously we are still here.<br \/>\nBeginning of the end? Scientists have begun genetically modifying insects! The cause is worthy (ridding the world of dengue fever), but mosquitoes are evil enough without having a Frankenstein variety on the loose&#8230;<br \/>\nModern humans and Neanderthals interbred, and remained distinctly different, for a very long time, in both Asia and Europe. And, &#8220;It argues for very little adaptive advantage on the part of these modern humans.&#8221; This is getting so confusing that a total rethink may be required. Perhaps the interbreeding and separation was by design, not by nature? (I&#8217;m thinking some kind of Planet of the Apes scenario&#8230;)\u00a0 Perhaps the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,107,280],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-brief","category-large-hadron-collider","category-neanderthals","tag-mosquitoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->