SUGAR AND ALCOHOL have been discovered in the icy furrows of comet Lovejoy. The comet’s orbit is highly elliptical. On a close arc around the sun, blue-green sails of booze and sugar trail off into space. Lovejoy marks the first time that ethyl alcohol (or ethanol), the same type we use in drinks here on Earth, has been … Continue reading
THE FIRST PERSON TO LIVE TO 1000 YEARS OLD MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN BORN, says gerontologist Dr. Aubrey de Grey. According to de Grey, age itself is a disease. And the cure is close. “We are working to develop medicines that will bring ageing under true medical control,” says de Grey, former professor at Cambridge University … Continue reading
