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Koyal Group Info Mag Articles - While
these stories may have not made Science's 'Top 10 science stories of the year'
list touting the biggest discoveries of the year, many interesting findings
made headline in 2013.
Last year held plenty of off-beat
and off-the-beaten-track findings and news: Humans ate the first test-tube
hamburger, a plan to capture an asteroid was launched, and a mind-controlled
prosthetic leg was made.
These are the kinds of findings
that make science fun, so we decided to ditch the over-hyped stories and make a list of the most
remarkable things you might have missed last year. Here are the incredible
stories.
A hydrogen bond was photographed for the first time. |
In September, scientists captured
the first images of one of the most important physical interactions in the
world — the hydrogen bond — which holds DNA together and gives water its unique
properties.
These never-before-seen photos are
an encouraging advancement in atomic force microscopy, a method of scanning
that can see details at the fraction of a nanometer level.
A skull from Georgia suggests that all early humans were a single species. |
The analysis of a
1.8-million-year-old skull found in a region of Georgia suggests that the
earliest members of the Homo genus actually belonged to the same species. The
skull was discovered alongside the remains of four other early human ancestors,
but had different physical features despite being from the same time period and
location.
Researchers have traditionally used
variation among Homo fossils to define separate species, but now think that
early, diverse Homo fossils from Africa actually represent members of a single,
evolving lineage — they just looked different from one another.
For the first time in 35 years, a new carnivorous mammal was discovered in the Americas. |
A relative of the raccoon, the
olinguito, has been described as looking like a "cross between a house cat
and a teddy bear."
The animal's discovery in the forests of Ecuador, confirmed
in August, shows that the world is not yet completely explored. It's the first
new species of mammal discovered in 35 years.
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