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Exploring The Universe

I was quite lucky today! My day started with interactive exploring the Universe with the interactive media “Scale of the Universe” developed by Cary Huang at htwins. You can start Exploring the Universe from the “quantum foam” – the first physical sense. Continue through neutrinos, quarks and  moving to the chemical world of atoms and [...]

Largest genome on Earth

Which species has the largest genome? Humans? No… Ahhh, I remember the polyploidy was a process observed in higher plants.  Then, well it could be a plant? OK, here is the answer – the largest genome belongs to Paris japonica, a rare Japanese flower. The flower has the unbelievable  149 billion base pairs, which is [...]