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Life is ephemeral by definition but it does vary from one species to another. The lifespan of each organism is considered to be the actual time it takes said organism to complete its life cycle. Most bacteria live for 15-80 minutes and then they divide into two daughter cells. More complex organisms live much longer.... |
14 May 2008
15:46 GMT |
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Guinness Book credits as the oldest living person the American Edna Parker, born on the 20th of April, 1893 (thus 114 years, 7 months and 28 days old). But, the oldest person in the world seems to actually have been an Ukraine man, Hryhoriy Nestor, a bachelor born on the 15th March, 1891, according to the family doc... |
18 December 2007
03:08 GMT |
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"The winner takes it all". Including the longer life. Scientists confirm it. A new research made at the University of Warwick in England investigated the cases of 524 nominees for the Nobel Prizes in physics and in chemistry between 1901 and 1950 and it revealed in the Research Papers in Economics that the 135 winner... |
7 November 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Humans have been searching since ever for the secret of the deathless life and ageless youth. They linked longevity to pha-4 encountered in nematode worms, looked at the hormones of the queen bee or that of the naked mole-rat to see why she lives so much longer than the workers, but by now, no drug boosting longer-li... |
1 November 2007
07:46 GMT |
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