Puzzle called” PROTEIN STRUCTURE” was solved by some online gamers

Scientists are now very sure to add online gaming method as a part of their research and problem solving methods…A great risky problem,i.e. an AIDS virus puzzle was been solved by the gamers in their role of playing online games, this was the main reason for the scientists to take this decision.. All the scientists were shocked and were stumped for the answer provided by the gamers.

Basically the scientists were in a search of finding the structure of protein-cutting enzyme produced by a retrovirus similar to HIV.They have been used standard computational methods to solve that particular problem,but they dint succeed.

The Basic Story:

In 2008 the researchers in a team developed Foldit (a game for protein folding), i.e, they have created a 3-D protein structure by folding molecules and by rotating amino acids..Finally they acquired points for structure stability.

At last they have handed over this to the gamers, who just took 3 weeks to solve this risky puzzle. The scientists refined it and finally completed the discovery of the complete structure.

Conclusion:

Finally all the scientists came to a conclusion that the human brain is more powerful and logical than the computers are...The results appeared in many of the journals...

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http://www.rationalskepticism.org/chemistry/online-gamers-solve-aids-virus-puzzle-t25647.html

Not only Earth, there is another life supporting planet in our solar system...

There was an other planet which may support life, same as earth, which has been found by Europeans along with 50 other planets outside the solar system at a conference in Moran, Wyo. The most exciting thing of those planets is, only the second to be confirmed as lying in what astronomers call the habitable zone, or the Goldilocks zone.

It means that it's not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to be present. As we know that scientists always says that water is the key thing to survive each and every step of our life, only one of the past discoveries of such Goldilocks planets has held up..

The new planet, called HD85512b, closely circles a star about 35 light-years from Earth in the constellation Vela. Each light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. There are only 60 days a year. The only reason behind that is, it might not be too hot for life, that’s why the sun is about 1,800 degrees cooler than our sun.

It is about 3.6 times the mass of Earth. The temperature ranges from 85 to 120 degrees with plenty of humidity.

This new planet would need to be rocky and solid like our own, not primarily made of gas, for it to be a Goldilocks planet.

Atleast 60% of it would have to be covered in clouds for it to be considered livable by astronomers as the earth has about 50% cloud cover, so 60% seems to be reasonable.

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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/270997/New-planet-could-support-life-