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Way copernicus changed the world when we found out the earth goes around the sun, instead of the other way around, and it would change the way galileo saw there were moons around the other planets. >> if its right, are we all martians? >> its very reasonable. its very reasonable. but if hes right about the chemical process, it doesnt necessarily mean that we started on mars but its reasonable that maybe life started on mars, man, if we could go somewhere near the equator on mars on a summer mars...

That target and making sure all worked was quite an achievement. second, about eight months into this project the rover discovered what was likely to be streambeds about two billion years ago. this means that there was running water on mars, now proven conditions that mean that there were microbes and life on the planet. >> it all added up to understanding this environment as being chemically one that was favorable for life not in a harsh way, but actually quite a benign environment thats very m...

Spot more than 34 million miles where it began. major achievement in the study came eight months in digging through soil and rock samples they uncovered evidence of a streambed. so there could have been the basis for life on mars, more than 2 billion years ago. microbes perhaps in the streambed. major achievements already in years one for this rover, bill. bill: what is their sense how much longer this thing lasts? first you have to get touchdown. you have got to get a signal back. enough to kee...

And dislocation. this strain seems severe. we are working very closely and doing everything we can to be prepared. one thing we are looking forward to more in the future is to go deep into the sequence and understand better what all of the different genetic changes mean. we have new technologies that are exciting and will allow us to do it better than ever. >> why dont you give us an idea of what it means. you have examples of the older technology and the newer. what can you do now that you coul...

Begun looking at different microbes. we had things like this. they gave you a blurry sense of whether organisms were the same or different. they took weeks. you often had to compare them by hand. it was very enact. today we have things like this. this is a way of sequencing an entire je gnome in just a few hours. in fact, the je gnome of more than one organism in a few hours.genome of more than one organism in a few hours. putting it into the computer, putting the puzzle pieces toegts and figure...

His grandparents was hulled up earlier this evening. police say they got michael boyson out of the room with no injuries after some apparently self-inflicted wounds. hes accused of killing his grandparents in washington state after they they hosted a party over the weekend. a plea of not guilty for james holmes. they werent ready to enter a plea. thats after they filed court documents suggesting they might enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for the july shooting spree that left 1...

>> police surrounded an oregon hotel where a man is holed up. hes accused of killing his grandparents in washington state. after they hosted a party over the weekend, welcoming him home from prison where he served time for burglary. a plea of not guilty for james holmes. they werent ready to enter a plea. thats after they filed court documents suggesting they might enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for the july shooting spree that left 12 people dead. signs that ancient mars cou...

Not guilty one. the curiosity rover on mars found evidence living microbes may have existed on the red planet billions of years ago. new owners of hostess hope to have twinkies back on the shelves this summer. two investment firms made a joint offer to buy the firm for more than $400 million. back to "hardball." well, welcome back to "hardball." black smoke emerged from the sistine chapel chimney tonight indicating the 115 voting cardinals have not yet chosen a pope to lead the roman catho...

There are about a million to three million hospital acquired infections throughout the year in the united states, about 20% of them are among drug resistant microbes, and in a given year, about 90,000 people die from drug resistent microbes, almost all acquired in the hospital. it is something we need to pay important attention to. >> you say drug resistant microbes, we are vulnerable potentially, how did this develop? is it overuse of antibiotics that has resulted in this? >> it is just that. o...

Inhabitants of the gut, but when they develop resistance, they are really untreatable by virtually any antibiotic we have. thats the first thing. the second thing is that what it does is that it invades the blood and tissue. and the mortality of people who do get infected is very high, approximately 50%. and the other real problem that you face is that it has the capability of transferring that resistance thats part of its own genetic structure to other microbes to make them resistant. so althou...