Twice in the last 36 hours there’s been an announcement that a once-extinct species is still walking the Earth, despite our best efforts against it.

First there was Swinshoe’s softshell turtle, and then the Javan Elephant.

The revolutionary drug Viagra also known as Revatio, that changed lives of countless number of men and women instantaneously becomes 10 year old this month.

The drug we know as Viagra was not intended and was discovered serendipitously(accidentally) by a team working in the research laboratory of the drug giant Pfizer.

They were testing Sildenafil, the main constituent(Sildenafil citrate) of Viagra, for cardiovascular diseases. Amusingly,what happened was that some of the volunteers in the clinical trial phase dint want to give the medicine back even after the clinical trial was over. The drug improved their sex lives,they were experiencing amazing (read: harder) and longer erection.

Thus the "Blue Pill" was born. !

A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS.

 Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, says his team has A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS.

They are created in their thousands, for one purpose: to die for their brothers. They are the enigmatic "parasperm", infertile sperm that can dominate the ejaculate of some flies.