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Corrigendum In the Article “The Best player ever” (Dec’11) a Table placed below was missed. Top 30 players in the , using Radicchi’s Prestige Score. Rank & Player Career Paradoxes of flesh from a living goat is not Life 1 1970-1996 an organism but the goat may 2 1978-1994 The July 2011 issue of Science be recreated from it through 3 John McEnroe 1976-1994 Reactions Reporter was memorable in cloning. 4 1969-1999 many respects, but one article The DNA strand inside a 5 1986-2006 by Deepak Joshi, Tracking living cell is the true king— 6 1982-1996 Down Early Evolution of Life, outside it is nothing but a helping them in science 7 1998-2010 was unique. Very briefly the complex organic molecule. competitions. I am highly 8 1988-2002 writer touched upon the But surprisingly inside the cell obliged to my sir Mr P.S. Rawat, 9 Ilie Nastase 1968-1985 beautiful and mysterious nature the structure of DNA does not who directed me towards the 10 Bjorn Borg 1971-1993 change. Then, if the key of life gleeful world of Science 11 1983-1999 is in the DNA molecule, it must Reporter. 12 1968-1979 be distributed in every atom of Nancy Asija 13 1970-1984 the DNA molecule, because J.N.V. Patiala 14 1968-1985 without its constituents, there is [email protected] 15 1968-1984 no DNA. How does a particular 16 1987-2003 arrangement of atoms acquire Fueling 17 1969-1985 the property of life? Ambition 18 1971-1984 of evolution of life in our globe. Apart from matter and I would like to thank the author 19 1971-1991 Mr Joshi showed that the first energy (which are different of the article The Enigma of 20 1968-1981 primitive cell (prokaryote) forms of the same thing) is there 21 1980-1996 appeared on earth some 3.50 an entity in this universe named 22 Goran Ivanisevic 1988-2004 billion years (by) ago. It took life? Does Life exist in every 23 1971-1986 about 1.50 by for that cell to fundamental particle in 24 2002-2010 modernize (Eukaryote) and quantized form? Is there an 25 Raul Ramirez 1970-1983 another 300 million years for Eigen value that must be 26 1968-1981 the eukaryote to multiply attained by a very specific 27 1968-1980 (multicellular organism. After chemical combination of 28 1992-2003 appearance of the first elements for animation? Some 29 2000-2010 multicellular organism it took day certainly the answers will Dark Matter (October 2011), Mr 30 1984-1999 another 1.2 by for life to take come and artificial life will be P.K. Mukherjee, for giving such up its present form! Amazing it created in the lab. We will have an informative article. The may sound, but evolution is to wait patiently. article has truly informed and Science really a slow process indeed! Sudhamoy Banerjee fascinated me and also further But what is life? What is an Burdwan (W.B.) fueled my ambition to Reporter organism? How do they differ? become an astrophysicist. Or, how do they differ from an Window of Wishes Astronomy Sayan Chowdhury inanimate one? Scientists are Kolkata Its Readers still not sure about the answers. The September article, Some funny paradoxes may be Legacy of the Space Shuttle, A Very cited in this context. When an was such an attractive cover ant is cut into two parts, the story that not just my classmates Corrigendum Happy and part may eat and the rest but also my juniors were eager In the article “Chemistry part may walk! They are to explore the world through the Education in the 21st Prosperous definitely living but are they windows of astronomy Century” (December organisms? Similarly, the life provided by Science Reporter. 2011), the last page of the New Year span of an amoeba is about On behalf of all the readers, I article could not be two days but that of well- would like to thank this amazing published due to an 2012 preserved human blood magazine that enables us to inadvertent error. outside the body is about 90 maintain our confidence level. Therefore, the article is days. Both are living but human Science Reporter acts as a being published again in blood is not an organism. source of great inspiration for this issue. Again, a freshly cut piece of many young scientific minds SCIENCE REPORTER, JANUARY 2012 6