tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19512639500346202512024-02-08T14:19:25.620-05:00Honors E/E - Year longMsBoggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08049439449547047224noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-16829114915216832882010-05-12T23:42:00.002-04:002010-05-13T00:04:33.580-04:00Women Risk Snapped Ligamentshttp://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/09/fashion.shoes.heels/index.html<br /><br /><br />The fashion today is crazy. If you watch the new fashion styles like Lady Gaga's shoes the height on those shoes are just amazing. But women today have to worry about no being able to pull off the look but mostly from falling and tearing their ligaments. Women love the look of high heels and what it does for our legs but risking their ankles and the pains.<br /><br />I would love to pull off the look of the super high heels but i just can't. I like walking like a normal human that walking like a raptor. Trying to wear those shoes is like murder on your feet. I love Lady Gaga but she is crazy for dancing or even just walking is very brave. I would rather just wear the regular high heels than try to kill myself for fashion.liss4lifex3http://www.blogger.com/profile/08595477915621341113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-79995117432067549492010-05-12T23:09:00.002-04:002010-05-12T23:40:32.850-04:00NAPS BOOST MEMORYhttp://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/22/naps.memory.dream.brain/index.html<br /><br /><br />In the study the scientist tested 99 college students to memorize a complex maze on a computer. The researchers then placed the students inside a 3-D version of the maze and asked them to navigate to another spot in the mase. After doing this several times, half of the students took a 90-minute nap while the other half stayed awake and watched videos. When the students were given the test again 5 hours later, the nappers did better than the students who had stayed awake. But the nappers who dreamed about the maze (they described that they were lost in a cave) did better than the nappers who didn't.<br /><br />WE NEED NAP TIME AGAIN! Nap time would be the perfect time of the day. If we could have a nap in the middle of the day we wouldn't fall asleep in the middle of classes and miss information. I get sleepy around 1 maybe 2 and i would love to have a nap. If I can just have a 5 to 10 minute nap everything would be fine. My mind would be more focused and I could work better. We can always just get our of school at 4.liss4lifex3http://www.blogger.com/profile/08595477915621341113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-84681001923444595572010-05-12T22:25:00.002-04:002010-05-12T23:09:30.990-04:00Northern California ponders how to peddle legal pothttp://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/05/12/california.marijuana.tourism/index.html<br /><br /><br />Polls for the region's marijuana economy are not clear, but driving through the towns it's easy to see marijuana's importance to regional economy. Hemp shops are more common here than in cities 10 or 20 times the size. They can be next to restaurants and coffee shops like they are any other business. Recent polls say 56% of Californians favor taxing and regulating the plant but the national approval rate is much lower.<br /><br /><br />I think that if we legalized marijuana everyone would always be happy. Forever. But really its healthier for the environment because it can be used for paper, clothing, bags, and a lot of other things. The world would be peaceful and it could also be used for working harder. People this pot heads just sit around and do nothing all day but eat and sleep. But some people I know have actually gotten better grades because they work harder. I think that we should just legalize it and not let the tobacco companies alter anything to it.liss4lifex3http://www.blogger.com/profile/08595477915621341113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-87467544737059023802010-05-12T21:56:00.002-04:002010-05-12T22:25:47.082-04:00Birth Control for Menhttp://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/07/future.contraceptives.male.pill/index.html?npt=NP1<br /><br />For years women have been taking birth control and have been asking why men don't have an option. Now in new studies around the world have been trying to find a birth control. The male birth control uses a combination of testosterone and progestin, which turn off signals from the brain to the testes. 3,000 men have been chosen across more than 30 studies on the topic over the last 30 years. Men in China have tested their own form of birth control and about 95% of the men didn't have conception with their partner.<br /><br />This would be awesome if men had their own birth control because then the woman wouldn't have all the responsibility if something goes wrong with her birth control. Its also and extra form of protection if you don't want children at all. I know when i get older i don't want kids so this for me and my husband would be awesome. This could also prevent high school pregnancies so that they can focus on their studies. I hope they come out with this in the near future.liss4lifex3http://www.blogger.com/profile/08595477915621341113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-54245811142584708912010-05-12T21:30:00.002-04:002010-05-12T21:56:20.811-04:00Chocolate and Depressionhttphttp://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/26/chocolate.depression/index.html<br /><br /><br />According to a study published this week people who feel depressed eat about 55% more of depressed people eat chocolate than non-depressed people. The more depressed they feel, the more chocolate they tend to eat. In the study the scientist surveyed 900 people about their weekly chocolate consumption and overall diet. They also looked at the moods of the participants by questioning them and looking for depression. People on antidepressants were removed from the study. The depressed people ate 8.4 servings of chocolate per month while the ones who weren't depressed consumed just 5.4 servings each month.<br /><br /><br />I know when I'm depressed I don't eat chocolate because it gives me headaches. But i find this interesting because my sister does this. When she is upset she will eat some chocolate but she wont feel depressed about it later... but i know for a fact that she does eat it when upset. I also know my mother does this. What if its hereditary.......that would be so cool, not really cause then everyone would be fat. But this is pretty cool. I knew that they had a connection but i have never seen a study on it.liss4lifex3http://www.blogger.com/profile/08595477915621341113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-89697819784646528352010-05-11T23:56:00.000-04:002010-05-11T23:57:24.288-04:00Rhino loose in the zooRecently a forty one year old rhinoceros escaped from a zoo in Jacksonville Florida. The rhino named Archie weighed over 4,000 pounds. Jail workers worked for five hours to get the giant back in its cage. Archie has actually escaped one other time before which was surprising to workers. A worker says that before they used food to lure him back to his cage but this time it didn’t work. The rhino never left the zoo, but it took over twenty workers to get him back home safely.<br /><br />I find this hilarious that this same animal has escaped from his cage multiple times. This rhino is absolutely huge so I don’t see how it can be sneaking around it’s cage and being let out. This is kind of dangerous though to have a 4,000 pound animal loose around the zoo with small children around. Thankfully with the help of twenty zoo workers they were able to get the beast back in its cage. This shows how smart animals really are sometimes and that we cant underestimate them. Luckily no one was hurt and the animal is safely back in its cage. <br /><br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37062657/ns/technology_and_science-science/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-65798819437899635752010-05-11T23:31:00.000-04:002010-05-11T23:32:10.937-04:00Biggest beaver dam seen from spaceA Canadian based researcher believes to have found the worlds largest beaver dam. The dam is located in Northwestern Canada. Researches found the dam by using Google satellite technology. The beaver dam is 2,788 feet tall and is visible by space. Researches found the dam accidentally when they were conducting research on the rate of melting permafrost in the region. Researchers in the area can not believe the size of this dam and say that it stretches for over 8 football fields long.<br /><br />This is incredible that animals can built a structure so massive as this one. This type of engineering has to be carefully planned in order to ensure a sturdy structure. What is even cooler than the animals making the dam is the technology used to discover it. I find it awesome that we can use satellites in space to discover land features. The weird thing about this is that no one was actually looking for the dam, but somehow stumbled upon it while doing real research. All I have to say is I hope the dam doesn’t break anytime soon or that will be a huge disaster.<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37038932/ns/technology_and_science-science/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-92026618094527783962010-05-11T23:24:00.002-04:002010-05-11T23:43:43.800-04:00Lake sturgeon have genes from parasite, signs of human STDWhile doing a DNA-test on a lake sturgeon to determine the gender, it was found that the sturgeon genome contains a possible protozoan parasite cause a sexual transmitted disease in humans. The only way to find the gender of lake sturgeon is to examine its internal sex organs. Researchers found that Schistosoma, a parasitic worm, contributed 15 genes to the sturgeon. It is thought that the parasite may be part of the evolutionary process of the sturgeon. Some organisms accept new genes as a means of evolution, showing that the sturgeon is probably not being hurt by the parasite, but possibly being benefited. Even though the parasite might ultimately be beneficial for the sturgeon, the Trichomonas pathogen may hurt. The human strain of this pathogen causes Trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease that effects women and can cause premature or underweight births. This is the first assumed case of Trichomonas in fish, but if it has the same effect on them as it does humans, bad things could happen. Sturgeon are a steady species, with most living over a hundred years and only reproducing a small amount. Humans can have a lot of impact on the sturgeon, whether it be beneficial or harmful.<div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div>It is good to know the possibility of an STD being in a body of water I am swimming in. It is hard to believe that what would be an STD to a human is surviving and possibly helping the lifespan of a fish. It is just proof of how often we tend to have things in common with animals. Should the sturgeon be negatively effected by this pathogen, humans have something in common with fish - STDs. We need to study these possible STDs in other animals so that we may possibly find the origin of other types of sexual transmitted diseases.</div>Dylan Bodenheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13862171488254692438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-88540617089439801882010-05-11T23:04:00.003-04:002010-05-11T23:24:18.181-04:00Fuel cells get up to speed with a new kind of platinumA new form of platinum has been made that may be able to create cheaper, more efficient fuel cells. This process may be able to create a broader use of these devices, which create emissions-free energy using hydrogen. Fuel cells have always been a possibility for an energy source since their inception over a hundred years ago, but require such extreme amounts of platinum, their cost would sky rocket. With these changes made in the platinum, the requirement need for the cells has been reduced by 80 percent, with another 10 percent being hoped for. Fuel cells work a lot like batteries, but with hydrogen and oxygen. This plan to create a more efficient form of platinum started in 2005, by University of Houston researcher Peter Strasser. Peter Strasser and his colleagues approached this through a process called dealloying, by combining copper with the platinum to make it more reactive. The next step will be putting the platinum alloy under an intensive x-ray scan to see exactly the reactions between the oxygen and platinum. It is hoped that if this form of fuel cells becomes efficient enough, gasoline engines and the batteries of small electronic devices can be replaced.<div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div>It's about time that a more efficient form of energy for cars was found, and the fact that it does not emit any harmful substances is unbelievable. Even if we weren't able to get a huge sum of money off the cost, it would be very helpful in the long run for us to use it. Platinum has no supreme source either, but if we can manage to use it, we can back off the horrible addiction to fossil fuels we have. Fossil fuels are hurting the environment, our wallets, and is depleting fairly quickly, seeing as we will not be able to get anymore anytime soon. Science now-a-days often seems fairly fairy tale-like, but this kind of change could dramatically effect our way of living.</div>Dylan Bodenheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13862171488254692438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-1039701102028556632010-05-11T23:02:00.001-04:002010-05-11T23:02:43.003-04:00Heavy Rains in Kentucky and TennesseeIn the past few weeks, Kentucky and Tennessee have been drowned in rain. All of the rain was caused by a high pressure system and humid air from the Gulf of Mexico. In some areas of the region they received nearly 19 inches of rain. The rain has caused intense flooding in Nashville Tennessee. This system of rain has more than doubled the highest average rainfall recorded in the area. Along with flooding, the immense amount of rain has caused mudslides and dangerous driving conditions.<br /><br />I can not imagine seeing 19 inches of rain fall in North Carolina. The amount of flooding and destruction that would be associated with this would be ridiculous. Along with this flooding there are the possibilities of mudslides and car accidents which can lead to deaths. I really don’t like when it rains for days at a time, but it is beneficial for the surrounding environment sometimes when we are in a drought. This much rainfall is completely unexpected, and the conditions had to be just right to receive such high totals for the area. Hopefully the flood waters will lower soon and everyone can get on with their lives.<br /><br /><br />http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43873&src=nhaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-72448210824306872262010-05-11T22:48:00.000-04:002010-05-11T22:49:27.679-04:00Gulf oil spillOn April 22nd, an offshore drilling platform sank. The oil platform was a deep water horizon drilling platform forty miles off the coast of Louisiana. Researches are stunned at the sinking of this platform and claim that most platforms are demolished during hurricane season, but this one was not. The major problem that was identified with this rig is that oil is still being released from the underneath the sea bed and polluting the oceans. Everyday over 210,000 gallons of oil are being spilt into the oceans. Recent attempts to close the shut off valve on the ocean floor have failed and have caused for new measures to stop the leak. The newest method of stopping the oil is by placing a cap on the holes where the oil is being drilled from the trap the oil.<br /><br />This oil spill is tragic for the environment around it. An open hole in the ocean floor that is releasing over 210,000 gallons of oil into the ocean every day is a very bad thing. An oil spill of this magnitude can completely whip out the surrounding ecosystems and damage many more. I believe there needs to be a solution to this issue immediately. These temporary fixes of capping the oil can only work so long. Someone needs to step up and find a permanent solution to this problem before more ecosystems suffer. <br /><br />http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58846/title/Gulf_oil_spill_a_slow-motion_hurricaneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-31993370093540024252010-05-11T22:45:00.003-04:002010-05-11T22:56:11.980-04:00Violent Thunderstorms kill 43 people in IndiaFierce thunderstorms with heavy rains uprooted trees and destroyed hundreds of homes, crushing dozens of people to death and injuring scores of others in northern India, police said Saturday. At least 43 people were killed and 70 hurt in the deluge and squalls that erupted late Friday. The powerful storms slashed a wide swath across Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states, uprooting trees and power pylons and damaging homes and crops. In eastern Uttar Pradesh, 21 people were killed and about 50 others injured when heavy rains lashed the region, police spokesman Surendra Srivastava said Saturday. A majority of the victims were crushed under uprooted trees or when houses collapsed due to the squall. <span id="byLine"></span>In neighboring Bihar, 22 people died after strong winds blew off the roofs of houses and toppled trees and electricity poles.<br /><br />It's scary to think of what thunder storms can do to the world. They're not the scariest storms we think of compared to Hurricanes and Tornadoes and rarely do we hear deaths associated with them. That many deaths associated with a storm is ridiculously scary to think about. People losing their lives from a natural disaster is so devastating. Not only the storm itself caused casualties but damage from the fallen trees and callapsing houses.<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37033904/ns/weather/evanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934483970198968996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-9712512812795888392010-05-11T22:39:00.003-04:002010-05-11T22:45:44.379-04:00Strange Shapes in Space<p>The shapes of bubbles and clouds in outer space demonstrate that physics can do some pretty bizarre things on a giant scale. Take RCW 120, for example. The star-forming bubble, about 4,200 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius is the main subject of European Space Agency Picture. Radiation from a hot, massive star at the bubble's center is blasting gas and dust outward, and that's what has cleared out the space around the star. The shock wave from the central star compresses the material on the bubble's edge so much that still more stars are being squeezed into existence.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's amazing what stars can do and create. Images from telescopes have shown us not even close to what all could be out there. Discoveries like this have led us to discovery more and more about how stars form and what they can create and become. It's scary to think of radiation and what it can do to us, but how its the building blocks of the universe pretty much. I think it's scary to even think how big stars can be and how they produce things like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/05/07/2297402.aspx<br /></p>evanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934483970198968996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-46404903412628404272010-05-11T22:35:00.002-04:002010-05-11T22:39:39.323-04:00Runaway star zooms away from its nurserymassive runaway star has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope racing away from its stellar nursery after being kicked out by some of its much heftier stellar siblings. The homeless star<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> is on the outer fringes of 30 Doradus Nebula — commonly known as the Tarantula Nebula — a teeming stellar breeding ground in the Milky Way's <a itxtdid="21087044" target="_blank" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37089614/ns/technology_and_science-space/#" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr style="color: darkgreen; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" id="itxt_nobr_2_0"></nobr></a> nearby galactic neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The star, which is about 90 times as massive as our own sun, is racing through space at a speed of about 250,000 mph (400,000 kilometers per hour), a speed that would get you to the moon and back in about two hours. The finding is yet more evidence that the most massive stars in the local universe can be found in the Tarantula Nebula, making it a unique laboratory for studying heavyweight stars. R136 is nestled inside the Tarantula Nebula, which is located 170,000 light-years from Earth and contains several stars topping 100 solar masses each.<br /><br />It's incredible how many stars exsist in our universe. Discoveries like this can lead us to find many more discoveries leading to the birth of the universe. Stars are unimaginable in the size that they can be and it leads us to a major challenge just to comprehend their size. It's amazing how fast something that heavy can travel through space, while we can't reach speeds even close to that. If we could travel at speeds like that we could discover so much more than what we already have.<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37089614/ns/technology_and_science-space/evanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934483970198968996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-26857345640919231512010-05-11T22:29:00.002-04:002010-05-11T23:04:13.680-04:00X-rays reveal chemical link between birds and dinosaursAn over 150 million year old fossil previously thought to only contain fossilized bone and rock holds many tips to the creatures original chemistry. Using an x-ray, researchers can now see into the fossil of the Archaeopteryx, a half dinosaur/half bird species. The first specimen was discovered over one hundred and fifty years ago, which has since been a huge part of the theory of evolution. The fossil has gone under extensive visual analysis, but nothing was known about the chemical construct of the species before the x-ray scan. This intense x-ray scan was able to find minuscule parts of chemical elements of the Archaeopteryx, revealing that these were actual parts of the animal, not just chemicals from the rocks surrounding the fossil. The scans have found that parts of the feathers of the creature were not just impressions, but actual fossilized feathers. This discovery has opened up new ways to study fossils, looking for chemical elements of the organism. However, the bones and fossils that have not been moved from the surrounding rocks and soil, because comparisons of chemicals within the organism and the surrounding rocks need to be made to assess what exact is in both.<div><br /></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div>Our advances in technology and how we can use it to find out more and more about prehistoric objects and specimens is amazing. This is how telephone was invented, how the sandwich was invented, by trying out things to see what will be the outcome. If the group of scientists hadn't thought of x-raying the fossil, they would know nothing of what they do now. If chemicals can be found from this species, what about others? Soon we'll be able to completely map out the look and anatomy of long-extinct organisms.</div>Dylan Bodenheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13862171488254692438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-39268186862549135992010-05-11T22:21:00.000-04:002010-05-11T22:22:13.488-04:00Telescope Discovers Surprising Hole in SpaceA huge hole has recently been discovered in space. The discovery was made by using a high powered telescope. The surprising aspect of this find was that no one thought to find a hole this large in this part of space it was found in. Researches believed that the area it was found in was covered in dense gases and clouds. The hole was discovered during the night on May 10th. Scientists believe that the hole was caused by streams of gases puncturing the wall of clouds and gases in space. Another factor researches believe could be the radiation from older stars in the area.<br /><br /><br />This is crazy in my opinion. Who knew that there could be a hole in space? I am amazed at the technology that has been used to find new discoveries like this and the amount of research that goes into these discoveries. The only question I have is what can these holes mean for space? Can they some how form a black hole and suck stars and planets into them? And what exactly could be on the other side of these “holes”? There’s no way of really knowing now, but hopefully in the future we can figure these questions out.<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37088640/ns/technology_and_science-space/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-2518068265277505522010-05-11T22:10:00.004-04:002010-05-11T22:24:21.277-04:00Biggest beaver dam seen from spaceA Canadian-based ecologist says he has located the world's largest beaver dam in northwestern Canada using Google satellite technology. Ecologist Jean Thie located the 2,788-foot dam using Google Earth and NASA technology while researching the rate of melting permafrost<a itxtdid="21085800" target="_blank" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37038932/ns/technology_and_science-science/#" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"><nobr style="color: darkgreen; font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" id="itxt_nobr_1_0"></nobr></a> in the country's far north.<span id="byLine"></span> Situated in northern Alberta's Wood Buffalo National Park, which straddles the Alberta-Northwest Territories border, the dam stretches more than eight football fields long. Thie told The Associated Press the detailed satellite program helped him conclude the dam was the work of beavers, which, incidentally, are the country's national symbol. Thie discovered the dam in 2007, but he said it only recently caught media attention after someone at a British paper spotted his findings on a blog and ran a story reiterating Thie's claim that the dam is visible from space. Thie stakes that claim because he used satellite technology to detect the dam.<br /><br />It's amazing what technology brings us. It helps us map the earth, get directions to places we need to go, and obviously discover incredible things. In the past 100 years we've discovered more than we have in a billion years with satellite technology. Also, understanding the way beavers work can lead us to new ideas on the way we could do things.<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37038932/ns/technology_and_science-science/evanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934483970198968996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-71422929609903528212010-05-11T22:04:00.003-04:002010-05-11T22:29:16.084-04:00Rare subterranean fish rediscovered in BrazilA rare species of blind fish has been found again underground in Brazil. It has been 50 years since the last known member of this species was found in 1962 in a water well in the city of Jaiba, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. A group set out to rediscover the fish known as Stygichthys typhlops. When found, the specimen was taken to American ecologist Dr. Joseph Tosi Jr. who was in the region at the time and then spoke of by specialists back in the US. To find the species of fish, researchers interviewed inhabitants of the town, who said that they had spotted the fish in water wells around the town. However, the region's dry climate makes them rely heavily on ground water, making the water in the aquifers drop considerably. This made it hard for researchers to find a wet well, however two were eventually found with the fish swimming in them. A total of 34 specimens were found. Scientists are realizing what needs to be done to keep this species from becoming extinct, as the overuse of the groundwater in the area is attributing to the decline in the species' survival.<div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div>It is a good thing we can manage to find these species of animals now before they're completely extinct. Every type of animal is important to this planet, living or dead. It's astounding how many previously-thought extinct organisms are reappearing these days, who knows, we may even find a nest of dodo somewhere out there. If we can find the species, we can save it by implementing good strategies to keep them alive. There are so many unexplored places on this planet, who knows what else there is?</div>Dylan Bodenheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13862171488254692438noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-11260785978832593372010-05-11T22:04:00.000-04:002010-05-11T22:05:17.000-04:00New Planet Found; May Be Cosmic Rosetta StoneRecently a new planet has been discovered by the NASA space engineers. The planet is referred to as a gas giant planet and has a nearly circular orbit around its parent star and is very similar to Jupiter. The planet is also referred to as an exoplanet because it is located outside of our solar system. The new planet is 1,500 light years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens. The new gas giant passes in front of its star every 95 days and can be viewed from Earth during those days. Scientists have an eight hour time window of viewing the planet during it transit for further studies. <br /><br /><br />This is awesome that we are still exploring our solar system and finding new objects each and everyday. The fact that we are still finding new planets such as this gas giant hundreds of years after the first planet was discovered amazes me. Another cool aspect about this discovery is that the planet is located out of our solar system and is referred to as an exoplanet. With new advancements being made in space exploration every day, it is exciting to see what will come next. In the future we may possibly advance our capabilities of space exploration and find even larger solar systems and explore them as well. We may even have the capabilities to have space tours where regular citizens can fly into space and see the amazing stars and planets. <br /><br /><br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100317-new-exoplanet-hot-jupiter/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-72486228415613118192010-05-11T21:48:00.002-04:002010-05-11T22:10:25.963-04:00Human stem cells grown in a rotating vessel to simulate microgravity are vastly different from those allowed to develop under normal conditions, a new study shows. The research raises questions about the viability of humans traveling in space without gravity for long periods of <a itxtdid="20156899" target="_blank" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37063832/ns/technology_and_science-space/#" style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs"></a>time. Australian scientists used a NASA-developed bioreactor to grow cells from a human embryonic stem cell line. These types of cells can develop into any of the body's three primary layers -- ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm, which in turn form more than the 220 types of cells found in humans. The team discovered that 64 percent of the proteins found in the stem cells grown in simulated microgravity were not in control samples. In particular, the bioreactor cells contained several proteins involved in the breakdown of bone and in the regulation of calcium, neither type of which were found in stem cells grown in regular, Earth gravity.<br /><br />It doesn't make sense how things happen differently not far from where we are use to it. This could lead us to make discoveries that we haven't known before. Things like this can help us find new ways to cure certain diseases. Maybe it helps us in believing that aliens are actually out there. They could grow and live under conditions that we never though would support life.<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37063832/ns/technology_and_science-space/evanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934483970198968996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-82749941281331075272010-05-11T21:39:00.003-04:002010-05-11T21:50:22.209-04:00Scariest fish of allThe cichlid fish is a type of fish that is scared the most by one thing; its own reflection. A new study shows that a cichlid that fights it's own reflection might be more dangerous than fighting another fish. The cichlid will attack other males along with its own reflection. The study shows that a cichlid that has just fought with it's reflection is more afraid than if it fought with another fish. Scientists have also found similar activity in other animals like dolphins and elephants.<br /><br /><br />I have heard of animals doing stuff like this and I always thought why they did this was because of reactions. Seeing another animal will trigger something in the brain so it goes on attack mode. This is a good survival method for all animals but it could be dangerous. Maybe in the future we can fully understand why animals do things like this. Animals do everything to survive.<br /><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59094/title/Mirror%2C_mirror_on_the_wall%2C_youre_the_scariest_fish_of_all">http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59094/title/Mirror%2C_mirror_on_the_wall%2C_youre_the_scariest_fish_of_all</a>_Katelyn Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492947961897943902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-23383729882830764412010-05-11T21:26:00.002-04:002010-05-11T21:32:31.405-04:00Sea Turtles Washing Up Dead Near Oil Spill SiteOver the past few days, about 25 turtles have washed up dead on the shores of Mississippi. Tests are going on to see if the oil spill definitely killed the turtles since there isn't any real proof of what actually did. If the turtles were affected by the spill that might mean that reptiles could have been hurt too, but not in ways so detectful. Contaminants lead to changes in the turtle's immune system, and other serious issues such as pneumonia.<br /><br />I think this is really sad. Animals shouldn't have to pay the price just because humans are so careless about their environment! People need to pay more attention to what they do, especially in seas where contamination like oil spills spread very easily. We need to do whatever we can to stop this from happening again.Ashlie Hogatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232770580103162295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-90841685180922189542010-05-11T21:14:00.002-04:002010-05-11T21:30:03.644-04:00Ancient City of 'Modern' GalaxiesThe group of around 60 galaxies, called CLG J02182-05102, is almost 10 billion years old. It was born just 4 billion years after the supposedly Big Bang. A really big, red collection of galaxies usually of only present-day galaxies. Researchers say that this galaxy is hard to miss and it stands out. Enormous red galaxies at the center contain almost 10 times as many stars as our Milky Way. It is very unusual to find this especially at the time it was found. The researchers now want to find out how they ended up in clusters.<br /><br />I've seem images of the Milky Way and I can only imagine how amazing the CLG J02182-05102 looks like. Researchers also say it is very big so I guess there might be some other things there that we haven't discovered yet.<br /><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100510131505.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100510131505.htm</a>kimberly(:http://www.blogger.com/profile/01447530356526882471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-28692595146586779992010-05-11T21:05:00.002-04:002010-05-11T21:16:42.359-04:00New Planet Found; May Be Cosmic Rosetta StoneA new gas-giant planet has been discovered 1500 light years away from the Earth. This is the first Jupiter-like planet that has been found outside of our solar system. Every 95 days, the planet Corot-9b passes in front of it's star. The light of the planet's star goes through its own atmosphere before contuining to Earth. Astronomers could possibly discover what molecules make up Corot-9b by studying the filtered starlight. Corot-9b could become a Rosetta Stone for research about other exoplanets.<br /><br />I think that it is amazing that there are so many planets out there. If that planet is like Jupiter, than it is probably alot bigger than the Earth. I hope that astronomers will keep researching and discovery new planets and maybe even other solar systems outside of ours.Ashlie Hogatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13232770580103162295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1951263950034620251.post-5247139449892716212010-05-11T21:01:00.002-04:002010-05-11T21:48:22.721-04:00How bad can the spill get?The Gulf of Mexico oil spill <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span> is getting progressively more serious, with the amount of leaked oil growing by 5,000 barrels (200,000 gallons) or more every day. In the three weeks since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, about 100,000 barrels have been spilled. Tar balls and oiled-up birds are already washing up on the Louisiana shore. How much worse could it get? A <em>lot</em> worse, according to projections from BP, the oil company responsible for cleaning up the spill. That's why engineers are being careful about what they do to stop the leak.<br /><br />I think it's ridiculous that they let the spill happen in the first place. It's crazy how it takes us so long to drill and maintain the oil, yet it only takes a short time for it to leak and spread. The techniques they're using to stop the leak could cause it to be worse and take even longer to stop the oil. The oil is harming the ecosystem of the ocean and birds are even washing up on shores. If we don't stop this leak it could cause a huge loss in many habitats.<br /><br />http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/05/10/2299098.aspxevanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07934483970198968996noreply@blogger.com0