In the article ” Staying Put on Earth, Taking a Step to Mars “it talks about how six volunteer scientists are going to lock them in a cell that is similar to the size of a gymnasium the volunteers will be consuming dehydrated food, recycled air and will be cut off from society almost completely. [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2009
Staying Put on Earth, Taking a Step to Mars
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Biology, Other Science, Physics
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Waste Makes Concrete Stronger
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Chemistry
The scientists find a way to make concrete stronger. And it is a way to recycle the industrial waste. The new concrete mix fly ash and blast-furnace slag, both of them are called pozzolans. The pozzolans are the key point to make the concrete stronger than the normal concrete. It also help reduce the concrete’s [...]
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Natural Cloning
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Biology, Chemistry
Artificial embryo twinning is the relatively low-tech version of cloning. As the name suggests, this technology mimics the natural process of creating identical twins. In nature, twins occur just after fertilization of an egg cell by a sperm cell. In rare cases, when the resulting fertilized egg, called a zygote, tries to divide into a [...]
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How do nuclear weapons work?
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Chemistry, Physics
There are two basic ways that nuclear energy can be discharge from an atom: Nuclear fission – You can split the nucleus of an atom into two smaller fragments with a neutron. This method usually concerns isotopes of uranium (uranium-235, uranium-233) or plutonium-239. Nuclear fusion -You can bring two smaller atoms, usually hydrogen or hydrogen isotopes (deuterium, [...]
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How is a water jet created?
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemistry, Physics
Have you ever wondered why when a person jumps into a pool and does a cannon ball there is a squirt of water that flys up into the air? Well that is called a jet stream and is actually made by simple events. It is said to be described as “water ejected like toothpaste squeezed rapidly [...]
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Madagascar Forest’s Defenders Send S.O.S.
March 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Biology
The world faces severe challenges right now both economic and immediate. The planet’s irreplaceable and still largely unstudied biological patrimony is poised to vanish in real time without more attention. Conservationists state that throughout the last 20 ears the human generation has been working very hard to preserve the unique wildlife and stop the degradation [...]
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Molecular probe?
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemistry
Scientists have recently discovered a new technique that can replace the atomic force microscope, this usual process is very costly. The newly developed technique is superior in the fact that it is vastly less expensive. This process is used in molecular probing when trying to constrict/compress or stretch a molecule. This development will allow us [...]
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Creating Protein?
March 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Biology, Chemistry
A huge breakthrough was made by The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. They did something that no one else has ever been able to do: create a protein molecule. By combining amino acids, iron atoms, oxygen molecules, and a few other items, they created a protein with the simple function of carrying oxygen. This [...]
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New Bio-Fuel
March 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Physics
Scientists at Berkeley are trying to make algae so that it produces biofuel instead of biomass. Normally plant use photosynthesis to grow, but these scientists are cutting down the algae’s chlorophyll in order to make the algae unable to grow but instead to create hydrogen and other ingredients to make biofuel. They are not quite [...]
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Superbee
March 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Biology
Planters have been wondering what will pollinatetheir crops because bees have been dying by CCD, colony collapse disorder. But these growers won’t have to worry about anything. Scientists have discovered that wild bees, not domestic bees, are immune to the CCD and would be a very nice substitute for what would have been reserved for [...]
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