tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719713065121306242012-01-23T10:09:05.893-08:00Blog featuring interesting science facts and science articles.Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.comBlogger1401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-34531519519392405582012-01-23T04:42:00.000-08:002012-01-23T05:32:38.139-08:00

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas mostly responsible for climate change issue. Because of our dependence on fossil fuels the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere is constantly growing and as of November 2011, carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is at a concentration of 390 ppm by volume. Cutting CO2 emissions is the key factor that will decide the outcome of our fight against climate

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The science has just started discovering things about our galaxy and we are yet to answer the really big questions such as is there another life hidden somewhere in our galaxy. In the meantime science is determining different other interesting things and one of these things is also the color of our Milky Way galaxy.At the 219th American Astronomical society meeting the astronomers have announced

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The doomsday stories seem to be closely connected with the year 2012, especially since the ancient Mayan calendar which covers the timespan of more than 5000 years, ends on December 21st 2012. This day will mean the end of the 13th bak'tun, last period of around 400 years in Mayan calendar.While there is a certainly truth that the Mayan civilization knew whole lot of things about astronomy

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Term supernova refers to explosive death of some massive star characterized by an enormous amount of emitted energy. Supernova explosion emits incredible amount of energy- more energy that our Sun emits for its entire lifetime. The expanding shock waves from supernova explosions are also capable to create the formation of new stars. Our Sun, for instance, does not have enough mass to end its life

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-52328037575110772692011-12-19T00:32:00.000-08:002011-12-19T00:37:49.100-08:00

The role of forests as one of the most important water suppliers is often being overlooked. When countries create water resource policies they don't usually include forests forgetting their role in supplying a significant amount of moisture that creates rain.If we look at things from more global perspective then this means that by reducing and destroying forest area we are also reducing regional

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Astronomy is a fast developing science with an increased number of scientists who believe that humans could already be able to colonize other, earth-like planets. Many scientists also agree that humanity simply needs to find ways to live on other planets if it wants to avoid extinction in years to come.The astronomers have recently discovered hundreds of planets that could potentially in future

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-35887710956032852402011-12-05T00:35:00.000-08:002011-12-05T00:47:49.761-08:00

Emperor penguins are the largest species of penguins in the world, they can achieve height over 1 meter and weigh more than 35 kg.Emperor penguins that live in Antarctica form tightly packed huddles and coordinate their movements to give all members of the huddle a chance to warm up in order to survive temperatures below -50 ° C and winds above 180 km/h during the Antarctic winter.Penguins are

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-32650253486938978402011-11-28T01:38:00.000-08:002011-11-28T02:09:41.553-08:00

Sulfur plays very important role in the creation of gold deposits because it enhances gold solubility.The US state of Nevada is the second largest concentration of gold on Earth, after the South Africa. The gold exploration in Nevada started in 1961 with the discovery of the Carlin gold mine.Gold nanowires and nanoparticles are expected to play huge role in medicine in years to come as they can

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Scientists are conducting various different researches aimed at creating new cellphone batteries that could stay charged for a very long time and which could be recharged in very short time. The concept of a cellphone battery that would last for a week or so and could be recharged in just 15 minutes or so certainly sounds appealing and science is already making huge steps in turning this concept

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-27249814875890828102011-11-14T00:04:00.000-08:002011-11-14T00:08:03.535-08:00

Without the Sun the life on our planet wouldn't be possible. But the Sun isn't always a good guy because of solar flares, huge bursts of electromagnetic energy and other particles coming from the Sun.And since the Sun is currently entering the peak of its activity there are some who fear that in 2012 gigantic solar flare could even destroy Earth and confirm Mayan prediction about the end of the

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-84088181139879358402011-11-07T01:58:00.001-08:002011-11-07T01:59:30.763-08:00

Tractor beam is a stuff from sci-fi movies most notably Star Trek and refers to ability to trap and move objects using laser light. However according to the NASA scientist Paul Stysley „laser-based trapping isn't fanciful or beyond current technological know-how“.Stysley and his team were awarded $100,000 to study three experimental methods that could make tractor beam a reality.The first method

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Tropical rainforests today belong to the areas with the richest biodiversity on our planet. But when and where did these ancients forests came to life? Up to now the generally accepted theory was that these ancient forests originated 65 million years ago at the Equator.However, according to the latest study by the IRD biologists these forests are in fact much older as they were born around 100

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-46950679884614525202011-10-24T08:19:00.000-07:002011-10-24T08:25:28.255-07:00

The Israeli scientists have discovered that bacteria can communicate with each other through nanotubes. With the help of nanotubes bacteria are even able to exchange small molecules, proteins as well as some small genetic elements.Scientists are constantly looking for new ways to make it possible to prevent certain bacteria from developing resistance to antibiotics. Many of them believe that the

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-43799876819476327612011-10-17T01:13:00.001-07:002011-10-17T01:14:14.874-07:00

Liger is the largest of all known cat species and represents a hybrid cross between the male lion and a female tiger. Ligers do not exist in the wild, only in captivity because tigers have habitats mostly in Asia and lions mostly in Africa and besides that they are mortal enemies in the wild ready to kill one another when confronted.It is believed that there are only few living ligers around the

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-10774565715838748272011-10-10T01:23:00.000-07:002011-10-10T01:27:15.722-07:00

Artificial photosynthesis is the process with the main purpose of converting carbon dioxide into some useful chemical(s), most notably fuel. The primary goal of artificial photosynthesis is not to find new ways to get more fuel but to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions and reduce climate change impact.The main problem with artificial photosynthesis has always been the fact that this process

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Sharks are among the world's most famous animals and are certainly the sea’s most feared creatures. However, by the current looks of it sharks should be the ones feeling fear because they are obviously in big trouble as there is an ongoing decline of shark populations worldwide.Sharks play extremely important role in marine food chain as the top predators. This means that if their population

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-87499621782641288302011-09-26T01:06:00.000-07:002011-09-26T01:13:52.344-07:00

The world population is constantly growing, particularly in the developing world. It is expected that the world population will grow to 9.5 billion people in the year 2050, up from seven billion today. Will there be enough food for all of them?The world is already being forced to increase food production and this trend will become even stronger in years to come. But is there enough water to not

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-18042983934949976852011-09-19T00:51:00.000-07:002011-09-19T01:16:53.399-07:00

What would you like the most in terms of new scientific discoveries? To many people eternal life seems like the most logical and most obvious thing when letting our scientific imagination flow. Eternity of life is really a form of the highest possible divinity, a thing that separates chosen immortals from all others, in many cases a godlike form.The scientists believe that the answer for eternal

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Gold is one of the Earth's most precious metals and was worshiped on our planet since the beginning of the recorded history. Throughout the thousands of years gold has become not only a monetary standard but also a key factor for many symbolisms and ideologies. But how did the gold get on our planet?According to the dominant scientific theory that was confirmed by the latest scientific research

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Hubble telescope is the most famous telescope of them all, and it has been giving astronomers valuable information since the time it was first carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle on April 24, 1990. This telescope is a true technological wonder as it is able to take extremely sharp images with almost no background light. On July 4, the Hubble telescope achieved its jubilant one millionth

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Despite the fact that the scientific methods have been used since the start of the Middle Age, the first traces of modern science have started during the 16th and the 17th century, the so called Early modern period. The astronomy estimates there are more than 100 billion galaxies in the Universe, and our own galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, has alone between 200-400 billion stars. So if an average

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Human population is growing at a rapid rate, and the growth of human population also triggers the growth of cities in many countries across the globe. According to the latest study by the researchers from Yale, Arizona State, Texas A&M and Stanford in the next two decades urban areas will expand by incredible 590,000 square miles in order to accommodate 1.47 billion more people living in urban

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Many people in the world believe that aliens really exist. When you look at the picture from the wider perspective there is really a much bigger chance that aliens exist than that we are alone in the space. Why? Well the life on Earth certainly exists as you are well aware of it, and if the life exists in Earth there's also a big chance that it also exists on some other of billions of planet in

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-32393868653422484972011-08-08T08:06:00.000-07:002011-08-08T08:33:11.323-07:00

There are already around 3 billion people in the world struggling to keep up with the demand for the fresh water. This number is expected to double in the next 20 years and there has been several different possible solutions for this issue such as conservation and reuse but one of the most interesting solutions definitely looks to be desalination. Why desalination? Well, lets just say that our

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-22285160196217878152011-08-01T03:04:00.000-07:002011-08-01T03:38:28.381-07:00

Nanotechnology includes all processes that tend to manipulate with a matter on an atomic and molecular scale and involves developing materials or devices that possess at least one dimension within 1 to 100 nanometre in size.Nanotechnology holds a great future promise as it can not only improve vast area of current applications but can also create brand new materials and devices.Billions of

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-74048496782338127732011-07-25T04:41:00.000-07:002011-07-25T04:59:56.383-07:00

Many people imagine black holes as certain huge areas that just sit in space not doing nothing but this really isn't the case. In fact, according to the latest research coming from the scientists at Brigham Young University black holes are in fact very active, not only do they spin but they also move laterally across their host galaxy. These movements are believed to power quasars.Quasars are

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-3519652557929321282011-07-18T02:05:00.000-07:002011-07-18T02:19:28.398-07:00

Our planet's interior is still pretty much a mystery to scientists and all models of the inner Earth depend on indirect evidence. The widely accepted theory about the continuous flow of Earth's heat is linked with the radioactive decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium in Earth's crust and mantle.The amount of this heat is enormous. The recent geological study that used temperature measurements

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-42300500606837053262011-07-11T00:43:00.001-07:002011-07-18T02:21:17.758-07:00

The scientific community still argues on issue whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded animals and now the latest research coming from the Australian scientists at the University of Adelaide has added further stir to this debate.Professor Roger Seymour from the University of Adelaide believes that the answer to this issue may lie in fossil dinosaur bones.Professor Seymour's main idea

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-23636914253575416682011-07-04T01:15:00.000-07:002011-07-04T01:32:20.733-07:00

You know that evergreen from UB40 "Red Red Wine stay close to me"? Well, according to the latest research that was published in the FASEB Journal this song could soon become big hit among astronauts. Why? Because according to the scientists, one of the main ingredients in red wine, resveratrol, has the potential to prevent the negative effects that spaceflight has on astronauts.The scientists

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Overfishing is becoming a huge environmental issue, especially with the ongoing rapid growth of human population. Millions of people worldwide depend on fish to survive but due to very poor global management of fisheries overfishing is taking heavy toll in almost all of our oceans and seas with many fish species experiencing a significant decline in population.According to the recent study by the

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-55226757573979514522011-06-20T01:36:00.000-07:002011-06-20T01:40:59.048-07:00

A white dwarf is the term in astronomy used to describe the last stage in the life cycle of a (massive) star like our Sun. This last stage in the life of star occurs when star sheds its outer atmosphere, leaving the glowing, gradually cooling, core as a white dwarf. For our Sun this process will begin about 5 billion years in the future.In the last stage of their life, these massive stars have

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-89680634154319753872011-06-13T02:50:00.000-07:002011-06-13T03:21:22.691-07:00

Humans, or to be more precise human activity, is the main reason for severe ongoing changes in many of Earth's ecosystems. This is not only because of the ever-growing climate change impact but also because human population is constantly growing, expanding into new areas and changing native ecosystems, sometimes even to the point of no recognition.Biodiversity loss is higher than ever before and

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-74327486750501461962011-06-06T00:54:00.000-07:002011-06-06T01:53:01.670-07:00

We like to think of ourselves as the species with advanced technologies but just think about our limited knowledge about the universe and our technological limitations are instantly exposed. Astronomy, despite delivering some useful theories is still very much a "could be" science, after all very few things are certainty for astronomers and most of the time you will hear how there "could be

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-17357856016373476672011-05-30T00:48:00.000-07:002011-05-30T01:40:19.430-07:00

Ocean acidification refers to the currently ongoing process of decreasing the pH of the Earth's oceans as a result of excessive levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Basically speaking, the absorption of too much carbon dioxide by seawater results in the ocean acidification. It is estimated that around quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans emit in the atmosphere each year ends up being

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There are more people in the world who believe in the existence of other forms of life outside our planet than those who believe our planet is the only planet in universe that supports life.Aliens are usually imagined (particularly because of Sci-Fi movies) as technologically superior monster-like creatures whose only goal is to collect the resources of our planet and in the process wiping out

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-3378483273434407002011-05-16T02:57:00.000-07:002011-05-16T03:32:01.497-07:00

The term "robotics" refers to the technology that has the main purpose in creating the mechanical intelligent agents called robots.The term "robot" was first coined by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. while term "robotics" was first coined by Isaac Asimov in his 1941 science fiction short-story "Liar!".The great Leonardo Da Vinci has predicted the creation of robots in future.At first

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-84422736814840735932011-05-09T00:21:00.000-07:002011-05-09T01:06:59.245-07:00

There are many different scientific theories featuring variety of different climate change solutions but none sounds as good as transforming harmful carbon dioxide (CO2), the greenhouse gas mostly responsible for climate change, into some useful form of energy.Joel Rosenthal, a chemist at the University of Delaware, is convinced that this solution is very much possible, and that this would not

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-38891535038914285422011-05-02T00:08:00.000-07:002011-05-02T01:21:48.540-07:00

The astronomers believe that the first generations of massive stars were fast rotating stars, and that is the reason why these stars are sometimes referred to as the "spinstars".The first generations of massive stars has died a long long time ago, mostly because of their fast and furious life (due to their extreme masses these massive stars have relatively short lifespans of 30 million years down

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-27362948575741361222011-04-25T07:29:00.000-07:002011-04-25T07:55:17.464-07:00

There are many ongoing researchers all over the world with the purpose of creating a synthetic (artificial) brain, and one of the most promising scientific researches comes from the University of Southern California where scientists managed to create a carbon nanotube synapse circuit whose behavior in tests was able to reproduce the function of a neuron, the building block of the brain that

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The spintronics, sometimes also referred to as the magnetoelectronics, is basically a group of emerging technologies that exploit the intrinsic spin of the electron in solid state devices.There are billions of different spintronics devices, and the most famous are sensors. For instance, every hard disk drive has a magnetic sensor that uses a flow of spins.Spintronics is closely connected to

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-91555043370421280812011-04-11T01:36:00.001-07:002011-04-11T01:59:45.065-07:00

Many scientists are convinced that Earth's past can provide us with many answers about Earth's future climate, and whether climate change will indeed be as huge threat as many scientists predict it will be.The latest interesting research comes from the UCLA geoscientists who have studied fossilized mollusks from some 3.5 million years ago. The purpose of their research was to construct an ancient

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-14348226216830321472011-04-04T00:06:00.000-07:002011-04-04T00:56:15.405-07:00

Term ozone hole refers to seasonal shrinkage of stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions.The freons (CFC compounds) are the main destructive force behind the creation of ozone holes. It has to be said that CFCs were banned in most countries because of their negative impact on depletion of the ozone layer.Ozone is important for all life on our planet because ozone layer protects us from

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-72719252372946532912011-03-28T00:19:00.000-07:002011-03-28T00:26:22.295-07:00

The scientific knowledge about our solar system can still be characterized as the minuscule of the knowledge that will be available to our future generations in far future but current science is at least setting proper foundations on which future science can build and improve human knowledge about universe.The latest interesting news about our solar system was the result of researchers from

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The main purpose of science is to expand the human knowledge. Science is all about logic and rational as compared to religion which is mostly based on belief, and where logic and rationality play smaller roles.Science isn't focused on looking at things from the philosophical point of view but from empirical point of view where data can be verified with different tests and methods.Science has

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Here are some quick and interesting facts about tsunamis and their devastating power.The origin of tsunami doesn't necessarily have to be an earthquake. Tsunami can also be a result of volcanic eruption, landslides, meteor hit, etc.Tsunamis are most frequent in Japan, up to now there have been close to 200 recorded tsunamis in Japan.The recent earthquake with the magnitude of 8,9 that caused the

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Up to now, the scientists have identified 1.4 million animal species that live on our planet. There are probably several millions more that are waiting to be discovered but on the other hand many animal species will forever remain a mystery because they will go extinct before we had the chance to discover them.Discovering and identifying new animal species requires large funds, in fact according

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There are several different reasons that explain why three quarters of world coral reefs could soon disappear. These reasons include climate change, pollution, overfishing, ocean acidification, etc.Many scientists believe that the main threat to the survival of climate reefs is not climate change but overfishing, though on the other hand most coral reefs will be feeling the impact of climate

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-55201911050085394762011-02-21T02:21:00.000-08:002011-02-21T02:47:05.037-08:00

Our Sun is returning back to life after the relatively long period of decreased solar activity. The newspapers are already full of articles which warn us that powerful solar storms have the potential to disrupt communications on Earth, and several scientists such as University of Colorado Boulder Professor Daniel Baker believe that solar flare has already disrupted some ground communications on

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Invasive species have more often than not negative impact on native ecosystems, and can in extreme cases even lead to extinction of native species. This is because invasive species in most cases compete with native species for food an other resources, and this often results in negative environmental effects.But as said in the title of the post not all invasive species are bad for native

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Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, is icy. According to the results from the NASA's Cassini spacecraft the oxygen appears to arise when Saturn's magnetic field rotates over Rhea. However, oxygen at Rhea's surface is estimated to be about 5 trillion times less dense than what we have at Earth.The scientists have in 2010 detected the cyclon on Saturn which in that time was lasting for more than 5

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A huge asteroid hitting the Earth was main theme of many Sci-Fi movies, and both the filmmakers as well the scientists agree that such hit would cause enormous disaster on our planet. The last time huge asteroid hit the Earth it killed the dinosaurs, the largest creatures ever on land, and if such scenario would to happen again it would again destroy many species on our planet.Gregory L. Matloff,

Ned Haluzannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3071971306512130624.post-56218708816788720402011-01-25T00:49:00.000-08:002011-01-25T01:18:01.379-08:00

The biggest extinction in our planet history hasn't occurred 65 millions years ago when big meteorite ended the age of dinosaurs, in fact the biggest extinction event in our history happened some 250 millions years ago when around 95 percent of species were wiped out in the sea and 70 percent on land. And the main culprit for this is not some big meteorite but coal.250 millions years ago was a

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Ecohydrology is by definition a scientific field inside the science of ecology which specifically studies the interactions between water bodies and different ecosystems. More specifically, ecohydrology does not only study how certain organisms such as plants adapt to their water environment, but also vice versa, namely how does vegetation effect the water streams. This is the reason why we are

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The most interesting result of the recent NASA's mission was the discovery of the smallest planet outside our solar system, named Kepler-10b. This planet has 1.4 times the size of our planet, and it is the first rocky planet discovered outside our solar system.The planet outside our solar system are called exoplanets, and this exoplanet was found after eight months of collecting data by the

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Cooking has a a very long history among humans, and according to the latest study from George Washington University Neanderthals even cooked plants and vegetables and not only meat. The US researchers concluded this after finding grains of cooked plant material in Neanderthal's teeth.Some researchers believe that it didn't take much time for our ancestors to realize that fire has more purposes

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1. Discover an "elixir for eternal life". On the other hand, if this happens then procreation would lose its purpose, and Earth could be in real danger of overpopulation.2. Find solution to control climate and weather on our planet. With this we could really say goodbye to climate change issue.3. Find an artificial way to create food. This would of course mean no more hunger in the world, the

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There are around 40,000 of different spider species living on our planet.Spiders have eight legs.Spiders have so far been found on every continent, except Antarctica.Unlike insects spiders do not have antennae. Most insects use antennae as the primary olfactory sensors.Spiders that produce tangled cobwebs are more abundant and diverse than orb-web spiders.First spider like creatures appeared

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Dogs and cats are our most favorite pets, and sometimes you get the feeling they can understand every single word you say to them. This of course isn't true though compared to some other animals dogs and cats are real Einsteins. But who is smarter? Dog or cat?If we are to believe the latest study coming from the Oxford University's Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology the dogs are

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Since science is constantly improving and progressing, theoretically speaking science could even reach the level of turning people into almighty beings, something that we now associate with the term "God". God should be almighty being that creates and destroys life, creates new worlds, determines destiny of all creatures, and basically do whatever he/she pleases because he/she is almighty.What if

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Fog represents the collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog is basically a type of low-lying cloud. The only difference between fog and mist is in their density. Fog reduces visibility to less than 1 km while mist reduces visibility to no less than 1 km. The foggiest place in the world is the Grand Banks off the island of

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We all know that ostriches are excellent runners but looking at them doesn't exactly reveals highly athletic look about them, and they in fact look ungainly. Ostriches use half the energy that we humans need at our top running speed but they use this energy far more efficiently than we do, and their main secret when it comes to running is their springiness because ostrich tendons store twice as

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Astronomers currently weigh planets by measuring the orbits of their moons or of spacecraft flying past them. They use this principle because mass creates gravity, and a planet's gravitational force determines the orbit of anything that goes around it, in terms of not only the size of the orbit but also how long it takes to complete. This method could soon go into the history books because an

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The Great Wall of China represents the series of several walls have been built since the 5th century BC.The Great Wall of China has been rebuilt and maintained from the 5th century BC through the 16th century, the majority of today's Great Wall was built during the Ming Dynasty.The entire Great Wall, with all of its branches, stretches for 8,851.8 km (5,500 miles) from Shanhaiguan in the east, to

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In the last 4 years there has been tremendous decline in bee population across the globe, and scientists are still somewhat confused about the causes responsible for this huge decline. Bees are not only contributing to our environment but also to our economy, and scientists have in fact calculated that bees contribute some £26bn to the global economy.Hundreds of thousands of bee colonies have

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Titan, the Saturn's moon, is the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere, and some scientists even predicted that there is a slight possibility that lakes on Titan might actually contain water. Such theories have started appearing in 2005, after the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, where a probe discovered that Titan' landscape includes hills, valleys and lakes.Prof. Akiva Bar-Nun of

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If world wants to avoid the worst of climate change then our global emissions will have to significantly decline in years to come. Many believe that the easiest way to achieve this would be if we would to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. In light of this, there was this one very interesting research conducted by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The main

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If you go to ask people why can't humans fly most of them would give you the answer "because humans don't have the wings". This is the right answer but on the other hand, answer that needs much more explanation.The life on our planet started in the water, and evolution took many million years before first creatures developed wings, and started their conquest of the sky. Evolution didn't find

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Is it possible to predict future climate without knowing how did climate of the past look like? By knowing trends in past climate, and what influenced changes in past climate the scientists would be able to predict with much bigger level of certainty what will happen to our climate in years to come, and will the climate change really reach a catastrophic level as many predict it will.Scientists

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1. Elephants are excellent swimmers but they cannot trot, jump, or gallop.2. Elephants have an exceptional sense of hearing. This is because their hearing receptors are not located only in their ears, but also in trunks that are sensitive to vibrations, and even more significantly feet, which have special receptors for low frequency sound.3. 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread

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Though we like to say for ourselves that we are technologically and scientifically very advanced there are still some "simple" processes that scientists cannot successfully copy in their laboratories, and one of these processes is photosynthesis, as scientists are still not able to copy plants in their process of converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing this process reliably day after

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There are many fish species that live in cold waters but they do not freeze to death like this would be the case with us humans. Why is that? Well the answer lies in the antifreeze protein in the fish's blood. According to scientists this protein has the ability to protect fish from freezing meaning that there's no such thing as some sort of chemical bond between protein and water, the only thing

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Solar minimum represents the period of weak Sun's activity, and some scientists also refer to this as the Sun's quiet period. This period of weaker solar activity isn't always of the same length, and the latest occurred almost two years ago, in December 2008. The Sun's activity strengthens and weakens on a cycle that typically lasts 10.7 years. Since accurate records began more than 350 years ago

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The potato originated in the region of southern Peru where it was first domesticated between 3000 BC and 2000 BC.Potato was first introduced in Europe by Spain in 1536, and the Spanish claim that that Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada was the first to introduce the potato to Europe. Potatoes were not accepted at once in Europe because clerics said they were not mentioned in the bible, while others

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Today's astronomy news are all about scientists detecting the most massive star of all time, and they have named it R136a1, not very original name if I may add.If you thought that our Sun is enormous you better think again because this star has a mass about 265 times that of our own Sun, and to make things even more interesting scientists believed that at the time when this star was born its mass

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Despite the fact that many people think how the main function of sleep is to rest your body science still hasn't given the adequate answer of what's the most important function of the sleep. Why? Because science still do not fully understand the function of sleep, though all scientists will agree that this is very important function because not only humans but also all animals sleep.Sleep is such

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Scientists are still anything but certain in what event led to the end of the last ice age that resulted in warmer climate and the birth of human civilization. From the geological point of view we know that ice sheets in the northern hemisphere began to collapse and warming spread quickly to the south. Most scientists support the theory that the event that led to warming was an orbital shift that

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Lately there's a big fuss about graphene oxide, a single-atomic-layered material made by reacting graphite powders with strong oxidizing agents because of its ability to be easily converted into graphene, and graphene is believed by many scientists to be key material in producing low-cost carbon-based transparent and flexible electronics.The researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and

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Despite an impressive technological advances scientists still know very little about Earth's interior. It is a bit odd that we seem to be gathering knowledge about distant planet and far galaxies while at the same time we know so little about our own planet.Scientists at the University of Calgary hope to put more light on the interior of our planet, specifically the outer core, and their latest

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The ecology is finally getting more attention, and eco-friendly products are becoming increasingly popular. Hybrid cars are one of the best examples how eco-friendly vehicles are becoming more and more popular as their sales have experienced significant growth in the last few years.And now it looks like air traffic might also have its green representative in form of eco-friendly plane after

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Today's electronics is found on transistors. A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals. Transistors are made of a solid piece of semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. The science is constantly seeking new ways to make transistors more efficient in terms of consuming less energy. The breakthrough

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Brain training by different brain training games has recently become very popular, and there are many people theta believe this sort of training will increase the overall power of your brain. Yet, the latest BBC study doesn't quite agree with this thesis and it claims that brain training games in fact do not improve overall brain power.This sort of brain training helps you to master these brain

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Since dark matter is invisible to human eye it can only be detected through its gravitational influence on its surroundings. Basically, it is really difficult for us to comprehend that 23 percent of known universe is made up of this mysterious dark matter (23% dark matter vs. just over 4% of visible matter with the rest being the mysterious dark energy)When the universe was still young clumps of

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UV radiation that is able to reach Earth's surface has slightly to moderately increased over the last 30 years - this is the conclusion of NASA scientists that have been analyzing the amounts of ultraviolet radiation (UV) that reached the Earth in the last 30 years. Scientists believe that the main factor responsible for this increase in UV radiation are decreasing levels of stratospheric ozone

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The rise of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is mostly the result of fossil fuels burning has urged science to come up with the different solutions on how to reduce the level of carbon emissions that end up in our atmosphere because these emissions are giving more impact to climate change in form of increased temperatures. One of the best solutions would definitely be if science can

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Until recently it was almost impossible to discover exoplanets but the latest improvement in technology is the main reason why currently there are about 400 discovered exoplanets, and few thousands more are expected to be discovered in years to come.Exoplanets are the best proof to the theory that our Milky Way galaxy is probably home to a millions different solar systems, and perhaps on some of

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Nothing lasts forever, and this also includes the planets meaning that even our good old mother Earth will one day disappear into space dust. But how does the final stage of some planet's life look like? This mainly depends on the event that caused the destroy of the planet, so it varies from case to case, and through this article I will tell you about the latest rather fascinating discovery

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Many scientists predict that climate change impact will significantly increase global sea levels, and this scenario, if it happens, will cause tremendous damage to many coastal areas around the globe. These are of course still only scientific predictions but much can be also learn from history by determining how were sea levels changing throughout the history. Scientists believe that the best

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Wind on our planet represents the flow of gases, and consists of the bulk movement of air. From the astronomical point of view there are tow types of winds, solar winds that exist in outer space, and planetary winds that occur on planets. The distinction between these two type of winds is that solar wind represents the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space while

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Today the climate change is considered as the biggest environmental threat but not so long ago big ozone hole over Antarctic was considered the biggest environmental threat. Currently, the ozone hole is steadily closing, and according to scientists at the University of Leeds this could in fact increase the impact of climate change into the southern atmosphere. Surprisingly it looks like ozone

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Human brain is most evolved on our planet but have you ever wondered what exactly makes our brain so efficient and so reliable? Well, the scientists at the Yale believe that thing that is making our brain efficient is some sort of "neuronal thermostat" that regulates activity in the visual cortex, which enables processing of the sensory information. Brain can save energy by the help of

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Some mathematical algorithms actually give computer a clue about the certain style of painting of the certain artist. The composition of colors or some other aesthetic measurements can already be quantified by a computer, but computers are still far from being able to interpret art in the way that people do because artificial intelligence still lacks far behind human intelligence in terms of art

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Until recently it was impossible to give an exact answer on bow close is the nearest black hole to Earth but an international team of astronomers has for the first time accurately measured the distance from Earth to a black hole, and this distance is 7800 light years, which is much closer that many scientists assumed it is. How did they measure this distance? The breakthrough discovery was in

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The new study published in Nature Geoscience has come up with the conclusion that in the long-term our planet's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated. Dan Lunt, from the University of Bristol, and colleagues compared results from a global climate model to temperature reconstructions of the Earth's environment three million years

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Some recent theories have suggested that black holes my be even building their own host galaxy. Such scenario would be adequate to explain why the masses of black holes are larger in galaxies that contain more stars. Some scientists believe that black holes came before starts and galaxies, and at some point they triggered the formation of stars and galaxies. The scientists have come up with

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Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an significant development in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing, and lead to first super computers. What the researchers from Santa Barbara done was that they demonstrated the ability to electrically manipulate, at gigahertz rates, the quantum states of electrons trapped on

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Climate change problem caused by excessive carbon dioxide emissions due to heavy industrialization and dependence on fossil fuels to satisfy current energy demand is something that only looks to be extremely negative, something that will push world towards the big environmental disaster in form of floods, drought, hunger, hurricanes, sea level rise, brand new diseases, etc. The concentration of

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The Sun, gigantic central star in our solar system that enables life on our planet has always been fascinating topic to many scientists around the globe. Gigantic size, and extreme temperatures are two main characteristics our Sun is famous for but how you ever wondered what does the surface of the Sun look like? Here are some rather interesting data you might not know. First of all Sun has

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Water is the most precious resource on our planet, a key ingredient together with air for development of all life on Earth, in fact even our bodies are mostly water so when you think about it you have to ask yourself a question what is the origin of all this immense amount water in our planet, and how were our oceans formed. If we go way back in the past, around 4.5 billion years ago, we could

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Quantum mechanics is basically set of different principles that describes the physical reality of the matter at atomic and subatomic level. Its origin is quantum theory that began with the study of the interactions of matter and radiation in the early years of the 20th century. Quantum theory is all about the exploring the nature of the matter by exploring its tiniest pieces (subatomic level).

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Mars has extremely low temperatures, and frequent out of this world dust storms that are the biggest in our Solar system. Martian dust storms occur every two to four Mars years are so powerful that they can cover the whole planet with dust for months. In winter, the temperatures at the Mars' poles can go down to -140°C (-220 degrees Fahrenheit), these temperatures are so called that even

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