A 100-meter asteroid will fly over the Earth this Tuesday after eight years disappeared

→ Date: 14 MAY. 2018

→ Scientific field: Astronomy

→ Information source: http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2018/05/14/5af98017e5fdea11148b45c5.html

→ Glossary:

-Asteroid: An asteroid is a rocky, carbonaceous or metallic body smaller than a planet and larger than a meteoroid.

→ Summary: The asteroid '2010 WC9', discovered in 2010 but from which the track was lost until last May 8, will approach the Earth until half the distance from the Moon on Tuesday 15th.

Estimates of its size range between 60 and 130 meters, making the May 15 pass one of the closest ever observed of an asteroid of this size, according to Earth Sky reports.

During the return of 2018, the closest approach to the asteroid '2010 WC9' will occur on May 15 at 22.05 UTC. At that time, the asteroid will be 203,453 kilometers from Earth. According to the calculations of the orbit made by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, the approach of May 15 is the closest for this particular asteroid in almost 300 years.

'2010 WC9' is an Apollo-type space rock. At no time will it be visible to the naked eye, since it sweeps the Earth. It could be as bright as a +11 magnitude, which would make it bright enough to be seen in amateur telescopes pointing to the right location and time. Travel through space at a speed of 46,116 kilometers per hour.

Marc Paredes

Brussels proposes to prohibit the sale of cutlery, plates and plastic straws

Brussels proposes to prohibit the sale of cutlery, plates and plastic straws

→ Date: 29 MAY. 2018

→ Scientific field: Environment

→ Information source: http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2018/05/29/5b0d0f92e5fdea94538b4596.html

→ Glossary:

-Contamination: Pollution is the introduction of substances or other physical elements in a medium that cause it to be unsafe or not suitable for use. The medium can be an ecosystem, a physical medium or a living being. The pollutant can be a chemical, energy.

It is always a negative alteration of the natural state of the environment, and generally, it is generated as a consequence of human activity, considering it a form of environmental impact.

→ Summary: The European Commission has presented a proposal for a directive to reduce the 10 single-use plastic products that are most frequently found on the beaches and seas of Europe. These 10 products represent 70% of all marine waste and the European Commission intends to apply different measures to different articles, so it wants to prohibit the commercialization of single-use plastic products for which there are affordable alternatives, such as sticks of cotton and cutlery, plates, straws, drink shakers and plastic balloon sticks, which must be manufactured with more sustainable materials.

→ Personal opinion: In my opinion this should have been done a long time ago, because there is a lot of plastic pollution in the seas and oceans.

Marc Paredes

HURRICANES & TORNADOES VIDEO-  Adrià Salamó

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1l0krCute2UJv_d7t3aCr1X4aUMaSVLw6

Researches discover how bats carry viruses without getting sick

Februar 25, 2018 06:53 pm

http://www.eluniversal.com.co/ciencia/investigadores-descubren-como-los-murcielagos-transportan-virus-sin-enfermarse-272967

It is known that bats harbor pathogens such as, the recently very well known in Spain, Ebola and even then they do not show at first glance that they suffer from it.

This is due, according to a recent study, to antiviral pathway called antiviral STING-interferon tat allows them to maintain sufficient defense against the disease without triggering an intensified inmune reaction.

Scientific field: Biology

Glossary:

-Pathogen: that causes or produces disease.

-Via: conduit of the human or animal body through which certain fluids pass.

Test comment:

The system of bats is very interesting because it could be a key to solve many contagious lethal diseases, which would be very favorable.

Adrià Salamó

Discover the farthest oxygenn signal in the universe

16/05/2018 19:19h 
http://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-descubren-senal-oxigeno-mas-lejana-universo-201805161900_noticia.html


A group of researches found a very weak glow of light, thanks to the ALMA telescope, emitted by ionized oxygen.
This oxygen was 10 times farther thanit originated and by calculations it was dicovered that it travelled 13,280 millions light years.
In addition, it was also found with a weaker signal, but as same distance, neutral hydrogen.

Scientific field: Astronomy

Glossary:

-Fusion: Reaction that occurs when two dense cores subjected to high temperatures merge and             form a heavier core; this reactions releases large amount of nuclear energy.

-Wavelenght: Distance between two points corresponding to the same phase in two consecutives waves.

Text comment:

Thanks to this we can know more accurately when was created the first oxygen or at least the one that we believe earlier.

Besides taht if hydrogen has also been found, H2O can be formed and that would behave that can have perfectly life in other distants planets. 

Adrià Salamó

Insight: Path to hearth of Mars

02/05/2018

   Glossary:

 On May 5, the NASA mission will study the activity of the interior of Mars.  

Summary:

The mission of NASA to Mars Insight was made on May 5, and it will be the first to know what the center of Mars is like. InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), measuring its heat and listening to the 'marsquakes', something similar to earthquakes on Earth. It will use the seismic waves of the 'marsquakes' to develop a map of the deep interior of the planet. Knowing how the creation of Mars was will help us to know how other rocky planets were created, including Earth.
Among the scientific instruments on board is TWINS, a Spanish environmental station that will monitor the environmental conditions in the landing zone continuously during the 2 years that the mission is believed to last.

Personal opinion:

In my opinion it is a mission that will make a change in the history of the earth for the simple reason that we can study much more thoroughly a planet that has always been very close to us (respectively) which we still do not know completely, besides that This mission apart from making us see how Mars is will help us to know more about our Earth.

Paul Palacios

Tutankamon don't hide more secrets 

07/05/2018

Glossary:

The researchers conclude, after three years of rumors, that there is no secret chamber behind the famous tomb of the boy king.

 

Summary:

After three years of rumors, wanting to know the secret of the tomb of Tutankhamun Finally, science has destroyed the dreams of many and has concluded that there are no secret chambers, neither in the tomb of the child king, nor in the zones in the Valley of the Kings. The Egyptian authorities admitted on Sunday the disappointment after which there is no secret. Researchers have ruled out that there is a secret chamber behind the wall of Tutankhamun's famous tomb and that, according to the theory, he could have accommodated the remains of Queen Nefertiti. Where previously Egyptian officials were very sure that if the mummy of the beautiful queen, which some believe was the mother of the child king, was behind the wall of the famous tomb more than 3,000 years old. The search began when the British archaeologist, Nicholas Reeves. In an article published by Reeves in 2015, 'Nefertiti's Burial', he argued that the tomb in which Tutankhamun was found had originally been designed for Queen Nefertiti, but that the remains of it could be further away from that chamber but inside the burial.

 

Personal opinion: 

I think that it is a very important notice because this rumour conmovate a lot of people, because it is a secret of 3.000 years, but a very bad information because a lot of people and me before this information think that it can be a secret camera.

Paul Palacios

Confirm a new outbreak of Ebola virus in Africa

Confirm a new outbreak of Ebola virus in Africa
→ Date: 10 MAY. 2018
→ Scientific field: Science and Health
→ Information source: http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/salud/2018/05/10/5af477ff268e3efa278b4599.html
→ Glossary:
• Ebola: Symptoms usually begin between two days and three weeks after you have contracted the virus, with fever, sore throat, muscle aches, and headache. Usually, they continue nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, along with liver and kidney failure.

→ Summary: The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared on Tuesday a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Bikoro, Equateu province, where there were also 17 deaths of people with apparent symptoms of the disease. The outbreak declaration occurred after laboratory results confirmed two cases of Ebola. This Thursday, more cases have been confirmed and the total number rises to five deaths from the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) works closely with the Congolese government to mobilize personnel and resources to cope with the outbreak. It has also released one million dollars from its Emergency Contingency Fund in order to support the response to the outbreak during the next three months and prevent its spread to provinces and nearby countries.
→ Personal opinion: This is everyone's problem and we have to contribute to eradicate the virus and prevent it from spreading.
Marc Paredes

They find the best preserved fragments of the asteroid world that killed the dinosaurs

They find the best preserved fragments of the asteroid world that killed the dinosaurs

→ Date: 11 MAY. 2018

→ Scientific field: GEOLOGY
→ Information source: http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2018/05/11/5af447ee22601df33c8b45cb.html

→ Glossary:
• Asteroid: An asteroid is a rocky, carbonaceous or metallic body smaller than a planet and larger than a meteoroid

→ Summary: Approximately 66 million years ago the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid in the Yucatan peninsula produced a chain reaction that ended up with 70% of the planet's species. This catastrophic event produced a global incandescent rock shower. Now a new discovery of these rocks on the Colombian island of Gorgonilla throws new data on its composition. There was a heat pulse of up to 80 degrees Celsius on average so many forests burned spontaneously. To this we must add the incandescent rock shower mentioned above. The earthquakes caused by the impact became 13 on the Richter scale, something almost unimaginable today.

→ Personal opinion: This finding is very important to know with better clarity what happened and you can collect data that will provide very important information for the investigation.
Marc Paredes

THE SALAMANDER, THE FUTURE TO CURE SPINAL CORD INJURIES

2 APR 2018|UPDATED 13:03 CET

https://okdiario.com/ciencia/2018/04/24/salamandra-futuro-curar-lesiones-medulares-2167101

It have been found that if we study the salamander it has regenerative cells which can help them healing their injuries.
That's why a group of scientists, led by Karen Echeverry, is studying this because it can solve medular problems if we apply this cells into our body.

SCIENTIFIC FIELD: Biology

GLOSSARY:
-Neurodegenerative diseases: is a generic term that emcompasses a series of ailments that mainly affects the neurons of the human brain

-Glial cells: they are the cells of the nervous system

TEXT COMMENT
It could be good to study more that because it can bring cures to many diseases and injures


Adrià Salamó