NASA finds organic molecules in rocks of Mars of 3,000 million years.

 07/06/2018 

 

Glossary:

 "It could be a previous life test, but it could also belong to a meteorite or other sources," said Paul Mahaffy, director of NASA's Solar System Exploration division. 

  Summary:

 NASA has announced that its Curiosity explorer robot, a mission from Mars made in 2012, found organic molecules in rocks of the red planet formed 3 billion years ago, which could indicate that there was life there.  The origin of these molecules can not yet be confirmed. It could be a previous life test, but it could also belong to a meteorite or other sources. Although the reason for the creation of these molecules is still unclear, NASA has pointed out that this type of particle could have been the source of food for a hypothetical microbial life on Mars. In this way, the data collected by Curiosity reveal that billions of years ago, a lake of water within the Gale crater contained all the necessary ingredients for life. 

 Personal opinion: 

 In my opinion this information is very interesting and very visual since it could solve doubts created from our beginning, which is knowing if we are really alone in this world or not in a completely certain way.

Paul Palacios

What contaminates producing food and 'Let mathematics be with you'

11/06/2018

Glossary:

The impact of food production on the environment is reflected in its carbon footprint. Clara Grima presents a book about mathematics present in everyday activities.

Summary: 

A research carried out by the University of Navarra shows that following a Mediterranean diet is very good for our health, and also for the environment. Consuming Mediterranean foods produces fewer problematic emissions for the ozone layer. The way in which food is produced, processed, distributed and consumed has consequences for ecosystems. Recently the University of Oxford and the Swiss Institute of Agricultural Research have conducted the most comprehensive study to date on the environmental impact of food production. where it shows how apparently identical products, located in the same supermarket location, actually have very different environmental impacts. 

Personal opinion: 

In my opinion it is completely true that the consumption of Mediterranean foods is positive for our health and for the environment, and I think it is a very good thing since I am a person who consumes many foods of the Mediterranean diet.

Paul Palacios

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

GOOD NEWS! Eating dark chocolocate is good for the body

27 APR 2018|UPDATED 17:11 CET

https://okdiario.com/ciencia/2018/04/26/buenas-noticias-comer-chocolate-negro-saludable-organismo-2179166

One of the most famous food products, chocolate, is said to make you fat and that it's nos good, etc.
But a study reveals that when it is in states close to the pure it can lead to favour some aspects:
-The control of stress
-The reduction of inflammation
-Improvement of memory
-Improve endocrine, cardiovascular and cognitive health
The most of this improvements are related to flavonoids a substance of the chocolate

SCIENTIFIC FIELD: Health

GLOSSARY:
-Flavonoids: is the generic term by which a series of secondary metabolites of plants is identified

TEXT COMMENT
I love chocolate specially the dark chocolate so this is a fantastic notice to me and I supose to a lot of people to see that the chocolate give us some improvements. It's very cool.

Adrià Salamó

IN HEALTH, IS LUCK ALREADY RELEASED

WHEN YOU FOLLOW TEN YEARS?

20/02/2018

http://www.quo.es/ciencia/salud-suerte-echada-cuando-cumples-diez-anos

Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) had examined

data from more than 24,000 people from 50 to 96 of 14 European

countries about the relation between the economics in childhood

and health in adulthood.The study shows that this really affect to our

health and that our first years are the most important.

SCIENCE FIELD

Medicine and health

GLOSSARY

-physiological dysregulation: impairment of a physiological regulatory

mechanism

-socioeconomic:Of society and the economy jointly, or related to both.

TEXT COMMENT

Is good to know that our first years are the most important because

we can improve, or try to improve,our children’s education to be more

healthy.

Adrià Salamó

http://noticiasdelaciencia.com/not/27683/determinan-como-se-produce-la-infeccion-por-malaria-de-aves-silvestres/

Zoology

5/3/18

They determine how malaria infection of wild birds occurs.

All living essays that transmit infectious diseases, as well as the characteristics of their habitat can have important effects on the diversity of parasites. The Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Network Biomedical Research Center for Epidemiology and Public Health (Spain) have conducted studies on avian malaria infection in wild bird populations. They have done the study in 45 urban, rural locations and natural in the southwest of Andalusia, places where these pathogens most affect. For this, researchers have analyzed blood samples of 2,588 birds and 340,829 mosquito females, and studies do with male sparrows because they affect them similar to us and from there they can better study this problem.

Glossary:

The study on how malaria affects humans through research with various birds and insects, where the sparrow is a very useful bird to study this situation.

Text comment:

In my opinion this study is very important to know how to cure this disease and diseases that can be dangerous for humans, and seeing this know that the male sparrow can help me to study this I was satisfied.

Paul Palacios

They create a quantum particle that looks like a 'lightning ball'

They create a quantum particle that looks like a 'lightning ball'

→ Date: 5 MAR 2018

→ Scientific field: Science

→ Information source:

→ Glossary:

- Rays ball some luminous spheres that appear in storms electric and that last much longer than a normal beam.

→ Summary: The stability of the ball rays is a mystery. Our model explains its long life by describing them as electromagnetic knots. Never before has he tried to create them in a laboratory to study and explore them. Mikko Möttönen highlights the simplicity of the method to create them and their possible future applications. "If we could apply this technique to create hot plasma balls, it would be a breakthrough for nuclear fusion reactors." The spherical shape of the plasma could help its stabilization without the need to use giant magnets, "although this needs more research," explains the scientist.

→ Personal opinion:

It would be great if this could be applied to nuclear fusion reactors would be a breakthrough because it could generate power without polluting hardly anything.

Marc Paredes

The probe that will photograph the sunsets of Mars begins to work

The probe that will photograph the sunsets of Mars begins to work

→ Date: 2 MAR 2018

→ Scientific field: Science

→ Information source:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/03/01/ciencia/1519922541_185092.html

→ Summary: ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter reached the Martian orbit in October 2016, but it took a year and a half to slow down and reach its final orbit, at an altitude of 400 kilometers. From there, he will circle the planet once every two hours photographing sunsets to look for little abundant gases in the backlight. The interest of detecting trace amounts of very little gases such as methane is that they can reveal the existence of invisible processes. Methane on Earth is associated with biological activity and on Mars could be linked to the metabolism of microbes that inhabit the subsoil. But methane could also discover some kind of unexpected geological activity, just like sulfur. The new probe, which will begin its scientific mission in April, will accumulate information to the collection during decades.

→ Personal opinion:

This will cause a breakthrough for research on Mars and to try to unravel the mystery about what happened to the oceans that once bathed.

Marc Paredes

While Europe is freezing, the North Pole is experiencing a heat wave. Why?

1/2/2018

The strange phenomenon contrasts with the strong winter that several countries of the old continent live. Although it is not so unusual, it worries that it begins to appear more frequently because it would end up affecting the entire planet.

As you can see, temperatures in this part of Europe have dropped alarmingly since temperatures have reached -10 degrees in cities such as Warsaw, as well as causing quite a lot of deaths in the cold. Temperatures have risen to 7.2 degrees something that really if you see or hear it alarms a lot since that can cause melting poles and sea level augmente. Most people would say that it is due to climate change, but from a study conducted on this heat, they have realized that this heat comes from a heat wave that has reached the north pole and that it is not enough to be alarmed, even though they continue having heat waves of this type if that could cause the poles to melt.

Glossary: 

Why the north pole have a very hot clime this month? this is a very big problem for the world because this provoque the melting of poles.

Text coment:

In my opinion if that pass with more frequency it will be a very big problem for all the poblation because afect all the planet the melting of poles.

Paul Palacios

http://www.eitb.eus/es/radio/radio-euskadi/programas/la-mecanica-del-caracol/detalle/5413590/claves-exito-atletas-keniatas-union-oceanos/

Keys to the success of Kenyan athletes and the union of the oceans

19/02/2018

Jordan Santos studies the factors that explain the superiority of Kenyan athletes. Antonio Aretxabala explains the phenomenon of the seas that do not seem to mix. We explain what tensegrity is.

Kenyan marathon runners are real portents. These are usually the best speed marks.
The characteristics of his physiology are being studied to find the keys to his success, Jordán Santos is a professor and researcher of the Department of Physical Education and Sports of the University of the Basque Country. The research that has just been published has analyzed one of these physical variables that influence athletic performance: bone mineral density. These limits are artificial, a human decision. There are no borders in these large areas of water... this is a one little secret of the Kenyan athletes.

 Glossary: 

Because the Kenyans are so fast normally in the world speed and general line included? A study is being done to know the exercises, the feeding ... to know what is your secret.

Text comment:

I think they are great athletes and very fast in general Kenyans, so it is good to do this study and if they can get to know why the country is so agile, and if from there we can also improve our speed marks.

Paul Palacios

 

Why Mars lose his atmosphere? And thoughts political of Unamuno

 16/02/2018

Santiago Pérez Hoyos repass studies that analyze  the efects of the weak gravity and the radiation solar in Mars. The hispanita Jean Claude Rabaté investigates the last acts of Unhumano in 1936.

Two news investigations analyze the factors that have influenced the loss of the Martian atmosphere. The absence of magnetic field on this planet, the weak gravity and exposoure to solar radiation are possible reasons for its loss of atmosphere. This has done that Mars become in a plantet in one desert arid and cold. Also it's previse one future colision between the Via Lactea and Andromeda in 5000 milions of years thing that does not bother us much.

This analyze its do for a lots of experts thing that give we more security that is true besides of that problem will be a problem to Mars because will do one change of temperatures in this planet quite more bestial.

Glossary:

The problem of the lose the amosphere in Mars and the colision between the Via Lactea and Andromeda.
  

Text comentary:

This thing in my opinion it is a very bad problem to Mars because that provoques a vare bestial change of temperature in Mars.

Paul Palacios