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