I have declared that
Saturday
is
Science Day
on my
Blog.
I have to talk about
Scientific Accomplishments
because it is a big part of my life.
Scientific Accomplishments
because it is a big part of my life.
I love all the
Technology
we live with today
and all the
Breakthroughs In Science
that are happening,
it seems,
on a daily basis.
I am still trying to eliminate all the links that I have been saving,
which I intended to write stories on.
So,
instead of deleting those links,
I am going to post them here
and maybe you will find some of them interesting
and read the stories behind the link.
How Pluto got its heart of ice: Dwarf planet's iconic feature is shaped by deep, frosty basins on the surface.
"The fascinating rocky dwarf planet 3.7 billion miles from the sun has a peculiar and ever-changing climate, covered in nitrogen ice, methane frost and even a giant glacier (pictured) Now a model has used simulations to change our understanding of how the glacier formed."
Sorry, Hubble Did Not Find Aliens On Europa
By Sarah Fecht for Popular Science on MSN News.com
"NASA, you should really know better than to say you've found something "surprising" without telling us what it is. That can lead a lot of people to speculate. Yesterday our space agency announced that they'd found "Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa," and promised to reveal more in a teleconference on Monday. Scientists think Jupiter's moon Europa might be capable of supporting alien life in the ocean beneath its icy crust. So of course, people's imaginations ran wild. Well, NASA would like you to know that it's definitely not aliens."
Alien Planet Has 2 Suns Instead of 1, Hubble Telescope Reveals
By for Space.com
"Imagine looking up and seeing more than one sun in the sky. Astronomers have done just that, announcing today (Sept. 22) that they have spotted a planet orbiting two stars instead of one, as previously thought, using the Hubble Space Telescope. Several planets that revolve around two, three or more stars are known to exist. But this is the first time astronomers have confirmed such a discovery of a so-called "circumbinary planet" by observing a natural phenomenon called gravitational microlensing, or the bending of light caused by strong gravity around objects in space. You can see how researchers found the planet in this video."
Stephen Hawking wants to find aliens before they find us
By Eric Mack for CNET on MSN News.com
"Stephen Hawking is again warning about announcing our presence to any alien civilizations that might be out there, especially those that could be more technologically advanced.In his new half-hour program "Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places" on science-themed subscription service CuriosityStream, the world's most famous theoretical physicist flies by the potentially habitable exoplanet Gliese 832c in a CGI spaceship as part of his hypothetical dream itinerary for a tour of the universe. The super-Earth is only 16 light-years away and just the sort of world the Hawking-supported Breakthrough: Listen initiative hopes to scan for signs of alien signals using our most sensitive radio telescopes. "If intelligent life has evolved (on Gliese 832c), we should be able to hear it," he says while hovering over the exoplanet in the animated "U.S.S. Hawking." "One day we might receive a signal from a planet like this, but we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well."
Water plumes spotted above Jupiter's moon Europa
By William Harwood for CBSNews.com
"The Hubble Space Telescope has again spotted what appear to be towering plumes of water vapor erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa, hinting that future spacecraft may be able to sample the hidden sea, a possible abode of life, without having to drill through miles of rock-hard ice, researchers said Monday. Today’s results increase our confidence that water and other materials from Europa’s hidden ocean might be on the surface and available for us to study, said Paul Hertz, director of astrophysics at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The observations, and earlier Hubble studies that found signs of plumes using a different technique, are at the limits of the space telescope’s capabilities, and researchers cautioned they were not yet ready to say with certainty that water plumes have, in fact, been detected."
Earth is the warmest it has been in 120,000 years, and CO2 levels have passed symbolic 400 ppm threshold
By Seth Borenstein for The Associated Press on the National Post.com
"WASHINGTON — A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years.As part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, Carolyn Snyder, now a climate policy official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, created a continuous 2 million year temperature record, much longer than a previous 22,000 year record. Snyder’s temperature reconstruction, published Monday in the journal Nature, doesn’t estimate temperature for a single year, but averages 5,000-year time periods going back a couple million years. Meanwhile, 2016 is on track to become the year that the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels officially passed the symbolic 400 ppm mark for good, according to a report in The Guardian. Many scientists contend that the carbon dioxide levels should remain well below 400 ppm to avoid long-term disruptions to the Earth’s climate."
U.S. FDA Approves “Artificial Pancreas” for Diabetes Treatment
By Reuters Staff on Scientific American.com
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Medtronic Plc's "artificial pancreas" designed to automatically deliver the right dose of insulin to patients with type 1 diabetes.
The eagerly-awaited approval offers patients greater freedom to live their lives without having to consistently and manually monitor baseline glucose levels and administer insulin, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's medical device division said in a statement. The device, called the MiniMed 670G measures glucose levels every five minutes and automatically administers insulin as needed.
About 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes. Patients take insulin injections at various times of the day. But blood sugar can drop to dangerously low levels if too much insulin circulates in the bloodstream, requiring patients to frequently or continually monitor their insulin levels throughout the entire day. This device will mean peace of mind, in knowing a person will be in normal blood sugar range a great majority of the time, said Derek Rapp, Chief Executive Officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which has spent $116 million on research on the artificial pancreas field."
Huge dinosaur footprint discovered in Gobi Desert is possibly largest ever
for The Washington Post.com
"You know what they say about dinosaurs with big feet? They left big holes.
Some of the largest footprints known to science were made 70 million to 90 million years ago, when a type of dinosaur believed to be a titanosaur galumphed across the muck in central Asia. A few of these mud tracks filled with sand and silt, which hardened like plaster. Long after the titanosaur died off, the casts in the sand remained. We know about these big feet because a Mongolian paleontologist discovered a few of them in the Gobi Desert in August. And what a titanic foot the dinosaur must have had. One of the most detailed tracks was a convex mound 42 inches in length, with impressions of the animal’s massive nails. By U.S. shoe standards, it would stretch its sneakers to a size 104. (The world’s largest human feet max out at about 15 inches, about a size 23 or 25.) The print was also much wider than any human foot, at 30 inches across."
“If History repeats itself, I am SO getting a dinosaur!”
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Alien Planet Has 2 Suns Instead of 1, Hubble Telescope Reveals
By for Space.com
"Imagine looking up and seeing more than one sun in the sky. Astronomers have done just that, announcing today (Sept. 22) that they have spotted a planet orbiting two stars instead of one, as previously thought, using the Hubble Space Telescope. Several planets that revolve around two, three or more stars are known to exist. But this is the first time astronomers have confirmed such a discovery of a so-called "circumbinary planet" by observing a natural phenomenon called gravitational microlensing, or the bending of light caused by strong gravity around objects in space. You can see how researchers found the planet in this video."
Stephen Hawking wants to find aliens before they find us
By Eric Mack for CNET on MSN News.com
"Stephen Hawking is again warning about announcing our presence to any alien civilizations that might be out there, especially those that could be more technologically advanced.In his new half-hour program "Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places" on science-themed subscription service CuriosityStream, the world's most famous theoretical physicist flies by the potentially habitable exoplanet Gliese 832c in a CGI spaceship as part of his hypothetical dream itinerary for a tour of the universe. The super-Earth is only 16 light-years away and just the sort of world the Hawking-supported Breakthrough: Listen initiative hopes to scan for signs of alien signals using our most sensitive radio telescopes. "If intelligent life has evolved (on Gliese 832c), we should be able to hear it," he says while hovering over the exoplanet in the animated "U.S.S. Hawking." "One day we might receive a signal from a planet like this, but we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well."
Water plumes spotted above Jupiter's moon Europa
By William Harwood for CBSNews.com
"The Hubble Space Telescope has again spotted what appear to be towering plumes of water vapor erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa, hinting that future spacecraft may be able to sample the hidden sea, a possible abode of life, without having to drill through miles of rock-hard ice, researchers said Monday. Today’s results increase our confidence that water and other materials from Europa’s hidden ocean might be on the surface and available for us to study, said Paul Hertz, director of astrophysics at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The observations, and earlier Hubble studies that found signs of plumes using a different technique, are at the limits of the space telescope’s capabilities, and researchers cautioned they were not yet ready to say with certainty that water plumes have, in fact, been detected."
Earth is the warmest it has been in 120,000 years, and CO2 levels have passed symbolic 400 ppm threshold
By Seth Borenstein for The Associated Press on the National Post.com
"WASHINGTON — A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years.As part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, Carolyn Snyder, now a climate policy official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, created a continuous 2 million year temperature record, much longer than a previous 22,000 year record. Snyder’s temperature reconstruction, published Monday in the journal Nature, doesn’t estimate temperature for a single year, but averages 5,000-year time periods going back a couple million years. Meanwhile, 2016 is on track to become the year that the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels officially passed the symbolic 400 ppm mark for good, according to a report in The Guardian. Many scientists contend that the carbon dioxide levels should remain well below 400 ppm to avoid long-term disruptions to the Earth’s climate."
U.S. FDA Approves “Artificial Pancreas” for Diabetes Treatment
By Reuters Staff on Scientific American.com
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Medtronic Plc's "artificial pancreas" designed to automatically deliver the right dose of insulin to patients with type 1 diabetes.
The eagerly-awaited approval offers patients greater freedom to live their lives without having to consistently and manually monitor baseline glucose levels and administer insulin, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's medical device division said in a statement. The device, called the MiniMed 670G measures glucose levels every five minutes and automatically administers insulin as needed.
About 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes. Patients take insulin injections at various times of the day. But blood sugar can drop to dangerously low levels if too much insulin circulates in the bloodstream, requiring patients to frequently or continually monitor their insulin levels throughout the entire day. This device will mean peace of mind, in knowing a person will be in normal blood sugar range a great majority of the time, said Derek Rapp, Chief Executive Officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which has spent $116 million on research on the artificial pancreas field."
Huge dinosaur footprint discovered in Gobi Desert is possibly largest ever
for The Washington Post.com
"You know what they say about dinosaurs with big feet? They left big holes.
Some of the largest footprints known to science were made 70 million to 90 million years ago, when a type of dinosaur believed to be a titanosaur galumphed across the muck in central Asia. A few of these mud tracks filled with sand and silt, which hardened like plaster. Long after the titanosaur died off, the casts in the sand remained. We know about these big feet because a Mongolian paleontologist discovered a few of them in the Gobi Desert in August. And what a titanic foot the dinosaur must have had. One of the most detailed tracks was a convex mound 42 inches in length, with impressions of the animal’s massive nails. By U.S. shoe standards, it would stretch its sneakers to a size 104. (The world’s largest human feet max out at about 15 inches, about a size 23 or 25.) The print was also much wider than any human foot, at 30 inches across."
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