After successive tried by the United States as far as going into space and landing on Mars, guess who is planning to take their turn. No it is not the Russians but the Chinese, the fast evolving country that seems hell-bent on making a name for itself as the next power.
This will be actually their third launch which is scheduled for late September. The tentative date is around the last week of September to which a 3 astronaut ship named The Shenzhou 7 that will be launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province.
Before, China was a key participant in previous launches with the United States and Russia in 2003 in sending real humans into space. This time, it is an all-Chinese show and could mark another historic feat as far as development and discoveries are concerned.
China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.
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The Shenzhou 7 launch is to take place between Sept. 25 and 30, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Saturday.
The spacecraft will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province, the agency said, citing a spokesman from the center.
If you are fond of watching those crime scenes in usual television shows like CSI, well now you can expect authorities to perhaps follow that lead. It has been reported that a new breakthrough in lifting fingerprints from bullets has been discovered by British scientists, serving as perhaps a warning to criminals who have been frequently getting away with murder.
Perhaps the British were watching and observing the CSI series and wondered if such a method could really be useful. While we don’t see these things done in real life that bring actual results, perhaps their approach towards helping prevent crime can truly be something to bring down escalating crime rates that are becoming ridiculous in most parts of the world. Keep your fingers crossed!
The new technique allows police to outwit a criminal and produce a fingerprint even if there is no sweat impression to work with.
The British experts focused on hair-width bits of corrosion that sweat often leaves on certain metals in bullets and bombs.
They cover the metal with a fine powder and apply a strong electrical charge that makes the dust stick to the corroded areas, producing a potential fingerprint, Bond said.
“That very fine powder only sticks to the metal where it is corroded, which means it is only sticking where the fingerprint is and means you see the image of the fingerprint,” said Bond, whose team has published its findings in the Journal of Forensic Sciences and the Journal of Applied Physics.
It was bound to be noticed and well, better late than never. We are familiar with the marquee hats that Buckingham palace guards where and while they have established themselves as key marks for these guard, it remains that their origin leaves a lot to be desired. For one, they come from actual bear skin, making them an issue as far as the animal rights activists are concerned.
True enough, it seems that this has to be remedied and surely Canadian Black Bears have to be safeguarded no matter how wild they may be. But they are being protected due to killings and not because they are endangered. It just remains that animals deserve to exist, regardless if they are on the verge of being whittled down to the last remaining bear.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, supported by some members of Parliament, says killing Canadian black bears to make the headgear is cruel. PETA says it will ask clothes designers to draw up a new hat using synthetic materials.
Although Canadian black bears are not an endangered species, sentiment has grown in Britain against using the fur for headgear that has no military purpose other than as a ceremonial adornment.
Thanks to the continued problem of global warming, we may yet find ourselves close to being underwater if nothing is done about this impending threat. And the logic seems to be practical. For one, where can you expect the excess water to come from outside that of the frequent storms and hurricanes that have hitting the world at the moment? The glaciers of course!
Do remember that one critical point in the global warming problem are the fast melting ice caps up in the Antarctic regions. With heat becoming prickly and unmanageable, just like ordinary ice, you can expect them to melt and add towards the water regions the world has today.
It may sound like simple science but it is a reality. We have seen floods go to ridiculous levels and apparently this has become an issue that even man cannot resolve. And the bad news is that there does not seem to be any remedy in sight.
Warming glaciers raise sea level in two main ways. They add more water as they melt, and they also add water when ice breaks off from glacial flows. The incidence of this latter phenomenon has soared in recent years for some glaciers draining the southern Greenland Ice Sheet, much to the mystification of glaciologists. Unable to model such accelerated ice losses, members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declined to include them in their widely cited projection of up to 60 centimeters of sea level rise by 2100
Almost everyday in the news, you will hear a certain place in the world that is rocked by earthquakes and after shocks. Knowing the impact and devastation that earthquakes bring, you will perhaps wonder why this is happening. Many are pointing to it as a calling like “The end of the world is near” while others are pointing towards global warming as a prime culprit. But if you ask seismologists, perhaps you would understand better why earthquakes are becoming more frequent these days.
A partial explanation for the perception of more earthquakes may lie in the fact that in the last twenty years, we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications.
When you were in school, much of the things taught to you were through theory. But one thing most people need is visualization, something that can prove that what they are reading or hearing from teacher’s lectures are indeed factual and true. Among the things included would be trips to the museums, a place where most of these theories can be proven without a doubt.
Science ranges in various fields. It can be about the environment, constellations and natural causes. Astrology is perhaps one of the essential highlights of proving theories as well as planetary souvenirs that we normally read in books and publications.
Museums are strongholds that can put a stamp on how to understand the real meaning of science and its essence. At the end of the day or the school year, students have added another feather in their cap as far as learning science is concerned. Should they have a problem with shortage of information, the initiative to do personal research over the web or read some science books are bound to cement the scientific claims to bolster the educational shortcomings if they feel like they are missing out some things.
Everyone knows by now that Mars is the hot topic in the field of science. And among them include trying to determine the natural and life source, that is, if there are some.
One key discovery is that there is water on Mars. Traditionally, we always knew Mars to be a planet with no proven resources. Well today it has been proven that there is water over there.
The next step is to study if live ever existed here. But with these resources, it seems that the suspense can only get better. And mind you, this is not the movies!
Certain banned drugs like Marijuana have their own share of contributing to various medical illnesses. In fact, Marijuana is known to be good at aiding in cures for certain medical disorders such as chronic pain syndromes, cancer pain and even AIDS. But the problem is that some people use it in a different light thus making it among the top dangerous drugs we all know off.
Ideally, Marijuana can get you into trouble if you are found to be in possession with it. But if with the proper medical prescription or perhaps leaving it to the care of licensed physicians, then perhaps you will not get into trouble with the authorities.
Marijuana is indeed sensitive. But the purpose of using it must be emphasized. For the drug addicts, it is apparent that their use is for nothing less than destroying their health and lives.
The thing about medical technology is that they are advancing together. For most illnesses that are hard to diagnose and prevent, medical innovations today have made headway by simplifying matters of detection.
Prostate cancer is something that is common in men and would not know about it until they get a series of tests and physician’s intervention to acknowledge the presence of prostate cancer. But this biomarker test that has been developed by researchers at the University of Michigan may hold the key towards early detection of prostate cancer and help provide early solutions for it before they get out of hand.
“Relative to what is out there, this is the best test so far,” said the study’s lead author, Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology at the University of Michigan.
He also says that this “first generation multiplex” biomarker test will likely be improved upon as researchers continue to uncover the molecular underpinnings of prostate cancer.
“We want to develop a test to allow physicians to predict whether their patients have prostate cancer that is so accurate a biopsy won’t be needed to rule cancer out,” Chinnaiyan said. “No test can do that now.”
If you cannot find natural help from fellow humans, robots can perhaps find a way to help. As far as autism issues are concerned, many patients suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorders or ASD have shown significant progress when left to interact with bubble-blowing robots.
Actually, through observations of changes in behavior of ASD patients, breakthroughs with regards to improvement and perhaps solve the mystery of autism. With that in mind, then perhaps there are some solutions that are covered by the area of robotics that we have not discovered. But as far as Autism is concerned, it may be a good path towards the right direction. Expect a whole lot more developments to come out of further studies being made today.
“Total speech went from 39.4 to 48.4 utterances, robot speech from 6.2 to 6.6 utterances, and parent speech from 17.8 to 33 utterances. Total robot interactions went from 43.42 to 55.31, with button pushes increasing from 14.69 to 21.87 and other robot interactions going from 24.11 to 28. Total directed interactions (interactions that were clearly directed at either the robot or the parent) went up from 62.75 to 89.47. Generally, when the robot was acting contingently, the child was more sociable.”
