Image of the day

Recently, when I went onto livescience.com, I came across an interesting page. This page was called the Image of the day. This page contains many amazing pictures that happen once in a lifetime. The most recent image was called the Ring around the Sky. This great picture took place in Iceland. The picture looks like the world in my eyes.

Vital discovery for the Military-Face Shields as Brain shields

New discovery on Face Shields can protect military men by protecting their brain. New reports show how a face shield can protect your face as well as your brain. It turns out that a roadside bomb can alter an unprotected face and brain by the pressure and "shear waves". Recently, MIT's rocket scientist and a military brain expert teamed up and discovered that a face shield reduces the "blast waves". Reports by simulation and tests indicate that the waves can pass through soft tissued skin and pass directly to the brain. When they simulated a face shield, some of the stress waves that typically hurt the brain were diminished. This could prove helpful to U.S. soldiers by protecting them more than an ordinary helmet. I believe this breakthrough could help protect U.S. soldiers from serious damage to the brain.

Source:

http://www.livescience.com/technology/brain-trauma-blast-face-shield-101122.html

The Revolutionary memory chip

Young scientist, Jun Yao, recently found a breakthrough in the nanoelectronic field. When Yao tried to create memory devices based on graphite for school, he realized that he could create "nanocrystalline pathways in silicon oxide", by supplying voltage. Small pulses of about 8 and 3.5 volts would continuosly break and repair the "pathways". This technique became helpful to the development of the "two-terminal resistive memory bit". This discovery may pave the way to a 3-D memory chip. He actually found out that a "strong pulse through a layer of silicon oxide sandwiched between semiconducting silicon would strip off oxygen atoms, creating the nanoscale bit between the terminals" that could be switched on and off by other pulses. This breakthrough has been explored previously, but only now is there resources to make it possible. This could lead scientists to more advanced research on the 3-D chip.

Source:

http://www.livescience.com/technology/nanoelectronics-memory-chips-101001.html

Pine Barrens Project

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Poison Mutualism!

This picture shows a "hairy rope" climbing up a tree. This is a form of mutualism because both the poison and tree are benefiting. The symbiotic relationship of mutualism is when two organisms benefit from each other. This is an example of this, because the tree benefits from the protection of the poison. Also, the poison benefits from the tree by receiving all the necessary supplies.

Trees of Death!

Look at this beautiful biotic limiting factor. This tree is an important part of nature. This tree limits the area around it by limiting the sunlight for the surrounding shrubs. The tree also limits the grass under it by releasing acidic fluids. The tree does this so it doesn't have to compete with other trees and shrubs.

Higher risk of heart disease for short people!!!!!!!!!!

50 years of controversy finally coming to an end. Your height matters if you want to live long and healthy. Gender doesn't matter either. Studies show that short adults are 1.5 times more likely to die from a heart attack, cardiovascular or heart disease. As heart disease claims short adults more likely, it may be because of the health of the people. Short healthy people are more likely to live than an obese tall person. Height is a factor in heart disease, but its not the only factor. Your height as a child could also be a factor in this startling discovery. Studies also show that kids that are born short are short as adults. Unhealthy people are just as perceptible to heart disease as normal short people.