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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Species That Could take Over our Planet

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The fate of the human race in the future is considered to be a very broad topic and discussion. As there are tons of theories that have been shown to the public such as the alien invasion, cloning programs, etc.What's your idea regarding planet Earth's appearance in the future? There is a huge possibility that we will get to meet another form of intelligent species. And by that time, our planet would go to a very big change.

Some scientists theorized that it is possible that human beings could cease to be the dominating species on planet Earth as other species will emerge. We all know that the "Homo Sapiens" is the most developed biological species on Earth, but experts do believe it will not always stay that long as there are some of the new breed of species that could rule over Earth in the future.

Here are the breed of species that could take over our planet in the future according to ewao.com






The Grey Goo

Theories say that the human race would possibly perish and the victims of miniature robots that could replicate everything on our planet.


Animal Kingdom

The future of the human race are said to be threatened by the wild animals. Will our beloved animals revolt against us in the future?







"Transhumanism" is linked to the end of equality and liberal ideas represented by the generation of genetic castes which would allow people with higher material resources to "design" children with "superior" capabilities.

Artificial intelligence





Experts say that artificial intelligence has a big chance of replacing the human race.

"Human beings with their extremely slow biological evolution would not be able to compete with artificial intelligence and would thus be replaced by them," - Stephen Hawking


New Set of Human Forms





The evolutionary process of humans is believed that will influence the future, the human change will affect the new species that could emerge on planet Earth. It would be possible to see humanoid creatures taking over the normal human being in the future according to some experts.

Aliens





Alien invasion is one of the most popular theory that our planet will face in the future. Theories of being exterminated by aliens is going strong as time goes by. Numerous ufologists believe that if we get to meet aliens, they would exterminate the human species.

There you have it, the different forms of species that could rule our planet in the future. This might be proven true but only time can tell. Time can only tell what would happen if we were to meet these new breeds of beings. Will the human race come to an end in the future?




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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

'The New AIDS' - The Silent Killer Bug That Can Doom The World?

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ALERT: Silent Killer Bug Now In U.S. – It’s Being Called ‘The New AIDS’.

 This deadly bug creeps in the night and bites you on your face while you’re fast asleep, and you never know what happened until you become dangerously ill from the disease it spreads. This disease is being dubbed the “New AIDS of the Americas”  by researchers because it’s initial symptoms are hard to detect. Many call it the “kissing bug” due to its exclusive attack place being on one’s face. Doctors are calling it a silent killer – and are not completely prepared for it’s arrival.
The reduviid bug has recently made its way north onto US soil. Endemic to Latin America, it has already affected 17 residents in Houston, Texas, the Washington Post reported. The tiny insect feeds on human blood much like a mosquito, but it is specific to biting the victim’s face. Reduviid bugs carry a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease in its human hosts.
At the onset of the disease, the infected will experience fever, fatigue, body aches, rash, diarrhea and vomiting, according to the CDC. Its initial acute stage turns into a prolonged asymptomatic state for some bitten by the bug, at which time a few parasites are found in the blood. However, the disease can cause heart failure and intestinal complications over time.

“People don’t normally feel sick, so they don’t seek medical care, but it ultimately ends up causing heart disease in about 30% of those who are infected,” Nolan Garcia, an epidemiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston whose research focused on Chagas disease in the US said. “We think of Chagas disease as a silent killer,” Garcia added.

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) released a report last week outlining the ramification of this bug infestation and claimed US healthcare workers lack awareness which prevents successful diagnosis and treatment of this disease. The report noted that the dearth of federally licensed drugs to combat the disease also limit patients access to treatment.

According to the CDC, Chagas disease is like the sister disease to Ebola, but much more stealthy.

      






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Monday, April 20, 2015

Russian Man to Undergo World's First Human Head Transplant

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Computer programmer Valery Spiridonov is battling a rare genetic muscle wasting disease and wants his head to be transplanted to a new body

Revolutionary op: Valery Spiridonov hopes to get new body

A man who wants to be the world's first head transplant patient is set to meet the surgeon who has been lined up to carry out ground-breaking 36-hour procedure.

Computer programmer Valery Spiridonov has the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease and wants his head to be transplanted to a new body.

The 30-year-old, who only has one leg and is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, hopes to have the breakthrough operation in 2017.

Valery, from Vladimir in Russian, has appealed to President Vladimir Putin to help fund research into the pioneering project.

And his dream has moved a step closer as he is set to meet Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero and other leading neurosurgeons next Thursday in New York.


Desperate: Valery has appealed for funding for op


He said: "This is ground-breaking research and we need a lot of funding. If I can get the right body I will look after it and nourish it.

"This could transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Where there is an opportunity there is hope."

Valery admits the prospect of going through with the operation is terrifying.

He added: "I am afraid, but what people don't really understand is I don't really have many choices.

"If I don't try this out my fate will be very sad. With every year my situation is getting worse."

He added: "My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind."



 Wheelchair: Valery cannot walk
Dr Canavero said he had received many emails and letters from people seeking the operation and added that he had already decided the first patient would be someone suffering from a muscle-wasting disease.

The Frankenstein-like procedure has some medical precedent as it was recently reported that Chinese scientists had carried out a head transplant on a mouse.

But most medical experts say a human head transplant is pure fantasy.

President elect of the American Association for Neurological Surgeons Dr Hunt Batjer told CNN: "I would not wish this on anyone.

"I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there are a lot of things worse than death."








If you put yourself to Valery's situation would you be willing to undergo?






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Saturday, April 18, 2015

10 Mysterious Mummies From Around The World

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Many people associate mummies with ancient Egypt, but the mummification is a process that was used world-wide in ancient times.

In this article we take a look at some of the most mysterious mummies we have come across.

Some of them are truly unique and make scientists scratch their heads.



In 2000, a strange story was published in the Egyptian magazine Rose El-Yussuf. According to the magazine's writer, in the 80s, the French Egyptologist, Louis Caparat, discovered a secret chamber with a crystal container (tomb) inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops. In the container (tomb), there was lying an alien humanoid that appeared to be in a dormant state. The scientist also found an ancient papyrus which described a meeting of the alien with Pharaoh Khufu (2589-2566 B.C.), commonly known as Cheops.

Further, the ancient document informed that some day in the future, the alien's space-traveling species would arrive from the stars.

The alien also made a suggestion regarding the construction of a pyramid as his resting place

  
2. America's Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy                                                           In 1932 when Cecil Main and Frank Carr were digging for gold in the San Pedro Mountains about 60 miles southwest of Casper, Wyoming, they discovered the strange story of a curious very small mummy that later became known as the Pedro Mummy.

The small size and the features of the ancient body indicated it could once have been a member of the hidden race of the Little People living in America.

Many ancient Native American legends tell of a group of beings that are commonly referred to as the Little People. These small beings are sometimes said to me spirits, magicians, ferocious dwarves, fairies, or devils, depending on the tribe's original folklore.

After the discovery of the Pedro mummy, the legends of the Nimerigar were brought to life again.

Is it possible the Pedro mummy was once a member of the Little People?


 
3. Forgotten Mysterious Mini-Mummy Discovered In Ancient Egyptian Tomb
This is an astonishing discovery archaeologists made a while back and there are still many unanswered questions. How and why did this mysterious mini-woman end up in an ancient Egyptian tomb? Was she a woman of high power and influence? Did she play an important role in the ancient Egyptian society?

The mummy, measuring just 3.2 feet (97 centimeters) dates back to the Roman era. She was discovered in a 2,000-year-old tomb in the Bahariya Oasis, about 225 miles southwest of Cairo.

Archaeologist Mahmoud Afifi, who headed the dig, said she was covered in intricately molded plaster that shows her wearing a tunic, headscarf, necklace, bracelet and shoes. She was dressed in Roman robes and scientists think that the burial style indicates she belonged to Egypt's long period of Roman rule, from 31 B.C. until the Arab invasions of the 7th century.

We nay never know the true identity of the mini-woman discovered in the mysterious tomb.

 
4. The Blinking Mummy Rosalía Lombardo
Known as the Girl in the Glass Coffin or Sleeping Beauty, Rosalía Lombardo is widely considered one of the best preserved mummies in the world. The girl died in 1920 at the age of two of pneumonia in 1920. Rosalia's father was so sorely grieved upon her death that he approached Dr. Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer and taxidermist, to preserve her. She was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Sicily where about 8,000 mummies are being kept. She soon became one of the most well-known.

Her preservation is such that it appears as if she were only sleeping.

According to the Peruvian journal El Comercio, scientists interested in learning more about the embalming techniques employed in Rosalía's body put a camera inside her sarcophagus, capable of taking pictures every 60 seconds. What happened next came as a surprise. The images taken by the camera seemed to show the little mummy's blue intact eyes were opening and closing several times every day. This weird phenomenon has been the subject of various speculations for some years.


 
5. The Mystery Of Ancient Egypt’s Red Haired Mummies
Do we really know, genetically speaking, where the so called dynastic Egyptians came from? Some presume they were exclusively of black African origin, while others speculate that they came from lands to the east, were of a complex racial mix, or in fact had as their source Egypt itself.

Can we tell, based on the facial features of sculptures such as this, presumably of Rameses II, an idea of his ethnic ancestry? What is perhaps far more curious is the presence of mummies from ancient Egypt that had red, and in some cases even blonde hair.

 
6. Mysterious "Perfectly Preserved" 300-Year-Old Mummy Baffles Archaeologists
Archaeologists have made yet another incredible discovery. When experts opened a 300 year-old coffin they found perfectly preserved body! What happened next is somewhat of a mystery and archaeologists have begun an investigation. Inside the tomb were three coffins. Two of the coffins contained remains bodies that had reduced to skeletons. The third coffin contained a mummy that had an unusually well-preserved body


 
7. Lady Of The Mask: Wari Mummy With Faked Blue Eyes
The Lady of the Mask, a Wari mummy is extraordinary because of her faked blue eyes. It is a face you don't forget easily. The Wari people lived in the Andean highlands of central Peru, but their influence reached beyond the highlands to the Pacific coastline.

The Wari culture is believed to have flourished D 600-1000, meaning before the Incas. Unfortunately these people never developed a written language and left no inscriptions that would provide critical clues to their customs and beliefs.

A 1,300-year-old-mummy unearthed by archaeologists excavating a pyramid in Peru's capital city Lima could in time reveal the secrets of this lost culture. The mummy is assumed to be a noblewoman because of the ornate mask - was found in a crouching position surrounded by ceramics and textiles
 
8. Remarkable Mummy Reveals Dwarfs Lived 5,000 Years Ago In The City Of Makhunik
Some archaeologists have suggested that the city of Makhunik was once inhabited by ancient dwarfs. Others are denying the possibility. Makhunik is an an ancient Iranian city unearthed in Shahdad, Kerman province. Nobody thought an ancient civilization could exist in this desert until 1946. Scientific and archeological excavations were conducted in this region during 1948-56. Cemeteries belonging to 2nd and 3rd millennium BC and copper furnaces were discovered during eight excavation phases. Relics discovered in Shahdad's cemeteries included numerous potteries and brassware.

A significant aspect about Shahdad is the strange architecture of the houses, alleys and equipment discovered. The walls, ceiling, furnaces, shelves and all the equipments could only be used by dwarfs. After the discovery of City of Dwarfs in Shahdad and stories about peoples who lived there, rumors circulated about the discovery of a dwarf's remains. The latest case pertained to the discovery of a dwarf mummy with a height of 25 cm


 
9. Bizarre Mummy With Giant Head Discovered In Peru
A very strange abnormal-looking mummy with giant head has been unearthed in Peru. The discovery was made in the Cuzco region, the heart of Incan civilization. Researchers find the mummy extremely odd. The mummy simply does not fit in with the version of history that we have all been taught. The mummy's head is triangular and its eye cavities are very big. "It's 20 inches tall, which doesn't coincide with the stereotypes of humans. It's head is triangular and the eye cavities are too big.

The lower front part of the jaw has a kind of fin that doesn't exist in any ethnicity in the world.

 
10. 2600-Year-Old Mummy With A Metal Screw In The Leg
An ancient nine-inch metal screw found in the 2600-year-old mummy of an Egyptian priest Usermontu's leg became a worldwide sensation. The discovery was made in 1996. Dr. Wilfred Griggs, Egyptologist and a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University was doing research on mummy DNA in the six resident mummies on display in the Museum, when an X-ray revealed a metal screw near the kneecap of Usermontu. ("DNA Research Conducted on Egyptian Museum Mummies," Rosicrucian Digest, 1995)

The metal screw, connecting the mummy's thigh and lower leg, is now attracting worldwide attention because it is believed to be the first known example of ancient limb reattachment. This particular mummy was acquired by the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in 1971





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Saturday, April 11, 2015

HIV may reach ‘uncontrollable’ rates in 6 PH CITIES – DOH

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Among the 6 cities exceeding the national HIV prevalence rate of 3.5% among males who have sex with males (MSM), Caloocan City is the ‘most problematic’

The Department of Health (DOH) has warned that an HIV “concentrated epidemic” in 6 Philippine cities – half found in Metro Manila – may reach “uncontrollable” levels in a couple of years without the active cooperation of the public.

Dr Jose Gerard Belimac, program manager of DOH’s National HIV/STI Prevention Program, made the statement in a presentation in an epidemiology workshop conducted by the DOH on Thursday, April 9.

The DOH identified the 6 cities and their corresponding prevalence rate among males who have sex with males (MSM) as the following:

Quezon City – 6.6%
Manila – 6.7%
Caloocan – 5.3%
Cebu – 7.7%
Davao – 5.0%
Cagayan de Oro – 4.7%

“According to [the World Health Organization], ‘pag lumagpas yan ng 5%, in a matter of two years’ time, the HIV in these areas will really be uncontrollable already so lessons learned, huwag po talagang hayaan na umabot ng 5% yung HIV prevalence in any of the cities,” Belimac said in his presenation.

(According to the World Health Organization, if [the prevalence rate] exceeds 5%, in a matter of two years’ time, the HIV in these areas will really be uncontrollable already so lessons learned, let us not allow the HIV prevalence in any of the cities to reach 5%.)

This is based on experiences of other countries like Thailand, he said in an interview at the sidelines of the workshop, when asked to clarify his statement.
Caloocan city ‘most problematic’

Belimac said Caloocan is the “most problematic” city with a high HIV prevalence rate because most infections happen among male sex workers.

In Manila, most infections happen among males who have casual sex with other males.

The table below shows other high risk areas in the country:



HIGH RISK AREASOTHER HIGH PREVALENCE CITIES
  • National Capital Region (16 cities and municipalities)
  • San Jose del Monte, Bulacan
  • Antipolo
  • Cainta
  • Bacoor
  • Imus
  • DasmariÅ„as
  • Sta Rosa, Laguna
  • Davao
  • Angeles
  • Bacolod
  • Cagayan de Oro City
  • Zamboanga City

The DOH reported a total of 646 new cases of HIV infections in February – the highest number since the Philippines’ first case in 1984. This number translates to 21 new infections every day.

Most of the cases (586 out of 646) were infected through sexual contact. About 84% of the 586 cases are MSM.

Belimac said the HIV prevalence rate among MSM has dramatically increased since 2007, from 0.30% to 3.50% in 2013.

This means 3.5 out of 100 MSM are infected with the virus.



KEY POPULATION AT RISK TO HIV
PREVALENCE RATE
2007200920112013
Males who have sex with males0.30%1.05%2.12%3.50%

On condom use to prevent HIV infection, Belimac said in Filipino, “We cannot force those who don’t want to use condoms.”

He said that the condom use prevalence among MSM is at 35% – far from the government target of 80%.

The DOH is currently doing behavioral, bio-medical, and structural interventions to control HIV infections among Filipino MSM.

The health department’s National HIV/STI Prevention Program has a 2015 budget of about P500 million ($11.24 million), 60% of which will go to the treatment of patients.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said the Philippines will not meet the HIV/AIDS targets in the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.





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Monday, February 9, 2015

SUPER SATURN-Distant World Has Rings 200 Times Bigger Than the Rings of Saturn

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At least thirty rings might encircle the large planet J1407b, making a disk thus wide it took 2 months to pass ahead of its star.



A team of U.S. and British astronomers has found what is also a large planet with rings two hundredtimes the scale of Saturn's.

The distant world, called J1407b and 1st noticed four years agone, orbits a star settled concerning430 light-years from Earth—relatively near in cosmic terms. It's most likely between 10 and fortytimes as huge as Jupiter, consistent with Matthew Kenworthy of the University of Leiden, within theEuropean nation, lead author of a paper concerning the invention that may be revealed within theuranology Journal. The study reveals new details concerning the structure of the large ring system.

As huge because the planet itself is, big worlds are not particularly uncommon among the two,000about exoplanets confirmed by astronomers up to now. however this planet is that the 1st to besuspected of getting a hoop system like Saturn's—except it is so massive that if Saturn's rings were this size, they'd stretch halfway to Jupiter.

The discovery of the large rings was fully accidental. In 2011, Mark Pecaut, then a college boy at the University of Rochester, in big apple, was viewing knowledge from the SuperWASP exoplanet search. He was fascinated by stars, not planets, however the SuperWASP archive had knowledgeon these yet, and specifically on the rotation rates of young stars in an exceedingly cluster calledthe Scorpius-Centaurus Association.

All of the celebrities looked ordinary, apart from one. Pecaut (now at Rockhurst University, in Kansas town, Missouri) noticed associate odd waxing and waning of the star's light-weight, saysauthor Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester, "and after I 1st saw his output signal, I knew we tend to had found one thing remarkably weird."

Instead of dimming slightly for a number of hours, as would happen if a planet passed ahead of the star, this star had flickered for concerning 2 months—dimmer for a short while, then slightly brighter, then rheostat once more. "At first," says Kenworthy, "you suppose you are simply viewing noisewithin the camera." however the data was terribly clear. "It's one among the foremost stunningknowledge sets I've ever seen," he says.

The astronomers completed quickly that they could be viewing a system of rings passing ahead of the star. except for the rings' passage to last 2 months, they might ought to be mammoth, a lot oflarger than any ever seen before. The team worked onerous to visualize if there may be another explanation—individual clouds of dirt dimming the star, as an example. In 2012, once a year ofthought, they proclaimed their notice.

Even then, the claim of an enormous ring system was audacious. it absolutely was met with plentyof raised eyebrows, recollects Mamajek. The new analysis has mitigated the skepticism somewhat by nailing down the rings' structure a lot of exactly, and showing however the rings wouldmanufacture simply the pattern of aflicker the astronomers saw.

Young Rings in Transition?

The fact that this star and everything related to it's solely sixteen million years previous, however, compared with the sun's four.59 billion years, still poses a possible drawback. If the rings square measure that young, the outer components ought to condense into moons comparatively soon—the same factor that happened with Saturn within the early history of our own system. it is a exceptionalcoincidence that astronomers managed to identify it throughout such a transient section of its life.

"A complex, transient ring system isn't implausible," says Penn State's Eric Ford, World Health Organization focuses on exoplanets. however he will think about the coincidence probablyregarding. "You ought to surprise however doubtless it's," he says, "that you'd see one thingthroughout such a comparatively fast transition."

Adding to the uncertainty is that the undeniable fact that the world that is presumptively snuggledat the middle of the ring system is not nearly as straightforward to visualize because the rings themselves. In fact, the astronomers will solely deduce its presence. It may be, however, that it is notdoable for North American country to visualize at this angle. (Kenworthy has created associateanimation to point out however this is able to work.)

Another drawback, the authors acknowledge, is that the ring system, if that is what it's, has passedahead of the star one time. The signal, says Harvard uranologist David Kipping, is "interesting,however while not repeat observations i feel it's being treated sceptically at this stage."

But that does not mean it's being pink-slipped. Mamajek, Kenworthy, and their colleagues square measure watching the star rigorously in anticipation of that crucial repeat observation. They've even recruited a gaggle of high-level amateur astronomers, the yankee Association of variable Observers,to assist out.

"It are going to be terribly attention-grabbing to visualize what image forms as every new observation adds a replacement piece of the puzzle," says Natalie Batalha, a number one member of the team behind NASA's wildly triple-crown astronomer planet-hunting mission. "This may so find yourself being the primary ringed planet [found] outside our system."







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Thursday, October 2, 2014

EBOLA ZOMBIES - Ebola Patients Reportedly Rise From Dead

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Villagers in Liberia have been left panic-stricken after Ebola patients rose from the dead.
The two women, in their 60s and 40s, died of Ebola in separate communities in the county of Nimba.

But the women identified as Dorris Quoi from the Hope Village Community and Ma Kebeh from the Catholic Community came back to life when they were about to be taken for burial.

According to the new dawn liberia, their resurrections have caused a panic among the local people, who are calling Quoi a ghost and don't want the women to live with them anymore.

Ebola Victims rising from the dead

The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest of its kind in history, and the first time the disease has affected West Africa.

Sierra Leone is the worst-hit African nation, with the death toll at 597 and 1,940 cases in total. The Government has now put five of its districts under quarantine - covering almost a third of its population.

Since its outbreak in March there have been 6,263 reported cases and 2,917 deaths. But scientists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fear the total number of cases could rise to 1.4 million by by 20 January 2015.

Ebola is a fatal disease which causes fever and internal bleeding through the spread of bodily fluids.






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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Solar Storm,Biggest threat to Earth this weekend

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Aerial shuttles have rerouted a few flights and worldwide situating framework and radio transmissions may be debased through tomorrow as two sunlight based emissions strike Earth and influence its attractive field. 

The U.s. Space Climate Forecast Centeris following two coronal mass discharges, "tremendous removals of attractive field and plasma" that shot out of a range close to the inside of the sun's circle. 

"Basically the sun simply shot out a magnet and it is going to interface with an alternate magnet, Earth's magnet," William Murtagh, program organizer of the U.s. Space Climate Forecast Focus, said yesterday. At the point when the launches achieve Earth, they will touch off geomagnetic storms that are estimate to last at any rate until tomorrow. 

The primary wave of the two-section occasion arrived the previous evening and the second one was located at 12:09 p.m. New York time, the core said. A G2 geomagnetic storm was conjecture for later today and a stronger G3 storm tomorrow. The last G3 storm to strike the Earth was June 29, 2013, the inside said. 

Geomagnetic storms, in the same way as typhoons, are ordered on a five-stage scale with G1 being the weakest and G5 the strongest. 

Radiation connected with the entries of the waves has been raised to a S2 level, which implies travelers in high-flying airplane at higher scopes "may encounter little, expanded radiation exposures." 

United Aerial transports Inc. (UAL) has rerouted a "couple of" flights from the U.s. to Asia that cross the North Post due to the storms, said Megan Mccarthy, a representative for United Mainland Possessions Inc. 

Earth Saved 

A few satellites may have minor issues, in spite of the fact that Earth ought to be saved the most injuring effects of these sorts of occasions, which can incorporate interruptions to electric lattices and radiation solid enough to cause polar flights to change courses, said Thomas Berger, the core's chief. Individuals far from city lights may see a splendid show in the northern sky. 

What stresses researchers, electric network administrators, and pretty much any other individual who thinks about these things is that they can get huge and cause extreme issues. In Walk 1989 all of Quebec lost force due to a sun based storm, as per the National Flight and Space Organization site. The New York power network lost 150 megawatts and New England dropped 1,410 megawatts. 

Power Disappointments/Failures

Geomagnetic storms created disappointments in 1958 and in 2003 too, the focal point said on its site. The strongest such storm on record happened in 1859, jolting broadcast lines, stunning administrators and beginning flames in papers on their work areas, NASA's site shows. 

It likewise delivered an aurora that was seen as far south as Cuba and Hawaii. The flare is named the Carrington Occasion after British space expert Richard Carrington, who saw it from his observatory in England. In 2012, material from an emission of comparable size missed Earth. 

Berger said today's occasion won't climb to that scale. Both the Carrington flare and the 2012 flare took around 17 hours to make a trip from the sun to Earth, which is a sign of their energy. The two now arriving took more than 40 hours. 

Aside from somewhat static, the thing numerous individuals may recognize is the shine of the aurora in the northern sky, which ought to be seen in the states bordering Canada and potentially more distant south. To see it well, Murtagh said, individuals will need to travel far from the city lights and be under clear skies.


            


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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Thursday, August 14, 2014

HIV Virus Deleted From Human Cells For The First Time

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Ever since AIDS has been ravaging societies, scientists have been put at work to find a cure. A new study has shown that the virus can be deleted from human cells by introducing a nuclease-RNA molecular tool which acts on the genome of the virus. These results could potentially provide the building blocks for an HIV vaccine.



HIV Dethroned From Human Cells

One of the deadliest diseases plaguing societies worldwide is AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) caused by the HIV virus. The virus is an extremely potent one as it directly targets the immune system, thereby preventing the body from defending itself against the intruder, while the latter continues to propagate itself throughout the body. The cells of the immune system function as the police force of the body, getting rid of any intruder that could potentially harm the body.

The HIV virus, however, cannot be done away with because it neutralises these very cells, stripping the body of its ability to fight harmful pathogens. That is how the virus replicates and keeps on replicating. Removing the virus from the cell it has claimed as powerhouse to fuel its replication has so far remained an impossible task for scientists. The mode of action of viruses is to use the cells structures to their own advantage. Once they enter cells, they hijack everything, and pronounce themselves the new owners of the cell machinery. However, recently, some scientists from Philadelphia have managed to devise a method by which the HIV virus was fully erased from human cells. Maybe, it is the beginning of the end of HIV’s reign over mankind?





HIV-1 Virus Successfully Deleted From Human Cells

The team of scientists successfully deleted the HIV-1 virus from human cells. One of the authors, Kamel Khalili, expressed very positive words concerning the results of their study as follows: “This is one important step on the path toward a permanent cure for AIDS.” The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Enzyme-RNA Combination Deletes Potent HIV Virus
The scientists manufactured a set of molecular tools to erase the HIV-1 proviral DNA. DNA can be chipped off by certain enzymes through specific binding. These enzymes are called nucleases. The nuclease was combined with a strand of RNA called a guide RNA (gRNA). This newly-engineered molecular bullet looks up the genome of the virus and deletes the HIV-1 DNA. Once this is done, the virus is no longer as powerful. The human cell takes regains control over itself, and gets its own self repaired.

The nuclease-RNA combination might be used to engineer a therapeutic vaccine.




Cure For AIDS Might Soon See The Light Of The Day

The next step would be to work out the ways to use the new method in clinical trials. From there on, it would be determined whether the effects would be positive on humans – for that to happen, every copy of the HIV-1 has to be done away with from the cells of the patients. If this becomes possible, AIDS patients will be cured.




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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Boy Had 232 Teeth Removed From His Mouth

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In a rare medical case, a team of doctors at state-run JJ hospital extracted as many as 232 tiny teeth from a 17-year-old boy’s mouth in a six-hour long surgery conducted on Monday. Interestingly, doctors claim that the total count of minuscule teeth was far greater than 232, after which they gave up on counting and focussed only on removing them.

Aashiq Gawai, a tenth standard boy from a remote village called Valsavangi in Buldhana district, started developing abnormally fast growing teeth, four months ago. While initially, his parents ignored the peculiar growth, tension grew when his right lower jaw started to swell.

“I did not have much money and we could not understand what was wrong with my son. We first visited a private doctor after which we went to a public hospital in Aurangabad. The doctors in Aurangabad referred us to JJ hospital, stating that it is out of their medical expertise,” said Suresh Gawai, Aashiq’s father.

Gawai, who cultivates cotton in Valsavangi, can hardly speak Hindi. He still cannot understand the medical anomaly his son developed. With no money in his pockets, he reached Mumbai and admitted Aashiq to JJ hospital on July 1.

Later, he was informed about the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana, a scheme that provides free medical treatment to poor patients, and enlisted his son under the scheme.

On July 21, during a six-hour long surgery, a team of doctors removed the abnormal growth of teeth from Aashiq’s lower jaw.


“The abnormal growth was a benign tumour. He had a normal jawline, but one molar tooth in the lower jaw had given birth to hundreds of tiny teeth. There were clusters of tooth buds in his lower jaw,” said Dr Sunanda Dhivare, head of dentistry department at JJ hospital.

The doctors in the hospital themselves admitted to having witnessed such a condition for the first time. ENT surgeon Dr Vandana Thorawade said during the surgery, they ensured that the patient’s face symmetry did not change.

“The bone around which the tumour was attached had become brittle and thin. That was the only complication. We could not let that bone break and so we slowly removed one tooth after another,” Thorawade added.


At present, he is on a liquid diet and should be able to eat solid food in a few days.




The Indian Express

Intelligent People Stay Up Later Than You

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There’s an electricity in the moon. A pulse, a magic, an energy. A bewitching entrancement unlike that of the sun.

The moon is for things unseen, things done in the shadows and beneath the fog. Under bridges and beneath bed sheets — it’s for wild hearts and unconcerned minds. It’s where plans are made in dark alleyways and secrets revealed under the soft haze of light coming through the cracks of closed shutters.





It’s when fugitives escape and kids run away. It’s when girls lose their virginities on torn leather seats and boys get into trouble. It’s when the suffering take their lives and the lonely seek comfort.

It’s when we fall in love — that passionate, all-consuming, purposeful love that always looks a little different in the light of day.

It’s by night that we see our true desires. We reflect on our moments of unhappiness and those yearnings that are momentarily blinded by the sun. It’s when we become poets and philosophers, martyrs and murderers.

It’s when we form regrets of days past and that profound hatred for those who hurt us. It’s when we choke on our tears through deep sobs that can only pour onto dark pillowcases.

The night is for passion. It’s for fanaticism, romance and trouble. It’s when your most tender, authentic and suppressed sides come out to play under the nonjudgmental eyes of the stars.

It’s for all those things you could never dream of doing by day, under the watchful eyes of the sun.

It’s no wonder night owls are more intelligent than those who hit the hay early. It makes sense that those who absorb the energy of the moon are more creative and open-minded than those who like to catch the early worm.

It’s only natural that those who go to bed earlier never experience the psychological and emotional changes that occur under the blanket of darkness.

According to ”Psychology Today,” intelligent people are more likely to be nocturnal than people with lower IQ scores. In a study run on young Americans, results showed that intelligent individuals went to bed later on weeknights and weekends than their less intelligent counterparts.

In ”Study Magazine,” Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the London School Of Economics And Political Science, reported that IQ average and sleeping patterns are most definitely related, proving that those who play under the moon are, indeed, more intelligent human beings.

His analysis goes back to ancient times, asserting the idea that even in primitive years, people have been known to rise and fall with the sun.

Average brains were conditioned to follow this sleep pattern, while the more inquisitive, intellectual ones want to defy that pattern and create their own.

It’s an unconscious defiance that comes from refusal to acquiesce to the idea of mass appeal.

These findings are reported by “Study Magazine” as such:

Bedtimes and wake-up times for Americans in their 20s by IQ.

Very Dull (IQ < 75)
Weekday: 11:41 pm -7:20 am
Weekend: 12:35 am -10:09 pm

Normal (90 < IQ < 110)
Weekday: 12:10 am -7:32 am
Weekend: 1:13 am -10:14 am

Very Bright (IQ > 125)
Weekday: 12:29 am -7:52 am
Weekend: 1:44 am -11:07 am



Those with IQs less than 75 went to bed by 11:30 pm on weeknights in early adulthood, whereas those with IQs over 125 went to bed around after 12:30 am. This is no coincidence.

The data supports the notion that all night owls feel: the only real time for living is after everyone’s gone to bed.

Only after dark can we learn, absorb and study the effects of the day. It’s a necessary self reflection that few humans take the time to make.

There’s something to be said about those who fight the urge to sleep and explore that block of uncharted time that so many who always have their eyes closed will never see.


They Get Time To Daydream

All those dreams you can’t have during the day, when you’re snapped out of them by friends, family and work, are finally given time to run around.

Free to play in the open spaces of your mind, you can swim in all those thoughts you hid under your desk or behind mounds of paper work. It’s the most creative time of day, along with the most liberating.

It’s by the nightfall that your most uninhibited and passionate sides are explored. It’s the time to unleash your innermost desires and allow yourself the freedom that’s masked behind the taunting exposure of sunlight.

The night is for testing your limits and challenging yourself. It’s for discovering those passions you suppress all day and breaking down all those rules your parents made to protect you.

It’s the time to dig into those hidden corners of your mind and unknown trails of your subconscious. It’s a time of self-expression that can only be unlocked at night and evaluated by day.



They Are Anti-Establishment

Staying up late has been, and always will be, an act of rebellion. A defiance of the nine-to-five, the very habit of staying up late is revolutionary. Since ancient times, there is evidence that society condoned the night owls.

In the academic paper, “Why The Night Owl Is More Intelligent,” published in the journal “Psychology And Individual Differences,” it’s widely assumed that for several millennia, humans were largely conditioned to work during the day and to sleep at night.

While those who defy the trend, are more likely to “acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences than less intelligent individuals.”

These “novel values” become the building blocks of leaders. They are the makings of revolutionaries, inventors and explorers. They are the ones who makes sacrifices and defy the societal pressure to follow the masses.

It’s no surprise that those willing to stay up late, to explore the uncharted territory of night, are more inquisitive.

They are more apt to make discoveries and challenge authority. They want to expand their mind, not shut it off just because people tell them it’s time for bed.



They Are More Open-Minded

Things that happen at night are things you can’t get away with during the day. It’s the time of utter licentiousness, of underhanded transactions and unseemly occupations.

It’s when the bars are opened and the poets write. It’s when musicians pore over instruments, geniuses have their breakthroughs and artists come alive. According to “Esquire,” it’s also when you have the most sex.

Healthy sex lives and late curfews are indeed, positively correlated. Those reported to have later bedtimes were buying more sex toys and having more sex than their sleepier counterparts.

One sex shop worker believes that intelligence is correlated with open-mindedness, which in turns correlates with a more open sex life.

Those who are willing to stay awake, who yearn for the mysteries of nightfall, are exposed to an array of discoveries that those who stay asleep will never know. It’s those who are willing to test their limits and explore in the dark who will bring more light to the day.



They Are Proactive

The early bird may get the worm, but the night owl gets the whole jar. While the early risers may get up to see the first worm crawl its way to the wet surface, the night owl gets to them before they burrow under.

Getting up early is most definitely proactive, but staying up late is just as fruitful. Those who stay up get hours ahead, rather than the one or two an early riser gains.

There are things to be explored at night that early risers will never experience. There are ideas formulated and tasks completed that early risers never get to finish.

Because at night, there is dawn and a new day in front of you. But by morning, there’s just the bleakness of night and the daunting end of another day.




Elite Daily

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