Thursday, October 28, 2010

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amazing prize: the next 10 years


still remember the excitement I felt it a decade, when the first crew of the International Space Station arrived at the house brand. It seemed incredible to contemplate what was happening: we were about to begin to live permanently in space. We had started to leave that little egg we call Earth.

The last 10 years of research on the ISS have produced great things. Many are small and dark progress of which you never hear about, and who nevertheless are significant steps in their respective sciences.

For example, in vaccines against microbes in the development of new materials, or dietary measures to counteract the bone loss during space flight.


Photo: a protein crystals growing.

Here are a few blockbusters of the ISS, in the basic sciences:

  • One of the most exciting results from the ISS is confirmation that the common pathogens change and become more virulent for a special flight. This has huge implications for extended human missions. It is being studied furiously. Growth
  • protein crystals. The architecture of the crystals reduced-gravity becomes spongy, and it is possible to see in three dimensions without the effects of "flattening" the structure, which happens in gravity. Understanding the structure of any protein is essential for example when one wants to study a disease such as Chagas Mal. Knowing how proteins of the trypanosome that causes Chagas disease is a weapon to be able to find a compound that stops KO ideal.
  • Air quality is a major concern of any operation space. Therefore, studies with the instrument ANITA (Ambient Air Analyzer Interferometer) are calibrated to sniff 32 gaseous pollutants (such as ammonia, CO2, formaldehyde) in concentrations of only parts per million in the atmosphere of the ISS. The analyzer is nice because it allows immediate analysis, real-time
  • Advanced Studies is ASTROCULTURE have taught us that it is possible to grow plants using only part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum, and thus save energy without sacrificing the welfare of a seedling . We have learned to teach a root to find a way to grow if gravity, and have learned to coordinate the moisture and nutrients with great accuracy. Seeds were also obtained "space."
  • We have studied the embryos in microgravity (Fish eggs, insects, birds). And learned that the absence of gravity can affect embryo development, one way or another. For example, inner ear bones of quail embryos are larger than those of terrestrial quail. On the other hand, embryos produced less collagen space in their cells than the ground. The collagen is what forms the matrix between cells and cell. It is like the scaffolding which supports all our cells.
course, the list goes on and includes advances in the understanding of how reduced gravity plays on our central nervous system, the shape of our eyes, the thickness of our bones, our blood circulation, etc.

The point is that the International Space Station, which happily work for another 10 years, leaving the transportation logistics side, is a laboratory that has its good things. is not the perfect laboratory: it moves and vibrates, is noisy, hot. But our lab space.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Science in comics

This is very funny:


A web site called Pixton Comics , where you yourself can create their own comic strips, free. PC Magazine placed it among their 100 best websites of 2010. The software is very easy to follow. Then I saw that my friend Veronique Koch has been dedicated to creating your science comics. She is a marine biologist and primary school teacher, and his cartoon called "Slickscience" . Not bad! She is using these stories in their primary classes in Miami. Veronique Congratulations!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Rash On Inner Thighs And Belly

Camera Curious Curious Martian

Cool. Literally cool: My friend Adriana Ocampo Uria, who works as scientific director of interplanetary missions the NASA headquarters in Washington has just sent me this link . is a live camera work in the clean room the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , which is assembling the next robot on Mars, the Mars Science Laboratory, dubbed beautifully Curiosity.

I've been in these cellars hyper clean, where you have to use slippery polyester suits to avoid them sticking a speck of dust, and go through a shower of air to enter. Otherwise, it would be bad public relations move to announce that we have found something on Mars that is very earthling.

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has been revealed that the craters of the moon's south pole in vicinity of water have found the existence of Mercury, which makes it unsuitable for human ingestion.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its array of sophisticated instruments determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shadowed soil on the Moon, according to an article published today in Science, confirmed the presence of gases, molecular hydrogen, carbon monoxide and atomic mercury, together with small amounts of calcium and magnesium, as well as gas.

also ammonia, hydrogen, hydroxyl, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, silver, preserved at low temperatures in a region where the sun has not come from a very long time.

The inclination of the axis of rotation of the Moon allows floors of craters near the poles permanent shadow of the direct sunlight. Without sunlight, temperatures in these areas can be as low as 35 to 100 degrees Kelvin (Degrees above absolute zero) - so cold that almost all volatiles can be trapped. The impacts of micrometeorites is covered with earth, isolating them from exposure and possible leak.

Thus the difficulty of human settlement in regions of the electrified dust day that hovers on the surface is added the impossibility of having water from the hidden regions in the polar craters.

moon ever present major difficulties to be used as a launching pad into space, something that looked perfect for the proximity and low gravity, so that an asteroid is not found in the vicinity there is no other alternative Mars, at least while adding no other adversities known as the minimum oxygen and perchlorate.

Mimas, moon of Saturn taken recently, which is surprising for the characteristics of the craters. Of course to fully appreciate the image must be enlarged.

Taken on the same tour Dione and Rhea

Thursday, October 14, 2010

How Any Time Chickenpox Virus Can Survive

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From the beginning I thought the rescue of the Chilean miners could be seen as the APOLLO 13 the underworld. From the standpoint of logistics, communications, health, the emotional and even the structure of the 'chain of command' the story of how he survived a crew lost halfway between Earth and Moon, and a group of miners trapped halfway between the surface and the Center of the Earth, have much to do.

why NASA took the case of the miners as a laboratory study extremely useful for your test land on the isolation of future crews to Mars.

And so I struck by the similarity between these two photos, taken last year. Above: Atacama: San José Mine. Below: Hale Crater, Mars. In other words: no comment.


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Fleece Shrink In Wash

Campaign "We are more than 1%"

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Monday, October 11, 2010

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All in the name of science! Pajarito


In action games, you have to act fast to avoid monsters, fight against evil and destroy zombies, you from all sides. We must pass all the levels, collecting the right items, see every corner of every room and listen carefully. One never knows whence the next problem, but you know it's there, lurking.

Well, according to a recent study, there is something else going on inside the brains of gamers: are getting increasingly better at using visual and auditory cues to make quick decisions. And not only decisions that have to do with the imaginary world of video games, she says Daphne Bavelier, a psychologist at the University of Rochester.

Their studies suggest that the benefit extends to decisions in the real world. What I liked most of the study subjects was this: who paid them to play games for hours and hours straight ... in the name of science.



Thursday, October 7, 2010

Molecular Structure Forclf2

great!


To those who say science has seen it all, here's proof that there is an underworld to discover to our senses . There, in the jungles of Central America, a small bird called the red-crested manakin (Pipra mentalis ). Recently, the animal has earned the nickname of Bird Moonwalking because an amazing video, filmed cameras capable of capturing and slow motion to high speed, discovered that their mating ritual is a dance that makes Michael embarrass himself Jackson.

A 1.000 frames per second, the chambers of the Nature program, led by biologist Kim Bostwick, saw what they are unable to capture the human eye: the bird's mating rituals of the world more sympathetic.

Watch the 3 minute video in its entirety. Bostwick explains that the bird produces noise does not make the beak or throat, but with the tips of the wings, which collide with each other 80 times per second (faster than a hummingbird). And then, the bird is delivered to your Moonwalking dance with all the abandon of a rock star.

What else great finish to discover in the rainforest?

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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the best style of Jules Verne


Now that my novel is published adventures and science SQUID IN SEARCH OF THE ABYSS ( Grupo Planeta, Colombia), about how a group of children accompanying a scientist to the ocean floor to meet the colossal squid terrifying ( Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), I get to review the incredible true adventure of biologists whose work I relied to present this magnificent creature.

A being from the depths to which the word "sea monster" is really applicable, (the style of Jules Verne) colossal squid could grow to 12 or 14 meters but no one has ever seen one alive in his natural environment. The only thing was, it was a subadult female that was dying at the surface between the nets of a fisherman Antarctic toothfish.

write the novel I started thinking about exposing the squid as being brutal, a killing machine, with tentacles filled with hooks that move in all directions, and in the center of the head, a large horny beak parrot.

Yet as writing and learning about this spectacular mollusk, something happened: I fell in love. Mesonychoteuthis have blue blood, live more than 1.000 meters deep, has three hearts and the biggest eye ever in any animal, living or extinct (the size of a human head). And if you were to ask you this squid rings would bring rounds the size of a tractor wheel. But you would like. Would know of urine, because their tissues are full ammonia.

Coming face to face in the depths, the golden dream of teutólogo (expert on cephalopods) New Zealand Steve O'Shea, has to be a formidable show, as well as their smaller cousins \u200b\u200bof 10 centimeters should Mesonychoteuthis be bioluminescent. I imagine him lighting the light organs of mantle waves traveling furiously all over his body, changing from red to yellow to white, blue, deep red, shimmering, vibrating under the nerve impulses that gives its giant brain, more largest of all mollusks.

The sea still retains its mysteries. For me, Mesonychoteuthis is one of the most fabulous. A creature that lives outside our view and our consciousness, in the basement of the planet, harsh pressures in numbers that we can not imagine. His strength and supremacy has led us to compare this way of life so unfamiliar with an alien. And I think that is something like: something coming from another world that time forgot. This world we call "the abyss", and almost completely unknown.