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Nature (Can Science create ‘Food from Fun’?)

December 4, 2012

Nature  (Can Science create ‘Food from Fun’?)

Introduction

Can Science create ‘Food from Fun’?

Meat:

1. Nature

Halving Food Losses Would Feed an Additional Billion People, Finnish Study Finds
(Observed: Scientist explain about hunger and garbage, find an audience and perhaps some food too)

Ghost:

Glaciers Cracking in the Presence of Carbon Dioxide
(Observed: Temperature behaves differently, Scientist observe in our World, in cold and hot)

2. Evolution

Ancient Plant-Fungal Partnerships Reveal How the World Became Green
(Observed: Scientist hunt for Green, find fungi, try to marry them with plants and eat some eggs for free)

Ghost:

New Jamaica Butterfly Species Emphasizes Need for Biodiversity Research
(Observed: Jaimaca gets new wings, traps it though, unfortunately)

3. Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958
George Beadle, Edward Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 was divided, one half jointly to George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events” and the other half to Joshua Lederberg “for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria”.
(Observed: Scientist have food and explain how it is digested and gets integrated with us. Fetch a ‘Nobel Prize’ though)

Futuristic Ghost:

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959
Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 was awarded jointly to Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg “for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid”
(Observed: Scientist lay out the hope for ‘Never Ending Life’)

4. Astrophysics

Space Launch System Providing Engine ‘Brains’ With an Upgrade
(Observed: Nasa adds cake and biscuts to it’s new rockets, calls the World about it’s upgrade like, a child playing)

Ghost:

NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
(Observed: Now, Nasa jokes once again. Can’t seem to get enough of adventures)

Search for Life Suggests Planetary Systems More Habitable Than Ours
(Observed: Ghost of Earth found, just dont tell anyone about it, keep it as a ‘Ghost Secret’)

5. Quantum Mechanics

Precise Measurement of Radiation Damage On Materials
(Observed: Spain wants to get united into ‘United States of America’, doesn’t like it’s own independence)

6. Brain

A Risk Gene for Cannabis Psychosis
(Observed: Cannabis might lead to mental disorder. Scientist equate input=output for the first time in their entire history)

7. Gene Therapy

Toward Making the Blind See: Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Mice
(Observed: Scientist give mice a bit of cheese and when they eat, they assume the mice can see the cheese)

Ghost:

Genome of the Black Death Reveals Evidence for an Antique Bubonic Plague Pandemic
(Observed: Scientist dig it for England, while I play ‘Skipping’ with Mini)

8. Disease

New Method to Localize the Epileptic Focus in Severe Epilepsy
(Observed: Machine creates a vibration in you due to excessive work leading to Epilepsy, Scientist find cure. Might just make you into a machine)

Ghost:

Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases Create New Public Health Challenges
(Observed: Darwin still finds hope for his theory in 2012)

Conclusion:

Fun in ‘Food creation and more’ found. Don’t mind it.

Caution: This might be all theory

Humanitarian: Other Than ‘Survival of Fittest’ the mystery of which I am yet to solve on ‘How to overcome this?, I wish my Science should be only applied if poor people are not hurt by the same

Nature (Can Science find parameters or dimensions in Nature?)

October 24, 2012

Nature  (Can Science find parameters or dimensions in Nature?)

Introduction

Can Science find parameters or dimensions in Nature?

Meat:

New Understanding of Antarctica’s ‘Weight Loss’: Sea Level Is Rising With Little Apparent Contribution from Antarctica
(Observed: Unknown-In Antartica, land gets snow as well gives out water to Earth, and this apparently seems to be constant, shoving out the thought to us ‘Nature is same and not degrading’. However something might be a problem in the land)

Natural Climate Shifts Drove Coral Reefs to a Total Ecosystem Collapse Lasting 2,500 Years
(Observed: Negative Dimension-‘East Pacific Reefs’ lost their groove 4000 years back for almost 2500 years cause unknown, and now again in the decline due to ‘Global Warming’)

Study Attempts to Reverse Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes
(Observed: Negative Dimension-Our own immune system turns bad in America, causes Diabetes, new drug required)

Schizophrenia Genetics Linked to Disruption in How Brain Processes Sound
(Observed: Negative Dimension-A protein whose reduced levels, Disbindin, which causes ‘Sound Shocks’ in Brain found)

Silence May Lead To Phantom Noises Misinterpreted As Tinnitus
(Observed: Negative Dimension-America feels the pinch of ‘A Beautiful Mind’ & ‘Phantom Menance’ & ‘Ghost Busters’, all together, gets hits in its concentration, and develops a new disease perhaps like Tinnitus)

3. Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991
Richard R. Ernst
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991 was awarded to Richard R. Ernst “for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy”.
(Observed: Quantum Mechanics-Structure and Interaction of Molecules studied, and perhaps Quantum Mechanics also by NMR)

Conclusion:

Many parameters in Life and Nature studied, ranging from diseases, to Human’s achievements.

Caution: This might be all theory

Work Tuesday (Can Science study the ‘Unknown Tree in the Universe’?)

September 24, 2012

Work Tuesday (Can Science study the ‘Unknown Tree in the Universe’?)

Introduction

Can Science study the ‘Unknown Tree in the Universe’?

Meat:

1. Astrophysics

Gamma-Ray Bursts Shed Light On the Nature of Dark Energy
(Observed: Why is the Universe expanding? What are the causes for the same?)

How a Distant Black Hole Devoured a Star
(Observed: The Nature of Black Holes and Neighbouring Stars. What prompts them to be voilent?)

2. Quantum Mechanics

Physicists Discover Odd Fluctuating Magnetic Waves
(Observed: Magnetism and Superconductivty, an odd interaction when applied to a material. Strange behaviour comes to play, which no one knows. Problems in order & disorder)

Atoms Don’t Dance The ‘Bose Nova’: Realization Of An Excited, Strongly Correlated Many-Body Phase
(Observed: A ‘State of Atoms’ which is different? Atoms don’t do their regular tango, instead form a attractive repulsive state)

3. Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938
Richard Kuhn
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938 was awarded to Richard Kuhn “for his work on carotenoids and vitamins”.
(Observed: Vitamins discovered)

4. Brain

Intermittent Explosive Disorder Affects Up To 16 Million Americans
(Observed: Americans hurt by unknown anger problems leading to mental depression and anxiety. Cause unknown and future work needed)

Sleep Apnea Linked With Increased Risk of Cancer Death
(Observed: Oxygen dissapears in patiens in nights, might lead to cancer, cause unknown)

5. Gene Therapy

Dartmouth Researchers Identify Multi-Tasking Circadian Protein
(Observed: A Light Receiving Protein which turns on body clock)

Gene Linked To Developmental Syndrome In Old Order Amish Identified By NIH Scientists
(Observed: A Gene Mutation linked to organ problems, found. Cause unknown)

6. Environment

The ‘Slippery Slope to Slime’: Overgrown Algae Causing Coral Reef Declines
(Observed: Corals dissapear due to fishing and pollution, solution needed)

Warming Ocean Could Start Big Shift of Antarctic Ice
(Observed: Ice in Antartica could dissapear, global warming. Solutions needed)

7. Evolution

Brainy Worms: Scientists Uncover Counterpart of Cerebral Cortex in Marine Worms
(Observed: Worms had brains, as scientist find, much like us. Cause unknown of this strange Evolution?)

Peptides May Hold ‘Missing Link’ to Life
(Observed: How small molecules, peptides, join together to probably form Life)

8. Disease

Virus Sent To Attack Brain Tumors From The Inside Out
(Observed: Brain tumors being solved, still unsuccessful though)

Autism: Why Do Some Develop Then Regress?
(Observed: Autism comes back)

Conclusion:

The Unknown tree studied from Evolution, Environment, Brain, Genes (Our Ancestors), Far Space and the very small.

Caution: This might be all theory

Work Tuesday (Can Science find ‘The Push of Humanity and its Effect on Nature’?)

September 24, 2012

Work Tuesday (Can Science find ‘The Push of Humanity and its Effect on Nature’?)

Introduction

Can Science find ‘The Push of Humanity and its Effect on Nature’?

Meat:

1. Astrophysics

New Solar Active Region Spitting out Flares
(Observed: Flares seen from Sun)

‘Time Machine’ Will Study the Early Universe
(Observed: A machine which goes back to early universe)

2. Quantum Mechanics

Hints of Universal Behavior Seen in Exotic Three-Atom States
(Observed: An exotic three body state observed)

Heavy Relative of the Neutron Discovered
(Observed: A heavy particle discovered)

3. Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939
Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 was divided equally between Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt “for his work on sex hormones” and Leopold Ruzicka “for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes”.
(Observed: Sex hormones discovered)

4. Brain

Link Between Chronic Depression and Accelerated Immune Cell Aging
(Observed: Immune cells develop too fast, cause problems like depression)

Brain: Multiple Contacts Are Key to Synapse Formation
(Observed: Neurons connect in a multiple pathway to each other)

Clues to Reverse Cognitive Deficits in People With Neurological Disorders
(Observed: Learning Defects can be cured with the help of mice)

5. Gene Therapy

Study Reveals Value Of Schizophrenia-Related Gene Variation
(Observed: A Gene which causes Schizophrenia European Americans)

Jefferson Scientists Identify Gene Defect Leading To Abnormal Skin Development And Cancer
(Observed: A Gene which causes mice cancer identified, present in humans too)

6. Environment

Climate Change Linked to Ozone Loss: May Result in More Skin Cancer
(Observed: Skin Cancer due to climate change, first time linked)

Antarctica at Risk from Human Activities
(Observed: Antarctica feels the Human Pinch)

7. Evolution

Not So Fast: Lasting Evolutionary Change Takes About One Million Years, Researchers Find
(Observed: Evolution is slow)

Three Waves of Evolutionary Innovation Shaped Diversity of Vertebrates, Genome Analysis Reveals
(Observed: Three ways of Evolution discovered)

8. Disease

Infection Linked to Dangerous Blood Clots in Veins and Lungs
(Observed: Infection causes blood clots, mebbe even death)

New Gene Offers Hope for Preventive Medicine Against Fractures
(Observed: New Gene for cure in fractures)

Conclusion:

The Drive of Humanity and its Effect on Nature studied. Sometimes Nature affects Humanity also.

Caution: This might be all theory

Science Today (Can Science solve problems of Allergy?)

August 15, 2012

Science Today (Can Science solve problems of Allergy?)

Introduction:

Allergies are dislike to things, people and Nature, which one develops during his life. Some of the causes remain unknown, while some come to the fore. Can Science find the roots of Allergy in humans and Nature?

Meat:

1. Astrophysics (Far: About Stars, Aliens and Fairies if they exist)

Astronomers Identify 12-Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf Stars Only 100 Light Years Away
(Observed: ‘Namakhalal‘ Movie: Two stars, since a long time ago, find attraction in Earth)

Young Star Rebels Against Its Parent Cloud
(Observed: ‘Upanishads‘ Epic: The last tantrums of a star rebelling against its environment, found)

First Low-Mass Star Detected in Globular Cluster
(Observed: ‘Ramayan‘ Epic: A Star which might be punished, found)

2. Quantum Mechanics (Small: Of young children, new thinking and the world of small things for people who prefer perfection)

Hints of Universal Behavior Seen in Exotic Three-Atom States
(Observed: ‘Dil Chahta Hai‘ Movie: How three particles can form a new bond, where two can’t)

Heavy Relative of the Neutron Discovered
(Apriori & Observed: ‘Lakshya‘ Movie: A particle which appears strange, found)

Physicists Discover New Way to Produce Antimatter-Containing Atom
(Apriori & Observed: ‘Baazigar‘ Movie: Matter and Anti-Matter joined to form a new particle)

3. Nobel Prize (Talent: People who did great discoveries in Science and are given a prize so that you don’t forget them)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 was divided, one half awarded to Harald zur Hausen “for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer”, the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”.

(Observed: Two diseases studied, Cancer and Aids)

4. Brain (You: Human Thinking Machine )

Unique Cell Type in Implicated in Multiple Sclerosis
(Observed: ‘Departed‘ & ‘Laawaris‘ Movie: A good particle becomes bad, observed in Humans as a disease. Americans are normally known to thrown their kids away at a young age which might be a trend going now in the reverse way, and hence the heat outside has developed to a disease inside the humans)
Multiple Sclerosis
Drugs

Reviled Substance Involved in Alzheimer’s Can Reverse Paralysis in Mice With Multiple Sclerosis
(Observed: ‘Sarkar‘ & ‘Dayawan‘ Movie: A bad particle previously reverses its role, appears to be good now and saves people from diseases)
Alzheimer Disease
Drugs

Fragile X and Down Syndromes Share Signalling Pathway for Intellectual Disability
(Observed: ‘The Great Train Robbery‘: Two mental diseases share a common pathway)

5. Gene Therapy (Close: Of Relationships)

Elusive Gene That Causes a Form of Blindness from Birth Dlscovered
(Observed: “Deewar” Movie: A metabolic gene that causes blindness and other organ problems discovered)
Blindness
Drugs

New Gene-Silencing Pathway Found In Plants
(Observed: ‘Darwin Effect‘ like the movie ‘Jo Jeeta Woh Sikandar’: How Plants make choice defined?)

Gene Therapy Holds Promise for Reversing Congenital Hearing Loss
(Observed: ‘Khamoshi‘: Hearing Loss is genetic in some people, a cure found)
Hearing

6. Environment (Present Nature)

Gas from Pollutants, Forest Fires at Potentially Toxic Levels
(Observed: ‘Erin Brokovich‘ : Pollution takes a toll on Nature)

Heat, Rainfall Affect Pathogenic Mosquito Abundance in Catch Basins
(Observed: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest‘: Mosquitos thrive on less rains and high temperature, deserts like environment)

War-Related Climate Change Would Reduce Substantially Reduce Crop Yields
(Apriori: ‘War & Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy: Scientist cry out for ‘Peace’)

Glacier Break Creates Ice Island Twice Size of Manhattan
(Observed: ‘Glimpses of World History’ by Jawaharlal Nehru: Glacier shakes off a piece of it, for discovery of World)

7. Evolution (Past Nature)

Darwin in the Genome: Research On Stickleback Fish Shows How Adaptation to New Environments Involves Many Genes
(Observed: ‘ET‘: Different Environment, many Genes affected)

Rare Protozoan from Sludge in Norwegian Lake Does Not Fit On Main Branches of Tree of Life
(Observed: ‘Swades‘ Movie: A New Organism found, baffles everyone in World)

And Then There Was Light! Discovery of the World’s First Eyeless Huntsman Spider
(Observed: ‘Naseeb‘ strikes Bond with “For your Eyes only”: Spiders with no Eyes found in caves)

Quark Matter’s Connection With the Higgs: Heavy Ion Collisions Delve Deeper Into the Origin of (Visible) Mass
(Apriori: ‘Indian Jones and the Last Crusade‘: How everything came into being? An invisible force being discovered?)

Closing in On the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter
(Apriori: ‘What is Life‘: How everything came into being? An invisible force being discovered?)

8. Diseases (Problems in Nature)

Chronic Exposure to Staph Bacteria May Be Risk Factor for Lupus
(Observed: Joints get affected by a bacteria found in skin and nose)

New Atmospheric Compound Tied to Climate Change, Human Health
(Observed: ‘Waterworld‘: Now a chemical which might be working in day to absorb sunlight and helping a chemical to develop in the night found. Very harmful to Nature and humans)

Bacteria-Immune System ‘Fight’ Can Lead to Chronic Diseases, Study Suggests
(Observed: ‘Bend It like Beckham‘: Two bacteria’s act as “Master-Slave” against Human’s Immune System)

Conclusion:

Allergy, its tryst with Society and Nature, studied in this blog with the help of books, movies and popular artist.

Caution: This might be all theory

 

 

 

Science Today (Can Science find ‘Leap of Faith’ for us?)

August 7, 2012

Science Today (Can Science find ‘Leap of Faith’ for us?)

Introduction:
What is ‘Leap of Faith’? Or Innovation? Can Science find it for us?

Meat:

1. Astrophysics (Far: About Stars, Aliens and Fairies if they exist)

Panoramic View of a Turbulent Star-Making Region
(Struggle in the Universe, observed, the cause unknown)

Scientists See Solution to Critical Barrier to Fusion
(Too much power can hurt, scientist come tantalizing close to fusion at a normal optimum energy which produces a big splash)

2. Quantum Mechanics (Small: Of young children, new thinking and the world of small things for people who prefer perfection)

Elusive Higgs Boson May Nearly Be Cornered
(The Quest for “Who wants to be in the Park and enjoy Life” laid down)

Accounting for Missing Meson Particles
(Particles leave no clue about their existence)

3. Nobel Prize (Talent: People who did great discoveries in Science and are given a prize so that you don’t forget them)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999
Günter Blobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 was awarded to Günter Blobel “for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell”.
(Where do we go inside us? studied in this Nobel Prize. Its pre-written, something like they tell us in astrology)

4. Brain (You: Human Thinking Machine )

Gene Discovery Set to Help With Mysterious Paralysis of Childhood
(Mystery Disability cornered)

5. Gene Therapy (Close: Of Relationships)

Anti-Aging Gene Linked To High Blood Pressure
(A Gene which reduces many diseases from the health of heart to kidney, discovered)

Finding The ZIP-Code For Gene Therapy: Scientists Imitate Viruses To Deliver Therapeutic Genes
(How we can learn from goons, and do good)

6. Environment

Earth’s Oceans and Other Ecosystems Still Absorbing About Half the Greenhouse Gases Emitted by People
(Pollution increases in the last 50 years)

Ecology and Phylogenetics Together Offer New Views of Earth’s Biodiversity
(Earth gets a new take, from Environmentalist on how it is coping with us humans)

7. Evolution

Two From One: Evolution Of Genders From Hermaphroditic Ancestors Mapped Out
(Evolution in strawberry laid down)

Ancient Warming Greened Antarctica, Study Finds
(Antarctica gets a bit cooked in the past growing trees)

8. Diseases

Mechanism of Lung Cancer-Associated Mutations Suggests New Therapeutic Approaches
(Lung Cancer Gene found)

Most With Celiac Disease Unaware of It; Others Go Gluten-Free Without Diagnosis
(Digestive disorder in Americans leave them wanting for solutions and some of them don’t want to go under legal consultation)

Conclusion:

Leap of Faith found in Nature, humans, evolution, God’s Particle and diseases which are springing all kind of new surprises.

Caution: This might be all theory