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Everybody has heard about the earthquake in Japan. It is very unfortunate that something that like has happened, and I pray that things will get better. However there may have been a global impact. Scientist hav determined that the earthquarke caused te earth's axis to shift about 6.5 incehs, in result making our days shorter by 1.26 microseconds. See the axis shiefted because during the earthquake, large masses moved, therefore shifting the weigh/mass of the earth and in result shifting the axis 6.5 inches.

Another result of the earthquake is that Japan is now 12 feet closer to North America.

"Japan Earthquake May have Shifted Earth's Axis: NPR." NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts: NPR. Web. 21 Mar. 2011.
http://www.n.pr.org/2011/03/18/134658880/Japan-Earth-May-Have-Change-Earths-Axis.

Turtles Turtles Turtles

It has been a mystery on how the loggerhead turtle has been able to mirgate safely without any landmark, but it has been revealed that they use two magnetic methods. First, Turtle have a magnetic cues that detemine the latitude, however not the longitude. It is know that the turtles has developed the angle and stregth of the Earth's magnetic field. Young loggerheads even establish a course as soon as they enter the ocean. It took voyagers many years just to figure out longitude. That is an amazing in itself.

Laser welding

It has been known that it is impossible to fuse teo pieces of transparent plastic together, up until now, scientist have found the right wavelength that has enabled them to do this. The process is quick and simple, there are no clamps, glue or anything of the sorts to keep the components together. In a couple of seconds the laser has made a casing by welding two peiece of plastic together. This process has now made it easier and faster to seam plastic together which would also make it cheaper.

Bee vs. Flowers

Plants are interesting organisms aren't they, even though they can't walk, to make up for it they to where they can have sunlight. They can also make their own food, but the most fascinating thing about plants, particularly flower, they have the ability to create their own toxins that will affect certain organisms while aree harmless to others. Not only can flowers create toxins, but they can also create chemical defences to protect their pollen from bees. Some scientist from Switzerland gathered certain flowers such as a buttercup, wild mustard, and a tansy. Despite giving different types of pollen to different brood of larvae of the mason bee, it was shown that mason bees had a large diet for all kinds of pollen. However plants need that pollen just much as the bees do, mainly to reproduce. But as we all know bees and flowers have a symbiotic relationship, the equilibrium of pollen and bees will eventually level out.

Wiley-Blackwell. "Secret of the bees now a little less secret."Science Daily 6 February 2011 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110201122238.htm.


For last weeks post which did not go up:

ElectroMicroscopes are widely used to scientific study as well as medical study. Now scientsi at the NIST( National Institute oof Standard and Technologies) have found a new way to expand the usage of transmission eletron microscopes, by passing through a nanometer-scale grating. Scientist separated them with an outcome of electron waves on the obrital momentum that keeps its corkscrew form.

Cold Plasma Better than AntiBiotics?

I have found out that antibiotics just doesn't cut it on bacteria now. So to counter this problem Scientist theroized that plasma could be a good substitute to kill bacteria. Plasma is an ionized gas, it can also be called the fourth state of matter. Most of the time it is found in a heated state, however in this case science have recently found that it can be used in a cold state. And in this state the plasma can kill bacteria such as biofilm, a bacteria that has became resistant to antibiotics, without hurt human tissue. Studies have shown that cold plasma has been most most effective. In one study, 99% of bacteria was killed in a petri dish, another has shown that 90% of bacteria was killed off of a rat without harm. This maybe one of the new developments that will help counter diseases in the future, like someday people may take cold plasma showers to get rid of influenza or something.

Dusto, Amy "Cold Plasma kill Bacteria Better than Antibiotics" www.news.discovery.com/tech/cold-plasma-kills-bacteria-better-than-antibiotics.html

Astrological Signs

I'm sure that almost everyone has heard that there has been a development in the stars, mainly speaking about the astrological signs. Astronomers has added a new astrological sign named Ophiuchus, the sign that is now before Sagittarius. Astronomers believe that the cause of this is the tilting of the earth's axis, as it gradually does all the time. Now almost everyone has a sign change, I, myself was a Gemini, but now I am a Taurus. But I don't care Astronomers say , I am a Gemini now and forever.