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Health departments working with CDC’s Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Lab Network found more than 220 instances of germs with “unusual” antibiotic resistance genes in the United States last year, according to a CDC Vital Signs report released today.
Pioneering technology CityTree removes harmful particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide from the air with 275 times the air cleaning capability of a single tree, and taking up just 1% of the space compared to the real alternative. The pollution-absorbing innovation battles air pollution and heat in cities.
The slow fade of radioactive elements following a supernova allows astrophysicists to study them at length. But the universe is packed full of flash-in-the pan transient events lasting only a brief time, so quick and hard to study they remain a mystery.
(Natural News) Do you remember your encounters with static electricity, e.g. every single time you walked across the carpet and grabbed the doorknob? Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) are unraveling the process with the hopes of turning it into an energy source, reported a Newswise article.
Earle et al (2018) recently urged action to tackle climate change this time because of ocean deoxygenation. According to the global warming theory, ocean deoxygenation is one not obvious but important indirect impacts of climate change on the oceans.
Many people sent me this article, and it’s worth looking at closely for what may be the real story here. Firstly, Lockheed’s portable fusion reactor is not new news. In fact, I blogged about this little device some years ago, here: THE LOCKHEED MARTIN FUSION STORY, E-CAT, AND SOME HIGH OCTANE ….
The EPA web site says according to Rutgers University, fall and winter snow cover is not increasing. “… fall and winter snow cover have remained fairly steady ….. Data source: Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, 2016”
This is clearly opposite of what you normally hear, but that is because we’re often just being told of one disaster after another – telling us how many events are happening.
Although a number of scientists are hollering that 2017 was “among the warmest on record”, we are not seeing any manifestation of this, at least over the Northern Hemisphere, where ironically snow and ice have shown surprising extents.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may have a boring name, but it has a very important job: It measures U.S. temperatures. Unfortunately, it seems to be a captive of the global warming religion. Its data are fraudulent.
One of the world’s most respected climate scientists, Dr Fred Singer, publishes an article admitting that top scientists have privately been conceding that carbon dioxide (CO2) DOES act to cool the atmosphere. Now some are going public.
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The size of the universe remains an unknown quantity, as does its age which may be due to continuously recycling matter with energy.
Newton’s universal law of gravitation appears to fail at black holes, and regions remote from our solar system.
The Kruskal and Szekeres hyperbola diagram in combination with the Max Plank Constant appears to offer the best description of how matter degrades and converts at black holes.
Falcon 9 rocket launch carrying Orbcomm-2, another satellite
A SpaceX rocket ripped a humongous hole in Earth’s ionosphere during a launch in California last year and may have impaired GPS satellites.
The Falcon 9 rocket was blasted from Vandenberg Air Force Base on 24 August last year. It was carrying the Formosat-5, an Earth observation satellite, built by the Taiwan’s National Space Organization.
A compound that may form cell wall-like structures has been detected in the dense atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.
Key points
Saturn’s largest moon is very similar to Earth in some ways
Has nitrogen-rich atmosphere and bodies of liquid on its surface
Scientists have detected vinyl cyanide — an organic molecule made up of hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen
Molecule has the potential to form cell-like membranes
The discovery, reported today in Science Advances, was made using the highly sensitive Atacama Large Millimeter Array radio telescope in Chile.
Saturn’s largest moon has long been considered an ideal candidate for organic life elsewhere in our galaxy, said the study’s lead author, Maureen Palmer from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
“In some ways Titan is sort of Earth-like,” Ms Palmer said.
The moon’s atmosphere is around 95 per cent nitrogen, and there are lakes and seas on its surface. But unlike Earth, these lakes and seas contain liquid methane rather than water.
Cell membranes important for life
Vinyl cyanide (C2H3CN) is an organic molecule used in the manufacture of plastics and synthetic rubbers. While it is toxic to Earth-based life forms, it is ideally suited to form cell-like membranes in the hydrocarbon-rich environment found on Titan.
Cell membranes are thought to be important for the development of life in a liquid environment because they can create a sealed-off chamber where biochemical reactions can take place more easily than in the more dilute open water setting.
Computer simulations have suggested that vinyl cyanide would behave in a similar fashion in Titan’s environment, to the phospholipid molecules that make up cell membranes found in life on Earth.
However, this behaviour is yet to be demonstrated in the laboratory setting.
Earlier research using data from the Cassini spacecraft hinted that vinyl cyanide existed on Titan, but more definitive proof was needed.
Fortunately, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array telescope regularly turns towards Titan and uses the moon to calibrate its energy measurements.
When the research team looked at the frequencies of light being emitted from Titan, they saw a peak that corresponded to the exact frequency of light emitted by the vinyl cyanide molecule.
The molecular signature is actually located high up in Titan’s atmosphere — around 200 kilometres above the moon’s surface — but that doesn’t mean it’s only found there.
“If we wanted to hypothetically form membranes, it would need to reach the surface, which seems like a plausible thing that would happen,” Ms Palmer said.
“Titan has this haze and organic particles are continuously falling out of the atmosphere, and also there’s rain which can bring molecules down in the droplets.”
Study could shape our understanding of early life on Earth
Because Titan has some things in common with a primitive Earth before our planet’s atmosphere became so oxygen rich, research such as this could also shape scientists’ understanding of how life first developed on Earth.
The next steps are to do even higher resolution studies of Titan’s atmosphere to see how the vinyl cyanide molecules are distributed across the moon’s surface. Ms Palmer also hoped the laboratory experiments might give a real-world demonstration of vinyl cyanide forming membrane structures.
