Jalila Essaidi, scientists from the Netherlands, making a uniqueinnovation by creating bulletproof skin. Innovations were made in the project named "2.6g 329m / s", based on the weight andspeed of a .22-caliber long rifle bullet.
Bulletproof skin created by first harvest spider silk proteins fromgenetically engineered goat milk. Proteins were collected and woven so as to produce the material as strong as steel. Then,coupled with human skin cells cultured manner.
Culture results showed bulletproof skin tissue. In a YouTube video, as shown by Essaidi under this article, artificial skin wassuccessfully stop a bullet, though not the caliber and high speed.
The development of this innovation is still needed, but Essaidi'vegot a lot of wishful thinking. "Imagine a bulletproof vest withspider silk that could catch bullets in modern times with arrowsGenghis Khan," said Essaidi.
Even crazier, he said, "Imagine that we replace the keratin, the protein responsible for the violence of the skin, with spider silk. It is possible to insert genes of spider silk makers in the humangenome so as to create bulletproof man."
Aka science fiction only a fantasy? Probably yes. However, if the aim is only bulletproof vests, even now already exists. Creatingbulletproof man is more revolutionary goals. Let's wait for further research developments.
For those who want to see, leather bulletproof Essaidisuccessfully created is now on display at the National Museum ofNatural History Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands, until January 8, 2012 to come.
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The astronomers found 14 stars that fall into the coldest brown dwarfs, celestial body that is also called a failed star, because it has too little mass to be able to support fusion reactions that can not shine like the Sun billions of years.
Now, with the same equipment, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) NASA, astronomers found the star that is cooler than ever, called WISE 1828 +2650.
I was so cold this star, if you want, we can touch it without fear that burns like fire.
WISE 1828 +2650 was found in the observations which took place in January 2010 - February 2011. More specifically, brown dwarfs are included in the family of dwarf Y. Brown dwarf atmosphere temperature is colder than room temperature of the Earth, which means less than 25 degrees Celsius.
"Brown dwarfs are found through this study is more similar to the temperature of your oven," said Davy Kirkpatrick, one of the scientists working with WISE in the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.
The discovery of brown dwarfs will be of great help astronomers study how stars are formed and the atmosphere on the planet outside the Solar System. Atmospheric brown dwarfs resembles Jupiter but is easier to learn because there are all alone in space, separate from its parent star.
Together with the discovery of the coldest star, the scientists also said that there are 99 other brown dwarfs are found. The discovery of brown dwarfs as a whole was published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. While the discovery of the Y dwarfs published in the Astrophysical Journal recently.
The interesting thing about this discovery is not only the coldest star in the universe, but also of the stars are located relatively close to the Solar System, only about 90-40 light years alone.
Y dwarfs closest to our solar system is within 9 WISE 1541-2250 light years away. The star became the seventh star nearest to our solar system. The nearest star to the Solar System itself is a Prima Centauri, is only 4 light-years away.
Michael Cushing of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lead author of the paper in the Astrophysical Journal Y dwarfs said, "Finding the Y dwarfs near the Sun we like finding a hidden house on the block where you live."
Cushing added, with WISE, astronomers can find many more dwarf Y. Later, the Y dwarfs may be found that is located much closer than the nearest star to our solar system.
To find the Y dwarfs, astronomers besides using WISE also use the Spitzer Space Telescope, which again selects the Y dwarf candidates were found.
Astronomers are also using the Hubble Space Telescope. Y dwarfs are identified based on spectral characteristics, indicating that the temperature is lower than other brown dwarfs.
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Japanese scientists succeeded in creating a transparent brain.By using a solution called SCA le, scientists are altering the brain's white-colored mice that were originally turbid become crystal clear.
Created a transparent brain could help scientists see a fluorescent marker inserted in the white rat. Medical imaging enters new era with the creation of this transparent brain.
"Our current research is focused on the rat brain, but its application was limited to mice or brain," said Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN Brain Institute Japanese researchers who created this transparent brain.
"We could develop the use of SCA le to other organs such as heart, muscle and kidney and in tissues of primates and human biopsy samples," continued Miyawaki as quoted by National Geographic.
SCA le is a solution made from a material that is relatively simple.Its composition is urea (the main compound in the urine), glycerol (a compound also found in soaps) and detergent called Triton X.To make the brain transparent, the brain organ soaked for 2 weeks in this solution.
Unlike other solutions are also used to help see the brain, eliminating the SCA le no fluorescent marker. During this time, a fluorescent marker used to assist fluorescent imaging.
Fluorescent imaging techniques alone are used to map the architecture of the brain, ranging network of nerves, blood vessels and other structures.
Created a transparent brain mapping can help the brain architecture. More breadth, transparent organ imaging could help early before making a more expensive imaging such as CT Scan and MRI.
Applications for disease management, physicians can analyze whether the care provided is really an impact on the target organ.These things can not be done earlier in the medical world.
Despite many benefits, le SCA solution will not be widely used soon. Miyawaki said, SCA le is still too toxic to use.
"Currently we are looking for candidates other reagents that allow us to study the living tissue in the same way with a lower transparency," says Miyawaki. Miyawaki discovery published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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One could imagine one day, humans can freely traveling to neighboring planets. However, travel to the Earth's core is an impossibility.
Exploring the depths of the sea or the impenetrable forests, including things that are possible but not so much to explore Earth's core. Only able to penetrate the hardest drilling at a depth of 12 km and it is only 0.2% radius of Earth.
Thereafter, the high heat will attack and make whatever melts.Pressure and temperature extremes far interior of the planet is permanently out of reach. Therefore, the Earth has always had a 'miracle' is capable of charming people.
Plays the central core of Earth itself in many cosmologies and traditional beliefs. Latest, little by little science began to understand it. Here's a chronological view of the evolution of human understanding of the world hot under foot of men.
Hell hole
The traditional view which many states, the Earth's core is the lake of fire where the wicked live forever or so-called hell.Ignoring the side of life after death, that is an accurate depiction of Hell by the Earth's core.
Shocking indeed, many beliefs and cosmology describe it properly, in the form of volcanic eruptions that can be presented in an ancient culture with a frightening view of the fire of hell.
In fact, sulfur is a metaphor for Hell in the Christian gospel is simply a type of stone commonly found in volcanoes.
Turtles of the world
Many East Asian cultures and Native Americans did not describe the interior of the Earth as hell. Instead, they describe it as a giant tortoise called 'turtles of the world'. These turtles sustain the Earth on his back.
Several variations of this myth states, the tortoise is replaced elephant in Hindu myth, but some historians describe, the world is in the back of an elephant standing on a turtle.
Beginning in 1931, anthropologist Frank Speck studying this myth of the Delaware Indians who believe the turtle represents longevity and persistent nature.
Physicist Stephen Hawking has a famous anecdote about this myth, which is the tortoise standing on the back of another turtle standing on another turtle again and everything is a turtle.
Gold core
Geologist Bernard Wood of the University of Oxford estimates, there are 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold in the Earth's core and the number is sufficient to cover the surface of the planet with a 0.5 meter-thick gold.
According to him, the amount of gold there are six times more than platinum, nickel, niobium, iron and other elements.
Hypothesis geologists came after he examined the iron content in a similar meteorites 'planetismal,' small celestial bodies collide forming Earth. Wood found a lot of gold in these meteorites.
Layers of the onion
Earth's crust as if whispering a secret what lies beneath. When there is an earthquake, seismic waves bouncing through the Earth and reflects the crust, mantle, outer core and the later recorded seismograms around the world. Later, scientists trace back to create maps of Earth interior.
The result, found a ball of solid iron and nickel in its core.Although believed to have a temperature of 5500 C, the core of the Earth also has a high pressure of more than three million times the surface of the planet's atmosphere. This pressure will make the temperature at the melting point of iron.
According to David Stevenson of Caltech geologists, the outermost layer of fluid by 95% of total core volume. The coat is located at 3500 km beyond the Earth's core. This thick stone accounted for 84% of the total volume of the planet and the mantle is covered with a thin crust of human habitation.
Crystal Ball
Evidence shows the Earth's core is not a homogeneous section.Scientists are aware of seismic waves passing through the core faster than one pole to another.
That is, the core of the Earth has a different structure toward one another. Experts believe this is because the Earth's core is made of crystal are arranged in the Earth's magnetic poles.
Geophysicist Ronald Cohen of Carnegie Institute found, the horizontal and vertical waves made of nickel and iron atoms mixed two types of crystals that make it have a hexagonal structure and a cube.
According to Cohen, these crystals may be arranged opposite the Earth's core where the highest pressure. Furthermore, "There may be fluid in between".
Forbidden forest
Kei Hirose Japanese geologists have recently conducted experiments replicate the conditions at the core of the Earth on a small scale in the lab.
Using a vise, tools such as tongs, he heats the iron-nickel at a temperature of 4500 Celsius and three million times atmospheric pressure.
Based on what happened, he stated, the crystals in the Earth's core as high as 10 km. Hirose was described as a 'crystal forest'.
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Action or a game walk on hot coals without injury is often seen. There are allegations of people who do that using magic because the body does not burn walking on fire.
But there is a scientific explanation of why a person could walk on coals without burning?
The first, most of the action goes on fire use traditional fire originating from the pieces of wood.
Pieces of wood are composed of many carbon compounds, some volatile organic molecules, including water evaporate.
These organic molecules would be easy to evaporate when heated, due to the heat released by the fire will vaporize any volatile organic compounds (volatile) and also water. Thus obtained only a nearly pure carbon compounds and carbon is one of the lighter elements.
Structure of lightweight carbon is a poor conductor of heat, so it takes a relatively long time to transfer heat from the coals to one's skin.
But if coal is produced from metal, then heat transfer will occur in real time and someone will get severe burns.
Second, the ash produced from combustion processes can also act as a thermal barrier or insulator layer, so that heat transfer to a person's skin will become slower.
Not that it is impossible burn at all, because the heat transfer can still occur. If someone stood on the coals for some time, then the person will get a pretty serious burns.
But if someone is limiting skin contact with hot coals for example, in a very short period of time or walk quickly, then the legs will not get hot enough to burn skin.
That is why the actions of walking on fire does not make someone burn. But it's not easy to do and it takes a certain expertise.
The burn itself will occur when the body exposed to a substance of high temperature and one of the major causes of burn accidents are exposed to fire.
Based on the degree of tissue damage, so burns can be divided into three types, namely:
First-degree burns, which damage the lining of the epidermis which is characterized by mild swelling in the area, redness and blisters.
Second-degree burns, which covers damage to the epidermis and some dermis (deeper skin layers), arises a sense of pain, infection and sometimes dehydration.
Third-degree burns, which covers damage to all layers of the dermis, the layer of muscle and bone as well as infection.
In the movie, when he found an ancient mosquito trapped in bucket dinosaur blood from his stomach and then taken and extracted DNA was then inserted until the eggs hatched alligator embryos and Jurrasic Park were ready to open.
A series of steps may sound quite strange in 1993 when the film was screened at the cinema blockbuster. Even today, in the world of genome sequencing, transgenic animals (hybrids), and bacterial artificial laboratory, the resurrection of extinct species of sounding a bit more feasible. Really?
Apparently, scientists may very well make the dinosaurs or dinosaur-like creature in a time not too far away. Unfortunately, the DNA molecule, the genetic instructions creator of life, always broken from time to time.
At 65 million years ago, when the last dinosaurs to fly, swim and walk on Earth, their DNA remains intact rarely more than 500 thousand years later. According to the dinosaur paleontologist Jack Horner of Montana State University, humans will never really find dinosaur DNA.
He and his colleagues discovered soft tissue from Tyrannosaurus Rex in 2005. Unfortunately, the findings do not contain material that could be used. "Soft tissue seems to consist of biomolecules other than DNA," said Horner.
In fact, if someday discover ancient dinosaur DNA, DNA that will fall apart, piece of code only along a few base pairs and how to 'sew' the pieces together.
Similarly, genome sequencing or blood fossilized dinosaur tissue may not be a viable route for their resurrection. However, geneticists create alternate pathways Jurassic Park.
In recent years, several groups working independently began to build a dinosaur DNA is active in one of the descendants of these extinct creatures, namely in the chicken genome has been sequenced in full.
Led Horner, scientists hope to grow chickens toothed, scaly, tail, and forelimbs. In short, they want to make 'ayamdino' and this will be very close to becoming a reality.
First, in 2005, developmental biologist John Fallon and Matt Harris at the University of Wisconsin experiment with a mutant chicken embryos when they saw a strange bulge emerging from the jaws of chicken fetus.
The mound was a sword-shaped teeth that are identical to embryonic alligator. Scalloped chicken embryos mutant has a recessive gene that kills the fetus before birth. As a side effect (not related to the death), the gene is switched from one gene to another which has lain dormant in the evolution of the chicken for at least 70 million years, genes of ancient dinosaur teeth.
Fallon and Harris created a virus that behaves like a recessive gene that is lethal in chickens but mutants were not lethal. When they put the virus into normal chicken embryos, chicken became a dentist.
Then, a paleontologist Hans Larsson at McGill University found that chick embryo begins with the tail. At a certain point of development of the chicks, genetic switch flips and tail were missing.
Using growth hormone to try to override the strike, Larsson and colleagues are trying to turn the switch back. Similarly, Horner believes the chick embryo could eventually grow genetically manipulated to replace the arm wing.
"The lack of a tail, the difference between wings and arms, and the lack of teeth is a subtle evolutionary changes in the basic plan of the dinosaurs," he wrote in a book written with James Gorman titled 'How to Build a Dinosaur'.
So, how long before the scientists created ayamdino? "Maybe the next few years because it all depends on funding," said Horner.
In a world where cancer is still incurable, not everyone thinks the rise of dinosaurs deserve part of the monetary supply for scientific research. On the other hand, some others think this is very cool.
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