The mission of the Kepler Project is to discover habitable planets orbiting other stars. However, many of these planets are light years away and unreachable by humans with our current technology. So lets take a look at bodies much closer and in our own solar system that may be top locations for alien life. As you judge these locations yourself [...] Read More »
Everyone has stopped for a moment and pondered about why they value the life they have today? Some people credit their parent, grandparent, their religion, and some people say it was chance. No matter who you credit, Neil Degrasse explains how it is no less that a stupendous miracle that all forms of life exist on Earth. Read More »
Cellular Respiration is simply respiration(using oxygen) at a cellular level. When you learn the 3 steps of cellular respiration you will be able to connect why animals must breath oxygen and eat food to live. Sugar from food and oxygen are used in cellular respiration to create energy for the billions of cells in your body to live. Although there are other [...] Read More »
hat object is 55 feet wide, weighs 10,000 tons and crashes into the Earth once every 100 years? You should be thinking about the meteorite that plummeted into Russia and injured nearly 1000 people on Friday. This large impact occurred the same day an unrelated asteroid was supposed to pass close by the Earth. Quick Facts from NASA The Impact Videos Dashboard cameras are [...] Read More »
Welcome to the 2nd entry of the Unplug Your Mind series. t might be hard to convince the US congress that money should be spent on simply awing the minds of people around the world. So I will attempt to do that without sending the US government further into a fiscal catastrophe. Here is a clip that explains how technology has [...] Read More »
The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck – by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on Vimeo. Read More »
or a college student and aspiring scientist, the talk of the 2012 fiscal cliff can be overwhelming underwhelming. Why should a college student or future scientist like me worry about the fiscal cliff? Should I worry about the price of Raumen noodles and milk suddenly inflating to $8 a gallon, or should I kiss my research funding goodbye… The 3 W’s [...] Read More »
Dense connective tissue has the same makeup as loose connective tissue except there is less space occupied by cells, and more densely packed with fibers. What’s Inside Connective Tissue Connective tissues contains a matrix and 3 types of fibers fibers. Matrix: Also known as the ground substance. Matrix is produced by the cells of the tissue and can be fluid, gel-like, or solid Collagenous fibers: [...] Read More »
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