Posted in: Featured, Science by Sergiu Vidican | April 27th 2011 | no comments
The Fukushima Daiichi situation has improved a lot since the tsunami which took place on March 11. However, traces of radiation can still be detected in the area, and the people who go in its proximity will suffer from radiation.
According to an article in livescience.com, radioactive iodine-131 has been released into the water supply from the damaged nuclear power plant. However, the emitted radiation [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 25th 2011 | no comments
According to the nuclear experts, the United States of America is in the danger of being contaminated from radiation resulted from the spent fuel pools from the nuclear power plants.
The researchers of the study analyzed the spent fuel pools from both Japan, the Fukushima plant being included, and the ones from the United States of America. They have reached to the conclusion that the [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 25th 2011 | no comments
Yan Leyfman was born in Belarus in 1989, three years after the Chernobyl disaster.
He and his family lived 75 miles near the power plant, and as a baby he suffered a lot because of the explosion. He had cysts all over his body, his skin was so itchy that it hurt, his fingernails fell off, and so on. At the age of 5 he moved to Brooklyn, but the effects of the radiation exposure [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 25th 2011 | no comments
According to a surgeon from Stanford University, one of Medtronic’s best spinal medications can have serious side effects on the male sterility.
The problem is that the doctors, who were paid by the company to analyze the drug called Infuse, could not find anything wrong with it. This contradiction now makes people believe that one of the side wasn’t hones when it made the [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 24th 2011 | no comments
According to a new research, the overweight women are discriminated against at the workplace.
The women who pack a few extra pounds have higher chances of not receiving a salary raise, and have lower chances of receiving a job. It seems that in the case of the men, packing on pounds does not affect them. It is believed that the ones which have a bigger belly are more advantaged than [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 24th 2011 | no comments
Harold Camping, the 89-year-old leader, and “expert” of the Bible stated that the world will end on May 21.
It didn’t, and that caused lots of unwanted reactions. Camping’s credibility was affected by the prediction. He did the same in 1994, when he predicted that the world will end that year. It didn’t, and surprisingly enough, less than 2 decades later there were tens of [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 24th 2011 | no comments
On the 12th of April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to Earth’s orbit.
John F. Kennedy was the president at that moment. He was president for months, and he was already facing a very difficult problem. The fact that Yuri Gagarin was the first man in the orbit represented a triumph for the Soviet Union, the enemy of the United States of America. The Americans were [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 24th 2011 | no comments
There are numerous cases when an emergency occurs in the plane, while the plane is in the air.
This happened right from the beginning of the commercial aviation. Since then, the pilots were forced to ask for medical aid, hoping that there is a doctor amongst the patients. More and more people travel by air, and because of that, more and more emergencies occur. Dr. Paulo Alves, a vice [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 24th 2011 | one comment
According to the researchers, more and more trees from the tropical forests are starting to be affected by lianas.
Dr. Stefan Schnitzer, who is a biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an associate of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, which is based in Panama City, said that this trend is getting more and more common. He said that whenever there is a [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 23rd 2011 | no comments
As you know, the doomsday did not take place. It was supposed to happen on May 21, but things remained exactly how they were prior to this date.
However, according to the scientists, doomsday might come at any moment. Of course, they do not think of it as a Biblical or religious event, but as a natural calamity, or a threat from the outer space. An asteroid might hit our planet [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 23rd 2011 | one comment
The past heat waves did lots of damages, especially in the United States of America.
This year, the officials of one city seem to be prepared for it. The officials from Chicago are preparing for a permanent heat wave. Climate scientists have told the city planners that if they do not do anything about it, by the end of this century, the city will be affected by excruciating heat [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 23rd 2011 | no comments
Jonas Salk, the University of Pittsburgh medical researcher who discovered the first successful polio vaccine in 1955, became a hero for many.
It is understandable why: he managed to create a vaccine for a disease which killed 300,000 Americans each year, and millions of people worldwide. On April 12, 1955, more than 2 million children received his vaccines against the polio. However, [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 23rd 2011 | no comments
I am certain that you have seen numerous movies which involve alien invasions.
Each of these movies has the same plot and the same outcome: the aliens come, they send land troops to our planet, and in the end we manage to beat them. The scientists have analyzed some of these theories, and they have reached to the following conclusions. The fact that the aliens come to earth in order [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 21st 2011 | no comments
You might be aware with the predictions that say that the world will end on 21st May and that is when all the believers will be brought to heaven.
According to the surveys, this means that about 200 million people would stop living on this planet in an instance. Of course, the predictions are not certain, as numerous such claims have been made in the past, and none of them managed to [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 21st 2011 | no comments
Humans love to gossip, and they are always interested in the lives of the other people, especially when it comes to the celebrities.
This is the reason why the gossip magazines are so successful. However, according to the scientists, this is not a new trend. This desire to gossip and to observe the other people comes from our ancestors. It seems that the reason why we gossip and [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 21st 2011 | no comments
The researchers have announced on Thursday that thanks to an experimental therapy to treat spinal cord injuries, a man who suffered a car accident in 2006 and was left paralyzed from the neck down, is now able to stand and even take steps.
Before the treatment, Rob Summers, who is now 25, was unable to move his lower extremities and his trunk. He is just at the beginning of a long [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 21st 2011 | no comments
According to the astronomers, the Universe is full of orphan planets.
They said that the Universe is filled with solitary planets, which were ejected from their planetary systems, and which are now forced to walk, float, alone. Some of them are traveling aimlessly in space, whereas others were attracted to various stars from the Universe. In the majority of the cases, these planets [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 20th 2011 | no comments
A group of researchers has recently stated that the extinction rates are not as harsh as many people in the world believe.
They agree that many types of animals are plants are disappearing but not at the rates portrayed in the media. The researchers stated that they know why these rates are overblown, and they have also stated that they have a new method of accurately predicting these [...]
By Sergiu Vidican | May 20th 2011 | one comment
You might be aware of the Arnold Schwarzenegger sexual scandal which appeared in the media days ago.
Nothing new, you might say: just another politician who cheated on his wife, and who has a child with another woman. It makes you wonder why these men, powerful men who have a wife for a very long time, cheat. However, the psychologists are not surprised by these decisions. According [...]
