martes, 21 de febrero de 2017

Scott Kelly, the astronaut rejuvenated in the space

Scott Kelly, the astronaut rejuvenated in the space

This is the experiment carried out in NASA that is to distinguish between two twins, Mark and Scott Kelly, two astronauts determined to use this mission.This mission has been carried out to find differences between these two twins, one of them that are on earth and at the same time as another in the space. The difference that has attracted the attention of researchers is a study on the telomeres. Are the ends of chromosomes.It has been observed that their telomeres were lengthened space during the stay. Now researchers are trying to find out the cause because, warn, could simply be due to physical exercise and diet that Scott followed during the 340 days on which it was orbiting the Earth.
















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14 FEB

Glosario: 
Telomeres: Are regions of non-coding DNA, highly repetitive, whose main function is the structural stability of the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells, cell division and the life time of the cell strains.
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ámbito científico: Space
Conclusión: I find it very interesting this mission that NASA has done that, thanks to things like this, perhaps we can go a step further by providing you of old age and perhaps we can delay, which I think is one of the things that everyone is afraid, aging

jueves, 16 de febrero de 2017

NEWS 6: Appears a lost essay by Churchill about science and space exploration

He wrote it in 1939, but the 11-page document hasn't appeared until 2016 in a United States museum.


Churchill hoped to publish it in the News of the World Sunday, but the war interrupted this plan.
The first sketch of the article is dated around 1939, but according to the astrophysicist, "reviewed it slightly in the late 50's while staying in a villa in the south of France, with its publisher, Emery Reves. Finally, Churchill changed the title of

Are We Alone In Space? Are We Alone In The Universe?


Churchill, retransmitiendo un resumen de su presupuesto en la BBC.

SOME EXTRACTS OF CHURCHILL

"One day, possibly not in the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to travel to the moon, or to Venus or Mars," Churchill wrote in this 1939 essay.
However, he distrusts travel or even interstellar communication, pointing out very accurately that it would take five light years to go and return to the nearest star.

"I am not so impressed by the successes we are achieving in our civilization as to think that we are the only point in this immense universe that contains creatures that live and think or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development that has appeared Once in the enormous compass of time and space. "

Despite its moral conservatism, the discovery of this piece of history reaffirms the condition of Sir Winston Churchill as a man of progress and enthusiast of science,