NOTICIA DE LA SETMANA 3: "Europe could cancel ExoMars 2020 mission if it does not get more funding"

Europe could cancel ExoMars 2020 mission if it does not get more funding

The European Space Agency (ESA) needs "several hundred million euros" to continue with its rugged project to explore the Red Planet, ExoMars 2020, and hopes to get those funds, but its CEO warned Monday that the program can be canceled if it fails the financial support of its members.

ExoMars 2020 is an ambitious European-Russian scientific mission in two stages at 2016 and at 2020 aimed at looking for signs of current or remote life on Mars.

The first part was finalized on 19 October 2016 with the successful launch of the Russian-European probe TGO.

However, the "Schiaparelli" module traveling on the probe failed to reach Mars well and ESA is still investigating the causes of the impact.


Glosary:

Sonda rusoeuropea TGO---> Russian-European probe TGO---> Un orbitador transportador robótico, que fue lanzado hacia Marte el 14 de marzo de 2016 como parte del programa ExoMars, liderado por la ESA.


Commentary:

En mi opinión es un desperdicio de capital, invertirlo en esta misión, ya que por lo que parece no llega a ningún buen resultado. Yo pienso que deberían abortar la causa y no gastar más dinero.






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10/11/2016

Cover Crops in buildings: the solution of Madrid for the climate change

Cover Crops in buildings: the solution of Madrid for the climate change 

Raised in Madrid in a first phase to ten cover crops in municipal buildings. Aims to promote a green urban infrastructure that offers benefits to the city. And it does so in three scales, building, neighborhood and city.

-Within the scope building sustainable plant covers will be created in ten municipal buildings such as well-known libraries.And believe that it will be able to get to improve the energy performance of the building, in addition to regulate the flow of rains in case of heavy rainfall, the increase of surfaces of spaces of the city plant and many more enhancements to the city of Madrid

-In regard to the neighborhoods they want to install banks and bins in order to reduce the transit of cars and to get to create a more pleasant microclimate. And so improve the microclimate with an increase of the vegetation and the space for the pedestrian

-In the field city is projected the naturalization of the Manzanares on its way through the city to increase urban biodiversity

http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/ciencia/noticias/7945616/11/16/Cubiertas-vegetales-en-los-edificios-la-solucion-de-Madrid-para-el-cambio-climatico.html

8/11/2016

Ámbito científico medioambiental 

Glosario : 

Manzanares: Es un río del centro de España, afluente por la derecha del Jarama, que a su vez es tributario del Tajo. 

Incremiento: (Incrementar) Hacer que algo sea mayor en cantidad, tamaño, intensidad, importancia, etc

Infraestuctura: Conjunto de medios técnicos, servicios e instalaciones necesarios para el desarrollo de una actividad o para que un lugar pueda ser utilizado.

Comentario: 

 I think it is great that are willing to implement environmental infrastructures to improve the pollution and trying to find different ways of achieving an improvement in the environment, since it is very important for our planet and for us to be able to breathe pure oxygen. In addition that gives the city a good image with both green

Graphene, the divine material

200 times stronger than steel, but flexible and lightweight, this is the material that is destined to change the technology

Graphene is so special, so unique and so promising material that would seem magic if wasn't something as simple as a layer of carbon atoms shaped like a honeycomb but two dimensions.
Although still present has little, their future is so promising that threatens to revolutionize diverse technologies and sectors.

With the thickness of an atom, no thinner material, a million times thinner than a human hair. Graphene is at the same time, very strong, about 200 times more than the steel. And it is very flexible and so light that one square meter of graphene weighs only 0.77 milligrams.
Another particular lays eyes chiribitas all the electronics and technology industry. Besides being a great thermal conductor, also it conducts electricity better than copper or silicon. And on top it is abundant and relatively inexpensive to produce.

Discovered in 2004 by two researchers at the University of Manchester who received the Nobel

Glossary:

• Honeycomb; a structure of hexagonal cells of wax, made by bees to store honey and eggs.

• Threatens: state one's intention to take hostile action against someone in retribution for something done or not done.

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Commentary: 

I think that the invention of graphene is a great discovery because it is the largest technology to the present invention just being created. Graphene is going to be very useful, as it will create many electronic devices, which are savers and are very easy to use, so as to keep them as they are flexible and can be bent as it is therefore in my view I say that graphene is very favorable to us because it does not pollute much and is a technological breakthrough for humanity.

NOTICIA DE LA SETMANA 2: "Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2016 to illuminate Recycling System Body"

"Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2016 to illuminate Recycling System Body"

Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded on October 5, 2016 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the mechanisms of autophagy, the recycling system of the body. The meaning of the word autophagy has its origin in the Greek language and means "eat yourself." The concept emerged during the 1960s, when researchers found that the cells could destroy their own content, locking in membranes and sending the resulting lysosomal vesicles, a cellular organelle in charge of recycling, as detailed in a statement the Karolinska Institute, who is granting this award. 

Little is known about this phenomenon until the early 1990s, "in a series of brilliant experiments" with baker's yeast, according to the Karolinska Institute, Ohsumi identified the genes of autophagy. Japanese researcher then working at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Glossary:

Autophagy--> Autofàgia--> L'autofàgia és un procés catabòlic altament conservat en eucariotes, en el qual el citoplasma, incloent-hi l'excés d'orgànuls o aquells deteriorats o aberrants, són segrestats en vesícules de doble membrana i alliberats dins el lisosoma o vacúol per a la seva descomposició i eventual reciclatge de les macromolècules resultants.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/03/ciencia/1475486879_892946.html

Are the most intelligent animals the ones who yawn longer?

Are the most intelligent animals the ones who yawn longer?

Summary

Yawning is not only a uncontrolled human and animal action researched by doctors and psychologists, they have confirmed that hundreds of species of animals yawn like humans.

After analyzing 205 videos in youtube of the yawning of 177 animals and 24 species different, they did find a relation between features about a yawn and the brain of the animal.

The species with more varied yawns and of more length of time are the animals with brains heavier and with more neurons in the cortical.

Humans have 12.000 cortical neurons and our yawns is of 6 seconds of duration and for example rats yawn is 1,5 seconds.

http://www.lavanguardia.com/natural/20161006/41802600608/curioso-estudio-bostezos-inteligencia-animales.html

Date

06/10/2016

Scientific scope

Biology and animal. Yawn duration predicts brain weight and cortical neuron number in mammals

Glossary

Yawn: to take a deep breath with your mouthwide open

Lenght: How long is something from one end to the other

Species: A group of animals or plants that are the same in one way

Features: An important part of something

Neurons: A nerve cell that carries information between the brain and other part of the body

Commentary

Yawn is reflex that consist in inhaling air and stretching, it is a contagious reflex. There is approximately 20 physiological reasons why we yawn.
I think that this news is very interesting and i didn't know about it, i only thought that it was uncontrolled action that you do when you feel sleepy.

But this research demonstrates that is not the only characteristics that yawn gives us.

If you yawn longer that means that your brain is heavier and that you more neurons.

This study doesn't demonstrates that this appends in members of the same species but yes between other species.

It is also interesting that this research is also been done from the youtube platform of videos of animals yawning.
Yawning can mean that you a bored that's why this action sometimes it can be considerated a bad-behaviour.

In humans the yawn contagion is related to the social closenesses, that means that the higher level of contagion is with the people who are more bonded.

Yes, it is what it seems

Chimpanzees and bonobos had plus than an affaire in the past. According to a study published on science. They reproduced each one hundreds of years ago and they left footprints that can be read in their genomes. The investigation, lead by spanish and CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) scientifics, studied genomes complete of chimpanzees and bonobos of eleven african countries since Guinea to Tanzania. These analysis revealed that were crossovers beetwen these two kinds of chimpanzees. The first one, half million of years ago, and the most recently 200.000 years ago. Nowadays it can't happen. 

The fourth one (Link)  28/10/2016 19:18.

Glossary: 

Bonobos: It is one of two speciees in the gender of chimpanzees. The other kind of gender is the common chimpanzee.

Text Comentary: 

All I can say of this text is that it's brilliant that different types of chimpanzees had got sexual relationships each other. It's like when humans have got relationships. The combination in a japanese-guinea marriage will be exciting for us. Nowadays these type of chimpanzees affaires don't happen but years ago it was possible. 

"Thinking that we can live a thousand years is a conservative figure"

"Thinking that we can live a thousand years is a conservative figure"            20 OCT 2016

These have been the words of the British Aubrey de Grey a biogerontólogo that works in a technique of recovery of tissues that ensures that will enable us to live a thousand years.
His vision of aging:
the way it conceives the aging is different to the general idea that society has. According to Gray we can escape the aging using technologies such as gene and cell therapy, as well as vaccines and drugs, because for him the aging is a disease.
 
Link: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/10/13/ciencia/1476353983_661713.html

Glosario:
biogerontólogo(Gerontología): es la ciencia que se dedica a estudiar los diversos aspectos de la vejez y el envejecimiento de una población, La gerontología aborda todas las dimensiones de la vejez, incluyendo los aspectos biológicos.

Comentario de texto:
“Envejecer es un proceso natural e inevitable, pero solo en ausencia de medicina”

“No le damos a la gente las suficientes habilidades para sacar lo máximo de estar vivos”

These have been the words of Aubrey in an interview. It seems to me truly incredible that we can reach so many years and I agree with him. Equal that centuries ago the prosperity of life of a person was until the 30 and now we are by the 80. Are some 50 years of more than thanks to the scientific areas we have a prosperity of life higher than before.