Sunday, September 30, 2012

A GOOFY NOBEL PRICE CEREMONY


"You must be a genius studying ununderstandable things and only use kilometer long terms to be a famous searcher!" if sombody ever tells you that, they are rong! Last septembre, in harvard, during the 22 annual Nobel Price award, the scientist studying the weirdest subjects got medalled, certificated and will stay for ever known as some Nobel price winners. What kind of subjects where they studying? How a dead salmon's brain works, what angle is the best to see the Eifell tower at its smallest, or how to stop an explosion from happening during a coloscopy. But not only were the scientists studying "special" subject, the ceremony was "special" too. The ceremony first started with an opera where they used a dress to represent the cosmos, then Robert Kushner inhailed helium and cut a real pie to explain the composition of the universe. And right before the Laureas received their trophy everybody stood up to throw paper planes through the room.
Here is the list of the prices:

List taken, translated and slightly changed from science et vie junior:
Price Psychology: Eerland, Zwaan and Guadalupe for their study "Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller.



Peace Prize: SKN the company to transform former Russian ammunition diamonds. Director Igor Petrov is also eager to distribute at the meeting candy.

 
Price of Acoustics: Kurihara and Tsukada, for the creation of SpeechJammer (the "jammer speech"), a device that can destabilize a person too talkative making him hear his own words with a slight delay

 
Price of Neuroscience: Bennet, Baird, Miller and Wolford, for insisting shown that we can detect brain activity everywhere, even in a dead salmon.


 Price of Chemistry: it is with the beard dyed green Johan Pettersson came to receive his award for demonstrating why some people in Anderslöv, Sweden, saw their hair color become grass. 

 Literature prize: the "Court of Auditors' American (the General Accountability Office), for writing a report on reports on reports that recommend the preparation of a report concerning the report on reports on reports ... Phew !
 

Price Physics: Keller, Godlstein, and Warren Ball, for their study of the movement of the hair in a ponytail.
 

Price of Fluid Mechanics: Krechetnikov and Mayer for why coffee cup that overflows into the hand while walking.
 

Price of Anatomy: De Waal and Pokorny, who showed that chimpanzees can identify conspecifics just looking after them. 
 

Medicine Price: Ben-Soussan and Antonietti, whom studiesd how to reduce the risk of explosion during colonoscopic examination.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Cloths for lazy people

Don't you hate it when your parents tell you that you have to go do laundry will you could be watching tv or playing video games? Well soon those times will soon be over!
Scientist have created a chemical mixture that is putten on cotton cloths this chemical micture is composed of different photocatalysts. The cloths covered in this mixture just need a few hours in the  sun to be cleaned and get ride of any odours. We already knew that titanium diaoxide mixtures could  remove stain with ultraviolet light but not sunlight."The waves of ultraviolet light are more energetic and shorter than those of visible light"
Now soon in our favorite shops we will be able to buy the most fashionable cloths and not even have to spend hours washing them.
GO LAZYNESS !!!!!!!!!!! :P

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Protecting makeup

 






Protecting Makeup!? Wait isn't makeup used to be pretty, to hide imperfections and look desirable? All of this is true makeup is also used for camouflage during wartime, and this makeup is not only put on small details as eyes and mouth, this makeup is on the whole face. But even more incredible scientists have created a special makeup for soldiers which protects from burning of any hot blast that may be coming from a near by explosion. Those hot blast only lasts about 2 second but it's temperature can exeed 600 degrees celcius, that has always been a big problem creating a lot of injuries, creating 3 degrees burns.

This awesome new paint will also, of coures be with camouflaging colors: dark brown, clear brown, green and white. It also is waterproof and insect repellent!!
Now we hope that this will help having less deaths during war times and that less soldiers will suffer of burns!
 

NEW ELEMENTS!!!

When you looked at the table of elements in your science class a year ago you might have thought " Wow , those are all elements that exist and we have discovered them". But that is not true, many elements a to be discovered and an example of that is that last of may 2 new elements were found and accepted in the table of element: the flerovium ans livermorium, now making the periodic table filled with 118 elements. Both of those elements are radio actives and are sythetique which also means that we cant find them naturally on earth.
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This is how scientist created them:
calcium (20 protons) +curium ( 96 protons) = livermorium (116 protons)  and a bit later .. = Flerovium ( 114 protons)
also:
plutonium (94) + calcium ( 20 protons) = Flerovium ( 114 protons)

Doesn't all this make you want to have your own lab and create elements, that could be new additons to our universe, that will be able to exist in text books for ever. If it does start by listening to your science classes even though anoying a teacher once in a while isn't that bad at all!!!
Goodby future scientists...