Date:
May 8, 2014

Source:
University of Oldenburg

Summary:
"Scientists have proved that the magnetic compass of robins happens when the birds are exposed to AM radio wave's electromagnetic interference, even if the signals are just a thousandth of the limit value labeled harmless. This tells us more about migration of birds." Taken from the University of Oldenburg. In my own words this means that when a bird, in the tests a Robbin, comes in contact with AM radio wave's it effects it's migration pattern. I don't know exactly how but I have a few guesses. Shen the birds come in contact with the waves they forget where they are flying to. My second guess is the birds speed up, and get to their final location faster. This might allow us to understand and help creations that might be affected by radio waves too, or even other animals.

Date:
May 8, 2014

Source:
University of California - Berkeley

Summary:
Scientists have found that the polar bear has genes from previous types of bears that required very high fat diets, and this unusual diet was passed down to the polar bear. This could help us with problems involving high fat contents. 

Date:
May 8, 2014

Source:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Summary:
Scientists have created materials that not only repair tiny microscopic cracks, but they repair giant holes in them. Scientists blasted a hole in a sheet of special repairing plastic and it repaired itself! (I do not know if it was instantly or not) The Materials fill in large cracks by regrowing the same materials.

May 5, 2014

Science Daily

Infusion of young blood recharges brains of old mice

Something, or some things in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in old mice. If this thing is in human blood, it could create a new way for renewing our aging brains, and it might mean we could find new ways to treat deceases like Alzheimer's disease.

The real cause of the Syrian Revolution is drought. I feel this caused the revolution because lots of people in Syria are farmers, and their crop is all of their food. However, the drought causes the crop to die/not grow so the people look to their government to give them food and water, but the government didn't give them what they wanted. So, the people revolted, and the revolution began. The draught is caused by us because if it was caused by a global cycle then we would be in a cooling period not a draught. We caused it by chopping down tries and burning them, which releases co2. We also release tons of co2 by causing peat fires. Peat is in between coal and wet soil, carcasses, etc. Peat fires are under ground and are near impossible to put out. Lots of people outside of Syria don't know about the real cause of the drought because they are convinced that it is caused by a natural cycle. The people trying to tell them that the drought is caused by us are denied just because they are democrats or Muslims, etc. "A thermometer is not democrat or republican, it is a thermometer." We can't do much but we can unplug chargers so we don't waste energy, or take shorter shower, etc. Finally, we have to do the little things to help our environment.

Cosmic slurp: Supercomputers help astronomers understand and predict how black holes swallow starsDate:
April 14, 2014

Source:
University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Scientist have recently been seeing lots of light coming from the center of many galaxies that are claimed to be not active. Using very good telescopes, the scientists have found out that the light is coming from a black hole "eating" a star that is orbiting to close. Tidal disruptions are when stars orbit to close to black holes and they get 
usurped. Scientist are using supercomputers to simulate the tidal disruption to better understand the dynamics of it. Doing this will allow scientists to find out other examples of tidal disruptions.