Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Mysterious Mass Bee Deaths

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left." Albert Einstein

Bees are dying faster and faster everyday. This is not a good sign because they are the one and most creature that contributes in the pollination of flowers and plants. They are responsible for the production of the best element ever known to man, Honey.

For 2 years, scientists have been studying those sudden mysterious deaths and so far they couldn't come up with one exact answer, they came up with a million theories but not answers.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Scientific End of Men - Y-Chromosome is Shrinking to Disappear

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Believe it or not, it's true and it's scary. Recent genetic research were conducted to prove that the Y-chromosome, the male chromosome, is in fact shrinking and with time it is about to disappear. Thus, resulting in the end of the entire male gender, and then the end of the sexual reproduction of the human species.

In every cell in our bodies, there is a set of 23 chromosome pairs that determine our characteristics and determine everything about how our body looks and works. 22 of them represent everything similar in our species between men and women, except for the last pair, they're either two X's or an X and a Y. The 23rd pair represent the sex of the person, either XX for females, or XY for males.

Now that you know what exactly we're talking about. The first complete human cell consisted of two identical XX chromosome and each has about 1,000 genes, the Y-chromosome is an evolution, or a mutation of one of the X's. Throughout the years, the Y-chromosome has shrunk to have less than 80 genes out of the 1,000 the X still has. The picture says it all, look at the X and the Y.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Edible Food Menus and Chemically Enhanced Meals

This picture contains the Maki Roll, but on paper. Believe it or not, the paper it's printed on is edible and when you eat it you will taste actual maki roll flavor.

Homaro Cantu, a chef and an engineer, invented this incredible idea. He used an ink-jet printer with cartridges filled with liquidized food to print artistic meal pictures on a low-fat soy beans and potato paper. So if you see a paper with a chicken printed on it, eat it and you will taste the same meal printed on it, chicken.

Homaru said: "You can make an ink-jet printer do just about anything. Just imagine going through a magazine and looking at an ad for pizza. You wonder what it tastes like so you rip a page out and eat it."

This is an amazing idea and an incredible invention. It takes a very smart person to come up with such high tech food catering. To read the original article with details about his famous Moto Restaurant in Chicago CLICK HERE.