February 4, 2014 Physical Science
When Congress asked the U.S. space agency NASA how the world can be protected from marauding asteroids and careening comets, the officials at NASA gave a collective shrug and space agency chief Charles Bolden simply responded: “Pray.” That’s the unsettling…
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February 4, 2014 Physical Science
NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a rodent on the surface of Mars! Or a rock. Such is the potentially historic news making waves on sites such as the Huffington Post, which ran a story on the blurred but suggestive photo…
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February 4, 2014 Medical Science
IS CLONING PETS A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO HUMAN CLONING? Yes. I think it is a very slippery slope. Remember Hitler? He may not have used the scientific advances that we have at our disposal today but the idea of a…
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February 4, 2014 Earth Science
A small island chain nation within the Pacific ring of fire, Japan will always have more than her fair share of natural disasters. Although Japan is a crowded, highly, technologically advanced nation which takes earthquake and seismic events very seriously, …
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February 4, 2014 Physical Science
Under President Obama’s 2011 budget proposal, NASA’s Constellation program is canceled, and NASA is given the outline for a new direction. Constellation was supposed to be the program that got America back to the moon and beyond. Does its cancellation…
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February 4, 2014 Medical Science
The path to human cloning is not a slippery slope to moral laxity; it is a step towards significantly increasing our quality of life. Much of the world is afraid of human cloning because they focus on its problems and…
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February 4, 2014 Medical Science
If they are cloning pets it is only a matter of time before it takes a human turn. Society as a whole has become to “God like” instead of just letting nature take its course. Animals and people were made…
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February 4, 2014 Medical Science
Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA for short, is the hereditary material found in humans. DNA is located in the nucleus of almost every body cell and is considered to be the human blueprint. Structure wise, DNA is made up of nitrogen bases,…
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February 4, 2014 Medical Science
The ethical questions surrounding human cloning are many and complex. Some people come at the issue from a religious perspective because the state of the art for embryonic cloning still destroys the embryo. Others worry about the science being used…
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February 4, 2014 Physical Science
Naiad, a tiny moon of Neptune was lost and had not been seen for over twenty years. The elongated-shaped moon was originally discovered in September, 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Since 1989 all attempts to view the tiny moon…
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