CHEMISTRY: Isn’t this a super cool picture of light? So tell me again, if we’re supposed to be figuring out electrons, why are we studying waves?
I’m thinking you’ve probably memorized the electromagnetic spectrum after that inspirational song; however, also sure you also know the uses of the different types (all except for long waves). Just in case you’d like to hear it again: Electromagnetic Spectrum Song
How’d you like the light problems so far? Be sure and learn the formulas, the two constants, and practice, practice, practice!
Hon Chemistry 1-10-17 The Electromagnetic Spectrum & Wave Properties of Light UPDATED from Tammy Skinner on Vimeo.
My SITN this week was about scientists being able to tell when people to pee in the pool. It was actually kinda funny. They were able to test the levels of urine in a pool using a sweetener with a POTASSIUM compound that we eat on the regular. Our body does not digest this sweetener; it passes straight through us, which is why they were able to use this sweetener. The results were EXTREMELY shocking (75 L of urine).
My SITN this week was about a study that is being researched about how they are trying to use Virtual Reality for a therapy method or pain reliever. The volunteers for the study had a cream put on their hand that had hot peppers in it. There was a burning sensation, after 45 minutes they put the Virtual Reality goggles on the volunteers. The pain was shockingly relieved when they started a movie of Antarctica on the goggles. Surprisingly, when the volunteers took the googles off after the movie was over, the pain came back immediately. Therefore, is the pain you are aware of something your brain controls?
My SITN this week was about the coronavirus. The article talked about how the virus started. It also tells you where it came from. They have not found a cure for the virus yet, and are still working on it.
My SITN article was about the spread of the Cororonavirus and what they are doing to attempt to stop it. The article also explained a few of the main theories on where the scientists belive the virus began and how thay came to that conclusion. The article also stated that they are building more space to keep the people infected with the virus seperate from the rest of the population.
My SITN article was about trying to reduce the swelling of the brain using nanoparticles. The scientists gave mice head injuries and then injected some of them with nanoparticles. The mice that were injected were better off than the mice that weren’t injected.
This week’s SITN article explained that many antibiotic-tolerant bacteria have become resistant to other types of antibiotics when the first one temporarily shuts them down! Yikes! As the bacteria go dormant and are “knocked out” by the antibiotic, they build up resistance to other kinds as well. This begins to explain why drug cocktails aren’t always successful in killing bacteria. Sooo, this information might change the way we are prescribed antibiotics and try to fight off infection. Although there’s still much to learn, I think this info and these steps are in the right direction.
My SiTN was about a new structure created by scientists, that can block out and cloak most sounds. It’s made in a crystal shape that diverts sound, just as natural crystals can divert light through prisms. The technology has tons of practical uses.
My science in the news was about how plastic is everywhere and how much is in your clothes. It talked about how the plastic ends up in the environments and the ocean life. It also talked about plastic substitutes so we would not use as much plastic. Some countries have started using plastic substitutes.
My SITN article this week was about how to make a better cup of espresso. It discussed how well grinded beans are not as good as coarse grounded beans. Coarse grounded can also make more with less and is much cheaper.
My SitN this week was about graphene oxide (GO) being a material that mosquitoes can’t or won’t bite you through. When it’s dry they won’t even land on the material but when it’s wet they will land and they can bite you through it.
My Science in the news this week was about how a high schooler from New York helped NASA discover a new planet. The way they discovered this is that they used the light given off by the Star, if the light fluctuated, it indicates that a planet might be passing over the star. With this theory and with other research they discovered the new planet that orbits two stars. It’s 1,300 light years away and 6.9 times larger than Earth. With this new discovery they have high expectations of finding other planets orbiting these stars.
My science in the news this week was about how scientists have developed a new form of carbon called cyclo-carbon. This form of carbon is and 18 ring form of carbon. They produced this by zapping cyclocarbon oxide with electricity to get rid of carbon oxide leaving them with cyclocarbon. Then, they photographed it by putting the cyclocarbon on table salt which is one of the few compounds it does not react with. However, they did not get to study long because the cyclocarbon is not stable and cannot be bottled up for future study.
My SITN this week was about scientists using samarium nickel oxide to coat materials, causing them to ignore the rule that hotter objects glow brighter. They found that the coating camouflaged the temperature of the material making it look cooler than it actually was. Scientists still don’t know how to use this coating to hide humans fully yet.
My science in the news was about how scientist are engineering longs from stim cells.
They used non host stem cells in a mouse which had a lung problem. The pair of lungs that were giving worked fine.
My science in the news this week was about how scientists were able to turn hydrogen into a metal using extreme pressure and very cold conditions. They observed the hydrogen turning from clear to a black color into a reflective material which the scientists decided was hydrogen in a metallic state. Other scientists were skeptical because this experiment was only performed once.
My science in the news this week was about how kids with peanut allergies have anxiety when going to school, because they have to sit alone at lunch. These kids with allergies have to sit at a separate table away from their friends. So researchers came up with guidelines for the parents and their kids so that the kids could sit with their friends.
My SiTN was about how phosphorus was found in a star system in our solar system. This could lead to the possibility of new life on other planets out of our solar system. This is a small chance, however.
My SITN was about scientists who wanted to use technology, more specifically a laser attached to the bottom of a drone for aerial shots of the whales, to find an easier way to measure the weight of blue whales. This was able to measure the length and width of the whales and find their volume.
My SITN article was about how removing/weakening the effect of a certain muscle protein (SETD3) could help prevent viruses like the common cold. Scientists found out that many viruses latched onto this protein when infecting other organisms and so they tested this on mice whose genes already had none of the protein. Those mice didn’t get sick, however, some of the mice had trouble giving birth without the protein. Therefore, scientists are looking for a way to create a drug that weakens the effect of the protein.
My SITN this week was about scientists using an injection of nanoparticles to help head injuries. They experimented on mice by giving them head injuries and then injecting some of them with the particles to see which ones recovered better. As it turns out, the mice they injected with the nanoparticles actually were better off afterwards than the others. The scientists hope to be able to use this discovery for humans eventually.
My SITN was about the studies so far on the corona virus. They were informing people about the different kinds of the virus. They wrote about the studies that have already been done, and the studies that in are progress. They know which strand of the virus is more deadly, and the statistics on them. They’ve learned that the virus came from an animal, not a human. They think it came from a snake but they aren’t for sure. They do not have a cure, so doctors can only treat symptoms.
My SITN this week was about scientist finding a sound wave that has a constant beat from space. This can be used to figure out distance and the heat of a star far away.
My SITN this week was about the discovery of strontium and other heavy elements being created when two neutron stars collide. Scientists predicted that a series of chemical reactions called the r-process creates these elements but they had no way of observing or starting the process themselves on earth. They then looked at the afterglow of a neutron star collision with a spectroscope and matched the emission spectrum with that of strontium and found that the r-process of one collision creates 3 times the amount of strontium that has or still will be found on earth and it creates other heavy metal elements along with strontium.
My Science in the News this week was about how scientists formulated a plan to make the United States 100% carbon-neutral by the year 2050. To achieve this they would have to have the government invest approximately 6 billion dollars annually for the next 10-15 years so that they can have the funds to plant trees, make giant carbon-capturing fans, and other methods of reducing our carbon footprint. If they reach their goal, they said that the atmosphere will become so much cleaner and our environment will become a lot healthier.
My STIN this week was about the coronavirus. The article talks about how there are different types of cornoviruses. One type can be a cold and sore throat and another type can be deadly. They have not yet found a cure for the coronavirus.
My SITN was about the recent wildfires in Australia, and how they affected the people, animals, and their habitats. So many animals have gone extinct or become endangered because of these fires. It is a sad thing for not only Australians, but all of the world.
My SITN was about these scuba diving scientists who found an old skeleton in a mexican cave. They used the skeleton to research humans
my sitn was about how scientists are trying to find a cure for HIV. sadly it did not work in this case.
My SITN was about how scientist turned hydrogen into a metal using high pressure and cold temperatures. They observed hydrogen being translucent then changing into a reflective object. They concluded that since shininess is a characteristics of metal that they had successfully turned hydrogen to a metal. Other scientists did not believe that they had done this because they only did it once and did not attempt to redo it.
My science in the news this week was about lithium-oxide batteries. Lithium-oxide batteries could be very efficient in the rechargeable battery realm, but they are not widely used yet because they die so quickly and cannot be recharged that many times. So, some scientists got together and decided to redesign the typical lithium-oxide battery. They switched out the electrolyte material and then also changed the material of the cathode in the battery. This new design resulted in a more energy-dense battery that was able to be recharged more than the previous design. The new design is promising because if they can continue to improve upon it, lithium-oxide batteries could eventually be widely used in vehicles.
My Science in the News was about Scientist discovering how Pluto’s surface is so dense. They way they came about discovering this was using weathering system that detected the wind patterns on Pluto and with low winds it was forming these dense layers of ice on Pluto.
My science in the news was about how scientists discovered gold in space. They found out that gold and other elements were being produced by dying stars. Whenever dying stars get sucked into black black holes, much energy is produced. This energy allows metal elements to be formed.
My science in the news this week was about the Antarctic’s glaciers melting. Scientists drilled a 35cm hole in a glacier and put a 600 meter long ocean sensing device in the hole to determine how warm the water is under it. The water’s temp was 2 degrees above freezing.
My science in the news this week was on jade bergs. The article talked about how recent investigation and new information has changed why scientists believe that some icebergs are green. Scientist now believe that it is because they contain iron oxides which give the icebergs a green hue.
My SITN was about a man who received a block of Uranium that was labeled, “Taken from the reactor that Hitler tried to build. Gift of Ninninger.” The man whom it was given to was named Timothy Koeth, and he knew the it was one of the cubes Hitler had before allied forces stole them from him. He was going to use them to build nuclear weapons. Koeth wanted to know more about these cubes, so he put his through some tests. He discovered that it was never used I a reactor, and with further thinking the other scientists realized that the critical mass of the amount of cubes Hitler had was not enough to make a reactor. Through some research he did discover that other German scientist had enough Uranium that if they had combined supplies with Hitler they would’ve had enough to create a reactor.
My SITN was about bees. It talked about this parasite, called mites, that bites bees and then the bite gives of a virus that causes the bees not to be able to fly. So a team of scientists did experiments on engineering microbes in the gut of the bee to fight of the virus. It turns out that the microbes not only can protect the bees from the virus, it turns the virus back to the mites, and the mites end up having the virus they gave to the bees. The scientists still have not released the bees out just to make sure that the microbes do not affect anything overtime, and especially affect the work of pollination for the bees.
My sitn is about scientists trying to figure out how the corona virus started and how it is transmitted. It also said how the virus isn’t just a cough it affects your lungs
My science in the new was about mice and their brain swelling. It divided how scientists performed experiments on mice’s brains and how the mice reacted to the brain swelling predicated on the scientists experiments. It gave many insightful insights on how mice respond to different experiments and it was very insightful. I very much enjoyed the article and everything I learned from it.
I meant to post my comment as C6 not the ) I apoligize. But the article was very insightful and I learned a lot from it and I am reposting this so I can correct my name. The mice swelling was very insightful and I hope to learn more in chemistry
My SITN article was about how scientists can now trigger immunity in children with food allergies. Using this scientists can save many lives.
My SitN article was about celestial bodies in space. It explains how scientist figured out the lifespan of a white dwarf and a pulsar prior to a supernova occuring between the two..
My stem was about giving Notre Dome it’s voice back. They were going to use computers for wave lengths.
My SITN this week spoke about the coronavirus. In this article it talked about the start and spread of the virus. It talked about how scientist are trying to find a cure for it.
My Science in the News this week taught me about beaked whales. It explains how they use synchronized diving to evade killer whales for protection.
My SitN this week was about nuclear waste. Scientists wanted to store it in stainless-steel canisters and bury them in Yucca Mountain, but they became concerned about possible water exposure to the steel. Some believed that water exposure could create a toxic environment. Others disagree, but they haven’t come to a conclusion yet.
My SitN this week was about memory loss. Scientists tested what effects injecting mice with a drug would have on their memory loss. They shocked the mice and saw what the reaction would be over time from the mice with and without the drug when put in the same situation. They found that the mice injected with the drug remembered for far longer.
My SITN from this week was about how scientists programed AI to be able to play different video games and then take feed back so that they can use the results to be able to solve real world problems.
My SITN from this week is about how nanoparticles are used to prevent swelling in the brain after it has received damage. The nanoparticles distract the immune system from going to the injured area in the brain. These nanoparticles could be used to help treat other issues in the body. However these nanoparticles are far away from the point of being used in the human body.
The elements in a neon sign are Helium, Krypton, Xenon, Argon, and gas.
I have recently struggled with memorizing the names of scientists and what they discovered. I am going to make flash cards of everyone and their discovery instead of just reading off the paper.