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World's Deepest Land Animal Discovered

I read an article entitled "World's Deepest Land Animal Discovered."  It was about an insect called the springtail. The springtail is an insect without eyes but has long antennae. It has a grayish color body. The springtail had recently been found in Krubera- Voronja a cave in a remote area near the Black Sea that reaches a depth of 7,188 ft below the surface. This is the deepest in the Earth that an insect has ever been found. Scientist have speculated that these insect only recently began to live at such deep depths because of the fact that they have not lost their pigments like other organisms that live deep within the Earth. This brings a few questions to mind and that is if the springtail has begun to live deep within the Earth will other animals also begin to live deeper and deeper in the Earth and what do springtails eat since they live so deep within the Earth.  I found this article on Devine's paper.li and the link to this article is http://paper.li/238devink4/1327459028#!environment

Researchers Discovered That Fear Smells Like Sugar to Fish

Another article I read on Devine's paper.li was the article entitled "Researchers Discovered That Fear Smells Like Sugar to Fish." It is about the research done by the Duke/National University of Singapore about how when a fish is injured the rest off the school swims off in fear. The conclusion to this research was that when a fish is injured it releases chondroitin sulfate which is a type of sugar which scientist call Schreckstoff which means sweet stuff in German. This sugar works as a warning sign for the other fish by triggering fear in the other fish. This is scent is processed by sensory neurons known as crypt cells and scientist believe that these neurons are the key to understanding more fully this process.

The link to this article is http://paper.li/238devink4/1327459028#!health

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
A Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is a place where radioactive waste is disposed. Transuranic (TRU) waste is a type of radioactive waste that can be very dangerous if not disposed of correctly. This where the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant  (WIPP) comes into play. The WIPP is a plant designed to isolate different types of radioactive waste. TRU from old weapons used during the cold war is sent to Carlsbad, NM from all around the United States. At the WIPP in Carlsbad waste is isolate in buried in ancient salt formations deep beneath the surface at about 2,150 feet below the Earth's surface.
http://www.aboutnuclear.org/view.cgi?fC=Waste,Waste_Storage_and_Disposal,Deep_Repository_Disposal

Light Speed

The speed of light is a scientific law of the universe discovered by many scientists. It was not always something excepted by scientist and in fact before the 17th century most scientists thought that light could travel infinitely in no time at all. Throughout the years scientist have discovered that light travels at a constant speed (299,792,458 meters per second) and is used to measure distance in space. Theoretical Physicist and other science believe that nothing can travel faster than light but this leads to one question . . . the neutrino that traveled faster than light. Neutrinos are nearly massless particles. In an experiment done by the OPERA team results showed that the neutrino traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light and if the results of this experiment are proven true this could change all that we know about cause-and-effect relationships.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110923-neutrinos-speed-of-light-particles-cern-physics-einstein-science/

Science Blog
In Science we have been reading the blogs of people from your class and Ms. Englebrecht.  I have learned about what would happen if the world stopped spinning and I also got the opinions of others on topics like the big bang. The blogs that I commented on were http://jamrenjonz.blogspot.com/ Big bang, http://www.quintinm15.blogspot.com/ Mars orbiter mishap, http://maritzag15.blogspot.com/ Would the earth come to an end if earth stopped for a whole minute?, http://amberly1096.blogspot.com/ The True Meaning of Science and I thought that they were all very good blogs that I found very interesting to read.

The Big Bang
This week in science we have been learning about the big bang. It is a theory about the beginning of the universe. It has been something that has been pondered by many scientists and astronomers starting long ago, but until recently our ability to comprehend this was limited due to our lack of technology. Astronomers have found much evidence to prove the big bang, for example the expanding of the universe which we can see through red and blue shifts, Hubble's constant, COBE discoveries, the theory of inflation, and the ideas of the open or closed universe. The concept of the big bang and just the universe in general can definitely be slightly confusion but one thing that might be able to make things a little less confusing is http://www.sentience.tv/pdfs/1.%20The%20beginning.pdf  which goes into some detail about the beginning of the universe along with the explanation of the expansion of the universe and even quarks and the idea of the multiverse.