MeadowP current event

Do Dogs know self?

My guess is this title doesn't make too much sense. What does it mean? Its pretty much do they have a sense of self do dogs know themselves apart from others. In this article you will hear about how people have tested dogs to find the answer through just daily life and tests that are done. Do dogs really have a sense of self?  

There were tests conducted to find this out. Scientists used a mirror to test this by putting a dot on an animal's head (including human we are animals to) and showing them themself in the mirror. Most of their subjects passes by touching the dot and that shows they know “thats me in the mirror” but dogs did not the would just think it's another dog or something they should sniff and mark. i just don’t think the mirror is the best example and neither did Roberto Cazzolla who came up with another way to test the dogs. He placed down something the dog who was being tested has urinated on and other things other dogs have.  The dogs were let loose in the area to see how long they spent at each spot. When they simply did a fast sniff and walked by it was showing that they recognized it as them self. They did succeed in this test i believe this shows that they do recognize them self by scent not sight. So i say that dogs do have a sense of self and do know they exist separately from other and know there name as theirs.

My dog has also failed the mirror test not that i was trying to test him but if he looks into a mirror he doesn't know it's him he is afraid of the big dog in the mirror also known as himself. I still doubt him sometimes thought whether or not it's just him he will get suspicious about his own paw prints in the mud. I chose this because i believe they do have a sense of self and that someone questioned it made me curious on what it might be that they doubt and to see if my mind would be changed but i still believe the same. Do you think that dogs have a sense of self?

OliverH Current Events

Corkscrew Killer

3/11/16

Publisher: Liz Devitt

Editor:Oliver Hixon

The scientists Philip Hammond and Andrew Brownlow have tracked a seal that started off in Scotland and ended up in Germany. The seals are not only killing the Harbor Seals but video footage shows an adult Grey Seal killing one of its younglings with a spiral cut around it’s body and then eating it. At first the scientists thought that the cut came from a propeller from a large ship, but later realized that they were wrong. This picture shows a dead Harbor Seal on a table being examined for the spiral cut.

When the scientists took a closer look at the seal cuts they noticed that the cut was a very clean cut and wasn’t jagged like a propeller blade would cut. A quote from a professor “Prior to this, we considered it rare behavior if gray seals ate other seals. We also did not think that it was possible for bite and tear attacks to cause such smooth-edged wound margins.”A part of the text says “‘This shift in specialized predation is still fairly rare,’ says Philip Hammond. He’s a population biologist. He also works at the Sea Mammal Research Unit at St. Andrews University. But he was not involved in studying the corkscrew cases. For him, it’s still unclear how big a source of pup deaths the gray seals are. ‘Propellers,’ he worries, ‘haven’t been completely ruled out.’” I think that seals have a life cycle and if the scientist can get the Harbor Seals migrate to another spot they can safely have a spot where they can start a new life hopefully without having a problem. But the hunt isn’t over there will be quite a bit more time before they figure out what to do with the problem.

I think that the author had good thinking spreading the word because if the word didn’t get out there would probably get worse because nobody knew to help or get help so everything would just disappear and nobody would of knew what happened. I thought this article that I found was interesting over the other articles because if Brownlow and Hammond had just left the situation I think it would lead to some serious problems for seals because if all the Grey seals eat the Harbor Seals there will be no food for the Grey Seals then the Grey Seals with die off etc. It relates to our science because we talked about invasive species for our Brook Trout topic and I thought it would be exactly the same if nobody knew and invasive species can be difficult to deal with so I think this will take a few more years to figure out

Sources: Hixon, Oliver Bruce, ed. "Seals: Catching a ‘corkscrew’ Killer."

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avis current event

Back off the Bacon and Cold Cuts?

Stephen Ornez

Student Science

JANUARY 8, 2016

  A new report by WHO, in October 2015 revealed that eating bacon and other processed foods could lead to cancer. these foods include cold cuts,hot dogs,and other types of sausages. 22 experts concluded from over 800 studies that people who eat lots of red meats and processed meats have higher risk of deadly cancer.

I chose this article because a lot of people eat processed meats and red meat,and because it is an interesting topic. I found it while looking for websites to do my science report on.the fact that beef and other popular things could cause cancer grabbed my attention,as they are eaten by many people.WHO warns that more than 50 grams a day could cause cancer.

it affects society,because many people eat these meats,and they could lower their intake. “You shouldn't be eating well-done cooked meats, or barbecued chickens, or barbecued steaks, or processed meats every single day,”. Having a hot dog or bacon once in awhile is harmless,but having it every day could cause cancer. Each year, more than 130,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer. WHO’s 50-gram warning equates to two strips of bacon. It’s about two slices of ham or one jumbo hot dog. Eating red meat has it’s benefits. It contains protein, which the body uses to build maintain muscles and bones. Red meat also provides iron to help the body make red blood cells,but too much is bad.

this article affects me personally as I love hot dogs.it is very important to the average person as many people eat processed or red meats. I learned that eating right is important.this affects human biology,as it could cause cancer,which is a disease.

url:https://student.societyforscience.org/article/back-bacon-and-cold-cuts

Brennan J Current Event Project

http://www. ist.com/innovation/meet-two-scientists-who-implanted-false-memory-mouse-180953045/

          Two scientist implant fake memory in mouse          
 Brennan Jackson

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The story i'm writing my article about these two scientist who implanted a false memory in a Mouse's brain!!! There was this mouse and they attach wires to the mouse and then the mouse think of what they make it think. It can affect the world because if they can implant then they can take away memories. I chose this article because I am amazed on how they make a false memory become true it doesn’t make sense and I wanted to lear more about it.

I connect to this because i’ve always wondered if there was a way you could put one of your memories in someone article mind that would be cool. I think that this i'm is very  interesting because of the way they do I just article understand how you can make a living thing know something and make it remember it if it never happened.The way the mouse reacted was very interesting it remembered the shock very don't and just froze of fear. It connected to biology because it was involving a brain and they made this brain think something that was fake so they can edit a mouses brain. I really enjoyed reading this cleary it was fascinating to learn about mouse think untrue memories. Anyways the fascinating is very good I hope you enjoyed.

Article published 2014

Publisher/Author was not given what was is Smithsonian Company.

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By: Lily Lonigan Jan-12-16’ RR

Name Of Article: How Cancer Starts

Publication: Cancer Research UK

Article Author: Prof. Nic Jones

Publication Date: 27 October 2014

URL of Article: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/how-cancer-starts

How Cancer Forms

Cancer starts in our cells. Where the cancer starts is called the primary tumor. It can also grow in our bone marrow or blood cells. Since it can grow in our blood, cancer is not always solid. Cancer starts by growing in one cell but eventually exists in a whole group of them.

Our bodies need the perfect amount of each cell. If there are too many of one kind they will form a lump called a tumor.  Our genes control when a cell will die, and how many times a cell will split. “Together, proteins and RNA control the cell. They decide what sort of cell it will be, what it does, when it will divide, and when it will die.”Sometimes when a cell divides a mutation happens. A mutation is where a cell doesn’t follow directions because its DNA is damaged. The cell keeps dividing to make even more cells, but, since the DNA is damaged the new cells don’t get a full set of DNA, or enough chromosomes. The cells then continue to divide. Each with a mutation.  

I think this is important for all of the people out there who have had or currently do deal with cancer. Some of them might not still understand what it is, or how it formed inside them. This connected to me because many people in my family have had cancer over the past years. This article is also important just to educate people about what cancer is. Better to know than not.

I thought the site I got this from was very helpful. The video included in the article will help people who are visual learners. And I never knew that it was a mutation rather than just one cell doing all the bad work. The cons are it doesn’t say how exactly certain types of cancer form like lung cancer, or skin cancer. It just has one explanation spread out to all types. It also doesn’t say what it might feel like if you had a tumor.

Over all this article was very helpful, and easy for younger people to read. I hope the word spreads to a lot of people. And trustingly you learned something. Cancer is a big deal in this world, and we should be informed.

Works Cited

“How Cancer Starts.” Cancer Research UK. N.p., 27 Oct. 2014. Web. 11 Jan. 2016. <http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/how-cancer-starts>.

Louisa T-L Current Event post

Name of article: Scientists Identify Plankton from Space

URL of artical: https://student.societyforscience.org/article/scientists-identify-plankton-space?mode=topic&context=60

Publication: Student Society for Science

Article Author: Bethany Brookshire

Publication date: 7:00AM, DECEMBER 1, 2015

It was recently discovered that red tides can be spotted from space. This is important because red tides can be toxic threats to the ocean. Red tides are blooms of plankton. A bloom is when plankton reproduce rabidly and in a short period of time. They can appear red, brown or green but they are always called red tides. Scientists used to search for red tides by taking water samples and they would go out once a month and often could miss sudden blooms of plankton or red tides - they usually miss them, even huge ones.

Here’s how scientists learned they can spot them from space. A camera called the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) analyzes wavelengths of light. This camera was aboard the International Space Station. It is a very strong camera. It took a picture of Long Island sound. Because this camera was so strong, it was able to detect a change in the light in the water which indicated a bloom of plankton, a red tide. At the same time a camera took this picture, Dierssen was studying the image and her colleague was out on the water and took a sample from the Long Island sound. Heidi Dierssen works at the University of Connecticut. It took place on Long Island Sound, that is the area of water separating New York and Connecticut.

Although this particular red tide wasn’t harmful, it was good to learn that you can notice these blooms from space. In the future, scientists can use images satellites in space to find blooms and then go to that area of the ocean to collect samples and learn more about the plankton and why it blooms when it does.

“Ships miss these big events,” Deirssen says. With spying eyes in space, “We can find out a lot about what’s growing in the ocean. It can help us find out why [plankton] bloom when they do.”

In class we used Eco-Becker to do simulations about the algae, zooplankton, trout and pike. When there wasn’t a lot of trout, the zooplankton and algae would sometimes bloom and they would make the water toxic and block sunlight from other animals and plants in the water. It is pretty interesting that scientist discovered you can see the red tide from space because the zooplankton emits a light that is visible in space. The plankton that gave off the yellow light (energy) was a type of zooplankton called Mesodinium rubrum. Like we learned in class, zooplankton eats algae and keeps the algae’s chloroplasts, using it to get extra energy from the sun. It emits a yellowish glow that was seen in space.

This discovery is important because it will help scientists learn more about the ocean and find the red tides when they are happening. Viewing pictures from space isn’t everything - scientists will still have to take samples to really understand and study it. Even though the HICO is no longer in action, this is still a very important discovery.

EvanL Current Event Post

Opossums Could Hold the Key to Curing Snakebite Victims

By: Jason Bittel  

National Geographic Website

Written: March 23, 2015

A major breakthrough was announced on March 23, 2015 when Claire Komives, a biological engineer and professor, shared her findings with the American Chemical Society. Her team had found a peptide, a type of molecule, in the blood of the Virginia Opossum that had the potential for a universal snakebite antidote. This opossum’s immunity to snake venom was discovered in the 1940s, but Komives sought out further application of this discovery. Working out of California’s San Jose University, Komives’ team studied the peptide and the research team began to test its capabilities on mice. What they found was extraordinary. In the words of Komives, "The mice that were given the venom incubated with the peptide never showed any signs [of being sick]." This experiment withstood the venom of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake and Russell Viper, snakes credited with a multitude of deaths each year. While more work will be needed to verify the full capabilities of the molecule, the future looks bright for the field of antivenom.

I came across this article while searching scientific websites for articles related to biology, and noticed the opossum as the cover picture. A brief perusing showed this story was related to genetics, an important field in biology. This is because a peptide is a molecule that is always found in members of this opossum species. In addition, this article connects to hematology, the study of blood, linked because of where the peptide is found, in the bloodstream of the opossum. My personal reaction to this news was curious at the prospect of a breakthrough of this magnitude in medicine, especially coming from such an underwhelming creature as the Virginia Opossum. Through the beginning of the article I was engrossed at the fact of the mice’s immunity to peptide incubated DNA, then my interest slightly faltered when I realized that the peptide was not yet guaranteed to handle all venom. Further, various factors in each individual’s bite could neutralize the peptide’s ability; age, gender, and even the geographic location, but the idea continued to intrigue me. Overall, I believe the ingenuity of this idea makes it a remarkable pursuit. This is crucial work because snakebites are a major cause of deaths throughout the world, and traditional anti-venom is both costly and dependent on the species of snake inflicting the bite. This information would offer a cost effective alternative for those suffering the effects of venom. The product of this research could prevent the deaths of over 94,000 people worldwide, as well as mitigate the symptoms of many others with nonfatal conditions. This effect would be a major boost for both humankind and the field of medicine. While this doesn’t directly affect me, I know the benefit to others could be tremendous.

A Virginia opossum, the animal that could save snakebite victims.

Works Cited

“Opossums Could Hold the Key to Saving Snakebite Victims.” National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Jan. 2016. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150323-opossums-snakes-snakebites-venom-health-world-science/>.

Anna T's Current Event Post

Brazil Spreading Virus Zika Warns Women Not to get Pregnant

Anna Thornton

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/23/health/brazil-zika-pregnancy-warning/index.html

December 24, 2015

CNN- by Shasta Darlington

In Brazil, 6 of their states are in a state of emergency due to the spreading Zika virus. Zika, is a virus carried by the Aedes aegypti which is a mosquito that lives in tropical conditions and has spread other diseases in the past. This like the others is serious it has been linked to a major cause in birth defects. “Microcephaly results in babies being born with abnormally small heads that cause, often serious developmental issues and sometimes early death. In Pernambuco state alone, more than 900 cases have been reported ."These are newborns who will require special attention their entire lives. It's an emotional stress that just can't be imagined," Rocha said. "Here in Pernambuco, we're talking about a generation of babies that's going to be affected."”-CNN News. This important to the United States because these bugs could affect Hawaii, Florida, and Texas and who knows how badly it will influence this generation of young kids.

I chose this article because I felt that is a big deal in Brazil and people in America need to become aware, in case it spreads farther. This grabbed my attention when I heard about it on CNN just last week. Then when I went to read the article I was instantly appealed to the topic and wanted to keep reading, it is very interesting how they could link the microcephaly in infants to the Zika virus. Also, this is all new to Brazil, last year there were only 147 reported cases of microcephaly while this year there are over 2,400. It is a studied issue for the brazil scientist who are trying to find a cure. We wish the best for the young children and hope that us scientist can help them.

Works Cited

Darlington, Shasta. “Brazil Warns against Pregnancy Due to Spreading Virus.” CNN. CNN, 24 Dec. 2015. Web. 19 Jan. 2016. <http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/23/health/brazil-zika-pregnancy-warning/index.html>.

Erik B Current Event Post

  Scientists have "hacked" photosynthesis, and it                           could help them speed up food production

 Article by ScienceAlert Staff on 9/19/2014

Post by Erik B

Source: http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-qhackedq-photosynthesis-and-it-could-help-them-speed-up-food-production

You’ve probably heard of the process from which plants turn sunlight into nutrients, but what if it was possible to make plants make more nutrients and then produce more edible fruit. Well scientists in the UK and USA have found a way to make plants photosynthesize more with enzymes from a type of cyanobacteria. For a long time scientists have been trying to improve photosynthesis for plants by enhancing an abundant enzyme called Rubisco that is mostly found in leaves and allows plants to photosynthesize. The scientists in the UK and USA genetically place the Rubisco from a cyanobacterium known as synechococcus elongatus into the chloroplast, which is the organelle that photosynthesis occurs in, of some tobacco plants. After the tobacco plants with the enhanced Rubisco had photosynthesized the scientists found that they had a faster sugar production than a different group of tobacco plants without the enhanced Rubisco. "Hearing the results of this experiment for the first time was definitely one of those 'Eureka!' moments you live for as a scientist," Maureen Hanson, one of the researchers at Cornell University who took part in this experiment. An important reason that these scientists were able to do this while many others were unsuccessful is that these scientists added two bacterial proteins to the tobacco plants to help them use the cyanobacterial enzyme. One group of tobacco plants received a protein to help the Rubisco fold correctly and the other group received a protein to keep the Rubisco from losing its structure. There are still some problems with the cyanobacterial Rubisco though. One problem is that that the Rubisco sometimes wastes its energy by reacting to oxygen instead of carbon dioxide. Another problem is that the scientists have only tested this with tobacco, which has a well researched genome, but it is unclear whether this will work with other plants and needs to be studied further to determine this. Although there are still problems with this procedure, it still provides hope for increased crop production to help feed the world.

I think that this article is very important, because it provides hope that world hunger could be ended or at least decreased. People who are hungry would be affected by this discovery, but agriculturists would be also be affected, because it could improve their crop growth and their income. This article sounds a little too good to be true, but I think it is reliable, because many other search results include basically the same content. I chose this article, because I am interested in plant genetics and because I’m hoping that this discovery may help with the problem of world hunger. Also, if the attempt to increase crop growth does succeed, I would hope that the produce at the grocery store would decrease in price so that I could buy it for cheaper in the future. I learned from this article about how photosynthesis works and the name of an important enzyme, Rubisco. I agree with the scientists that this could be used to help with the world’s growing population, but I’m a bit skeptical as to whether it will be funded by a trustworthy sponsor. I’m a bit worried that the sponsors might charge too much to provide the enhanced plants to developing countries and that nothing will improve due to this. I think that this article also connects with my class’s cell unit, because words like “chloroplast” and “organelle” appeared in the article. The only possible cons that I see in this discovery is that I’m not sure how common the cyanobacterium for the process is or whether the Rubisco enhancement will pass genetically to the next generation of plants. Overall this discovery seems positive and useful.

Nathaniel S Current Event Post

Building Better, Safer Soil

Article by Kathiann Kowalski on Dec 23, 2015

Post by Nathaniel Snow

Link:https://student.societyforscience.org/article/building-better-safer-soils

During the Geological Society of America meeting on November 2nd through 4th, two groups have shared their findings about making urban farming better and safer. One group being lead by Sara Perl Egendorf, with the Brooklyn College, the University of New York, and the New York City Urban Soil Institute have been working on finding ways for urban farmers to grow better crops than by using everyday supermarket soil. To do this the have using sediments left by the glaciers of the last ice age. But the sediments must also have energy so the team decided to put half of the sediments, and the other half compost consisting of mostly dead plant. The team also used different percentages of these ingredient, but out of all of them the 50/50 one worked out the best and made a much better solution than the others and normal everyday soil.While one team is working on making urban farming better, the other is making urban farming safer. At Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Dan Brabander, has been working to find the best way to get lead out of urban farmed plants. Because urban farms are usually made in big cities there is a lot of lead in the air and thus, the plants have lots of lead. The team has been planting in urban farms to see how much lead is in different soils and see which ones are safer. The two teams shared their projects at the Geological Society of America meeting and hope to eventually combine their projects to make urban farming a great way to farm wherever you are.

This article connected to what we did in class because we just finished up a unit in class about the classification of flowering plants and just started a unit on cells which includes plant cells. This helps science today because it allows us to make healthier fruits and vegetables in vastly different locations so even if we get bigger cities and less farms we can still have farming and in bigger amounts. When I first saw this article I wondered mainly wondered how this would affect farming in general as urban farming is becoming a much bigger thing that hasn’t really been addressed for a while. This caught my attention when I was on student.societyforscience.org/sciencenews-students and I had had seen this one article and really caught my attention because we had just finished up looking at plants so this was a perfect article. After reading this article I was very intrigued because it shows what we have accomplished with urban farming because originally all people in cities had was imported garden foods from far away while but now people can get fresh foods from anywhere. This article to me prove that we are getting to a place where anyone can have a big green thumb.

Kaitlyn B Current Event Post

Kids grasp words as symbols before learning to read

Bruce Bower

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kids-grasp-words-symbols-learning-read

January 6, 2016

Have you ever wondered what you understood as a baby? Or maybe what a baby in your life understands when you are reading to them? It turns out that when you are around three to five years old you can sometimes subconsciously make up your own meanings for the words you see in a book. For example if there was a book with the word wind next to a picture of a landscape the child will then see and hear that the word goes along with the picture and make their own connection as to what the word might mean. Children can also see that a picture could mean many different things but a word has a more specific meaning. What surprised me the most about this study was that children from ages three to five have such a broad yet unspecific understanding of the language they are brought up with. I also found it interesting that some children do not make the connection that the words in a book are the same words that we speak.“Treiman’s investigation is the first to show that kids as young as 3 have the insight that print stands for something beyond what’s scripted on the page”.

I found this article interesting because my younger brother is six months old and this article is about how young children make connections to the words they see and hear. I know that kids do not start to read until they are older but I still found a lot of the things in the article still had things in common with infants as well. I am always wondering if my brother can understand what I am reading to him based on the pictures he sees on the page and the words I am speaking.

I first opened this article because I am interested in learning about the brain and how it works. I have taken some classes in the past and have found them all greatly intriguing. In one of the classes I took we were learning about how children develop when they are younger but we never went over anything that was about reading and understanding other people. One of the most interesting things I read about in the article was that kids can not tell that cursive writing is not just scribbles on a page but are actually letters. I found out that most kids that are read to more frequently then others find it easier to learn how to read when they are older. This article connects to our unit on cells because it is about the brain and how it works. Our brains are made out of cells and they all do their own little jobs to make it work the way it does.

Works Cited

Bower, Bruce. “Kids grasp words as symbols before learning to read.” Science News. N.p., 6 Jan. 2016. Web. 18 Jan. 2016. <https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kids-grasp-words-symbols-learning-read>.

“parent reading to their child.” Jiji.net Blog. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2016. <http://blog.jiji.ng/2015/08/how-to-raise-a-smart-child/>.

ChloeW current event post

September 22, 2015 Kathleen Pierce, Bangor Daily News

Chloe Whipple

1-18-16

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Portland Science Center

Have you ever wondered what the inside of your body looks like? At the Portland Science Center there are real humans that have donated their bodies to science. There are bodies that have been put into different positions, there are lungs, organs, brains and more. The people who lent their bodies to the Portland Science Center move all around the world to show more and more people the amazing things that bodies do, and how different it is between a model and a real human. Scientists and doctors have been amazed by what this has done to help them with their patients and their study. In the article I read I found a great quote about what the Science Center has done for the community.  The quote reads,  “We’ve had people look at the lungs, take out their cigarettes right there and throw them out,” said Gold. “If you are overweight, you are going to want to go to the gym right away”. The Portland Science Center is located in Portland ME on 68 Commercial Street. It has been here for a little longer than a year and will not be in Portland for much longer. The Portland Science Center has showed so many people what they need to know to be safe and take care of their body.
This article connects to the unit we are studying because in science we are learning about cells, and the structure of plants. In the article it tells about the science center and about the structure of the bodies. I think this was a important article because the world should know what it looks like when you do something bad to your body, and the different things that you should do to keep your body healthy. I chose this article because the function of the body and body’s movement is a topic that I really like. I like how you can see the way muscles move and how your heart moves. I learned from the article that the corpses have been preserved by a process called plastination. I also learned that these body are deceased and healthy. I was very  interested in this article because it told what the inside of our body looks like and the structure also, what is healthy for our bodies and what is not. I have personally wondered what the inside of our body looks like, the Portland Science Center has helped me figure out most everything that I want to know.

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