Science and technology news from Hopkinton Independent School

Saturday, March 22, 2008

"World Water Crisis" Photo Gallery

I've just discovered time.com's photogalleries, including such interesting slideshows as World Water Crisis...

These are beautiful photos, and each one has some good scientific and social information in the caption. Which is your favorite? Well, maybe I shouldn't ask about your "favorite" photo, since many of them are rather scary or disgusting. Which photo do you think is the most memorable? What does the caption tell you about it? (Include a link to the photo, if you can.)

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Evidence of Another Universe Found

This article is about how scienceits found another unvierse. The universe is about six billion trillion miles across. To find out more go to this link. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15488/1066/1/1/

mind game

did you ever think about mind control. well you can control this mind controlled videow game
heres a link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5167938.stm
sorrey i cant link

Drought!

Last year in Georgia, droughts hit record levels in some counties. Georgia pumps 10 million gallon of waste into wetlands every day, and by 2010, they want to up that amount to 24 million gallons. Fortunately, these last two months or so have been filled with thunderstorms and that added a lot of water to their reservoirs.
Additional information can be found at:
http://www.caes.uga.edu/topics/disasters/drought/

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Cold Case

Everett is one lucky guy. Everett, an NFL player had the worst thing happen to him, a spinal cord injury. When a football player get's somthing like that you usually don't return. In September is when he had this injury. By October he was walking. How? It is called hypothermia or below body temperature which just saved his life. Pretty cool!

Here is a link to a picture of him on the cover of Sports Illustrated:

http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/2007/1217_large.jpg

By Noah Sweetbrown

Cold Case

Kevin Everett had a spinal cord injury from playing football.  When Everett went down on the field medics rushed to his side.  One medic injected a chilling fluid to put Everett into a controlled case of hypothermia.  After they got Everett off the field they took him to the nearest hospital for surgery. Now,  medics and other spinal specialists are having a disagreement on what helped Everett the most, the surgery or the chilling fluids.     

If you were wondering more about the previous surgery on Kevin Everett.  Go to THIS.  

Bubble Bath in Australia

In Australia a storm drove the water on the sea shore to become A LOT of sea foam. It appeared to be a giant (30 mile long) bubble bath. To see more about this click on THIS!

Another Universe Found?

Scientists say they have found evidence of another universe. They have found a gap that is about 6 billion trillion miles across. They say that it is a gap from interaction with another universe millions of years ago.

Moonbows

It may look like a rainbow but take a closer look. Moonbows are just like rainbows but are caused by moonlight. The moonbow is caused when moonlight hits rain on a clear night. Moonlight is bounced off the water droplets and is projected as colorful light. Some scientists say that you have to have your back to the moon to see a moonbow and with light pollution it is even harder to see than before. These are a couple of places where moonbows have been spotted, Kentucky's Cumberland Falls and Africa's Victoria Falls, and they used to appear at Niagra falls to. One more mystery of the world that we can admire! here is a post to a cite on moonbows.

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/eyes/moonbow.htm

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2007/05/somewhere-over-moonbow.html

Monday, March 17, 2008

Dolphin gets fake tail

Winter, the baby dolphin has a prosthetic tail. Winter got caught in a fishermen’s net in Florida. She suffered from deep cuts, so much that the scientists didn’t think that she would make it. They were able to heal the main cuts on her body but they couldn't save here tail. So they made a plastic thing shaped like her old tail and put it on her. Ever since then Winter has been doing great and you would never know that she doesn’t have a real tail.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6030000/newsid_6032900/6032973.stm