Re-Starting the Large Hadron Collider
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. For those who have not heard of the LHC between Switzerland and France, it is located about 100m underground, a particle accelerator which is used by physicists to study the...
View ArticleThe Basic Indigo Child
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Having a special child is something most parents proudly boast of, unfolding a slew of photographs which reach to the floor to the dismay of the onlookers. But having a child...
View ArticleCapital Power Plant Requests Changeover from Coal Usage to Natural Gas
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. With the Capital Power Plant considered the largest source of pollution in Washington, D.C., many feel this conversion is beneficial as it will not only reduce the amount of...
View ArticleHuman Fishes
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Human fish is a term many people do not recognize, yet are present in areas such as South Korea and Slovenia. One type of human fish looks like a human, while another type of...
View ArticleInvisible Cloak of Harry Potter Becoming a Scientific Reality
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. When we watch the movies of Harry Potter, the cloak he wears to become instantaneously invisible makes his movies not only fascinating but "way-out there" for the majority of...
View ArticleRe: The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2009
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Quite recently President Obama made an announcement to our country stating he felt that human cloning was not only dangerous, but profoundly wrong and has no place in society....
View ArticleIns and Outs of Human Cloning
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. There are two types of cloning—therapeutic and reproductive—with each one having its own group of supporters and anti-cloners behind it. There are fifteen states having laws...
View ArticleDevelopment of Induced Pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. On March 1, 2009, researchers announced they had finally found a way to eventually eliminate the need for human embryos for stem cell research, replacing them with the process...
View ArticleThe Psychological Forces Behind Money Issues
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Those who have read about the "rubber hand illusion" can easily recognize that illusions appear real within the mind. Scientists involved in the studies have found that the...
View ArticleThe ABCs of Animal Migration
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Animals are smart and adaptable, slowly evolving over the years to develop a method to cope during their most difficult times of the year. Typically called the annual...
View ArticleGenetic Influence on Migration
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Science is gathering evidence showing us "animals inherit migratory routes from their parents genetically." We know that migratory routes and genetics are associated with each...
View ArticleOrgan Donation - Medical Miracles for Monetary Gain
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Organ donations go back as far as 1954, when a kidney was successfully transplanted from one healthy body to a diseased one. Today, most parts such as skin, cartilage, lungs,...
View ArticleExploding White Stars Develop into Supernovas
By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Rosanne Di Stefano, a Harvard astrophysicist, has recently completed a research study on exploding white stars in a binary star system and how they develop into a Type 1a...
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