Forensic Chemistry (iluvmyfriends)

Forensic Chemistry (iluvmyfriends)

Sushi Not Often What You Think

A study finds that the tuna in your sushi could be an endangered species. In New York and Colorado the bluefin tuna, an endangered fish, is regularly put on the plate of sushi eaters. There are three species of large, fast-moving, high-energy Bluefin tuna. All three of the northern, sothern, and Pacific Bluefin tuna are highly sought by fishermen since one fish can be tens of thousands of dollars. Sadly, over-fishing has brought populations into a sharp decline. Bluefin fishing quotas have been lowered by th Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. At the March meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species the species will be considered on a complete ban on internation trade.
- Livescience Staff on November 19, 2009

Largest Web spinning spider discovered

On October 21, 2009 scientists discovered remains of the species golden orb-weaver, which is now called Nephila komaci, they discovered the remains among museum collections in South Africa and recently more dead specimens from Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa. Although, none of the discoverers knew that the specimens belonged to the not-yet-described spider. The Nephila komaci can spin a web up to 3 feet! The women have a body length of 1.5 inches and a leg span of 4-5 inches. The men are normal sized spiders and they are 5 times smaller then the women! Thats a big difference! The scientist have not found living specimens, even on several Africen expiditions, so they think that they are either endangered or hiding out in high trees where scientist have not checked yet.
posting by: Jeanna Bryner
picture by: M. Kuntner

Mice Levitated in Lab

On September 9th, 2009 in a labratory in Pasadena Californa mice levitated. The experiment was succseful because of the superconducting magnet that was created by NASA. Luanming Lui, a physicist, said that "It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented." The scientists on this project say that they used mice since they are, being closer biologically to humans, could help in studies to counteract bone loss due to reduced gravity over long spans of time. This is amazing because bone loss is attacking women during menopause and it makes it easier to brake, sprain, and bruse bones. If the scientist get this up and running in the near or far future then this would effect everyones lives.