A Far-Flung Possibility for the Origin of Life

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/science/space/a-far-flung-possibility-for-the-origin-of-life.html?ref=chemistry&_r=0
Scientists say that us humans are all martians. A man argued that Mars was a more probable place for life rather than earth. Certain shared chemicals are on both Mars and Earth. There are strands of RNA combined into two double strands which are encoded in human's genes. Contreversies have been brought up because this chemistry experiment may not have been possible in the Early Earth or Mars. Mars has a high level oxygen

A Way to Make Carbon Storage Pay

source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bryant-a-way-to-make-carbon-storage-pay

Putting carbon dioxide in hot brines can create methane to be sold. A carbon dioxide will be saved and be stored underground. In the hot brine, it will turn to methane. AFter it will be sent back underground and the process creates methane.  Methane can be sold and used for heating and paying. This is a costly process and time consuming. The outcome is more money, which is unfortunately a large part of the goal.

Rapid DNA sequencing cleared for the clinic

source: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/11/rapid-dna-sequencing-cleared-clinic

These news DNA sequencing devices are soon to be used for clinics. This is a great discovery in chemistry. Clinics use these devices for diagnostics and tests. This was developed by Fred Sanger who recently passed, but was a 2 time nobelist in chemistry. In Illumina this is going to be used by running cystic fibrosis over  diagnostic tests.

How zinc starves lethal bacteria to stop infection

source: http://phys.org/news/2013-11-zinc-starves-lethal-bacteria-infection.html

Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for killing children, the elderly and many other people by causing pneumonia, meningitis, and other serious infectious diseases. Zinc plays the role by blocking a certain area that bacteria needs to travel in, and ends up starving it. It blocks a protein transporter, where bacteria gets manganese, a metal that helps cause disease with the bacteria. If manganese wasn't existent, the bacteria would be harmless and removable simply. This is a useful discovery and can help save millions of lives in the future.

New generation of micro sensors for monitoring ocean acidification

New generation of micro sensors for monitoring ocean acidification

source:http://phys.org/news/2013-11-micro-sensors-ocean-acidification.html

This recently discovered is a great improvement in the science department in the world. This technology helps and gives the acidity in pH of ocean water. This, unfortunately, can only work in sea water issues. Oceans become more acidic when atmospheric carbon dioxide.  When carbon dioxide dissolves in oceans, it becomes acidic. Acidity will ruin marine life and marine economies, also. This can detect and sense human impact affecting a region. This technology can improve ways  to act about the marine problems, and deal with human troubles.

A Far-Flung Possibility for the Origin of Life

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/science/space/a-far-flung-possibility-for-the-origin-of-life.html?_r=0

Scientists believe we are all martians. Scientists observed chemicals that could have supported life in areas like Mars. This can prove that life did not start on Earth but out of the Earth's atmosphere. Small organic compounds reacts as they would to support life. The RNA researched can be combined to be DNA which are in genes of humans. Both planets have many similarities and this is a huge discovery with very supportive evidence.

Recycling Valuable Materials Used in TVs, Car Batteries, Cell Phones

source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131030104112.htm

In hybrid cars and flat screen tvs, all carry valuable sources inside them. The valuable material are being wasted and thrown out everyday. Scientists created a new method to recycle these materials safely. An example of this is terbium is a metal used in a knife. Scientists can release this material from the knife and use this valuable metal for other uses. Or since terbium may be projected to be all used up in 30 years, scientists can preserve this metal. The process of taking these materials out of objects was by using a nanomaterial known as nano-magnesium hydroxide. This process can be proven to be very helpful in the future.