Science in the News 5

The article I read this week is called: FUTURISTIC FLIGHT, and the link to it is the following: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=8&sid=20033cec-866a-463a-aacd-7f1898d155ae%40sessionmgr112&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ulh&AN=90208453

This fascinating article is about how a highly advanced technology plane makes the first solar-powered flight from coast of San Francisco to New York's coast. The issue relates to science because it shows us how technology in advancing more and more everyday. The position taken by the author is "futuristic" just like the article's title because it tells makes us realise how much technology has advanced to present day and what to expect for the future. Since solar-powered means without using a single drop of fuel, the plane gets all its energy from the Sun. The way it works is that when the Sun is bright and shiny, the plane, called Solar Impulse charges a set of batteries that allows it to work day and night and that way the need of fuel was never needed. 

This article is very amusing to me, since it is incredible how technology is advancing, and how it will become much more easier in the future to travel. It also makes me very happy because if scientists keep working on improving this plane, in the future, planes like this will be used to transport people saving tons of fuel. I absolutely agree in the author's position because technology is advancing so fast that we don't know what the next invention will be. I think the author did showed us enough evidence to support his position because it tells us how we will be able to save fuel in the future and how many things that need fuel will no longer be in need of it. The implications with the future are really good since this article is all about the future. We all have seen how technology advances everyday, like the telephones, they have become much more advanced from the first one they invented. this means that for the future, we can expect anything to happen, even the things you least expect.

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The article I read this week is titled: Guinness record: World's thinnest glass just two atoms thick, and the link to the article is: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130912095241.htm

This interesting article is about the world's thinnest sheet of glass, as the title states it. The issue relates to what I have seen in science because precisely we are studying about molecules and atoms and how small they really are. The position taken by the author of the article is one kind of like amazed or blown away. He is really impressed of how glass could have gotten so thin. Lots of studies have been made on this amazing discovery, for example, scientists form Cornell University and Germany's University of Ulm have made studies of how only an oxygen and a silicon atom combined make the thinnest sheet of glass.

This article means many things to me. For example, with this amazing discovery, we now know that scientists will be able to make small things in the future with the help of some science involved. I definitely agree with the position of the author, i am amazed and surprised of how something so small and thin could be cataloged as glass. I think the author did provided us with convincing evidence to support his position because those scientists of the universities gave us the data of how the thinnest glass is made of. The expectations for the future are really good regarding this article since new technology has been applied for this type of experiments.

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The article I read this week is titled "Scientists Confirm Existence of Largest Single Volcano On Earth" and the link to it is: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130905142817.htm

The article I read this week is about the largest volcano on Earth and among the largest in the Solar System. This article relates to what I have studied in science because a couple of years ago we studied about some kind of like layers of magma and now it comes to be the largest volcano on Earth named Tamu Massif. The position taken by the author of the article is very happy for the scientist since he made a new discovery and that that discovery could lead him to new ones. The scientist, William Sager first started to to study the volcano in Texas A&M College 20 years ago and now on the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Sager's studies included the location about 1,000 miles east of Japan, that Tamu Massif is the largest feature of Shatsky Rise, which is an underwater mountain range formed 130-145 million years ago by the eruption of many underwater volcanoes. Before this discovery it was not clear if Tamu Massif was a single volcano, or the point of many eruptions. Through many sources of evidence, like core samples and data collected on a research ship, Sagar has confirmed that Tamu Massif's baslat mass did erupt from a single source near the center.

This article applies to my life because I live near the Pacific ocean and surrounded by volcanoes. I definetly agree with the author's postion because the scientist William Sager made a great new discovery which will take him on way of many other new discoveries. I think the author did provided the article with enough convencing evidence and data from William Sager for the biggest volcano on Earth. In the article, the author emphsizes that Sager's studies has lead bim to believe their are bigger volcanoes because there are bigger tectonic plates which could be bigger discoveries for the future.

This is the link to my Ernest Rutherford's prezi presentation: http://prezi.com/awsxeiddfzpa/ernest-rutherford/