Russia's Shiny Secret - A Huge Treasure Trove Of Diamonds Inside Impact Crater

By Meera Dolasia, September 20, 2012

Back in 1970, when Russia was part of the Soviet Union, there was a diamond crater discovered formed by an asteroid that fell at that place thousands of years ago. They didn't use its worth since the Soviet Union was very rich and produced there own gems but now that it is in-depended they start using it. It can't actually be used to create jewelry but can be used for the creation of unbreakable glass since from the force that the asteroid hit the Earth, it can't be 'broken down'. According to the article,  it is a "supply that they claim is vast enough to fulfill global demand for at least, the next 3,000 years."

I think this is very interesting and can save Russia as a country if there is an economical need. The weird thing is that they knew that  the gem's existence for more that 20 years and they didn't want to tell the rest of the world which is really weird.

This Summer - Transform 'Nuisance' Ghost Ants Into Beautiful Gems

Meera Dolasia, August 3, 2012

Hearing the word ghost ants it comes to my mind a picture of ants that are almost invisible. And that's what they exactly are. But they have a little bit of 'magic' in them. Whatever they eat, you can see it at their back and legs. Well... just the color. An Indian scientist tested it because his wife told him that those ants came and drank the spilled milk and turned white. Putting colored sugar drops in a lab, he brought these ants at his labratory and tested them. And it turns out really cool. 

I think that this is really cool and very 'creative' from nature and since I hate ants because they are so annoying this article made me look at them from another angle. 

http://www.dogonews.com/2012/8/3/this-summer-transform-nuisance-ghost-ants-into-beautiful-gems

Meat From Scratch

By Stephen Ornes April 12, 2012

-"How would you like you meat sir?
-Medium to well done sir.
-How many stem cells would you like in it sir?
-As many as possible for it to be healthy.
- It will be here in more than a decade sir.
-I can wait....
-And it will probably cost more than your house sir.
-I have enough money to pay for it."

That is probably the script for Mark's Post's appearance on TV where he will eat the first hamburger made out of meat....but not. His new invention is a meat made out of animal cells and nutrients. This will be a revolution for our environment and the population not only of people but of animals too. It is really difficult to be a vegetarian, not eating meet because you think it is like a murder and they are right. This new invention will make us all in a way vegetarians since you will eat meet but not by killing it. Scientists will take some of the animal's blood, mix it with nutrients and let it grow at the lab. Since our Earth's population has increased dramatically making the animal population decrease this will change everything. Scientists are still working on it and they will have the first sample of this meat at October when Mark Post- its inventor- will try it. This model will be finished in a couple of decades and when it is going to be finishes it will be both hard to find and hard to buy since it will costs more than the average American house cost.

This is really cool. This is a true revolution of meat for us  humans. I think that they will finish it earlier since the first test is going to be at October which means only one month from now.



Ornes, Stephen. "Meat from Scratch." Science News for Kids. N.p., 
12 Apr. 2012. Web. 15 Sept. 2012. <http://www.sciencenewsforkids.
org/2012/04/meat-from-scratch/>. 

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/04/meat-from-scratch/

French Artist And Designer Creates Elegant Graffiti Art Using Water And LED Lights

By Meera Dolasia on 08/26/2012

Young people and especially teenagers choose art to express themselves. Well, many of these 'expressions' is graffiti.On walls, on garage doors, on the floor and wherever you can imagine a graffiti can be done. But it is really difficult to be undone. The French artist Antonin Fourneau has probably experienced a situation like that and with the Digitalarti Artlab team they decided to create a graffiti that can easily be undone. After many plans and tryouts they create a graffiti wall made out of led lights and when the light comes in touch with water it turns on. 

This is amazing. One of the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. Graffiti made out of led light and water? It is pretty amazing how an electric shock doesn't occur. This is evolution of human kind and we can make beautiful creations using this kind of technology. It mentions in the article that there might be a tour of it but i am not sure if it is only going to be in france or all around Europe. I would really want to see from close how this 'magic' works. 

Dolasia, Meera. "French Artist And Designer Creates Elegant Graffiti Art Using Water And LED Lights." Dogo News. N.p., 26 Aug. 2012.

 Web. 02 Sept. 2012.

<http://www.dogonews.com/2012/8/26/ french-artist-and-designer-creates-elegant-graffiti-art-using-water-and-led-lights>.

http://www.dogonews.com/2012/8/26/french-artist-and-designer-creates-elegant-graffiti-art-using-water-and-led-lights 

Comparing Atom Sizes Lab

 For homework, we did a lab called comparing atom sizes. What we needed to do is simple. Find the relative radius of an atom by diving the radius of an element with the radius of the first element in the group. In order to understand the increasing and decreasing oh the relative radius of the atoms, we needed to do a graph which is showed above.

Conclusion: Predict where you would find the largest atom in any group of elements. What evidence would you need to tell if your prediction is correct? You would find the largest atom in a group at the bottom of the column. The evidence that I would need to tell if my prediction is correct, is making  table like the above one and finding all the relative radius of the family

Video Of The Week- The Smallest Periodic Table Of Elements

By Meera Dolasia,

This is amazing. This week in class we learned about atoms and bonding and part of our lessons were the periodic tables. While I was looking through the internet for an awesome current event I found this. The smallest periodic table. On the video it says that a student at United Kingdom's University of Nottingham's Nanotechnology and Nanoscience center cut a hair from his professor's curly hair and put it in a sticky tape that conducts electricity and out it at a machine that 'carved' on the professor's hair the periodic table for a birthday present. To give you an idea of how small it is, it can fit in a sticky note a million times and have still space! The length of the periodic table is 89.67mm and the height is 46.39mm

The reason I chose this event is because it is related to our topic in class and I think that it is really cool because the smallest periodic table i have seen it is in our text book which is almost a A4 paper!This nanotechnology is the coolest thing i have ever since and i sure that professor had the best birthday gift.



Dolasia, Meera. "Video Of The Week - The World's Smallest Periodic Table Of
     Elements." Dogo News. N.p., 10 Jan. 2011. Web. 26 Aug. 2012.
     <http://www.dogonews.com/2011/1/10/
     video-of-the-week-the-worlds-smallest-periodic-table>.

http://www.dogonews.com/2011/1/10/video-of-the-week-the-worlds-smallest-periodic-table

Starting 8 Grade

8 Grade started so did science. This year we will use again blogs and I chose to use this one instead of making new ones. Here you are going to get informed about science news and what we do in class :)