Friday, May 20, 2011

Woodwinds are the Main Culprit

After recent studies, you should know that you should not share your woodwind instrument. Stuart Levy, a microbiologist, has teamed up with Bonnie Marshall. They have teamed up to tackle and test 20 instruments recently played. After their study they have figured out that clarinets and saxophones have held these harmful bacteria for many more days than other instruments. So you better not share your clarinet anymore. If you do, you better be ready for all the affects.

For more information go tohttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/74546/title/Dont_share_that_clarinet__

Monday, May 16, 2011

Wow, was there once life on Mars?

As a human species, all of us have thought of the same idea: "Is there life on other planets?" We also know that to have life there has to be water on that planet. On May 21st, 2011 Roger Phillips, a man from the Southwest Research Institute in Border, Colorado believe that they have found a new reservoir of dry ice on Mars! Phillips says that this is very intriuging since Mars tilts on his axis about every 100,000 years. Since this occurs the frozen carbon dioxide on the planet is released. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere means the more chance of liquid water on that planet. So dry ice is very rare on Mars now, which with this discovery is arising questions about Mars. Therefore this discovery is very rare nowadays.