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Two Chinese astronauts have blasted into orbit, as Chinajoins the what used to be known as the space race, which hasbecome fairly defunct since the Soviet Union broke up andthe US began to haveshuttleproblems. However, NASA has vowed toland on themoon again by 2018, and China has vowed toreach the moonas well. However, this determination to reach the moon isn?tprimarily fueled by scientific inquiry; both countries wantto claim rightsto the moon because of the incredibly valuableHelium 3 fuelthat is just lying on the surface, waiting to be shoveled up.
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Aside from the cost of producing hydrogen, the problem of containing is what’s stopping the widespread adoption of this fuel. Since it is a single molecule, it is so tiny that it cannot be contained by a conventional automobile gas tank, for instance. But if we could design motors that manufactured more hydrogen as they ran, similar to the way hybrid cars manufacture electricity to recharge their batteries, hydrogen could become a viable alternative fuel.
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For severely obese people who have trouble losing weight even when they stick to reduced-calorie diets, the explanation may lie in a surprising place?their muscles. Skeletal muscle retains a metabolic memory of obesity that “programs” it to amass fat. What to do? Exercise may be the key, and you don’t need to do aerobics?a nice brisk walk every day will do the trick. Want more diet tips?all based on solid science? Read Anne Strieber’s diet book?one chapter will be posted on this website every Monday. According to a new article in the journal Cell Metabolism, the fat-building enzyme SCD-1 is three times more abundant in muscle taken from obese people than in muscle from those who are lean. Researchers examined muscle removed from lean and obese patients during surgery.read more

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Just in the past two years, there have been two great earthquakes that have devastated populated areas and many other smaller ones that have also done great damage, the Amazon has virtually dried up, the Arctic has begun to melt, the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps have become unstable, and the weather has turned into a complex monster.

What is so interesting about this is that our planet is not the only one in the solar system that appears to be affected. There have been signs of unusual weather on Saturn, and Mars appears to be experiencing polar cap decline not dissimilar to our own.
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