'First of our kind' found in Morocco

The idea that modern people evolved in a single "cradle of humanity" in East Africa some 200,000 years ago is no longer tenable, new research suggests. 

Fossils of five early humans have been found in North Africa that show Homo Sapiens emerged at least 100,000 years earlier than previously recognised. 

It suggests that our species evolved all across the continent, the scientists involved say. 

Prof Hublin's excavation has further revealed that these ancient people had employed stone tools and had learned how to make and control fire. So, not only did they look like Homo Sapiens, they acted like them as well.

So,this prooves that the history that we know can change from a day to other with discoveries like this,and remember us that not all that we know can be 100% truth.

Antarctic ice crack takes major turn

The fissure, which threatens to spawn one of the biggest bergs ever seen, has dramatically changed direction.

The rift has propagated a further 16km, with a significant apparent right turn towards the end, moving the tip 13km from the ice edge.The fissure currently extends for about 200km in length, tracing the outline of a putative berg that covers some 5,000 square km , an area about a quarter of the size of Wales.

Were the shelf to collapse (and even if it did, it would still take many years to complete), it would continue a trend across the Antarctic Peninsula.
Summarizing, the antartida is breaking, it is melting and it seems that we continue to ignore it, we will see what happens, but it goes from bad to worse.

Overpass the 100 years?

Overcoming the threshold of 100 years with acceptable health or being young again may be possible thanks to science.
The objective of the researchers is to create a drug that allows humans to completely regenerate all their cells, because they point out that "what is important is not age or time, but that life time is as healthy as possible."
At the moment, they have experimented with mice obtaining very good results.
The pathologies are delayed and the mice live much longer because they are more time younger, so if the mice treated were humans, they would have an iron health that would allow them to live to 120 years.
So, maybe, in a future, the human will live 110 or 120 years.

Tattoos: The good, the bad and the bumpy

The body art might appear cool, but it can pose risks. Some people react badly to the inks-substances that aren’t meant to go on or in the body. Other people may have trouble getting certain medical tests after a tattoo. And not everyone is as thoughtful when they are selecting their design. Many people get inked on a whim, and later want that permanent art removed. It can be done, but it’s a long and painful process.

Still, research now indicates tattoos aren’t bad for everyone. In people who heal well, getting a tattoo may prime their germ-fighting immune systems for action,and in a good way. The rub: Until someone gets a tattoo, there’s no way to know if they will be someone who benefits or instead be harmed.

They discover a new planet,the best candidate to find extraterrestrial life

 In the last days, there have been discovered a lot of planets that could have life in it.The list of potentially life-enhancing planets increases steadily. And the title of best candidate to be a habitable world is going from one to another planet as scientists manage to refine, a little more, their search for a twin of the Earth.
And, they have discovered yes,another planet that has the title of best candidate.
This planet, rocky and 40 light-years away, it is located in the habitable zone of its star.The new world is something bigger than ours and much more massive,this world could have a good atmosphere so theres a great hope to find life here.
News like this, show us that extraterrestrial life is very possible,maybe intelligent life.

Why tomatoes of the present have no taste?

They may have a bright red color and an almost perfect shape, but most of the time, tomatoes have no taste at all.
At which point the tomatoes ceased to have taste and why?
After the post-war period, countries put great emphasis on increasing production to meet the needs of the population,They introduced resistance genes to diseases present in traditional varieties,backcrossing the varieties they liked and discarding things that did not interest them.
The implementation of these improvements resulted in more pest-resistant tomatoes, colorful, homogeneous in size and resistant to transport and storage, buuuuut, they lost their taste.This was involuntary,they didn't know where the taste of the tomatoes were.
Fortunately, they've discovered new genes that could recover the taste of tomatoes,so,there's hope for the future.

Carrefour stops selling panga in Spain

Earlier this week, the Belgian division of Carrefour reported through a statement that it stopped putting on sale panga because of environment reasons.

The French source explained that while the quality of the poultry offered for sale was "flawless", there were doubts about the control mechanisms of the farms where it is grown (the vast majority in Vietnam) to prevent waste from polluting its waters.

Spain, deficient in trade of fish, is the EU country that more panga imported in 2015

The story of Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin the scientist that impulsed the discovery of DNA.
The biophysical will be remembered by the scientific community as a key figure for XX century science.

Rosalind Franklin also highlighted in other research related to microstructures coal and graphite. Was also relevant their work on the structure of the virus.

But the figure of Rosalind Franklin not only has been relevant in the world of science. For the feminist community the work by researcher, opening way to the presence of women in the scientific community, the frame as one of the most relevant figures.

The fighting spirit of this forgotten heroine named Rosalind Franklin, allowed him to continue researching and thanks to it led several pioneering works related to mosaic virus of trabaco and the virus of the polio.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 years of ovarian cancer in London. It is speculated that the cause of the disease was his repeated exposure to radiation during his research.

2016 sets new global warming record

Sixteen of the 17 warmest years to date have been in this century, in parallel with the increase in CO2 emissions.
New global temperature records were set for 11 consecutive months. In Kuwait, on July 21, the thermometer rose to 54 degrees, the highest record in the history of the Eastern Hemisphere.
This is a dangerous situation, because the current average is 1.5 degrees from the limit set in the paris agreement.

Third element in the earth's core?

A group of japanese scientists,could have discovered a third element of the earth's core.
They think silicon is the other element beside of the iron,that forms the 85% and the nickel,that forms the 10%.
This discovery might help to know better how life was made in our planet.

Deaths caused by alcohol or drugs have triplicated

A recent investigation has discovered that, in the USA the deaths caused by alcohol or drugs have triplicated.
The deaths are traffic accidents, by diseases like VIH, tuberculosis or caused directly by overdose.
They have cheked that the most affected zones are the areas with less health quality, like for example suburbs.
This shows that the problems caused by alcohol and drugs are increasing, and the governments have to act to stop this increase because is a serious problem.

Scientists detect dark matter

The dark matter, the empty, is no more nothing.
I explain, a group of italians and pole scientists have detected particles in the famous dark matter.
The teory is that this particles appear and disappear in milliseconds and they tell that there's a huge amount of this particles in the dark matter.
So, what we habitually knew as empty, the dark matter, is not empty, is a place with great activity.

We will see the born of the universe

The last year in february,David Reitze went to the washington's press to tell that they had discovered gravitational waves, a very important new for the astronomy.
This gravitational waves, according to David Reitze will allow us to see the born of the universe, the big bang.
It's difficult to explain what are the gravitational waves, David defines it like messengers of the universe, that let us see things like supernovas, or even black holes collisions.
In resume, is a great step for the astronomy and now, we only have to wait more discoveries thanks to this gravitational waves.

They calculate the weight of all constructions by man

A group of geologists have calculated the weight of all the comstructions made by the humanity and the results are huge.
They have called all that the technosphere, a new part of the earth created by the man that is invading the biosphere, and the results of the weight of that techonsphere are the creepy cipher of 30 billion of tones.
The man have conquested the earth and now we have created a new part of the earth the technosphere. This is interesting because we don't know when we'll pass the limit.

Spanish scientists may know how to correct blindness

Spanish scientists have discover a form to correct blindness with a new technique of genetic editing.

For the moment, the technique has just been used on rats, having a good effect.

This technique corrects the possible heredity of blindness.

The technique allows cutting and pasting the genes however you want.

This could be a revolution and eliminate some diseases relationated to blindness.

Polution problems in Avilés

The high levels of contamination in the asturian city have forced the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment to declare the condition of pre alert.
This has been caused because they have overcome the limits of contamination allowed in different zones of Avilés for three several days , causing problems in the people who resides in the city.Sore throats, eyes itching and more problems, especially the people who has asthma, who are those that have suffered more.
This situation has been helped by the meteorological conditions that usually helps this kind of polution problems in autumn and winter.
This condition of pre alert will be retired when the levels of polution in the air of Avilés respect the levels allowed.

Opinion IX Congreso Mundial De Bioética

El pasado 17 de Octubre se celebró el IX Congreso Mundial de Bioética en Gijón el cual se centraría en un tema bastante delicado y problemático como es la violencia de género.
En un principio,la idea está bien, ya que la violencia de género es un problema grave tanto de este país como de otros ,eso sí,variando la gravedad dependiendo del país y su desarrollo.
Pero vamos a lo que se comentó en este congreso. La charla duraría unas 3 horas mas o menos con un descanso de por medio, por lo que fueron 2 charlas de hora y media en la que participaron distintas personas en una y otra pero se centraron en el mismo tema. Se habló de la gravedad de este problema y de que hay que buscar una igualdad entre hombres y mujeres lo cual sorprendentemente en el año 2016 en países supuestamente "desarrollados" como éste no se había logrado,y eso lo demostraba por ejemplo,el sueldo de un género y otro.
Hasta ahí todo bien pero ,sin embargo, me comenzaba a molestar el hecho de que parezca que la violencia de un hombre a la mujer(para mí mal denominada violencia de género) fuera la única que existiera que sí, que es la más común y problemática pero en mi opinión se debe denunciar todo tipo de violencia a cualquier género sin importar etnia ni gusto sexual,ya que homosexuales y lesbianas también existen.
Pero no se acaba ahí,a parte de q pareciera que la mujer es la única en recibir tanto maltrato psicológico como físico, la charla llegó a tomar incluso un cierto aire demagógico ya que se nombrabam países como nigeria,  que se sabe que están en una situación paupérrima y que su cultura es holgadamente machista,esto aquí en España no es así, si es cierto que hay en ocasiones cierta infravaloración a la mujer incluso inconscientemente por parte de la sociedad pero llegar a citar a Nigeria me parece innecesario si se realiza aquí en Gijón, en Nigeria hasta que no haya desarrollo es casi imposible cambiar nada.
Por último en lo relacionado al contenido de la charla es destacable que al parecer las tertulianas, porque hablaban entre ellas mas que para nosotros, mencionasen que la ley no pelea contra la violencia de género cuando la ÚNICA ley contra la violencia doméstica es la del hombre a la mujer en ningún caso al revés o ya ni te digo violencia entre una pareja homosexual.
Eso más que igualdad,que es lo que se busca y debe buscar, es pasar la desigualdad de un lado al otro, y así no se arregla nada.
Como último apunte debo mencionar la desorganización del congreso, los problemas con los micros, las rondas para preguntar donde pedí turno de los primeros y me dieron el micro al final para no poder decir nada acabar cerrando la ronda y que derrepente le dejen a una niña preguntar algo que, sinceramente, no parecía salir de ella, como si se lo hubieran dicho.
En resumen, el tema del que se iba a hablar era un buen tema del que debatir,ya que la igualdad entre géneros es algo que hay que lograr cuanto antes pero en cambio la charla llegó a ser ciertamente hembrista a la par que demagógica, desorganizada, y acabó por decepcionarme más que interesarme.

Marcelo Palacios

Nacido en Candás, en 1934, Marcelo Palacios es actualmente el presidente de la Sociedad Internacional de Bioética. Su currículum es exageradamente amplio, está licenciado por la facultad de Medicina de Madrid, residió seis años en Alemania especializándose en Cirugía, Traumatología y Ortopedia, de 1982 a 1995 fue diputado nacional en el Parlamento español en las listas del PSOE, impulsó la creación del Comité Parlamentario de Bioética y de la Comisión Nacional de Reproducción Asistida y de Enseñanza de la bioética, fundador de la Sociedad Internacional de Bioética, en la que preside su Comité Científico, director de la Revista SIBI y principal impulsor del Convenio de Asturias de Bioética y es una de las figuras más significativas de la bioética en España. 

 

Además de eso, que no está completo ya que no he recitado todo su historial, Marcelo Palacios ha recibido numerosos premios y condecoraciones como el Premio a la creatividad en el Congreso de los Diputados, la Orden Civil de la Sanidad, la Medalla de plata del Principado de Asturias, la Medalla Pro-mérito del Consejo de Europa y la mención como Parlamentario honorífico, y la Medalla de Plata del Colegio de Médicos de Madrid y recientemente recibió el premio a gijonés ejemplar por parte del Grupo de Hostelería Costa Verde Gijón.