KEPLER-22B may be the most Earth-like world yet found in the galaxy — and it could be home to alien life.

It orbits a star like the Sun 600 light years — that’s nearly 4,000BILLION MILES — away in the constellation Cygnus.

Importantly, the planet lies inside the habitable zone of its solar system, so-called because it is not too hot and not too cold for life to exist. Water — an essential requirement for life as we know it — would be a liquid.

Christmas would come around sooner there every year, because it takes just 290 days to go round its parent star.

Scientists cannot tell for sure yet whether Kepler-22b is a rocky world, a ball of gas or even a liquid object.

But its discovery, announced this week, suggests we’re getting closer to discovering we’re not alone in the universe.

The Kepler mission, launched in March 2009, has discovered more than 2,000 candidate planets — 200 are around the size of Earth.

Kepler looks for new worlds by monitoring 100,000 stars.

If sometimes the star’s light is not quite so bright, it guesses that a planet has crossed in front of its sun like an eclipse. Kepler has only been looking close to home in our galaxy, called the Milky Way.

There are 50billion other galaxies and each probably has more than 50billion stars — so somewhere out there there is very likely alien life looking hopefully into the universe wondering if they are alone.

It’s all very well being able to detect life far, far away when we will probably be unable to visit it. What I’d like to do is find it much closer — on Mars.

That is why I attempted to land a UK-built robot, Beagle 2, there to look for signs of life in 2003.

Sadly the mission was lost but the quest to explore Mars continues with NASA’s latest mission Mars Science Laboratory.

Next August nuclear-powered vehicle Curiosity will be lowered into a Mars crater that is believed to be a dried-up lake.

In 1989 my colleagues and I predicted life on Mars when we discovered the right sort of chemicals in a meteorite from Mars.

Perhaps we’ll be proved right.

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The study also found that those who break the habit have the ability to remember information back to a level similar to nonsmokers.

The study involved more than seventy people aged 18 to 25 years.

Those who took part in the study were asked to remember the small details, such as musical performances that will be played at the student union and the tasks that have been completed at various points. The procedure is known as a memory test of the real world.

Smokers showed a bad performance, they only remember 59 percent of the task. Those who have stop smoking, remember 74 percent and those who have never smoked, remember 81 percent of the task.

Dr Tom Heffernan, who led the research, said that the findings would be useful in anti-smoking campaign. There are up to 10 million smokers in the UK and 45 million in the United States, it is important to understand the effects of smoking on daily cognitive function.

This is the first time a study conducted to determine whether stop smoking has an impact on memory. We already know that stop smoking has major health benefits for the body, but the study also shows how stop smoking can have huge benefits for cognitive function.

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High-tech air radar

Scanner shows, woody vegetation tended to choose the slope of the hill which is also favored by termites. The larger and evenly distributed of termite mound, the more vegetation in there. Seems, the termites tend to avoid building mounds in clay soils which are susceptible to flooding. They generally prefer a soil that is not too wet, but not too dry and has good drainage.

The air scanner shows there are patterns of termite mounds and dense vegetation along the slopes of the hill, above the lowlands. There were drainage and water runoff. Typography savanna is largely determined by the organism.

Termite mound turned out to be a key indicator of conditions that favored woody vegetation. The lower of lands, the greater of the dominance of grassland in the water area. As the diagnosis in the medical field, scanning through the air also comes with pictures of vegetation, termite mounds, and soil layers.

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A study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, found that experiments hamster that experience the extreme and chronic jet-lag is actually has the ability to learn which more slump and low memory.

Not only on intelligence, according to Erin Gibson, a researcher from the University of California, Berkeley, jet-lag is also a serious threat to health. This study shows that people are the type of work requires them to frequently change his sleep pattern has the potential high risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer.

Gibson and his colleagues make a specific schedule for this experiment hamster by advancing the schedule of day and night for six hours every three days in a period of almost a month. “Much like get flights from New York to Paris every three days. The total number of sleep the hamster is actually unchanged, but time of get up and sleep really changed.

So if you frequently travel far away on an airplane, do not forget to keep read books to stay smart and not forgetful …

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Fraud typically comes in the form of circulation of links to ‘phishing sites’, aka fake site that aims to steal the confidential identity of users of social media.

“The number of ‘phishing sites’ that circulate in the networking or social media increased significantly, reaching about 80 percent from the previous month,” thus said by Symantec in its report titled ‘Spam and Phishing Report November 2010’.

That’s why Symantec said that users of social networking should not click on suspicious links sent via email or IM messages, because it could be connecting users to a fake site.
“We advise users to type a website address directly in the browser rather than believe in the link provided in the message.”

Users are also advised to not display your email address on the Internet. If you need to install the email address information, provide an email address or email a free alternative that is rarely used.

In addition to increasing the number of fraud through social networking, on Symantec’s report also revealed a decline in circulation of the global spam volume. The circulation volume of spam reached its lowest point since September 2009.

As an illustration, in last October, the global spam volume dropped 22.5 percent compared with October a year earlier. When compared with August 2010, the volume of spam globally circulation has fallen by more than 47 percent.

Compared with the data in September, the decline in spam volume only reached 2.79 percent. Although a decrease only slightly, but these data indicate the circulation of spam trends continue to shrink.

Overall, spam contribute for 86.61 percent of all email in October and in previous months, spam controls 89.40 percent of the entire circulation of the email, thus said by Symantec, in its report, 23 November 2010.

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At an event in Tokyo, Brothers shows this tool can switch a remote control, a button to turn on the lights and LED flashlight.

The idea behind this technology is the need to replace the battery usages that contain toxins that harm the environment.

The mechanism works similarly to a bicycle dynamo, the only difference is by whipped several times, then the electric power is produced directly.

The spokesman of Brothers said that Brothers’s Vibration Energy Battery Cells create electric power with the conducting of a spring, magnet, and the condenser which produces electricity. All this is in the battery.

However, because the power generated is only a little, then this tool is designed for use on devices like TV remote and LED devices, which only require low power and do not use electrical power  constantly.

Siberian crane is one of the most endangered species in the list of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).  So that, this beautiful and graceful creature was chosen as the flag bearer of projects aimed at restoring peat as habitat for migratory water birds.

Since the year 2008, the International Crane Foundation (ICF) began cooperating with the Academy of sciences in Pyongyang, North Korean, and BirdLife International to restore Anbyon as a migration destination during the winter.
Academy of Sciences in Pyongyang in November 2009 inform that there are 22 of Siberian crane landed in Anbyon and can live in harmony with others.  The next day, a number of Siberian cranes which landed increased to 41. It should be noted, that it was the first landing in the last 10 years. The news is also evidence that peatland restoration projects over seven years showed a positive result.

According to records, the number of Siberian crane at this time is about 3000-3500. Thus this project aims to keep them alive and also aim to protect the millions of other migratory birds. For Siberian crane especially, there are two migration routes of birds with furthest migration distance, which is 5000 kilometers. They also must pass a row of the highest mountain in the world, as well as desert. These birds have been endangered since the 1970s. Even in 1996 there was only one pair of birds who came to India, while in 1974, there were 75 birds that come. In the entire world, population of water birds fell 40 percent while in Asia, the population fell 59 percent.

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The figure of Siberian crane, which is slender, white and clear, opened the imagination about music and dance.  And it has been happens for thousands of years. Indigenous communities in the tundra regions of Russia, where these birds breed, considered as a sacred bird.

Khanty community in western Siberia keeps their deer herd away from the nest of Siberian crane. And they kill a bear that is expected to harm the bird.  After killing a bear, they will wear clothing like birds and dancing to exorcise bear.

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Nothing revived it, not the usual prayers and imprecations nor the overnight immersion in rice recommended by Internet experts. After 72 hours, it was clearly time to give up and head for the store.

But when the moment came to unplug the corpse from its charger and plug in its immensely expensive replacement — executioner, stay your hand: Look who’s waking up!

Sanjay Gupta : Cheating Death

Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s new book deals with the human equivalent of this little drama, and if it seems insensitive to equate a smart piece of plastic with a catastrophically ill human being, absolutely no disrespect is intended, but the analogy still holds. This is a can-do book about death by the well-known medical correspondent for CNN and Time (and near nominee for surgeon general), which means no bittersweet philosophic reflections on the natural arc of human existence. The subject is simple science: the ways the body’s circuitry can betray us, and the ways we are learning to fight back.

The science, of course, is far from simple, which makes it a fitting showcase for Dr. Gupta’s skills as a popularizer. Straightforward and readable, it is a book that will undoubtedly infuriate many experts with its elisions and oversimplifications.

But the stories are great. A young skier falls into an icy crevasse and dies of exposure; a healthy 68-year-old man has a cardiac arrest at the gym and dies on the treadmill; a 59-year-old man has a fatal heart attack behind the wheel of his car. Fifty years ago, all of them would be underground, but the last decade has seen enough progress in resuscitation — or perhaps resurrection is the word — that they are all now alive and more or less intact.

Their deaths were actually, in Dr. Gupta’s words, visits to “a gray zone — a faint no-man’s land where you are neither truly dead nor actually alive.”

Those words could easily describe the average intensive care unit, where imperiled organs are carefully nurtured while the rest of the patient comes along for the ride. However, dead hearts and dead brains have traditionally been the end of the line in intensive care.

Not so much anymore, Dr. Gupta says.

For instance, it has been known for a long time that freezing can mimic death — a standard E.R. dictum states that no man is dead till he is warm and dead. But the process of rewarming a frozen human is perilous, for often it is not the lack of warmth or oxygen that kills so much as their restoration, which sets off a cascade of cellular destruction.

Cautiously rewarming the frozen skier took a few days, but her recovery from the revival took many months. That was 10 years ago, and experts have since begun to manipulate cellular processes with more finesse.

Cold is now used specifically to minimize organ damage, as it was for the man who died on the treadmill. After his heartbeat was restored, he was transferred to an I.C.U. specializing in therapeutic hypothermia, where he was chilled for days. Weeks later he emerged from a coma to a long recuperation but, finally, complete health.

The man who died behind the wheel of his car had an easier time: “Just six weeks after he died, the only lingering effect is a set of sore ribs.”

He was revived with a new resuscitation technique that uses only rapid chest compressions with no mouth-to-mouth breathing at all, under the assumption that maintaining high levels of oxygen in the blood is far less important than keeping the blood moving along. In some places, this technique has transformed the routinely dismal survival rates of out-of-hospital resuscitations.

Dr. Gupta visits scientists who can put laboratory creatures into deep hibernation with various gas mixtures, a pseudo-death that reverses instantly with no ill effects. Their goal is to create a chemical “pause button” for humans: “a way to slow the candle, stop time, cheat death” long enough to get a car accident victim or wounded soldier to care.

The neurology of the near-death experience, with its shining white light and cascade of memories, is the subject of one chapter; another addresses the apparent miracle of catastrophic illness that melts away, with or without prayer.

But the book’s focal point, and the place where Dr. Gupta is likely to get some grief, is a short chapter on the dead brain. He introduces a man who “can tell his story today” because one doctor refused to give up on him and pull the plug, despite what appeared to be an irreversible coma. This leads to several other oft-told anecdotes of hopeless comas unexpectedly lifting. “Decisions are made every day in this country to withdraw and remove people from life support without really giving them a chance,” the patient’s doctor says.

I can almost hear the ethicists and the transplant surgeons groaning in unison. This material is complex and inflammatory enough to need a far longer and more technical discussion than Dr. Gupta’s breezy listing of mistakenly hung crepe. Great stories are fine, but sometimes there is no getting around the need for highly untelegenic, unromantic, unhappy data.

Kaguya that was launched in 2007 and ending the mission at June 10th 2009 then detected uranium by gamma-ray spectrometer.  This is a device that was used to map the composition of the lunar surface and also the presence of thorium, potassium, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, calcium, titanium and iron.  That discovery can help a human plan in the future and the scarcity of uranium in this earth can be filled through uranium at the moon.