Earliest known dinosaur discovered

http://news.yahoo.com/earliest-known-dinosaur-discovered-000536001.html

I found this article interesting because it is about a dinosaur fossil that is over 245 million years old. The fossil has been kept in a museum in London. The specimen has recently been related and indentified as the Nyasasaurus parringtoni, the earliest dinosaur to roam the earth. The Nyasasaurus parringtoni was about the size of a medium sized dog. The fossil was found in a lake called Lake Malawi (the article says it was Lake Nyasa at the time it was found) in Africa during the 1930's. Scientists have said the Nyasasaurus probably stood upright, was a meter tall at the hip, 2-3 meters long from head to tail, and weighed 20-60 kg. I find it interesting that about 80 years after the fossil was found that it is finally revealed as what the type of dinosaur it was. 

Green Building Designs Can Help Protect Homes During Natural Disasters

http://www.enn.com/energy/article/45269

This article not only talked about how solar power and alternate fuel can be safer during
 a disaster, but it can also attempt to stopping the global warming process. The design 
of the buildings are a major outcome to whether or not a building can sustain a disaster. 
Experts believe that if buildings have solar panels and the buildings are built stronger it 
will could potentially save people's lives. Buildings in the United States produce around 
40% of global warming gases, while they also use 70% of the electricity. Scientist believe 
that if buildings are built with solar power and have an alternate fuel source, global warming 
could stop approaching at such a rapid pace. This whole article pretty much summed up how 
the United States has to start being more concerned with the Earth, and protecting it. 

Even Moderate Drinking in Pregnancy Can Affect a Child's IQ

My article was about mothers drinking during pregnancy. A study that tracked 4,000 mothers during their pregnancy. After the child has turned eight years old, scientists found that the IQ of the child is lower then normal. The IQ was about two points lower than it should have been. This was only seen in children whose mothers drank during pregnancy. Children with mothers who did not drink, had normal IQs for their age. This study was only tested with women who were moderate drinkers, not heavy drinkers. The mothers were tracked throughout their pregnancy and filled out questionnaires every couple of weeks. The children were tested with a shortened version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. This study found that Alchol during pregnancy does indeed affect the fetus. 

Great white shark killed California surfer

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/24/us/california-shark-attack-death/index.html?hpt=hp_c2


Since we have been talking about sharks, I found that this is an interesting article. A great white shark that killed the suffer was said to be about 15 to 16 feet long. The shark attacked a 39 year old man and bit him n his torso. He was attacked off the coast of Vandenberg Air Force Base. The man was pulled out of the water and had CPR performed, but to no avail. The man was pronounced dead at the time the paramedics arrived at the scene. This is the second attack in the same area within the past two years, and both people died. 

Elevated carbon dioxide may impair reasoning

Elevated carbon dioxide may impair reasoning 

This article talked about how CO2 levels effected how people would think. The normal outdoor CO2 level is 400 ppm. The indoor amount can range anywhere from 600 ppm which is considered a good amount, or as high as 2,500 ppm. Researchers set up a test which got college students to gather n a room together for 2.5 hour intervals. The researchers then changed the amount of CO2 that was vented in and out of the room. While the students were in the room they used computers and had to role play on them. The students were put through a series of tests on the computers and had to do an organization game and try to manage it as it went through and series of problems. The study wanted to see what would happen with different levels of CO2. The study revealed that ventilation has to be increased in classrooms for all students to be able to think and react better.


http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345791/description/Elevated_carbon_dioxide_may_impair_reasoning

Bird Extinctions on the Rise

I found this interesting because this study only goes back 500 years. Human population is on a rise, just like it has been for thousands of years. Before humans were around this land was occupied by different animals like birds, mammals, rodents, and water life. As the human population increases the natural resources and forests decrease. Over the past 500 years, 279 different species of birds have gone extinct. That equals to one bird species going extinct ever 1.8 years. As humans keeping spreading throughout the world, and its islands, birds habitats are being taken over and are forced to move out. Most of the birds ended up staving to death because their food became the food of the humans, and because it was also being destroyed.

http://news.yahoo.com/bird-extinctions-rise-172316664.html

The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle

My article was pretty interesting, and government is doing something that has never happened before.   The government is going to create a plan to drill 3.7 miles beneath the sea floor into the earths mantle. This will allow scientist to test different samples and could show a lot about evolution. No one has ever been this deep inside of the earth, and once the government drills into the mantel, they can test samples and learn about pre existing life. Groups of international scientists have been getting together and they first have to come up with a way to drill through 6.2 miles of solid rock before they can even begin drill to the mantle. This whole experiment will take place in the middle of the ocean.  The bedrock is the thinnest in the oceans, so they want to drill there.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/01/tech/mantle-earth-drill-mission/index.html