Hi and welcome to the Last Week in Science.
Your one stop shop to catch up on  all the interesting
science things that you might have missed last week. Let's get started.
I don't know if people still do time capsules any more but I know I  always wanted to.The idea of digging up someone's
favorite things from 50 or 60 years ago,
made me feel as if I was going to be Indiana Jones.
Well it seems that Moonspike Limited wants to
give future generations or Aliens
the ability to also feel like Indiana Jones.
Moonspike Limited created by Chris Larmour has
created a Go-Fund Me that wants to send
a 1 gram spike attached to a rocket into the moon full of things that
people deem important. By becoming a  $29 USD supporter, you
can send one 1MB of whatever you like into
space forever. If that isn't enough space
for you (because I mean a gif is at least
2 MB and so sending at least five Ryan
Gosling refusing to eat his cereal gifs cost a lot of money) you
can give more money so that you can have more space. Because
it is your duty to show future generations
just how cool your Pinterest pins. I mean, as they go to school
on Mars or whatever. But...yeah...no definitely. At this moment in time, nothing
is being built so what people are actually funding is
more of an idea. No rocket is in production, no launch
site has been picked, and there are still a few legal
things that need to be fleshed out before
anything can really start. But walking on
the moon was an idea once and we achieved that.
So how hard can it really be to one way trip
your Aunt's favorite  facebook memes to the moon? I guess time will tell.
In "Wait? Was that Not Common Knowledge" Study News, a new
study from the University of Columbia Berkeley
has found the correlation between weight gain
and going to bed late.The researchers analyzed
data from 3,300 young people and adults and
found that for every hour of sleep lost, 2.1 points
on the BMI index was gained over 5 years.
So basically, everytime I stayed up late,
trying to finish a project in high  school,
and then ended up going to class a few hours later only to
crave like a giant Dunkin' Donuts coffee and 8
donuts, I wasn't really helping myself on an older heathier course.
Weightloss and gain of course has more to
do with other aspects of one's life besides
sleep, but this will hopefully help. I mean, I'm already a lost cause, but it will of course help others.
Researchers at Cornell University are designing an artifical heart out of foam that can pump a higher rate
of fluid than other soft artificial hearts that are out there.The hope is that one day down the road,
these could be used for heart transplants. While
this flexible silicone foam heart is off to
a good start  when it comes to being porous enough
for air to flow through and allow it to beat,
it does only have two chambers instead of the  normal four  in a human heart. Also, it hasn't been tested
for high temperatures ( because we as human's run at
a balmy 98.6) nor does the foam heart have
the ability to deal with pumping fluid at
a fast speed because if you overinflating it tears.
Bascially a speed walk would put this
heart out of commission. But once all of this has been tested
and it is finally able to be used for humans it will help around hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
The Salish Sea, the body of water between Washington the State
and British Columbia, Canada,  is home to fish we know
and love like the King-of-the-salmon, the
longsnout prickleback, and the Dolly Varden.
Oh! You haven't heard of some of those fish before.
A report has just come out totalling the number
for fish species in the Salish Sea to 235.
Out of th ose 235 species, 37 were just  newly
added which just tells me that the sea is
a dangerous and sneaky place. If we didn't know
that 37 of these species were there in 1980,
then what are we missing in 2015?
Are Kaiju real?! Is this Pacific Rim!?
There will never be answers to my questions. But people will be able to see all 235 species of fish in a hand drawn book
destined to come out in a few years.
Finally, I will leave you with a clip of Neil Degrasse Tyson hugging our new favorite emotive robot
Pepper. Yay! Pepper!
Created by the French lab, Pepper is designed to live with humans and he has already picked up a part time job in Japan
as a consumer researcher in a phone store. Pepper is the percurser to me having my own
Bender which is the only thing I've ever wanted upon hearing that we had Pepper.
With that being said, everything I talked about will be linked
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