Watermelon Juice: Renewable Energy Source?
Nelson Hernandez III

Every year, about 20 to 40 percent of all watermelon crops (360,000 tons a year) are wasted and left to rot on the ground. Now scientists and environmentalist have discovered a use for these discarded melons. It is still going threw clinical trails, but scientists say that the wasted fruit can be converted into 9.4 million liters (2.5 million gallons) of pure ethanol fuel every year. Some people suggest that it has the potential to replace corn and sugar cane (what we are using now). However, the melons may not be as efficient in making ethanol as the combination between corn and sugar cane, but they require a lot less water to be added.

Cure for Color Blindness

Cure for Color Blindness
Nelson Hernandez III


US teams of scientist have been doing some research and have been successful in curing an adult monkey of color blindness. Naturally, they can’t sense colors like red and green, but now, this monkey can see them. Besides monkeys, scientists also believe that this technique can be manipulated and used to cure humans as well. It was thought to be impossible to rearrange an adult brain like this, but some theories are being changed. They were able to introduce therapeutic genes into the light sensory cells in the back of the eye. Color blindness is usually caused by disease and certain medicine side effects. The scientists and researchers are going to be setting up clinical trails with humans soon, but they are still testing and researching.

MONKEYS BORN FROM DNA TRANSPLANT!!!

MONKEYS BORN FROM DNA TRANSPLANT!!!

BY: Nelson Hernandez

Scientist and researchers alike have been searching for some time for a way for women to avoid passing on genetic diseases and defects. They have been successful in the birth of four healthy rhesus macaques. Although it is not a very safe technique, experts say that this method is new exiting. This experiment involved the transfer of DNA of two of the monkeys, both of the same species. In the future, scientist plan to use this method to stop diseases by stopping defects in mitochondria. About one person in every four or five thousand has a defect in their mitochondria. However symptoms may be things like muscle weakness, dementia, movement disorders, sight and hearing loss, and heart, muscle and kidney problems. This method still need testing before it is practiced.

Blue Lasers Turn Out to be an Autism Cure

Blue Lasers Turn Out to be an Autism Cure
Recently, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that lasers could one day cure or aid the search of a drug to eradicate this terrible disease in our society. They first started testing their lasers one live rats. When applied to their brain, gamma waves, which are necessary for concentration. Fast spiking interneurons trigger these gamma rays. Some signs of autism include attention disorders. Sometimes it is caused from damaged or defective gamma rays. One bad side of this research is that it will take decades before this treatment can be applied to humans

Tocacco Fights HIV?

TOBACCO FIGHTS HIV?

Recently, scientist has discovered that the tobacco plant has chemicals that may be able to fight HIV. Eventually, it will be seen in the eyes of the public as a good thing, instead of a cancer causing agent. Scientist has also begun making the cure with the certain chemicals in the plants such as griffithsin. The other source of this chemical is in a rare red algae, but it doesn’t supply enough to be effective. On top of that, the cure is going to be quite expensive. Hopefully, in the future, people will be cured from this terrible disease and it will be forever eradicated from this new and effective vaccine.

Left 4 Dead

LEFT 4 DEAD: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
BY: NELSON HERNANDEZ III


Left 4 Dead was one of the most highly anticipated games of late 2008. Fans everywhere couldn’t resist the urge to buy this awesome game. The franchise is still going strong and has many new and exiting features that were never even dared to try in the past by other people. For instance, it makes great use of the two character types: Zombies, and Survivors. Zombies have various classes (Boomer, Smoker, Hunter, and Tank,). And those classes have different abilities. For instance, one of the zombie characters is called a Boomer. Its ability is to launch vomit at its prey, and when killed can explode and spew bile everywhere (The bile and vomit temporarily blind the person, and attract a hoard of regular zombies). It’s a pretty cool ability if you ask me. The best part is that each zombie has their own ability. Also, it has a great campaign levels and extraordinary details and graphics. There are four campaign levels and each has five chapters. The campaign isn’t the only awesome feature. The multiplayer can be played online or split screen on the console. The online can be a versus match, where its four humans against four zombies, or campaign were four humans can play a level. All together, this game gets five hungry smokers out of five.

PETTY THEFT

Petty Theft
BY NELON HERNANDEZ III
A seemingly peaceful day turns into a completely funny situation. In Pensacola Florida, a burglar is found running down the street wile busting threw a broken door, holding several packs of cigarettes. The only strange thing is that he is trying to attempt to escape the scene of the crime with his pants down. A police officer soon responds to the distress because he is near by. Because he was holding cigarettes, it prevented him from picking his pants up and soon tripped and fell before he even made it out of the parking lot. Why his pants were down in the first place is still a mystery, but it makes you think. This man was soon caught, and sent off to jail, were he was taken into custody. Later on, at court, charged with criminal mischief, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was charged with $12,000 in bail.