SpaceX has been an innovative company right from the day it was first conceived by Tesla electric car CEO Elon Musk. Now the California based company plans to use it’s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) to launch a tourist around the moon. Their Twitter handle said that SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle – an important step towards enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space.

A human has not stepped on the moon since the final Apollo mission in 1972. American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to explore the lunar surface in 1969. Since then only 24 people have ever been to the moon. President Donald Trump has been pushing NASA to put boots on the lunar surface. NASA hopes to create a lunar gateway on the Moon that will serve as a launching point for future missions heading into deep space.

SpaceX is a primary commercial partner of NASA in it’s endeavor. It’s BFR is the newest rocket with a capacity to lift 150 tons in to space using the power of it’s 31 engines. This super powerful launch vehicle is also what the Moon tourist, whose name or monetary contribution to the science project have not been divulged, will ride.

If you are a health food fanatic, you are going to have to grill your meat another way. Apparently a study conducted at the University of Oxford in the UK has concluded that grilling with coal as a fuel is really a heart risk. Derrick Bennet, who led the study said that they focused on the effects of long term use of coal, wood and charcoal as a cooking fuel as associated with a risk of increasing cardiovascular disease.

The study was based on adults in the age group of 30 to 79 years living in China. The data was collected for over four years between 2004 and 2008 on 341,730 adults to identify the potential impact of cooking with solid fuels. It has been suggested that the air pollution from the solid fuels may have led to the increase in heart related illnesses in the group.

The study also turned an eye on how switching from solid fuel to clean fuel, that is either gas or electric fuel, to cook had impacted the study group. It was concluded in the scientific study that the switch from solid to clean fuel helped to lower the instances of cardiovascular related deaths in the study group.

Robotics is a constantly evolving field. There are new technological advances every few months that make it possible for robotic engineers to create new designs all the time. Needless to say some robots have been crucial for the purpose they have been designed, while others merely a good source of entertainment for the users.

At the University of Texas, San Antonio, nanorobots were created by Soutik Betal as part of his doctoral research. They were merely 120 nano meters large. These small robots were remotely controlled by an electromagnetic field. They also have the distinction of being the world record holders of being the smallest medical robots. Certainly a science project for the books!

The robots interact with biological cells and can be used in the future to help treat patients with cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. They are composed of two parts – the core and the shell – both of which are made of multifunctional oxide materials. The core is magnetic and can change shape when magnetic fields are introduced. The little robots can be used to align themselves with a cell, push cells into different locations, and even deliver medication to cells. Who knows what else they can be trained to do!

Jet lag is often experienced when traveling from one zone to the next. If you are zipping from London to Sydney, halfway across the world, this is bound to hit you hard. Also in the given current scenario, the flight is not going to be one single leap. You will likely be halting for refueling and more passengers at least one place in the middle.

Now Australian Airline Qantas is hoping to make life a lot more easier for people. Teaming up with air craft manufacturer Boeing, the Australians hope to use a plane that is designed to make a direct flight between Sydney and London. The team have called it “Project Sunrise” and are hoping to ultimately fly a set of 300 passengers and their luggage on this 20 hour, nonstop flight as soon as 2022.

Direct connections from major cities in Europe, America and Africa would follow if Qantas is successful. The marathon flight will have to incorporate a lot of things like sleeping bunks, child care facilities, and even a gym where those feeling the need can stretch their limbs. All this in addition to the regular meals and air crew requirements. It’s a tall order, but it’s a science project that is entirely possible.

Obesity is a growing problem in today’s world. There’s just too many people who are over weight and struggling with lifestyle disorders. It makes sense then, that health care with a focus on weight loss is an essential area of research for many scientists. At the University of Surrey, UK, researchers have been investigating a simple and effective tool to lose weight.

Simple changes to the time you eat breakfast and dinner have been seen to reduce body fat in the scientific study. The participants were divided into two groups. One was asked to eat their meals at the normal times with no changes. While the second group was asked to delay their breakfast by 90 minutes and eat their dinner earlier by 90 minutes.

It was estimated that the participants who belonged to the second group ended up losing twice as much body fat as compared to those in the control group. A simple alteration of changing the meal timing can benefit the human body greatly. About 57% of the people mentioned in their responses that they reduced the amount of food they were eating due to a reduction in their appetite, cutback in snacking and having less opportunities to eat.

A lot has been said about limiting the usage of smartphones for children, but the same has not been applied to the parents. If it’s bad for the development of the children to be constantly on the phone, it’s equally bad for the connection between the parents and children when the parents are constantly found on the phone.

Pediatricians have always emphasized on the parents spending time getting to know their children to forge a strong familial bond with them. However Dr Jenny Radesky, a developmental behavioral pediatrician at the University of Michigan has dire findings based on a study conducted in the Ann Arbor region.

Dr Radesky has created a one page primer for parents on smartphone usage based on her research. Parents who are distracted by their mobile phones are less likely to have interactions with their children and more likely to have encounters that end in conflicts with them. Parents need to rethink their relationship with their phones if they want to have richer bonds with their children.

This scientific study has underscored the fact that meal times and interaction before bedtime need to be free of mobile phone interference in order for the children to actually feel that their parents are present with them.

There’s a number of reasons that make skyscrapers stand out, not just the obvious height they have. In China there seems to be a challenge to create buildings that seem to stand out and the Water Fall Tower seems to be the newest addition to this lot. A building in the city of Guiyang, in the southwest of China as a 108 meter cascading water fall coming down it’s face.

The rather ostentatious design of the Leibian International Building, is still not completed, but the water fall feature works just fine. It’s been using water collected in runoff, rain water as well as ground water to store in giant underground tanks to create the waterfall. The water is pumped up to the top at a high cost of $120 per hour to make the waterfall function.

Locals say that it’s a waste of money. The feature has been showcased just six times in the last two years since it was completed. The Ludi Industry Group that is building the structure hopes to have a shopping mall, luxury hotel and offices inside. Now this is one science experiment that may just not prove to be financially viable when the members of the building association have to pay for their extravagant bills.

Increasing the productivity of workers in an office is always good for business. In fact a Japanese firm is developing a new system to ensure that workers do not fall asleep on the job. If they do they face cold winds…literally! The system involves blasting the office with extra cold air from the air conditioner if the worker is seen to display signs of sleepiness and lethargy by the sensors monitoring the worker.

Daikin, the air conditioning manufacturer and electronics giant NEC have teamed up to trial the system. The commercially viable system may be available by 2020 if the trials go well. The monitoring of the movement of eyelids of the worker are done via a camera and the computer will process the data automatically to lower the temperature of the room automatically if the eyelids look droopy.

The drop in temperature is expected to make the worker too chilled to be comfortable enough to sleep. As the alertness registers on the worker’s facial features and the camera relays these to the computer, the temperature will again be lowered to a more ambient one. Now this is one science project sure t give the participants a chill!

Drinking is always avoided when dieting because the high content of calories in alcohol is not conducive to losing weight. Tequila shots may not seem like the most brilliant thing, but a study recently brought out the fact that it could be the miracle drink everyone wants to slug down next. Apparently having tequila is good for your waistline as it helps to actually lower your blood sugar, and you know what else? cbd oil. In a study specifically looking at inflammation triggered by high glucose levels, researchers found that CBD had positive effects on several markers of inflammation, and CBD oil has so many benefits, that you can get yours at this website https://www.zxcraftcbd.com/. This study suggests that CBD may be helpful in offsetting the damage diabetes can inflict on the walls of blood vessels

The study which was presented at the American Chemical Society, tends to claim that the naturally occurring sugars in agave plant from which tequila is made, helps with lowering the blood sugar content. It also acts as a dietary fiber as it is not digestible. The sugars from the plant are called agavins. The agavins were used in a standard diet but added to the water of the participants of the study.

Agavins are supposed to be good  support sugars to grow healthy microbes in the mouth as well as the intestines of the person ingesting them. They help people feel full and so help reduce the intake of food. In fact they might be good for your bones as well given the improved absorption of calcium and magnesium that they trigger. This science project may just make drinking tequila shots acceptable.

Who doesn’t love pizza? It’s become one of the go-to comfort foods for the last few generations. The combination of cheese melted over vegetables or meat with a convenient bread base holding everything together, is a sure winner at any time! However by analyzing pizza buying behavior researchers at the University of Aberdeen have found that there is a pattern of most pizzas being ordered between 7 in the evening and 2 at night.

The behavior which was found consistently across UK, US, Canada, Australia and India is part of a five year detailed study by biologists. The pizza delivery and also Chinese take-away businesses seem to boom at this time. So why does fast food get a sales boost each evening? The biologists figure it to be remnants of a general rhythm of old humankind. The type that used to head off foraging before they began to feel hungry so that there’d be something to eat when required.

The study being conducted by the biologists at the University of Aberdeen hopes to understand human motivations about seeking food. I know why I usually seek food, even if those in the science project don’t! It’s usually because I’m feeling hungry and need to feed my face!