Nicholas Turro of Columbia University in New York, Bernhard Krautler of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, found that when chlorophyll ages and begins to disintegrate in banana peels, it does not change color in the spectrum of visible light, instead, it glows blue when observed under ultraviolet light.

Left picture is banana in daylight while right picture is banana that glows blue in UV light

Chlorophyll is the molecule that allows life on Earth. It is the integral part that makes plant can take a mixture of carbon dioxide, water and sunlight so they can be converted to oxygen, sugars and starches. The chlorophyll break down is a major contribution to the color changes in fall leaves, and also ripening apples and pears. But in ripening and rotting bananas, chlorophyll fades to be unique fades color, causing yellow bananas to glow blue when observed under ultraviolet light.

Light-blue glowing rings surround the dying cells on the skin of a ripe banana

Because the glowing molecules occur in close proximity to dying tissue, they promise for good sign for further study of the way organisms cleanse themselves of dying cells, or even programmed cell death as in cancer cells. And we hope it also gives good sign for cancer research in human body.

The goggles are made by Nivisys, a manufacturer of thermal and night-vision equipment, have feature high-resolution, lightweight and easy-to-operate. The goggles operate from a wavelength of approximately 600 to 900 nm. Vision angle is 40 degree, focus distance start from 25 cm to infinity with one magnification.

How researches know about distance change of moon to earth? The method is by beaming laser from earth to reflector in the moon, then they count how long laser takes to reflect measured at a time laser is beaming.

Detecting moon movement has been possible because of photonics technology and Apollo experiment that still running. For 40 years, scientists have periodically pinged laser beam and measuring ping time.

The result, if you want to know, is 2.5 seconds, varying because moon's elliptical orbit results constantly changing distance. From the precise measurements, researchers have confirmed not only key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity, but also have shown that the force of gravity is very stable and have discovered that the moon probably has a liquid core.

For almost 20 years from 1960's, astronomers measured distance from moon to earth by beaming laser from telescope of McDonald Observatory to retroreflector placed on the moon

Measuring the distance from earth to the moon is dependent upon retroreflector left on the moon surface by Apollo astronauts and by two Russian robot vehicles. Researches on earth beam laser pulse to reflector. The retroreflector sends the laser pulse back to earth. Usually only a few photons make it back and detected to provide the total trip time. That and the speed of light results the distance to the moon with accuracy of a few centimeters depending on the equipment.

Today, measuring moon distance to earth is done by observatories in US, New Mexico and France.

Source: Photonics.com

The institute is founded by Hilarie Cash, a psychotherapy and Cosette Rae, a social therapist. They assumed addiction to internet and video game have been big problem for last decades when technology becomes an important part of human life. It becomes worse because many children grow up with technology too earlier than they should. If they are let to spend much time for virtual world or playing video games, their physical and mental development become unbalance.

Type of game addicts usually make them have less ability to socialize and confident. Games are designed to make people addicted, and addicted people are persons who think that real world is painful or scary. Computer and video games often become fugitive for growing children to avoid difficult situation they face at their age. Even according to reStart research, children who spend too much time in front of computer screen or video game can grow up to be persons who have difficulty to make adaptation socially.

ReStart designs rehabilitation programs that consist of socialization skill to other people such as how to start conversation and reading other body language. ReStart program also re-program their daily activities like take a bath, eating, and other house work. They who become reStart patients are also given guideline about how to make perfect time to make a date with their girlfriends.

So, after we know about internet and video games jeopardy to growing children, now it's time to us to watch out in order to avoid them the bad impacts. Don't let your children and brothers come to rehabilitation of virtual world addiction as they have addiction to drugs. Watch them out!

1. Human hand nails grow faster than foot nails
2. Human brain consists of 80% water
3. One cocoon of worm can produce 300 – 400 meter of silk thread
4. When sleeping, a dolphin opens one eye
5. Gorilla sleeps about 14 hours every day
6. Survey in USA stated that almost all children spends an half billion dollar every year to buy bubble-gum
7. Ants never sleep
8. A cat can produces more than 100 types of sounds
9. Giraffe never sleeps more than 20 minute a day
10. A horse can defecate up to 14 times a day
11. In 13^th centaury, strawberry is used as medicine in Rome
12. Jaw bone is the hardest bone in human body
13. Lemon contains sugar more than strawberry

14. There are about one million kinds of bacteria in one liter of water
15. One dairy cattle can produce 36 liter of milk everyday Enough to drink by 100 people
16. Giraffes tongue length is 53,5cm, so they can clean their ears using their tongue
17. Strawberry is the only fruit that its seed is outside
18. Chicken sound is different depends on its enemy
19. Every day, a tiger can eat up to 30kg meat
20. A new born squirrel baby is only as big as a honey
21. Everyone has different tongue sketch, same with fingerprint
22. From all germs in our mouth, there are an half of them live in tongue surface
23. There are 300 types of germs that gnaw our teeth
24. Everyone produces saliva almost 1 liter every day
25. When smiling, there are 17 muscles moving in our face While when sullen, there are 42 muscles moving
26. Ostrich’s eyeball is bigger than its brain
27. Our eyeball size never changes after we are born
28. Besides its feather, tiger’s skin is also stripe
29. We have 300 bones when we are a baby, after growing up there is only 206 left There are bones that unite to be one
30. There are more than 100 kinds of chili that only grow in Mexico
31. When sneezing, our eyes are always closed
32. All pole bears are left-handed

33. Penguin can hold breath for 20 minute in water
34. In every clock’s advertisement, the clock needles are always showing at 1010, because in order to show clock’s brand, also the needles give smile impression
35. A front foot of cat has 5 fingers, while its rear foot has 4 fingers
36. Bamboo is the fastest growing tree, every day it can grow 91,5cm
37. A flea can jump up to 350 times its body length
38. Eating banana in the night can makes us easy to sleep
39. We can not lick our elbow
40. At past time, cat is favorite pet in Egypt If his cat died, the owner would shave his eyebrow to sign his sorrow
41. Bread is welcome symbol food in Russia
42. Snow deer likes to eat moss to keep its body unfrozen
43. At year 200, Rome people used mixed powder of bone, egg-shell, oyster skin and honey to clean their teeth
44. Chili makes food last for longer time
45. Mercurius rotates the sun with speed of 172,000km/hour
46. Planet Jupiter’s rotation is only 1 hour 55 minute

47. Venus is only planet in solar system that has rotate direction clockwise
48. Saturn can float on water because a large part of its contents is helium gas, same with gas type of balloon
49. A football-vast forest can absorb CO2 from a car which running as far as 41,843km
50. Reducing air heat temperature about 5 -8 degree of Celsius is equal to 5 units of air conditioning machine (AC) that run 20 hours continuously

Olympus Mons is seen from above

Comparison between Mount Everest and Olympus Mons

2. People have always think about life on Mars because of the "canals" first seen by astronomers
This is why people always think about alien invaders coming from here, and not from Jupiter or Venus. Actually, Mars is one of the least habitable planets because freezing temperature, sun winds, and almost no atmosphere. The canals seen by astronomers are straight lines that scientists believe are evidence of water.

Mars Canyon

3. Mars is named based on the Roman God of War because its red color reminded observers of blood color
Red color of Mars is caused by its soil composed of iron oxide, or what we commonly call rust.

Mars is seen from Hubble Telescope

Mars Surface

4. Compared to the other planets in our solar system, Mars is quite small planet
It is half the size of the earth. Mars also has a third of the earth's gravity, means that you can jump three times higher that your jump on the earth.

Comparison between Mars and Earth

5. In the 1970's, Viking orbiter took pictures that seems to be giant face and pyramid on the planet's surface in Cydonia region
The picture looks like Egyptian Sphinx and is 2000 feet high. This discovery made UFOlogists excited; scientists say that is just eroded mesas. Many people still believe that the face are too symmetrical, and think it is evidence of ancient alien.

Giant Face on Mars

Giant Face on Mars enlarge

6. Mars has the wildest weather in the solar system
It has tremendous wind storms, dust storms and small tornadoes. In 2001, a huge dust storm covered the entire planet for several earth days. Scientists are confused why planet with little atmosphere could have storm such that. They don't know what causes the storm, but there are more storms when Mars gets closer to the sun. When it's on the farther end of its orbit, there are icy clouds made of carbon dioxide and dust. This is also strange since Mars has no surface water.

Mars weather in 2001

7. There has been a search for life on Mars, and also a search of water
After years of studying every crack on the planet's surface for evidence of water, scientists have finally found it. The Phoenix mission found that there are huge deposits of ice underneath the planet's surface.

Picture of microscopic rock indicating water on Mars

8. Mars has two moons, and one of it has chance to crash with Mars
One of the moons, called Phobos, has close orbit and is dangerous to Mars. Someday, the gravitational force will pull and crash to Mars. The debris will stay in Mars' orbit and making a ring like Saturn. At the end, the debris will fall down to Mars' surface. Scientists don't know when this will happen, but they predict it is going to happen in the next 50 years.

Mars' Moon; Phobos (left) and Deimos (right)

9. Only 1/3 of all the mission to Mars have been successful
Many missions have disappeared that made scientists to wonder there is something strange happens. They also have opinion that Mars is called as "Bermuda Triangle" og our solar system.

Article source from www.factsaboutmars.net
Image sources from NASA, Teleskop Hubble & Wikipedia