Michio Kaku

and body. All vertebrates, and the majority of invertebrates, have a brain. However, some ‘primitive’ animals such as jellyfishes and starfishes have a decentralized nervous system without a brain, while sponges lack any nervous system at all. Michio Kaku, a world renowned physicist and scientific communicator, comments that “The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known…

Rebecca McKenney Frontiers of Astronomy Mrs. Alburg 26 April 2017 Our Galactic Universe 1. Galaxies can be as large as a few thousand to several hundreds of thousands of light years across. 2. Astronomers, at the time this was released, believe that there are over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. 3. It is estimated that a light year is 5.88 trillion miles. 4. Galaxies come in three different main type shapes. There are spiral, elliptical, and irregular. 5. Spiral galaxies…

Black as the rest of space, the beady eyes stare into the soul of the human, as butterflies flutter through his stomach as he questions if he can live to tell the tale. The eyelids of the creature drop and pop back up eerily slowly, slowed by the slime oozing from the eyes. The seemingly elastic skin, gray as clouds before it rains. He imagined the skin would feel like a rubber glove, the same way it fits against every bone in the thing’s body, the bones poking out like spikes. If it has a…

Everyone remembers or has seen the historical video of the first time Americans landed on the moon. When we first hear Neil Armstrong’s famous words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” People remember this day as when we made world history. But today, we do not hear about the space program anymore. The world that was once connected by the same dream has disappeared. Americans need the excitement that was there that day. Where generations of people come together and once again…