four must read stories: nasa views andromeda, pay to procreate, china dumps coal for water?, hiv teen insurance suit
A view beyond your window
NASA captures amazing view of Andromeda
According to the official NASA release:
In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own.
"Swift reveals about 20,000 ultraviolet sources in M31, especially hot, young stars and dense star clusters," said Stefan Immler, a research scientist on the Swift team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Of particular importance is that we have covered the galaxy in three ultraviolet filters. That will let us study M31's star-formation processes in much greater detail than previously possible."
But, that's just the details...follow the jump and take a firsthand look at Andromeda like you've never seen it before.
Yet another solution to Japan's shrinking population
Japan is one of the world's largest economies, but the population is shrinking due to age and lack or reproduction. Vanguard's Adam Yamaguchi covered one of Japan's proposed solutions to a dwindling workforce in Japan: Robot Nation. Give it a look in case you missed it:
Vanguard's Japan: Robot Nation
Now news is surfacing that Japan is willing to take matters a step further by paying citizens to procreate.
China - coal = wind?
Yahoo! Green reports that China could end up replacing coal with wind.
Here's a snippet:
If China chose this route instead of adding more coal, it could prevent 3.5 billion tons of CO2 from being emitted.
Since China is already installing wind at a rapid pace, the researchers think it's entirely possible that they could make these projections a reality. The major hurdle for the country would be upgrading and expanding their transmission system to handle new wind farms.
Insurance company revokes policy for teen with HIV...what do you think happened?
With health care hot and heavy on everyone's minds, this one is just plain frightening. An insurance company ordered to pay $10 million for revoking the policy of a teen with HIV:
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. The court called the 2002 decision by the insurance company "reprehensible."
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