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Scientists joined a team of medical researchers to develop cures for the physically disabled on the cellular level. Sickly as a child, this motivated them to pursue a career that would allow them to help people. They took up chemical engineering at the biomedical engineering at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology in the United States. Their interest in engineering sparked during high school, wherein they entered design competitions.

They currently pursuing their doctorate in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech, US, while working on the project of developing polymers for regenerating damaged central nervous system cells known as neurons. The intended result is to encourage the cells to heal, regenerate and thus regain their function. This innovation raises hopes that people with disabilities may recover and live a normal life.  Being a woman in a male-dominated field is extremely demanding. This projects is exhilarating because it accorded the chance to accomplish something for the first time and that is creating something new.

By the time I finished reading the article on the beauty, I was despondent, contemplating my physical flaws and the limits they impose in me. Then I turned the page and stared at the underwater photography of him and I realized the irony. The ultimate price of our obsession with personal appearance may be the way it can blind us to the real abundance of beauty in the world. I’ve been reading the magazine all my life.

Across the magnificent chaos of subjects and places, there is a line of work that has made a tremendous impact in my life. When I always browse through it  just to get a first impression. My procedure has not varied for more than 20 years. When I flipped through the January issue, my yes rested on the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen. My first thought was him.

About 2.5 million years ago southern Africa was dying. Although some trees remained near watercourses, the forest largely turned into grass land, and animals moved, adapted, or died out. For robustus, shown here defending its territory, this meant living on tough foods like roots, tubers and seeds instead of softer foods like fruits.

The Hominids developed large jaws and molars to handle this fare; males had such huge jaws that their muscles were attached to bony crest on top of their skulls. Females did not have these crests, and their jaws and teeth were as much a as third smaller than males’ a greater difference than we had previously seen. These finds especially the female skulls give us a much better picture of the species. We even found some sharpened bone points most likely from bones used as digging tools. We believe robustus used bones tools and probably used this for particular ones.

When you drink water, think of how it does a square dance. Scientist had discovered that water can dance. The ubiquitous water molecule, which is a combination of two hydrogen atoms and oxygen atom, does a kind of square dance among its fellow molecules. Square dance is an American folk dance where a caller shouts directions to couples dancing on the floor.

The couples meet, separate, and move all in a quick, coordinated manner under the lead of the caller. In this case, the water molecules are the dancers. Because of the unique V shape of the water molecule has a tendency to stick with its fellow water molecules or other molecules. But since the bond is rather weak, the molecules stick and release easily among each other in a constant changing of partners. Since hydrogen is the most abundant element in nature with oxygen coming a close third life was set to begin in water. And is all due to the tendency of a few water molecules to have a little fun by ‘dancing.’