Did You Know... The Atom Bomb Helped Save The Elephant
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The nature of warfare changed forever in 1945. In the years following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Science has been developed stronger pace than today just for human to destroy each other. Nuclear weapon can cause mass destruction.
Restricted any further weapon tests to underground environments signed in 1963 by The Partial Test Ban Party. In 1950s and 1960s, the quantity of radioactive carbon-14 in Earth atmosphere spiked. Suprisingly, the surge in atmospheric radioactivity has proved to be immense value to science.
Trinity test on July 16, 1945,and continuing until the Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963, the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom detonated hundreds of thermonuclear devices above ground. Neutrons hurtling from these blasts fused with nitrogen in the air to form a heavy, radioactive isotope of carbon. Known as carbon-14, this isotope quickly dispersed throughout the atmosphere, where it then made its way into plants, animals, and whatever tusks, teeth, and horns they might have.
It has helped unravel mysteries of the human brain, crack dificult police case and even thwart the poachers who kill endangered elephants for their ivory. The atmospheric change brought about by atomic tests was dramatic, and it occured around the world.
Some ecologist use the surge of atmospheric radioactivity to mark the moment that our world entered a brand new epoch.The proposed "Anthropocene" by human- driven changes to the natural world- changes that include deforestation, polution, species extinction and climate change.
Of course, none of those changes have been particularly not good for natural world. However, scientific research has actually benefited enormously from atomic test radioactivity. It is all, to do with where the radioactivity. It is all to do with where the radioactive carbon-14 ends up. Plants absorb it when they photosynthesize and then it passes up the food into animals, including humans. It gets incorporated into our very DNA.
This is a key point. The amount of carbon in a particular strand of DNA reflects the level of atmospheric carbon-14 when that DNA molecule was being built. Those atmospheric levels have been falling steadily because of nuclear test bana treaties, so every year since the 1950s has a unique atmospheric carbon- 14 level.
All scientists have to do is measure the level of carbon-14 in a sample DNA, match it to the year in which the atmospheric level was at that level, and they know exactly when - between the 1950s and today - the DNA was built.
There are variety of applicatons that can benefit from this sort of DNA dating. For forensics teams, it can identify body, speeding up the process of establishing the person's name so that the investigation into their death can proceed.
It is also very useful in battle against of ivory came into effect in the early 1990s, but, technically, ivory was traded before then is legal. DNA dating using the level of radioactive carbon can help establish whether a given piece of ivory came from an animal that was alive before or after the trade ban began.
And in studies of human brain, it help establish that the cells in some parts of human brain are renewed throughout life, providing evidence that the adult brain is much more versatile and adaptable than neuroscientist once thought. There's a twist in the tail, though. Because the radioactive carbon-14 spike is ebbing away year after year, it will soon fall back to its pre-atomic age level.
It will stabilize. At that point, each year will no longer have a unique carbon-14 level, and scientists will lose a tool for dating biological tissue samples. Some hope that new DNA dating methods will emerge that can replace the radioactive carbon-14 clock, but none have as of late 2016.
In a matter of years, the long radioactive shadow cast by atomic bomb tests in the mid-twentieth century will be lifted. The natural assumption is that the world will celebrate the moment that happens. But for scientists the world over, the event will make their work much harder.
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