Throughout history children have shown that talent and knowledge do not necessarily come with the maturity of the body or with the development, promotion and learning of specific skills.
Children ProfessionsThe curious observation and the desire to understand the environment that surrounds it can cause a child to make discoveries worthy of any prepared adult in some branch of science.
For a moment remember when we were small, remember our need to know and understand the world in which we lived, remember that one day we were doctors, the other explorers, the next musicians and so on we used to develop different roles in our children's games; some children have gone beyond their role playing by injecting seriousness enough to make great discoveries, fortunately these children did not need an academic degree to perform their work, much less for it to be recognized.
Star surprise
In 2013, Nathan Gray, a 10-year-old Canadian boy, discovered a 600-million-year- old supernova located in the Draco constellation.
Supernova At the time of the discovery Nathan Gray was with his father, an amateur astronomer and with Dave Lane, owner and operator of Ridge Abbey Observatory in Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia. Nathan mentioned in an interview for the CBC News that he had spent 6 months observing the night sky with the hope of seeing a stellar explosion, confessed happy and excited to have found the supernova, which "looked like a blinking star". The Royal Academy of Astronomy of Canada has endorsed Nathan's discovery.
Sweet poison
The fact that his parents stopped eating sugar caused Simon Kashchock-Marenda to conduct research on sugar substitutes for his science school project.
In his project, Simon fed different groups of fruit flies with different artificial sweeteners (Drosophila melanogaster), one of them was a sweetener commercially known as Truvia, it contains an alcohol called erythritol. In his research he observed that the flies fed Truvia died after 6 days. With the help of his father, Simon replied the experiment in the laboratory of the University of Drexel where his father is a professor of biology, the result obtained was similar.
fruit flies Later Simon's experiment was carried out more methodically by researchers from the University of Drexel, found that the average life of the flies fed Truvia was 6 to 8 days and that these showed obvious motor deficiencies before his death, as well they discovered that although there were other sweet foods and other sweeteners flies preferred to feed on Truvia, this attraction and toxixity relationship makes erythritol a very effective substance in the development of an insecticide not toxic to humans. Currently Drexel researchers work on the patent for the insecticide and Simon is co-author of the study published by the University in the journal PLOS ONE .
A baby dinosaur
In 2009 Kevin Terris participated in a paleontological field practice the day he discovered the remains of Joe a baby Parasaurolophus .
Paleontologist Andy Farke and a group of students went on a quick survey of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah (prospecting is the search for pieces of bone on the surface) when Kevin observed under a mushroom-shaped rock formation a piece of bone that protruded, called Dr. Farke who after a glance dismissed the discovery, the area had already been examined before by other volunteers and had not found any object with considerable scientific value, however when turning Quick by the rocky formation Dr. Farke found a "adoquin" that turned out to be the skull of a baby dinosaur, what Kevin had found seemed to be bones of the foot and the skull on the other end indicated that the body of the dinosaur was probably found under the rock formation,the small size of the bones suggested that it was a baby dinosaur, an uncommon finding.
skeleton-1024x371Joe's bones waited a year to be unearthed, while permits and necessary equipment were obtained. The technicians were surprised to get almost intact the skeleton of a baby Parasaurolophus in their hands. As dinosaur bones grow, they develop timbre patterns, just like trees do. "I did not have any rings," Farke said, "that shows that this animal was less than a year old when it died."
On the hunt for 10,000 years
In August of last year, 10-year-old Noé Cordle and his family were enjoying their summer vacation on Long Beach Island, when Noé found a strange device while playing on the edge of the waves. Noah mentioned that the object was quite sharp and hurt him by hitting his leg, which is why he thought it was a crab until he picked up the object.
arrow head His family contacted the Archaeological Society of New Jersey to ask about what the boy had found. The president of the society, Greg Lattanzi, told the family that the artifact was probably an arrowhead used by pre-tribal Native Americans who passed through the area 8,000 to 11,000 years ago, while hunting for fish and birds. Discoveries of this type of arrowhead in the state are rare, Lattanzi told the Asbury Park Press.
The State Museum of New Jersey in Trenton has about two dozen of these artifacts but most were unearthed by professionals in archaeological excavations.