Mini satellite from Japan will send Morse Five small low-cost satellites are deployed today from the ISS to conduct scientific missions and test a possible type of optical communication scheme. CubeSats, palm-sized satellites measuring 4 inches, are solar-powered cubes that will orbit the Earth for the next 100 days.

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2. Mini satellite from Japan will send
Morse
Five small low-cost satellites are deployed today from the ISS to
conduct scientific missions and test a possible type of optical
communication scheme.
CubeSats, palm-sized satellites measuring 4 inches, are solar-
powered cubes that will orbit the Earth for the next 100 days.
One of the satellites launched was a Japanese one tasked with
sending a Morse code message that would be seen across the
world.
To be the first orbiter to transmit a message across the sky using
LED is what the designers of the satellite is hoping to achieve. The
small cube, measuring only 10cm, is set to send a message in Morse
code using bursts of intense light.

3. The message was only meant to be seen in Japan
but according to Professor Takushi Tanaka of
Fukuoka Institute of Technology, they were flooded
with requests from researchers in Slovakia,
Germany, Britain, Hungary, Italy and US that the
satellite also communicate when it flies over their
countries.
“Requests came from far more people than I
expected – a man in Silicon Valley wanted to see it
while another man wanted us to flash it over
Central Park in New York,” said Professor Tanaka.

4. Tanaka said they would try their best to fulfill the requests
but also cautioned observers against possible deception
from random light flashes and added that seeing the
Morse code message would depend on the weather.
The satellite is named Niwaka, a pun in southwestern
dialect of Japan. It will flash the message “Hi this is Niwaka
Japan” to observers around the world equipped with
binoculars. They will, weather-permitting, be able to catch
colored flashes of light from the sky — red for those in the
southern hemisphere and green for those in the northern.
That is because the front part of the satellite has a
differently colored LED from its back part.

5. Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have
launched the satellite from its Kibou (Hope) laboratory and
is set to orbit Earth 16 times per day. Three of the five
satellites launched is from Japan, each of them provided by
Wakayama University, Tohoku University and Fukuoka
Institute of Technology.
Aside from transmitting the Morse message, the satellite is
also set to take pictures of Earth using its camera and high-
speed data transmission capability.
The satellites were released at 400 km above the Earth last
week and is now in regular orbit. Certain locations and
times will be announced on the ISS website.

6. Beeswax discovered as ancient tooth
filling
An ancient tooth patched with beeswax filling and was recovered from
Slovenia a hundred years ago could very well be the oldest evidence of
ancient dentistry.
According to a report by researchers published in the PLoS ONE
journal last week, the beeswax filling is 6,500 years old and was
applied on a tooth recovered from Italy. It was estimated that the
person who owned it could be in his 20s. Furthermore, the extreme
wear on the tooth is evident of other activities like making tools,
weaving and softening leather where it was used, aside from eating.
Radiocarbon dating performed on the beeswax and a large ion
accelerator, revealing it to be thousands of years old. The particular
jaw has been in an international center for a hundred years and yet no
one noticed something interesting in it until recently.

7. The beeswax is apparently applied to the left tooth of a jaw
around the time of death but scientists cannot determine if
it was before or after. But if the person was still alive when
the beeswax was applied to his tooth, then this discovery
could be the oldest evidence of therapeutic dentistry in the
European region.
Experts assume that the beeswax application might be for
relieving sensitivity and pain in teeth so they are now
looking into dental tests to verify if this treatment will be
effective.

8. “At the moment we do not have any idea if this is an isolated
case or if similar interventions were quite spread in Neolithic
Europe. In collaboration with our interdisciplinary team, we are
planning to analyze other Neolithic teeth in order to understand
how widespread these types of interventions were,” said
archeologist Federico Bernardini.
On the other hand, it is also possible that the beeswax was
placed on the tooth after death as part of burial customs at that
time, and that the crack they found was due to its exposure for
many years. This particular hypothesis is believed to be unlikely
because of how the beeswax was placed in the crack.
Discovering proof of ancient dentistry is very rare, with oldest
examples dating back from 5000 to 9000 year-old teeth found in
the Middle East.