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Experts: Thinning Forests Could Help Increase Ground Water Supply
Post Date: 2014-10-07 21:23:27 by X-15
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TUOLUMNE COUNTY (CBS13) – Officials with the U.S. Forest Service say there are too many trees in the Sierra, creating a major fire hazard and sucking up much-needed water. Some researchers say cutting down more trees could help ease California’s water problems. In a rural piece of forest in Tuoloumne County, an important experiment is underway that could influence California’s future of fire and water. UC Merced graduate student Michael Pickard and hydrology professor Roger Bales monitor a group of 15 “nodes” that record snowpack, snow melt and soil moisture. “Think of the precipitation coming in leaves either going back to the atmosphere or down as ...
NASA Scientists Puzzled by Global Cooling on Land and Sea
Post Date: 2014-10-07 17:57:53 by BTP Holdings
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NASA Scientists Puzzled by Global Cooling on Land and Sea Image: NASA Scientists Puzzled by Global Cooling on Land and Sea (iStock) Monday, 06 Oct 2014 12:36 PM The deep ocean may not be hiding heat after all, raising new questions about why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years, said the US space agency Monday. Scientists have noticed that while greenhouse gases have continued to mount in the first part of the 21st century, global average surface air temperatures have stopped rising along with them, said NASA. Some studies have suggested that heat is being absorbed temporarily by the deep seas, and that this so-called global warming hiatus is a temporary trend. But ...
Three scientists share 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Post Date: 2014-10-06 22:43:30 by Tatarewicz
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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Three scientists shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, the committee announced Monday. The Nobel assembly at the Karolinska Institute has decided to award one half of the physiology or medicine prize to John O'Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. According to a statement of the committee, this year's laureates have discovered an "inner GPS" in the brain that "makes it possible to orient ourselves in space, demonstrating a cellular basis for higher cognitive function." John O'Keefe discovered in ...
Finnish researchers find way of creating propane through biosynthesis
Post Date: 2014-10-06 22:33:45 by Tatarewicz
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HELSINKI, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in Finland have been able to create propane gas through biosynthesis, the University of Turku said on Monday. The researchers at the Molecular Plant Biology laboratories at the University of Turku have genetically engineered microbes to produce renewable propane for the first time. They will now continue the project with a view to produce propane fuel for automobiles. The system is based on using coliform bacteria. The leader of the Finnish project, Professor Pauli Kallio from Turku University, told media that the team hopes to be able to develop the newly found process so that it is economical in large scale production. The researchers ...
Previous sexual partners can influence another mate's offspring
Post Date: 2014-10-05 05:13:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert For the first time, Australian scientists have shown that in flies, a female’s previous sexual partner can affect how her offspring from another male turns out. The idea of previous sexual partners influencing how another man’s offspring will turn out was discredited in humans when we started to understand genetics in the early 20th century. But life on Earth is so incredibly diverse, and just because humans aren't affected by this phenomenon doesn't mean other species aren't. To investigate this, a team of scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) worked with different sized male neriid flies to see if previous mates would influence ...
Finnish scientists develop digital maternity package
Post Date: 2014-10-05 00:43:19 by Tatarewicz
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HELSINKI, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Technical Research Center of Finland VTT is developing a digital maternity package, which will enable pregnant women and parents of babies to easily and extensively monitor the mothers' health during pregnancy and their babies by using smart devices. Since 1949, every pregnant woman in Finland has been eligible to receive a free of charge maternity package containing children's clothes and other necessary items, as a gift from the Finnish government. Researchers at VTT are trying to invent a digital maternity package, which is able to integrate health information produced and offered by smart devices, electronic services and guidebooks into a single ...
17,000 Macs infected with botnet controlled via Reddit
Post Date: 2014-10-04 06:08:31 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Russian security company Dr. Web has discovered a flaw in the Mac OS X, which enables hackers to control infected computers using a search service at Reddit. The company says at least 17,000 unique IPs have been hacked, mostly in the US. Dr. Web security experts discovered several threats to the MAC OS X after conducting a check in September, the Russian company said in a statement on its website. “One of them turned out to be a complex multi-purpose backdoor that entered the virus database as Mac.BackDoor.iWorm,” the statement reads. It has not yet been determined how the malware spreads, but Russian experts say that once a Mac has been infected, the software ...
Solar mobile phone charger
Post Date: 2014-10-04 01:13:10 by Tatarewicz
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Photo taken on Oct. 3, 2014 shows the first solar box (green) which contains a mobile phone charger and is transformed from a used traditional red London telephone box near Tottenham Court Road Station in London, Britain. This solar powered telephone box was launched here on Oct. 1, 2014 to provide a free mobile phone charger facility to local people. (Xinhua/Han Yan)
Batteries Included: A Solar Cell that Stores its Own Power
Post Date: 2014-10-03 08:18:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Is it a solar cell? Or a rechargeable battery? Actually, the patent-pending device invented at The Ohio State University is both: the world's first solar battery. In the October 3, 2014 issue of the journal Nature Communications, the researchers report that they've succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device. Key to the innovation is a mesh solar panel, which allows air to enter the battery, and a special process for transferring electrons between the solar panel and the battery electrode. Inside the device, light and oxygen enable different parts of the chemical reactions that charge the battery. The university will license the solar ...
Stressed out: Research sheds new light on why rechargeable batteries fail
Post Date: 2014-10-03 08:00:35 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Pity the poor lithium ion. Drawn relentlessly by its electrical charge, it surges from anode to cathode and back again, shouldering its way through an elaborate molecular obstacle course. This journey is essential to powering everything from cell phones to cordless power tools. Yet, no one really understands what goes on at the atomic scale as lithium ion batteries are used and recharged, over and over again. Michigan Technological University researcher Reza Shahbazian-Yassar has made it his business to better map the ion's long, strange trip -- and perhaps make it smoother and easier. His ultimate aim: to make better batteries, with more power and a longer life. ...
Scientists have created the most effective “invisibility cloak” so far, and you can make one for $100
Post Date: 2014-10-01 05:23:43 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Created by scientists at the University of Rochester in New York, the device can hide large objects from sight using cheap and readily available lenses. “There’ve been many high tech approaches to cloaking and the basic idea behind these is to take light and have it pass around something as if it isn’t there, often using high-tech or exotic materials,” said John Howell, a professor of physics at the University of Rochester in a press release. But while it works like an invisibility cloak, it looks more like something your optometrist would use to check your eyes - and when something is placed behind the layered lens, it disappears from view, leaving ...
Study Finds Treated Fracking Wastewater Still Too Toxic
Post Date: 2014-09-29 20:55:50 by Horse
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One of the biggest concerns about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is that the vast amount of wastewater produced by the process of extracting oil and gas from shale rock deep underground is incredibly toxic. Most often, the wastewater is injected into disposal wells deep underground. But a process does exist to convert contaminated water into drinking water that involves running it through wastewater treatment plants and into rivers. Now a new report says that treated wastewater could be fouling drinking water supplies. In an article published in Environmental Science & Technology -- the journal of the American Chemical Society -- a team of researchers acknowledged that the ...
Study Finds Treated Fracking Wastewater Still Too Toxic
Post Date: 2014-09-29 20:35:22 by Horse
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One of the biggest concerns about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is that the vast amount of wastewater produced by the process of extracting oil and gas from shale rock deep underground is incredibly toxic. Most often, the wastewater is injected into disposal wells deep underground. But a process does exist to convert contaminated water into drinking water that involves running it through wastewater treatment plants and into rivers. Now a new report says that treated wastewater could be fouling drinking water supplies. In an article published in Environmental Science & Technology -- the journal of the American Chemical Society -- a team of researchers acknowledged that the ...
How to have a Garden using 'Wood Chips'
Post Date: 2014-09-29 20:02:26 by Neo TryingtoWarnYou
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Back To Eden OFFICIAL FILM Official Website: backtoedenfilm.com Produced & Directed by: Dana Richardson & Sarah Zentz After years of back-breaking toil in ground ravaged by the effects of man-made growing systems, Paul Gautschi has discovered a taste of what God intended for mankind in the garden of Eden. Some of the vital issues facing agriculture today include soil preparation, fertilization, irrigation, weed control, pest control, crop rotation, and PH issues. None of these issues exist in the unaltered state of nature or in Paul's gardens and orchards. "Back to Eden" invites you to take a walk with Paul as he teaches you sustainable organic growing methods that ...
Music In Your Supermarket
Post Date: 2014-09-29 18:45:03 by X-15
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The instant you walk through the doors of a supermarket, you are surrounded by bright lights, products, offers, signs and the smell of the bakery department. We are all very aware of the supermarket trick of piping the smell of lovely fresh bread towards the entrance of the shop, but this is one of many ways of appealing to the customer and encouraging them to spend more on their visit. In this tough economic climate retailers are employing techniques to direct us toward making bigger purchasing decisions on our weekly shopping visits. One of the biggest challenges in the supermarket is to engage us a little more whilst we wander past aisles of fresh fruit or tins of beans. After all, ...
Introducing Big Brother’s Secret Weapon
Post Date: 2014-09-29 17:51:24 by BTP Holdings
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Introducing Big Brother’s Secret Weapon Published Mon, Sep 29, 2014 | Robert Williams, Founder Next Generation Identification Now Used by FBI The FBI just launched its new tracking system, which relies on facial recognition software. By next year, the database is expected to house 51 million photographs. It constitutes big news on two fronts… First, there’s a chance that your photograph is in the FBI’s database. Second, although Lockheed Martin (LMT) powers this soon-to-be ubiquitous technology, the real opportunity lies elsewhere… That is, in the company providing Lockheed with the secret algorithm. Next Generation Identification: The FBI’s Shiny New ...
No Global Warming in 18 Years
Post Date: 2014-09-29 17:44:40 by BTP Holdings
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No Global Warming in 18 Years On September 21, an estimated 300,000-plus demonstrators turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City to call for international action against climate change. Two days later, President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly and called on all countries to cut carbon emissions "right now." And eight days after that, October 1, will mark 18 consecutive years without global warming. There has been "no significant warming trend in surface average temperature" in those 18 years, said Patrick Michaels, director of the Cato Institute's Center for the Study of Science. Al Gore and other climate change alarmists ...
Cheap gasoline from natural gas
Post Date: 2014-09-29 10:08:47 by Tatarewicz
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Brodrick is teasing the South African giant Sasol (SSL). Which is indeed one of the global experts on using the Fischer-Tropf process and other innovations to refine solid (coal) or gaseous (natural gas) energy sources into liquids. That’s not because they took off as global innovators who pursued this fantastic new technology, it’s because they used to be the state-controlled oil company in South Africa, and no one wanted to sell them crude oil under apartheid… so they had to come up with a way to use their abundant coal as an industrial and transportation fuel. And the story is certainly a very compelling one, at least in the big picture: The US has abundant and ...
‘Organic Ready’ Corn to Replace Monsanto’s GMO Corn, Cross-Pollination
Post Date: 2014-09-29 06:39:48 by Tatarewicz
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“We need corn that organic farmers can grow without fear of GMO contamination” ‘Organic Ready’ Corn to Replace Monsanto’s GMO Corn, Cross-Pollination Here’s some of the best news all year for non-GMO supporters. Frank Kutka is working to save our heirloom corn from cross-breeding with genetically modified corn. He’s been diligently at work for over 15 years now developing what he calls “Organic Ready” corn varieties that have the ability to block cross-pollination, thus eliminating Monsanto’s prevalently grown GMO corn from infesting organic farmer’s crops. Kutka says: “We need corn that organic farmers can grow without fear of ...
Earth's plate movements clue to mineral deposits: New Zealand scientist
Post Date: 2014-09-26 23:20:08 by Tatarewicz
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WELLINGTON, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Analysis of rocks from the seafloor off New Zealand has given scientists an insight into how the Earth's tectonic plates have been moving for millions of years and the formation of submarine mineral deposits. Analysis of 40 rocks recovered along the Kermadec Arc enabled a team of scientists from New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom to build a better model of the way the Pacific plate was being dragged down and recycled into magma and other volcanic products, including some that end up as mineral deposits. The chemical makeup of seafloor volcanic chains was strongly influenced by the chemistry of the subducted tectonic plate, ...
Salmon, Climate, And Accountability
Post Date: 2014-09-26 12:35:49 by Ada
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Free speech is essential to freedom, but with it comes a level of personal responsibility. Supposedly, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes recognized this in his observations about shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre. People assume this meant you can’t do it, but his original comment included the critical word, “falsely”. In the US, your right to shout fire is part of free speech, but Holmes argued that you couldn’t shout fire, if it is false. The trouble is, who decides it is false and once it is said, the damage is done. The question then becomes accountability. Both the need for personal responsibility in confirming there is a fire, and being held accountable, ...
Solar energy-driven process could revolutionize oil sands tailings reclamation
Post Date: 2014-09-26 02:29:11 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Cleaning up oil sands tailings has just gotten a lot greener thanks to a novel technique developed by University of Alberta civil engineering professors that uses solar energy to accelerate tailings pond reclamation efforts by industry. Instead of using UV lamps as a light source to treat oil sands process affected water (OSPW) retained in tailings ponds, professors Mohamed Gamal El-Din and James Bolton have found that using the sunlight as a renewable energy source treats the wastewater just as efficiently but at a much lower cost. "We know it works, so now the challenge is to transfer it into the field," says Gamal El-Din, who also worked on the project with ...
Worse than Heartbleed: ‘Shellshock’ Bash bug threatens millions of computer systems worldwide
Post Date: 2014-09-26 02:02:42 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A vulnerability has been discovered within the widely used Bash software included on Linux and Mac operating systems, raising concerns about an exploit that some experts say stands to be more damaging than the Heartbleed bug identified earlier this year. Researchers revealed on Wednesday this week that a bug has been spotted in Bash — a command-line shell developed in the 1980s and common to Linux and Unix systems — the likes of which may allow attackers to target computers and, if successful, run malicious codes that could let them take control of entire servers pertaining to potentially millions of machines. But while the so-called Heartbleed bug found in April allowed ...
Warning: The Robots Are Coming!
Post Date: 2014-09-25 17:00:12 by BTP Holdings
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Slavery is coming back. In the future, we'll all have personal servants. They'll clean our homes, tend to our gardens, harvest our food, manufacture our goods and fight our battles. The slaves won't be human, fortunately, but they will be machines. Every new advance in machine intelligence and electronic sensing, along with other diverse and converging fields of technology, is hastening the adoption of these machine servants. Robots. Robots are a big, high-growth field investors need to pay attention to. Bill Gates has predicted that by 2025, robots will be as common as computers are today. If he's even half right, investors who get in on promising robotics techs today ...
Bastille Day
Post Date: 2014-09-24 23:47:20 by Dakmar
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Get Up And Kill! Poster Comment:by Geddy Lee;alex Lifeson;neil Elwood Peart. Play Video Share Correct Print Play Music There's no bread, let them eat cake There's no end to what they'll take Flaunt the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth But they're marching to Bastille day La guillotine will claim her bloody prize Free the dungeons of the innocent The king will kneel to let his kingdom rise Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace Naked fear on every face See them bow their heads to die As we would bow as they rode by And they're marching to Bastille day La guillotine will claim her bloody prize Sing, o choirs of the cacophony The king will kneel to let his ...
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