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Trash-to-House 3-D printed in China in 24 hours
Post Date: 2014-04-15 02:40:36 by Tatarewicz
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CHINA-SHANGHAI-3D PRINTING-HOUSE(CN) Two people visit a 3D-printed house in Shanghai, east China, April 12, 2014. Ten houses have been built of construction waste using a 3D printing technology in 24 hours in Shanghai. (Xinhua/Pei Xin)
Google buys U.S. drone startup Titan Aerospace
Post Date: 2014-04-15 01:47:13 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. internet giant Google confirmed Monday that it has acquired drone maker Titan Aerospace, whose solar-powered high-altitude robots will be helpful to Google's ambition to deliver internet services to underdeveloped areas in the world. A Google spokesman told Wall Street Journal that while in early days, the atmospheric satellite technology that Titan has been working on would bring internet access to millions of people and help solve other problems, including disaster relief and environmental damage like deforestation. Google didn't disclose the price of the deal. Like many other startups did after being bought by Google, New Mexico-based ...
Russia Plans to Install GLONASS Stations (GPS) in More Countries
Post Date: 2014-04-14 00:14:14 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) – Ground-based stations for Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) could be installed in several countries, including in Europe, but the current political situation is interfering with the process, a senior Russian space official told reporters Friday. “It is currently difficult to say exactly when and where [stations could be installed]. We are ready to sign an agreement with one of the European countries,” said Sergey Saveliev, the deputy head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Saveliev, speaking in a video conference devoted to Astronautics Day, stressed the issue has been complicated by the current political ...
New self-healing plastics developed
Post Date: 2014-04-13 05:30:07 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: Scratches in the car finish or cracks in polymer material: Self-healing materials can repair themselves by restoring their initial molecular structure after the damage. Scientists have now developed a chemical crosslinking reaction that ensures good short-term healing properties of the material under mild heating. Scratches in the car finish or cracks in polymer material: Self-healing materials can repair themselves by restoring their initial molecular structure after the damage. Scientists of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Evonik Industries have developed a chemical crosslinking reaction that ensures good short-term healing properties of the material under mild ...
White wing supremacist: swan attacks foreign students
Post Date: 2014-04-11 06:28:30 by Ada
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A swan nesting at Warwick University has been accused of attacking students from ethnic minorities Undergraduates revealed that the swan only appeared to target students from ethnic minorities Undergraduates revealed that the swan only appeared to target students from ethnic minorities Photo: NEWSTEAM By T05PM BST 10 Apr 2014 Warwick University has erected a fence around a campus lake to stop a spate of swan attacks on students. A 4ft tall bird, which boasts an 8ft wingspan, has been accused of behaved aggressively towards foreign students as they cross over a footbridge near its nesting place at the university's Gibbet Hill campus in Coventry, West Midlands. The footbridge is used ...
What you need to know about the Heartbleed bug
Post Date: 2014-04-11 02:14:13 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information may be at risk as a result of a major breakdown in Internet security revealed earlier this week. Related Stories Heartbleed bug causes major security headache Associated Press Canada shutters tax filing website over 'Heartbleed' bug AFP Passwords vulnerable after security flaw found Associated Press E-filing of Canadian taxes shut down because of Heartbleed bug Reuters Heartbleed bug may expose masses of sensitive data MarketWatch The damage caused by the "Heartbleed" bug is currently unknown. The security hole exists on a vast number of the Internet's Web servers and ...
Researchers develop solar power technology for internet access
Post Date: 2014-04-11 00:21:25 by Tatarewicz
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EDINBURGH, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed technology that enables solar panels to detect broadband signals and makes internet access fuelled by the power of the sun possible. The technology allows data to be transmitted on the World Wide Web using daylight, and, in addition, solar energy can be used to power such a device, as well as detect and carry data, the University of Edinburgh said in a statement on Thursday. This could enable self-sufficient wireless communications in remote areas, in developing regions with no web infrastructure, or in emergency situations, the statement said. Prototypes of the system have reached transmission ...
Electrolux initiates research on indoor pollution with vacuum cleaners
Post Date: 2014-04-11 00:13:31 by Tatarewicz
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STOCKHOLM, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish home appliance maker Electrolux has recently initiated a global research "the Invironment Project" using vacuum cleaners to investigate what indoor pollution looks like in consumers' homes around the world. Dust from different cities over the world with various pollution issues was collected and then analyzed by researcher from the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, using an elemental detector that could identify un-organic particles amongst the dust, said the company in a statement. What were found in the dust bags ranged from unexpected findings, such as bismuth traces and hunting projectiles, to common materials like ...
I'm Now Convinced That Global Solar Dominance Is In Sight
Post Date: 2014-04-10 12:24:45 by Ada
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Solar power will slowly squeeze the revenues of petro-rentier regimes in Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. They will have to find a new business model, or fade into decline Solar power has won the global argument. Photovoltaic energy is already so cheap that it competes with oil, diesel and liquefied natural gas in much of Asia without subsidies. Roughly 29pc of electricity capacity added in America last year came from solar, rising to 100pc even in Massachusetts and Vermont. "More solar has been installed in the US in the past 18 months than in 30 years," says the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). California's subsidy pot is drying up but new solar has ...
Hearbleed Bug Information
Post Date: 2014-04-10 11:58:25 by Lod
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The Most Likely Armageddon Threat … Preventable for a Small Amount of Money
Post Date: 2014-04-10 08:09:01 by Ada
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Well-known physicist Michio Kaku and other members of the American Physical Society asked Congress to appropriate $100 million to harden the country’s electrical grid against solar flares. As shown below, such an event is actually the most likely Armageddon-type event faced by humanity. Congress refused. Kaku explains that a solar flare like the one that hit the U.S. in 1859 would – in the current era of nuclear power and electric refrigeration – cause widespread destruction and chaos. Not only could such a flare bring on hundreds of Fukushima-type accidents, but it could well cause food riots globally. Kaku explains that relief came in for people hit by disasters like ...
Lab-grown human body parts
Post Date: 2014-04-10 07:57:46 by Tatarewicz
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Dr Michelle Griffin, a plastic research fellow, poses for photographs with a synthetic polymer ear at her research facility in the Royal Free Hospital in London, Monday, March 31, 2014. In a north London hospital, scientists are growing noses, ears and blood vessels in the laboratory in a bold attempt to make body parts using stem cells. It is among several labs around the world, including in the U.S., that are working on the futuristic idea of growing custom-made organs in the lab. While only a handful of patients have received the British lab-made organs so far— including tear ducts, blood vessels and windpipes — researchers hope they will soon be able to transplant more types ...
Scientists reconstruct ancient impact that dwarfs dinosaur-extinction blast
Post Date: 2014-04-09 22:19:05 by Tatarewicz
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American Geophysical Union A graphical representation of the size of the asteroid thought to have killed the dinosaurs, and the crater it created, compared to an asteroid thought to have hit the Earth 3.26 billion years ago and the size of the crater it may have generated. A new study reveals the power and scale of the event some 3.26 billion years ago which scientists think created geological features found in a South African region known as the Barberton greenstone belt. Credit: Image courtesy of American Geophysical Union Explains the origin of tectonic pltes Picture this: A massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to ...
XP's demise helps Chinese IT developers
Post Date: 2014-04-09 01:16:27 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft on Tuesday stopped providing technical assistance for Windows XP, a major operating system for Chinese computer users, opening up opportunities for China's IT companies. After April 8, technical assistance for Windows XP will no longer be available and the company will stop providing security updates, according to the Microsoft website. Computers can still run XP but it will become more insecure and prone to viruses. The company advised users to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and get a new PC if necessary. China has about 200 million XP users, 70 percent of the entire PC market, and the majority have no plans to switch, according to a Zhongguancun ...
'Mini Hearts' Could Pump Blood Through Faulty Veins
Post Date: 2014-04-08 03:49:31 by Tatarewicz
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LiveScience.com An experimental "mini heart" could help people with a medical condition that causes blood to pool in their veins by pumping their blood through the vessels and back to the heart, researchers say. The mini hearts are tiny pumps, consisting of a cuff of heart muscle cells. Once implanted to surround a vein, they could contract rhythmically, squeezing blood through the vessel. A patient's own stem cells could be used to make the mini heart, decreasing the chances of tissue rejection, researchers say. "We can create a simple version of the heart, outside a person's own heart," and by placing it in the lower extremities, significantly improve ...
Cherry stone went to space, now the tree that grew from it is acting very weird
Post Date: 2014-04-07 13:59:24 by Ada
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Cherry trees typically take about a decade to bloom after sprouting from seeds. But “space cherries” apparently take about half that time. Astronaut Koichi Wakata, now commander of the International Space Station, carried cherry pits descended a famous historical tree with him into space five years ago. About 265 pits produced from the fruit of the 1,250-year-old “Chujohimeseigan- zakura” cherry tree were carried into space, and some of them have come into bloom within four years, reported The Asahi Shimbun. The ancient tree is a variant of the “yamazakur” wild cherry species and previous attempts to grow young trees from its fruit have proven ...
British rooftops to become power stations amid solar strategy
Post Date: 2014-04-05 20:35:45 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, April 4 (Xinhua) -- British government estate, as well as factories, supermarkets and parking lots will be turned into "solar hubs," energy department said on Friday. The UK Solar PV Strategy, the first of its kind in Britain, was published by the Department of Energy & Climate Change on Friday, which sets out the government's ambition to see solar panels rolled out more widely and with it the potential to support tens of thousands of jobs. According to the strategy, there are an estimated 250,000 hectares of south facing commercial roofs in Britain. Energy department will clear the way for widespread use of mid-scale solar panels by using space on top of ...
Erasing a genetic mutation: Researchers reverse a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene
Post Date: 2014-04-04 07:53:46 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins, researchers have cured mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a single genetic mutation. The findings offer the first evidence that this gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse disease symptoms in living animals. CRISPR, which offers an easy way to snip out mutated DNA and replace it with the correct sequence, holds potential for treating many genetic disorders, according to the research team. The findings offer the first evidence that this gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse disease symptoms in living animals. CRISPR, which offers an easy way to snip out mutated DNA and replace it with ...
FireChat ignites new way to communicate on phones
Post Date: 2014-04-04 07:18:54 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new mobile messaging application called FireChat is empowering nearby smartphone users to stay in touch even when there's no cellular service or Internet connection. In just two weeks since its release on the iPhone, FireChat already has provided a flicker of hope for people pining for more effective, secure and affordable ways to communicate. That's because the free messaging app harnesses a technology called wireless mesh networking, which might someday allow a myriad of devices to connect like links in a chain. The technique might someday be used to tie together thousands of devices with built-in radios and make it possible to be online ...
China remains leading destination for clean energy investment: report
Post Date: 2014-04-03 23:08:56 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, April 3 (Xinhua) -- China remains the leading destination for clean energy investment in 2013 as global investment kept declining in 2013, according to a report released on Thursday. China remains the leading regional and global clean energy market, attracting 54.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, 6 percent lower than that in 2012, said the report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The report said the worldwide investment in clean energy kept declining in 2013 after it reached its peak in 2011, mainly dragged down by the curtailment of incentives in Europe region, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Clean energy finance in the European region slid sharply for the second ...
Researchers design trees easier to break down for paper production
Post Date: 2014-04-03 22:50:07 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Scientists said Thursday they have genetically engineered trees that will be easier to break down to produce paper and biofuel, a key advance that will mean using fewer chemicals, less energy and creating fewer environmental pollutants. The study, published in the U.S. journal Science, is focused on a polymer found in wood known as lignin, which represents "one of the largest impediments for the pulp and paper industry as well as the emerging biofuel industry," study author Shawn Mansfield, a professor of Wood Science at the University of British Columbia, said. Lignin makes up a substantial portion of the cell wall of most plants and keeps them ...
How to install Google Earth in Linux with one command
Post Date: 2014-04-03 15:23:24 by James Deffenbach
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Google Earth had quit working on my computer (pclinuxos, kde64, fully updated). And it was no longer in the repository. I had deleted it but wanted to try again to see if I could make it work. I found the following, tried it and, so far anyway, it is working. Just go to terminal, paste this command and press enter and it will download and install it for you: wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin && chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin && ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin It can't get any easier. I guess the person who wrote it is assuming that everyone knows how to open a terminal and know how to go to "root" (which is easy but if no one has ...
Tokyo student invents levitation in 3D space
Post Date: 2014-04-03 01:02:17 by Tatarewicz
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A Tokyo student along with fellow researchers has managed to float objects in a 3D space, using ultrasound. Yoichi Ochiai, a University of Tokyo graduate, together with Takayuki Hoshi and Jun Rekimoto, have found out the way to levitate light objects and move them around in a 3D space. Even though ultrasound levitation has been possible for nearly 40 years, Ochiai says this is still new. "Nobody was able to move objects in a 3D space," he says. "I think as long as objects don't move in a 3D environment, there's not much use for this kind of technology, and my research here at Tokyo University was the first to pull it off." At the University of Tokyo Komaba ...
Pioneer Axe (1965)
Post Date: 2014-04-02 22:58:57 by X-15
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This is a short film made by Peter Vogt in 1965 about axe making in Oakland, Maine. It documents the process of creating fine axes in the Emerson Stevens shop -- the last axe factory to operate in Oakland. Oakland was once a world-famous center of quality blade-making.
Aviation News – Spitfire Mk.Ia N3200 flies (first time in 74 years)
Post Date: 2014-04-02 03:03:32 by X-15
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The latest Spitfire restoration to emerge from the Aircraft Restoration Company’s (ARCo) hangar at IWM Duxford made its first post-restoration flight on Wednesday, 26 March 2014 when Mk.Ia N3200 (G-CFGJ) took to the skies. Elliott Marsh writes for GAR. Spitfire Mk.Ia N3200 was manufactured for the RAF at Woolston, prior to assembly at Eastleigh in 1939. The aircraft was delivered to the RAF at some point between 8 September 1939 and 20 January 1940, after which it was flown by Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Dalton Stephenson, Commanding Officer of 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford. Stephenson was shot down in combat on 26 May 1940 whilst flying Spitfire N3200, during the Operation DYNAMO Dunkirk ...
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