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China building own space station
Post Date: 2011-04-26 00:49:05 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Authorities in charge of the manned space program unveiled plans on Monday to build a 60-ton space station, made up of three capsules, and develop a cargo spaceship to transport supplies. The China Manned Space Engineering Office said at a news conference that it also wants the public to get involved by suggesting names for the space station, due to completed around 2020. According to documents provided by the office, the space station, weighing about 60 tons, is composed of a core module and two others where experiments will be conducted. A cargo spaceship to transport supplies will also be developed. The 18.1-meter-long core module, with a maximum ...
Scientists Prove Abiotic Oil is REAL!
Post Date: 2011-04-25 10:20:00 by Itistoolate
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Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find What would happen if it were proven that "fossil fuels" weren't the result of decaying plant and animal matter, were actually created within the Earth due to simple chemistry and you could not be scared into believing that we were "running out" of oil and natural gas? Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. As late as May of 2009 a report published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology suggested that we may have used more than we think. The idea that we are running out of oil is not a new one. ...
Huge CO2 lake found on Mars
Post Date: 2011-04-25 06:53:19 by Tatarewicz
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NASA scientists recently discovered an underground dry ice lake containing more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The trapped carbon dioxide is thought to have come from the planet's atmosphere earlier in its history when it was conducive for life on Mars to exist. "It really is a buried treasure," said Jeffrey Plaut, a scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a report appearing in the journal Science. "We found something underground that no one else realized was there." The discovery was made possible through ground-penetrating radar of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter who is searching for clues of life on Mars, according to Empowered News. The ...
Higgs boson (God particle) found?
Post Date: 2011-04-25 01:20:27 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists Abuzz Over Controversial Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected http://LiveScience.com A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle." The controversial rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not entirely clear at this point if the memo is authentic, or what the data it refers to might mean — but the note already has researchers talking. The buzz started when an ...
Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines
Post Date: 2011-04-24 06:54:01 by Tatarewicz
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Car engines could soon be fired by lasers instead of spark plugs, researchers say. A team at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics will report on 1 May that they have designed lasers that could ignite the fuel/air mixture in combustion engines. The approach would increase efficiency of engines, and reduce their pollution, by igniting more of the mixture. The team is in discussions with a spark plug manufacturer. The idea of replacing spark plugs - a technology that has changed little since their invention 150 years ago - with lasers is not a new one. Spark plugs only ignite the fuel mixture near the spark gap, reducing the combustion efficiency, and the metal that makes them up ...
Top astronomers warn the world could end within 90 years
Post Date: 2011-04-23 03:13:28 by Tatarewicz
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The end of the world is nigh. That's what top astronomers will claim during a debate to end the 2011 Edinburgh International Science Festival. Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, believes civilisation has only a 50 per cent chance of surviving to 2100 without suffering a man-made catastrophe. And the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John Brown, has an equally bleak outlook, fearing a random event from outer space is the most likely cause of our demise. They will take to the stage to put forward their stark predictions in the discussion "Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Threats to Earth". Despite having widely differing views, these two titans of astronomy between them ...
Was FBI too quick to judge anthrax suspect the killer?
Post Date: 2011-04-21 06:19:18 by Ada
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2004 - Bruce Ivins playing the keyboard in church and at this office party, but the Justice Department says the Army microbiologist mailed anthrax-filled letters that killed five people in 2001. | U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases/MCT The anthrax terror investigation View larger image By | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant — a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer. One senior FBI official wrote in March 2007, in a recently declassified memo, that the potential clue "may be the ...
Childhood music lessons may provide lifelong boost in brain functioning
Post Date: 2011-04-21 02:50:46 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Those childhood music lessons could pay off decades later -- even for those who no longer play an instrument -- by keeping the mind sharper as people age, according to a preliminary study published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The study recruited 70 healthy adults age 60 to 83 who were divided into groups based on their levels of musical experience. The musicians performed better on several cognitive tests than individuals who had never studied an instrument or learned how to read music, according to the research findings published Wednesday online in the APA journal Neuropsychology. "Musical activity throughout life may serve as ...
Inattention blindness
Post Date: 2011-04-21 02:38:16 by Tatarewicz
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Didn't spot the dancing gorilla in famous video? Why people suffer from 'inattention blindness' It's the bizarre video that has attracted more than 1.8 million hits on YouTube. Unsuspecting viewers are invited to count how many times basketball players pass the ball to each other. But - halfway through - a person in a gorilla suit walks through the middle of the players. Incredibly, scientists discovered that of the people who watched the video who were able to count how many times the basketball was passed, as much as 40 per cent failed to see the person in the gorilla suit. Scroll down for the video Countdown: The students start passing the basketball between each ...
Watchman Video - interesting - Fusion - Beck - DNA
Post Date: 2011-04-20 06:30:04 by noone222
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O'Hare UFO Leaked News Footage seconds before Broadcast
Post Date: 2011-04-19 09:18:27 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment: 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
Open Source Finally Wins
Post Date: 2011-04-19 06:21:40 by Tatarewicz
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In yesterday's edition of The Daily Reckoning, I asserted, "There is going to be a rapid acceleration in the adoption of smartphones very soon. This is because the Android operating system has basically won the technological battle of the bands. It will become the standard. Microsoft has been beaten in the mobile space and its proprietary operating system is fading fast. Nokia has made a series of blunders as well and is now losing the mobile operating system space it once seemed destined to own forever." Today, I'll tell part of what this development might mean for investors. I lived and worked in Silicon Valley, mostly doing public policy research, but occasionally ...
Unemployed? Virgin Galactic Seeks Pilot-Astronauts
Post Date: 2011-04-18 14:22:49 by X-15
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April 14, 2011 — There have been many signs over the past couple of years that commercial passenger spaceflight is becoming a reality, often best illuminated by the success of SpaceshipOne and the steady progress of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. The latest sign comes in the form of a job announcement from Virgin Galactic seeking pilot-astronauts for its spaceflight system test and development team. They say the economy is rebounding and this just one more option for jobseekers who may be what Virgin describes as “very special.” The full job description from Virgin Galactic is below: Virgin Galactic has launched its search for pilot-astronauts. This unique opportunity ...
Earth Getting Mysteriously Windier
Post Date: 2011-04-18 05:35:56 by Tatarewicz
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Published March 28, 2011 The world has gotten stormier over the past two decades—and the reason is a mystery, a new study says. In the past 20 years, winds have picked up around 5 percent on average. Extremely strong winds caused by storms have increased even faster, jumping 10 percent over 20 years, according to the new analysis of global satellite data. The study, the first to look at wind speeds across such a large swath of the planet, bolsters some earlier findings, according to study leader Ian Young, of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. "Some regional studies had found similar results, so we suspected there may be an increasing ...
Tectonic plate movement affected by weather/climate
Post Date: 2011-04-18 04:11:11 by Tatarewicz
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Geologists have known for years that tectonic plates affect climate patterns. Now they say that the opposite is also true, finding that intensifying climate events can move tectonic plates. Using models based on known monsoonal and plate movement patterns, geologists say that the Indian Plate has accelerated by about 20% over the past 10 million years. “The significance of this finding lies in recognising for the first time that long-term climate changes have the potential to act as a force and influence the motion of tectonic plates,” Australian National University researcher Giampiero Iaffaldano told COSMOS. How the Heck: * The researchers plugged information from research on ...
Making a phone call with your thoughts
Post Date: 2011-04-18 03:09:57 by Tatarewicz
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Scrolling through your address book and pressing the "call" button could become obsolete. A new brain interface is being explored by researchers in San Diego, California, which could enable you to make calls just by thinking of the number. Participants who used it found it to be almost 100% accurate, though some people achieve higher accuracy than others. (More on TIME.com: See tips and tricks for your Windows 7 phone) The inventors? Neuroscience researcher Tzzy-Ping Jung and colleagues, from Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California. The participants had to sit in front of a screen and were shown a keypad with numbers flashing a different ...
World's 6,000 languages come from single African one
Post Date: 2011-04-16 05:54:42 by Tatarewicz
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The world's 6,000 or so modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue spoken by early African humans between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The finding, published Thursday in the journal Science, could help explain how the first spoken language emerged, spread and contributed to the evolutionary success of the human species. Cave art may have been spurred by the evolution of complex language. Quentin Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and author of the study, found that the first migrating populations leaving Africa laid the groundwork for all the world's cultures by taking their ...
What Will Happen to All the Shuttle Stuff?
Post Date: 2011-04-16 02:42:01 by RickyJ
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As the space shuttles get ready for their second lives as museum pieces, NASA officials are already sorting through their storage closets, trying to figure out what to do with all the memorabilia that isn’t useful anymore. “It’s like if you have to move out of your apartment pretty quickly,” said Bob Sherouse of NASA headquarters, who is handling the distribution of shuttle-related stuff. “You have a number of items that you take with you to your new house, but you rediscover items that you had under your bed or in your closet.” The shuttles themselves will go through a lengthy clean-up process before they’re ready for their public debuts. When a shuttle ...
Riderless-Bike Research Could Lead to Better Wheels
Post Date: 2011-04-16 02:09:42 by RickyJ
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Get a running start and try pushing your bike without riding it — it’ll stay balanced on its own, at least as long as it maintains a certain amount of speed. This has always been true, but a recently published research paper may debunk long-standing beliefs on why your bike can ride itself. And it may make for better bicycle designs in the future. A group of researchers from the United States and the Netherlands have collaborated to produce the two-mass-skate (TMS) bike, a riderless bicycle prototype that lacks two components commonly believed to contribute to the self-stability of bicycles. Before their results were published in Science magazine on Thursday, popular belief held ...
Ten most mysterious diseases
Post Date: 2011-04-15 06:04:31 by Tatarewicz
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Ten most mysterious diseases. 44017.jpegThere is a great deal of illnesses, which can be cured easily. However, there is a list of well-known illnesses to which scientists still have not found a clue. They are still incurable. AIDS The world learned about acquired immune deficiency syndrome 25 years ago. A quarter of a century has passed but there is still no cure for AIDS. The disease remains one of the world's most brutal killers which claims the largest number of lives in developing states. Chimpanzee suffer from AIDS as well. Moreover, scientists discovered that the disease can transmit from an ape to a human. Alzheimer's disease The disease has nothing in common with ...
Oven rust: key to unlimited energy from sun, water and CO2
Post Date: 2011-04-15 05:43:34 by Tatarewicz
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* Discovery raises the prospect of a very cheap power source created from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide Rust from ovens could be the key to making unlimited amounts of cheap fuel that could power anything, scientists have discovered. A team used ceria, which forms when ovens are heated, to strip oxygen from water and carbon dioxide and leave them with the basics of a liquid fuel. They said that potentially this fuel could be turned into cells which could power machines or converted into a natural gas for a generator. The discovery raises the prospect of a very cheap power source being created from just sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, some of the most plentiful elements on ...
Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
Post Date: 2011-04-15 03:04:04 by RickyJ
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A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundamental physics, team leader Elena Aprile of Columbia University and her collaborators say. The negative result, announced online April 13, doesn’t mean that dark matter doesn’t exist. It’s just harder to detect than some researchers had imagined. XENON100 is a tank filled with 161 kilograms of chilled liquid xenon buried beneath 1,400 meters of rock in the Gran Sasso Underground ...
New engine 3.5 times efficient than conventional
Post Date: 2011-04-14 01:49:09 by Tatarewicz
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Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent when compared with conventional combustion engines. The engine has a rotor that's equipped with wave-like channels that trap and ...
U.S. scientists unveil world's first human brain map
Post Date: 2011-04-13 03:13:34 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. scientists on Tuesday unveiled the world's first computerized human brain map, an online public resource developed to accelerate understanding of how the human brain works and in hopes to tackle neurological diseases like Alzeimer's and Parkinson's. Funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, the 55-million-U.S. dollar project, named the "Allen Human Brain Atlas," identifies 1,000 anatomical sites in the human brain, backed by more than 100 million data points that indicate the particular gene expression and underlying biochemistry of each site, said the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science. The data, ...
Shale gas 'worse than coal' for climate
Post Date: 2011-04-13 01:23:16 by Tatarewicz
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The new kid on the energy block, shale gas, may be worse in climate change terms than coal, a study concludes. Drawn from rock through a controversial "fracking" process, some hail the gas as a "stepping stone" to a low-carbon future and a route to energy security. But US researchers found that shale gas wells leak substantial amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This makes its climate impact worse than conventional gas, they say - and probably worse than coal as well. "Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon, and is comparable over 100 years," they write in a ...
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