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The Known Universe (Video) Post Date: 2013-05-20 01:15:21 by Original_Intent
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VP: Iran to Unveil 4 Scientific Achievements in New Energy Sources Post Date: 2013-05-18 23:14:53 by Tatarewicz
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Fars: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah announced that the country plans to unveil four scientific achievements in the field of new energy resources in the near future. Iran has so far inaugurated solar power plants in 4 universities and a fifth one will kick off work in Niroo Research Institute affiliated to the energy ministry tomorrow, Soltankhah said in Tehran on Saturday. She also announced that Iranian scientists have managed to produce raw material for building wind turbines, adding that the related production line will be inaugurated on Sunday. The country formerly imported the raw material from foreign countries. Soltankhah ...
(my title) NWO Illuminati imports Nylanderia fulva in effort to quash Patriot electronics Post Date: 2013-05-18 12:21:42 by PSUSA2
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Invasive fire ants have been a thorn in the sides of Southerners for years. But another invasive species, the so-called "crazy" ant that many describe as being worse has arrived and is displacing fire ants in several places. "When you talk to folks who live in the invaded areas, they tell you they want their fire ants back," said Edward LeBrun, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, in a statement from the school. "Fire ants are in many ways very polite. They live in your yard. They form mounds and stay there, and they only interact with you if you step on their mound." Crazy ants, on the other hand, "go everywhere," ...
Mitochondrial DNA Study Reveals Origins of Minoan Civilization Post Date: 2013-05-17 03:10:02 by farmfriend
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Mitochondrial DNA Study Reveals Origins of Minoan Civilization May 16, 2013 by Sci-News.com A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Minoans, who 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete, probably were descendents of the first Neolithic humans to reach the island around 7,000 BC and that they have the greatest genetic similarity with modern European populations. The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in the early 1900s named the Minoans after a legendary Greek king, Minos. Based on similarities between Minoan artifacts and those from Egypt and Libya, Sir Evans proposed that the Minoan civilization ...
Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years Post Date: 2013-05-16 18:37:37 by X-15
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One of the dreams for security experts is the creation of a quantum internet that allows perfectly secure communication based on the powerful laws of quantum mechanics. The basic idea here is that the act of measuring a quantum object, such as a photon, always changes it. So any attempt to eavesdrop on a quantum message cannot fail to leave telltale signs of snooping that the receiver can detect. That allows anybody to send a one-time pad over a quantum network which can then be used for secure communication using conventional classical communication. That sets things up nicely for perfectly secure messaging known as quantum cryptography and this is actually a fairly ...
Scientists create human stem cells through cloning Post Date: 2013-05-15 23:40:59 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed. The result is a harvest of human embryonic stem cells, the seemingly magic cells capable of morphing into any of the 200-plus kinds that make up a person. The feat, reported on Wednesday in the journal Cell, could re-ignite the field of stem-cell medicine, which has been hobbled by technical challenges as well as ethical issues. Until now, the most natural sources ...
Warp Drive Feasible? Relativity Loophole Means 'Star Trek' Device Might Actually Work, Physicists Say Post Date: 2013-05-15 07:41:56 by Ada
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In the "Star Trek" TV shows and films, the U.S.S. Enterprise's warp engine allows the ship to move faster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would say, "highly illogical." However, there's a loophole in Einstein's general theory of relativity that could allow a ship to traverse vast distances in less time than it would take light. The trick? It's not the starship that's moving it's the space around it. In fact, scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field test toward proving the possibility of warp drives and faster-than-light travel. Maybe the warp drive on "Star Trek" is possible after all. [See ...
Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life Post Date: 2013-05-15 04:13:24 by Tatarewicz
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In the near future our mobile phones will be powered by wearable electronics that incorporate piezoelectric devices into fabric. Image: Image: Yonggang Huang/Northwestern University Imagine having a wafer-thin touchscreen on your sleeve that, like a scene out of a Philip K. Dick novel, gives you all the functionality of a smartphone without the awkwardness of a cumbersome battery. The best part about this scenario is it may not be as far from reality as you think. The bulky packaging of batteries limits innovation of some of the amazing new, ultra-slim electronics today. If you open up an iPhone 5, youll see that a large proportion of the phones volume is taken up by the ...
Wheat-tomato rotation helps reduce nematodes: study Post Date: 2013-05-14 23:38:58 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, May 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers said Tuesday they have found a resistant strain of wheat that can reduce nematode numbers in soil and protect the next rotation of tomato plants. Root-knot nematodes cause crop losses around the world, and they can be difficult to control. Once they are present in soil, they can survive winter in a fallow field and infect plants during the next growing season. The resistant wheat, however, serves as a trap crop to trick the nematodes into starting their life cycle but then prevents them from reproducing, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, who described it in the journal Crop Science as "a better option ...
Solar Panels as Inexpensive as Paint? Post Date: 2013-05-14 02:27:48 by Tatarewicz
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May 13, 2013 Most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power, recent polls suggest. A major impediment, however, is the cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panels. Simply put, most people and businesses cannot afford to place them on their rooftops. Share This: Tweet Fortunately, that is changing because researchers such as Qiaoqiang Gan, University at Buffalo assistant professor of electrical engineering, are helping develop a new generation of photovoltaic cells that produce more power and cost less to manufacture than what's available today. One of the more promising efforts, which Gan is working on, involves the use of ...
3D Printing Companies Post Date: 2013-05-13 16:41:11 by Lod
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AL GORE ADMITS…. SPRAYING 90 MILLION TONS PER DAY OF TOXIC CHEMICALS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE Post Date: 2013-05-13 10:44:56 by christine
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FROM THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE INTERNET
.. He must know more than us average folks do. Here is something he obviously knows about stratospheric aerosol spraying (a.k.a.) chemtrails that I have not heard up to this point. Listening to Mr. Al Gore(-ithum) or Ellen normally makes me want to change the channel immediately, or puke, however this time he shared information which he must be privy to that disclosed the magnitude of the toxic chemicals which are being dumped into the atmosphere on a DAILY basis. NINETY MILLION tons, PER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He acts like its terrible that they would spend all that money to pollute the atmosphere and we should unite to put a stop to ...
Adventure shapes brain/personality Post Date: 2013-05-12 04:04:39 by Tatarewicz
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THE act of exploring helps shape the brain and adventuring is what makes each individual different, according to researchers in Germany. The findings published in the US journal Science may offer new paths to treating psychiatric diseases, scientists said. Researchers sought to pin down why identical twins are not perfect replicas of each other, even when they have been raised in the same environment, and studied the matter using 40 genetically identical mice. The mice were kept in an elaborate, five-level cage connected by glass chutes and filled with toys, scaffolds, wooden flower pots, nesting places and more. The space available to explore spanned about five square metres (yards). ...
Is science being corrupted to the point of fraud? Post Date: 2013-05-12 02:54:23 by Tatarewicz
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Petroleum and coal are referred to as fossil fuels, which supposedly means they started out as biological materials. They didn't. Oil and coal are in a higher state of chemical energy than biological materials. They are often called hydrocarbons, because they have hydrogen attached to carbon, which is a high energy state. Biological materials have a lot of oxygen added, which is a lower energy state. There is no method of increasing chemical energy other than through radiation. Commentators blissfully mention heat and pressure. Those forces cannot increase chemical energy, because they act upon nuclei, while chemical energy is in electrons which spin around nuclei. No force acting upon ...
Researchers Find a Way to Make Steel Without Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Post Date: 2013-05-11 01:13:59 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: May 8, 2013 Anyone who has seen pictures of the giant, red-hot cauldrons in which steel is made -- fed by vast amounts of carbon, and belching flame and smoke -- would not be surprised to learn that steelmaking is one of the world's leading industrial sources of greenhouse gases. But remarkably, a new process developed by MIT researchers could change all that. Share This: The new process even carries a couple of nice side benefits: The resulting steel should be of higher purity, and eventually, once the process is scaled up, cheaper. Donald Sadoway, the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at MIT and senior author of a new paper describing the process, ...
Fuel Performance Additive Post Date: 2013-05-10 20:43:52 by Lod
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New silicon to boost solar panels Post Date: 2013-05-09 05:37:16 by Tatarewicz
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Science Alert: The team found a way to correct deficiencies in silicon - by far the most expensive component used in the making of solar cells. This will mean efficient solar cells can be created that are cheaper but more efficient. Image: Gencho Petkov/Shutterstock Solar engineers from UNSW have developed an innovative method to dramatically improve the quality of low-grade silicon, promising to significantly improve electrical efficiency and reduce the cost of solar panels. The UNSW team has discovered a mechanism to control hydrogen atoms so they can better correct deficiencies in silicon by far the most expensive component used in the making of solar cells. This process ...
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Explainer: what is intuition? Post Date: 2013-05-06 04:27:58 by Tatarewicz
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Science Alert: The word intuition is derived from the Latin intueor to see; intuition is thus often invoked to explain how the mind can see answers to problems or decisions in the absence of explicit reasoning a gut reaction. Several recent popular psychology books such as Malcolm Gladwells Blink, Daniel Kahnemans Thinking Fast and Slow and Jonah Lehrers The Decisive Moment have emphasised this power of intuition and our ability to think without thinking, sometimes suggesting we should rely more heavily on intuition than deliberative (slow) or rational thought processes. Such books ...
Russian Scientists say period of global cooling ahead due to changes in the sun Post Date: 2013-05-02 06:30:04 by Ada
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From Radio Voice of Russia: Russias Pulkovo Observatory: we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200- 250 years Scientists at Russias famous Pulkovo Observatory are convinced that the world is in for a period of global cooling. Click for Full Text!
Where Does Outer Space Begin? Post Date: 2013-05-02 03:00:58 by X-15
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This week the rocket motor on the Scaled Composite built SpaceShipTwo was fired in flight for the first time. The Burt Rutan designed rocketplane accelerated beyond Mach 1and reached an altitude of about 55,000 feet during the short rocket burn. It was an important step in testing what will probably be the first civilian craft to carry passengers into space. The initial suborbital flight is expected to happen next year. Price of a passenger ticket is said to be $200,000. This second space race, one being conducted this time by private industry instead of cold war enemy governments, raises the question of just what is space? Where does space begin? How does one know when they reach space? ...
One Boston Marathon suspect killed; second suspect, his brother, on loose after firefight Post Date: 2013-04-19 07:18:29 by Ada
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With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives out the window in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement, authorities told NBC News. The second suspect the one in the white hat in photos released by the FBI was on the loose, and police ordered people in the Boston suburb of Watertown to stay in their homes and businesses not to open. Boston shut down its buses and subway system for the hunt. The suspects are brothers with the last name Tsarnaev, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The suspect at ...
Powerpot Turns Heat and Water Into Electricity Post Date: 2013-04-17 03:06:15 by Tatarewicz
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Power Practical, a student startup that sprang from research at the University of Utah, is selling a portable cook pot that transforms heat and water into a power source. Imagine charging your cellphone or using speakers in the mountains at night far from civilization. That's what the device, called the PowerPot, can do with just a campfire and a little water. Using thermoelectricity, the PowerPot generates power by capturing the electrons moving from the heated pot to the cooler water inside. The greater the temperature difference, the more electricity is generated. The company has a growing variety of PowerPots that serve different needs. The basic model, the PowerPot V, weighs ...
Two Intifadas and a Flawed Theory Post Date: 2013-04-16 07:33:16 by Ada
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For at least a decade, Colonel Tom Hammes has been one of the Marine Corps leading intellectuals. His book The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century should be read by anyone who has an interest in Fourth Generation warfare (4GW). In some ways, this is two books in one. One book describes Fourth Generation war and the reforms our military needs in order to fight it, and here Colonel Hammes is at his best. His distinction between the first and second intifadas is especially valuable. He writes that the Palestinians won the first intifada because they were careful to present themselves as victims of a vastly more powerful Israeli military. Avoiding the use of weapons other ...
FreeStyle InsuLinx Glucose Meter Voluntarily Recalled in United States Post Date: 2013-04-15 21:41:43 by Tatarewicz
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Abbott is voluntarily recalling its FreeStyle InsuLinx blood glucose meters in the United States due to a malfunction that could lead to a delay in the identification and treatment of severe hyperglycemia or incorrect treatment being given, which could potentially lead to serious injury or death. The problem is occurring at extremely high blood glucose levels of 1024 mg/dL and above, says the company. When this happens, the FreeStyle InsuLinx Meter will display and store in memory an incorrect test result that is 1024 mg/dL below the measured result. For example, at a blood glucose value of 1066 mg/dL, the meter will display and store a value of 42 mg/dL (1066 mg/dL - 1024 mg/dL = 42 ...
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