|
Latest Articles: Science/Tech
World’s most widely used insecticide proven to damage bees’ brains
Post Date: 2015-02-08 04:53:02 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceAlert...For the first time, scientists have found evidence that the insecticide most frequently used on crops such as corn, canola, cotton, and soybeans is messing with the brains of bumblebees, and causing poor performance in their colonies. The reasons behind the global decline of bees and other insect pollinators have been as mysterious as they’ve been controversial, but now we have the first evidence to suggest that commercially available insecticides are impairing the brain activity of individual bumblebees, and the performance of entire colonies. The culprit? Neonicotinoids - a relatively new class of insecticide, developed by Shell and Bayor around 20 to 30 years ago, ...
New ’super-steel’ alloy is as strong as titanium, but 10 times cheaper
Post Date: 2015-02-08 04:40:45 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
ScienceAlert... This new type of steel alloy is flexible, ultra-strong, and inexpensive, and we already have all the tools we need to mass-produce it. Scientists in South Korea have invented a new steel alloy that boasts the same strength-to-weight ratio as titanium - the super-strong metal we use to construct jet engines, missiles, spacecraft, and medical implants - but it can be produced for one-tenth of the cost. In order to develop this new kind of metal, the team from Pohang University of Science and Technology had to overcome a problem that had stumped materials scientists for decades, says William Herkewitz at Popular Mechanics. "In the 1970's, Soviet researchers ...
CERN To Attempt ‘Big Bang’ In March, Stephen Hawking Issues Warning
Post Date: 2015-02-08 03:50:24 by Tatarewicz
4 Comments
CERN is due to re-open the large hadron collider in March of 2015 in order to recreate the big bang, despite warnings from top scientists such as Stephen Hawking and Neil de Grasse Tyson. Allnewspipeline.com reports: Dr. Stephen Hawking recently warned that the reactivation in March of CERN’s large hadron collider could pose grave dangers to our planet…the ultimate reality check we are warned. Hawking has come straight out and said the ‘God particle’ found by CERN “could destroy the universe” leaving time and space collapsed as shared in the 2nd video. Is CERN the most dangerous thing in the cosmos that could lead to the ultimate destruction of the Earth ...
Submarine volcanoes may alter long-term climate: study
Post Date: 2015-02-07 05:01:08 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Volcanoes hidden under the oceans may have a greater influence on our planet's long-term climate than previously thought, a U.S. study said Friday. The study published in the U.S. journal Geophysical Research Letters found that submarine volcanoes flare up on strikingly regular cycles, ranging from two weeks to 100,000 years and that they erupt almost exclusively during the first six months of each year. Previously, scientists presumed underwater volcanoes are Earth' s gentle giants, oozing lava at slow, steady rates, but the new study said they produce maybe eight times more lava annually than land volcanoes. Due to the chemistry of their magmas, ...
Australian scientists detect radio waves from mystery source 5 bln light years away
Post Date: 2015-02-07 04:59:14 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
CANBERRA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- A short, sharp flash of radio waves from a mysterious source up to 5.5 billion light years from Earth has been detected by CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia, local media reported on Tuesday. In Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology PhD student Emily Petroff "saw" the burst live - a first for astronomers. Lasting only milliseconds, the first such radio burst was discovered in 2007 by astronomers combing old Parkes data archives for unrelated objects. Six more bursts, apparently from outside the galaxy, have now been found with the Parkes telescope, in New South Wales, and a seventh with the Arecibo telescope in Puerto ...
Own a Gun? Then Eric Holder Wants You to Wear This…
Post Date: 2015-02-05 17:56:55 by BTP Holdings
7 Comments
Own a Gun? Then Eric Holder Wants You to Wear This… HolderGuns The Attorney General of the United States has suggested a new twist on gun control: electronic bracelets for gun owners. This is the technology used to keep track of criminals on parole, but Eric Holder seems to think gun owners should be accorded the same treatment. The Conservative Tribute reported on Holder’s remarks, made during the 2015 budget hearings: Not long ago, Holder admitted that he thinks electronic tracking bracelets, fingerprint scanners, and other science fiction-style ideas are “common sense” ways to increase gun control. “Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of ...
China achieves breakthrough in pulse weapons technology
Post Date: 2015-02-05 00:13:50 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
Want... Directed-energy weapons are said to be the future of advanced technological warfare. (Internet photo) Directed-energy weapons are said to be the future of advanced technological warfare. (Internet photo) China has achieved a technological breakthrough that could help introduce pulse weapons to the People's Liberation Army's arsenal, reports the Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily. According to the report, the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a third-generation X-ray pulsar simulation source. The technology, which can create an X-ray ...
Have You Ever Wanted To Generate Your Own Supply Of Free Electrical Power?
Post Date: 2015-02-04 17:11:52 by BTP Holdings
1 Comments
Have You Ever Wanted To Generate Your Own Supply Of Free Electrical Power? If so, this is going to be the most important message you will ever read. Solar powered generators are now available and I'm going to show you how to get one for very little money. Solar Generators provide "life-saving" electrical power when you need it most. And, unlike gas generators, a solar generator: * runs silently, * emits no fumes, * and produces an endless supply of electricity for free. It's like having an electric power plant running quietly in your own home. Run sump pumps, short-wave radios, computers, and even keep food from spoiling. (Lots and lots of applications for ...
Quantum Relativity
Post Date: 2015-02-03 11:25:06 by Horse
1 Comments
Students build solar car with 3D-printed body
Post Date: 2015-02-03 04:15:51 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
SINGAPORE, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Students at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have built an urban solar electric car with a 3D-printed body, the university said on Monday. The car named NTU Venture 8 is mounted on a carbon fiber single shell chassis. The cars were designed from scratch and the students spent over a year to build them. The students used the latest engineering techniques to develop innovations such as silicon solar cells that can be contoured to follow the car's shape. "We are extremely proud to have designed and assembled a 3D- printed body shell for the electric car," said Ng Heong Wah, an associate professor at the university. "The 3D ...
Lausanne scientists step up search for alien life
Post Date: 2015-02-01 01:23:41 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Swiss and Belgian researchers say they have devised the first tiny motion detector that could help find microscopic life forms on distant planets. Until now, scientists have tried to find signs of extraterrestrial life by listening for sounds that might be emitted from an alien world, by scanning the skies with potent telescopes and by sending robotic probes and rovers to analyze the chemical fingerprint of samples from comets and planets. But researchers in Switzerland and Belgium were interested in a new method. Taking advantage of movement, which they call "a universal signature of life," they would aim to sense on a nanolevel the tiny motions that all life forms make. ...
Scientists discover Hydrogen producing bacteria
Post Date: 2015-01-31 21:19:11 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
PressTV... Dr. Melanie Mormile, the head researcher of a team of scientists from the Missouri University of Science and Technology who found a new species of bacterium which cleans up the environment and produces hydrogen Scientists have found a new species of bacterium which cleans up the environment and produces hydrogen, an element which may in the future reduce the world's dependency on oil. The bacterium Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans was discovered in Soap Lake Washington by a team of researchers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. It can "produce hydrogen under saline and alkaline conditions in amounts that rival genetically modified organisms," ...
Researchers may have found the most ingenious way yet to generate solar power
Post Date: 2015-01-31 05:56:10 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
BGR News Solar energy is definitely taking off and now researchers may have come up with the absolute best way to generate cheap solar power by installing solar panels in public parking lots. The Washington Post reports that solar power proponents are increasingly turning their eyes toward America’s parking lots as the perfect locations for mass solar panel installations. The reasons for this are easy to understand: Parking lots taking up huge chunks of our landscape and absorb a ton of heat in hot weather. Why not put them to good use by installing solar panels over them? The one big issue, the Post says, is that such solar panel installations are very expensive right now, much ...
Beijing considers next steps for electric vehicles
Post Date: 2015-01-30 01:56:52 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... The year 2015 has witnessed the increased effort by some cities and regions in China to promote the use of new energy cars, prompting Beijing to develop schemes for charging service fees for battery charging as well as studying the standards used for collection, said a government official cited in a report by the National Business Daily. A source from a new energy vehicle industry association in Beijing confirmed the new policy but clarified that no official date for rolling out the related measures has been announced yet. Beijing is not the first city to formulate rules for the collection of battery-charging fees. Nanjing in Jiangsu, Hebei, Shanghai, Foshan in Guangdong, and ...
Wide gap exists between scientists, U.S. public over science issues: survey
Post Date: 2015-01-30 01:36:50 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Scientists and the general public in the United States are sharply divided over a broad range of hot topics related to science such as genetically modified (GMO) foods, climate change and human evolution, according a new survey out on Thursday that also found "considerable concern" about science education for U.S. kids by both groups. The largest differences between the public and scientists are found in beliefs about the safety of GM foods, as 88 percent of scientists think eating GM food is safe, while 37 percent of the public believes that, said the survey by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the American Association for the ...
New type of chemical bond discovered
Post Date: 2015-01-29 04:40:47 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Move over, covalent and ionic bonds, there’s a new chemical bond in town, and it loves to shake things up. It’s taken decades to nail down, but researchers in Canada have finally identified a new chemical bond, which they’re calling a ‘vibrational bond’. This vibrational bond seems to break the law of chemistry that states if you increase the temperature, the rate of reaction will speed up. Back in 1989, a team from the University of British Columbia investigated the reactions of various elements to muonium (Mu) - a strange, hydrogen isotope made up of an antimuon and an electron. They tried chlorine and fluorine with muonium, and as they increased the heat, ...
Missing link in metal physics explains Earth's magnetic field
Post Date: 2015-01-29 04:17:02 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceDaily: Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of liquid iron in Earth's core. Iron is a metal, which means it can easily conduct a flow of electrons that makes up an electric current. New findings from a team including Carnegie's Ronald Cohen and Peng Zhang shows that a missing piece of the traditional theory explaining why metals become less conductive when they are heated was needed to complete the puzzle that explains this field-generating process. Their work is published in Nature. The center of the Earth is very hot, and the flow of heat ...
China's winners of next-gen toilet competition announced
Post Date: 2015-01-29 01:09:06 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the winners of the first Reinvent the Toilet Challenge (RTTC) of China in Beijing, Jan. 26, reports Shanghai-based The Paper. The RTTC in China is part of the global program under the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WSH) initiative of the foundation. Proposals from Beijing's Tsinghua University, the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, the Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Beijing's EnviroSystems Engineering and Technology gained approval from international expert judges of the foundation with their innovative solutions to filtering and recycling sewage and toilet water. In total they have ...
Russian Corporation to Create Water Decontamination Station for Fukushima-1
Post Date: 2015-01-28 23:51:23 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Fukushima Water Cleanup Misses Targets, Completion Delayed Until May MOSCOW, January 28 (Sputnik) — Experts from the Russian national nuclear corporation Rosatom will create a demo water decontamination station this autumn to be used at the Japanese Fukushima nuclear plant, the project head of the subsidiary RosRAO, that deals with radioactive materials, Sergei Florya, told RIA Novosti Wednesday. “It is planned that the demo station will be created in the beginning of autumn-2015. It will be based on one of the RosRAO platforms, where the tests will be carried out,” Florya said. On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plant was hit by a powerful earthquake and a ...
FORECASTERS FAIL ON BLIZZARD, YET WEÂ’RE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE 100-YEAR CLIMATE MODELS
Post Date: 2015-01-27 08:35:47 by Ada
11 Comments
Meteorologists apologize for "snowmageddon" predictions Weather forecasters are apologizing for over-exaggerating what was just two days ago being predicted to be the “worst ever” blizzard to hit the eastern US, and yet we’re simultaneously supposed to believe 100-year climate models that purport to show the earth being devastated by global warming. After Governors in six states declared emergencies, with some threatening to order police to arrest anyone who drove during the snowstorm, the blizzard turned out to be a great deal more benign than the doomsday headlines just 24 hours before had billed it. The “snowmaggedon” that was forecast by ...
Tales of ancient sea rise told for 10,000 years: How Australian tribes recorded climate change
Post Date: 2015-01-26 10:15:09 by Ada
0 Comments
Melbourne, the southernmost state capital of the Australian mainland, was established by Europeans a couple hundred years ago at the juncture of a great river and a wind-whipped bay. Port Phillip Bay sprawls over 750 square miles, providing feeding grounds for whales and sheltering coastlines for brine-scented beach towns. But it’s an exceptionally shallow waterway, less than 30 feet in most places. It’s so shallow that 10,000 years ago, when ice sheets and glaciers held far more of the planet’s water than is the case today, most of the bay floor was high and dry and grazed upon by kangaroos. To most of us, the rush of the oceans that followed the last ice age seems like a ...
Anti-ship cruise missile is China's deadliest weapon: US expert
Post Date: 2015-01-26 06:17:13 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
Want... Anti-ship cruise missiles like the YJ-83 will pose the largest threat to the United States and its security partners in the Western Pacific, Associate professor Lyle Goldstein from the US Naval War College writes in an article for the Washington-based National Interest magazine on Jan. 22. Goldstein said the outcome of the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina in 1982 would have been different if Argentina possessed between 50 to 100 Exocet anti-ship cruise missiles. However, it lost the war because it only had five Exocets to take on the British task force sent to reclaim the islands in the South Atlantic following the Argentine invasion. China has devoted huge resources in ...
Graphene could double the rate of solar energy conversion
Post Date: 2015-01-26 05:28:30 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceAlert... For the first time, scientists have managed to feed a single light particle - or photon - into a graphene structure to produce multiple electrons - a phenomenon that could revolutionise the solar energy industry. In an experiment that could nearly double the rate of solar energy conversion from 32 to 60 percent, scientists in Switzerland have used the super-material graphene to convert a single photon into many electrons to produce an electric current. The team, from the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), demonstrates how graphene could join cadmium telluride, copper indium gallium selenide/sulphide, and various silicon structures ...
Russian Army to Introduce Advanced, Long-Range UAV
Post Date: 2015-01-25 02:41:44 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
MOSCOW, January 25 (Sputnik) — The sophisticated drone will be capable of performing reconnaissance missions and destroying targets that have been detected, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said, according to the Russian News Service network. "We are finalizing research and development work related to the drones that will solve an array of tactical, operational and strategic tasks," Borisov commented. He explained that the new UAVs will be put into service by the Russian Defense Ministry and the Federal Security Service, also known as the FSB. He declined to elaborate on the drone's technical characteristics. The new drone is being developed by several ...
Life On Earth May Have Originated As The Organic Filling In A Multilayer Sandwich Of Mica Sheets
Post Date: 2015-01-24 22:19:54 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceDaily: Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis. The hypothesis was developed by Helen Hansma, a research scientist with the University of California, Santa Barbara and a program director at the National Science Foundation. The Hansma mica hypothesis proposes that the narrow confined spaces between the thin layers of mica could have provided exactly the right conditions for the rise of the first biomolecules ---- effectively creating cells without membranes. The separation of the layers would have also provided the isolation needed for Darwinian evolution. "Some think that the ...
Latest [Newer] 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 [Older]
|