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New isotopic evidence supporting moon formation via Earth collision with planet-sized body
Post Date: 2014-06-06 07:15:48 by Tatarewicz
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A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of Earth with another large, planet-sized astronomical body, around 4.5 billion years ago. This work will be published in Science on 6th June, and will be presented to the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in California on 11th June. Most planetary scientists believe that the Moon formed from an impact between Earth and a planet-sized body, which has been given the name Theia. Efforts to confirm that the impact had taken place had centred on measuring the ratios between the isotopes of oxygen, titanium, silicon and others. These ratios are known to vary throughout the ...
How Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi
Post Date: 2014-06-05 14:07:37 by scrapper2
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Part of globe-trotting nowadays is flitting from one free Wi-Fi network to the next. From hotel lobby to coffee shop to subway platform to park, each time we join a public network we put our personal information and privacy at risk. Yet few travelers are concerned enough to turn down free Wi-Fi. Rather, many of us hastily give away an email address in exchange for 15 minutes of free airport Internet access. So how to feed your addiction while also safeguarding your passwords and privacy? If you’re not going to abstain (and who is these days?), here are four rules for staying connected and (reasonably) safe while traveling. 1. MAKE SURE THAT ANY SITE YOU VISIT HAS ‘HTTPS’ IN ...
Preserving bread longer: A new edible film made with essential oils
Post Date: 2014-06-05 08:47:15 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Essential oils have boomed in popularity as more people seek out alternatives to replace their synthetic cleaning products, anti-mosquito sprays and medicines. Now scientists are tapping them as candidates to preserve food in a more consumer-friendly way. A study from ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reports the development of new edible films containing oils from clove and oregano that preserve bread longer than commercial additives. Nilda de F. F. Soares and colleagues note that the search for new ways to keep packaged food from spoiling has led some scientists to essential oils, which can keep bacteria and mold at bay. Oils from clove and oregano had ...
3-D bioprinting builds a better blood vessel
Post Date: 2014-06-05 03:02:44 by Tatarewicz
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The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous waste to keep our organs working properly has been a conundrum for scientists trying to make artificial vessels from scratch. Now a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has made headway in fabricating blood vessels using a three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technique. The study is published online this month in Lab on a Chip. "Engineers have made incredible strides in making complex artificial tissues such as those of the heart, liver and lungs," said senior study author, Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, biomedical engineer, and director ...
THIS Made HITLER Lose the War(?)
Post Date: 2014-06-04 17:04:27 by BTP Holdings
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Latest News (May 30th, 2014) THIS Made HITLER Lose the War(?) The Allied Powers sent a commando unit to STEAL THIS little-known invention from the fascists. The inventor, one of Hitler's top energy researchers, after realizing Hitler's obsession with power.... BETRAYED Hitler...And buried the invention. And in recent years, information about the invention resurfaced...and many users are raving about it. It's an invention that people are using to have electricity in remote mountain houses during winter. Many preppers consider it to be the #1 item to have when the unthinkable happens. Click Here To See What It Is ...
This Amazing Shot Of 10,000 Galaxies May Be The Hubble Telescope's Most Spectacular Photo Ever
Post Date: 2014-06-04 09:17:53 by Ada
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NASA calls it the most colorful image ever captured by the Hubble Space Telescope- -and the most comprehensive. It has to be one of the most spectacular. But the image--the remarkable payoff of a new survey called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field--is more than merely beautiful. It may also help fill in some gaps in our understanding of how stars form. Click for Full Text!
Now Google is going to dominate space: Search giant to launch 180 satellites to provide internet access for the ENTIRE planet
Post Date: 2014-06-04 07:10:15 by Tatarewicz
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Daily Mail... Sources claim Google will spend more than $1bn (£600m) on technology Satellites will orbit the Earth at lower altitudes than traditional satellites Group also acquired a drone company to provide internet connectivity Facebook, meanwhile, is developing its own solar-powered drones, satellites and lasers to deliver web access to underdeveloped countries A separate Google project, dubbed Project Loon, is designing high-altitude balloons to provide broadband service to remote regions of the world The world wide web may seem like a global community, but two-thirds of the planet still remain without access. Now, Google is planning to change this by launching a fleet of 180 ...
As Renewables Boom, Need for Energy Storage Is More Urgent
Post Date: 2014-06-04 00:36:28 by Tatarewicz
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Epoch Times... There is a boom in renewable energy sources coming online worldwide, but the predominant types – solar and wind – are problematic due to their variable nature. For most regions of the world, the sun cannot be expected to shine nor the wind blow when required. What is needed is a way to capture that energy when available, perhaps in the middle of the night, when demand is low, and then store it until it can be used when demand rises. But this is not a trivial problem to solve. According to the European Wind Energy Association, at the end of 2013, the UK had 10.5GW of wind turbine capacity installed, with more in planning and construction. As the percentage of ...
Public believes solar panels will drain the sun's energy
Post Date: 2014-06-02 16:53:26 by BTP Holdings
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Public believes solar panels will drain the sun's energy Saturday, May 31, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) A satire science story from NationalReport.net (1) has gone viral after warning readers that solar panels are draining the sun's energy. The most remarkable thing about the story is not its hilarity but rather the fact that so many readers took it seriously. The article claimed to quote the Wyoming Institute of Technology issuing a warning: "...the solar panels capture the sun's energy, but pull on the sun over time, forcing more energy to be released than the sun is actually producing." The user comments below the article deliver layer ...
German villagers build own broadband network
Post Date: 2014-06-02 06:16:49 by Tatarewicz
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Local/de Hacked off with slow download speeds the locals of Löwenstedt clubbed together the cash to build their own super-fast internet service to the delight of the village's tiny population. Too isolated and with few inhabitants, the tiny village of Löwenstedt in northern Germany is simply too small to show up on the radars of national Internet operators. So the villagers took their digital fate into their own hands and built a broadband Internet network of their own. Peter Kock, who runs an agricultural technology supply firm in the village, couldn't be happier. Data files that used to take two hours to load onto his computer screen now appear in just 30 seconds. ...
Scientists Admit Polar Bear Numbers Were Made Up To ‘Satisfy Public Demand’
Post Date: 2014-06-01 15:57:40 by X-15
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This may come as a shocker to some, but scientists are not always right — especially when under intense public pressure for answers. Researchers with the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) recently admitted to experienced zoologist and polar bear specialist Susan Crockford that the estimate given for the total number of polar bars in the Arctic was “simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand.” Crockford has been critical of official polar bear population estimates because they fail to include five large subpopulations of polar bears. Due to the uncertainty of the populations in these areas, PBSG did not include them in their official estimate — but ...
Why You, Non-Nerd, Should Get Excited about Graphene
Post Date: 2014-05-31 14:51:41 by scrapper2
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Let’s talk about the coolest substance ever: graphene. It’s one atom thick, (about one-millionth the thickness of a single strand of hair), it’s 100 times stronger than steel, and it conducts electricity like nothing else. It’s a supermaterial that is quietly changing the course of technology. Here’s why you should get excited about it: *It will turn computers into transformers* It is now being suggested that graphene can be changed into different configurations on the fly by simply manipulating it with lasers. That means that it could take on the form of different computers in just seconds, freeing us from hard-printed, static motherboards. Right now, you carry ...
Pleasant smells increase facial attractiveness
Post Date: 2014-05-30 05:39:47 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Women's faces are rated as more attractive in the presence of pleasant odors. Credit: © Alliance / Fotolia [Click to enlarge image] New research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center reveals that women's faces are rated as more attractive in the presence of pleasant odors. In contrast, odor pleasantness had less effect on the evaluation of age. The findings suggest that the use of scented products such as perfumes may, to some extent, alter how people perceive one another. "Odor pleasantness and facial attractiveness integrate into one joint emotional evaluation," said lead author Janina Seubert, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist who was a postdoctoral ...
“GLOBAL WARMING:” LAKE SUPERIOR EXPERIENCES RECORD ICE IN MAY
Post Date: 2014-05-29 07:38:17 by Ada
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Ice coverage, likely the highest since at least 1897, may last into June - but Al Gore still wants carbon taxes In complete contrast to the claims of “global warming,” Lake Superior has experienced the highest concentration of ice in late May since modern satellite records began in 1980 and the ice coverage may even be the highest since at least 1897. Click for Full Text!
Scientist's plan to end tornadoes would have 100-mile giant wall in Texas
Post Date: 2014-05-29 05:59:31 by Tatarewicz
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The walls would be 100 miles long and almost 1000 feet high, designed to stop the meeting of east/west winds which some say cause tornadoes by creating an updraft.Keep clicking to see other bizarre ideas on how to control the weather. Can you zap a tornado? Some have proposed using an array of satellites to shoot microwaves at the cold winds that form tornadoes. Of course, someone would have to build this collection of satellites for that purpose. Can an oil slick stop a hurricane? A University of California-Berkeley researcher threw out an idea that ancient mariners might have been onto something when they dumped oil onto troubled waters. He believes a similar method could reduce the ...
People attribute free will to mind, not soul
Post Date: 2014-05-28 06:22:36 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Profiles in a study of free will. Online interview subjects were asked about moral choices and culpability on the part of five active agents, from normal human to plain robot. Free will was associated more with the mind (intentionality, capacity for choice) than with the metaphysics of a soul. Credit: Malle lab/Brown University [Click to enlarge image] A new study tested whether people believe free will arises from a metaphysical basis or mental capacity. Even though most respondents said they believed humans to have souls, they judged free will and assigned blame for transgressions based on pragmatic considerations -- such as whether the actor in question had the capacity ...
Using thoughts to control airplanes
Post Date: 2014-05-28 05:52:07 by Tatarewicz
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The pilot is wearing a white cap with myriad attached cables. His gaze is concentrated on the runway ahead of him. All of a sudden the control stick starts to move, as if by magic. The airplane banks and then approaches straight on towards the runway. The position of the plane is corrected time and again until the landing gear gently touches down. During the entire maneuver the pilot touches neither pedals nor controls. This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but rather the rendition of a test at the Institute for Flight System Dynamics of the Technische Universität München (TUM). Scientists working for Professor Florian Holzapfel are researching ways in which brain ...
Learning early in life may help keep brain cells alive: Brain cells survive in young who master a task
Post Date: 2014-05-28 05:32:12 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Using your brain -- particularly during adolescence -- may help brain cells survive and could impact how the brain functions after puberty. According to a recently published study in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Rutgers behavioral and systems neuroscientist Tracey Shors, who co-authored the study, found that the newborn brain cells in young rats that were successful at learning survived while the same brain cells in animals that didn't master the task died quickly. "In those that didn't learn, three weeks after the new brain cells were made, nearly one-half of them were no longer there," said Shors, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for ...
Neuroscience's grand question: How do neurons regenerate without losing memory?
Post Date: 2014-05-26 23:59:22 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Neurons live for many years but their components, the proteins and molecules that make up the cell, are continually being replaced. How this continuous rebuilding takes place without affecting our ability to think, remember, learn or otherwise experience the world is one of neuroscience’s biggest questions. [Click to enlarge image] When your car needs a new spark plug, you take it to a shop where it sits, out of commission, until the repair is finished. But what if your car could replace its own spark plug while speeding down the Mass Pike? Of course, cars can't do that, but our nervous system does the equivalent, rebuilding itself continually while maintaining ...
PSYCHOPATH TEST
Post Date: 2014-05-24 15:12:18 by Southern Style
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PSYCHOPATH TEST Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has got it right (yet) ........ A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a man who she did not know. She thought he was 'amazing'. She believed him to be her dream partner so much, that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister. Question: What was her motive for killing her sister? [Give this some thought before you answer, see answer below] ...
Abbott & Costello Meet Common Core
Post Date: 2014-05-24 12:54:36 by Southern Style
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A Look at Deepayan Acharjya's Bitcoin Hardware Wallet
Post Date: 2014-05-23 18:09:16 by titorite
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Dee is a "technotable" young, hip, and brilliant engineer/musician/mad scientist and the founder of i4see, a Montreal company that builds gadgets that solve real world problems. Recently, he created a Bitcoin hardware wallet that enables individuals to store their crypto currency onto a device (computer programs or apps). So, how does the wallet work? According to Dee, the MontraOne hardware wallet stores the bitCoins (private keys) in a “crypto memory.” The Crypto memory is designed to hold secrets that can only be accessed after authenticating using a pin, and has built-in protection against brute force or other attacks. The MontraOne also contains a 32-bit free ...
Stem cells as future source for eco-friendly meat
Post Date: 2014-05-22 03:19:38 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown from stem cells also holds potential as an ethical and greener source for meat. So say scientists who suggest in the Cell Press journal Trends in Biotechnology that every town or village could one day have its very own small-scale, cultured meat factory. "We believe that cultured meat is part of the future," said Cor van der Weele of Wageningen University in The Netherlands. "Other parts of the future are partly substituting meat with vegetarian products, keeping fewer animals in better circumstances, perhaps eating insects, etc. This discussion is ...
Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest
Post Date: 2014-05-20 07:44:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light -- a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. In just one day over several cups of coffee in a tiny office in Imperial's Blackett Physics Laboratory, three physicists worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first devised by scientists Breit and Wheeler in 1934. Breit and Wheeler suggested that it should be possible to turn light into matter by smashing together only two particles of light (photons), to create an electron and a positron -- the simplest method of turning light into matter ever predicted. The calculation was found to ...
World’s oldest wild bird gives birth at age 63
Post Date: 2014-05-18 15:54:41 by Ada
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An albatross named Wisdom is thought to be the oldest wild bird – and the oldest bird mom – in the world. Her latest chick hatched in early February on Midway Atoll. Experts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say that Wisdom the Laysan albatross is the oldest bird they know of in the organization’s 90-year history. At 63, Wisdom hatched another chick in early February at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, the small atoll in the North Pacific between Honolulu and Tokyo. Researchers think she could have raised as many as 35 chicks in her life. Wisdom, now sporting her 6th band as part of the USGS Bird Banding Program, was first banded in 1956. Researchers say that ...
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