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Electric Universe 2014 Conference
Post Date: 2013-12-14 12:30:49 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Conference info here: http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/09/10/eu2014-home-page/
Yahoo chief apologizes for 'frustrating week'
Post Date: 2013-12-14 05:49:29 by Tatarewicz
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San Francisco (AFP) - Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer posted an apology late Friday for a "frustrating week" experienced by millions of its email service users. "This has been a very frustrating week for our users and we are very sorry," Mayer said in a message at Yahoo-owned blog platform Tumblr. "For many of us, Yahoo Mail is a lifeline to our friends, family members and customers," she continued. "This week, we experienced a major outage that not only interrupted that connection, but caused many of you a massive inconvenience." A hardware problem in a data center late Monday knocked out a storage system serving about one percent of Yahoo Mail ...
Supervolcano under Yellowstone larger than previously thought, could doom mankind
Post Date: 2013-12-13 18:47:37 by Ada
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The supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park is much, much larger than was previously believed. A new study shows the volcano’s magma chamber about 2.5 times larger than previous estimates suggested, stretching more than 55 miles and containing about 125 and 185 billion cubic miles of molten rock. The cavern is about 20 miles wide and nearly 2 miles deep. “We’ve been working there for a long time, and we’ve always thought it would be bigger,” said Bob Smith, University of Utah professor. “But this finding is astounding.” The findings were presented this week at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. “We record ...
Oculus Rift makers get $75 million from investors to finish consumer model
Post Date: 2013-12-13 06:17:36 by Tatarewicz
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Short of attending an industry event or ordering your own dev kit, it's a bit tricky to get your hands on an Oculus Rift VR headset. Soon, that could change: the company just secured $75 million in funding to bring the product to market. The extra capital comes from Andreessen Horowitz, an investment firm known for funding companies like Jawbone, Facebook Twitter and Skype. As part of the deal, the group's co-founder, Mark Andreessen, will join the Oculus VR board of directors. "We believe Oculus will not only alter the gaming landscape, but will redefine fundamental human experiences in areas like film, education, architecture and design," Andreessen said in the ...
New Strain of Bird Flu Packs a Punch Even After Becoming Drug-Resistant
Post Date: 2013-12-12 06:26:48 by Tatarewicz
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Dec. 11, 2013 — Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reported that a virulent new strain of influenza -- the virus that causes the flu -- appears to retain its ability to cause serious disease in humans even after it develops resistance to antiviral medications. The finding was included in a study that was published today in the journal Nature Communications. Share This: TweetIt is not uncommon for influenza viruses to develop genetic mutations that make them less susceptible to anti-flu drugs. However, these mutations usually come at a cost to the virus, weakening its ability to replicate and to spread from one person to another. Initial reports suggested ...
Forget the Big Bang - 'Rainbow Gravity' theory suggests our universe has NO beginning and stretches out infinitely
Post Date: 2013-12-11 12:06:26 by Horse
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Claims that gravity's effect is felt differently by various wavelengths of light Current belief is light will follow the same set path regardless of frequency If theory is correct, it means that our universe stretches back into time infinitely with no singular point where it started To think that our universe is 13.8 billion years old is incredible enough. But now researchers are proposing that the universe stretches back into time infinitely with no singular point where it started. The idea is one possible result of something known as ‘rainbow gravity’- a theory that is not widely accepted among physicists, though many say the idea is interesting. The theory’s ...
JPMorgan files patent for Bitcoin-style payment system
Post Date: 2013-12-11 06:40:31 by noone222
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JPMorgan Chase has filed a US patent application for a computerised payment system that resembles some aspects of Bitcoin, the controversial virtual currency. Like Bitcoin, JPMorgan’s proposed system would allow people to make anonymous, electronic payments over the internet, without having to reveal their name or account numbers or pay a fee, according to the patent application. The application put a spotlight on the behind-the-scenes battle being waged between the biggest banks, credit card operators and companies such as Google, Apple and PayPal – are all keen to grab a slice of the rapidly expanding business of providing mobile and internet payments as more people shift to ...
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Post Date: 2013-12-10 18:23:54 by Lod
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COLD DIS-COMFORT: ANTARCTICA SET RECORD OF -135.8
Post Date: 2013-12-10 08:38:12 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for "soul-crushing" cold. Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero; that's 93.2 degrees below zero Celsius, which sounds only slightly toastier. Better yet, don't try it. That's so cold scientists say it hurts to breathe. A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit -135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: -135.3 degrees. The old record had been -128.6 degrees, which is -89.2 degrees Celsius. Ice scientist Ted ...
New Drug Approach Could Lead to Cures for Wide Range of Diseases
Post Date: 2013-12-10 03:13:00 by Tatarewicz
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Dec. 9, 2013 — A team led by a longtime Oregon Health & Science University researcher has demonstrated in mice what could be a revolutionary new technique to cure a wide range of human diseases -- from cystic fibrosis to cataracts to Alzheimer's disease -- that are caused by "misfolded" protein molecules. Share This: Tweet ? Misfolded protein molecules, caused by gene mutation, are capable of maintaining their function but are misrouted within the cell and can't work normally, thus causing disease. The OHSU team discovered a way to use small molecules that enter cells, fix the misfolded proteins and allow the proteins to move to the correct place and function ...
Food-tech startups aim to replace eggs and chicken
Post Date: 2013-12-09 06:35:36 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The startup is housed in a garage-like space in San Francisco's tech-heavy South of Market neighborhood, but it isn't like most of its neighbors that develop software, websites and mobile-phone apps. Its mission is to find plant replacements for eggs. Inside, research chefs bake cookies and cakes, whip up batches of flavored mayonnaise and pan-fry omelets and French toast — all without eggs. Funded by prominent Silicon Valley investors and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Hampton Creek Foods seeks to disrupt a global egg industry that backers say wastes energy, pollutes the environment, causes disease outbreaks and confines chickens to tiny spaces. ...
'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig': Extraordinary claim made by American geneticist
Post Date: 2013-12-09 03:15:44 by Tatarewicz
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MailOnline... 1,624 comments The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, an American geneticist has suggested. The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, who is also one of the world's leading authorities on hybridisation in animals. He points out that while humans have many features in common with chimps, we also have a large number of distinguishing characteristics not found in any other primates. Domestic Pig Louis, the chimpanzee who starred as 007 in TV adverts for PG Tips tea The origin of the species? A remarkable new theory advanced by a leading geneticist suggests that human beings may have originally emerged as the ...
Exploring methane hydrates
Post Date: 2013-12-08 23:43:08 by Tatarewicz
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National > Environment Will natural gas eventually come from sea ice? Prospect thrills some, dismays others By Sean Cockerham WASHINGTON — Buried beneath the world’s oceans and the Arctic permafrost lies a global energy source that many think might dwarf today’s fracking revolution: huge reservoirs of natural gas trapped in ice crystals. They’re called methane hydrates and are sometimes known as “flammable ice.” If tapping methane hydrates ever becomes feasible, it once again would change the geopolitical map of the planet. Nations like Japan and India that lack their own conventional oil and gas resources suddenly could become energy power players. ...
CRISPR for genetic Cures?
Post Date: 2013-12-08 05:44:07 by Tatarewicz
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CRISPR corrected a cataract-causing genetic defect in a mutant mouse (left); control cataract-model mouse (right). JINSONG LIIt was less than a year ago that scientists first applied CRISPR, a genome-editing technique, to human cells. In short order, the technique has taken off like wildfire. And now, two papers appearing in Cell Stem Cell today (December 5) show that CRISPR can be used to rewrite genetic defects to effectively cure diseases in mice and human stem cells. “What’s significant about this is it’s taking CRISPR to that next step of what it can be used for, and in this case, it’s correcting mutations that cause disease,” said Charles Gersbach, a genomics ...
US sub launches drone
Post Date: 2013-12-08 02:54:16 by Tatarewicz
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The Navy has launched a drone from a submerged submarine, a feat that could prove valuable in providing intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities for military special operations for decades to come. The small drone was fired from the Providence submarine's torpedo tube, where it unfolded its wings, took off and flew a “several hour” mission demonstrating live video capabilities streamed back to the sub, the Navy said. The project, which took $15 million and about six years to accomplish, was carried out by the Naval Research Laboratory. It took place at the Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center in the Bahamas. "This six-year effort represents the ...
See how they are using this technology in Vietnam and Phillipines to cook and power their homes
Post Date: 2013-12-07 10:34:16 by BTP Holdings
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They tried so hard to suppress this for over 200 years... Even though people in Vietnam and Phillipines have been exploiting this to get their food cooked, their homes lit...and they live on less than $1.50 a day. www.libertygenerator.com/index1.php An American farmer unveils the startling reason why everything you need to gain complete energy independence is in your trashcan and kitchen cabinets... ...and show you what you have to do today to cut the cord with the energy fatcats who are bleeding Americans dry, and slash your electric bill by 80% or more...without using solar panels or wind turbines. Big Energy hate this, and their lawyers will definitely try to take this video down if ...
Why is China targeting the moon -- and should NASA as well?
Post Date: 2013-12-07 00:33:55 by Tatarewicz
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FoxNews.com Americans from Buzz Aldrin to president Barack Obama say it’s a waste of time to put men back on the moon -- so why are foreign countries so eager to take that one small step? While several private American companies are planning robotic missions to the moon, China launched a man-sized robotic scout to the moon on Monday. The country’s recent manned missions and efforts to build a new space base suggest a future manned mission to the moon, though why is an open question. Speculation has run from the desire to build a military missile base -- a Death Star of sorts -- to national pride to simple economics. The answer may be far simpler: The moon is “easy” to ...
Sony files patent for 'SmartWig
Post Date: 2013-12-06 03:21:53 by Tatarewicz
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BBC Sony has filed a patent application for "SmartWig", as firms jostle for the lead in the wearable technology sector. It says the SmartWig can be worn "in addition to natural hair", and will be able to process data and communicate wirelessly with other external devices. According to the filing, the SmartWig can help navigate roads and collect information such as blood pressure. Google and Samsung are among the firms that have launched products in wearable technology - seen as a key growth area. "Wearable gadgets are definitely going to be one of the big areas of growth over the next two years," Andrew Milroy, an analyst with consulting firm Frost & ...
Russian scientists claim world record in heating thermonuclear plasma
Post Date: 2013-12-06 01:10:04 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Russian scientists have set a world record in heating thermonuclear plasma, the Russian Academy of Science (RAN) said Thursday. "The temperature of 4.5 million degrees Celsius is approximately 1.5 to two times higher than it has been achieved previously," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Alexander Ivanov, deputy director of the Budker Nuclear Physics Institute of the RAN, as saying. That achievement is a step to the peaceful use of thermonuclear energy, Ivanov said. So far, the process of nuclear fusion could be carried out only as an unmanageable reaction during thermonuclear explosions of the H-bombs. "No other equipment in the world is ...
Discovery of 400,000-year-old DNA raises questions about human evolution
Post Date: 2013-12-05 08:51:02 by Ada
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Researchers have read strands of ancient DNA teased from the thigh bone of an early human that died 400,000 years ago in what is now northern Spain. The genetic material was pieced together from a clutch of cells found in bone fragments – the oldest human remains ever to yield their genetic code. The work deepens understanding of the genetics of human evolution by some 200,000 years, raising hopes that researchers can build a clearer picture of the earliest branches of the human family tree by studying the genetic make-up of fossilised remains dug up elsewhere. “This is proof of principle that it can be done,” said Matthias Meyer at the Max Planck Institute for ...
NRA Stays Quiet on Extending Ban on Plastic Guns in U.S.
Post Date: 2013-12-03 22:24:20 by X-15
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The Republican-led House passed a bill today renewing a U.S. ban on plastic guns, just days before the 1988 law is set to lapse. The ban on weapons that can elude detectors at security checkpoints expires Dec. 9, as the Senate returns from a recess and is set to take up the measure. The National Rifle Association, the largest U.S. gun lobby, has been silent on the plastic-gun ban. The House by voice vote passed the bill, sponsored by North Carolina RepublicanHoward Coble. The measure heads to the Senate, where Democratic lawmakers are considering revisions to deal with emerging technology. Advocates for expanded gun laws say the House vote may be a signal that some support exists for ...
Process Holds Promise for Production of Synthetic Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide
Post Date: 2013-12-03 04:52:34 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily Dec. 2, 2013 — A chemical system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago can efficiently perform the first step in the process of creating syngas, gasoline and other energy-rich products out of carbon dioxide. Share This: 1 A novel "co-catalyst" system using inexpensive, easy to fabricate carbon-based nanofiber materials efficiently converts carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a useful starting-material for synthesizing fuels. The findings have been published online in advance of print in the journal Nature Communications. "I believe this can open a new field for the design of inexpensive and efficient catalytic systems for the ...
Study Suggests Why, in Some Species, Mere Presence of Males Shortens Females' Lifespan
Post Date: 2013-12-03 04:35:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Nov. 28, 2013 — Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that males of the laboratory roundworm secrete signaling molecules that significantly shorten the lifespan of the opposite sex. Share This: ? The scientists speculate that, if carried out after reproduction, this "male-induced demise" could serve to conserve precious resources for a male's offspring or to decrease the supply of mates for other males. For several years, it's been known that the presence of some male worms and flies can shorten the lifespan of their female or hermaphroditic counterparts. But it's not been clear why. Some researchers have ...
New research suggests aluminum can be more valuable than gold, silver
Post Date: 2013-12-02 22:17:56 by Tatarewicz
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HOUSTON, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Humble aluminum's plasmonic properties may make it far more valuable than gold and silver for certain applications, reckons a new research done by scientists with Rice University of the United States. Because aluminum, as nanoparticles or nanostructures, displays optical resonances across a much broader region of the spectrum than either gold or silver, it may be a good candidate for harvesting solar energy and for other large-area optical devices and materials that would be too expensive to produce with coinage metals, said the university based in Houston, a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in a press release to announce the latest research result ...
'Smell of Fear' can be Passed Down Generations, Reveals Study
Post Date: 2013-12-02 04:03:13 by Tatarewicz
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Memories can be passed down to later generations through genetic switches that allow offspring to inherit the experience of their ancestors, says study. The results of the animal study, which suggested that a traumatic event could affect the DNA in sperm and alter the brains and behaviour of subsequent generations, were important for phobia and anxiety research, the BBC reported. The team at the Emory University School of Medicine, in the US, trained the animals to fear a smell similar to cherry blossom and found a section of DNA responsible for sensitivity to the scent was made more active in the mice's sperm. Both the mice's offspring, and their offspring, were ...
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