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A Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend
Post Date: 2017-08-26 20:27:18 by BTP Holdings
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A Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend By MICHAEL WINES MAY 13, 2015 Researchers from Oregon State University testing bees last August for the effects of pesticides. Natalie Behring/Getty Images A prolonged and mysterious die-off of the nation’s honeybees, a trend worrisome both to beekeepers and to farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops, apparently worsened last year. In an annual survey released on Wednesday by the Bee Informed Partnership, a consortium of universities and research laboratories, about 5,000 beekeepers reported losing 42.1 percent of their colonies in the 12-month period that ended in April. That is well above the 34.2 ...
3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry
Post Date: 2017-08-26 15:47:55 by farmfriend
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A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today. The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in Southern Iraq by the American archaeologist and diplomat Edgar Banks, who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. The true meaning of the tablet has eluded experts until now but new research by the University of New South Wales, Australia, has shown it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, which was probably used by ancient architects to construct temples, palaces and canals. However ...
CIA uses a secret tool to spy on NSA, FBI and other intel partners
Post Date: 2017-08-26 15:45:28 by Ada
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It hides behind the guise of a software update. Apparently, nobody's exempt from the CIA's intelligence gathering, not even its own intelligence partners. According to a set of documents published by WikiLeaks, the CIA uses a tool called "ExpressLane" that hides behind a fake software update to collect information from agencies around the world that use its biometric collection system. In the US, the list includes fellow government agencies like the FBI, the NSA and Homeland Security. These partners are supposed to share data with the CIA, but clearly, the intelligence service wants to make sure they're not keeping anything from the agency. Based on the info ...
Proposed Mission to find life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
Post Date: 2017-08-26 14:51:28 by farmfriend
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean covered by a layer of ice. Some liquid escapes into space through cracks in the ice, which is the source of one of Saturn’s rings. In October 2015, the Cassini spacecraft flew directly through the plume of escaping material and sampled its chemical composition. They found that the plume contains molecular hydrogen, H2, a sign that the water in Enceladus’ ocean is reacting with rocks through hydrothermal processes. This drives the ocean out of chemical equilibrium, in a similar way to water around Earth’s hydrothermal vents, potentially providing a source of chemical energy. Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an ice-covered ...
NASA Maps Out Possible Lander Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
Post Date: 2017-08-26 14:17:07 by farmfriend
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A potential NASA life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean- harboring moon Europa is really starting to take shape. The stationary Europa lander would use three different instrument suites to search for signs of alien life in samples collected from just beneath the moon's icy surface, according to a new report by the 21-member "Science Definition Team" (SDT) for the possible mission. These primary instruments would include an "organic compositional analyzer," a microscope system and a "vibrational spectrometer," stated the report, which was submitted to NASA on Tuesday (Feb. 7). Click for Full Text!
Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Closest Ever
Post Date: 2017-08-26 13:27:40 by farmfriend
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Astronomers have discovered a roughly Earth-size alien world around Proxima Centauri, which lies just 4.2 light-years from our own solar system. What's even more exciting, study team members said, is that the planet, known as Proxima b, circles in the star's "habitable zone" — the range of distances at which liquid water could be stable on a world's surface. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Article is a year old but still cool!
Quantum Computing Is Coming at Us Fast, So Here's Everything You Need to Know
Post Date: 2017-08-26 10:58:04 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... In early July, Google announced that it will expand its commercially available cloud computing services to include quantum computing. A similar service has been available from IBM since May. These aren't services most regular people will have a lot of reason to use yet. But making quantum computers more accessible will help government, academic and corporate research groups around the world continue their study of the capabilities of quantum computing. Understanding how these systems work requires exploring a different area of physics than most people are familiar with. From everyday experience we are familiar with what physicists call "classical mechanics," ...
Yandex is far superior to Google for Russian searches, and is destroying Google in the Russian market.
Post Date: 2017-08-26 10:24:14 by Tatarewicz
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Amazing New Features from Russian Search Giant Yandex While Google Censors Dissent Google just can't compete with Russia's homegrown search engine in Russia. You may think it obvious that a national search engine would take priority in it's own country, but this is not so in most of the world. In Germany and the UK, countries the west is always touting as being superior and more advanced to Russia, their internet users are effectively slaves to an American company, Google, with no national search engine. This excellent segment from Russia's main evening news show describes new Artificial Intelligence features just rolled out by Yandex.
China Focus: How robots are shaping tomorrow's world
Post Date: 2017-08-25 08:14:27 by Tatarewicz
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CHINA-BEIJING-WORLD ROBOT CONFERENCE (CN) A visitor experiences a bionic arm installation during the World Robot Conference 2017 in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 24, 2017. During the 5-day event, people came to Beijing Yichuang International Conference and Exhibition Center, experiencing the technology of robot and the possibility of future life. (Xinhua/Li Xin) BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Imagine it. You wake up in the morning and your robot housekeeper makes your bed, cooks breakfast and cleans the floors. Minutes later a driverless car whisks the kids off to school, while a robot nurse cares for you elderly parents. You arrive at the office only to find robots have done half of ...
Rumours Are Flying That a Big Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Imminent
Post Date: 2017-08-24 07:43:42 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Time to keep a close eye on the LIGO announcement schedule, folks, because if rumours are to be believed, we might be in for a big gravitational wave announcement very soon. At this stage, we're in the realm of speculation - nothing has been officially confirmed or denied. But there are pretty exciting hints out there that, for the first time, astrophysicists might have detected gravitational waves from a new source: merging neutron stars. Right now, a range of optical telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope are said to be following up the discovery, which, if confirmed, could greatly expand our understanding of gravitational waves and the dramatic events that ...
China opens first AI-assisted treatment center
Post Date: 2017-08-22 07:02:53 by Tatarewicz
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people's daily... China’s first artificial intelligence assisted treatment center opened in Hefei, the capital of eastern China's Anhui Province on Sunday. It will carry out research to guide machine-learning, such as recognizing messages and using visual neural networks to solve problems. The center features a voice-based information system, a computer-aided medical image diagnosis system and some other cutting-edge equipment. Studying multitudes of hospital imaging data, and two million real electronic patient cases, the system is expected to improve detection rates. AI serves not only as a helping hand but also as a competitor for doctors. It takes a doctor about half an ...
Mountain-side genome sequencing a win for science
Post Date: 2017-08-22 06:23:16 by Tatarewicz
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Rapidly reading the genome of an organism for analysis in the field should become a routine step in many areas of research, say scientists involved in a new study. Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have developed portable, real-time DNA sequencing that can be conducted on location, such as a mountainside, they report in a new study. "This research proves that we can now rapidly read the DNA sequence of an organism to identify it with minimum equipment," Joe Parker, a scientist at Kew, said in a press release. "Rapidly reading DNA anywhere, at will, should become a routine step in many research fields. Despite hundreds of years of taxonomic ...
For The First Time Ever, a Woman in China Has Been Cryogenically Frozen
Post Date: 2017-08-22 06:05:45 by Tatarewicz
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South China Morning Post... "I think it will be completely possible to revive her." Cryonics is the practice of deep-freezing recently deceased bodies (or even just the brains of those who have recently died) in the hopes of one day reviving them. It has been the subject of serious scientific exploration and study - as well as a fair share of pseudoscience, lore, and myth. Fictional accounts like Batman's Iceman, and the (untrue) rumours of Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen have cast a speculative shadow over the field of cryonics. But recently, for the first time ever in China, a woman has been cryogenically frozen. Zhan Wenlian died at the age of 49 from lung ...
Climate Madness & Keeping Warm as the World Cools
Post Date: 2017-08-21 08:37:31 by Ada
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As it gets colder, the elite owned media and Al Gore are turning up the heat trying to roast the world with their naked lies. Every prediction Gore has made has been wrong. The most recent attacks of the climate boogeymen went like this: (Associated Press) A federal climate report says the United States is already feeling the effects of climate change, with temperatures rising dramatically over the last four decades. That’s according to The New York Times, which acquired a draft copy of the report by scientists from 13 federal agencies. The report says extreme heat waves have become more common and extreme cold waves less common since the 1980s. (Proving that these 13 agencies and ...
America's Success Story In Saving Ozone Layer Has Added Climate Benefits, Study Says
Post Date: 2017-08-18 07:34:20 by BTP Holdings
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America's Success Story In Saving Ozone Layer Has Added Climate Benefits, Study Says By Pam Wright 15 hours agoweather.com Repairing Ozone Layer Had Unexpected Benefit Repairing the ozone layer had a happy, unexpected benefit. The Montreal Protocol banned CFCs in 1987, which were linked with the depletion of the ozone layer. A new study found that the protocol has also helped reduce greenhouse gases. Measures initiated some 30 years ago to reduce a hole in the ozone layer has gone remarkably well, a new study says, with an added timely benefit. Research published in Geophysical Research Letters this month examined the Montreal Protocol signed in ...
ScienceAlert Deal: Here's How to Get 2TB of Cheap, Secure Cloud Storage
Post Date: 2017-08-18 03:23:33 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Having your data secured and accessible, without taking up space on a hard drive is an incredibly valuable resource in 2017. But some companies will charge you hundreds of dollars to reserve large amounts of space in the cloud – and you can't even be sure how secure your information is. That's why we've teamed up with StackCommerce to bring you a new deal on Zoolz Dual Cloud 2TB Storage: Lifetime Subscription. For the lifetime of Zoolz, you'll be able to store 1TB in the instant vault – so you can get the information ASAP – and 1TB in the secure archive storage for important documents that you don't need every day. Plus all your files are ...
Baby Lambs Successfully Grown In Artificial Womb — Are Humans Next?
Post Date: 2017-08-15 03:39:03 by Tatarewicz
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Anonymous... Eight premature lamb fetuses were kept alive and grew substantially in the ‘artificial womb’ for four weeks. When babies are born prematurely, they can incur all sorts of health problems depending on how early they are born, and many of these issues can either cause their death within their first few years of life or lead to a painful existence marked by hospital visits and medication. According to the World Health Organization, 15 million babies are born prematurely in the world every year, and it’s the leading cause of death amongst children under five. About one million premature human babies die annually, but this could all change with a new development by ...
Can someone show us a climate prediction that has ever come true?
Post Date: 2017-08-14 19:37:09 by Ada
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It's another day, and we get a new story about how dire the climate threat is and that it is unambiguous that humans are a significant cause. What is rarely noted in these articles is actual facts that support the theory. I would love to see actual temperature data for each decade for the last 150 years, including where the measuring stations are located. It would be especially interesting to see rural data where cement and asphalt don't inflate the temperature. It should also always be noted that a "Little Ice Age" ended in 1715 and that some warming would be normal. Why don't we see a list of storms, droughts, and floods from each decade to show the trend? Even ...
New Chinese maglev train completes pilot run
Post Date: 2017-08-13 06:16:58 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) A new generation of Chinese middle-to-low-speed magnetically levitated (maglev) trains has completed a test run in Shanghai and is expected to enter the market in a year, CRRC Dalian announced Sunday.Research and development of the new maglev train began eight years ago, and the successful pilot run showed China has mastered core technology in new-generation magnetic suspension systems, according to Qu Tianwei, chief engineer with CRRC Dalian. The maglev underwent a test run of 120 km per hour in Shanghai. Compared with traditional rail transit system, the new middle-to-low speed trains produce little noise and have better climbing ability and a longer service life, Qu said. ...
New Window Glass Switches From Clear to Opaque, So You'll Never Need Curtains Again
Post Date: 2017-08-12 05:44:58 by Tatarewicz
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Stanford Energy / YouTube/Sci-alert... Scientists have developed a brand-new type of electronic window that can switch from transparent to opaque, and back again, in under one minute. Even though similar 'dimmable glass' already exists, this invention relies on completely new technology, and if it's successfully scaled up, we could soon kiss goodbye to ugly window shades. "We did not tweak what was out there, we came up with a completely different solution," says researcher Michael McGehee, from Stanford University. "We've had a lot of moments where we've thought, 'how is it even possible that we've made something that works so well, so ...
This App Is Leading The Revolution in Free Access to Scientific Papers
Post Date: 2017-08-09 06:13:09 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... A perfect storm of technology and the public's demand for knowledge are driving a surge towards open access (OA) science and academia that anyone can read for free. Now, the researchers behind Unpaywall – a browser plug-in that helps you find free, legal copies of academic papers – have conducted a huge analysis of the state of OA literature, and it confirms that the barriers to scientific knowledge are truly crumbling. The team used three separate sampling methods to analyse the state of access to 300,000 random journal articles available online, and estimate that a stunning 28 percent of all scholarly literature – some 19 million articles, basically ...
There's a Simple New Way to Find Out if Hackers Already Have Your Password
Post Date: 2017-08-08 06:41:25 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Passwords suck. They're hard to remember, we all have about a million of them, and they're not supposed to be anything easy or memorable like your cat's name (sorry Furball1). Worst of all, when massive data breaches happen to the companies we actually trust with our online credentials, our usernames and passwords can become totally exposed – but luckily, there's now a simple way to find out if you've been compromised like this. Troy Hunt is an Australian security researcher and the man behind Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a website that lets people check if their email addresses and usernames have been involved in some of the biggest data breaches ever ...
Hydrogen Fuel Could Become a Viable Energy Alternative Thanks to This Aluminium Alloy
Post Date: 2017-08-08 06:27:03 by Tatarewicz
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Science Alert... If you have seen or read The Martian, you may recall the stranded astronaut converting a hydrogen-based fuel into water. Well, we may have just discovered material that easily reverses this process. Researchers at the US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground Research Laboratory were developing a high-strength aluminium alloy when they made a startling discovery. During routine testing of the alloy, water poured over its surface started bubbling and producing hydrogen gas. This is an unusual reaction - typically, aluminium exposed to water oxidises, creating a protective barrier to prevent further reactions from occurring. In this case, though, the hydrogen-producing reaction ...
How to Slam Dunk Creationists When It Comes to The Theory of Evolution
Post Date: 2017-08-07 04:19:06 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the first known upright ape-like creatures, was yet more proof of humanity's place among the great apes. And yet Mike Pence, then a representative and now US vice president, argues for the opposite conclusion. For him, our ideas about our ancestors have changed, proving once more that evolution was a theory, and therefore we should be free to teach other theories alongside evolution in our classrooms. How to respond? The usual answer is that we should teach students the meaning of the word "theory" as used in science – that is, a hypothesis (or idea) that has stood up to repeated testing. ...
Superfast Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says
Post Date: 2017-08-06 20:01:14 by BTP Holdings
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Superfast Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says By SPACE.com Staff | August 18, 2011 10:34am ET A superfast unmanned military plane traveled at 20 times the speed of sound and managed to control itself for three minutes before crashing into the Pacific Ocean in a recent test, military officials said. The prototype Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2), billed as the fastest aircraft ever built, splashed down in the Pacific earlier than planned on Aug. 11 shortly after launching from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on its second-ever test flight. The HTV-2 experienced some sort of anomaly, prompting the vehicle's autonomous flight safety ...
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