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Chinese scientists explore all-weather solar cells
Post Date: 2017-04-03 07:59:23 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily... A photovoltaic revolution is taking place with the emergence of all-weather solar cells, according to a Chinese scientist. "Solar cell research is mainly focused on elevating photoelectric conversion efficiency upon direct sunlight until new light has been shed on persistent high-efficiency power generation in poor light conditions such as rain, fog, haze and night," said Tang Qunwei, a professor with Ocean University of China. Tang's team and one led by Yang Peizhi, a professor with Yunnan Normal University, developed a solar cell using a crucial material called long persistent phosphor (LPP), which can store sunlight energy in the day and harvest it ...
WikiLeaks' latest leak shows how CIA avoids antivirus programs
Post Date: 2017-04-01 08:09:44 by Ada
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WikiLeaks released its third package of CIA documents on Friday which highlight source code used by the CIA to avoid antivirus programs. The source code is for a tool called "Marble," what is known as an obfuscator or packer. Obfuscators are principally designed to jumble the execution of malware so that programs designed to spot malware have trouble determining what it is. The Marble toolkit includes a variety of different algorithms to accomplish that task. In its release, WikiLeaks describes the primary purpose of Marble as being to insert foreign language text into the malware to cause malware analysts to falsely attribute code to the wrong nation. This appears to be an ...
Global Warming Wrapup
Post Date: 2017-03-31 08:22:54 by Ada
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The mental convolutions in which some will engage in order to ignore the evidence that the polar ice caps are melting—and if not from warming from what?—is as astounding as the convolutions and denial of basic facts that characterize those who believe the government’s official 9/11 fairy tale. If all science is rigged, as a few of you say, by the Bilderbergs, Rockefeller, or the Rothchilds, then where does your science, your information come from? If there is no reliable scientific information about climate change, what is the basis for your argument? Why are only carbon industry spokespersons honest? How come the Rothchilds didn’t rig them also? Yes, the carbon tax ...
Stephen Hawking Says We're in the Middle of a "Global Revolt Against Experts"
Post Date: 2017-03-30 03:33:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking gave a talk in Hong Kong on Friday (24 March), appearing in front of the audience from the comfort of his home in Cambridge as a surprisingly life-like 3D hologram. In addition to answering questions about travelling to other planets and black holes, he took the time to comment on the current 'fake news' climate around the world, telling the audience, "We are witnessing a global revolt against experts." Hawking was referring to environmental challenges such as deforestation and climate change, and the unwillingness of many world leaders and members of the public to follow the advice of scientists. "The answer to ...
J Scott Armstrong: Fewer Than 1 Percent Of Papers in Scientific Journals Follow Scientific Method
Post Date: 2017-03-29 16:37:35 by Ada
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The World Anti-Doping Agency suspended the accreditation of the LAD laboratory in LisbonAFP Fewer than 1 percent of papers published in scientific journals follow the scientific method, according to research by Wharton School professor and forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong. Professor Armstrong, who co-founded the peer-reviewed Journal of Forecasting in 1982 and the International Journal of Forecasting in 1985, made the claim in a presentation about what he considers to be “alarmism” from forecasters over man-made climate change. “We also go through journals and rate how well they conform to the scientific method. I used to think that maybe 10 percent of papers in my ...
Print your pizza using this unique 3D food printe
Post Date: 2017-03-29 12:24:31 by Horse
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Immortal Stem Cells Let Scientists Create an Unlimited Supply of Artificial Blood
Post Date: 2017-03-28 04:08:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have developed a line immortal stem cells that allow them to generate an unlimited supply of artificial red blood cells on demand. If these artificial blood cells pass clinical trials, they'll be far more efficient for medical use than current red blood cell products, which have to be generated from donor blood - and would be a huge deal for patients with rare blood types, who often struggle to find matching blood donors. The idea isn't for these immortal stem cells to replace blood donation altogether - when it comes to regular blood transfusions, donated blood still does the trick. But it's a constant struggle to propagate red blood cells from ...
New Elon Musk venture aims to connect human brain with AI
Post Date: 2017-03-28 03:13:05 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, is backing a new company that seeks to explore the possibility of merging the human brain with artificial intelligence (AI) to help humans keep up with machines. According to The Wall Street Journal, Musk has played an active role in launching the new a company called Neuralink, which seeks to create devices that can be implanted in the human brain. The neuroscience startup is still in its infancy but aims to create cranial computers for treating diseases and, eventually, help humans merge with software, enabling mortals to keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence. Musk is on record as saying that AI poses a great threat to ...
Scientists Have Turned Spinach Into Beating Human Heart Tissue
Post Date: 2017-03-27 06:56:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have successfully used spinach leaves to build functioning human heart tissue, complete with veins that can transport blood. To tackle a chronic shortage of donor organs, scientists have been working on growing various tissues and even whole organs in the lab. But culturing a bunch of cells is only part of the solution - they simply won't thrive without a constant blood supply. It's notoriously difficult to build a working network of fine blood vessels (also called vasculature), especially when you get down to capillaries, which are only 5 to 10 micrometres wide. Blood vessels transport the oxygen and nutrients that a lab-grown tissue sample needs to ...
Astronaut who walked on moon says he knows the truth about aliens
Post Date: 2017-03-26 10:54:11 by BTP Holdings
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Astronaut who walked on moon says he knows the truth about aliens By Megan Palin, News.com.au March 24, 2017 | 1:35pm | Updated Modal Trigger Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad stands by the US flag on the moon in 1969. Getty Images Originally Published By: He was an astronaut on the second manned mission to the moon and the fourth man to walk on its surface. Alan Bean, 85, is one of only 12 people to have taken “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind” on the moon. The lunar module pilot was one of three crew members onboard Apollo 12 who walked on the moon 10 days after it launched on Nov. 14, 1969. Modal Trigger Apollo 12 ...
Extreme Solar Winds/2.1 Million MPH/Radiation Meter Givaway!
Post Date: 2017-03-22 23:19:05 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This extreme solar wind will pause and then resume. The video maker believes this will increase the number of volcanoes and earthquakes as this heightened solar energy is transferred to the earth's core.
This New Molecule Can Collect Solar Energy Without Solar Panels
Post Date: 2017-03-22 06:01:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The discussion on climate has persisted for decades since we first discovered that there is a human-made influence on the environment. From then, many researchers have come together to finagle innovations that reduce our industrial carbon footprint. One such innovation is the molecular leaf. Liang-shi Li at Indiana University and an international team of scientists discovered this novel way to recycle carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. With the use of light or electricity, the molecule built by the team can convert the notorious greenhouse gas into carbon monoxide. The molecular leaf is the most efficient method of carbon reduction to date. The carbon monoxide ...
Stephen Hawking Just Announced He's Going to Space
Post Date: 2017-03-21 06:27:21 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Stephen Hawking, the world's most renowned physicist and cosmologist, stated today that he is, in fact, heading to space - and it's happening all thanks to the Virgin group (and a bit of modern technology). In a statement back in 2015, Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group, said that, one day, he hoped to be able to carry Hawking to the stars. In the statement, Branson noted that this offer came as a result of the great respect and admiration that he has for Hawking: "Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the people I admire most in the world, an undisputed genius who has opened our eyes to the wonders of the universe, while also happening to be a ...
Second artificial heart transplant carried out in Portugal
Post Date: 2017-03-20 01:09:44 by Tatarewicz
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LISBON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A patient in Portugal with heart failure received on Thursday at Lisbon's Santa Cruz Hospital an artificial heart, three days after the same kind of operation was carried out for the first time in the country, according to Portuguese Lusa News Agency on Friday. "This is an internal circulatory assist device. Contrary to what we have used until today, which are external assist devices, these have the great advantage of, on one hand, giving the patient more freedom and on the other, not having the same complications that external devices have," Surgeon Miguel Abecassis said. The surgery took around three hours and a half and the main difficulty ...
Here Are the Ages You Peak at Everything Throughout Life
Post Date: 2017-03-19 06:16:06 by Tatarewicz
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Business Insider/ScienceAlert Ageing can seem like a scary prospect, but a wealth of scientific studies have found that youth isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are plenty of cases in which human beings peak well into middle and old age. Teenagers, for instance, may have vitality on their side, but older people are generally more psychologically stable. And so it goes with several phenomena people experience as they age. Age you peak at everything Many of the points mark the middle of an age range that scientists have identified, which means they are all determined by averages. Some are also surveys, not controlled trials, so there is a possibility the self-reports ...
Climate trend colder, not warmer
Post Date: 2017-03-18 02:26:30 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Retired professor of climatology and now Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, Dr. Tim Ball, contends that climate data has been manipulated, and climate issues have focused on faulty computer modeling rather than empirical data. In a scientific debate that's become politicized, those who believe climate change/global warming is the result of man-made causes such as increased C02, accuse Ball of being a "climate change denier." But when people find out the extent to which they've been deliberately deceived on these issues, such as when data has been fabricated or altered, "then, the credibility of science is going to go out the window," ...
Ancient ‘Atlantis’ Alloy Recovered From 2,600yo Shipwreck
Post Date: 2017-03-17 08:22:52 by Ada
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An alloy, which according to Greek legend was mined on the ancient mythical island of Atlantis, has been discovered on a shipwreck which sank off the coast of Sicily 2,600 years ago. Some 47 ingots of ‘orichalcum’ have so far been recovered from the ancient underwater find. Described as brass-like and made through the reaction of zinc ore, charcoal, and copper, the alloy has never before been discovered in such quantity. Uncovered back in 2015, the ingots’ composition was revealed only after analysis using X-ray fluorescence, reported Seeker. Two Corinthian helmets, believed to have been part of the ship’s defense against pirates, were also discovered at the ...
Let the 10th Doctor Teach You Einstein's General Relativity in 3 Minutes
Post Date: 2017-03-17 05:31:47 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... On 14 March 2017, the world celebrated what would have been Albert Einstein's 138th birthday. But while all of us know and love the revolutionary physicist by name, how many of us actually understand his work well enough to explain it over the dinner table? If the thought of that makes you break out in a cold sweat, don't worry, because David Tennant, Doctor Who's 10th Doctor, is here to explain it for you in his delightful Scottish accent, and the whole thing suddenly makes so much more sense. After all, who better than someone who played a time lord to break down the complexities of space-time and general relativity (you know, all that wibbly wobbly time-y ...
Why String Theory Could Be the Key to Uncovering the 'Theory of Everything'
Post Date: 2017-03-13 04:57:49 by Tatarewicz
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Science alert... A central goal that modern physicists share is finding a single theory that can explain the entire Universe and unite the forces of nature. The standard model, for example, leaves dark matter, dark energy, and even gravity out of the picture - meaning that it really only accounts for a very small percentage of what makes up the Universe. String theory stitches Einstein's conception of the general theory of relativity together with quantum mechanics, and the result is quantum theory applied to gravity. This application allows us to break down the Universe beyond the subatomic particle level into vibrating strings whose interactions and vibrations make up the Universe. ...
Hawking Suggests Unsettling Safeguard Against AI
Post Date: 2017-03-13 01:30:31 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Once again warning about the dangers associated with artificial intelligence, Stephen Hawking offered a solution that may have some people siding with the robots. In an interview discussing yet another award bestowed upon the renowned theoretical physicist and pop culture icon, Hawking expressed concern about humanity's headlong embrace of technology. However, Hawking's answer to the problem presents a veritable Sophie's Choice for anyone trying to avoid a dystopian future: a one world government. Lest one think that Hawking hadn't considered the downside of such an idea, he did conceded that it turn tyrannous. Unfortunately, he did not extrapolate on the concept ...
Growing Potatoes on Mars Could Actually Work, Says NASA-Backed Experiment
Post Date: 2017-03-10 04:49:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... In the 2015 blockbuster movie The Martian, a fictional botanist-turned-astronaut gets stranded on Mars, forcing him to "science the shit" out of his dire situation. Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) survives by fertilising Martian soil with his faeces, slicing up potatoes, and planting the cuttings in the soil. This eventually grows him enough food to last hundreds of days. Growing potatoes and other food on Mars is not just a sci-fi curiosity. Now, a NASA-backed "Potatoes on Mars" experiment is showing that Watney's fictional feat might actually be possible. NASA has eyed a crewed mission to the red planet for decades - and Congress even passed a ...
What the CIA thinks of your anti-virus program
Post Date: 2017-03-09 08:22:25 by Ada
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PARIS (AP) — Peppering the 8,000 pages of purported Central Intelligence Agency hacking data released Tuesday by WikiLeaks are reviews of some of the world's most popular anti-virus products. The hackers are quoted taking potshots at anti-virus firms, suggesting the American intelligence agencies are keenly aware of flaws in the products meant to be keeping us all safe online. The data published by WikiLeaks isn't systematic enough to draw firm conclusions about the reliability of one product or another and the uncertain dating means the CIA's critiques provide more of a snapshot than an overview. Still, the posts show America's top cyberspies aren't always ...
HyperLoop One reveals sneak peak of ‘train of the future’ test (PHOTOS)
Post Date: 2017-03-08 00:18:07 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Journalists and guests look over tubes following a propulsion open-air test at Hyperloop One in North Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. May 11, 2016. © Steve Marcus / Reuters The first images of the Hyperloop One test track were shown off during the Middle East Rail conference, demonstrating progress on the high-speed transport system that promises to be faster than air travel. Hyperloop One CEO Rob Lloyd unveiled never-before-seen images of the ‘DevLoop’ development site, in Las Vegas, during the 11th annual Middle East Rail conference in Dubai on Tuesday. The images show an aerial view of the construction of the world’s first full-system Hyperloop test site, with a test ...
Americans are having less sex than they once did
Post Date: 2017-03-07 20:41:27 by Ada
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It used to be that along with certain tax benefits, one advantage to being married was having more sex than singletons. That benefit is steadily diminishing, according to a study released Tuesday. Overall, American adults are having less sex than they did a quarter century ago, with married people showing the most dramatic decline of all. The paper, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, showed a drop across gender, race, region, education level and work status. One factor is the higher percentage now of unpartnered people, who tend to have less sex than partnered ones. But a major driver is a steady fall in the rate of sexual activity for people who are married or living ...
Shock finding: P-T mass extinction was due to an ice age, and not to warming
Post Date: 2017-03-07 07:47:22 by Ada
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The cold exterminated all of them Through age determinations that are using the radioactive decay of uranium, scientists have discovered that one of the greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not to a warming of Earth temperature Permian-Triassic boundary in shallow marine sediments, characterised by a significant sedimentation gap between the black shales of Permian and dolomites of Triassic age. This gap documents a globally recognized regression phase, probably linked to a period of a cold climate and glaciation. CREDIT © H. Bucher, Zürich The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the ...
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