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Bees battle parasitic varroa mites by grooming
Post Date: 2016-06-14 06:59:09 by Tatarewicz
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"This interesting study adds to our knowledge about resistance mechanisms, and may aid the search for bees resistant to varroa," said researcher Norman Carreck. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 13 (UPI) -- Primates aren't the only animals who groom one another. New research suggests some species of honeybees battle parasitic varroa mite infections by grooming. The new study, published in the Journal of Apicultural Research, shows honeybees work to dislodge the varroa mites via both autogrooming and allogrooming. Autogrooming is any solo-based action that dislodges invading mites, while allogrooming is any grooming behavior that involves interactions between two or more honeybees. ...
Below the Radar: Russia's S-400, S-500 Set to Become Invisible to Enemies
Post Date: 2016-06-14 06:38:09 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... In an age when stealth is the game-changing capability everyone aspires to achieve, Russia's top-of-the-line air defense systems, the S-400 and the S-500, will receive an upgrade that will allow them to hide from enemy satellites, spy planes and radars, Izvestiya newspaper reported, citing an anonymous source in the Russian Defense Ministry. This is Why Russia's S-500 Air Defense System Makes Pentagon Nervous The S-400 Triumf with the NATO designation SA-21 Growler and the S-500 Prometey, also known as the 55R6M Triumfator-M, will become undetectable thanks to a special container that will also be used to shield mobile command centers, air defense systems, radar stations ...
Russia's New Fifth-Generation Fighter Will Be a Dangerous Beast
Post Date: 2016-06-14 06:00:28 by Tatarewicz
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RI... The Russian Aerospace Forces will receive first units of the Sukhoi T-50 (PAK FA – "Multifunctional Frontline Fighter") fifth-generation fighter aircraft in 2017, Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev, the Russian Aerospace Forces Commander-in-Chief, said on June 4. Russia’s new stealth fighter made an eyebrow-raising surprise appearance on June 5 – soaring over the Crimean Peninsula (Chauda practice range), taking part in the 2016 Aviadarts. "There are five T-50 fighters being tested at the Chkalov flight testing center to enter service in 2017", Bondarev told reporters. The aircraft is a stealthy, single-seat, twin-engine, supermaneuverable, multirole ...
Elon Musk says we're going to need brain implants to compete with AI Elon Musk says we're going to need brain implants to compete with AI
Post Date: 2016-06-13 08:27:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Elon Musk claims that humans are at risk of becoming the dumb "house pets" of artificial intelligence, unless we implant technology into our brains to help us compete with machine learning of the future. In a public talk and on Twitter last week, Musk announced that a 'neural lace' - which is basically a brain implant that can augment natural intelligence by hooking us up to computers - will be the key to maintaining our authority as a species. "I don’t love the idea of being a house cat, but what’s the solution?" said Musk during a live interview at Recode's Code Conference in California on Wednesday. "I think one of the ...
Russian Top Secret Hypersonic Glider Can Penetrate Any Missile Defense
Post Date: 2016-06-12 06:19:23 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Russia's new Yu-74 ultra-maneuverable hypersonic glide vehicles may become yet another response to the deployment of NATO's missile installations in Eastern Europe, according to military analysts. Russia's 'Revolutionary' Hypersonic Weapons Second to None Going head to head with the United States and China, Russia has been developing its own hypersonic weapons during the past few years. A hypersonic weapon usually has a speed between 3,840 miles per hour (Mach 5) and 7,680 miles per hour (Mach 10). Furthermore, these systems use sophisticated technologies for maneuvering and boast allow the rapid delivery of warheads, precise targeting and survivability ...
New study implies existence of fifth force of nature
Post Date: 2016-06-10 05:26:08 by Tatarewicz
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IRVINE, Calif., May 26 (UPI) -- A team of Hungarian physicists published a paper last year hinting at the possibility of a fifth force of nature. It escaped publicity, but a recent analysis of the data by researchers at the University of California, Irvine has brought the paper back into the limelight. The Standard Model of particle physics -- a model that helps scientists explain all the physics we can observe -- features four main forces: gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Scientists have long searched for -- and offered circumspect proof of -- a fifth force. The reason scientists continue to search for alternate forces is that the Standard Model fails to ...
Four new element names added to the periodic table
Post Date: 2016-06-10 05:16:48 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... ZURICH, Switzerland, June 9 (UPI) -- Four new elements can now be known by more than just their atomic numbers. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 are now nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson -- or if you prefer shorthand, Nh, Mc, Ts and Og. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry welcomed the four new elements to the periodic table this week, a few months after scientists IUPAC acknowledged their existence and the scientists responsible for their identification. The names aren't yet permanent; they now begin a public comment period -- a formality -- that will last until November 8, 2016. It's unlikely anyone will challenge the four names. Element ...
Physicists say they've figured out how spacecraft could make it through a wormhole
Post Date: 2016-06-10 02:42:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A physical object, such as a person or a spacecraft, could theoretically make it through a wormhole in the centre of a black hole, and maybe even access another universe on the other side, physicists have suggested. In what looks like the logical extension of the plot of Interstellar - where astronauts try to hunt down another universe after the catastrophic effects of climate change destroy Earth - physicists have modeled what would happen to a chair, a scientist, and a spacecraft, if each one ended up inside the spherical wormhole of a black hole. "What we did was to reconsider a fundamental question on the relation between the gravity and the underlying structure ...
Scientists have figured out how to turn CO2 into solid rock within months
Post Date: 2016-06-10 02:03:52 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... When it comes to dealing with human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, one of the more ambitious but still largely unproven fixes could be carbon capture, which sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere or from industrial plants. Two of the biggest problems with carbon capture have been its cost, and finding ways to efficiently store or repurpose the CO2 once it's been extracted. But now a new technique could drastically overhaul this method of mitigating climate change: turning carbon emissions into solid rock. An international team of scientists working in Iceland has successfully demonstrated that CO2 emissions can be pumped underground and altered chemically to form ...
Mining Belies, Lithium Lies
Post Date: 2016-06-08 19:55:11 by BTP Holdings
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Mining Belies, Lithium Lies By Nick Hodge Written Wednesday, June 8, 2016 When bull runs start people get greedy. They also get stupid. Don't be one of them. This is nothing new. The junior mining space is one of extreme highs and extreme lows, as it relates to both share prices and emotions. And right now both are running high, especially in the gold, silver, and lithium spaces. Bull runs also bring out the unscrupulous in the mining sector. And if you know anything about the mining sector in general — and Vancouver in particular — you know it has a higher per capita population of the unscrupulous than most others. They are coming out now to take your money. Here at ...
Elon Musk: “Odds are we’re living in a simulation”
Post Date: 2016-06-07 10:20:46 by Ada
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Do we live in a computer simulation? Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, thinks so; or at least, he thinks it’s more likely than not. Although the belief that we are all living in a computer simulation might seem bonkers, the reasoning behind the claim is difficult to refute, at least on the surface. The simulation argument, originally purported by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, can be summarized as follows: NT2 (1) Consciousness is the result of information processing at the level of the brain. (2) Future civilizations will create simulations of the past in the same way we create simulations of the Sims. (3) Simulated universes outnumber actual universes. (4) Therefore, we are far more likely ...
New photonic sensor paves way for high-speed biodetection
Post Date: 2016-06-07 05:28:03 by Tatarewicz
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill., June 6 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of Illinois have developed a highly sensitive photonic sensor -- a device they hope will enable new high-speed diagnostic technologies. Researchers have previously identified links between various diseases, such as cancers and anemia, and mechanical properties of infected cells -- properties like compressibility and viscoelasticity. Currently, there aren't diagnostic tools sufficiently fast or sensitive to detect these properties. "Because of this, we have a substantial knowledge-gap, and have barely scratched the surface of understanding of how diseases modify the mechanical properties of cells in our body," ...
Renewable energy now supplies almost a quarter of the world's power needs
Post Date: 2016-06-07 03:58:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Last year was an absolutely huge 12 months for renewable energy, with a new global status report on clean energy highlighting how 2015 was a record year for the industry – including the revelation that renewable energy can now satisfy nearly a quarter of the world's power demands. According to energy policy network REN21, record clean energy investments in 2015 drove the largest annual increase ever in renewable power generating capacity, with an estimated 147 gigawatts (GW) added to the global grid – suggesting that by the end of 2015, renewable capacity could shoulder 23.7 percent of global electricity requirements. "What is truly remarkable about ...
China Exclusive: Chinese scientists change sheep color by gene editing
Post Date: 2016-06-07 01:16:03 by Tatarewicz
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URUMQI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Consumers may be about to get more options for the color natural wool products as Chinese scientists have used gene editing to alter the coat colors of sheep. The researchers in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, have bred five sheep with different colors with the technique, known as CRISPR-Cas9. At the Xinjiang Academy of Zootechnical Science, the sheep are eye-catching: Two of them carry black and white fur like cows, two of them are black with white spots like spotty dogs, while the other is brown and white like unstirred cappuccino. "The lambs, born in March, have become our lovely pets," said Liu Mingjun, head of the research team. ...
Overpowered: Too much solar electricity makes Chile give it away for free
Post Date: 2016-06-05 10:45:57 by Ada
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Chile’s main solar power plants are supplying so much electricity that they have to give it away for free or face prices going down. The glut has been driven by the country’s booming copper industry. Chile’s growing energy demand has prompted the development of 29 solar farms to supply the central grid. Booming mining production and economic growth have been the main drivers. The country is expected to install almost 1.4 gigawatts of solar power this year, up from 371 megawatts in 2015, according to Bloomberg , which is enough to supply hundreds of thousands of homes. Read more Reuters / Jorge Cabrera Solar panels can power the world – MIT study However, paradoxically, ...
Company behind BC-made electric car confident about July launch
Post Date: 2016-06-04 07:38:39 by Tatarewicz
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Excitement is building in the lead up to the official launch of a BC-made electric car, that is promising to be a game changer for commuters. The Electra Meccanica Solo is expected to be introduced in late July. As its name suggests, this car is for driver only, with room in the back for a shopping cart full of groceries. CEO Jerry Kroll says its range is less than half of what the newly introduced Tesla 3 offers at 160 kilometres between charges, but he stresses for the average working Canadian, and for the price tag, the Electra Meccanica will have a huge market. “It addresses the 83 per cent of people who commute by themselves 30 kilometres or less ...
We can now 'cut and paste' RNA in addition to DNA, and it could disable viruses
Post Date: 2016-06-04 06:00:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... You've probably heard of CRISPR - the gene editing tool that essentially lets scientists cut and paste DNA, removing things like HIV and muscular dystrophy from our cells - and now scientists have discovered a way to edit RNA with just as much precision. RNA is DNA's close biological cousin, responsible for translating messages from the nucleus to the rest of the cell, and being able to change it could open up all-new disease-fighting possibilities. Just like CRISPR/Cas9 editing, the new procedure selectively cuts up RNA, which gives us microscopic control over genetic information, and the researchers behind it say it could open up the method could be used to ...
SpaceX could send people to Mars by 2024, Elon Musk says
Post Date: 2016-06-03 06:49:52 by Tatarewicz
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UPI... LOS ANGELES, June 3 (UPI) -- SpaceX Chief Elon Musk is predicting his company will be able to launch humans to Mars by 2024. Speaking at Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. on Wednesday, Musk said if there are no delays, there could be a human colony on Mars by 2025 and promised to give more details of his company's "architecture for Mars colonization" at a global space conference in September. "What really matters is being able to transport large numbers of people and ultimately millions of tons of cargo to Mars," Musk said. "That's what's necessary in order to create a ... growing city on Mars." SpaceX announced plans in April ...
Physicists think they finally know what Planet Nine is: an exoplanet stolen from another star
Post Date: 2016-06-01 04:46:12 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Everything about Planet Nine is weird. There’s the fact that something 10 times more massive than Earth and four times its size might have been lurking on the outer edges of our Solar System this whole time, and we’ve only just noticed it. And what about its super-elongated orbit, which appears to take an incredible 10,000 to 20,000 years to complete? But forget all that, we don’t even really know if it even exists yet! The good news is scientists are finally narrowing in on this shady character, and a new study suggests something pretty extraordinary - Planet Nine is actually an exoplanet from a neighbouring planetary system that our Sun stole from another ...
Valdez Fly-In 2016
Post Date: 2016-05-31 18:40:00 by X-15
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200,000-Year-Old Soil Found at Mysterious Crater, A 'Gate to the Subterranean World'
Post Date: 2016-05-30 10:30:48 by Ada
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Locals have heard 'booms from the underworld' in a giant ravine but now scientists say it holds secrets of the planet's past. Many Yakutian people are said to be scared to approach the Batagaika Crater - also known as the Batagaika Megaslump: believing in the upper, middle and under worlds, they see this as a doorway to the last of these. The fearsome noises are probably just the thuds of falling soil at a landmark that is a one-kilometre-long gash up to 100 metres (328 feet) deep in the Siberian taiga. Batagaika started to form in 1960s after a chunk of forest was cleared: the land sunk, and has continued to do so, evidently speeded by recent warmer temperatures melting ...
The sea levels are now reducing in the “hotspots of acceleration” of Washington and New York
Post Date: 2016-05-30 09:59:42 by Ada
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Hopefully everybody remember Sallenger’s “hot spots” of sea level acceleration along the East Coast of the US. Asbury H. Sallenger Jr, Kara S. Doran & Peter A. Howd, Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America, Nature Climate Change 2, 884–888 (2012), doi:10.1038/nclimate1597 This was one of the many examples of bad science misinterpreting the sea level oscillations by cherry picking the time window. As 6 more years of data have been collected, let see if the hotspots are now the “hottest on record” or if they have cooled down. The logic of Sallenger & co. was based on the comparison of the rate of rise of sea levels ...
Study shows how different brain cells process positive, negative experiences
Post Date: 2016-05-29 04:35:45 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Stanford University have combined two research techniques to show how prefrontal brain cells, built specifically to process positive and negative experiences, are distinctly and fundamentally different. The researchers, led by Karl Deisseroth, a professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, reported their findings in a paper published online in Cell. The prefrontal cortex, which plays a mysterious yet central role in the mammalian brain, has been linked to mood regulation, and different cells in the prefrontal cortex seem to respond to positive and negative experiences. How it governs these opposing processes of ...
Enormous Elevated Bus Unveiled in China
Post Date: 2016-05-29 04:20:04 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Engineers in China have designed a novel new transportation method in the form of an enormous elevated bus which may make traffic jams a thing of the past. The innovative vehicle, dubbed the 'Transit Elevated Bus,' would cruise along Chinese highways passing over cars and trucks that are driving below it. Propelled via rails embedded in the road, the giant bus is designed to seat an incredible 1,200 passengers in its three massive carriages. The engineer tasked with implementing the project contends that construction of the bus should cost a fraction of what it would take to build a new subway and accrue considerably less maintenance costs as well. And, despite its ...
A LEADING astronomer has discovered our universe may not be the only one and that there might be a parallel or alternate universe.
Post Date: 2016-05-29 02:18:04 by Tatarewicz
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Parallel universe BREAKTHROUGH: Expert discovers we could be part of alternate reality Ranga-Ram Chary was recently mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background – the light which was left from the Big Bang – when he noticed a “mysterious glow”. Chary says that typically when scanning the Cosmic Microwave Background, you would find nothing but noise, but he added in his research paper that the bright spots were 4,500 times brighter than they should be. He wrote in the study, Spectral Variations of the Sky: Constraints on Alternate Universes, that there is a 30 per cent chance that the glow is nothing out of the ordinary, but claimed that there is a chance it is being caused ...
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