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Genes: important determinent in a life of crime
Post Date: 2012-01-27 05:11:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) — Your genes could be a strong predictor of whether you stray into a life of crime, according to a research paper co-written by UT Dallas criminologist Dr. J.C. Barnes. The study's findings were detailed in a recent issue of Criminology. The paper was written with Dr. Kevin M. Beaver from Florida State University and Dr. Brian B. Boutwell at Sam Houston State University. The study focused on whether genes are likely to cause a person to become a life-course persistent offender, which is characterized by antisocial behavior during childhood that can later progress to violent or serious criminal acts later in life. The framework for the research was ...
Stem cell therapy restores sight to blind
Post Date: 2012-01-25 02:36:14 by Tatarewicz
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(Reuters) - Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse. A second patient, aged 78, suffered from dry macular degeneration - the leading cause of blindness in the elderly -and could not even see well enough to go shopping. But after being treated with stem cells from a donated human embryo, both women have improved dramatically, researchers said on Monday. Stem cells are master cells that can differentiate into any of the 200 kinds of ...
Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth
Post Date: 2012-01-24 05:45:24 by Tatarewicz
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This colorized NASA image, taken Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, … This handout image provided by NASA, taken Sunday night, Jan. 22, 2012, shows a solar flare erupting on the Sun's northeastern hemisphere. Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is already bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. The Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado observed a flare Sunday night at 11 p.m. EST. Physicist Doug Biesecker said the biggest concern from the speedy eruption is the radiation, which arrived on Earth an hour later. It will likely continue through Wednesday. It's mostly an issue for astronauts' ...
Genes determine 40% of lifetime intelligence: Australian scientists
Post Date: 2012-01-23 04:49:55 by Tatarewicz
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CANBERRA, JAN. 21 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists on Saturday said they discovered genes are responsible for 40 percent of our lifetime intelligence with the other 60 percent being determined by our environment. The research was carried out by scientists of University of Queensland of Australia and was led by geneticist Professor Peter Visscher. The environment a child grows up in (nutrition, schooling, parent's education) impacts on intelligence, but observational tests on twins suggested that we inherit around half of our intelligence. But until now, there has been little understanding of the genetic contribution to cognitive aging, or how smart we stay as we get older. ...
Looking at food 'prompts appetite hormone'
Post Date: 2012-01-22 05:54:34 by Tatarewicz
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The feelings of hunger that suddenly appear when looking at pictures of food are not all in the head – German researchers have shown they are in the blood too. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich showed that levels of a hormone which controls appetite increase when a person sees images of food. They have suggested that people trying to lose weight should avoid seeing pictures of delicious food as far as they can. The researchers led by Axel Steiger took eight healthy young men for the study, and measured the levels of ghrelin in their blood. The hormone not only controls appetite but also plays a role in digestion. They recorded a rise in ghrelin levels ...
Coolest Video U Will See Today
Post Date: 2012-01-21 13:48:32 by tom007
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57363140-76/helix-nebula-sparkles-in-a-new-light-video/?tag=mncol
Coronal mass ejection headed earthward
Post Date: 2012-01-21 06:42:34 by Tatarewicz
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INCOMING CME: Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30 UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo (coronal mass ejection CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding almost directly toward Earth: Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives this weekend. Their animated forecast track predicts an impact on Jan. 21st at 22:30 UT (+/- 7 hrs). Aurora alerts: text, voice. The cloud is also heading for Mars, due to hit the Red Planet on Jan. 24th. NASA's Curiosity rover, en route to Mars now, is equipped to study solar storms and might be able to detect a change in the ...
Mind can control allergic response
Post Date: 2012-01-21 06:30:07 by Tatarewicz
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You – or more accurately, your brain – has control over how allergic your skin is, suggests new research. A team of neuroscientists have found that if someone has a lesser sense of ownership over a part of their body, their immune system also responds differently to that body part, treating it as 'non-self' rather than 'self'. These findings have direct implications for understanding autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis and a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions characterised by a disrupted sense of ownership over one’s body, such as stroke, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, neuropathic pain, anorexia nervosa and bulimia. In two ...
Scientists have built a magnetic storage device made of 96 atoms.
Post Date: 2012-01-18 05:36:23 by Tatarewicz
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The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store 200 to 300 times more information than they can today. The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope precisely assembles atoms onto a surface to make the world's smallest hard drive. Click to enlarge this image. Hard drives could one day be the size of rice grains, powering music players so small they would fit inside your ear. Scientists at IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have built the world's smallest unit of magnetic storage, using just 96 atoms to create one byte of data. Conventional drives require a half a billion atoms for each byte. The advance could lead to tiny hard drives able to store ...
Earth’s acid coming from nature
Post Date: 2012-01-18 05:10:26 by Tatarewicz
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Satellites showing that nature is responsible for 90 per cent of the earth’s atmospheric acidity shocked researchers from the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, whose findings have just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Stunned, the scientists approached a team from the University of Wollongong’s Centre of Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC) to confirm what satellite readings were telling them. By providing data from a ground-based solar Fourier transform spectrometer instrument at the University, CAC used 15-years worth of information to verify the satellite’s story: all existing global models had substantially misjudged the main source of formic acid levels on ...
Science's 'Most Beautiful Theories'
Post Date: 2012-01-18 05:00:19 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) Jan 16 - From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world's most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. Every January, John Brockman, the impresario and literary agent who presides over the online salon Edge.org, asks his circle of scientists, digerati and humanities scholars to tackle one question. In previous years, they have included "how is the Internet changing the way you think?" and "what is the most important invention in the last 2,000 years?" This year, he posed the open-ended question "what is your favorite deep, elegant or beautiful ...
Sorcha Faal meets Rush Linmbaugh
Post Date: 2012-01-17 21:01:36 by randge
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Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Roll up a dube. Enjoy.
Pirates Developing a DIY Space Program to bypass SOPA
Post Date: 2012-01-16 09:46:14 by freepatriot32
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Space, “the final frontier,” has long been the exclusive domain of the State because they were the only organization that had both the tremendous resources necessary to get there and the willingness to waste those resources with no foreseeable economic purpose. As a child I was enamored with Star Trek, but once I became familiarized with the ideas of liberty it was obvious that the Federation described by Gene Roddenberry was essentially just a fascist military regime that happened to be slightly more egalitarian than all the other fascist military regimes. But recent events seem to indicate that the future of space may be more like Fire Fly, where the frontier is the domain of ...
Internet users 'should check for blackout virus'
Post Date: 2012-01-15 07:24:08 by Tatarewicz
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The German government says all internet users should check their computers for a virus which could stop them going online from March 8. The “DNS-Changer” program infects up to 33,000 computers in Germany each day, according to authorities who arrested those behind the scheme in November. A “DNS-Changer” infection means a computer connects to a fake version of the Domain Name System – the service which enables access to websites, the Office for Information Technology Security (BSI) said on its website on Wednesday. Rather than connecting to the normal DNS, an infected computer is instead re-routed to websites which criminals have manipulated and use for fraudulent ...
Particle-Free Silver Ink Prints Small, High-Performance Electronics
Post Date: 2012-01-14 18:28:17 by gengis gandhi
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Particle-Free Silver Ink Prints Small, High-Performance Electronics ScienceDaily (Jan. 13, 2012) — University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates. See Also: Matter & Energy Materials Science Electronics Inorganic Chemistry Computers & Math Spintronics Research Mobile Computing Distributed Computing Strange Science Reference Metallurgy Metal Tissue engineering White gold Jennifer Lewis, the Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and graduate student S. Brett Walker described the new ink in ...
Cheap LED Lighting Races Ahead with OSRAM Breakthrough
Post Date: 2012-01-14 18:26:14 by gengis gandhi
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Cheap LED Lighting Races Ahead with OSRAM Breakthrough JANUARY 14, 2012 BY TINA CASEY LEAVE A COMMENT International lighting industry giant OSRAM has just announced a research breakthrough that will make the cost of high-efficiency LED light bulbs sink like a stone. Considering the volume of hay that certain politicians have made this year fighting against LEDs and other new technologies, that should cause more than a few faces to start glowing beet red. After all, who could be against a simple, easy-to-install household device that saves money every time you flip a switch? While OSRAM’s new LEDs still might not become quite cheap as conventional incandescent bulbs, this new ...
Makerbot 3D Replicator prints objects
Post Date: 2012-01-14 16:23:25 by gengis gandhi
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Makerbot 3D Replicator prints objects by Steven Williamson on 12 January 2012, 15:12 Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qabbcr Add to My Vault: Make whatever your mind desires... One of the coolest gadgets we’ve seen at CES this year is Makerbot Industries 3D printing machine which enables you to produce physical everyday objects, or any item that you can conjure up from the depths of your mind. The Makerbot Replicator employs extrusion technology, a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile. A material is pushed or drawn through a die of the desired cross-section, allowing users to create objects up to the size of a loaf of bread, 300 cubic inches in volume measuring ...
Rossi: First E-Cats Will Now Cost $50 per kW
Post Date: 2012-01-14 13:02:49 by gengis gandhi
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Rossi: First E-Cats Will Now Cost $50 per kW January 13, 2012 Andrea Rossi is full of surprises. He recently announced that he would never be undersold by his competitors and said that a domestic E-Cat delivering 10-20 kW of power would cost between $1000-1500 USD. Today he has slashed that price by up to two thirds. In a comment on his JONP site he writes: The big science, after trying to ridiculize us, now has understood that the E- Cat works, so now they are trying to copy and make patents to overcome us, discourage us and trying with this sophysticated way to stop us under a disguise of an indirect vindication. Is a smart move, but they are underevaluating us. I will never stop, ...
Hotter homes produce smarter babies
Post Date: 2012-01-14 06:48:12 by Tatarewicz
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A hotter home appears to produce babies with better cognitive abilities - but before you turn up the home heater to make your baby brainier, the research was conducted on the Australian lizard Bassiana duperreyi by researchers from the University of Sydney. Many traits in young reptiles are determined by the temperature of the nest, so Joshua Amiel, a PhD student in the School of Biological Sciences, and his supervisor, Professor Rick Shine, looked at how incubation temperature would affect the learning performance of these lizards. Published in the UK's Royal Society journal Biology Letters, the research found that lizard eggs incubated at higher temperatures resulted in baby lizards ...
An eventful Friday the 13th...
Post Date: 2012-01-14 03:19:58 by X-15
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The museum's P-51D was manufactured in 1944 and shipped to England. It was assigned to the 9th Air Force, 370th Fighter Group, 401st Fighter Squadron, and was flown by Lt. Hjalmar Johnsen: Strapped into the jump seat: Over a rural part of the DFW Metroplex: At speed: Looking over the pilot's (Kevin) shoulder: Poster Comment:Scratch one item off of my bucket list ;-)
One Full Year of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat (cold fusion generator)
Post Date: 2012-01-13 17:49:49 by gengis gandhi
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One Full Year of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat Since the start of 2011, PESN has been covering the emergence, testing, and commercialization of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) technology. As 2012 approaches, it is clear that nickel-hydrogen cold fusion technology is going to change the world, as the production of a million E-Cat home units is planned. T-Shirt design by Tony McDougall of EnergyRevolution Full Disclosure: PES Network has a business relationship with Andrea Rossi. By Hank Mills Pure Energy Systems News As far as I am concerned, the year 2011 proved that we do not only live in interesting times, but a truly exciting age in which game-changing technological ...
China develops largest rocket propellant module
Post Date: 2012-01-13 03:32:01 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China has successfully developed its largest rocket propellant tank, which will be used to contain hydrogen fuel for the country's Long March-5 carrier rocket, the tank's developer said Wednesday. The homegrown rocket tank, measuring five meters in diameter and 20-plus meters in length, consists of bottom parts and eight tubular sections, which are welded together, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology. The academy made a major technological breakthrough in the welding of such a massive-sized fuel tank, it said, adding that developing and manufacturing a propellant tank are among the most difficult tasks in building a rocket. ...
Mystery of Car Battery's Large Current Solved
Post Date: 2012-01-12 07:43:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2011) — Chemists have solved the 150 year-old mystery of what gives the lead-acid battery, found under the hood of most cars, its unique ability to deliver a surge of current. Lead-acid batteries are able to deliver the very large currents needed to start a car engine because of the exceptionally high electrical conductivity of the battery anode material, lead dioxide. However, even though this type of battery was invented in 1859, up until now the fundamental reason for the high conductivity of lead dioxide has eluded scientists. A team of researchers from Oxford University, the University of Bath, Trinity College Dublin, and the ISIS neutron spallation ...
Autistic children have a different gut bacteria
Post Date: 2012-01-12 07:21:00 by Tatarewicz
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The underlying reason autism is often associated with gastrointestinal problems is an unknown, but new results to be published in the online journal mBio® on January 10 reveal that the guts of autistic children differ from other children in at least one important way: many children with autism harbor a type of bacteria in their guts that non-autistic children do not. The study was conducted by Brent Williams and colleagues at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Earlier work has revealed that autistic individuals with gastrointestinal symptoms often exhibit inflammation and other abnormalities in their upper and lower intestinal tracts. However, scientists do ...
The Floating Spring Garden
Post Date: 2012-01-11 09:08:42 by freepatriot32
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