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Argintine lab clones cow to produce human-like milk
Post Date: 2011-06-14 00:20:27 by Tatarewicz
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BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk. "The cloned cow, named Rosita ISA, is the first bovine born in the world that incorporates human genes that contain the proteins present in human milk," Argentina's National Institute of Agrobusiness Technology said in a statement on Thursday. Rosita ISA was born on April 6 by Ceasarian because she weighed more than 45 kilos (99 pounds), about twice the normal weight of Jersey cows, according to the statement. As an adult, "the cow will produce milk that is similar ...
Children's IQ boosting exercise
Post Date: 2011-06-14 00:13:13 by Tatarewicz
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Can we make ourselves smarter? In recent decades, scientists have accumulated increasing evidence that our intelligence, at least as measured by the IQ test, is sharply constrained by genetics. Although estimates vary, most studies place the heritability of intelligence at somewhere between 50% and 80%. It's an uncomfortable fact, but not all brains are created equal. Which is why there's so much buzz about a forthcoming study that complicates this assumption. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that it's possible to boost a core feature of human intelligence through a simple mental training exercise. In fact, when several dozen elementary- and middle-school kids ...
Laser is produced by a living cell
Post Date: 2011-06-13 07:03:46 by Tatarewicz
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A single living cell has been coaxed into producing laser light, researchers report in Nature Photonics. The technique starts by engineering a cell that can produce a light-emitting protein that was first obtained from glowing jellyfish. Flooding the resulting cells with weak blue light causes them to emit directed, green laser light. The work may have applications in improved microscope imaging and light-based therapies. Laser light differs from normal light in that it is of a narrow band of colours, with the light waves all oscillating together in synchrony. Most modern forms use carefully engineered solid materials to produce lasers in everything from supermarket scanners to DVD ...
"Chemical" recharge of batteries
Post Date: 2011-06-12 03:51:48 by Tatarewicz
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The entire market for batteries will hit $60 billion annually in the next few years as more mobile power is needed for everything from tablet computers to electric vehicles. And over the past few months, I've chronicled some of the best technologies and companies operating in the space. But there's always something new when you're dealing with billion-dollar profit implications in a technology market. The search is always on for something better, faster, and stronger. News this week out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says a “refuelable” battery is on the horizon...Liquid Flow Battery Not rechargeable, as in plug it in and wait; but refuelable, ...
The Neo-Fredwinian Synthesis - Trouble at the Mind-Matter Interface
Post Date: 2011-06-12 00:00:48 by Critter
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June 12, 2011 This will bore most people to the point of throwing themselves from a high bridge. I can't help it. The Devil made me do it.. The theory of evolution does not stand alone. It is part of a vast synthesis which fits all of existence into a coherent whole:The Big Bang, the formation of stars and planets, the chance appearance of life in primeval seas, the evolution of that life, the Pyramids, Space Shuttle, and Renoir. It is an imposing intellectual edifice, mechanistic, easily comprehended, self-assured, with only the details to be worked out. Or so we are told. This agglomeration of everything under one theoretical roof appeals powerfully to minds that need an ...
Many of us won’t be able to retire until our 80s You’ll probably have to work much longer than you anticipated
Post Date: 2011-06-11 10:48:59 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Many of us won’t be able to retire until our 80sYou’ll probably have to work much longer than you anticipated BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- We all think it’s a panacea. If you don’t have enough money saved for retirement, you’ve got a few ways to close the gap between what you have and what you need in your nest egg: Save more, invest more aggressively, and/or work longer. Well, it turns out that working longer is indeed an option, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute latest study. The only problem is that the latest research shows that you’ll have to work much longer than you anticipated. In fact, many Americans will have to keep on working well ...
NASA Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3D * It wraps it's head around this *
Post Date: 2011-06-11 03:29:00 by wudidiz
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Parallel world hidden inside Earth
Post Date: 2011-06-11 02:57:43 by wudidiz
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Parallel world hidden inside Earth 06.06.2011 It seems that scientists find more and more evidence to prove the existence of parallel worlds. Physicists at Stanford University managed to calculate the hypothetical number of universes that were formed as a result of the Big Bang. According to them, the Big Bang created 101016 universes. It is quite possible, though, that they may exist inside one another, including our planet. Therefore, there is probably another Earth hidden inside planet Earth. The hollow Earth theory can be traced back to ancient periods of the history of human civilization. Ancient wise men believed that there was a whole underground world with its underground ...
GM expands Chevrolet Volt orders to all 50 states, lowers price
Post Date: 2011-06-10 19:38:31 by Dakmar
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General Motors opened up orders for the Chevrolet Volt to all 50 states today, lowering the base price for the 2012 model by about $1,000 and adding four option packages. The 2012 Volt will start at $39,995, including delivery, and customers may be eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit. GM was able to lower the base price because the car has more optional content now that it's available nationally, the automaker said today in a statement. The 2011 Volt had been available in eight states and Washington, D.C., and only had three option packages. GM is expanding Volt ordering as it prepares to add two shifts worth 2,500 jobs to the Detroit-Hamtramck plant that builds the car. Volt ...
Fukushima: Blatant Coverup of Radiation
Post Date: 2011-06-10 15:41:35 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Fukushima: Blatant Coverup of Radiation Watch the TBS feed AND the TEPCO Webcam simulcast http://lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/lucaswebcamwatch.htmlWith blatant disrespect for human health Tokyo Electric Power Company has failed to provide accurate information regarding the amount of radiation that has been released to date, and the full spectrum of isotopes that were emitted. Reactor 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant was operating on MOX fuel which exploded, sending highly radioactive Plutonium into the atmosphere.This is the story that TEPCO will do anything to keep you from talking about. They have admitted through tight lips that yes, Plutonium was discharged, and yes, it has ...
Stephen Jay Gould mismeasured [or falsified] skulls in racial records dispute
Post Date: 2011-06-10 14:40:28 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Stephen Jay Gould mismeasured skulls in racial records dispute The late scientific [sic] icon, Stephen Jay Gould, botched and perhaps faked his critique of a racist 19th-Century scientist's skull collection, suggests a second look at his efforts. In a 1978 Science paper, Gould (1941 - 2002) , reported that the Samuel George Morton (1799-1851), "a prominent Philadelphia physician," had mis-measured the cranial capacities of his 1,000-skull "American Golgotha" collection gathered from around the world, to suit his racist beliefs. The finding led to one of Gould's best-known books, The Mismeasure of Man, a critique of scientific racism. "Morton is now viewed ...
The Gas Is Greener
Post Date: 2011-06-09 11:40:00 by farmfriend
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The Gas Is Greener By ROBERT BRYCE Published: June 7, 2011 IN April, Gov. Jerry Brown made headlines by signing into law an ambitious mandate that requires California to obtain one-third of its electricity from renewable energy sources like sunlight and wind by 2020. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now have renewable electricity mandates. President Obama and several members of Congress have supported one at the federal level. Polls routinely show strong support among voters for renewable energy projects — as long as they don’t cost too much. But there’s the rub: while energy sources like sunlight and wind are free and naturally replenished, converting them ...
Calling for ‘Achievable’ Target, Christie Plans Cut in State’s Renewable Energy Goals
Post Date: 2011-06-09 11:32:13 by farmfriend
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Calling for ‘Achievable’ Target, Christie Plans Cut in State’s Renewable Energy Goals By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: June 7, 2011 Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that he planned to scale back New Jersey’s goals for renewable energy as he looked for an “achievable” approach to generating electricity in the state. His change is part of an overhaul of the state’s 10-year energy master plan, which had been expected since last year, when he asked the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to evaluate renewable energy targets he found too aggressive. But after his decision last month to withdraw from a multistate trading system, the Regional Greenhouse Gas ...
Tamarind seed extract helps regrow nerves
Post Date: 2011-06-09 06:54:25 by Tatarewicz
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A Monash University researcher has developed a new biomaterial that encourages damaged nerves in the brain and spinal chord to regrow. The work could revolutionise treatment of nerve-based injuries and diseases, such as Parkinson’s. PhD student Andrew Rodda was part of a Monash Materials Engineering team investigating xyloglucan, a plant-based compound derived from the seeds of the tamarind tree. Within plants, xyloglucan plays an important role in linking cells together and Mr Rodda has been studying its effects in animals with damaged nerve cells. The compound developed by Mr Rodda can be injected into an injury site as a liquid, before becoming a gel as it reaches body ...
Two new elements qualify for periodic table
Post Date: 2011-06-09 06:32:36 by Tatarewicz
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Two new elements have been added to the periodic table after a three-year review by the governing bodies of chemistry and physics. The elements are currently unnamed, but they are both highly radioactive and exist for less than a second before decaying into lighter atoms. The table is the official compendium of known elements, organised according to properties of their atomic structure. Details have been published in the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry. The review was conducted by a joint working party of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). In recent years, there have been several claims by ...
"Auditory" side effect of coffee?
Post Date: 2011-06-09 06:16:46 by Tatarewicz
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A new study from Australia’s La Trobe University has found that there is a connection between caffeine and auditory hallucinations. That is, drinking coffee, you might hear weird things. In the study people were asked to ring a buzzer whenever they heard Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”. Except, it was a trick and only white noise was played into their headphones. Those who were drank at least 380g of coffee a day incorrectly buzzed the buzzer more. They were trippin’ on the sweet black stuff! Studies are always coming out about coffee being good or bad for you, giving you a heart attack or sharpening your concentration. But it’s unclear which camp this falls ...
China moves up on innovation ladder
Post Date: 2011-06-08 02:22:39 by Tatarewicz
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Only a few years ago, China's approach to innovation barely played a role in international economic diplomacy. Today, China's innovation policy and its perceived threat to the US economy are a hot topic in US-China economic relations, adding to contentious disputes about exchange rates, trade and foreign direct investment. When Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the United States in January, public debate focused on widespread fears that China's emerging role in hi-tech innovation will challenge the US' leadership in the global knowledge economy. That China's innovation policy unfairly favors domestic producers and poses a threat to global intellectual property ...
‘Armchair astronaut’ Mars video goes viral (mars 'space station)
Post Date: 2011-06-07 09:20:47 by gengis gandhi
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‘Armchair astronaut’ Mars video goes viral By Liz Goodwin Email Print A self-described "armchair astronaut" claims to have found a base on the planet Mars using a satellite imaging map. He thinks the base could have been made by aliens The video David Martines uploaded to YouTube has been viewed more than 850,000 times. He says the 750'-by-150' cylinder-like structure that he's zoomed in on using Google Mars looks like it's made for people to inhabit. In the video, Martines say he assumes people live in the cylinder or have lived in it. He named the shape "Bio Station Alpha." Experts told Space.come that the image was most likely caused ...
Petri dish "brain" has 12 seconds of memory
Post Date: 2011-06-07 03:20:48 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists Create Tiny Artificial Brain That Exhibits 12 Seconds of Short Term Memory This Artificial Rat Brain Has 12 Seconds of Short-term Memory Ashwin Vishwanathan, Guo-Qiang Bi and Henry C. Zeringue, University of Pittsburgh It’s not artificial intelligence in the Turing test sense, but the technicolor ring you see above is actually an artificial microbrain, derived from rat brain cells--just 40 to 60 neurons in total--that is capable of about 12 seconds of short-term memory. Developed by a team at the University of Pittsburgh, the brain was created in an attempt to artificially nurture a working brain into existence so that researchers could study neural networks and how our ...
College for Dummies... and Non-Dummies
Post Date: 2011-06-06 16:24:42 by ghostdogtxn
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Canadian scientists 'bottle' antimatter
Post Date: 2011-06-06 05:14:14 by Tatarewicz
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Makoto Fujiwara has spent more than a decade in laboratories hunting an elusive prey, the stuff of science fiction - the missing half of everything. He and other Canadian researchers have finally managed to trap their lightning in a bottle. Only it isn't lightning they've got in the bottle - it's antimatter. In a paper appearing online Sunday in the journal Nature Physics, lead author Fujiwara and his colleagues say they've succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for more than 16 minutes - virtually an eternity for a rare substance that scientists have struggled to keep intact for more than a few fractions of a second. "It's a kind of game-changer," said ...
Something Strange With Volcano Eruption in Chile
Post Date: 2011-06-05 21:42:51 by farmfriend
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Something Strange With Volcano Eruption in Chile June 4, 2011 at 11:50 pm (PT) What appears to be an enormous ash cloud rising from the eruption of a long dormant volcano named Puyehuein southern Chile on June 4, 2011, isn’t quite matching up with the location of the recorded earthquakes today in the immediate area. “The Cordon Caulle (volcanic range) has entered an eruptive process, with an explosion resulting in a 10-kilometer-high gas column,” Chilean state emergency office said. The thing is, for some unknown reason, as of this writing, eight earthquakes near magnitude 5 have shook the earth near the Puyehue volcano. The problem is, the earthquakes are located 20 to 40 ...
China destined to eclipse the United States - Dam if you do, dam if you don't
Post Date: 2011-06-05 05:20:09 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Dam if you do, dam if you don't China's remarkable transformation over the past three decades is obviously an event of major geopolitical proportions, with far-reaching ramifications in both economic and security affairs. It has also led some observers to conclude that the PRC is destined to eclipse the (decadent) United States and its various feckless allies in part because its leaders are more farsighted and disciplined and able to set a course and stick to it despite occasional vicissitudes. This view implies that our own unruly political system needs more executive power and less democracy. (I'll confess to occasional grumpy thoughts along those lines, mostly when I'm ...
Maths model improves brain diagnosis
Post Date: 2011-06-04 03:34:54 by Tatarewicz
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The ability to obtain accurate measurement of different brain tissues from MRI scan imagery is a step closer as Griffith University develops new technology. Associate Professor Alan Liew from the School of Information, Communication Technology, has been working on computational algorithms which are important in the clinical diagnosis of brain conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease. Using this mathematical model, an MRI scanner can be used to accurately segment and measure different tissue classes. The data can then be used by a clinician as a diagnostic tool to compare the brain tissue of healthy patients. "These computations will allow the accurate ...
Nano-Engineering Making Big Strides
Post Date: 2011-06-03 05:09:31 by Tatarewicz
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Scientific and technological advances are increasingly powered by our ability to build things at the atomic level. Mimicking processes that take place in biology, scientists are using custom self-assembling structures to power new molecular breakthroughs. At the atomic level, there is no fundamental difference between the various scientific disciplines. Improving nanotechnology is converging them at an accelerating rate. An often-overlooked transformational technology is air conditioning. We don't usually think too much about it unless it stops working. It has, however, had profound impacts on how we live and could add profit to your portfolio... The great majority of residential ...
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