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1918 Flu Virus Limited The Immune System
Post Date: 2007-01-17 21:32:41 by ...
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A Frankenstein version of the "Spanish flu" virus, assembled from parts in the laboratory, has shed new light on how the microbe killed tens of millions of people worldwide in 1918 and 1919. Experiments in monkeys reveal that the 1918 virus came with the pre-packaged capacity to limit the immune system's ability to fight back in the first few days after infection. As the virus grows unchecked, the body attacks it with increasing quantities of highly toxic substances, which over time do as much harm to the host as to the invader. The result is often lethal damage to the lungs, where most influenza virus growth occurs. The research provides further evidence that the 1918 ...
tesseract (interesting GIF)
Post Date: 2007-01-17 20:21:33 by tom007
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Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA (the human genome project)
Post Date: 2007-01-16 08:03:03 by gengis gandhi
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Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA Do civilizations of advanced human beings exist scattered in the Galaxy? by John Stokes A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms. The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from moulds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, originally known as "junk DNA", were discovered years ago, and their ...
Vat-grown muscle is tomorrow's disembodied meat
Post Date: 2007-01-15 20:12:31 by Zipporah
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Vat-grown muscle is tomorrow's disembodied meat Snip from Times UK item "Will the Petri dish put Daisy out to grass?": In 2002 scientists at Touro College in the US removed some muscle from the abdomen of an anaesthetised goldfish and placed it in a saline solution enriched with foetal calf serum. The muscle reportedly grew by 15 per cent in a few weeks. It was then coated in breadcrumbs and lightly sautéed in olive oil: scientists said that the resulting dish “smelled good”. However, they did not eat it. Link to story (thanks, Clayton). Image borrowed from "Disembodied Cuisine," by the Tissue Culture and Art Project. This biological art ...
Invisible RFID Ink Safe For Cattle And People, Company Says
Post Date: 2007-01-15 12:53:26 by angle
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A startup company developing chipless RFID ink has tested its product on cattle and laboratory rats. Somark Innovations announced this week that it successfully tested biocompatible RFID ink, which can be read through animal hairs. The passive RFID technology could be used to identify and track cows to reduce financial losses from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease) scares. Somark, which formed in 2005, is located at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis. The company is raising Series A equity financing and plans to license the technology to secondary markets, which could include laboratory animals, dogs, cats, prime cuts of meat, and military personnel. Chief ...
RFID tags connect smart cars to smart highways
Post Date: 2007-01-13 21:29:38 by Jethro Tull
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RFID tags connect smart cars to smart highways From: EDN | Date: December 22, 1994 | Author: Legg, Gary | More results for: smart highways Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags will play a vital role in linking automobiles with smart highways. Traffic congestion has prompted experts to use electronics as a solution. A portion of the California State Route 91 will be equipped with an automated technology that will allow two-way communications between the vehicle and the highway. The highway control system transmits a query signal, which the vehicle-mounted RFID responds to by sending back the appropriate information. Small ...
Chemtrail Discussion on the PowerHour - Live
Post Date: 2007-01-12 10:20:16 by Lod
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Intel countersues Transmeta
Post Date: 2007-01-11 22:42:55 by RickyJ
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Intel has filed a lawsuit against chip designer Transmeta, alleging that the company infringes on seven of its patents. The suit, filed earlier this week in a U.S. District Court in Delaware, comes roughly three months after Transmeta filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Intel for allegedly violating 11 of its patents. The case centers on chips that are designed to be energy-efficient when not in use. Intel's countersuit alleges that Transmeta chips under the Crusoe, Efficeon and Efficeon 2 brands violate more than a half dozen of its patents. Transmeta, meanwhile, claims that Intel's Core 2 Duo, in addition to processors dating as far back as its P6 line of chips, ...
Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
Post Date: 2007-01-11 00:37:12 by robin
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Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarmCompiled by John Stokes A recent scientific theory called the "hydrate hypothesis" says that historical global warming cycles have been caused by a feedback loop, where melting permafrost methane clathrates (also known as "hydrates") spur local global warming, leading to further melting of clathrates and bacterial growth. In other words, like western Siberia, the 400 billion tons of methane in permafrost hydrate will gradually melt, and the released methane will speed the melting. The effect of even a couple of billion tons of methane ...
Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says (RFID)
Post Date: 2007-01-10 15:49:31 by SmokinOPs
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They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies. Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Department of Defence. A U.S. security report says Canadian coins with tiny transmitters have turned up, and could be used to track defence industry personnel.A U.S. security report says Canadian coins with tiny transmitters have turned up, and could be used to track defence industry personnel. Security experts believe the miniature devices could be used to track the movements of ...
The environmental "surge" you're not hearing anything about.
Post Date: 2007-01-08 21:43:49 by robin
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January 8, 2007 -- The environmental "surge" you're not hearing anything about. According to U.S. maritime industry sources, tanker captains are reporting an increase in onboard alarms from hazard sensors designed to detect hydrocarbon gas leaks and, specifically, methane leaks. However, the leaks are not emanating from cargo holds or pump rooms but from continental shelves venting increasing amounts of trapped methane into the atmosphere. With rising ocean temperatures, methane is increasingly escaping from deep ocean floors. Methane is also 21 more times capable of trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.In fact, one of the major sources for increased methane ...
GM Introduces Plug-In Electric Car
Post Date: 2007-01-08 10:30:54 by robin
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Robert A. Lutz, a General Motors vice chairman, at the Detroit auto show with the Chevrolet Volt prototype. The Volt is expected to be able to travel up to 40 miles without needing gas.(By Jeffrey Sauger Via Bloomberg News)
GM Introduces Plug-In Electric Car
By Sholnn Freeman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 8, 2007; A07
DETROIT, Jan. 7 -- General Motors Chairman G. Richard Wagoner Jr. on Sunday unveiled an innovative prototype, the Chevrolet Volt -- a plug-in vehicle that derives its power primarily from electricity rather than gasoline -- as the world's automakers take on global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Wagoner's announcement ...
Scientists Stumped: Underwater Photographer Captures Picture of Mysterious Gelatinous Ball; 'A Bit of Science Fiction'
Post Date: 2007-01-07 18:28:57 by Zipporah
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his photograph sparked intense curiosity and fascination amongst Norwegian scientists. Photo: Rudolpf Svensen / UWPHOTO Hordaland, Norway (Oct 28, 2006 10:13 EST) A mysterious gelatinous ball has puzzled and fascinated researchers after undersea photographer Rudolf Svensen spotted it while diving at the mouth of the Matre fjord in Hordaland, western Norway. The Svensens contacted associate professor Torleiv Brattegard at the University of Bergen, and other experts were notified to try and solve the mystery. Brattegard was convinced the object was organic, and possibly a species unknown to Norway. "It might be an animal, the remains of algae, something which has been alive, or a ...
Stem cells extracted from amniotic fluid
Post Date: 2007-01-07 16:27:01 by robin
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Stem cells extracted from amniotic fluid Posted 1/7/2007 3:20 PM ET By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Researchers have been able to derive human stem cells from the amniotic fluid surrounding babies in the womb, potentially providing a source of stem cells that is easily available and uncontroversial. The amniotic stem cells grew readily into independent cell lines or colonies, doubling in just 36 hours, says the paper, published in Sunday's edition of the journal Nature Biotechnology. The researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., were able to get the amniotic cells to differentiate into fat, bone, muscle, blood, nerve and liver cells. Stem ...
CRS Views EPA Library Closures
Post Date: 2007-01-06 12:16:54 by robin
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CRS Views EPA Library Closures Last October the Environmental Protection Agency closed five of its libraries, including the headquarters library in Washington DC, and limited public access at four others. EPA said the closures were part of an ongoing restructuring and that public demand for EPA records would be increasingly satisfied online. Public interest groups and librarians warned that valuable documentary resources were in danger of being lost or destroyed. A report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service fleshes out some new details of the library closures and finds some cause for concern. "EPA determined that the utility of some of its libraries had declined as the agency ...
DSS Views Foreign Collection of U.S. Technology
Post Date: 2007-01-06 12:04:53 by robin
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DSS Views Foreign Collection of U.S. Technology Foreign efforts to gather information on defense-related U.S. technologies are characterized in a 2006 report (pdf) by the Defense Security Service (DSS) Counterintelligence Office. "In 2005, DSS identified 106 countries associated with suspicious activities based on U.S. cleared defense industry reporting, up from 90 countries in 2004." Information systems, lasers, sensors and aeronautics were among the technology areas most frequently targeted by foreign intelligence. The unclassified DSS report is posted on the DSS web site, but is password-protected to block public access. A copy was obtained by Secrecy News. See ...
Hurricane Center Chief Issues Final Warning; Katrina was nothing compared with the big one yet to come...
Post Date: 2007-01-03 14:17:17 by Brian S
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A departing Max Mayfield is convinced that the Southeast is inviting disaster.By Carol J. WilliamsTimes Staff WriterJanuary 3, 2007MIAMI — Frustrated with people and politicians who refuse to listen or learn, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield ends his 34-year government career today in search of a new platform for getting out his unwelcome message: Hurricane Katrina was nothing compared with the big one yet to come.Mayfield, 58, leaves his high-profile job with the National Weather Service more convinced than ever that U.S. residents of the Southeast are risking unprecedented tragedy by continuing to build vulnerable homes in the tropical storm zone and failing to plan ...
Toyota Creating Alcohol Detection System
Post Date: 2007-01-03 12:13:13 by Brian S
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(01-03) 04:13 PST TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. is developing a fail-safe system for cars that detects drunken drivers and automatically shuts the vehicle down if sensors pick up signs of excessive alcohol consumption, a news report said Wednesday. Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol in the driver's bloodstream, according to a report carried by the mass-circulation daily, Asahi Shimbun. The system could also kick in if the sensors detect abnormal steering, or if a special camera shows that the driver's pupils are not in focus. The car is then slowed to a halt, the report said. The ...
Science told: hands off gay sheep [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-01-01 15:08:50 by robin
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The Sunday Times December 31, 2006 Science told: hands off gay sheep Isabel Oakeshott and Chris Gourlay Experiments that claim to ‘cure’ homosexual rams spark anger SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of “gay” sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans. The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of homosexual rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes. It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say ...
World faces hottest year ever, as El Niņo combines with global warming
Post Date: 2007-01-01 11:54:11 by Brian S
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A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned. As the new year was ushered in with stormy conditions across the UK, the forecast for the next 12 months is of extreme global weather patterns which could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge. The warning, from Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, was one of four sobering predictions from senior scientists and forecasters that 2007 will be a crucial year for determining the response to ...
Arctic Ice Shelf Broke Off Canadian Island
Post Date: 2006-12-29 23:44:17 by robin
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A 41-square-mile shelf of floating ice that jutted into the Arctic Ocean for 3,000 years from Canada’s northernmost shore broke away abruptly in the summer of 2005, apparently freed by sharply warming temperatures and jostling wind and waves, scientists said yesterday. The Ayles ice shelf, as the ancient 100-foot-thick slab was called, drifted out of a fjord along the north coast of Ellesmere Island when the jumbled sheath of floating sea ice that tended to press against the coast there even in summers was replaced by open waters because of the warming, the scientists said. The change was first noticed by Laurie Weir of the Canadian Ice Service as she examined satellite images taken ...
Ice Shelf Breaks Off In Arctic
Post Date: 2006-12-29 11:11:47 by Arete
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Scientists Say Climate Change Is Major Reason For The 'Dramatic And Disturbing Event' (AP) TORONTO A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major" reason for the event. The Ayles Ice Shelf - 41 square miles of it - broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic. Scientists discovered the event by using satellite imagery. Within one hour of breaking free, the shelf had formed as a new ice island, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic ...
The Many Faces of Santa Claus [Reconstructed Face of St. Nicholas]
Post Date: 2006-12-25 02:12:50 by Morgana le Fay
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Long before Clement Moore, Thomas Nast, and Haddon Sundblom gave us our modern concept of that “right jolly old elf,” St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra, a Christian city in Asia Minor, in the fourth century c.e. A prominent figure in the church during his life, Nicholas became far more prominent—superhuman, in fact—in legend in the centuries that followed his sainthood. Regarded highly in legend for his kind deeds and good acts, if St. Nicholas had a specialty, it was children. He was, in fact, the patron saint of children (among many other classes of people, churches, and geographical locations). Some of his legends have him even more specialized, focusing on ...
Unhappy feat: biologists baffled as millions of penguins vanish
Post Date: 2006-12-24 13:15:29 by robin
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Sat 23 Dec 2006 Global warming is suspected as the main force behind the huge decline in population of rockhoppers. Picture: Getty Images Unhappy feat: biologists baffled as millions of penguins vanishIAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT HOLLYWOOD has turned them into the cartoon stars of the film Happy Feet, but the real life story of the rockhopper penguin is not such a happy tale, scientists have discovered. Millions of the birds are disappearing in a "sinister and astonishing" phenomenon that is baffling biologists. In just six years their numbers have fallen from 600,000 to 420,000 in the Falkland Islands - one of its few remaining strongholds - according to the latest ...
Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating
Post Date: 2006-12-23 15:02:33 by robin
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Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating Published: 21 December 2006 Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world. In a December in which bumblebees, butterflies and even swallows have been on the wing in Britain, European brown bears have been lumbering through the forests of Spain's Cantabrian mountains, when normally they would already be in their long, annual sleep. Bears are supposed to slumber throughout the winter, slowing their body rhythms to a minimum and drawing on ...
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