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Scientists have grown functioning vocal cord tissue for the first time
Post Date: 2015-11-23 02:11:26 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... For the first time, researchers have grown vocal cord tissue in the lab that can produce sound when transplanted into animals. Importantly, the bioengineered tissue showed no signs of being rejected by animal models, which makes it a good candidate for future transplants to give a voice back to those with vocal cord damage as a result of illness or surgery. "It’s an exciting finding because those patients are the ones we have very few treatment options for," Jennifer Long, a voice doctor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wasn't involved in the study, told Emily DeMarco over at Science. Our vocal cords are two strong but flexible bands of ...
Our closest wormy cousins: About 70% of our genes trace their ancestry back to the acorn worm
Post Date: 2015-11-22 04:36:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... This is a juvenile of Saccoglossus kowalevskii with one of the transcription factors expressed in the pharyngeal region (highlighted in blue). Credit: Andrew Gillis A team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and its collaborators has sequenced the genomes of two species of small water creatures called acorn worms and showed that we share more genes with them than we do with many other animals, establishing them as our distant cousins. The study found that 8,600 families of genes are shared across deuterostomes, a large animal grouping that includes a variety of organisms, ranging from acorn worms to star fishes, from frogs to ...
Scientists turn tastes on and off by activating and silencing clusters of brain cells
Post Date: 2015-11-22 04:14:45 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily... New study proves that sense of taste is hardwired in the brain, independent of learning or experience Most people probably think that we perceive the five basic tastes -- sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (savory) -- with our tongue, which then sends signals to our brain "telling" us what we've tasted. However, scientists have turned this idea on its head, demonstrating in mice the ability to change the way something tastes by manipulating groups of cells in the brain. The findings were published today in the online edition of Nature. "Taste, the way you and I think of it, is ultimately in the brain," said study leader Charles S. Zuker, PhD, ...
Greenpeace Founder: “Climate Change is Political Propaganda”
Post Date: 2015-11-21 23:03:02 by NeoconsNailed
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One of the original founders of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore, has announced that climate change is “pure political propaganda that has nothing to do with science,” and that in reality, the world’s “deserts are greening from rising CO2”.......... Click for Full Text!
Researchers implant organic electronics inside plants
Post Date: 2015-11-20 21:15:13 by Tatarewicz
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LINKöPING, Sweden, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have found a way to install organic electric circuits inside plants, combining a plant's natural signaling networks with manmade electronics. Scientists have been testing the new technology in bionic roses. The roses' vascular systems are implanted with plant-compatible polymer circuits capable of carrying both an analog and digital electronic signal. In one experiment, the researchers slit a rose stem and stuck it in a solution of PEDOT, a conductive polymer. The rose's vascular tissue sucks up the water soluble polymer. Once absorbed, the polymer is deposited from the solution, ...
Raisin test can forecast toddler's academic ability
Post Date: 2015-11-19 21:21:10 by Tatarewicz
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COVENTRY, England, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A simple self-control test involving a raisin and a plastic cup can accurately predict a toddler's future academic achievement. For the test, a 20-month old child is given a raisin covered by an overturned see-through cup. The toddler is told to wait 60 seconds before taking the raisin. Researchers at the University of Warwick in England found toddlers born prematurely were least likely to exhibit patience, and regularly took the raisin before the allotted time was up. By age eight, those same children were more likely to be underperforming academically relative to their full-term peers. The researchers' paper was published this week in the ...
FDA okays GM salmon for sale in the United States
Post Date: 2015-11-19 21:17:44 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a bid to sell genetically modified salmon in the United States. The company AquaBounty has sought FDA approval for their salmon products for the last 20 years. "After an exhaustive and rigorous scientific review, FDA has arrived at the decision that AquAdvantage salmon is as safe to eat as any non-genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon, and also as nutritious," the agency wrote in a news release. Though no law will require GM salmon, or products containing GM salmon, to be labeled as such, the FDA issued two documents guiding manufacturers on how to inform their customers of the ...
Smart Meters: Fact vs. Fiction and Pros vs. Cons
Post Date: 2015-11-19 07:18:32 by BTP Holdings
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Smart Meters: Fact vs. Fiction and Pros vs. Cons If you think we live in a connected world, you ain't seen nothin' yet. By the time the Internet of Things (IoT) gets up to speed, just about everything will be connected to the web - systems, networks, devices, homes, appliances... you name it. The upside here? Greater streamlining and functionality, as well as bigger savings. But there's a downside, too - one we've previously highlighted: security concerns. One of the most controversial IoT devices is also one of the first - smart meters. These meters - whether for water, gas, or electricity - hold the compelling promise of both reducing energy demand and saving ...
Iran, Russia reach agreement on expanding space research
Post Date: 2015-11-19 05:05:07 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Iran and Russia have reached an agreement on expanding space research cooperation, says Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin made the announcement following talks with Sorena Sattari, Iran’s vice president for science and technology, in Tehran on Wednesday. "Russia and Iran have fair prospects for cooperation in the studies of outer space," the TASS news agency quoted Rogozin as saying. He added that in addition to the already existing joint economic commissions, the two countries established earlier this year a high commission on technological cooperation, which is co-chaired by Sattari and Rogozin. Following the meeting, which was, according ...
Stanford engineers develop ultrasound device to deep-scan objects, tumors
Post Date: 2015-11-16 02:48:03 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled a new technology that can locate non-metal objects and abnormal tissue growth within the human body while providing an accurate mapping of the target. The technology, detailed this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters, was designed by assistant professor Amin Arbabian and research professor Pierre Khuri-Yakub with the Electrical Engineering Department at the school in North California, on the U.S. west coast. With a fellowship granted by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), both researchers initially worked on a project to find possible ways to detect buried plastic explosive ...
Uncaging the Animal: Concerns Rise Over Scientists Tests on SARS 2.0
Post Date: 2015-11-15 23:56:31 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... South Korea Latest Victim of Deadly Respiratory Virus From Middle East Around 13 years have passed since humanity first heard about the unstoppable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — or SARS — but we still remember how many lives the virus took all over the world. SARS killed almost 800 people since the beginning of an outbreak in 2002. Despite concerns raised since then, researchers appear to have forgotten the devastating consequences the virus could bring as they have now created a hybrid version of SARS. Undergoing lab experiments "for the sake of science" bring to the table ethical questions such as whether scientists should carry on its work that could ...
'Fool's gold battery' developed as alternative to lithium ion
Post Date: 2015-11-15 23:28:01 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers have invented a battery using pyrite nanocrystals, tiny specks of fool's gold. ZURICH, Switzerland, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Lithium ion batteries power a wide range of electronics, including electric cars. But researchers say it's unlikely to be the battery of the future. Instead, look to the "fool's gold battery." Lithium is a finite resource. And as more and more products rely on the element, the precious resource is likely to become prohibitively expensive. Material scientists have been working hard to come up with cheaper alternatives to lithium batteries. The latest potential solution is the fool's gold battery, developed by researchers at the Swiss ...
A new artificial nose can detect when food is about to go bad
Post Date: 2015-11-15 22:04:35 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Could your fridge one day warn you when the food inside it is about to turn bad? A startup company born out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented a tiny computer chip that gives machines a sense of smell, Wired reports — and being able to smell rotting food could be just the start for this new technology. The innovative chip focuses on detecting ethylene, a colourless gas that is released as fruit ripens: the gas also speeds up the ripening process, and so when a lot of fruit is stored together it can cause a domino effect where a whole batch or crate can be quickly spoiled. An automatic warning system to help prevent this would have a significant ...
Leading Harvard physicist has a radical new theory for why humans exist
Post Date: 2015-11-15 06:45:06 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... Business Insider Where do we come from? Well, it depends on who you ask. For example, an astrophysicist might say that the chemical components of our bodies were first forged in the nuclear fires of stars. On the other hand, an evolutionary biologist might look at the similarities between our DNA and that of other primates' and conclude we evolved from apes. Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University, has a different, and novel answer, which she describes in her latest book, "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs." Randall has written other popular science books, including the New York Times bestseller "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of ...
America Getting Smarter: Why Have IQ Scores Risen in the US Over the Last Century?
Post Date: 2015-11-14 20:56:58 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceTimes... A continual increase in intelligence quotient (IQ) scores over the past century seems to indicate that most Americans are smarter than their grandparents were. Is this really true? And if so, why? The dramatic rise in IQ scores over the past century has been termed the Flynn effect, after psychologist James Flynn who discovered this trend in the 1980s. Flynn states that if a person living a century ago would have taken an IQ test and scored it against today's standards, he or she would have received an average score of 70. Meanwhile, if a person from the current generation were to take a test in accordance with prior generations' norms, he or she would score an IQ ...
1 State’s Plans to Force Gun Shop Owners to Sell Guns They Don’t Want to Sell
Post Date: 2015-11-14 12:40:58 by BTP Holdings
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1 State’s Plans to Force Gun Shop Owners to Sell Guns They Don’t Want to Sell Imagine you’re a gun shop owner who follows all the laws. You sell to people who jump through the loopholes they need to so they can get the guns they’re allowed to have. Then more laws start piling up and soon the state you live in decides they’re going to force you to sell a gun you don’t even want to sell. Sounds unfair doesn’t it. That’s what store owners in New Jersey are expected to do if Senator Loretta Weinberg’s new bill goes through. Her bill would require shop owners to sell smart guns, even if the gun store owner didn’t want to: State Senate ...
Dubai firefighters will get jetpacks to battle skyscraper blazes
Post Date: 2015-11-13 03:33:09 by Tatarewicz
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Rt... Dubai is set to purchase futuristic first response units for its emergency services, once jetpacks manufactured by Martin Aircraft hit the market next year. The city famous for its high-rise buildings hopes the technology will save lives if disaster strikes. The New Zealand-based company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai’s Directorate of Civil Defence for the future delivery of 20 “manned and unmanned Jetpacks,” and two simulators that will come with technical service and training. “Dubai is one of the fastest growing future cities in the world. With its modern skyscrapers and vast infrastructure, it has always been a world leader in adapting ...
New study suggests we're sending our kids to school too young
Post Date: 2015-11-12 23:52:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... How old should our children be before they start a formal education? That's the question asked by new research from academics at Stanford University in the US, and it turns out that it might be better for our youngsters if they started school later – a whole year later in the case of the Danish children involved in the study. Researchers used surveys filled out by tens of thousands of parents in Denmark, where youngsters typically start kindergarten at the age of six. Those who started aged seven showed lower levels of inattention and hyperactivity, factors known to be influential in improving self-regulation, which in turn is linked to academic achievement. The ...
Russia may be planning to develop a nuclear submarine drone aimed at 'inflicting unacceptable damage'
Post Date: 2015-11-12 07:19:46 by BTP Holdings
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Russia may be planning to develop a nuclear submarine drone aimed at 'inflicting unacceptable damage' Business Insider By Jeremy Bender 18 hours ago The potential plans of Russia's drone submarine. During a regular meeting with defense officials on November 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed methods of countering NATO's missile-defense shield, which the Kremlin worries could neutralize the country's nuclear deterrent. Putin's come up with a possible countermeasure, boasting that the Kremlin would develop "strike systems capable of penetrating any missile defenses." Footage of the meeting includes a clear view of a document that defense ...
Biologists Could Soon Resurrect Extinct Species. But Should They?
Post Date: 2015-11-11 03:00:47 by Tatarewicz
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Wired... In central Kenya, three of the world’s four remaining Northern white rhinos are stubbornly refusing to mate. Since 2009, conservationists have tried and failed to coax the animals together—and with the lone male nearing his 43rd birthday, too old to breed, extinction is inevitable. It’s a matter of time before the remaining beasts die off, one by one. So in the meantime, in San Diego, scientists are working to resurrect them. At the Scripps Research Institute, regenerative medicine researcher Jeanne Loring has figured out how to make induced pluripotent stem cells, capable of transforming into any cell type in the body, out of rhino skin. She and her team are now ...
Scientists have found a way to 3D-print embryonic stem cell 'building blocks'
Post Date: 2015-11-10 21:32:47 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Pluripotent cells are great, but they can be difficult to steer into growing the way you want. Now scientists have found a new way to create 3D-printed 'building blocks' of embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which could be used for growing micro-organs, performing tissue regeneration experiments, testing medication and other biology research purposes. While bioprinting with ESCs is not entirely new, until recently researchers have only managed to produce two-dimensional sheets of cells. Now a team of scientists from Tsingua University in China and Drexel University in Philadelphia have published a study in Biofabrication, introducing a novel technique for printing a ...
Sorcha says California UFO a Hyper Dimensional experiment
Post Date: 2015-11-10 05:41:17 by Tatarewicz
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Sorcha Faal... US Plasma Beam Opens “Hyper-Dimension” Over California By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers The High Command of the Aerospace Forces (HCAF) is reporting today that its Space Forces (SF) have detected a “hyper-dimensional” [of or pertaining to a system having more dimensions than naturally observed in our universe] “opening event” occurring over California after the firing of a US Navy Trident II missile. According to this report, Space Forces experts who are charged with the monitoring of potential threats to the Federation in space and from space, and the prevention of attacks as needed, first notified the High Command ...
New artificial material mimics photosynthesis to create clean, self-sustaining energy source
Post Date: 2015-11-09 22:04:55 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It’s one of the holy grails of scientific research: discovering a way of replicating the natural process of photosynthesis, such that light could be easily converted into energy for other purposes, just like a plant does. And now researchers in the US have discovered an artificial material that lets them mimic this system to create a clean, sustainable source of power. Researchers at Florida State University have discovered a method of using manganese oxide – also known as birnessite – to capture sunlight and then use that solar energy to create an oxidation reaction, breaking down water (H2O) into hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O2). Oxidation occurs during ...
Toyota to invest $1B in Silicon Valley artificial intelligence research lab
Post Date: 2015-11-09 00:56:18 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Toyota, the world's largest carmaker, announced it is investing $1 billion to create a Silicon Valley research company that will develop artificial intelligence and robotics. The Toyota Research Institute will focus on "smart" cars with self-driving technologies and other technology applications "to improve production efficiency and accelerate scientific discovery in materials." The new company, which will begin operations in January with about 200 employees, will be located near Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., home to other major companies with eyes on similar technological advances. "Toyota believes artificial ...
NASA’s ‘Impossible’ Warp Drive Engine Actually Seems to Work
Post Date: 2015-11-06 23:53:33 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... An electromagnetic drive being developed by NASA to operate without rocket fuel, in a vacuum, is seemingly defying the laws of physics, and raising hopes for the future of space travel. © Flickr/ NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Breakthrough: NASA Confirms Electromagnetic Drive Produces Thrust in Vacuum For years, NASA has been working on an engine capable of providing tons of thrust without consuming fuel. It now looks like that pursuit is bearing fruit: the second-generation EmDrive upgrade gives necessary “anomalous thrust signals” while its main characteristics have been solidly improved, Paul March, a researcher participating in the project, wrote on ...
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