|
Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Infection, Not a Rival, May Have Dealt the Fatal Blow to King Tut
Post Date: 2005-03-12 20:39:18 by robin
0 Comments
CLICK THIS PHOTO for PHOTO GALLERYTut Scan Rules Out Murder CLICK THIS PHOTO FOR VIDEORemains Scanned A CT scan reveals that damage to the pharaoh's skull occurred after his death, say researchers, who reject the modern conspiracy theories. Refuting some modern conspiracy theories, researchers who for the first time examined the mummy of ancient Egypt's best-known ruler, Tutankhamen, with a sophisticated CT scanner said Tuesday that his death was not due to foul play. The Egyptian team still does not know precisely how the 19-year-old king died, about 1323 B.C. But the most likely explanation is a natural cause such as the flu or bacterial infection associated with a broken leg, said ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-03-12 08:34:25 by 2Trievers
8 Comments
APOD: 2005 March 12 - Accretion Disk Simulation Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 12 Accretion Disk Simulation Credit: Michael Owen, John Blondin (North Carolina State Univ.) Explanation: Don't be fooled by the familiar pattern. The graceful spiral structure seen in this computer visualization does not portray winding spiral arms in a distant . Instead, the graphic shows spiral shock waves in a three dimensional simulation of an accretion disk -- material swirling onto a compact central ...
Photo in the News: Meteor Crater Mystery Solved
Post Date: 2005-03-12 08:18:42 by 2Trievers
0 Comments
March 10, 2005—Call it the mystery of the nonmelting meteorite: For decades scientists have wondered how a meteorite powerful enough to have made Arizona's Barringer Meteor Crater (pictured) could have left hardly any melted rock in its wake. Now a report in this week's issue of Nature looks to have closed the case. Prevailing wisdom had the meteorite speeding at 45,000 miles (72,000 kilometers) an hour when it hit. But H. Jay Melosh, of the University of Arizona, and Gareth Collins, of Imperial College London, used mathematical models to show that the space rock was likely hurtling at a mere 25,000 miles (43,000 kilometers) an hour. Why the slowdown? "The meteorite had probably ...
Raining hydrocarbons in the Gulf (of Mexico)
Post Date: 2005-03-10 22:23:58 by Zipporah
0 Comments
Below the Gulf of Mexico, hydrocarbons flow upward through an intricate network of conduits and reservoirs. They start in thin layers of source rock and, from there, buoyantly rise to the surface. On their way up, the hydrocarbons collect in little rivulets, and create temporary pockets like rain filling a pond. Eventually most escape to the ocean. And, this is all happening now, not millions and millions of years ago, says Larry Cathles, a chemical geologist at Cornell University. "We're dealing with this giant flow-through system where the hydrocarbons are generating now, moving through the overlying strata now, building the reservoirs now and spilling out into the ocean ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-03-10 08:08:44 by 2Trievers
0 Comments
Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 10 NGC 1499: California Nebula Credit: Caltech, Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey Courtesy Scott Kardel Explanation: Drifting through the Orion Arm of the spiral Milky Way Galaxy, this cosmic cloud by chance echoes the outline of California on the west coast of the United States. Our own Sun also lies within the Milky Way's Orion Arm, only about 1,500 light-years from the California Nebula. Also known as NGC 1499, ...
The Australian Skeptics will pay $100,000 for proof of extraordinary powers.
Post Date: 2005-03-10 07:55:06 by 2Trievers
2 Comments
The $100,000 PrizeThe Australian Skeptics will pay $100,000 for proof of extraordinary powers.Who are we challenging?Do you have psychic or paranormal powers? We don't mean the illusion or trickery in stage magic, we mean things like extra sensory perception, telepathy, telekinesis, divining for water or metals, clairvoyance and predicting the future. We are challenging such claims and we are also challenging unsubstantiated claims of healing and miracle cures.Skeptics challengeThe Australian Skeptics challenge people who claim to have extraordinary powers to demonstrate their ability under test conditions. We offer a cash prize of $100,000, which includes monies donated by our patrons ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-03-09 05:35:36 by 2Trievers
2 Comments
APOD: 2005 March 9 - A Sun Halo Over Tennessee Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 9 A Sun Halo Over Tennessee Credit & Copyright: Vydor Explanation: Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a large lens. In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. As water freezes in the upper atmosphere, small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals might be formed. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat, parallel to ...
Mount. St. Helens erupts again
Post Date: 2005-03-08 22:09:57 by robin
8 Comments
View of Mount St. Helens from Portland, Oregon MOUNT ST. HELENS, WASH. – Mount St. Helens in Washington state has erupted, sending a plume of steam and ash 7,600 metres into the air. The volcano has been active in previous months. A minor eruption lasted 24 minutes last October, sending up 3,000 metres of steam and ash. The U.S. Geological Survey detected magma moving below the surface, along with the increased presence of gases such as carbon dioxide, indicating a violent explosion, but nothing happened. It grew a dome top 80 stories high in December, which began expanding at a rate never seen before by scientists studying the volcano. Infrared images showed fresh lava was rising ...
Free Walt Anderson
Post Date: 2005-03-08 20:11:51 by boonie rat
1 Comments
Free Walt Anderson by Thomas Andrew Olson "Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law." ~ Henry David Thoreau Thoreau, of course, lived in a kinder, gentler time, when people still recognized the true source of human rights and freedoms, and were diligent in keeping them. Mr. Thoreau was a strong believer in civil disobedience as a means of changing unjust law; Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. could certainly attest to their own success using non-violent civil disobedience as a tool of political reform – but none of these gentlemen were trying to reform the tax laws. The State can tolerate, in relative degrees, large ...
Credit card fraud hits new high despite chip and PIN
Post Date: 2005-03-08 12:08:10 by TommyTheMadArtist
10 Comments
Credit card fraud hits new high despite chip and PIN By Helen Nugent CREDIT and debit card fraud has soared to a record £500 million despite the introduction of new chip-and-PIN technology, it emerged today. Banks, credit card companies and shop owners hoped that the new technology would reduce fraud because a four-digit personal identification number is harder to reproduce than a signature. But far from deterring fraudsters, the new measures have encouraged criminals to steal more cards. Figures from Apacs (the Association for Payment Clearing Services) show that losses to thieves rose by 20 per cent last year, equivalent to £10 for every adult in Britain. An average of 100 ...
Man turns on sprinklers to create a tower of ice
Post Date: 2005-03-08 04:50:32 by 2Trievers
3 Comments
For a guy who doesn't like winter, John Reeves sure has a funny way of showing it. How else do you explain the nearly 150-foot-tall, prehistoric-looking tower of ice Reeves has grown -- and continues to grow -- next to the Steese Highway eight miles north of Fairbanks? "I don't really care for winter; I guess that's why I do stuff like this," Reeves said. "You've got to act crazy to keep from going crazy." Mission accomplished. With nothing more than a well, a pump, some 1-inch copper pipe and a regular old Fairbanks winter, Reeves has created something that is absurdly Alaska. "It's unique on the planet," said Reeves, standing next to his masterpiece on a ...
Charge a battery in just six minutes
Post Date: 2005-03-08 04:28:17 by 2Trievers
1 Comments
A rechargeable battery that can be fully charged in just 6 minutes, lasts 10 times as long as today's rechargeables and can provide bursts of electricity up to three times more powerful is showing promise in a Nevada lab. New types of battery are badly needed. Nokia's chief technologist Yrjö Neuvo warned last year that batteries are failing to keep up with the demands of the increasingly energy-draining features being crammed into mobile devices (New Scientist print edition, 28 February 2004). The highest energy-per-weight ratio in today's batteries is provided by lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. They are also cheaper in terms of energy delivered per unit of weight than alternative ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-03-08 04:26:00 by 2Trievers
0 Comments
APOD: 2005 March 8 - Crater on Mimas Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 8 Crater on Mimas Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest moons. The crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about 130 kilometers and is pictured above in the dramatic light of its terminator. Mimas' low mass produces a surface ...
Say no to Big Brother plan for Internet [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-03-07 14:57:10 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
47 Comments
Say no to Big Brother plan for Internet MICHAEL GEIST During the Internet boom of the late 1990s, Nortel Networks ran an advertising campaign that featured as its slogan, "what do you want the Internet to be?" The implications were obvious ? the Internet was a technology of unlimited possibility that could be whatever we wanted it to be. More than five years later, Nortel's vision is becoming reality. The Internet has become so essential to the every day lives of millions of people ? a pillar of communication, information, entertainment, education, and commerce ? that at times it seems as if the Internet really is anything we want it to be. Notwithstanding the Internet's ...
Unusual Life Forms Found in the Atlantic
Post Date: 2005-03-06 10:01:58 by robin
3 Comments
WASHINGTON - A strange world of see-through shrimp, crabs and other life forms teems around a newly explored field of thermal vents near the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists report. AP Photo Towering white mineral chimneys mark the field, named the Lost City, a sharp contrast to the better-known black smoker vents that have been studied in recent years. The discovery shows "how little we know about the ocean," lead researcher Deborah S. Kelley of the University of Washington said. "I have been working on black smokers for about 20 years, and you sort of think you have a good idea what's going on," she said in a telephone interview. "But the ocean is a ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-03-04 08:04:20 by 2Trievers
2 Comments
Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 March 4 NGC 1427A: Galaxy in Motion Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI), ESA, NASA Explanation: In this tantalizing image, young blue star clusters and pink star-forming regions abound in NGC 1427A, a galaxy in motion. The small irregular galaxy's swept back outline points toward the top of this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope - and that is indeed the direction NGC 1427A is moving as it travels toward the center ...
Extinct and With Tiny Brain, but a Clever Little Relative?
Post Date: 2005-03-04 07:58:50 by 2Trievers
4 Comments
One of the extinct little people of the Indonesian island of Flores, who were accorded a separate status in the early human family after their discovery was announced last October, has undergone its first intelligence test. In a study of the shape and contours of its tiny braincase, the 18,000-year-old adult female, who was barely three feet tall, was found to have anatomical attributes suggesting a capacity for higher thinking processes, a significant memory bank and ability to plan. Not bad for a species with a brain one-third the size of a contemporary human's. A research team, led by Dr. Dean Falk of Florida State University, reported yesterday that casts made of the interior cranium ...
Fossett makes history (Pilot completes first nonstop, global flight without refueling)
Post Date: 2005-03-03 20:48:31 by robin
1 Comments
CNN) -- Flying from horizon to horizon, Steve Fossett completed the first nonstop, flight 'round-the-world without refueling on Thursday afternoon, landing gracefully in Kansas at 2:49 pm ET. A cheering crowd gathered to usher the GlobalFlyer and its 60-year-old pilot into the record books, something that has become almost routine for Fossett in recent years. The aviator now holds three record-breaking circumnavigations of the globe, the two others by balloon and sailboat. "It's something I've wanted to do for a long time," Fossett said as he stepped out of the plane, his legs wobbly after nearly three days in the cockpit. "It has been a major ambition of mine." The ...
Monsanto Terminator Technology -- Worldwide Famine & Starvation
Post Date: 2005-03-03 17:52:38 by Itisa1mosttoolate
2 Comments
Ethical Investing Monsanto Terminator Technology -- Worldwide Famine & Starvation Return to Monsanto Unethical Investment Page / Ethical Investing Home Page Monsanto is in the process of acquiring and patenting their newest technology, known as "Terminator Technology." This technology is currently the greatest threat to humanity. If it is used by Monsanto on a large-scale basis, it will inevitably lead to famine and starvation on a worldwide basis. Billions of people on the planet are supported by farmers who save seeds from the crops and replant these seeds the following year. Seeds are planted. The crop is harvested. And the seeds from the harvest are replanted the ...
Gay men read maps like women
Post Date: 2005-03-03 14:09:00 by crack monkey
4 Comments
Gay men read maps like women 18:32 25 February 2005 NewScientist.com news service Shaoni Bhattacharya Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women - using landmarks to find their way around - a new study suggests. But they also use the strategies typically used by straight men, such as using compass directions and distances. In contrast, gay women read maps just like straight women, reveals the study of 80 heterosexual and homosexual men and women. "Gay men adopt male and female strategies. Therefore their brains are a sexual mosaic," explains Qazi Rahman, a psychobiologist who led the study at the University of East London, UK. "It's not simply that lesbians ...
Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
Post Date: 2005-03-03 13:56:50 by crack monkey
2 Comments
Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon 19:00 02 March 2005 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition David Hambling The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture. "I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research," says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, UK. "Even if the use of temporary severe pain ...
Russian Cargo Ship Reaches Space Station
Post Date: 2005-03-03 10:16:37 by Brian S
1 Comments
(03-02) 13:44 PST MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- A Russian cargo ship carrying food, equipment and other supplies docked successfully with the international space station Wednesday, an official said. The unmanned Progress M-52 spacecraft docked with the station on schedule at 11:10 p.m. Moscow time (3:10 p.m. EST), said Valery Lyndin, a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control in Korolyov, just outside Moscow. An automatic docking procedure connected the cargo ship to the station's Russian-made Zvezda service module, Lyndin said by telephone from Mission Control. The Progress craft had lifted from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, carrying about 2.75 tons of ...
9/11: Missing Pentagon Jet Engine Identified? - A 727 JT8D
Post Date: 2005-03-02 15:54:43 by Zipporah
3 Comments
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry displays the Pratt & Whitney JT8D. These photos show that JT8D matches the Pentagon engine photographed at the crash site. Note the outlined bolt flanges for comparison purposes. The bolt flanges hold the sections of the engine together. Both engines have portions of the outer cover removed so the inner engine is clearly visible. Measurements: Fan tip diameter: 39.9 - 49.2 in Length, flange to flange: 120.0 - 154.1 in From: http://www.pratt-whitney.com/prod_comm_jt8d.asp Make That A 737Jet Engine... From J. Kaplowitz 3-2-5 Try 737. http://www.onlinejournal.com/ (pdf) They are all jet engine components (past and present) on the A-3 ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-28 05:49:56 by 2Trievers
0 Comments
APOD: 2005 February 28 - Unusual Plates on Mars Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 28 Unusual Plates on Mars Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR, ESA Explanation: What are those unusual plates on Mars? A leading current interpretation holds that they are blocks of ice floating on a recently frozen sea covered by dust. The unusual plates were photographed recently by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft currently orbiting Mars. Oddly, the region lies ...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Post Date: 2005-02-27 08:17:41 by 2Trievers
1 Comments
APOD: 2005 February 27 - The Solar Spectrum Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2005 February 27 The Solar Spectrum Credit & Copyright: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF Explanation: It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Shown above are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The above spectrum was created at the McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory and shows, first off, that although our yellow-appearing ...
Latest [Newer] 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 [End]
|