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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
Post Date: 2014-07-18 06:06:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Perovskite solar cells show tremendous promise in propelling solar power into the marketplace. The cells use a hole-transportation layer, which promotes the efficient movement of electrical current after exposure to sunlight. However, manufacturing the hole-transportation organic materials is very costly and lack long term stability. Publishing in Science, a team of scientists in China, led by Professor Hongwei Han in cooperation with Professor Michael Grätzel at EPFL, have developed a perovskite solar cell that does not use a hole-transporting layer, with 12.8% conversion efficiency and over 1000 hours stability under full sunlight in ambient temperature. The ...
HKUST scientists invent new water purifier
Post Date: 2014-07-17 22:49:46 by Tatarewicz
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scmp... Tiny device may clean your water without cleaning out your bank account A research team at the University of Science and Technology has invented a low-voltage pulsed electric field device that can kill more than 99 per cent of waterborne bacteria in seconds. The device, which costs HK$10 to HK$20 per unit to produce and can run on two AA batteries for up to six months, is being tested at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei. If all goes well, it could replace hospitals' costly HK$5,000 medical-grade filters that have to be changed every few weeks - and even make it into homes. "The major motivation behind this is that we typically find water from treatment plants ...
Corruption Of Academic Journals For Profit and Climate Change Propaganda
Post Date: 2014-07-17 06:50:00 by Ada
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.Erwin Knoll The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.Thomas Jefferson CRU and Academic Publishing Recent revelation of extensive corruption of the peer review process, by a group of academics, is another blow to academic credibility. Commendable in the tawdry story was the reaction of the publisher of the Journal of Vibration and Control (JVC); they immediately withdrew 60 articles. But what happens when the publisher is part of the schemes to pervert the proper scientific checks and balances? How many ...
Saharan remains may be evidence of first race war, 13,000 years ago
Post Date: 2014-07-15 20:23:37 by Dakmar
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Scientists are investigating what may be the oldest identified race war 13,000 years after it raged on the fringes of the Sahara. French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows. The bones – from Jebel Sahaba on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan – are from victims of the world’s oldest known relatively large-scale human armed conflict. Over the past two years anthropologists from Bordeaux University have discovered literally dozens of previously undetected arrow impact marks and flint arrow head fragments on and around the ...
[Seriously] Scientists invent invisibility cloak
Post Date: 2014-07-15 16:42:25 by BTP Holdings
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[Seriously] Scientists invent invisibility cloak Dear Daily Reckoning Reader, Researchers at the University of Texas have made a shocking breakthrough. It involves a new substance that can make objects completely invisible to the naked eye. Invisibility Cloak This is not science fiction. It's real. It's happening now. And the military and security implications are HUGE. Imagine invisible soldiers… invisible tanks… even invisible aircraft. Scientific journal Nature reports this breakthrough is "a new building block from which to engineer the world." But here's what's really crazy… Our affiliates at the Oxford Club just identified one ...
A new technology based on carbon nanotubes promises commercially viable hydrogen production from water.
Post Date: 2014-07-15 06:51:46 by Tatarewicz
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Rutgers researchers have developed a technology that could overcome a major cost barrier to make clean-burning hydrogen fuel -- a fuel that could replace expensive and environmentally harmful fossil fuels. A new technology based on carbon nanotubes promises commercially viable hydrogen production from water. The new technology is a novel catalyst that performs almost as well as cost-prohibitive platinum for so-called electrolysis reactions, which use electric currents to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The Rutgers technology is also far more efficient than less-expensive catalysts investigated to-date. "Hydrogen has long been expected to play a vital role in our ...
Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
Post Date: 2014-07-15 04:36:43 by Tatarewicz
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Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation, they can gain electric charge in the process. Now, the same team has demonstrated that this process can generate small amounts of electricity that might be used to power electronic devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, and two others, are published in the journal Applied Physics Letters. This approach could lead to devices to charge cellphones or other electronics using just the humidity in the air. As a side benefit, the system could also produce clean water. The device ...
Genetic similarities found among friends: study
Post Date: 2014-07-15 01:01:46 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Friends who are not biologically related still tend to resemble each other when it comes to genetics, revealed a U.S. study published Monday that proved that "friends are the family you choose." "Looking across the whole genome, we find that, on average, we are genetically similar to our friends," lead author James Fowler, professor of the University of California, San Diego, said. "We have more DNA in common with the people we pick as friends than we do with strangers in the same population." The study, published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on a genome-wide analysis of ...
Rupert Murdoch: Climate Change Mostly Natural
Post Date: 2014-07-14 17:30:30 by BTP Holdings
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Rupert Murdoch: Climate Change Mostly Natural Sunday, 13 Jul 2014 10:36 PM By Greg Richter Climate change is nothing new, says News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, and is only slightly caused by human activity. "Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it," Murdoch said in a television interview on his own Sky News. "At the moment the North Pole is melting, but the South Pole is getting bigger. Things are happening. How much of it are we doing, with emissions and so on? As far as Australia goes? Nothing in the overall picture." Murdoch's interview was reported in The Guardian. A worst-case global ...
Crisis and Opportunity’s “Breakthrough technology turns air, sunlight, coal, even water into precious gas”
Post Date: 2014-07-14 08:04:05 by Tatarewicz
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Deciphering DeHaemer's "How to Make 10 Times Your Money on the Energy Mega-Shift" Posted on July 10, 2014 by Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe Welcome! If you are new to Stock Gumshoe, grab a free membership here and join us to get our free newsletter alerts with new teaser answers and debunkings. Thanks! Not new? Please log in at top right of this page[ed note: We got a lot of questions about this pitch after we solved a different DeHaemer teaser yesterday, so we've brought it up for all to see again. The stock spiked up in the Spring, a few months after this article first ran back in January, but has come back down to a bit below the price it was when DeHaemer was first ...
Brain project directors hit back at research critics
Post Date: 2014-07-14 03:39:09 by Tatarewicz
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Local ch Directors of the Human Brain Project (HBP), the Swiss-run €1.2 billion research programme that aims to simulate the human brain, have responded to criticism from participating scientists who have threatened to boycott the project. Launched last year, the Human Brain Project brings together 112 institutions in 24 countries and is directed by EPFL in Lausanne. On Monday hundreds of dissenting scientists, including many from Swiss universities, signed a letter to the European Commission, which largely funds the 10-year flagship project, complaining of its “overly narrow approach”. The open letter, signed by professors across Europe including some from Swiss ...
Company unveils rollable, transparent TV panels
Post Date: 2014-07-12 21:42:12 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... LG Display has unveiled two unique TV panels, one capable of being rolled up like paper and a transparent one offering 30 percent transmittance. The company unveiled the 18-inch OLED (organic light-emitting diode) television panels on Thursday. The rollable panel, which makes it installable on curved surfaces, sports a high-definition class resolution of 1,200x810 with almost one million megapixels. The panel can be rolled up to a radius of three centimeters. What has apparently enabled the company to develop the products has been its application of thinner, lighter, and more flexible OLED technology. "LG Display pioneered the OLED TV market and is now leading the ...
Data collected by the Swarm satellites reveals that the Earth’s magnetic field has changed significantly during the past six months.
Post Date: 2014-07-12 07:59:06 by Tatarewicz
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Data collected by the Swarm satellites reveals that the Earth’s magnetic field has changed significantly during the past six months. Over the past six months, the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening 10 times faster than in previous years, reports the European Space Agency (ESA). The recent changes may indicate that the Earth's magnetic poles are about to flip. The magnetic field, which has been described as a huge bubble that protects the Earth from incoming cosmic radiation and solar winds, is always changing and ESA’s Swarm mission has been tracking these fluctuations since November 2013. The magnetic poles flip every few hundred thousand years and changes in the ...
Mozilla starts global 'digital literacy' program
Post Date: 2014-07-12 00:57:14 by Tatarewicz
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VOR The Mozilla Foundation is expecting more than 100,000 people to participate in a series of events worldwide over the next two months teaching basic Internet use and other digital skills. The "Webmaker" events which run through September 15 aim to boost so-called digital literacy skills, including computer coding, designing Web pages, and creation of apps and videos. The kickoff begins this weekend in Kampala, Uganda, and includes events in at least 368 locations, from New York and San Francisco to cities in India, Indonesia and several African countries. "Digital literacy is as important as reading, writing and math in modern society," Mozilla Foundation executive ...
Death of the computer mouse? Meet the 3DTouch.
Post Date: 2014-07-10 22:02:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers in the US have developed the 3DTouch, a thimble-like device that sits on the end of your finger and allows you to interact with a virtual world in three dimensions. When we use a computer mouse, we’re limited to two-dimensional movements. But what if we had the ability to interact with our computers in a three-dimensional fashion? Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming in the US have developed an intelligent ‘thimble' that sits on the end of your finger and interacts with your computer, sensing its position accurately in three-dimensions. It does this through the use of three types of ...
The hidden technology that could cause real global warming (if unleashed)
Post Date: 2014-07-10 18:07:41 by BTP Holdings
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Real global warming could be unleashed by a hidden technology most people don't even know exists Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Tags: global warming, free energy devices, scientific suppression (NaturalNews) Depending on whom you ask, so-called "free energy devices" are either a total hoax or a systematically suppressed technology that's being kept away from the public. There's a lot of interesting ground to cover on this subject of "over unity devices," but that's not the point of this article. Instead, let's look at an unintended side effect of free energy devices that even the free energy proponents don't usually ...
Magnetic Field in Trouble
Post Date: 2014-07-10 17:30:57 by Horse
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The Many Disturbing "Awareness During Anesthesia" Studies
Post Date: 2014-07-09 07:55:17 by Tatarewicz
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This Week on "Beyond Belief" July 07, 2014 This week on the internet TV show "Beyond Belief" George Noory's guests will be groundbreaking NDE researcher Raymond Moody, and animal communicator Amelia Kincade. Sign up for 10 days free at beyondbelief.com and enjoy hours of fascinating past shows. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began wondering if people ever became aware while under anesthesia. They started doing post-operative interviews to find out. Then they took it one step further, and tested whether people could learn under anesthesia. Check out the results. Awareness During Anesthesia Awareness during surgery is so terrifying that multiple ...
Buzz Aldrin Describes His 'UFO' Encounter During Apollo 11
Post Date: 2014-07-09 07:02:00 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... "Engineer, American astronaut, and the second person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 moon landing" Buzz Aldrin participated July 8 in a Reddit AMA for the promotion of the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, happening on July 20. He touched on a sensitive topic: his apparent admission that he and other astronauts had seen a UFO during the Apollo 11 mission. This is an old favorite of internet UFO conspiracy theorists (and, sadly, the Science Channel), who are convinced that Buzz Aldrin saw an alien ship of some kind during the Apollo 11 ride and that he's been covering it up and hiding that he's a UFO believer. According to an article on ...
Horrifying EMP Studies They Don't Want You To Know (Special Report #2)
Post Date: 2014-07-08 17:53:29 by BTP Holdings
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Only 1 out of 10 Americans would survive the destruction of our infrastructure by EMP – according to studies ordered by US government. What does the government know and is not telling us? Is there someone they fear in particular? Find out which of our enemies have the capability to launch an EMP strike upon us and what to expect from them by clicking the link below. EMP and Our Enemies... What Can We Expect? email.backyardliberty.com...m5tlNed-2FRktFkEeqA-3D-3DPoster Comment:EMP our worst nightmare. ;)
US nabs alleged Russian hacker – and Kremlin cries foul
Post Date: 2014-07-08 17:04:04 by Deasy
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US nabs alleged Russian hacker – and Kremlin cries foul The US Department of Justice arrested a Russian in Guam for involvement in a hacking and stolen credit card ring. Moscow says he was framed. US Secret Service agents arrested a Russian man indicted in federal court for stealing credit card accounts by hacking into personal and corporate computers yesterday. So chalk one up for the good guys? Not if Moscow is to be believed. Roman Seleznyov was arrested in the Pacific US territory of Guam. Moscow says that US secret service agents had bundled him onto a private plane in the Maldives. Mr. Seleznyov is no ordinary Russian citizen. His father is Valery Seleznyov, a member of ...
Super-Flood
Post Date: 2014-07-07 19:20:25 by Horse
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Poster Comment:If you have a reasoned scientific basis for comment, please do so. He says the average Maunder minimum occurs 407 years after the last one ended.
How Vulnerable is the US Power Grid to EMP?
Post Date: 2014-07-07 16:30:51 by BTP Holdings
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How Vulnerable is the US Power Grid to EMP? Posted by Bill White Survivopedia EMP attackWhile the Cold War ended with the demise of the Soviet Union, the threat of nuclear war has never really died. Instead, it has become the leopard who changed its spots. Rather than being the old leopard, who was bent on mass destruction and deaths, this newer version of the leopard is a more selective killer. It doesn’t takes lives, but rather takes away much of the means of supporting life in a modern culture. This new attack I’m referring to is of course an EMP attack. As the calculus of nuclear warfare has changed, our biggest risks are no longer thousands of missiles hurled across the ...
Jaquet Droz “Signing Machine” Automaton
Post Date: 2014-07-06 16:24:16 by X-15
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As we reveal in our July-August issue, on sale July 15, Jaquet Droz has brought out a new miniaturized mechanical device: a machine that can duplicate its owner’s signature. Dubbed the Signing Machine, it follows in the tradition of Jaquet Droz automata. Designed to be comparable in size to a smartphone – it’s five inches long and three inches wide – the Signing Machine at first looks like a nondescript black and gray cassette. Unlock it with a four-digit security code and wind it via a lever on its side, though, and the mechanism comes to life. When you press the button on top of the case two times, a hinged arm and a small black stylus slide out. Fit the pen into the ...
Devo - Jocko Homo [2001 Remaster] HQ
Post Date: 2014-07-06 11:46:20 by Deasy
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Poster Comment:Are we not men? We are DEVO.
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