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Camoflage par excellance
Post Date: 2011-08-06 23:13:59 by Rube Goldberg
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Japanese to create thinking robots
Post Date: 2011-08-06 03:24:40 by Tatarewicz
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Japanese scientists in Hasegawa Lab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology have built a robot that is capable of thinking, learning and having human reactions. The robot has been designed based on "unsupervised learning mechanism” called Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) and enables the robot to estimate future patterns and networks, PC magazine reports. Unlike the robots that have been developed under controlled situation, this new generation of robot only remembers basic knowledge and apply them to its immediate situation. While previous productions, including industrial robots, were capable of doing tasks quickly and accurately, they were unable to react to ...
Japan scientists coax sperm from stem cells
Post Date: 2011-08-06 00:55:57 by Tatarewicz
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A scientific researcher manipulates drops of embryonic stem cells in a laboratory, 2009. Scientists in Japan said they have for the first time succeeded in coaxing sperm cells from mouse embryonic stem cells, a breakthrough that could one day help humans overcome infertility A scientific researcher manipulates drops of embryonic stem cells in a laboratory, … Scientists in Japan said Friday they have for the first time succeeded in coaxing sperm cells from mouse embryonic stem cells, a breakthrough that could one day help humans overcome infertility. The sperm were used to fertilize eggs and were found to produce "healthy offspring that grew into fertile male and female adult ...
NASA finds liquid water on Mars
Post Date: 2011-08-05 14:12:04 by gengis gandhi
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NASA finds liquid water on Mars The World Today Michael Edwards Posted August 05, 2011 17:21:10 PHOTO: The features are present during the Martian summer and then disappear during the colder months. (Reuters) AUDIO: Flowing water on Mars could hold key to life (The World Today) MAP: United States NASA scientists say they have found what could be the first evidence of flowing water on the surface of Mars. Recent images broadcast from the surface from NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter probe show dark, finger-like features that appear to extend down the slope of a crater on the surface of Mars. The features are present during what would be the Martian summer and then disappear during the ...
Scientists find new superbug strain of salmonella
Post Date: 2011-08-05 02:59:04 by Tatarewicz
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(Reuters) - Scientists have identified an emerging "superbug" strain of salmonella that is highly resistant to the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin, or Cipro, often used for severe salmonella infections, and say they fear it may spread around the world. The strain, known as S. Kentucky, has spread internationally with almost 500 cases found in France, Denmark, England and Wales in the period between 2002 and 2008, according a study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. French researchers who led the study also looked at data from North America and said reports of infection in Canada and contamination of imported foods in the United States suggest the strain has also reached there. ...
Collision of two moons may have created lunar bulges on one side, report says
Post Date: 2011-08-04 10:00:50 by Ferret
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LOS ANGELES — Once upon a time, the sky above Earth may have held two moons — until they smashed into each other to create the lunar body we know today. Such a collision early in the solar system's history could explain why the moon is lopsided, and why its far side looks so different from the face we can see, according to a report in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature. Round as it may seem from our vantage point, the moon in fact bulges on one side — the far side, which is packed with high, jagged mountains. That's a more severe surface than the smooth side we see, filled with basins of volcanic rock. The moon was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, after ...
Global Warmin In Seattle (My Title)
Post Date: 2011-08-03 20:40:49 by Original_Intent
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All that collective griping about the weather just got validated by some cold facts: The spring of 2011 was the chilliest on record for the state. James Johnstone, a research associate with the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean in the UW College of the Environment, said the average high temperature from April through June was 60.4 degrees Fahrenheit, beating the previous average of 61.6 degrees in 1955. The average high temperature for the period since 1900 is 65.6 degrees. “The people who have been complaining about the weather have had a right to complain,” said Nick Bond, a UW research meteorologist and the state climatologist. “I rather like it, ...
Making life in the lab (and defining it)
Post Date: 2011-08-03 05:46:00 by Tatarewicz
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SAN DIEGO — Here in a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct Life As We Don’t Know It in a thimbleful of liquid. Generations of scientists, children and science fiction fans have grown up presuming that humanity’s first encounter with alien life will happen in a red sand dune on Mars, or in an enigmatic radio signal from some obscure star. But it could soon happen right here on Earth, according to a handful of chemists and biologists who are using the tools of modern genetics to try to generate the Frankensteinian spark that will jump the gap separating the inanimate and the animate. The day is coming, they say, when chemicals ...
Nissan electric car can power family home in emergency for two days
Post Date: 2011-08-03 02:34:30 by Tatarewicz
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A Nissan employee demonstrates how to use the company's electric vehicle "Leaf" to power a smart home near their headquarters in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo. Nissan's Leaf electric car can feed power from its battery back into a family home and run appliances for up to two days A Nissan employee demonstrates how to use the company's electric vehicle "Leaf" to … Nissan's Leaf electric car can feed power from its battery back into a family home and run appliances for up to two days under a new project the Japanese car-maker unveiled Tuesday. Using the "Leaf to Home" system, the lithium-ion batteries of the zero tailpipe emission Leaf can be ...
AMAZING - Conspiracy of Science - Continental drifts - Earth is in fact growing - MUST SEE
Post Date: 2011-08-02 17:21:33 by wudidiz
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Not a joke. Facial Recognition in a Crowd
Post Date: 2011-08-01 15:06:06 by Jethro Tull
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Poster Comment:This is rather amazing. When you open the web page you will see a mass of people. Put the part of the picture you want to look at closely in the center of your screen, then use the (+)(-) icon on the left side to get in closer. You can fill your screen with the face of a person who was only a dot before. This is the crowd before the Vancouver riot . Put your cursor anywhere in the crowd and double-click a couple of times and then use the scroll button in the centre of your mouse. You can zero in on one single face. The clarity is unbelievable. This is the photo taken by Port Moody photographer Ronnie Miranda that appeared in ...
EEG hookup to scalp helps motorists to brake sooner
Post Date: 2011-07-30 05:02:24 by Tatarewicz
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Tapping into drivers' brain signals can cut braking distances and avoid car crashes, according to scientists. Researchers at the Berlin Institute for Technology attached electrodes to the scalps of volunteers inside a driving simulator. The system detected the intention to brake, and cut more than 3m (10ft) off stopping distances, the team report in the Journal of Neural Engineering. The team's next aim is to check the system in a series of road tests. The 18 volunteers were asked to keep 20m (66ft) behind the simulated car in front, which braked sharply at random intervals. Scientists used a technique called electroencephalograhy (EEG) to analyse the drivers' brain ...
Super antibody' fights off flu
Post Date: 2011-07-30 00:04:02 by Tatarewicz
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The first antibody which can fight all types of the influenza A virus has been discovered, researchers claim. Experiments on flu-infected mice, published in Science Express, showed the antibody could be used as an "emergency treatment". It is hoped the development will lead to a "universal vaccine" - currently a new jab has to be made for each winter as viruses change. Virologists described the finding as a "good step forward". Many research groups around the world are trying to develop a universal vaccine. They need to attack something common to all influenza which does not change or mutate. Human source It has already been suggested that some people who ...
Earth stalker found in eternal twilight
Post Date: 2011-07-28 21:13:20 by Esso
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AN ASTEROID 300 metres in diameter is stalking the Earth. Hiding in the pre-dawn twilight, it has marched in lockstep with our planet for years, all but invisible to our telescopes. The rock is Earth's first confirmed Trojan, which can orbit the sun in either of two gravitational wells along the same orbital path as our planet. From the sun's point of view, these wells lie 60 degrees ahead of and behind the Earth, at Lagrange points where gravitational forces between the sun and the Earth balance out. Trojans are common - Jupiter alone boasts about 5000, and Neptune and Mars each have their own smaller collections. But finding Earth's has proven difficult, because the Lagrange ...
Larger brains and eyes go with living in higher latitudes: Study
Post Date: 2011-07-28 20:46:55 by Tatarewicz
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IQALUIT — Coping with the Arctic winter's long nights and short days may bring some hidden benefits to people living in the high latitudes. That's because the further away that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains and eyes become, suggests a new study in the journal Biology Letters. By studying skulls from 12 different populations at varying latitudes, Oxford University scientists determined that people living in places with long winters evolved bigger eyes and brains to better process what they see. The bigger vision areas in the brain help cope with the low light levels experienced at high latitudes, a university news release said Wednesday. ...
Part Human/Part Animal Hybrid Monsters Are Being Created By Scientists All Over The Planet
Post Date: 2011-07-28 06:07:01 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Part Human/Part Animal Hybrid Monsters Are Being Created By Scientists All Over The Planet Crazed scientists all over the globe are "playing god" with the very building blocks of life. Today, thanks to extraordinary advances in the field of genetic modification, scientists are now able to do things that were once unthinkable. Part human/part animal hybrid monsters are being created by scientists all over the planet and it is all perfectly legal. Scientists justify mixing the DNA of humans and animals by claiming that it will help them "cure diseases" and "feed the world", but the reality is that all of this genetic modification is a tremendous ...
Earth's Traveling Companion
Post Date: 2011-07-28 01:18:31 by Tatarewicz
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There's something deeply intriguing about the interplanetary objects known as Trojan asteroids. The great French dynamicist Joseph-Louis Lagrange predicted in 1772 that small bodies might be sharing Jupiter's orbit, in gravitationally stable sweet spots (now called Lagrange points) located ahead of and behind the planet by 60°. But it wasn't until 1906 that the first of these, 588 Achilles, was spotted. Today more than 4,800 Jupiter Trojans are known, with roughly two-thirds in the preceding "Greek camp" (L4) and a third in the trailing "Trojan camp" (L5). Earth's Trojan asteroid Not much to look at, the asteroid 2010 TK7 nonetheless represents ...
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Post Date: 2011-07-27 22:13:11 by Lod
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Feds silence scientist over salmon study
Post Date: 2011-07-27 15:00:27 by Original_Intent
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Feds silence scientist over salmon study By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News July 27, 2011 Comments (16) VANCOUVER — Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News. The documents show the Privy Council Office, which supports the Prime Minister's Office, stopped Kristi Miller from talking about one of the most significant discoveries to come out of a federal fisheries lab in years. Science, one of the world's top research journals, published Miller's findings in January. The journal considered the ...
Physicists have created a "hole in time" using the temporal equivalent of an invisibility cloak.
Post Date: 2011-07-27 07:10:04 by Tatarewicz
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Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists' newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme ways. The idea is steer light around a volume of space so that anything inside this region is essentially invisible. The effect has generated huge interest. The first invisibility cloaks worked only at microwave frequencies but in only a few years, physicists have found ways to create cloaks that work for visible light, for sound and for ocean waves. They've even designed illusion cloaks that can make one object look like another. Today, Moti Fridman and buddies, at Cornell University in Ithaca, go a step further. These guys have designed and built a cloak that hides ...
Mozilla enters smartphone operating system business
Post Date: 2011-07-27 05:35:38 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Mozilla announced Boot to Gecko (B2G), a new operating system, to crown the open source organization’s entry into the smartphone operating system business, according to media reports Wednesday. The organization said it“believes that the Web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development” with a cloud-based operating system based around HTML 5. In other words, Mozilla wants to free smartphone users from the tyranny of not only proprietary smartphone OSes like Android and Windows Phone, but whole widget devices like Apple’s iOS ecosystem, too. The group thinks it can accomplish this mission with an open source ...
Computer modelling of the cancer process
Post Date: 2011-07-27 01:40:45 by Tatarewicz
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Computers could enable scientists to treat cancer patients more effectively. Hans Lehrach and his Team at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics use computer power to create a virtual patient. They analyse the genetic make-up of the patient and its tumour and compare the differences. The results are used to create an individual model of both the patient and the tumour predict if a tumor responds to a certain drug. This could enable scientists to treat cancer patients more effectively. Title: Every tumor is different, Author: MaxPlanckSociety, 3 February 2011
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Post Date: 2011-07-26 19:26:23 by Lod
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Are We Alone In the Universe? New Analysis Says Maybe
Post Date: 2011-07-26 11:36:56 by Ada
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Scientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) work under the assumption that there is, in fact, intelligent life out there to be found. A new analysis may crush their optimism. To calculate the likelihood that they'll make radio contact with extraterrestrials, SETI scientists use what's known as the Drake Equation. Formulated in the 1960s by Frank Drake of the SETI Institute in California, it approximates the number of radio-transmitting civilizations in our galaxy at any one time by multiplying a string of factors: the number of stars, the fraction that have planets, the fraction of those that are habitable, the probability of life arising on such ...
HK scientists prove time travel impossible
Post Date: 2011-07-26 02:28:43 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Hong Kong scientists announced that they had determined the idea of time travel is impossible by proving nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. The finding is contained in a study done by a research team from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The study was published Monday in a scientific journal "Physical Review Letters" in the United States. "The study, which showed that single photons also obey the speed limit c, confirms Einstein's causality, that is, an effect cannot occur before its cause," the university said on its website. "By showing that single photons cannot travel faster than the speed ...
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