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Fifth test of China's WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle conducted
Post Date: 2015-08-24 23:42:50 by Tatarewicz
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Want... China successfully carried out the fifth test of its WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle from the Wuzhai missile test range in northern China's Shanxi province on Aug. 19, reports the Washington Free Beacon. Pentagon officials said the WU-14 — as it has been designated by the Pentagon — not only traveled along the edge of the atmosphere but also demonstrated evasive maneuvers during the latest test, the report said. This information indicates that the hypersonic glide vehicle was designed particularly for a potential war with the United States, the report said. US missile defense systems are developed to intercept missiles that follow predictable flight paths. They are ...
Deceptive temperature record claims
Post Date: 2015-08-24 09:08:13 by Ada
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Warmest month announcements have no scientific basis The U.S. government is at it again, hyping meaningless records in a parameter that does not exist in order to frighten us about something that doesn’t matter. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced this week that according to their calculations, July 2015 was the hottest month since instrumental records began in 1880. NOAA says that the record was set by eight one-hundredths of a degree Celsius over that set in July 1998. NASA calculates that July 2015 beat what they assert was the previous warmest month (July 2011) by two one-hundredths of a degree. But government spokespeople rarely ...
Deep beneath Antarctica's ice, signs of bizarre particles from space
Post Date: 2015-08-23 16:58:44 by Ada
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An observatory on the southern continent has detected high-energy neutrinos, some of which come from beyond our galaxy. Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way. Finding these cosmic neutrinos not only confirms their existence but also sheds light on the origins of cosmic rays, the researchers said. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is made up of 86 shafts dug 8,000 feet into the ice near the South Pole. The shafts are equipped with detectors that look for the telltale light from high-energy particles plowing through the surrounding ice. [See Photos of the IceCube ...
NASA: Huge asteroid will not destroy Earth in September
Post Date: 2015-08-23 01:34:10 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- NASA struck down apocalyptic theories that a giant asteroid will hit Earth in September, saying there is "not one shred of evidence" the rumors are true. In response to online rumors about a massive asteroid strike between Sept. 15 and 28, the U.S. space agency sought to clarify "numerous recent blogs and web postings" as false. "All known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have less than a 0.01 percent chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years," NASA said. "There is no scientific basis -- not one shred of evidence -- that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates," said Paul Chodas, ...
World's luckiest seal escapes death off Cape Cod - Raw video: Great white shark lunges out of the water in failed predation attempt
Post Date: 2015-08-21 15:05:01 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Super Solar Flare Could Send Earth Back to Dark Ages
Post Date: 2015-08-21 06:59:32 by Tatarewicz
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A rare super-flare from the sun is coming one day -- and it may be so intense it could plunge the Earth into utter chaos with casualties predicted in the millions. Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts have been hard at work trying to predict when the next super-flare may strike the Earth. The astronomers have studied 84 stars that closely resemble our sun, observing 29 solar flares of similar magnitude over a four year period. The flares were said to be 150 times more powerful than the average solar flare. If a large solar storm were to erupt, it would bombard the Earth within 12 hours, leaving us little time to prepare, the British ...
This narcolepsy ‘smart drug’ makes ordinary people smarter
Post Date: 2015-08-21 05:37:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Feeling a little slow today? This may help. A medication called modafinil is commonly used to treat people who experience narcolepsy, but it’s suspected that the vast majority of those who use the drug are taking it for another purpose that isn’t medically authorised: as a general cognitive enhancer for tasks such as studying or meeting a deadline. Now a comprehensive review of the medication has looked at this ‘off licence’ use of the drug by healthy, non-sleep-deprived subjects to determine whether modafinil is safe – and to confirm whether the belief that it acts as a general-purpose ‘smart drug’ is grounded in reality. According to ...
Faith-Based Physicists
Post Date: 2015-08-20 16:24:57 by Ada
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Writing in The Spectator, Alexander Masters points out that despite the idea that scientists deal only in the world of facts, some physicists believe bizarre things that, if professed by non-scientists, would qualify as religion. Excerpts: Physicists have a nerve. I know one (I’ll call him Mark) who berates every religious person he meets, yet honestly thinks there exist parallel universes, exactly like our own, in which we all have two noses. He refuses to give any credit to Old Testament creation myths and of course sneers at the idea of transubstantiation. But, without any sense of shame, he insists in the same breath that humans are made from the fallout of exploded stars; that ...
Weird Science: Neurologist Claims to Have Grown a 99% Complete Human Brain
Post Date: 2015-08-20 04:17:37 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... An Indian-born neuroscientist based in Columbus, Ohio claims to have grown a functioning mini-copy of the human brain using adult skin cells. The discovery may be used for testing medicines and for various other studies, although it is hard to assess its real value as the artificial brain is being kept secret due to a pending patent. Since the 1983 comedy hit ‘The Man With Two Brains', an iconic image associated with mad scientists has been that of an animated brain in a glass jar. Now a professor at Ohio State University has managed to grow his own tiny brain in a lab. Professor Rene Anand presented the work Tuesday at the Military Health System Research Symposium in ...
The mysterious massacre that wiped out Europe's first farmers:
Post Date: 2015-08-18 05:48:24 by Ada
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Remains reveal prehistoric torture and mutilation of men and children, while women were kidnapped 7,000 year old mass grave found near Frankfurt Skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers found 'Terrible wounds' was either torture or mutilation, researchers say Believe wounds were inflicted as a warning to others Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave with skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers bearing terrible wounds. Archaeologists painstakingly examined the bones of some 26 men, women and children buried in the Stone Age grave site at ...
Apple is scouting locations to test its top-secret self-driving cars
Post Date: 2015-08-17 04:25:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Over the weekend, correspondence obtained by The Guardian showed that staff at Apple have been in talks with officials from GoMentum Station, a former naval base near San Francisco that now serves as a high-security testing ground for autonomous vehicles. The documents, which were obtained under a public records act request, contain the first record of Apple’s involvement in the self-driving car market, though it’s been rumoured for months that something like this was in the works. Back in May, Apple senior vice-president Jeff Williams called the car "the ultimate mobile device", and added that the company was interested in expanding into whatever ...
Samsung shows off the world’s biggest hard drive: a 16TB SSD
Post Date: 2015-08-15 06:03:34 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It’s not always easy to fit our computing lifestyles within the bounds of our computing hardware. Photos, movies, music, games – you name it. All our digital media starts to add up after a while, and before you know it you’ve run out of room on your hard drive. Which is why the news that Samsung has just unveiled the world’s biggest hard drive immediately piqued our interest. The Korean company revealed its new uber-mega-drive this week at the Flash Memory Summit currently underway in California. And this thing really is big, offering a whopping 16 terabytes of storage, which is a whole 6 terabytes larger than the previous record holder. To put things ...
Humans May Face Malnutrition If Birds and Bees Disappear
Post Date: 2015-08-15 02:55:29 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... (Reuters Health) - If all the birds, bugs, bees and other creatures that pollinate our food crops were to disappear from the planet, humans could face a sharp increase in malnutrition, disease and death in many parts of the world, scientists estimate. Researchers analyzed supplies of 224 types of food in 156 countries, quantified the vitamins and nutrients in foods dependent on animal pollinators, and then calculated what nutritional deficits people could face if pollinators ceased to exist. Globally, dietary changes forced by the extinction of pollinators might increase deaths from non-communicable diseases and malnutrition-related problems by about 1.4 million, or a 2.7% ...
AVOWED ATHEIST INVOKES 'GOD PARTICLE' - Stephen Hawking’s new doomsday warning
Post Date: 2015-08-13 13:24:30 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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“This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming,” Hawking claimed in the book. Stephen Hawking says the ‘God Particle’ that scientists believe created the world could actually end it, too. The particle – know as Higgs boson – “has the worrisome feature” that it could become unstable at extremely high energies and create a “black hole” that would collapse the universe, the legendary British physicist has warned in a new book titled Starmus, according to the Daily Express. “This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming,” Hawking claimed in the book. But don’t quit your job and ...
Scientists discover molecular difference in male, female brains
Post Date: 2015-08-13 03:50:07 by Tatarewicz
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While an experimental drug affected neurotransmitters in female brains, it had no effect on male brains. Researchers found a difference in the way a specific endocannabinoid in the brain reacts to a drug designed to help it inhibit neurotransmitters in the brain. Neurotransmitters are released at synapses, the gap between neurons. EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Male and female brains function differently on a molecular level, researchers found while testing the effects of an anti-depressant drug. While the study was conducted on mice, researchers at Northwestern University said the research is important because the drug they were working with, URB-597 -- an anti-depressant that ...
Charged liquid droplets levitate atop electric blue light
Post Date: 2015-08-12 04:38:29 by Tatarewicz
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AQUITAINE, France, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Researchers in France have levitated a liquid droplet using a stream of electricity, creating a thin layer of plasma beneath. The phenomenon is similar to the Leidenfrost effect, in which floating droplets are propped up by a layers of hot vapor. Instead of hot air, the droplets are buoyed by a charge of radiation. Scientists, who detailed their recent discovery in the journal Applied Physics Letters, say the tecnique offers a simple, new way to generate freely movable microplasma. The levitating droplets may help researchers answer fundamental questions of physics. "This method is probably an easy and original way to make a plasma," Cedric ...
Could Platinum and Rocket Fuel Be Mined From Asteroids in Just a Decade?
Post Date: 2015-08-12 01:59:01 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Looks like humanity may be closer than we thought to the commercial exploitation of space rocks. Terrestrial companies say they may be just a decade away from space-based industrial mining, and some of them are keen to share their prospects. Asteroid mining may not be the stuff of sci-fi flicks for long, as one company prepares to launch it's first exploratory satellite from the International Space Station in July. © Flickr/ Hubble ESA Pricey Payload: Asteroid Carrying $5 Trillion of Platinum to Pass by Earth The long-predicted — and picturesquely described in science fiction — industrial mining of both plentiful and precious resources from asteroids may be ...
Smart Meters mandated by government spontaneously exploding, setting off fires in private homes
Post Date: 2015-08-11 16:49:04 by BTP Holdings
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Smart Meters mandated by government spontaneously exploding, setting off fires in private homes Tuesday, August 11, 2015 by: L.J. Devon, Staff Writer (NaturalNews) June 2015: Jolted awake at one in the morning, Veronica Onyskiw of Ontario Canada awoke to the sound of a loud revving car engine. That's how she described the noise that was growing outside her home. She looked outside and quickly noticed a burning light outside the house, lighting up her backyard. As the revving sound grew louder, the lights in the house dimmed. Then suddenly, the lights went out and an explosion went off. Consumed by the smell of burning plastic and a fear that people were trying to burn down her house, ...
Hackers Make Millions on Wall Street
Post Date: 2015-08-11 16:13:36 by Lod
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Don't Panic, But Our Universe Is Dying
Post Date: 2015-08-11 09:27:22 by Ada
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Don't get too attached to the universe. It won't be around much longer. The universe will long outlast Earth. However, in the cosmic sense, it is slowly dying -- something scientists have believed to be the case since the 1990s, but recently confirmed in a new study. A team of international researchers measured the energy output across a large portion of space and found that it was only half of what it was a mere 2 billion years ago. And that decline will continue. In the simplest terms, the universe is not only burning out... it's also fading away. "The universe will decline from here on in, sliding gently into old age," Simon Driver, leader of the Galaxy and Mass ...
Russians are working sacrificially to save bees
Post Date: 2015-08-11 05:49:34 by NeoconsNailed
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Literally from dawn to dusk -- without vacations I assume. A healthy, normal- looking slice of Russky life. The email: From: "Brasscheck TV" Subject: How Russia is saving its bees =================== BrasscheckTV Report =================== Bees are dying out all over the world. So what are people doing about it? One country has created a bee preserve in a pristine wilderness. Video: (12:33) www.brasschecktv.com/page/2758 6.html - Brasscheck TV P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV with your friends and colleagues. Miss a broadcast? All Brasscheck TV broadcasts are backed up on Facebook and Twitter Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrasscheckTV Twitter: twitter.com/BrasscheckTV ...
Climate change: the Hoax that Costs Us $4 Billion a Day
Post Date: 2015-08-10 16:46:32 by BTP Holdings
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Climate change: the Hoax that Costs Us $4 Billion a Day Oli Scarff/Getty Images by James Delingpole 8 Aug 2015 “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair. The global climate change industry is worth an annual $1.5 trillion, according to Climate Change Business Journal. That’s the equivalent of $4 billion a day spent on vital stuff like carbon trading, biofuels, and wind turbines. Or — as Jo Nova notes — it’s the same amount the world spends every year on online shopping. But there’s a subtle difference between these two industries — the global warming one and ...
Fermilab experiment sees neutrino oscillation
Post Date: 2015-08-09 04:10:33 by Tatarewicz
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The NOvA experiment at Fermilab is already proving a success. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have reported observing neutrino oscillation. Neutrinos are neutral subatomic particles unaffected by most atomic forces and with only a smidgen of mass. They're produced by a variety of high-energy reactions, including the Big Bang, solar fusion, supernovas and nuclear reactions. What makes them so fascinating is that they can travel directly through matter as if it wasn't there. They also oscillate, changing from one type to another -- from muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos. The NOvA ...
Verizon will drop phone contracts, end discounted phones
Post Date: 2015-08-09 03:37:58 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon, the nation's largest wireless provider, will stop offering phones at discounted prices when customers sign two-year service contracts. The move was made in the name of simplification, but it could result in some customers paying more. All wireless carriers have been trying to wean customers off subsidies, in which a $649 iPhone 6 goes for $200 with a two-year contract. Instead, carriers have been encouraging people to buy phones outright by paying the full retail price in monthly installments. A few carriers, namely Sprint, also offer leasing options for a lower monthly fee, but the customer doesn't get to keep and resell the phone without ...
Tablet makers rush into drone production in China
Post Date: 2015-08-09 01:30:51 by Tatarewicz
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Want... With lackluster sales in the global tablet market, Chinese makers have been looking to expand into the development and production of smartphones, wearable devices, vehicle navigation systems and , particularly, drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the first half of this year, reports Shanghai's China Business News (CBN). Statistics released by International Data Corp. (IDC), a US-based market research firm, showed that global shipments of tablet PCs declined by 7% year-on-year to 447 million units in the second quarter of the year. "The downward trend will continue," said Gu Yong, marketing director of Ramos Digital Technology, a Shenzhen-based tablet maker. ...
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