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Gorgeous NASA Photo Captures Earth from 1 Million Miles Away
Post Date: 2015-07-21 16:26:00 by BTP Holdings
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Gorgeous NASA Photo Captures Earth from 1 Million Miles Away SPACE.com By Mike Wall July 20, 2015 3:42 PM Undated handout photo issued by NOAA of the Earth photographed from one million miles way by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. Humanity's home planet looks pretty amazing from nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away. NASA released today (July 20) the first image of the sunlit side of Earth taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft from its final science orbit, and the beautiful photo has already made quite an impact. "Just got this new blue marble photo from ?@NASA. A beautiful reminder that we ...
Birth order has no noticeable effect on personality, IQ, study says
Post Date: 2015-07-21 02:52:43 by Tatarewicz
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill., July 20 (UPI) -- Birth order produces a small, statistically significant difference in personality and IQ, but it is far too small to be noticeable to anybody in everyday life. Most birth order-related differences in children are more likely based on the actions and interpretation of their parents, not the slight differences between them, according to a study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. "The message of this study is that birth order probably should not influence your parenting, because it's not meaningfully related to your kid's personality or IQ," Rodica Damian, a professor of psychology at the University of Houston, said in a ...
A rock worth $5.4 trillion is flying by Earth this weekend - here's how to watch
Post Date: 2015-07-18 07:45:05 by Tatarewicz
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Asteroids might not look like much on the outside, but you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Underneath the surface of some asteroids is a treasure trove of a type of mineral, called platinum, that is rare on Earth but extremely lucrative - 1,000 cubic centimetres of platinum is worth close to $US1 million. And asteroids have a lot more than that. One of these platinum-loaded asteroids will be flying by Earth on Sunday, July 19. And this particular one, called asteroid 2011 UW-158, is thought to harbour an estimated $US5.4 trillion worth of platinum. Although asteroid mining is a goal for near-future for space exploration, we don’t have the technology right now to mine one. ...
A robot has just passed a classic self-awareness test for the first time
Post Date: 2015-07-18 07:28:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A researcher at Ransselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US has given three Nao robots an updated version of the classic 'wise men puzzle' self-awareness test... and one of them has managed to pass. In the classic test, a hypothetical King calls forward the three wisest men in the country and puts either a white or a blue hat on their heads. They can all see each other's hats, but not their own, and they're not allowed to talk to each other. The King promises that at least one of them is wearing a blue hat, and that the contest is fair, meaning that none of them have access to any information that the others don't. Whoever is smart enough to work out ...
Man with 90-minute memory baffles doctors
Post Date: 2015-07-18 04:54:34 by Tatarewicz
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LEICESTER, England, July 16 (UPI) -- Doctors have been baffled by a man who was brought to the hospital in 2005 after a root canal with tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, and an ability to remember things for 10 minutes after they occurred before the memories would disappear forever. The memory problem, called anterograde amnesia, has been seen before in people with structural damage to their brain. In this case, however, the man had not experienced trauma that would harm the hippocampus, which makes new memories. "I remember getting into the chair and the dentist inserting the local anesthetic," the man, whose identity has been withheld to protect his privacy, told the BBC. But ...
Massless particle discovered 85 years after it was theorized
Post Date: 2015-07-18 04:37:48 by Tatarewicz
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PRINCETON, N.J., July 17 (UPI) -- Researchers have discovered a massless particle, which was first theorized 85 years ago and thought to be a possible building block for other subatomic particles. The discovery of the Weyl fermion, conceived of by mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl in 1929, could be a boon for electronics, researchers said. It could allow electricity to flow more freely and efficiently providing greater power, most notably for computers. "The physics of the Weyl fermion are so strange, there could be many things that arise from this particle that we're just not capable of imagining now," M. Zahid Hasan, a professor of physics at Princeton University, ...
Researchers say seaweed tastes like bacon
Post Date: 2015-07-16 07:54:08 by Tatarewicz
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CORVALLIS, Ore., July 15 (UPI) -- Having trouble getting your kids to eat vegetables? A new strain of designer seaweed might be just what you're looking for. Scientists at Oregon State University (OSU) have been successfully growing a patented strain of bright red algae that they say, when cooked, tastes like bacon. It's a superfood for people who don't eat superfoods. Dulse (Palmaria palmata) is a red alga that grows wild off the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific. Harvested and dried, the seaweed fetches a hefty price as snack food and cooking ingredient -- used commonly along the coasts of Ireland as a flavor enhancer for soups and stews. While the new strain of ...
UNPRECEDENTED IN HISTORICAL RECORD - Record 117-Month Major Hurricane Drought Continues
Post Date: 2015-07-15 21:44:21 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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(CNSNews.com)—It has been 117 months since a major hurricane, defined as a Category 3 or above, has made landfall in the continental United States, according to 2015 data from the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).This is the longest span of time in which no major hurricane has struck the mainland U.S. in NOAA hurricane records going back to 1851.The second longest time between major hurricane strikes was the eight years between 1860 and 1869—146 years ago.A recent study published May 5 and co-authored by Tim Hall of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies ...
The Netherlands plans to pave its roads with recycled plastic
Post Date: 2015-07-14 04:16:51 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Road surfacing may not be the first application that comes to mind for recycled plastic bottles, but Dutch construction firm VolkerWessels has plans to use the material for a pilot scheme in the city of Rotterdam. While the idea is still at the conceptual stage for now, the company says that its plastic, environmentally friendly roads could be in place within three years. There are many benefits to using recycled plastic rather than asphalt for a driving surface: producing the material would have a much smaller environmental footprint; it would last longer; require less maintenance; and be able to withstand greater extremes in temperature. The plastic solution would be ...
Scientists Scream After This Invention Proves To Be 12 Times More Efficient Than Solar Panels
Post Date: 2015-07-13 17:08:30 by BTP Holdings
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Scientists find evidence of geothermal heating under Antarctic ice sheet
Post Date: 2015-07-13 03:16:30 by Tatarewicz
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Recent research has revealed evidence of geothermal heating from below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which could be bad news amidst concerns of rising sea levels. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been under recent fire from rising global temperatures, shedding much of its mass into the Southern Ocean in the form of liquid fresh water. According to a report from UPI, that’s not all the ice sheet needs to be concerned about – scientists have just detected a surprising amount of heat being applied to the ice from geothermal activity below. Using a deep probe, scientists took measurements of the flow of heat in the sediments underneath the ice sheet. They were shocked to find ...
Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will 'go to sleep' in 2030 and could cause temperatures to plummet
Post Date: 2015-07-12 07:12:06 by Tatarewicz
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Dailymail.com The Earth could be headed for a 'mini ice age' researchers have warned. A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles - and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out. This, they say, will lead to a phenomenon known as the 'Maunder minimum' - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London's River Thames to freeze over. Scroll down for video A silent sun: In 2011 this image was captured showing an almost clear sun - which experts say could happen for almost a decade from 2030. A silent sun: In 2011 this image was captured showing an almost clear sun - ...
Way Better and Cheaper Than Solar Panels
Post Date: 2015-07-11 12:13:38 by BTP Holdings
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Slash Your Electricity Bill By 80% Or More... Starting TODAY! Hi, I'm Abel Thomas and in the next 6 minutes I am going give you the startling reason why EVERYTHING you need to gain complete energy independence is sitting in your trashcan... ...your backyard...and even your kitchen cabinets... Show you how you can slash your electricity bill by 80% or more starting TODAY...by using an unconventional, but HIGHLY effective power generating method that people in Vietnam, Korea, and the Philippines have been exploiting for over 200 years to keep their homes lit and their food cooked...even though they live on less than $1.50 per day... Without having invest in fancy solar panels that ...
Driverless taxis will cut greenhouse emissions by up to 90%, study finds
Post Date: 2015-07-11 03:56:50 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft may dominate today's headlines, but the next auto revolution looks to be even more transformative, with scientists predicting truly huge environmental benefits when self-driving cars like those developed by Google hit the streets en masse. Researchers from the Berkeley Lab in the US say the kinds of lightweight electric vehicles that will be used for driverless cars by 2030 will offer outstanding benefits in terms of cost efficiency, while slashing global greenhouse emissions by as much as 90 percent. It almost sounds too good to be true, but the findings, published this week in Nature Climate Change, are firmly rooted in ...
Cheer up, the post-human era is dawning
Post Date: 2015-07-10 21:26:59 by Southern Style
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Cheer up, the post-human era is dawning Artificial minds will not be confined to the planet on which we have evolved, writes Martin ReesSo vast are the expanses of space and time that fall within an astronomer’s gaze that people in my profession are mindful not only of our moment in history, but also of our place in the wider cosmos. We wonder whether there is intelligent life elsewhere; some of us even search for it. People will not be the culmination of evolution. We are near the dawn of a post-human future that could be just as prolonged as the billions of years of Darwinian selection that preceded humanity’s emergence. The far future will bear traces of humanity, just as our ...
Shocking Report from Medical Insiders
Post Date: 2015-07-07 10:44:04 by NeoconsNailed
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A shocking admission by the editor of the world’s most respected medical journal, The Lancet, has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief of the Lancet recently published a statement declaring that a shocking amount of published research is unreliable at best, if not completely false, as in, fraudulent. Horton declared, “Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards ...
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor
Post Date: 2015-07-05 06:20:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Variation in the colour of the eyes from brown to green can all be explained by the amount of melanin in the iris, but blue-eyed individuals only have a small degree of variation in the amount of melanin in their eyes. Credit: iStockphoto/Cristian Ardelean New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today. What is the genetic mutation "Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Professor Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and ...
Crying really does get you what you want, study finds
Post Date: 2015-07-05 04:22:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Kids cry all the time when they don’t get what they want, but it looks like the same strategy could work for anybody trying to get the upper hand in a negotiation - provided they’re willing to sacrifice a little bit of dignity in order to achieve their ultimate objective, that is. New research published in The Journal of Applied Psychology suggests that expressions of sadness by a speaker in a negotiation context can increase their ability to “claim value” in negotiations if they can make the listener experience concern on their behalf. Researchers from the ESSEC Business School in France conducted experiments with 232 student volunteers, holding ...
Upcoming C2C program - Biology
Post Date: 2015-07-05 01:55:59 by Tatarewicz
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Cells & New Biology Monday - July 6, 2015 Hosted by George Noory Guest(s): Bruce Lipton, Bob Fletcher Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit and a leading voice in new biology. A cell biologist by training, he taught at the Univ. of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine, and later performed studies at Stanford Univ. He'll discuss his belief that that if we use the 50 trillion cells that live harmoniously in every healthy human body as a model, we can create a "super organism" called humanity that can heal our planet. First Hour: Retired investigative researcher Bob Fletcher talks about the latest evidence for the rogue ...
Aliens will look a lot like us, says an expert on evolution
Post Date: 2015-07-04 05:04:23 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... You can forget about little green men and predatory Xenomorphs: aliens are likely to look a lot like human beings, according to an expert in evolution from the University of Cambridge. In a new book, Simon Conway Morris says that any extra-terrestrial lifeforms will have evolved very much like we have - because an Earth-like planet would be necessary to support life in the first place. The theory, called convergent evolution, is actually already well established: the idea is that different species evolve similar characteristics because they're living in a similar environment. One of the most commonly cited examples is the octopus camera eye, which works in much the ...
China says its bullet trains will soon be able to reach 500 km/h
Post Date: 2015-07-04 04:45:38 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... China has announced that's it's developed new technology that will help its bullet trains reach an ultra-fast 500 km/h. That isn't quite as fast as Japan's Maglev trains, which hit record-breaking speeds of 590 km/h earlier this year, but it's more than twice the top speed of most trains in the US, and more than three times that of Australia's rail network. And in a win for the local economy, the technology is all its own. "Now we have our own permanent magnet synchronous traction system with full intellectual property rights, marking a new chapter in China's high-speed railways," Ding Rongjun, head of the Zhuzhou Institute in the ...
Can your iron attack you? Kaspersky says 'yes'
Post Date: 2015-07-03 05:53:38 by Tatarewicz
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RBTH... Last week, public attention was once again drawn to one of the most secretive and controversial figures of the Russian IT industry – Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of the prominent anti-virus company. Immediately after Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. and British security services had worked to subvert the company’s anti-virus software to track users and infiltrate networks, Kaspersky released a number of statements. Snowden’s revelations did not shock Kaspersky: after all, he was educated at a KGB-sponsored cryptography institute and worked for Russian military intelligence. He was even accused of close ties with the FSB, the KGB’s successor. Kaspersky ...
New forensics technique calculates exact time of death
Post Date: 2015-07-03 00:33:16 by Tatarewicz
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 2 (UPI) -- Determining the time of death isn't an exact science, and it becomes less and less exact as time passes. But a new method, developed by researchers at the University of Salzburg, allows forensic scientists to calculate the precise time of death, even after 10 days. "Improvement of methods to determine time of death is crucial to modern forensic science," researchers wrote in an abstract describing their findings. Previously, determining the exact time of death was an impossibility after 36 hours. But in examining the degradation of certain muscle-based proteins and enzymes in pigs, scientists have developed a new method for ...
Develop safe AI before it's too late, warns Oxford academic
Post Date: 2015-07-02 07:43:26 by Tatarewicz
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cienceAlert... The debate over super-intelligent robots - and their potential dangers - is nothing new, but it's only in recent years that software has developed the speed and capacity to bring us to the brink of creating a machine that could one day prove smarter than we are. Academic Stuart Armstrong from the University of Oxford in the UK has been setting out the threat of next-gen AI, and says programmers must work to make it safe before it spirals out of control. Part of the problem is defining exactly what 'safe' means: robots instructed to prevent human suffering could theoretically decide to kill the sick and infirm, Armstrong says, or robots told to protect humans ...
How I Powered My Entire Home For The Past 3 Years...
Post Date: 2015-06-30 16:58:30 by BTP Holdings
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How I Powered My Entire Home For The Past 3 Years... With Nothing Aside From A Few Bags of Grass Clippings Hi, my name is Rich Lubbok. And today you’re going to see how a simple invention from the 1800s… Which American settlers used to heat their homes… and to cook warm meals during the long, harsh winters… Can allow you to generate enough electricity to slash your monthly power bill by 70%... 80%... or even 100% starting tomorrow… While keeping even a 4 bedroom home heated to a balmy 77 degrees… regardless of if it’s below zero outside. Now I can already hearing your B.S. radar going off… And I’m sure you’re already thinking ...
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