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Robotics craze in China may fizzle in two years
Post Date: 2015-06-07 22:46:40 by Tatarewicz
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Want... One hot category amid the stock market rally in China is robotic firms, though the hype cannot mask the industry's underlying deficiencies, reports the Guangzhou-based Southern Weekly. The industry owes its glow to the strong support of government policy. The "China manufacturing 2025" program, just rolled out by the State Council, designates robotics as one of the 10 key sectors for priority development. The goal is to become one of the world's manufacturing powers by 2025. After the program came out, prices of more than 10 robotic stocks surged to the daily ceiling the next day. Chinese firms have been scrambling to produce robots to tap the huge domestic ...
Shanghai master's student controls cockroaches with 'brain link'
Post Date: 2015-06-07 03:05:01 by Tatarewicz
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Want... The technology by which people control other beings through a brain link featured in the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar may be closer to realization than you might think, according to a report in the Shanghai Morning Post cited by Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po. Li Guanghua, a graduate student at the School of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has successfully managed to control the movements of a live cockroach using a human brain, under the direction of his advisor Zhang Dingguo. The cockroach was directed by the person controlling it to walk in an S and a Z pattern. Signals from the human brain are transmitted to the brain of cockroach, allowing the human to ...
Bee populations face another threat: aluminum
Post Date: 2015-06-06 03:29:45 by Tatarewicz
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KEELE, England, June 5 (UPI) -- Researchers have found high concentrations of aluminum in bee populations, suggesting contamination by the silver-gray metal could be partially responsible for the insect's decline. Aluminum is one of the most abundant contaminants in nature. And previous studies have shown bees fail to actively shy away from aluminum-tainted flower pollen. Researchers hypothesized that significant amounts of aluminum might result in neurological problems among the bees -- an inability to forage, or find one's way back to the colony. To see if bees were accumulating high amounts of aluminum over the course of their lifecycle, researchers in England collected pupae ...
Harnessing the power of community to drive an energy revolution in Japan
Post Date: 2015-06-06 01:52:54 by Tatarewicz
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Japan Times... SAGAMIHARA, KANAGAWA PREF. – Watch Kazuaki Hashimoto chopping firewood for the following winter on a baking day at the end of April, and you may be forgiven for thinking he leads a rather old-fashioned lifestyle. But Hashimoto, who recently moved from a house with an air conditioner and electric heater in each room to an energy-efficient house with a single wood stove, is at the forefront of a distinctly cutting-edge movement: living off-grid. Hashimoto and his wife Haruko are the latest household in this lush valley in the Fujino district of Sagamihara to install an off-grid system devised by Fujino Power, a local group seeking to educate citizens about energy and ...
Catastrophic Failures in Science Then and Now
Post Date: 2015-06-05 08:27:56 by Ada
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A catastrophic failure in science is said to occur when a long-established theory that has been embraced by learned advocates is discovered to be at odds with the part of the world it is supposed to explain. In other words, when a view of the world maintained by conventional wisdom is contradicted by the facts of life, polite society is due for a shock of disappointment or worse. It is especially catastrophic if the unmasking occurs long past the point where it is obvious that the predictions of the theory diverge wildly from dependable and repeated observations of indisputably identical quantities. A historical example of such a catastrophe comes from the annals of physics. This experience ...
HARVARD, SYRACUSE RESEARCHERS CAUGHT LYING TO BOOST OBAMA CLIMATE RULES
Post Date: 2015-06-05 08:08:40 by Ada
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E-mails obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency show that Harvard University, Syracuse University and two of their researchers appear to have falsely claimed a study supporting EPA’s upcoming global warming rules was conducted “independent(ly)” of the agency. In early May, a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change purported to support a key EPA claim about its forthcoming global warming rules aimed at coal- fired power plants. The New York Times’ headline, “EPA Emissions Plan Will Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds,” typified the media coverage. Across the media, the authors were innocuously described as simply university- affiliated ...
Your genes influence when you have your first child, study finds
Post Date: 2015-06-05 06:48:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... In modern society, more and more women are ignoring their biological clocks and having babies whenever suits us best, but new research has shown that our genes do still play a role in when we have our first babies. In fact, human females are actually evolving to become fertile younger and younger. After analysing the DNA of almost 7,000 women in the UK and the Netherlands, researchers have found that around 15 percent of the variation in the age women have their first child, and 10 percent of the difference in the number of children they have, can be attributed to genetics. This is the first study to look at both unrelated women as well as female twins, and it aimed to ...
Why are 95% of people who live to 110 women? You're as old as your stem cells
Post Date: 2015-06-05 05:27:14 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Human supercentenarians share at least one thing in common--over 95 percent are women. Scientists have long observed differences between the sexes when it comes to aging, but there is no clear explanation for why females live longer. In a discussion of what we know about stem cell behavior and sex, Stanford University researchers Ben Dulken and Anne Brunet argue that it's time to look at differences in regenerative decline between men and women. This line of research could open up new explanations for how the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone, or other factors, modify lifespan. It's known that estrogen has direct effects on stem cell populations in female ...
Amazing Video - Can save the Planet!
Post Date: 2015-06-04 23:59:06 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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This is TOO simple .. Published on May 3, 2015 WOW! This is So Amazing! It can save our Planet! ~ Soul Detox: Peace, Happiness, Life Purpose Your views on this are ridiculous. Something like this would make a massive change to our planet. There is literally a fucking island floating out in the pacific made from 100% plastic. We are filling our land daily with thousands of tonnes of plastic all over the world. All of this is killing our marine life and damaging to the environment, how do you see such a positive thing and say meh, its not good enough, the overall process still produces co2. Unless you live on a farm that you run, grow and harvest your own food, have your own solar power ...
Scientists may have worked out how life evolved from building blocks on Earth
Post Date: 2015-06-03 06:56:53 by Tatarewicz
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scienceAlert... The conditions that led to the first organisms evolving from the Earth's 'primordial soup' of chemicals around 3.6 billion years ago are pretty mysterious, but scientists have just found a major clue that could explain how life originated on our planet. According to new research, before the evolution of RNA and DNA, simple protein chains known as peptides would have arisen from the boiling stew of amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - that formed shortly after Earth was created. The new research contradicts one of the leading hypotheses on how life arose, known as the 'RNA world' hypothesis. This suggests that RNA molecules - which are made ...
Researchers develop method to grow artificial limbs
Post Date: 2015-06-03 02:26:35 by Tatarewicz
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Utilizing the limb of a deceased rat, new muscles and veins were grown before the limb was successfully implanted into a living rat. A suspension of muscle progenitor cells is injected into the cell-free matrix of a decellularized rat limb, which provides shape and structure onto which regenerated tissue can grow. BOSTON, June 2 (UPI) -- Utilizing a method that has been used to successfully regenerate organs, researchers have regrown rat forelimbs and shown evidence that the same method could be used for the limbs of primates. Researchers at Mass. General Hospital used limbs from deceased rats, stripping cells from the vascular and nerve matrix, and regrew muscles, veins and arteries. ...
Rooftop solar is now cheaper than grid electricity in these 6 US cities
Post Date: 2015-06-02 09:06:12 by Tatarewicz
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DcienceAlert... For people living in six major US cities, the cost of installing and running rooftop solar panels is now the same price or cheaper than buying electricity from the grid, according to a new report - even without the help of government subsidies. While experts have been predicting that the majority of the country will reach 'solar parity' - the point at which rooftop solar is as cheap or more affordable than grid electricity - by 2021, a new review by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) shows that many cities are already a lot closer than imagined. The new review shows that for the 30 million people living in the below cities, grid electricity is no longer ...
Conspiracy Theorists Vindicated: HAARP Confirmed Weather-manipulation Tool
Post Date: 2015-06-01 21:40:50 by Bill D Berger
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image Wikipedia Commons Catherine J. FrompovichActivist Post The most damning aspersion that can be lobbed against any person, or the exposure of “secret government activity,” overwhelmingly is “Conspiracy Theorist.” That pejorative ‘handle’ is equated with imbecile mind-activity with aspersions often suggested as ‘tin hat wearers’. Well, step aside all you doubters and listen up carefully to what took place in the halls of Congress on May 14, 2014 regarding the weather modification system known as HAARP. In the YouTube below Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asks some pointed questions about HAARP. However, readers may not be surprised at the ...
A patient's budding cortex -- in a dish? Networking neurons thrive in 3-D human 'organoid'
Post Date: 2015-06-01 06:17:46 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A patient tormented by suicidal thoughts gives his psychiatrist a few strands of his hair. She derives stem cells from them to grow budding brain tissue harboring the secrets of his unique illness in a petri dish. She uses the information to genetically engineer a personalized treatment to correct his brain circuit functioning. Just Sci-fi? Yes, but... An evolving "disease-in-a-dish" technology, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is bringing closer the day when such a seemingly futuristic personalized medicine scenario might not seem so far-fetched. Scientists have perfected mini cultured 3-D structures that grow and function much like the outer ...
Trees are source for high-capacity, soft batteries
Post Date: 2015-06-01 05:20:45 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A method for making elastic high-capacity batteries from wood pulp was unveiled by researchers in Sweden and the US. Using nanocellulose broken down from tree fibres, a team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University produced an elastic, foam-like battery material that can withstand shock and stress. "It is possible to make incredible materials from trees and cellulose," says Max Hamedi, who is a researcher at KTH and Harvard University. One benefit of the new wood-based aerogel material is that it can be used for three-dimensional structures. "There are limits to how thin a battery can be, but that becomes less relevant in 3D, " ...
Reality doesn’t exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms
Post Date: 2015-06-01 05:05:52 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Australian scientists have recreated a famous experiment and confirmed quantum physics's bizarre predictions about the nature of reality, by proving that reality doesn't actually exist until we measure it - at least, not on the very small scale. That all sounds a little mind-meltingly complex, but the experiment poses a pretty simple question: if you have an object that can either act like a particle or a wave, at what point does that object 'decide'? Our general logic would assume that the object is either wave-like or particle-like by its very nature, and our measurements will have nothing to do with the answer. But quantum theory predicts that the ...
PLA developing submarines powered by lithium-ion batteries
Post Date: 2015-05-31 22:53:00 by Tatarewicz
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Want...China is experimenting with a lithium-ion battery propulsion system for submarines and aims to achieve results within the next five years, according to a report from Tokyo-based international news magazine the Diplomat. Lithium-ion batteries offer much higher energy density and longer dive times than conventional diesel-powered submarines, which is why Chinese researchers see them as the "wave of the future," says Andrew Erickson, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The PLA Navy is discussing putting lithium-ion batteries "on a new generation of conventional subs sometime between now and 2020, but there is no indicator as yet of the type of ...
I'm Scared THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS…
Post Date: 2015-05-30 11:56:55 by BTP Holdings
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I'm Scared THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS… A life-altering breakthrough is about to benefit society in the best way imaginable… Yet it could also mark the beginning of the end for mankind. Dear reader, A brand-new technology is about to hit the market. As one of the few people on earth who's witnessed its power, the word “excited” doesn’t quite capture how I’m feeling. I’m actually feeling really alone. I feel that way because of 1) the nature of the technology, and 2) how few people truly realize what’s happening. I suppose you can call me a genuine insider on this one. I’ve been along for the entire ride. ...
As the MSM debates global warming, Boston debates what to do with the snow still on the ground [photos]
Post Date: 2015-05-29 21:19:20 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Officials say Boston's giant leftover snow piles contain tons of rotting garbage: http://apne.ws/1QfZg14 15 retweets 11 favorites 3:35 PM - 29 May 2015 Officials say those Boston snow piles are even more vileBOSTON (AP) — It's disgusting enough to put you off snow cones for the rest of the summer. A Boston public works official says the towering piles of filthy snow left over from the city's record-set... Debris covers a lingering snow pile, amassed during the record-setting winter, Thursday, May 28, 2015, the Seaport District in Boston. A 75-foot-high snow mound in the Seaport District has been reduced to a three-story pile of dirt and trash, including ...
New 'high-entropy' alloy is as light as aluminum, as strong as titanium alloys
Post Date: 2015-05-29 14:42:48 by Horse
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new "high-entropy" metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than any other existing metal material High-entropy alloys are materials that consist of five or more metals in approximately equal amounts. These alloys are currently the focus of significant attention in materials science and engineering because they can have desirable properties. The NC State research team combined lithium, magnesium, titanium, aluminum and scandium to make a nanocrystalline high-entropy alloy that has low density, but very high strength. "The density is comparable to aluminum, but it is ...
Scientists Find That Conspiracy Theorists Will Believe Anything
Post Date: 2015-05-28 18:25:08 by Armadillo
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"Testing the theory that conspiracy theorists will largely only discuss, share and believe theories of other conspiracy theorists, scientists posted nearly 5,000 comments on Facebook, trolling conspiracy and science news pages with crazy rumors. YouTube user Rebecca Watson aka Skepchick discusses this study in her latest video on conspiracy theorists." Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:*puts on flame-proof suit* Of course, the scientists are part of the conspiracy... But seriously I have to wonder how many conspiracy theories are planted or encouraged by others with an agenda. There are some conspiracy theories that raise valid questions, then there are others that border on ...
Japanese scientists reverse ageing in human cell lines
Post Date: 2015-05-28 09:25:51 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... By altering the behaviour of two genes responsible for the production of simple amino acids in human cells, scientists have gained a better understanding of how the process of ageing works, and how we could delay or perhaps even reverse it. The team, led by Jun-Ichi Hayashi at the University of Tsukuba, targeted two genes that produce the amino acid glycine in the cell’s mitochondria, and figured out how to switch them on and off. By doing this, they could either accelerate the process of ageing within the cell, which caused signifiant defects to arise, or they could reverse the process of ageing, which restored the capacity for cellular respiration. Using this ...
This awesome lamp works without batteries, electricity or sunlight
Post Date: 2015-05-28 09:12:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Although many of us take for granted the fact that we can simply hit a switch and be flooded with artificial light, around one billion people in the world still live without electricity. This means a lot of people are relying on dangerous and expensive kerosene lamps to provide them with light to study, work and cook after dark. But a team of engineers from the UK has now come up with a new device called GravityLight that runs simply using the force of gravity. The set-up is pretty simple, the whole thing works a bit like a pulley - all you need to do is add 12 kg of weight to one end of the bead cord (this can be a bag of sand, rocks, whatever you like), and then lift ...
Back to the Drawing Board: Self Parking Car Runs Over Reporters
Post Date: 2015-05-28 06:52:51 by Artisan
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Reports indicate that the two men hit “were bruised but are ok”. According to “sources the driver forgot to turn on ‘City-Safe’ mode”. Poster Comment:Video @ link
New human ancestor: Scientists discover Lucy's relative
Post Date: 2015-05-28 06:27:03 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Scientists say they have found jaw and teeth fossils that belong to a previously unknown member of the human family tree, related to the famous "Lucy". Australopithecus deyiremeda's bones, unearthed in Ethiopia, are said to be 3.5 million years old. It's believed that Lucy's species lived somewhere between 2.9 million and 3.8 million years ago, overlapping in time with the new species. According to an international team of researchers, led by Dr Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the new fossils present evidence that two closely related early human ancestors lived at the same time, before three million years ago. In the ...
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