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Gigantic asteroid to hurtle past Earth Thursday: NASA
Post Date: 2015-05-12 22:18:03 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... An asteroid measuring over a kilometer across is about to hurtle past the Earth on Thursday, NASA says. According to NASA’s Near-Earth Object watch, the gigantic lump of rock, which is up to 1.3 kilometers wide and is currently dashing through space at a speed of about 14 kilometers per second, will skim the Earth at a distance of 26.4 lunar distances, about 10 million kilometers from Earth. “The asteroid will approach Earth…on 2015 May 14,” NASA said in a statement. The asteroid 1999 FN53, which is an eighth of the size of Mount Everest and will fly past the Earth with twice the speed of a space rocket at liftoff, was first discovered in 1999. FN53 is ...
Scientists have discovered a new state of matter, called 'Jahn-Teller metals'
Post Date: 2015-05-12 05:04:44 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a new state of matter in a material that appears to be an insulator, superconductor, metal and magnet all rolled into one, saying that it could lead to the development of more effective high-temperature superconductors. Why is this so exciting? Well, if these properties are confirmed, this new state of matter will allow scientists to better understand why some materials have the potential to achieve superconductivity at a relativity high critical temperature (Tc) - "high" as in −135 °C as opposed to −243.2 °C. Because superconductivity allows a material to conduct electricity ...
Pentagon: China Launches Mysterious Objects Into Space
Post Date: 2015-05-12 03:02:01 by Tatarewicz
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A recent report released by the US Department of Defense warns of China’s rapidly growing space program, insisting that many of Beijing’s space activities are aimed at countering the space capabilities of adversaries in the event of a crisis or conflict. The annual DoD report to Congress, titled Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, comes as some in the US Air Force are calling for a more robust defense of US space assets. The US has more than 500 satellites which, according to the USAF, are increasingly exposed to threats from China’s rapidly expanding space program and so-called "counterspace" technologies. The ...
Several Oceans Underneath the Earth’s Crust
Post Date: 2015-05-11 07:43:49 by Ada
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A fascinating new discovery. Especially interesting to Christians is how this relates to the Great Flood of Noah’s day. The fact of the matter is the utter impossibility of covering the entire earth, even 40 cubits above the highest mountain, with water from the sky above. Can’t be done … even with the so-called (and, unproven) canopy of “water vapor” that supposedly surrounded the earth in Noah’s time. However, the Bible says that the flood started like this; — “the same day were all the FOUNTAINS OF THE GREAT DEEP broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” If the “fountains of the great deep” refers to this massive ...
We're figuring out how to achieve brain-to-brain communication - here's what that could help us do
Post Date: 2015-05-11 00:36:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Imagine an undercover operative on a mission. At some point, she knows she’ll need to call for backup - but pulling out a phone would be too risky, and there’s no way to give a visible signal to her team. Yet at the key moment, she can think “YES” - which could be interpreted as “yes, now is the time, go go go go go!” - and send that signal directly to the brain of a team member, who would see it as a flash and know that now is the moment to act. That sort of direct communication from one brain to another sounds like telepathy, but technology that can read your brain’s signals and send a simple signal (that means “yes” or ...
Experts discuss chance of Terminator-style AI rebellion
Post Date: 2015-05-10 23:12:47 by Tatarewicz
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Want... In the run-up to the release of Terminator Genisys, the latest in the killer-robot-from-the-future series of movies, a number of Chinese defense experts have been discussing the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) being used in future military operations against the enemies of the People's Liberation Army, reports the nationalistic tabloid Global Times. Dai Hao from the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Beijing said AI can be used tactically and strategically in military operations. Tactically, AI can be employed in killing machines just like the Terminators in the movies, Dai said. He said that future iterations of weapons systems like drones and precision-guided munitions ...
PLA WU-14 hypersonic vehicle unlikely to carry nuke: Kanwa
Post Date: 2015-05-10 06:19:00 by Tatarewicz
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Want... After the Second Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army carried out two tests of its WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle, the Canada-based Kanwa Defense Review writes that the weapon is unlikely to be deployed with a nuclear warhead. The first test of the WU-14 took place in January last year, with a second test in August. The second test was a failure as the vehicle broke apart immediately after launch, but a successful third test was conducted in early December. The tests make China the third nation in the world to process a hypersonic delivery vehicle able to carry nuclear warheads at a speed above Mach 10 after Russia and the United States. The WU-14 is the name ...
Chinese Patent applications lead the world
Post Date: 2015-05-09 01:57:15 by Tatarewicz
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ChinaDaily... China recorded 928,000 invention patent applications in 2014, more than that of any other country, for the fourth consecutive year, according to data released by the State Intellectual Property Office on Monday. The office found that about 663,000 inventions had high quality and market value. About 4.9 patents per 10,000 population were filed, according to the data. Enterprises have been pillars of research and the development of new technologies and products, according to the office. In 2014, about 485,000 invention patent applications were filed by enterprises, more than the number filed by individuals, academies or research institutes. "It shows that China has ...
Taiwan researchers make artificial muscles out of onion cells
Post Date: 2015-05-08 23:46:27 by Tatarewicz
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Want... A new study by Taiwan scientists has discovered that gold-plated onion cells can be used to make artificial muscles, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. The results were achieved by a research team led by Shih Wen-pin, a professor at National Taiwan University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and have been unveiled in Applied Physics Letters, a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics. Prior to the study, researchers had been trying to make artificial muscles with various types of polymers that could contract or expand, but found none that could also bend at the same the time, the Los Angeles Times said. The ...
New study considers how long intelligent life can be sustained
Post Date: 2015-05-08 01:38:46 by Tatarewicz
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BIRMINGHAM, England, May 7 (UPI) -- How long can intelligent life last? Can an advanced civilization persist for billions of years? A new study considers the implications of ancient star systems, their exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life. Earlier this year, researchers announced the discovery of five exoplanets circling ancient star Kepler-444. At 11.2 billion years in age, the star system is 2.5 times older than our own solar system. As scientists detailed in their recently published paper -- included in the January issue of the Astrophysical Journal -- each new discovery of an ancient habitable world increases the scope of the search for intelligent life forms outside ...
This is a MUST listen. Sofia Smallstorm: Bruce Jenner Transhumanism and the Disappearing Male
Post Date: 2015-05-07 10:48:24 by christine
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Blood Scanning Smartphone to Detect Parasites
Post Date: 2015-05-07 06:06:54 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... A mobile phone microscope capable of detecting and quantifying parasites in a drop of blood has been developed by a group of scientists led by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, media reports said. "We previously showed that mobile phones can be used for microscopy, but this is the first device that combines the imaging technology with hardware and software automation to create a complete diagnostic solution," according to Daniel Fletcher of UC Berkeley. He explained that "with one touch of the screen, the device moves the sample, captures video and automatically analyses the images." The CellScope system includes a modified smartphone with ...
Musk Pushes Utility Industry One Step Closer to Doomsday
Post Date: 2015-05-06 17:35:49 by BTP Holdings
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Musk Pushes Utility Industry One Step Closer to Doomsday Wednesday, 06 May 2015 07:00 AM By Patrick Watson No one likes utility companies. Most are monopolies and it shows in their customer service. You pay a lot and you get whatever they feel like giving you. I wrote back in February (see Clock Ticking Down for Electric Utilities) that serial entrepreneur Elon Musk had a plan to change all this. Last week, he unveiled the last missing link. In theory, solar energy is an ideal way to provide electricity for homes and businesses. Prices for rooftop panels dropped sharply the last few years. Amortized over a decade or two, the price is considerably lower than what your regulated ...
Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?
Post Date: 2015-05-06 17:02:43 by Dakmar
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Plato famously wanted to abolish the family and put children into care of the state. Some still think the traditional family has a lot to answer for, but some plausible arguments remain in favour of it. Joe Gelonesi meets a philosopher with a rescue plan very much in tune with the times. So many disputes in our liberal democratic society hinge on the tension between inequality and fairness: between groups, between sexes, between individuals, and increasingly between families. The power of the family to tilt equality hasn’t gone unnoticed, and academics and public commentators have been blowing the whistle for some time. Now, philosophers Adam Swift and Harry Brighouse have felt ...
China Builds City's First All-Robot Factory Replacing Human Workers
Post Date: 2015-05-06 02:20:28 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... As part of a major push towards automation, the first robots-only factory is being built in China's Dongguan manufacturing hub, reducing human employees to a bare minimum. The factory, owned by Shenzhen Evenwin Precision Technology Co., hopes to reduce its workforce by 90%, to only 200 human workers, with the introduction of a 1,000-robot workforce to take the human's places, according to the company's chairman, Chen Xingqi, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. — Calestous Juma (@calestous) April 28, 2015 The automated workforce is just part of a major push to replace workers in Guangdong province's Pearl River Delta area, where major manufacturing ...
A Pretty Good Personal Defense 12GA Round
Post Date: 2015-05-05 13:10:02 by FormerLurker
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Home Activity Monitoring Sensors
Post Date: 2015-05-05 10:11:16 by Lod
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A good use of technology.
NASA tests aircraft that hovers like a helicopter, and flies like a plane
Post Date: 2015-05-05 04:50:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... NASA engineers have successfully flown an unmanned aircraft that can takeoff, land and hover like a helicopter, and fly horizontally like a fixed-wing plane. The team's battery-powered aircraft uses a system of 10 engines on tilted wings to achieve vertical takeoff and landing. During recent test flights near Langley Research Centre in the US, the prototype - known as Greased Lightning, or GL-10 - successfully transitioned to horizontal flight. You can watch the flight test in the above video. "During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing-borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again. So far we have done this on ...
The language of invention: Most innovations are rephrasings of past inventions
Post Date: 2015-05-05 03:01:45 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Are patents primarily a rearrangement of words and ideas? Credit: © Feng Yu / Fotolia Most new patents are combinations of existing ideas and pretty much always have been, even as the stream of fundamentally new core technologies has slowed, according to a new paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface by Santa Fe Institute researchers Hyejin Youn, Luis Bettencourt, Jose Lobo, and Deborah Strumsky. Youn and colleagues reached those conclusions sifting through the records of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dating back to 1790, the records feature an elaborate system of technology codes -- a vocabulary of sorts, in which any new invention is a ...
China leading the world in metamaterial breakthroughs
Post Date: 2015-05-05 00:26:45 by Tatarewicz
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Want... China is leading the global race in the development of metamaterials, spearheading a new trend that is revolutionizing technology in fields ranging from telecommunications to aerospace, reports the overseas edition of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily. Metamaterials are defined as materials engineered to have properties that have not yet been found in nature. They are made from complex assemblies of multiple elements fashioned from conventional materials and derive their properties from their designed structure — such as shape, geometry, size, orientation and arrangement — as opposed to the properties of the base materials. Appropriately designed ...
Breakthrough: NASA Confirms Electromagnetic Drive Produces Thrust in Vacuum
Post Date: 2015-05-02 23:53:47 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Scientists at Johnson Space Center, successfully tested the EM drive in a vacuum, yielding results that "defy classical physics” expectations that such a closed (microwave) cavity should be unusable for space propulsion because of the law of conservation of momentum," NASA announced Wednesday. The idea that the NASA Eagleworks propulsion research group has been working on — as it was proposed in 2001 — is that such a device, operating in such a cavity would convert electrical energy directly into motion (thrust) without requiring fuel. — Aaron Linde (@aaronlinde) April 30, 2015 Scientists had generally thought propellant expulsion was needed to ...
Robots to Take 30% of Jobs Within a Decade
Post Date: 2015-05-02 23:28:41 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... One-third of jobs now performed by humans will be replaced by software, robots, and smart machines by 2025, according to a prediction by information technology research and advisory firm Gartner. That prediction reflects the evolution of robot capability, said Ryan Calo, a professor at University of Washington School of Law with an expertise in robotics. How Old Photo © Screenshot of how-old.net Microsoft's Age-Guessing Robot Will Either Make Or Break Your Day "Historically what we thought was that robots would do things that were the three Ds: dangerous, dirty, and dull," Calo told Business Insider. "Over time, the range of things that robots can do has ...
Coolest Solar Invention...EVER!
Post Date: 2015-05-02 11:34:56 by BTP Holdings
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I really need you to see this. In 2014, this was our top selling piece of survival gear. Go here to see the 11 features that made it #1. It's our Solar Air Lantern. And in my opinion it's one of the coolest solar inventions ever. Litlantern Why do I like it so much? First off it weighs only 4 ounces and is insanely bright The other 10 reasons are on the next page. Remember I'm not the only one who loves it... That's why it won our product of the year award. Go here to see the video that shows why everyone loves this lantern. Prepare Now, Survive Later! ~Damian Campbell PS: I forgot to mention I've got a limited time offer going for the Solar Air ...
Beyond genes: Are centrioles carriers of biological information?
Post Date: 2015-05-02 03:12:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... EPFL scientists discover that certain cell structures, the centrioles, could act as information carriers throughout cell generations. The discovery raises the possibility that transmission of biological information could involve more than just genes. Centrioles are barrel-shaped structures inside cells, made up of multiple proteins. They are currently the focus of much research, since mutations in the proteins that make them up can cause a broad range of diseases, including developmental abnormalities, respiratory conditions, male sterility and cancer. Publishing in the Nature journal Cell Research, EPFL scientists show that the original centrioles of a fertilized egg, ...
New origin theory for cells that gave rise to vertebrates
Post Date: 2015-05-01 02:55:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... The vivid pigmentation of zebras, the massive jaws of sharks, the fight or flight instinct and the diverse beaks of Darwin's finches. These and other remarkable features of the world's vertebrates stem from a small group of powerful cells, called neural crest cells, but little is known about their origin. Now Northwestern University scientists propose a new model for how neural crest cells, and thus vertebrates, arose more than 500 million years ago. The researchers report that, unlike other early embryonic cells that have their potential progressively restricted as an embryo develops, neural crest cells retain the molecular underpinnings that control pluripotency ...
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