|
Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Getting high on chocolate -- literally
Post Date: 2015-04-06 21:35:48 by NeoconsNailed
5 Comments
Controversial Chocolate Snorting Device Gives You a Legal High You’re probably not a true chocolate addict unless you’ve actually snorted the stuff. If you didn’t know that was even possible, well it is, thanks to Belgian chocolatier Dominique Persoone. He’s created something called a chocolate shooter – a device that launches small lumps of cocoa powder directly into the nostrils. While the health effects of inhaling chocolate are pretty much unknown, Persoone’s device is gaining popularity quite rapidly. He first created the snorter for a Rolling Stones party in 2007, inspired by a device that his grandfather used to inhale tobacco snuff. It consists of a ...
The 20-Year-Old With a Plan to Rid the Sea of Plastic
Post Date: 2015-04-06 20:31:10 by Horse
2 Comments
Poster Comment:This German kid is on to something.
Science and medicine have a 'publication pollution' problem
Post Date: 2015-04-06 11:10:21 by Ada
4 Comments
Published: Friday, April 3, 2015 - 08:04 in Psychology & Sociology The scientific community is facing a 'pollution problem' in academic publishing, one that poses a serious threat to the "trustworthiness, utility, and value of science and medicine," according to one of the country's leading medical ethicists. Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, director of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center, shares these and other observations in a commentary publishing April 3 in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. "The pollution of science and medicine by plagiarism, fraud, and predatory publishing is corroding the ...
LeTV teams up with Flying Pigeon to make smart bike
Post Date: 2015-04-05 18:09:41 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... Letv.com, a leading video website in China, has teamed up with Tianjin-based bicycle maker Flying Pigeon to produce a "Super Bicycle" to be released in July, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Commercial Times. After releasing its super car, super smartphone and super television, the website's sports department announced its collaboration with Flying Pigeon on Thursday. Sources related to the website say the bicycle's appearance was inspired by images of birds flying at full speed. Its system includes functions such as a music player, emergency call capability, timer and navigation system. The two companies have added several extra functions such as ...
Smart phone diagnosis? Biosensing platform quickly and accurately diagnoses disease and monitors treatment remotely
Post Date: 2015-04-04 05:26:40 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceDaily Thin, lightweight and flexible materials developed by researchers at Florida Atlantic University, Stanford University and Harvard University, integrate cellulose paper and flexible polyester films as new diagnostic tools to detect bioagents in whole blood, serum and peritoneal fluid. Credit: Florida Atlantic University [Click to enlarge image] In much the same way that glucometers and pregnancy tests have revolutionized in-home diagnostic testing, researchers from Florida Atlantic University and collaborators have identified a new biosensing platform that could be used to remotely detect and determine treatment options for HIV, E-coli, Staphylococcus aureas and other ...
Team finds 'exploding head syndrome' more common in young people than thought sleep
Post Date: 2015-04-03 01:02:48 by Tatarewicz
8 Comments
Medicalxpress... Washington State University researchers have found that an unexpectedly high percentage of young people experience "exploding head syndrome," a psychological phenomenon in which they are awakened by abrupt loud noises, even the sensation of an explosion in their head. Brian Sharpless, a Washington State University assistant professor and director of the university psychology clinic, found that nearly one in five—18 percent—of college students interviewed said they had experienced it at least once. It was so bad for some that it significantly impacted their lives, he said."Unfortunately for this minority of individuals, no well-articulated or ...
Almost Driverless: Autonomous Car Completes 3,400-Mile Road Trip
Post Date: 2015-04-02 22:06:21 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Sputnik... An autonomous car fitted with radar, cameras and laser sensors drove itself 99% of the time during a recent 3,400-mile trip from San Francisco to New York – never once exceeding the speed limit on the 15-state journey. The person sitting in the driver seat of the Audi Q5 – outfitted by auto supplier Delphi Corp. – intervened once when traffic was weaving around in a construction zone, and again when the car did not want to move into a busy left lane to avoid police stopped on the right shoulder. While navigating bridges, traffic circles and open highways, the car collected nearly three terabytes of data – roughly equivalent to 30 percent of all of the ...
Pro-terrorist Cornell University takes money from globalist Bill Gates to push GMOs destroying America
Post Date: 2015-03-31 18:06:54 by BTP Holdings
2 Comments
Pro-terrorist Cornell University takes money from globalist Bill Gates to push GMOs destroying America Tuesday, March 31, 2015 by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) Using financing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ivy League Cornell University's Alliance for Science has launched a multi-million-dollar broadside against a small food-oriented public interest group as a means of pushing genetically modified organisms to new markets around the world -- and all in the name of advancing the welfare of Mankind. The group being targeted is called U.S. Right to Know, and its mission, according to the organization's website, is to "expose what the food industry doesn't want ...
Chinese scientists mull power station in space
Post Date: 2015-03-31 01:16:46 by Tatarewicz
2 Comments
BEIJING, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The battle to dispel smog, cut greenhouse gases and solve the energy crisis is moving to space. Chinese scientists are mulling the construction of a solar power station 36,000 kilometers above ground. If realized, it will surpass the scale of the Apollo project and the International Space Station, and be the largest-ever space project. The power station would be a super spacecraft on a geosynchronous orbit equipped with huge solar panels. The electricity generated would be converted to microwaves or lasers and transmitted to a collector on Earth. In 1941, U.S. science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published the short story "Reason", in which a ...
Six Million Euros for Freedom: Russia Unveils Flying House Project
Post Date: 2015-03-29 00:59:20 by Tatarewicz
2 Comments
Russian designers have presented a visual concept of a state-of-the-art house which they claim will be capable of flying. A visual concept of a sophisticated new home which will be capable of floating through the air has been showcased by Russian designers, who claim that the house can also be used as a summer cottage and a small airship, media reports said. The Freedom house, which has first and foremost been designed for so-called citizens of the world, can be installed almost anywhere on our planet — in the woods, at sea, on the coast, in the mountains, and in an urban area, according to Dmitry Ulitin and Anstasiya Taratuta of the design studio Artzona.ru. The owner of this ...
Russia & US agree to build new space station after ISS, work on joint Mars project
Post Date: 2015-03-28 02:22:14 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
In a landmark decision, Russian space agency Roscosmos and its US counterpart NASA have agreed to build a new space station after the current International Space Station (ISS) expires. The operation of the ISS was prolonged until 2024. “We have agreed that Roscosmos and NASA will be working together on the program of a future space station," Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov said during a news conference on Saturday. US-Russian crew blasts off for record-setting one-year ISS flight t.co/cwxoieJvDP #YearInSpacet.co/8dy5gBDiTe The talks were held at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The two agencies will be unifying their standards and systems of manned space programs, according ...
China developing fighter with VTOL capability
Post Date: 2015-03-26 21:26:26 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... China is developing a new fighter with vertical take-off and landing capability, according to the official website of the state run Aviation Industry Corporation of China on Mar. 20, reports the Sina Military Network based in Beijing. Like the AV-8 Harrier designed for the US Marine Corps, China's new stealth fighter is developed to serve aboard the PLA Navy's future amphibious assault ships. The mission of this new aircraft is likely to be to provide close air support to ground forces operating in the Asia-Pacific region. China began the program to develop a fighter with VTOL capability back in 1950s. However, these earlier aircraft were unsuitable for service because ...
IQ of children in better-educated households is higher
Post Date: 2015-03-26 06:07:07 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
ScienceDaily: Young adults who were raised in educated households develop higher cognitive ability than those who were brought up in less ideal environments, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia and Lund University in Sweden. While the study does not refute previous findings that DNA impacts intelligence, it does prove that environmental influences play a significant role in cognitive ability as measured in early adulthood. The study compared the cognitive ability -- as measured by IQ -- of 436 Swedish male siblings in which one member was reared by biological parents and the other by adoptive parents. The IQ ...
Chinese company creates 3D-printed car for just $1,770 (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2015-03-26 03:37:59 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
RT... Chinese 3D tech company Sanya Sihai has created a bright orange electric-powered sedan which cost just $1,770 to manufacture. Sanya Suhai unveiled the vehicle, China’s first 3D printed car, on Tuesday in the country’s southern Hainan province. Building the vehicle reportedly took 1.5 months, with the printing part of the process taking about five days. “The density of the material is much lighter than that of the metal, only one-seventh or one-eighth,” chief designer Chen Mingqiao explained. “Lighter weight will help save energy in the future.” The fully functioning sedan was printed in a filament dubbed 'Tyrant Gold' and cost just $1,770 to ...
Forget ISIS, Hackers and Money—The Universe Is About to Collapse
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:40:37 by Ada
5 Comments
Forget ISIS, plane crashes, your student loan, Hillary’s emails, interest rates, Vladimir Putin, the Iran Deal, Ted Cruz, and anything else that keeps you up at night. Here’s one that could put us all to sleep—permanently. Physicists have figured out that our universe is on an “imminent” track to collapse. As PhysOrg put it, the universe will soon stop expanding and collapse in on itself, obliterating all matter as we know it. To physicists, imminent is like dog years writ large— meaning tens of billions of years, give or take. Nemanja Kaloper at the University of California, Davis and Antonio Padilla at the University of Nottingham have “proposed a ...
Microsoft offers Windows 10 for free after threat of antitrust probe in China
Post Date: 2015-03-25 02:00:19 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, on March 18-19 held its WinHEC meeting in China's Shenzhen, aiming to display its free Windows 10 operating system, Guangzhou-based 21st Century Business Herald reports. Over the past nine months, Microsoft has won 60 new partners in Shenzhen and has created 186 new products, said Ralph Haupter, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China. At the WinHEC meeting, Microsoft introduced the features of the free Windows 10 OS and announced a cooperative deal with Qihoo 360 Technology and Tencent Holdings, both of which will help them launch the free upgrade. This indicates a major shift in Microsoft's business model, from ...
IBM to team up with Chinese company and make Obama unhappy
Post Date: 2015-03-24 22:54:01 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and China's Beijing Teamsun Technology recently announced their cooperation, allowing the latter based on IBM's technologies to develop and sell domestic innovation products–a move seen provoking the Obama administration, ThePaper.cn reports. Previously, the Obama administration had been weary of the information security contents in the draft of China's anti-terrorism law, and now IBM's cooperating with a Chinese enterprise in handing over the source codes to the latter will make the US government even more unhappy. IBM will be open to Chinese enterprises, not only to share its designs with them, but also ...
Airplane giant Boeing granted patent for FORCE FIELD technology
Post Date: 2015-03-24 05:28:33 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
BOEING has successfully obtained a patent for a 'Force Field'-like technology designed to protect targets from fatal explosions and shrapnel. Unlike the force field Marvel's Fantastic Four, right, Boeing's system will not deflect direct hits MARVEL•GETTY Unlike the force field Marvel's Fantastic Four, right, Boeing's system will not deflect direct hits The multibillion US company, which sells airplanes, rockets and satellites, was last week granted a patent for a new "Force Field" or "electromagnetic arc" technology. Unlike typical science fiction visions of a force field, Boeing's system will not be designed to deflect direct hits ...
Robots To Take Over Half of US Jobs Within Next Several Years, Expert Warns
Post Date: 2015-03-24 00:31:03 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
Sputnik... An expert in machine learning warns that advances in technology could mean the replacement of nearly half the US human workforce with computers over the next two decades. University of Oxford Associate Professor Michael Osborne evaluated 702 occupations in the US and predicted 47% could be taken over by computers and machines in the foreseeable future. The jobs most at risk are hospitality and food service, Osborne claimed, with 87% of the workforce there at “high risk” of being taken over by machines, the Brisbane Times reported. Trailing that are transportation and warehouse jobs at 75% and real estate at 67%. Interestingly enough, only 19% of workers in the ...
Lenovo moves into internet business with smart homeware
Post Date: 2015-03-23 22:56:25 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker by shipments, plans to enter the internet sector and boost its handset business though a new online venture that will be launched in April, reports CBNweekly. The new venture, called Fancy Maker, will focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), offering products such as wearable smart devices and smart homeware that integrate with mobile phones and applications, according to the magazine. The first batch of Fancy Maker products, to be unveiled in early April in tandem with the official launch of the venture, will be basic home appliances such as smart light bulbs and power sockets, said the article. "We explored for a few months and found ...
Big Bang theory could be debunked by Large Hadron Collider
Post Date: 2015-03-23 08:03:20 by Ada
3 Comments
Scientists at Cern could prove the controversial theory of ‘rainbow gravity’ which suggests that the universe stretches back into time infinitely, with no Big Bang The theory of Rainbow Gravity may prove that the Big Bang could not have happened The theory of Rainbow Gravity may prove that the Big Bang could not have happened Photo: Alamy Sarah Knapton By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor10:33AM GMT 23 Mar 2015 Comments4 Comments The detection of miniature black holes by the Large Hadron Collider could prove the existence of parallel universes and show that the Big Bang did not happen, scientists believe. The particle accelerator, which will be restarted this week, has already found ...
A Self-Driving Car Just Set Off on a Record-Setting Cross-Country Trip
Post Date: 2015-03-22 22:36:42 by Tatarewicz
13 Comments
Sputnik... Delphi Automotive is sending its driverless-car across the country in a 3,500-mile trip from San Francisco to New York. It is the longest automated drive ever attempted in North America. A Google self-driving car goes on a test drive near the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. While these cars promise to be much safer, accidents will be inevitable. How those cars should react when faced with a series of bad, perhaps deadly, options is a field even less developed than the technology itself. Delphi’s self-driving car will take about 10 days to make the cross-country trip. While the car has already passed long drive runs, Delphi's Chief Technology Officer ...
You’ll Never Guess the Latest Stupid Statement from John Kerry (climate change)
Post Date: 2015-03-21 11:50:48 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
You’ll Never Guess the Latest Stupid Statement from John Kerry John Kerry may not make as many ludicrous statements as Joe Biden, but he does have a habit of, shall we say, stretching the truth a bit? Like when Kerry said that man-made climate change is as settled as gravity. Really, John? As settled as gravity? That’s an interesting statement considering that I don’t recall you having a PhD. in physics. Or meteorology, for that matter. (He majored in Political Science, and he never received an “A” in his entire time at Yale. Surprised? Me, neither.) The problem, of course, is that man negatively impacting the climate is not settled by any stretch of the ...
HOW ATTACKERS CAN USE RADIO SIGNALS AND MOBILE PHONES TO STEAL PROTECTED DATA
Post Date: 2015-03-19 20:18:50 by titorite
1 Comments
COMPUTERS HOUSING THE world’s most sensitive data are usually “air-gapped” or isolated from the internet. They’re also not connected to other systems that are internet-connected, and their Bluetooth feature is disabled, too. Sometimes, workers are not even allowed to bring mobile phones within range of the computers. All of this is done to keep important data out of the hands of remote hackers. But these security measures may be futile in the face of a new technique researchers in Israel have developed for stealthily extracting sensitive data from isolated machines—using radio frequency signals and a mobile phone. The attack recalls a method the NSA has been ...
Robot model for infant learning shows bodily posture may affect memory and learning
Post Date: 2015-03-19 06:01:29 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceDaily... An Indiana University cognitive scientist and collaborators have found that posture is critical in the early stages of acquiring new knowledge. The study, conducted by Linda Smith, a professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, in collaboration with a roboticist from England and a developmental psychologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers a new approach to studying the way "objects of cognition," such as words or memories of physical objects, are tied to the position of the body. "This study shows that the body plays a role in early object name learning, and how toddlers ...
Latest [Newer] 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 [Older]
|