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China Focus: Life on Mars? Chinese scientists find new evidence
Post Date: 2014-12-16 03:27:07 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Did Mars ever harbor life? Scientists have found new evidence for possible life on the Red Planet in a piece of Martian meteorite that landed on Earth after about 700,000 years of space travel. According to research carried out by teams of Chinese, German, Swiss, and Japanese scientists, more than 10 pieces of coal-like carbon particles, thinner than one-tenth of the width of a strand of hair, were found in a thumb-sized piece of the meteorite. "We used advanced equipment to determine the carbon particles are organic matter, and to rule out the possibility of graphite, which is inorganic," said Lin Yangting, a lead scientist of the research team ...
Real vs perceived age: A matter of life and death
Post Date: 2014-12-15 21:55:53 by Buzzard
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How old do you feel? Think carefully — the answer might help predict how much longer you'll live. That's according to British research posing that question to about 6,500 adults. Those who felt younger than their real age lived the longest over the following eight years. Here are five key findings from the study, by researchers Isla Rippon and Andrew Steptoe at University College London. Results were published online Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine: REAL VS. PERCEIVED AGE The average real age of those questioned was about 66 years. Most adults felt at least three years younger than their real age. Those who felt younger had the least chances of dying over about eight years ...
Is space-time shaped like a SPIRAL? Universe has a 'golden ratio' that keeps everything in order, researchers claim
Post Date: 2014-12-14 03:48:05 by Tatarewicz
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South African researchers say the universe is governed by a 'golden ratio' They say space-time itself is defined by this mathematical constant The ratio - 1.618 - is found across nature in plants, hurricanes and more But the researchers say it is also ever-present in the universe This means it might make up space-time itself Some have suggested our universe may have been the only one in the multiverse theory to have this ratio that allowed it to form A cosmic constant known as the ‘golden ratio’ is said to be found in the shape of hurricanes, elephant tusks and even in galaxies. Now researchers say this ratio is also seen in the topology of space-time, affecting the ...
Jetman Aerobatic Formation Flight in Dubai
Post Date: 2014-12-13 12:24:17 by FormerLurker
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Poster Comment:Jetpacks? Haven't seen these till just now..
Father of Web: Putin Is Wrong About Internet Being a 'CIA Project'
Post Date: 2014-12-12 07:33:59 by Tatarewicz
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Moscow Times.... The inventor of the World Wide Web said on Thursday that President Vladimir Putin was incorrect when he alleged the Internet was a project created by U.S. spies in the Central Intelligence Agency. Putin, a former KGB spy who does not use email, has said he will not restrict Internet access for Russians, but in April he stoked concerns that the Kremlin might seek to crackdown by saying the Internet was born out of a "CIA project." "The Internet is not a CIA creation," Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989 — the year that the Berlin Wall collapsed — said when asked about Putin's CIA comment. ...
Scientists discover stem cell breakthrough
Post Date: 2014-12-11 06:51:24 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- An Australian research team together with international scientists have discovered a new stem cell that can be programmed to become any part of the body. The ramifications of the find mean that a transplant can be conducted by using the patient's own cells, which can be made into organs and tissue. The discovery, published in the journal Nature on Thursday, is a breakthrough in stem cell research. "These are remarkably useful cells, because you can apply them to several different areas of medicine," molecular biologist Thomas Preiss, from the Australian National University, told Fairfax Media. More than 50 researchers from Australia, Canada, ...
Water on earth does not originate from comets: Scientists
Post Date: 2014-12-11 06:43:36 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV...Scientists have debunked the idea that water on earth could have originated from comets citing the results from Europe's Rosetta mission. The results from the European Space Agency’s mission, whose robotic lander Philae landed on Comet 67P last month, showed that the water on the icy mass is different from the water on our planet, state-run BBC reported on Wednesday. Some have concluded that water might have come from asteroids but more evidence is needed to prove that. The vast majority of liquid on earth is composed of hydrogen and oxygen atoms but occasionally -- three in every 10,000 molecules -- a hydrogen atom is replaced with a deuterium one. The mission has ...
China stealth jet could shoot down F-35: Aviation offcial
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:00:14 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... China’s top aircraft maker says its new stealth fighter has the ability to shoot down US-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from the sky. When China’s J-31 stealth fighter “takes to the sky, it can definitely take it (F-35) down…. That’s a certainty,” Lin Zuoming, president of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), said on Tuesday. Lin added that AVIC seeks to compete with the United States in new markets, particularly targeting countries to which the US will not sell military equipment as well as the countries that cannot afford the expensive F-35. “The next-generation air forces that are unable to buy the F-35 have no way to build ...
s World of Tanks creator to invest in new Russian ultra-light rocket
Post Date: 2014-12-09 22:57:07 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda.Ru World of Tanks creator to invest in new Russian ultra-light rocket. World of Tanks creator to launch space rockets Sergei Burkatovsky, known as one of the creators of the popular online game World of Tanks, is to invest from five to ten million rubles in Lin Industrial, a Russian developer of carrier rockets. The investment will be used to create ultra-light rocket "Taimyr", TASS reports. Chief Designer at Lin Industrial, Alexander Ilyin, said that the funds would be used to develop and test a prototype of a modular ultralight "Taimyr" carrier rocket with a thrust of 50 kg. Burkatovsky, who serves as the general producer of Wargaming.net, confirmed his ...
Australian scientists announce solar energy breakthrough
Post Date: 2014-12-08 08:36:57 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... In Australia, researchers were able to convert more than 40 percent of sunlight hitting solar panels into electricity, a world first . Australian scientists said Monday they had made a breakthrough in increasing the efficiency of solar panels, which they hope could eventually lead to cheaper sources of renewable energy. In what the University of New South Wales described as a world first, the researchers were able to convert more than 40 percent of sunlight hitting the panels into electricity. "This is the highest efficiency ever reported for sunlight conversion into electricity," UNSW Professor Martin Green said in a statement. "We used commercial solar cells, ...
Bigger than Apophis: Dangerous 300+ meter asteroid to cross Earth orbit every 3 years
Post Date: 2014-12-08 05:06:01 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Scientists have calculated that 2014 UR116 asteroid will fly in dangerous proximity to Earth every three years. If it collides with the planet the energy of the explosion could be a thousand times greater than the impact of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Vladimir Lipunov, a leading scientist on the team which discovered the asteroid this October, says the scientists now know its orbit and its period which is 3 years, but they cannot say precisely when the asteroid will approach the Earth. “We should track it constantly. Because if we have a single mistake, there will be a catastrophe. The consequences can be very serious,” he said in the documentary “Asteroids ...
Electric companies should be terrified of Elon Musk’s revolutionary batteries
Post Date: 2014-12-06 01:32:20 by Tatarewicz
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BGR News Although oil prices have been plummeting recently, the future of energy is likely still from renewable sources such as solar power, if only because they make generating electricity insanely cheap. With this in mind, Bloomberg’s Mark Chediak writes that Elon Musk’s new gigafactory should scare electric companies to death because of it will have the ability to mass produce “stationary battery packs that can be paired with rooftop solar panels to store power.” RELATED: Rooftop solar power is making coal obsolete in Australia Amory Lovins, the co-founder of energy consultancy firm Rocky Mountain Institute, tells Chediak that energy storage packs such as the ...
Physicists achieve superconductivity at room temperature
Post Date: 2014-12-06 00:40:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Physicists from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have kept a piece of ceramic in a superconducting state, disproving the widely-held assumption that materials need to be cooled to temperatures of at least -140 degrees Celsius to achieve superconductivity. Superconducting materials have the potential to change everything that relies on electrical power, such as power grids, transportation, and renewable energy sources. This is because they’re able to transport electric currents without any resistance, which means they’re incredibly efficient and cost-effective to run. Except right now, they’re not, because in order to get a ...
Machines capable of thought could end human race: Stephen Hawking
Post Date: 2014-12-03 06:36:09 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... The eminent British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has said that attempts to create machines capable of thought could lead to the end of the human race. "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," Hawking told the state-run BBC. The physicist, who has the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), made the remarks in response to a question about upgrading the communication technology he uses to speak with a basic form of artificial intelligence (AI) designed by Intel. Hawking says the simple forms of AI, which have developed so far, have proven to very useful, but he is scared of the consequences of ...
World's deepest lab in Sichuan aims to capture dark matter
Post Date: 2014-12-03 06:22:23 by Tatarewicz
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China's Jinping underground laboratory, located in Sichuan's Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, is going to be expanded, according to a Nov. 28 report in US-based journal Science. The lab is 2,400m deep in the rock, making it the deepest lab in the world. Matter makes up 4% of the universe, while dark matter makes up 23% and dark energy makes up 73%, but currently the prevailing standard model can only account for matter, according to Astronomy in the Space Era: from Space Astronomical Observations to Nobel Prizes in Physics, a paper penned by Zhang Shuangnan, a physicist with the Institute of High Energy Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dark ...
James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist'
Post Date: 2014-11-30 15:07:06 by Dakmar
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World-famous biologist James Watson said he is selling the Nobel Prize medal he won in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA because he has been ostracised and needs the money. James Watson, the world-famous biologist who was shunned by the scientific community after linking intelligence to race, said he is selling his Nobel Prize because he is short of money after being made a pariah. Mr Watson said he is auctioning the Nobel Prize medal he won in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA, because "no-one really wants to admit I exist". Auctioneer Christie’s said the gold medal, the first Nobel Prize to be sold by a living recipient, could fetch as much as $3.5m ...
German-made ‘miracle’ machine turns water into gasoline
Post Date: 2014-11-30 07:01:16 by Tatarewicz
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RT... There is as yet no method to mimic Jesus Christ and turn water into wine, but German chemical engineers have proved they can perform miracles of alchemy. They are now finalizing the assembly of a rig that changes water into gasoline. The German company says it has developed an engineering installation capable of synthesizing petroleum-based fuels from water and carbon dioxide. The ‘power-to-liquid’ rig converts gases extracted from water into liquid hydrocarbon fuels. “I would call it a miracle because it completely changes the way we are producing fuels for cars, planes and also the chemical industry,” Nils Aldag, Chief Financial Officer and co-founder of ...
Scientist Confesses: "Global Warming a $22 Billion Scam"
Post Date: 2014-11-28 15:58:01 by BTP Holdings
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Date: 11/12/2014 Imagine, for a moment, sitting at a prestigious steakhouse in Palm Beach, Florida, a hot spot for some of the most wealthy and famous — Donald Trump, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, James Patterson, Rush Limbaugh, and hundreds more. And, imagine dining with a handful of men you’ve only read about. Some of them are worth millions, others published best-selling books, and some have held prominent positions at the White House. In essence, you’re sitting at a five-person table of VIPs. You’re about to take a bite of your New York strip when one of the men, a top U.S. intelligence agent, slams a 164-page document in the middle of the table. This document, ...
Invisible shield found thousands of miles above Earth blocks 'killer electrons'
Post Date: 2014-11-27 14:50:50 by Ada
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Summary: An invisible shield has been discovered some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called 'killer electrons,' which whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms. Scientists have discovered an invisible shield roughly 7,200 miles above Earth. Credit: Andy Kale, University of Alberta [Click to enlarge image] A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called "killer electrons," which whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to ...
New graphene discoveries can lead to green energy revolution
Post Date: 2014-11-27 04:17:03 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... An unexpected property of a form of carbon graphite -- the material in pencil lead -- could revolutionize green energy development. Positively charged hydrogen atoms or protons are allowed to pass through graphene although it remains totally impermeable to all other gases, including hydrogen itself, said a report by The Independent on Wednesday. The new finding could significantly increase the efficiency of fuel cells that generate electricity directly from hydrogen. The discovery means hydrogen fuel could probably be extracted from air and burned as a carbon-free source of energy in a fuel cell so as to produce electricity and water with no harmful waste products. “In ...
Ancient Martian civilisation was wiped out by nuclear bomb-wielding aliens - and they could attack Earth next, claims physicist
Post Date: 2014-11-27 00:43:47 by Tatarewicz
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MailOnline... If you're planning to go to the 2014 Annual Fall Meeting of the American Physical Society in Illinois this Saturday, you might be in for a bit of a surprise with the final talk of the day. Because that's when plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg will present his theory that an ancient civilisation on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. In his bizarre theory, Dr Brandenburg says ancient Martians known as Cydonians and Utopians were massacred in the attack - and evidence of the genocide can still be seen today. Scroll down for video A scientist is to present his theory that ancient life on Mars was massacred. Dr Brandenburg is giving a ...
Dutch seek to harness energy from salt water mix
Post Date: 2014-11-26 21:33:17 by Tatarewicz
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch researchers are seeking to add a new, largely untapped renewable energy source to the world's energy mix with the opening of a "Blue Energy" test facility on Wednesday. Blue energy takes advantage of the difference in salt concentration between sea water and fresh water to produce electricity. Rik Siebers of REDstack BV, the company overseeing the project, said the goal is to improve the technology to the point where it will be profitable to build blue energy plants commercially in the 2020s. Siebers said blue energy will one day have its own niche. "For wind turbines you need wind, and solar panels work in the day, but water is always ...
Credit Card Thieves Fear This...
Post Date: 2014-11-26 16:55:04 by BTP Holdings
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What Your RFID Blocker Wallet Can Do: Stop Thieves From Stealing Your Credit & Identification Information Stored In A RFID Chip – Sometimes credit card companies sneak these chips inside your card to “help”. This wallet will automatically clamp down on that information so nothing can be transmitted in or out. Based Off The Space-Age Faraday Cage.This completely disperses electrical signals. It’s the electronic equivalent to burying your sensitive information in concrete. Great For Men And Women - Fits Easily In A Pocket Or Purse. This unisex design is crafted from stylish aluminum. It’s only 4.2 x 2.8 x 0.8 inches so fits easily inside your pocket or purse. ...
Australian engineers have boosted solar cell efficiency by five times more than ever before
Post Date: 2014-11-26 04:29:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... We could soon be able to convert more of the Sun’s energy into power using fewer solar panels, thanks to a new breakthrough by Swinburne University of Technology researchers in Australia. Working with researchers from Nankai University in China, the team has managed to enhance the efficiency of silicon solar cells by 3.8 percent - almost five times more than the current record. “One of the critical challenges the solar cell faces is low energy conversion efficiency due to insufficient absorption from the thin silicon layer,” said micro-photonics expert Min Gu at Swinburne University of Technology, who worked on the project. To achieve the impressive ...
Patronstart Field Marshall Fowler (shotgun cartridge start)
Post Date: 2014-11-23 21:36:03 by X-15
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