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A more efficient, lightweight and low-cost organic solar cell: Researchers broke the 'electrode barrier'
Post Date: 2014-09-20 06:03:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily For decades, polymer scientists and synthetic chemists working to improve the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells were hampered by the inherent drawbacks of commonly used metal electrodes, including their instability and susceptibility to oxidation. Now for the first time, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a more efficient, easily processable and lightweight solar cell that can use virtually any metal for the electrode, effectively breaking the "electrode barrier." This barrier has been a big problem for a long time, says UMass Amherst's Thomas Russell, professor of polymer science and engineering. "The ...
UN climate change: 1000 scientists say no
Post Date: 2014-09-19 22:33:47 by Horse
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It’s a shocking 321-page report assembled by The Climate Depot: “More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims.” It names names. It lists reasons for the dissent. Reality is engineered consensus. But when that doesn’t work, “experts” just assert there is a consensus when there isn’t. “What the hell, let’s just say that ‘everybody agrees’ manmade warming is destroying Earth and we have ten minutes to solve it, and let’s get our friends in the press to shut out the naysayers. You know, media blackout.” Science is supposed to be about evidence and proof, not consensus. But that idea is ...
New explanation for origin of plate tectonics: What set Earth's plates in motion?
Post Date: 2014-09-18 01:58:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... The mystery of what kick-started the motion of our earth's massive tectonic plates across its surface has been explained by researchers at the University of Sydney. "Earth is the only planet in our solar system where the process of plate tectonics occurs," said Professor Patrice Rey, from the University of Sydney's School of Geosciences. "The geological record suggests that until three billion years ago the Earth's crust was immobile so what sparked this unique phenomenon has fascinated geoscientists for decades. We suggest it was triggered by the spreading of early continents then eventually became a self-sustaining process." Professor Rey ...
THE NUMBER OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IS INCREASING AND THAT COULD LEAD TO AN EXTREMELY COLD WINTER
Post Date: 2014-09-17 06:49:26 by Ada
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The number of volcanoes that are erupting continues to rise, and scientists cannot seem to explain why this is happening The number of volcanoes that are erupting continues to rise, and scientists cannot seem to explain why this is happening. In 2013, we witnessed the most volcanic eruptions worldwide that we have ever seen in a single year, and this increased activity has carried over into 2014. In recent months, we have seen major volcanoes roar to life in Russia, Peru, Hawaii,Reunion Island, Indonesia, and all over Alaska. It is highly unusual for so many volcanoes to all be erupting at the same time. According to Volcano Discovery, a whopping 34 volcanoes are erupting around the globe ...
First water-based nuclear battery can be used to generate electrical energy
Post Date: 2014-09-17 05:19:14 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... From cell phones to cars and flashlights, batteries play an important role in everyday life. Scientists and technology companies constantly are seeking ways to improve battery life and efficiency. Now, for the first time using a water-based solution, researchers at the University of Missouri have created a long-lasting and more efficient nuclear battery that could be used for many applications such as a reliable energy source in automobiles and also in complicated applications such as space flight. "Betavoltaics, a battery technology that generates power from radiation, has been studied as an energy source since the 1950s," said Jae W. Kwon, an associate ...
Textbook theory behind volcanoes may be wrong
Post Date: 2014-09-15 08:29:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: In the typical textbook picture, volcanoes, such as those that are forming the Hawaiian islands, erupt when magma gushes out as narrow jets from deep inside Earth. But that picture is wrong, according to a new study from researchers at Caltech and the University of Miami in Florida. New seismology data are now confirming that such narrow jets don't actually exist, says Don Anderson, the Eleanor and John R. McMillian Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, at Caltech. In fact, he adds, basic physics doesn't support the presence of these jets, called mantle plumes, and the new results corroborate those fundamental ideas. "Mantle plumes have never had a sound physical ...
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Post Date: 2014-09-13 14:20:40 by BTP Holdings
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Scientists find quicker, more sustainable way to produce hydrogen fuel
Post Date: 2014-09-13 02:54:54 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists in Scotland have just taken a huge step towards producing clean hydrogen fuel in a sustainable way. Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen gas can be burned to generate electricity without producing toxic emissions. It’s produced easily from water through a process known as electrolysis, which uses electricity to break the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen, to release them as gas. But, and this is a big but, the problem is where that electricity comes from - current methods are driven by the burning of fossil fuels, which sort of defeats the whole point of making hydrogen fuel in the first place. This new method, however, developed by chemists from the University of Glasgow in ...
Cutting the cord on soft robots: Machine walks through snow, flames and can be run over by cars
Post Date: 2014-09-12 08:28:23 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily scienceDaily... When it comes to soft robots, researchers have finally managed to cut the cord. Developers from Harvard's School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have produced the first untethered soft robot -- a quadruped that can stand up and walk away from its designers. Working in the lab of Robert Wood, the Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a team of researchers that included Kevin Galloway, Michael Karpelson, Bobak Mosadegh, Robert Shepherd, Michael Tolley, and Michael Wehner was able to scale up earlier soft-robot designs, enabling a single robot to carry on its back all ...
VIDEO: Boater Catches Explosive Volcanic Eruption, Startling Sonic Boom on Camera
Post Date: 2014-09-11 17:33:32 by Southern Style
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VIDEO: Boater Catches Explosive Volcanic Eruption, Startling Sonic Boom on CameraBy Courtney Spamer, MeteorologistSeptember 11, 2014; 4:46 AM ET Mount Tavurvur, a volcano in Papua New Guinea, erupted on Aug. 29, spewing ash and causing a shock wave and resultant sonic boom. While in a boat near the New Guinea coast, Phil McNamara caught a rare sight, the initial explosion of a volcano. Mount Tavurvur is known as a rather active volcano, one that caused many deaths and covered a nearby town in ash in 1994. Although a smaller eruption in comparison, the recent August explosion captured on video is a rare, close-up look. Following the explosive eruption, a shock wave emanated from the blast. ...
‘Extreme’ solar storm heading towards Earth
Post Date: 2014-09-11 03:35:43 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... A solar storm, which registers "extreme" on forecasters' scale, is barreling towards the Earth. It is yet to be known when the highly-charged ejecta from a solar eruption, which took place on Wednesday, will strike the Earth. Tom Berger, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, said, "There's been a giant magnetic explosion on the sun." "Because it's pointed right at us, we'll at least catch some of the cloud" of highly energized and magnetized plasma that can disrupt Earth's magnetic sphere, which sometimes leads to temporary power grid ...
Biologists delay the aging process by 'remote control'
Post Date: 2014-09-10 01:15:37 by Tatarewicz
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Activating a gene called AMPK in the nervous system induces the anti-aging cellular recycling process of autophagy in both the brain and intestine. UCLA biologists have identified a gene that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when activated remotely in key organ systems. Working with fruit flies, the life scientists activated a gene called AMPK that is a key energy sensor in cells; it gets activated when cellular energy levels are low. Increasing the amount of AMPK in fruit flies' intestines increased their lifespans by about 30 percent—to roughly eight weeks from the typical six—and the flies stayed healthier longer as well. The research, published ...
Brain-to-brain 'telepathic' communication achieved for first time
Post Date: 2014-09-09 23:25:56 by Tatarewicz
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Telegraph... For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France. Research led by experts at Harvard University shows technology can be used to transmit information from one person's brain to another's even, as in this case, if they are thousands of miles away. "It is kind of technological realisation of the dream of telepathy, but it is definitely not magical," Giulio Ruffini, a theoretical physicist and co-author of the research, told AFP by phone from Barcelona. "We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the ...
British Researcher: No Global Warming in 18 Years
Post Date: 2014-09-09 16:53:55 by BTP Holdings
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British Researcher: No Global Warming in 18 Years Image: British Researcher: No Global Warming in 18 Years British climate change skeptic and the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Christopher Monckton. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) Tuesday, 09 Sep 2014 10:26 AM By Drew MacKenzie A British aristocrat has taken a swipe at activists and politicians who fan the fears of climate change as he claimed that recent research shows there's been no global warming for almost 18 years. Lord Christopher Monckton announced on http://ClimateDepot.com that his scientific satellite data show the temperatures have remained fairly stable between October 1966 and August 2014, despite a rise in ...
Magnetic nanocubes can assemble themselves into DNA-like superstructures
Post Date: 2014-09-09 00:55:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists have found out how magnetic nanoparticles self-assemble, a discovery that could help them develop revolutionary new materials. Researchers have long been excited about turning nanoparticles and their unique properties into materials, which, just to name a few potential applications, could be used to improve solar panels and create better touch screens. But there’s a problem - nanoparticles are notoriously difficult to organise into useful arrangements. However, nanoparticles of magnetite (Fe3O4), the most abundant magnetic material on Earth, are known to self-assemble into fine compass needles inside animals such as birds to help them navigate. So ...
Stephen Hawking: 'God Particle' Could Destroy the Universe
Post Date: 2014-09-08 04:48:35 by Ada
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PHYSICIST MAKES WRY PREDICTION ABOUT THE HIGGS BOSON PARTICLE (NEWSER) – Stephen Hawking has already warned that aliens might wipe out the human race. Now another mild prediction: The Higgs Boson or "God" particle could cause a "catastrophic vacuum delay" that undermines space-time and destroys the universe, reports CNET via the Sunday Times. How so? Well, the particle "has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn gigaelectronvolts (GeV)," he writes in the introduction to a new book of scientist lectures called Starmus, reports Mic.com. But a particle accelerator that reaches 100GeV "would be larger than Earth, ...
Linux v Windows
Post Date: 2014-09-04 11:12:25 by James Deffenbach
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China to mass produce industrial robots
Post Date: 2014-09-03 03:35:47 by Tatarewicz
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SHENYANG, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's first industrial robot production line is expected to start operation in the northeastern city of Shenyang this month. SIASUN Robot and Automation Co. Ltd. will be the first to jump start China's industrial robot production with an annual capacity of 5,000. Their facilities will produce robots applied in welding, hauling, assembling, stacking, grinding and polishing, according to Qu Daokui, the company's CEO. He said the production line is undergoing tests and the exact date of operation is yet to be announced.8 The application of robots has expanded from the high-end industries such as automobile and electronics manufacturing to ...
Minnesotan man builds the world’s first 3D printed concrete castle in his backyard In Minnesota, contractor Andrey Rudenko is currently working on a project of gargantuan proportions
Post Date: 2014-09-02 20:26:00 by Horse
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In Minnesota, contractor Andrey Rudenko is currently working on a project of gargantuan proportions that seems to be stretching and exploring the limits of 3D printing technology. Using a printer that was substantially modified and expanded, he has printed a concrete castle in his own backyard. And at 3 by 5 meters, this concrete structure is the world’s first 3D printed concrete castle, and one of the largest objects that has, up till now, ever printed with 3D printing technology. Rather than trying to build a machine that caters to theme parks and history enthusiasts, this project grew out of a desire to construct a 3D printer capable of constructing durable, realistic and ...
Iran unveils high-tech radar systems
Post Date: 2014-09-02 06:39:12 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Iran has unveiled two domestically-manufactured state-of-the-art radar systems capable of detecting stealth aircraft and long-distance targets. The advanced radar systems, Arash-2 and Kayhan, were unveiled on Monday on the occasion of the national Iranian Air Defense Day in a ceremony attended by high-ranking military commanders, including Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili. The Iranian commander said Kayhan, which is a two-dimensional radar system, is capable of detecting and tracking hostile aerial targets, including conventional aircraft and stealth jets that fly on high altitudes. The Arash-2 radar system can track targets at an ...
You have a bacterial 'aura' that follows you around
Post Date: 2014-08-31 01:40:06 by Tatarewicz
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Auras belong in the realm of pseudoscience, but microbiologists may have just discovered an element of truth in the concept. Scientists have found a microbial 'aura' of unique and identifiable communities of bacteria living on people's skin and in their homes. These communities follow people whereever they go and leave traces that can be used almost like a fingerprint to determine a person's movements. The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago conducted the research as part of the Home Microbiome Project. The results were published in Science this week. Seven families, including 18 people, gave swab samples of themselves ...
Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago...despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now
Post Date: 2014-08-30 21:47:57 by Ada
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Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore's warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row An area twice the size of Alaska - America's biggest state - was open water two years ago and is now covered in ice These satellite images taken from University of Illinois's Cryosphere project show ice has become more concentrated The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’ Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate ...
The universal 'anger face': Each element makes you look physically stronger and more formidable
Post Date: 2014-08-30 20:08:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: The anger face is a constellation of features, each of which makes a person appear physically stronger. The next time you get really mad, take a look in the mirror. See the lowered brow, the thinned lips and the flared nostrils? That's what social scientists call the "anger face," and it appears to be part of our basic biology as humans. Now, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and at Griffith University in Australia have identified the functional advantages that caused the specific appearance of the anger face to evolve. Their findings appear in the current online edition of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. "The expression is cross-culturally ...
Greatest Aviation Video In World History
Post Date: 2014-08-28 21:09:55 by X-15
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Flying Naked in the Airplane from Mark W4B on Vimeo.
The last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line
Post Date: 2014-08-27 01:26:58 by X-15
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Carefully choreographed chaos is under way in and around Ford's historic Dearborn Truck Plant as the automaker races to get it ready to build a very different F-series truck. On Saturday morning the last steel-bodied 2014 Ford F-150 rolled off the line and workers were ripping up equipment behind it. Ford has just eight weeks to remove all the equipment and tooling and replace it with new machinery to make the all-new 2015 F-150 with an aluminum body. "We are doing things we have never done before," said Bruce Hettle, head of North American manufacturing for Ford, who must oversee a critical launch with speed and precision. Because Ford sells at least 60,000 F-150s a month ...
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