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A new technology based on carbon nanotubes promises commercially viable hydrogen production from water.
Post Date: 2014-07-15 06:51:46 by Tatarewicz
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Rutgers researchers have developed a technology that could overcome a major cost barrier to make clean-burning hydrogen fuel -- a fuel that could replace expensive and environmentally harmful fossil fuels. A new technology based on carbon nanotubes promises commercially viable hydrogen production from water. The new technology is a novel catalyst that performs almost as well as cost-prohibitive platinum for so-called electrolysis reactions, which use electric currents to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The Rutgers technology is also far more efficient than less-expensive catalysts investigated to-date. "Hydrogen has long been expected to play a vital role in our ...
Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
Post Date: 2014-07-15 04:36:43 by Tatarewicz
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Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation, they can gain electric charge in the process. Now, the same team has demonstrated that this process can generate small amounts of electricity that might be used to power electronic devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, and two others, are published in the journal Applied Physics Letters. This approach could lead to devices to charge cellphones or other electronics using just the humidity in the air. As a side benefit, the system could also produce clean water. The device ...
Genetic similarities found among friends: study
Post Date: 2014-07-15 01:01:46 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Friends who are not biologically related still tend to resemble each other when it comes to genetics, revealed a U.S. study published Monday that proved that "friends are the family you choose." "Looking across the whole genome, we find that, on average, we are genetically similar to our friends," lead author James Fowler, professor of the University of California, San Diego, said. "We have more DNA in common with the people we pick as friends than we do with strangers in the same population." The study, published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on a genome-wide analysis of ...
Rupert Murdoch: Climate Change Mostly Natural
Post Date: 2014-07-14 17:30:30 by BTP Holdings
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Rupert Murdoch: Climate Change Mostly Natural Sunday, 13 Jul 2014 10:36 PM By Greg Richter Climate change is nothing new, says News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, and is only slightly caused by human activity. "Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it," Murdoch said in a television interview on his own Sky News. "At the moment the North Pole is melting, but the South Pole is getting bigger. Things are happening. How much of it are we doing, with emissions and so on? As far as Australia goes? Nothing in the overall picture." Murdoch's interview was reported in The Guardian. A worst-case global ...
Crisis and Opportunity’s “Breakthrough technology turns air, sunlight, coal, even water into precious gas”
Post Date: 2014-07-14 08:04:05 by Tatarewicz
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Deciphering DeHaemer's "How to Make 10 Times Your Money on the Energy Mega-Shift" Posted on July 10, 2014 by Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe Welcome! If you are new to Stock Gumshoe, grab a free membership here and join us to get our free newsletter alerts with new teaser answers and debunkings. Thanks! Not new? Please log in at top right of this page[ed note: We got a lot of questions about this pitch after we solved a different DeHaemer teaser yesterday, so we've brought it up for all to see again. The stock spiked up in the Spring, a few months after this article first ran back in January, but has come back down to a bit below the price it was when DeHaemer was first ...
Brain project directors hit back at research critics
Post Date: 2014-07-14 03:39:09 by Tatarewicz
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Local ch Directors of the Human Brain Project (HBP), the Swiss-run €1.2 billion research programme that aims to simulate the human brain, have responded to criticism from participating scientists who have threatened to boycott the project. Launched last year, the Human Brain Project brings together 112 institutions in 24 countries and is directed by EPFL in Lausanne. On Monday hundreds of dissenting scientists, including many from Swiss universities, signed a letter to the European Commission, which largely funds the 10-year flagship project, complaining of its “overly narrow approach”. The open letter, signed by professors across Europe including some from Swiss ...
Company unveils rollable, transparent TV panels
Post Date: 2014-07-12 21:42:12 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... LG Display has unveiled two unique TV panels, one capable of being rolled up like paper and a transparent one offering 30 percent transmittance. The company unveiled the 18-inch OLED (organic light-emitting diode) television panels on Thursday. The rollable panel, which makes it installable on curved surfaces, sports a high-definition class resolution of 1,200x810 with almost one million megapixels. The panel can be rolled up to a radius of three centimeters. What has apparently enabled the company to develop the products has been its application of thinner, lighter, and more flexible OLED technology. "LG Display pioneered the OLED TV market and is now leading the ...
Data collected by the Swarm satellites reveals that the Earth’s magnetic field has changed significantly during the past six months.
Post Date: 2014-07-12 07:59:06 by Tatarewicz
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Data collected by the Swarm satellites reveals that the Earth’s magnetic field has changed significantly during the past six months. Over the past six months, the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening 10 times faster than in previous years, reports the European Space Agency (ESA). The recent changes may indicate that the Earth's magnetic poles are about to flip. The magnetic field, which has been described as a huge bubble that protects the Earth from incoming cosmic radiation and solar winds, is always changing and ESA’s Swarm mission has been tracking these fluctuations since November 2013. The magnetic poles flip every few hundred thousand years and changes in the ...
Mozilla starts global 'digital literacy' program
Post Date: 2014-07-12 00:57:14 by Tatarewicz
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VOR The Mozilla Foundation is expecting more than 100,000 people to participate in a series of events worldwide over the next two months teaching basic Internet use and other digital skills. The "Webmaker" events which run through September 15 aim to boost so-called digital literacy skills, including computer coding, designing Web pages, and creation of apps and videos. The kickoff begins this weekend in Kampala, Uganda, and includes events in at least 368 locations, from New York and San Francisco to cities in India, Indonesia and several African countries. "Digital literacy is as important as reading, writing and math in modern society," Mozilla Foundation executive ...
Death of the computer mouse? Meet the 3DTouch.
Post Date: 2014-07-10 22:02:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers in the US have developed the 3DTouch, a thimble-like device that sits on the end of your finger and allows you to interact with a virtual world in three dimensions. When we use a computer mouse, we’re limited to two-dimensional movements. But what if we had the ability to interact with our computers in a three-dimensional fashion? Anh Nguyen and Amy Banic from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming in the US have developed an intelligent ‘thimble' that sits on the end of your finger and interacts with your computer, sensing its position accurately in three-dimensions. It does this through the use of three types of ...
The hidden technology that could cause real global warming (if unleashed)
Post Date: 2014-07-10 18:07:41 by BTP Holdings
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Real global warming could be unleashed by a hidden technology most people don't even know exists Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Tags: global warming, free energy devices, scientific suppression (NaturalNews) Depending on whom you ask, so-called "free energy devices" are either a total hoax or a systematically suppressed technology that's being kept away from the public. There's a lot of interesting ground to cover on this subject of "over unity devices," but that's not the point of this article. Instead, let's look at an unintended side effect of free energy devices that even the free energy proponents don't usually ...
Magnetic Field in Trouble
Post Date: 2014-07-10 17:30:57 by Horse
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The Many Disturbing "Awareness During Anesthesia" Studies
Post Date: 2014-07-09 07:55:17 by Tatarewicz
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This Week on "Beyond Belief" July 07, 2014 This week on the internet TV show "Beyond Belief" George Noory's guests will be groundbreaking NDE researcher Raymond Moody, and animal communicator Amelia Kincade. Sign up for 10 days free at beyondbelief.com and enjoy hours of fascinating past shows. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began wondering if people ever became aware while under anesthesia. They started doing post-operative interviews to find out. Then they took it one step further, and tested whether people could learn under anesthesia. Check out the results. Awareness During Anesthesia Awareness during surgery is so terrifying that multiple ...
Buzz Aldrin Describes His 'UFO' Encounter During Apollo 11
Post Date: 2014-07-09 07:02:00 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... "Engineer, American astronaut, and the second person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 moon landing" Buzz Aldrin participated July 8 in a Reddit AMA for the promotion of the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, happening on July 20. He touched on a sensitive topic: his apparent admission that he and other astronauts had seen a UFO during the Apollo 11 mission. This is an old favorite of internet UFO conspiracy theorists (and, sadly, the Science Channel), who are convinced that Buzz Aldrin saw an alien ship of some kind during the Apollo 11 ride and that he's been covering it up and hiding that he's a UFO believer. According to an article on ...
Horrifying EMP Studies They Don't Want You To Know (Special Report #2)
Post Date: 2014-07-08 17:53:29 by BTP Holdings
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Only 1 out of 10 Americans would survive the destruction of our infrastructure by EMP – according to studies ordered by US government. What does the government know and is not telling us? Is there someone they fear in particular? Find out which of our enemies have the capability to launch an EMP strike upon us and what to expect from them by clicking the link below. EMP and Our Enemies... What Can We Expect? email.backyardliberty.com...m5tlNed-2FRktFkEeqA-3D-3DPoster Comment:EMP our worst nightmare. ;)
US nabs alleged Russian hacker – and Kremlin cries foul
Post Date: 2014-07-08 17:04:04 by Deasy
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US nabs alleged Russian hacker – and Kremlin cries foul The US Department of Justice arrested a Russian in Guam for involvement in a hacking and stolen credit card ring. Moscow says he was framed. US Secret Service agents arrested a Russian man indicted in federal court for stealing credit card accounts by hacking into personal and corporate computers yesterday. So chalk one up for the good guys? Not if Moscow is to be believed. Roman Seleznyov was arrested in the Pacific US territory of Guam. Moscow says that US secret service agents had bundled him onto a private plane in the Maldives. Mr. Seleznyov is no ordinary Russian citizen. His father is Valery Seleznyov, a member of ...
Super-Flood
Post Date: 2014-07-07 19:20:25 by Horse
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Poster Comment:If you have a reasoned scientific basis for comment, please do so. He says the average Maunder minimum occurs 407 years after the last one ended.
How Vulnerable is the US Power Grid to EMP?
Post Date: 2014-07-07 16:30:51 by BTP Holdings
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How Vulnerable is the US Power Grid to EMP? Posted by Bill White Survivopedia EMP attackWhile the Cold War ended with the demise of the Soviet Union, the threat of nuclear war has never really died. Instead, it has become the leopard who changed its spots. Rather than being the old leopard, who was bent on mass destruction and deaths, this newer version of the leopard is a more selective killer. It doesn’t takes lives, but rather takes away much of the means of supporting life in a modern culture. This new attack I’m referring to is of course an EMP attack. As the calculus of nuclear warfare has changed, our biggest risks are no longer thousands of missiles hurled across the ...
Jaquet Droz “Signing Machine” Automaton
Post Date: 2014-07-06 16:24:16 by X-15
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As we reveal in our July-August issue, on sale July 15, Jaquet Droz has brought out a new miniaturized mechanical device: a machine that can duplicate its owner’s signature. Dubbed the Signing Machine, it follows in the tradition of Jaquet Droz automata. Designed to be comparable in size to a smartphone – it’s five inches long and three inches wide – the Signing Machine at first looks like a nondescript black and gray cassette. Unlock it with a four-digit security code and wind it via a lever on its side, though, and the mechanism comes to life. When you press the button on top of the case two times, a hinged arm and a small black stylus slide out. Fit the pen into the ...
Devo - Jocko Homo [2001 Remaster] HQ
Post Date: 2014-07-06 11:46:20 by Deasy
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Poster Comment:Are we not men? We are DEVO.
Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people, study shows
Post Date: 2014-07-06 04:07:56 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Most people are just not comfortable in their own heads, according to a new psychological investigation led by the University of Virginia. The investigation found that most would rather be doing something -- possibly even hurting themselves -- than doing nothing or sitting alone with their thoughts, said the researchers, whose findings will be published July 4 in the journal Science. In a series of 11 studies, U.Va. psychologist Timothy Wilson and colleagues at U.Va. and Harvard University found that study participants from a range of ages generally did not enjoy spending even brief periods of time alone in a room with nothing to do but think, ponder or daydream. The ...
Physics 101: What Our Next President Needs to Know
Post Date: 2014-07-05 00:20:23 by Deasy
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Rich Muller, author of Physics for Future Presidents, argues that the next president can't afford to be ignorant about the science behind terrorism, nuclear dangers, energy, space, and global warming. Muller, a MacArthur Fellow, Berkeley Lab physicist, and one of the most popular lecturers at UC Berkeley, discusses what it takes to survive in today's increasingly dangerous world -- information essential to the next commander-in-chief. He presented his talk Oct. 13, 2008. Poster Comment:Required viewing for all Infowars subscribers. How Saddam's nuke program was refining uranium. Why nuclear waste storage isn't as risky as people think. Why conventional materials are ...
Women with longer ring finger than their index more successful in life
Post Date: 2014-07-04 13:41:06 by Deasy
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NI Posted online: Wed Feb 27 2013, 16:17 hrs Washington : The size of a woman's ring finger can predict her entrepreneurship, career interests, and a host of other traits essential to success in a high stakes, high tech career, a new research has suggested. Economists Aldo Rustichini and Luigi Guiso hired a small army of 200 assistants to go out and interview over two thousand Italian men and women small-business owners and founders. While taking interviews, the scholars also captured images the entrepreneurs' right hand palms to measure the length of their ring fingers relative to their index fingers, according to the Huffington Post. Surprisingly they found that the ratio of ...
Fruit fly research may reveal what happens in female brains during courtship, mating
Post Date: 2014-07-03 07:48:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... What are the complex processes in the brain involved with choosing a mate, and are these processes different in females versus males? It's difficult to study such questions in people, but researchers are finding clues in fruit flies that might be relevant to humans and other animals. Three different studies on the topic are being published in the Cell Press journals Neuron and Current Biology. Work over the past 100 years has largely focused on the overt courtship behaviors that male flies direct toward females. However, the female ultimately decides whether to reject the male or copulate with him. How does the female make this decision? In one Neuron paper, ...
Scientists withdraw stem cell method claim
Post Date: 2014-07-03 07:34:48 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US and Japanese scientists withdraw their claim as to having found a simple way to make stem cells. The scientists had alleged through two papers that they had arrived at a method involving transformation of ordinary mouse cells into versatile stem cells by exposing them to a mildly acidic environment. On Wednesday, however, Nature, the journal which had carried the papers in January, released a retraction from Haruko Obokata, the key author of the papers and the other authors of the papers. The scientists thus acknowledged "extensive" errors that meant "we are unable to say without a doubt" that the method works. The retraction states: "These ...
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