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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 ...
Surprise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland
Post Date: 2014-08-25 01:41:21 by farmfriend
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Surprise! Glaciers appearing in Scotland Anthony Watts / 19 hours ago Story submitted by Eric Worrall British Botanists conducting a Summer survey of Scotland’s tallest mountain, Ben Nevis, have been stunned to find evidence of recently formed multi-year ice fields, areas of compacted snow, some of which weigh hundreds of tons. According to the BBC; “Hazards common in arctic and alpine areas but described as “extremely unusual” in the UK during the summer have been found on Ben Nevis. A team of climbers and scientists investigating the mountain’s North Face said snowfields remained in many gullies and upper scree slopes. On these fields, they have come across ...
Trampling on Coal Country families
Post Date: 2014-08-24 11:09:30 by Southern Style
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Aug 19, 2014Trampling on Coal Country families Obama and EPA are determined to destroy US coal, people’s lives and welfare be damned By Paul Driessen Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth’s perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash America’s fossil fuel use, bankrupt coal and utility companies, make electricity prices skyrocket, and “fundamentally transform” our economic, social, legal and constitutional system. Citing climate ...
CDC Whistleblower Comes Forward: Admits Coverup on Vaccine Link to Autism
Post Date: 2014-08-24 10:15:33 by Deasy
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UPDATE: Jon Rappoport is reporting: “William W Thompson, PhD…the CDC whistleblower…was escorted off the premises of the CDC campus yesterday afternoon. This is what a source has just told me.” Someone from Atlanta Georgia on CNN.com is reporting that Dr. Thompson responded to an email “showing support for his act of speaking out.” So is the mainstream media going to finally cover this story?? (The CNN report has now been removed.) Health Impact News Editor The CDC whistleblower who came forward earlier this week to admit that the CDC had covered up evidence that vaccines are linked to autism has been revealed as Dr. William Thompson. Dr. ...
Water splitter runs on an ordinary AAA battery
Post Date: 2014-08-24 01:28:27 by Tatarewicz
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Stanford University Professor Hongjie Dai has developed an emissions-free electrolytic device that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen at room temperature. In 2015, American consumers will finally be able to purchase fuel cell cars from Toyota and other manufacturers. Although touted as zero-emissions vehicles, most of the cars will run on hydrogen made from natural gas, a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. Now scientists at Stanford University have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that uses an ordinary AAA battery to produce hydrogen by water electrolysis. The battery sends an electric current through two electrodes that split liquid water into hydrogen and ...
Are we becoming more STUPID? IQ scores are decreasing - and some experts argue it's because humans have reached their intellectual peak
Post Date: 2014-08-22 03:47:44 by Buzzard
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IQs have largely increased since the 1930s thanks to better living conditions and education - a trend known as the Flynn effect But IQ test results suggest people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have become less intelligent in the past decade Opinion is divided as to whether the downwards trend is long-term Some studies have shown the average IQ of Westerners has plunged 10 points or more since Victorian times and others claim it will keep decreasing But other experts argue that even if we are becoming more stupid, better healthcare and technology means the 'problem' will regulate itself Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have ...
The Drone Investments Nobody Is Talking About
Post Date: 2014-08-20 16:52:01 by BTP Holdings
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"The commercial market for small drones could eventually dwarf the military one." That's what Ray Blanco said about a pure play he recommended to readers of his entry-level tech premium back in December. And he's turning out to be right. It's been long enough that we can reveal this drone "pure play" to you now… Ray was talking about AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV), and we still believe that out of all the public stocks on the market, it retains the most upside. A couple months ago, BP needed a way to monitor oil pipelines over the desolate North Slope in Alaska. So they enlisted AeroVironment's "Puma" drone to do the surveying. The FAA ...
China Secretly Conducts Second Flight Test Of New Ultra High-Speed Missile
Post Date: 2014-08-20 04:35:55 by Tatarewicz
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China recently conducted the second flight test of a new, ultra-high-speed missile that is part of what analysts say is Beijing’s global system of attack weapons capable of striking the United States with nuclear warheads. The latest test of the new hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) known as Wu-14 took place Aug. 7 at a missile facility in western China, said U.S. government officials familiar with details of the test reported in internal channels. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeffrey Pool said when asked about the test: “We routinely monitor foreign defense activities, however we don’t comment on our intelligence or assessments of foreign weapons systems.” He added ...
Does love make sex better for most women?
Post Date: 2014-08-20 02:57:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Love and commitment can make sex physically more satisfying for many women, according to a Penn State Abington sociologist. In a series of interviews, heterosexual women between the ages of 20 and 68 and from a range of backgrounds said that they believed love was necessary for maximum satisfaction in both sexual relationships and marriage. The benefits of being in love with a sexual partner are more than just emotional. Most of the women in the study said that love made sex physically more pleasurable. "Women said that they connected love with sex and that love actually enhanced the physical experience of sex," said Beth Montemurro, associate professor of ...
More than just X and Y: New genetic basis for sex determination
Post Date: 2014-08-20 02:29:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Men and women differ in plenty of obvious ways, and scientists have long known that genetic differences buried deep within our DNA underlie these distinctions. In the past, most research has focused on understanding how the genes that encode proteins act as sex determinants. But Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists have found that a subset of very small genes encoding short RNA molecules, called microRNAs (miRNAs), also play a key role in differentiating male and female tissues in the fruit fly. A miRNA is a short segment of RNA that fine-tunes the activation of one or several protein-coding genes. miRNAs are able to silence the genes they target and, in doing ...
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