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Lenovo recalls dangerous laptop batteries
Post Date: 2014-03-28 02:20:46 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- China's largest personal computer maker, Lenovo, is recalling a large number of defective batteries in China in some of its ThinkPad laptops, the country's top quality watchdog said on Thursday. The recall involves 117,732 lithium ion batteries in the Edge11, Edge13, T410, X100e, X201 and X201s series manufactured between October 2010 and April 2011, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement. The batteries in those laptops may malfunction and become too hot in some cases, posing safety hazards for users, the statement said. Lenovo will replace the batteries free of charge for affected users to ...
Scientists create first functional "designer chromosome"
Post Date: 2014-03-27 22:36:51 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, March 27 (Xinhua) -- An international team of scientists said Thursday they have synthesized the first working chromosome for yeast in what they called a "major advance" for " designer" microorganisms that could produce novel medicines, raw materials for food, and biofuels. Over the past five years, scientists have built bacterial chromosomes and viral DNA, but this is the first report of an entire eukaryotic chromosome, the threadlike structure that carries genes in the nucleus of all plant and animal cells, built from scratch, the team reported. "It is the most extensively altered chromosome ever built. But the milestone that really counts is ...
3-D model links facial features and DNA
Post Date: 2014-03-24 23:05:44 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: DNA can already tell us the sex and ancestry of unknown individuals, but now an international team of researchers is beginning to connect genetics with facial features, degrees of femininity and racial admixture. The researchers looked at both actual physical face shape and genetic markers of face shape. Images of faces showing the range of variation for both sex and ancestry with European on the left, African on the right, male at the top and female at the bottom, shown with DNA strand. DNA can already tell us the sex and ancestry of unknown individuals, but now an international team of researchers is beginning to connect genetics with facial features, degrees of femininity ...
Electric 'thinking cap' controls learning speed
Post Date: 2014-03-24 07:39:43 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Summary: Caffeine-fueled cram sessions are routine occurrences on any college campus. But what if there was a better, safer way to learn new or difficult material more quickly? What if "thinking caps" were real? Scientists have now shown that it is possible to selectively manipulate our ability to learn through the application of a mild electrical current to the brain, and that this effect can be enhanced or depressed depending on the direction of the current. Robert Reinhart applies the electrical stimulus to subject Laura McClenahan. After 20 minutes the headband is removed and the EEG cap will capture readings of her brain as she executes the learning task. ...
China working on new uranium-free nuclear plant
Post Date: 2014-03-20 01:32:51 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... China is reportedly investing on a new nuclear power plant using the radioactive element thorium instead of uranium in an attempt to reduce fossil fuel consumption and cut air pollution. A report said on Wednesday that Beijing has set a 15-year deadline to build the world's first thorium-fuelled facility. It added that a team of researchers in the city of Shanghai has been tasked to develop the new plant. "In the past, the government was interested in nuclear power because of the energy shortage. Now, they are more interested because of smog," Professor Li Zhong, a scientist working on the project, told the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. Li went on ...
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Patent Issues
Post Date: 2014-03-19 08:48:04 by Itistoolate
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Patent Issues This is in regards to an e-mail floating around the net: illuminatireview.com has not yet confirmed the legitimacy of all claims but we are working on it as you read. “Have you pieced together the puzzle of missing flight 370 to Beijing China ?? If not, here are your missing pieces. Patents Patents Patents Four days after the missing flight MH370 a patent is approved by the Patent Office, 4 of the 5 Patent holders are Chinese employees of Freescale Semiconductor of Austin TX. Patent is divided up on 20% increments to 5 holders. Peidong Wang, Suzhou, China, (20%) Zhijun Chen, Suzhou, China, (20%) Zhihong Cheng, Suzhou, China, (20%) Li Ying, ...
BC Researchers crowd-source funds to back Ouija board science project
Post Date: 2014-03-18 07:34:57 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists at a University of British Columbia lab examining human unconsciousness using Ouija boards are taking to the Internet to look for research funds. Docky Duncan, a research assistant with UBC’s Visual Cognition Lab, said in an interview Tuesday that the project is “off the beaten track” and there has been “incredible difficulty” getting even the modest $2,000 in funding it needs. “The research methodology is so strange, using the Ouija board and all, that it might be a little too controversial for most grant organizations,” he said. Without an obvious organization to back the project, Mr. Duncan said researchers had to look to ...
Scientists find first direct evidence of cosmic inflation
Post Date: 2014-03-17 22:55:52 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. astronomers announced Monday they have captured the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time described as the "first tremors"" of the Big Bang in which the universe came into existence 14 billion years ago. The researchers believed that the results represent the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation, a theory that say the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times in less than the blink of an eye in the first fleeting fraction of a second after the Big Bang. "This work offers new insights into some of our most basic questions: Why do we exist? How did the universe begin?" Harvard- Smithsonian ...
Turning raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel
Post Date: 2014-03-15 00:41:24 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: Chemists have discovered of a new way to turn raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel. The process uses ordinary 'main group' metals like thallium and lead to trigger the conversion of natural gas to liquid alcohol. The process occurs at far lower temperatures than current industry practices. This could help reduce dependence on petroleum. America's current energy boom may take a new direction thanks to the discovery of a new way to turn raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel. In the March 14 issue of Science magazine, chemists from Brigham Young University and The Scripps Research Institute detail a process that could reduce dependence on ...
EXCLUSIVE: Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to clone the woolly mammoth
Post Date: 2014-03-14 18:18:07 by X-15
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Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major breakthrough by international team. The experts believe they will be able to extract high quality DNA from the remains which have undergone a unique autopsy in Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Repblic, also called Yakutia. There was palpable excitement among the team which included scientists from Russia, the UK, the USA, Denmark, South Korea and Moldova. Radik Khayrullin, vice president of the Russian Association of Medical Anthropologists, said in Yakutsk: 'The data we are about to receive will give us a high chance to clone the mammoth.' He immediately called for responsibility in bringing the ancient beast - ...
Google redesigns search results on PCs
Post Date: 2014-03-14 02:40:19 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Web surfing through the Internet's main gateway now looks slightly different on personal computers, thanks to a few cosmetic changes to Google's search engine this week. The tweaks to the way Google's search results appear on desktop and laptop computers mirror a makeover on smartphones and tablets introduced a few months ago. The new presentation increases font sizes and removes the underlines below the blue links of each search result on PCs. Ads appearing along the top and the right-hand panel of the results page no longer are presented in boxes shaded in blue and yellow. The marketing pitches are now marked by small ad tags to distinguish them ...
Takes half a second for first impression
Post Date: 2014-03-13 23:56:29 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, March 13 (Xinhua) -- People make judgements on others' trustworthiness in just half a second by hearing their voice, an international research team revealed on Thursday. In their new study, British researchers from University of Glasgow, together with U.S. researchers, have shown that a simple "Hello" is enough to allow most people to draw conclusions about personality type. And people can make these judgements even without seeing the person they are speaking to. The researchers played recordings of people saying hello, and asked participants to rank them according to 10 pre-defined personality traits, including trustworthiness, dominance, attractiveness and warmth. ...
As the Web Turns 25, Its Creator Talks About Its Future
Post Date: 2014-03-12 08:53:05 by Tatarewicz
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In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer, sat in his small office at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva and started work on a new system called the World Wide Web. On Wednesday, that project, now simply called the web, will celebrate its 25th anniversary, and Mr. Berners-Lee is looking ahead at the next 25. But this moment comes with a cloud. The creators of the web, including Mr. Berners-Lee, worry that companies and telecommunications outlets could destroy the open nature that made it flourish in their quest to make more money. Slide Show Today, more than two people in five are connected to the web. Every minute, billions of connected people send each ...
.....Audi wants to make stopping at red lights a thing of the past
Post Date: 2014-03-12 08:27:47 by Tatarewicz
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Audi Online Traffic Light Information System.The company just needs a green light from regulators to start rolling out a time-saving feature to its future cars. Imagine the scene. Your car pulls on to a road and in the distance is a set of traffic lights. But that's okay because the car already knows and is showing on its display the optimum speed to adopt in order to cruise right through them before they change from green to red. However, it's not always possible to beat the lights -- without breaking the speed limits and other rules of the road -- so the system can also count down the time until the lights will change and use that time to automatically shut down the engine and ...
iPhone owners less likely to need a replacement device
Post Date: 2014-03-12 01:49:49 by Tatarewicz
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Shane McGlaun Smartphones are expensive so many of the people that buy them opt for protection for their device. That protection runs the gamut from cases and screen protectors up to replacement insurance that will give the owner a new phone at a reduced rater if the original is lost, broken, or stolen. One of the companies that offer insurance is called ProtectCELL. ProtectCELL has offered up some insight into what sort of devices it replaces most often for the people it insures. It appears that iPhone users take better care of their devices than users on other platforms. According to the company data, iPhone users are about 46% less likely to need a replacement device than other device ...
Germany tops Europe innovation list
Post Date: 2014-03-11 03:20:09 by Tatarewicz
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Figures from the Munich-based European Patent Office (EPO) released on Thursday showed Siemens, Bosch, BASF and Bayer leading the field for the most applications. There were 1,620 from Siemens, 1,546 from Bosch and 1,541 from BASF. But the stats also showed German patent applications dropped by 5.4 percent in 2013. Rainer Osterwalder, deputy spokesman at EPO told The Local the decline was due to drops in certain fields including pharmaceutical and bio-tech. “Patent applications are filed strategically so they may feel next year is better, but it is very hard to predict,” he said. He added the number of patent applications filed reflected the amount of research and ...
Elephants can judge threat from human languages: study
Post Date: 2014-03-11 00:27:47 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Elephants are able to identify humans that pose a threat to them by distinguishing between the language and voices of different ethnic groups, a new study said Monday. The study, carried out in Amboseli National Park in Kenya, involved family groups of African elephants being played sound recordings of the voices of two different human ethnic groups known to them: the Maasai, who, periodically come into conflict with elephants over access to water and grazing for their cattle, and the Kamba, whose more agricultural lifestyle poses less of a threat to elephants. The results showed that elephants were more likely to demonstrate defensive behavior, such as ...
Men, women have different nightmares: Study
Post Date: 2014-03-08 02:24:04 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV...A team of researchers at the Canadian University of Montreal asked over 300 men and women to write down the content of their dreams after waking up for up to five weeks. According to the study, diary entries on nightmares, in which a person wakes up mid-dream, were longer than those for bad dreams, which while still disturbing, are less intense, and women wrote longer descriptions of their bad dreams than men. The dream journals of women also indicated that their disturbing dreams tend to focus on social conflicts, friendships and romances, as they are more likely to have nightmares about rows, broken friendships and relationship fears, including infidelity. In contrast, the ...
How the system screws you
Post Date: 2014-03-05 17:54:16 by Itistoolate
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When a Judge, in a court room calls out someones' 'NAME" they stand up ie ACKNOWLEDGE and come forward. The "TRICK" just completed is as follows: What is IDEM SONANS? Sounding the same or alike; having the same sound. A term appliedto names which are substantially the same, though slightly varied in the spelling, as”Lawrence” and “Lawronce,” and the like. 1 Cromp. & M. 800; 3 Chit Gen. Pr. 171.Two names are said to be “idem sonantes” if the attentive ear finds difficulty indistinguishing them when pronounced, or if common and long-continued usage has bycorruption or abbreviation made them identical in pronunciation. State v. ...
Polaris TerrainArmor Non-Pneumatic Tires Finalist for Tire Technology of the Year
Post Date: 2014-03-05 00:23:00 by Tatarewicz
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Minneapolis – Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) today announced the company’s TerrainArmor™ Non-Pneumatic Tire (NPT) was a finalist for Tire Technology of the Year by Tire Technology International. “Polaris would like to thank Tire Technology International for recognizing TerrainArmor tires as part of their short list for Technology of the Year,’” said Rich Haddad, general manager of Polaris Defense. “Polaris is the first manufacturer to bring NPT technology to the off-road consumer and defense markets, and we feel the technology will make a great impact on the future of our industry.” In 2013, Polaris Defense started offering TerrainArmor tires ...
X-ray analysis suggests Neanderthals spoke languages similar to our own
Post Date: 2014-03-04 07:45:37 by Ada
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Researchers have found evidence to suggest that Neanderthals may have spoken languages not too different from ones currently used by humans. Scientists at the University of New England used 3-D X-ray imaging to examine the hyoid bone from 60,000-year-old Neanderthal remains discovered about 25 years ago in Israel. The remains revealed that Neanderthals’ hyoid bone, which is found in the front of the throat and allows the formation of distinct sounds used in speech, was virtually indistinguishable from the one found in humans. Scientists suspected this similarity allowed Neanderthals to speak, but they were unable to prove it without recent advances in three-dimensional X-ray ...
A new renewable energy source? Device captures energy from Earth's infrared emissions to outer space
Post Date: 2014-03-04 05:17:27 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Summary: When the sun sets on a remote desert outpost and solar panels shut down, what energy source will provide power through the night? A battery, perhaps, or an old diesel generator? Perhaps something strange and new. Scientists now envision a device that would harvest energy from Earth's infrared emissions into outer space. Heated by the sun, our planet is warm compared to the frigid vacuum beyond. Thanks to recent technological advances, the researchers say, that heat imbalance could soon be transformed into direct-current (DC) power, taking advantage of a vast and untapped energy source. "We’re talking ...
Why in the world are they spraying? (Documentary)
Post Date: 2014-03-03 20:36:38 by christine
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Poster Comment:They chemtrail here in Austin a shocking number of times per week.
Newly discovered catalyst could lead to the low-cost production of clean methanol from carbon dioxide
Post Date: 2014-03-03 06:24:09 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: Scientists have discovered a potentially clean, low-cost way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol, a key ingredient in the production of plastics, adhesives and solvents, and a promising fuel for transportation. Scientists combined theory and experimentation to identify a new nickel-gallium catalyst that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into methanol with fewer side-products than the conventional catalyst. ScienceDaily... An international research team has discovered a potentially clean, low-cost way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol, a key ingredient in the production of plastics, adhesives and solvents, and a promising fuel for transportation. Scientists from ...
Promise and peril in an ultra-connected world
Post Date: 2014-03-03 06:07:24 by Tatarewicz
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to remind you to floss. Basketball jerseys detect impending heart failure and call the ambulance for you. At least that's the vision presented this past week at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain. The four-day conference highlighted what the tech industry has loosely termed "the Internet of things." Some of that wisdom is already available or promised by the end of the year. Fitness ...
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