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Hawaii is genetically engineered crop flash point
Post Date: 2014-04-21 05:22:23 by Tatarewicz
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WAIALUA, Hawaii (AP) -- You can trace the genetic makeup of most corn grown in the U.S., and in many other places around the world, to Hawaii. The tiny island state 2,500 miles from the nearest continent is so critical to the nation's modern corn-growing business that the industry's leading companies all have farms here, growing new varieties genetically engineered for desirable traits like insect and drought resistance. But these same farms have become a flash point in a spreading debate over genetic engineering in agriculture. Kauai and Hawaii counties have moved in the past several months to regulate genetically modified organisms and the pesticides the farms use. In Maui ...
Cuba garners prize for biofuel use
Post Date: 2014-04-20 23:08:20 by Tatarewicz
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HAVANA, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Cuba is set to receive the Luis Wannoni Lander International Prize for its sustained progress in producing and promoting biofuels, state daily Granma reported Friday. The prize, to be awarded by the Pan-American Union of Associations of Engineers (UPADI), will be presented in August during the Union's convention in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the daily said, quoting Jose Antonio Guardado Chacon, member of the board of directors of the Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources (CubaSolar). Guardado said Cuba has invested substantially in biofuel plants around the country in its pursuit of alternative energy and moving away from costly oil. ...
Pistachios to fuel eco-friendly city in Turkey
Post Date: 2014-04-20 05:40:01 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Turkey is going to use pistachios as a new form of energy to fuel an eco-friendly city due to be established in the southeastern part of the country. "We are planning to obtain biogas, a kind of renewable energy, from burning pistachio shells," said Seda Muftuoglu Gulec, a green building expert for the municipality of Gaziantep on Saturday. The eco-friendly city, which is going to be constructed 11 kilometers (6 miles) from the province's capital city Gaziantep, would encompass 3,200 hectares and house 200,000 people. "Gaziantep's potential in pistachio production is known, as well as its considerable amount of pistachio shells waste," Gulec said, ...
Scientists warn the rise of AI will lead to extinction of humankind
Post Date: 2014-04-19 12:04:22 by BTP Holdings
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Scientists warn the rise of AI will lead to extinction of humankind Friday, April 18, 2014 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: artificial intelligence, extinction, humankind eTrust Pro Certified 6,179 Delicious 21 (NaturalNews) Everything you and I are doing right now to try to save humanity and the planet probably won't matter in a hundred years. That's not my own conclusion; it's the conclusion of computer scientist Steve Omohundro, author of a new paper published in the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. His paper, entitled Autonomous technology ...
A living organ has been regenerated for the first time
Post Date: 2014-04-19 06:01:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert Scientists have successfully regenerated an elderly organ in a mouse using a drug that targets gene activity. Get excited. This is the first time a living organ has been 'reverse aged', and the breakthrough, made by scientists from the University Edinburgh, has BIG implications for regenerative medicine in humans. The revamped organ was the thymus, which sits near the heart and plays a critical role in immune function, but becomes smaller and less effective with age. The scientists used a drug to increase activity of a gene called Foxn1, which naturally gets shut down as the thymus ages. Their results, published in Development, revealed this caused the thymus in ...
Dead Stick (engine off) Takeoff, flight and landing.
Post Date: 2014-04-19 02:20:40 by X-15
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This Chinese company can 3D print 10 houses in a day
Post Date: 2014-04-18 23:13:32 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert Staff From pizzas to prosthetic limbs, 3D printers never cease to amaze – and now the technology can help us build 10 houses in a day. 3d-printed-houses Image: WinSun Decoration Design Engineering A gargantuan 3D printer is making up to 10 houses in less than 24 hours out of recycled materials. The masterminds behind the clever technology work at WinSun Decoration Design Engineering in Shanghai, and they hope their invention will make the housing market more affordable, giving everyone the opportunity to buy their own home. Each 3D-printed house is about 60 square metres and costs US$4,800 dollars. Although this is not the first attempt to 3D-print houses, so far ...
10 More Reasons Why LINUX is BETTER than Windows!
Post Date: 2014-04-17 19:57:07 by James Deffenbach
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Artificial blood to be made from lab-made cells
Post Date: 2014-04-17 02:06:02 by Tatarewicz
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Successful attempt at generating red blood cells at the laboratory has raised hopes of the production of artificial blood. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) are trying to produce such blood. They have already managed to grow artificial red blood cells from fibroblasts that have been reprogrammed into mature red blood cells in the lab. The blood would be Type O negative, also known as universal donor blood, which currently comprises just seven percent of the blood donor pool. “We have made red blood cells that are fit to go in a person’s body,” project leader Marc Turner, medical director at the SNBTS, ...
Linux Does What Win Don't (Why Linux is better than Windows)
Post Date: 2014-04-16 19:10:09 by James Deffenbach
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New hurricane forecast maps to show flood risk from storm surge
Post Date: 2014-04-16 08:12:11 by Tatarewicz
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - When the Atlantic hurricane season opens June 1, national forecasters will roll out a new feature: color-coded and broadcast-ready maps to graphically show the potential for flooding from storm surges. "We are not a storm surge savvy nation. Yet storm surge is responsible for over half the deaths in hurricanes. So you can see why we're motivated to try something new," said Jamie Rhome, storm surge specialist for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The maps are the result of years of experience and recent polling that found most Americans living on vulnerable coastlines paid too much attention to hurricane wind strength and not enough to ...
Trash-to-House 3-D printed in China in 24 hours
Post Date: 2014-04-15 02:40:36 by Tatarewicz
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CHINA-SHANGHAI-3D PRINTING-HOUSE(CN) Two people visit a 3D-printed house in Shanghai, east China, April 12, 2014. Ten houses have been built of construction waste using a 3D printing technology in 24 hours in Shanghai. (Xinhua/Pei Xin)
Google buys U.S. drone startup Titan Aerospace
Post Date: 2014-04-15 01:47:13 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. internet giant Google confirmed Monday that it has acquired drone maker Titan Aerospace, whose solar-powered high-altitude robots will be helpful to Google's ambition to deliver internet services to underdeveloped areas in the world. A Google spokesman told Wall Street Journal that while in early days, the atmospheric satellite technology that Titan has been working on would bring internet access to millions of people and help solve other problems, including disaster relief and environmental damage like deforestation. Google didn't disclose the price of the deal. Like many other startups did after being bought by Google, New Mexico-based ...
Russia Plans to Install GLONASS Stations (GPS) in More Countries
Post Date: 2014-04-14 00:14:14 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) – Ground-based stations for Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) could be installed in several countries, including in Europe, but the current political situation is interfering with the process, a senior Russian space official told reporters Friday. “It is currently difficult to say exactly when and where [stations could be installed]. We are ready to sign an agreement with one of the European countries,” said Sergey Saveliev, the deputy head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Saveliev, speaking in a video conference devoted to Astronautics Day, stressed the issue has been complicated by the current political ...
New self-healing plastics developed
Post Date: 2014-04-13 05:30:07 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: Scratches in the car finish or cracks in polymer material: Self-healing materials can repair themselves by restoring their initial molecular structure after the damage. Scientists have now developed a chemical crosslinking reaction that ensures good short-term healing properties of the material under mild heating. Scratches in the car finish or cracks in polymer material: Self-healing materials can repair themselves by restoring their initial molecular structure after the damage. Scientists of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Evonik Industries have developed a chemical crosslinking reaction that ensures good short-term healing properties of the material under mild ...
White wing supremacist: swan attacks foreign students
Post Date: 2014-04-11 06:28:30 by Ada
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A swan nesting at Warwick University has been accused of attacking students from ethnic minorities Undergraduates revealed that the swan only appeared to target students from ethnic minorities Undergraduates revealed that the swan only appeared to target students from ethnic minorities Photo: NEWSTEAM By T05PM BST 10 Apr 2014 Warwick University has erected a fence around a campus lake to stop a spate of swan attacks on students. A 4ft tall bird, which boasts an 8ft wingspan, has been accused of behaved aggressively towards foreign students as they cross over a footbridge near its nesting place at the university's Gibbet Hill campus in Coventry, West Midlands. The footbridge is used ...
What you need to know about the Heartbleed bug
Post Date: 2014-04-11 02:14:13 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information may be at risk as a result of a major breakdown in Internet security revealed earlier this week. Related Stories Heartbleed bug causes major security headache Associated Press Canada shutters tax filing website over 'Heartbleed' bug AFP Passwords vulnerable after security flaw found Associated Press E-filing of Canadian taxes shut down because of Heartbleed bug Reuters Heartbleed bug may expose masses of sensitive data MarketWatch The damage caused by the "Heartbleed" bug is currently unknown. The security hole exists on a vast number of the Internet's Web servers and ...
Researchers develop solar power technology for internet access
Post Date: 2014-04-11 00:21:25 by Tatarewicz
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EDINBURGH, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed technology that enables solar panels to detect broadband signals and makes internet access fuelled by the power of the sun possible. The technology allows data to be transmitted on the World Wide Web using daylight, and, in addition, solar energy can be used to power such a device, as well as detect and carry data, the University of Edinburgh said in a statement on Thursday. This could enable self-sufficient wireless communications in remote areas, in developing regions with no web infrastructure, or in emergency situations, the statement said. Prototypes of the system have reached transmission ...
Electrolux initiates research on indoor pollution with vacuum cleaners
Post Date: 2014-04-11 00:13:31 by Tatarewicz
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STOCKHOLM, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish home appliance maker Electrolux has recently initiated a global research "the Invironment Project" using vacuum cleaners to investigate what indoor pollution looks like in consumers' homes around the world. Dust from different cities over the world with various pollution issues was collected and then analyzed by researcher from the Swedish University of Agricultural Science, using an elemental detector that could identify un-organic particles amongst the dust, said the company in a statement. What were found in the dust bags ranged from unexpected findings, such as bismuth traces and hunting projectiles, to common materials like ...
I'm Now Convinced That Global Solar Dominance Is In Sight
Post Date: 2014-04-10 12:24:45 by Ada
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Solar power will slowly squeeze the revenues of petro-rentier regimes in Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. They will have to find a new business model, or fade into decline Solar power has won the global argument. Photovoltaic energy is already so cheap that it competes with oil, diesel and liquefied natural gas in much of Asia without subsidies. Roughly 29pc of electricity capacity added in America last year came from solar, rising to 100pc even in Massachusetts and Vermont. "More solar has been installed in the US in the past 18 months than in 30 years," says the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). California's subsidy pot is drying up but new solar has ...
Hearbleed Bug Information
Post Date: 2014-04-10 11:58:25 by Lod
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The Most Likely Armageddon Threat … Preventable for a Small Amount of Money
Post Date: 2014-04-10 08:09:01 by Ada
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Well-known physicist Michio Kaku and other members of the American Physical Society asked Congress to appropriate $100 million to harden the country’s electrical grid against solar flares. As shown below, such an event is actually the most likely Armageddon-type event faced by humanity. Congress refused. Kaku explains that a solar flare like the one that hit the U.S. in 1859 would – in the current era of nuclear power and electric refrigeration – cause widespread destruction and chaos. Not only could such a flare bring on hundreds of Fukushima-type accidents, but it could well cause food riots globally. Kaku explains that relief came in for people hit by disasters like ...
Lab-grown human body parts
Post Date: 2014-04-10 07:57:46 by Tatarewicz
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Dr Michelle Griffin, a plastic research fellow, poses for photographs with a synthetic polymer ear at her research facility in the Royal Free Hospital in London, Monday, March 31, 2014. In a north London hospital, scientists are growing noses, ears and blood vessels in the laboratory in a bold attempt to make body parts using stem cells. It is among several labs around the world, including in the U.S., that are working on the futuristic idea of growing custom-made organs in the lab. While only a handful of patients have received the British lab-made organs so far— including tear ducts, blood vessels and windpipes — researchers hope they will soon be able to transplant more types ...
Scientists reconstruct ancient impact that dwarfs dinosaur-extinction blast
Post Date: 2014-04-09 22:19:05 by Tatarewicz
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American Geophysical Union A graphical representation of the size of the asteroid thought to have killed the dinosaurs, and the crater it created, compared to an asteroid thought to have hit the Earth 3.26 billion years ago and the size of the crater it may have generated. A new study reveals the power and scale of the event some 3.26 billion years ago which scientists think created geological features found in a South African region known as the Barberton greenstone belt. Credit: Image courtesy of American Geophysical Union Explains the origin of tectonic pltes Picture this: A massive asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island and about three to five times larger than the rock thought to ...
XP's demise helps Chinese IT developers
Post Date: 2014-04-09 01:16:27 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft on Tuesday stopped providing technical assistance for Windows XP, a major operating system for Chinese computer users, opening up opportunities for China's IT companies. After April 8, technical assistance for Windows XP will no longer be available and the company will stop providing security updates, according to the Microsoft website. Computers can still run XP but it will become more insecure and prone to viruses. The company advised users to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and get a new PC if necessary. China has about 200 million XP users, 70 percent of the entire PC market, and the majority have no plans to switch, according to a Zhongguancun ...
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