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'Mini Hearts' Could Pump Blood Through Faulty Veins
Post Date: 2014-04-08 03:49:31 by Tatarewicz
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LiveScience.com An experimental "mini heart" could help people with a medical condition that causes blood to pool in their veins by pumping their blood through the vessels and back to the heart, researchers say. The mini hearts are tiny pumps, consisting of a cuff of heart muscle cells. Once implanted to surround a vein, they could contract rhythmically, squeezing blood through the vessel. A patient's own stem cells could be used to make the mini heart, decreasing the chances of tissue rejection, researchers say. "We can create a simple version of the heart, outside a person's own heart," and by placing it in the lower extremities, significantly improve ...
Cherry stone went to space, now the tree that grew from it is acting very weird
Post Date: 2014-04-07 13:59:24 by Ada
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Cherry trees typically take about a decade to bloom after sprouting from seeds. But “space cherries” apparently take about half that time. Astronaut Koichi Wakata, now commander of the International Space Station, carried cherry pits descended a famous historical tree with him into space five years ago. About 265 pits produced from the fruit of the 1,250-year-old “Chujohimeseigan- zakura” cherry tree were carried into space, and some of them have come into bloom within four years, reported The Asahi Shimbun. The ancient tree is a variant of the “yamazakur” wild cherry species and previous attempts to grow young trees from its fruit have proven ...
British rooftops to become power stations amid solar strategy
Post Date: 2014-04-05 20:35:45 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, April 4 (Xinhua) -- British government estate, as well as factories, supermarkets and parking lots will be turned into "solar hubs," energy department said on Friday. The UK Solar PV Strategy, the first of its kind in Britain, was published by the Department of Energy & Climate Change on Friday, which sets out the government's ambition to see solar panels rolled out more widely and with it the potential to support tens of thousands of jobs. According to the strategy, there are an estimated 250,000 hectares of south facing commercial roofs in Britain. Energy department will clear the way for widespread use of mid-scale solar panels by using space on top of ...
Erasing a genetic mutation: Researchers reverse a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene
Post Date: 2014-04-04 07:53:46 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins, researchers have cured mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a single genetic mutation. The findings offer the first evidence that this gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse disease symptoms in living animals. CRISPR, which offers an easy way to snip out mutated DNA and replace it with the correct sequence, holds potential for treating many genetic disorders, according to the research team. The findings offer the first evidence that this gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse disease symptoms in living animals. CRISPR, which offers an easy way to snip out mutated DNA and replace it with ...
FireChat ignites new way to communicate on phones
Post Date: 2014-04-04 07:18:54 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new mobile messaging application called FireChat is empowering nearby smartphone users to stay in touch even when there's no cellular service or Internet connection. In just two weeks since its release on the iPhone, FireChat already has provided a flicker of hope for people pining for more effective, secure and affordable ways to communicate. That's because the free messaging app harnesses a technology called wireless mesh networking, which might someday allow a myriad of devices to connect like links in a chain. The technique might someday be used to tie together thousands of devices with built-in radios and make it possible to be online ...
China remains leading destination for clean energy investment: report
Post Date: 2014-04-03 23:08:56 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, April 3 (Xinhua) -- China remains the leading destination for clean energy investment in 2013 as global investment kept declining in 2013, according to a report released on Thursday. China remains the leading regional and global clean energy market, attracting 54.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, 6 percent lower than that in 2012, said the report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The report said the worldwide investment in clean energy kept declining in 2013 after it reached its peak in 2011, mainly dragged down by the curtailment of incentives in Europe region, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Clean energy finance in the European region slid sharply for the second ...
Researchers design trees easier to break down for paper production
Post Date: 2014-04-03 22:50:07 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Scientists said Thursday they have genetically engineered trees that will be easier to break down to produce paper and biofuel, a key advance that will mean using fewer chemicals, less energy and creating fewer environmental pollutants. The study, published in the U.S. journal Science, is focused on a polymer found in wood known as lignin, which represents "one of the largest impediments for the pulp and paper industry as well as the emerging biofuel industry," study author Shawn Mansfield, a professor of Wood Science at the University of British Columbia, said. Lignin makes up a substantial portion of the cell wall of most plants and keeps them ...
How to install Google Earth in Linux with one command
Post Date: 2014-04-03 15:23:24 by James Deffenbach
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Google Earth had quit working on my computer (pclinuxos, kde64, fully updated). And it was no longer in the repository. I had deleted it but wanted to try again to see if I could make it work. I found the following, tried it and, so far anyway, it is working. Just go to terminal, paste this command and press enter and it will download and install it for you: wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin && chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin && ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin It can't get any easier. I guess the person who wrote it is assuming that everyone knows how to open a terminal and know how to go to "root" (which is easy but if no one has ...
Tokyo student invents levitation in 3D space
Post Date: 2014-04-03 01:02:17 by Tatarewicz
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A Tokyo student along with fellow researchers has managed to float objects in a 3D space, using ultrasound. Yoichi Ochiai, a University of Tokyo graduate, together with Takayuki Hoshi and Jun Rekimoto, have found out the way to levitate light objects and move them around in a 3D space. Even though ultrasound levitation has been possible for nearly 40 years, Ochiai says this is still new. "Nobody was able to move objects in a 3D space," he says. "I think as long as objects don't move in a 3D environment, there's not much use for this kind of technology, and my research here at Tokyo University was the first to pull it off." At the University of Tokyo Komaba ...
Pioneer Axe (1965)
Post Date: 2014-04-02 22:58:57 by X-15
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This is a short film made by Peter Vogt in 1965 about axe making in Oakland, Maine. It documents the process of creating fine axes in the Emerson Stevens shop -- the last axe factory to operate in Oakland. Oakland was once a world-famous center of quality blade-making.
Aviation News – Spitfire Mk.Ia N3200 flies (first time in 74 years)
Post Date: 2014-04-02 03:03:32 by X-15
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The latest Spitfire restoration to emerge from the Aircraft Restoration Company’s (ARCo) hangar at IWM Duxford made its first post-restoration flight on Wednesday, 26 March 2014 when Mk.Ia N3200 (G-CFGJ) took to the skies. Elliott Marsh writes for GAR. Spitfire Mk.Ia N3200 was manufactured for the RAF at Woolston, prior to assembly at Eastleigh in 1939. The aircraft was delivered to the RAF at some point between 8 September 1939 and 20 January 1940, after which it was flown by Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Dalton Stephenson, Commanding Officer of 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford. Stephenson was shot down in combat on 26 May 1940 whilst flying Spitfire N3200, during the Operation DYNAMO Dunkirk ...
A timed for IPCC report claim: Meeting climate targets may require reducing meat and dairy consumption
Post Date: 2014-03-31 19:26:27 by Dakmar
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Greenhouse gas emissions from food production may threaten the UN climate target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, according to research at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. On Monday 31 March the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents their report on the impacts of climate change. Carbon dioxide emissions from the energy and transportation sectors currently account for the largest share of climate pollution. However, a study from Chalmers now shows that eliminating these emissions would not guarantee staying below the UN limit. Emissions from agriculture threaten to keep increasing as global meat and dairy consumption increases. If agricultural ...
Had strange dreams? Blame it on the Moon
Post Date: 2014-03-31 05:26:37 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert A new study has found that certain soundscapes produce pleasant dreams – except around the time of a full moon, when most people dream weird things. For two years researchers at the University of Hertfordshire collected data from thousands of people who downloaded the iPhone app Dream:ON. The app monitors sleeping patterns and plays different soundscapes that evoke pleasant scenarios. Most Dream:ON users submitted a description of their dreams, giving researchers unprecedented access to dreams and dream manipulation. The researchers found that certain soundscapes produced more pleasant dreams, revealing how to create perfect dreams for specific users. In a news ...
Inspiration linked to bipolar disorder risk
Post Date: 2014-03-31 01:50:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily.. Inspiration has been linked with people at risk of developing bipolar disorder for the first time in a study led by Lancaster University. For generations, artists, musicians, poets and writers have described personal experiences of mania and depression, highlighting the unique association between creativity and bipolar disorder -- experiences which are backed up by recent research. But, until now, the specific links between inspiration -- the generation of ideas that form the basis of creative work -- and bipolar disorder has received little attention. New research by Professor by Steven Jones and Dr Alyson Dodd, of Lancaster University, and Dr June Gruber at Yale ...
Solar system has a new most-distant member
Post Date: 2014-03-31 01:26:55 by Tatarewicz
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Summary: The Solar System has a new most-distant member, bringing its outer frontier into focus. New work reports the discovery of a distant dwarf planet, called 2012 VP113, which was found beyond the known edge of the Solar System. This is likely one of thousands of distant objects that are thought to form the so-called inner Oort cloud. The work indicates the potential presence of an enormous planet, not yet seen, but possibly influencing the orbit of inner Oort cloud objects. This is an orbit diagram for the outer solar system. The Sun and Terrestrial planets are at the center. The orbits of the four giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are shown by purple solid ...
Sun-Gas: America's New Energy Source
Post Date: 2014-03-29 11:57:38 by BTP Holdings
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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 ...
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