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Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight? Low-Cost, Long-Lasting Water Splitter Made of Silicon and Nickel
Post Date: 2013-11-15 06:39:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Nov. 14, 2013 — Stanford University scientists have created a silicon-based water splitter that is both low-cost and corrosion-free. The novel device -- a silicon semiconductor coated in an ultrathin layer of nickel -- could help pave the way for large-scale production of clean hydrogen fuel from sunlight, according to the scientists. Share This: Their results are published in the Nov. 15 issue of the journal Science. "Solar cells only work when the sun is shining," said study co-author Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford. "When there's no sunlight, utilities often have to rely on electricity from conventional power plants that run on ...
Better Batteries Through Biology? Modified Viruses Boost Battery Performance
Post Date: 2013-11-15 06:14:21 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: — MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses. Share This: Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a much greater driving range. But bringing that promise to reality has faced a number of challenges, including the need to develop better, more durable materials for the batteries' electrodes and improving the number of charging-discharging cycles the batteries can withstand. Now, MIT researchers have found that adding genetically modified viruses ...
How to Build a SHTF Tin Can Heater [VIDEO]
Post Date: 2013-11-13 20:59:47 by BTP Holdings
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How to Build a SHTF Tin Can Heater [VIDEO] Sure, there are a million survival stoves on the market. But if you’re like me, you’re a huge sucker for learning how to build your survival tools all by yourself, “MacGuyver style” as I like to say… That’s why I was excited to come across this video, which shows how to build a low-tech alcohol stove out of a paint can, rubbing alcohol, and a roll of TP. In fact, this is an excellent time to add all 3 of these items to you survival checklist: 1 – large aluminum can 1 – Large container of rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol) 1 – Extra roll of toilet paper (you can never really have too much) ...
America and Israel Created a Monster Computer Virus Which Now Threatens Nuclear Reactors Worldwide
Post Date: 2013-11-13 07:47:46 by Ada
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Even Threatens the International Space Station In their obsession to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Israel created a computer virus (called “Stuxnet”) to take out Iran’s nuclear enrichment machinery. The virus appears to have spread to other countries. One of the world’s top computer security experts – Eugene Kaspersky – said this week that the virus has attacked a Russian nuclear reactor. As The Register notes: The infamous Stuxnet malware thought to have been developed by the US and Israel to disrupt Iran’s nuclear facilities, also managed to cause chaos at a Russian nuclear plant, according to Eugene Kaspersky. The ...
3D printed liver can survive for 40 days
Post Date: 2013-11-10 21:20:35 by titorite
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A San Diego start-up company called Organovo has managed to use 3D printing to generate a liver that lasts for 40 days. The company is lighting the way for 3D printed organs and edible meat of the future after developing a slice of functioning liver by printing layers of liver cells. As the liver is an organ that naturally regenerates itself, it makes it perfect for this project and Organovo's lastest printed liver was fully functioning for 40 days, which was a 700 per cent increase on the company's previous effort last April that lasted five days. The 3D printed liver filters out toxins and drugs to keep in nutrients, but the company has yet to master the ability to integrate ...
Robotics CEO: 12-Year-Old Whiz As Smart As Ph.Ds
Post Date: 2013-11-09 00:29:05 by Tatarewicz
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.........Robotics CEO: 12-Year-Old Whiz As Smart As Ph.Ds By Andrew Lampard | This Could Be Big – 9 hrs ago....Email0Share2169 Share43Print....... --> When Ted Larson, the CEO of a Silicon Valley robotics firm, hired Rohan Agrawal as his summer intern this year he was skeptical that Rowan could keep up with his team’s pace. Rohan, after all, is 12 years old. And Larson, whose firm, OLogic, usually hires college or graduate students as interns, had never worked with someone so young. But Larson’s worries were quickly dispelled. “We had a large box of robot parts that some of the guys at Google gave us,” Larson said of Rowan’s first day at Ologic last ...
Modern technology still unable to extend human lifespan
Post Date: 2013-11-08 23:37:39 by Tatarewicz
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Unprecedented in terms of duration era of global economic stagnation continues. To break out of it, the world needs a powerful "kick" in the form of a landmark scientific discovery, for example, radical life extension. In the 20th century, scientists believed that soon they would find a theoretical path to immortality of humans. In the 21st century this research is forgotten. Why has it happened? A few days ago, on October 10 in Stockholm Peter Higgs and Francois Engler were awarded the Nobel Prize for theoretical justification of the existence of the boson, a particle that allows other elementary particles to acquire mass. Previously, scientists at CERN announced that they were ...
Singapore launches 1st tidal turbine test-bed
Post Date: 2013-11-06 22:48:54 by Tatarewicz
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SINGAPORE, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- A research group with Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Wednesday launched the country's first tidal turbine system to test the feasibility of tapping tidal energy to generate electricity here. The new tidal turbine test bed, built at the site of Sentosa Boardwalk, a bridge connecting the main island of Singapore and the Sentosa, was designed, built and installed by NTU engineers from the Energy Research Institute at NTU, in collaboration with the Sentosa Development Corporation. The tidal turbine system consists of two low-flow turbines mounted on the test bed, which are optimized for local conditions. "Compared to typical ...
Study: 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets
Post Date: 2013-11-05 12:35:58 by scrapper2
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot and not too cold for life. Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone. The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. For perspective, that's more Earth-like planets than there are people on Earth. As for what it says about the odds that there ...
Lockheed Martin announces plans for SR-72 hypersonic spy drone
Post Date: 2013-11-03 18:52:15 by X-15
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Aircraft experts and military aficionados have cause to rejoice now that Lockheed Martin has debuted the SR-72 unmanned spy plane, the long-awaited successor to the SR-71 Blackbird and potentially the first hypersonic craft to enter service. Plans for the SR-72 drone were first unveiled Friday in an Aviation Week article which revealed that Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced development program has drafted plans for a plane that could fly as fast as Mach 6 - twice the speed of the Blackbird. The SR-72 would have the ability to gather intelligence, conduct surveillance and reconnaissance, and launch combat strikes at an unprecedented speed. The plane is designed to fill what is ...
DoubleEnder: The Ultimate Bush Plane
Post Date: 2013-11-02 23:02:08 by X-15
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October 31, 2013 - It's not unusual for a new airplane design to generate some buzz in the aviation community, but a new bush aircraft design, the DoubleEnder, has become an online sensation. The airplane's name reflects its twin Rotax 914 engines, which have been beefed up to 130 hp each, mounted inline with the front end pulling and the rear end pushing. DoubleEnder. The aircraft is based on the venerable Super Cub, which is also the type New York native and DoubleEnder creator Alec Wild learned to fly in. Wild currently lives in Kenya where he's a bush pilot flying anti-poaching and other conservation missions in Super Cubs. He started work on the DoubleEnder about seven ...
Surprising Variation Among Genomes of Individual Neurons from Same Brain
Post Date: 2013-11-02 07:05:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Nov. 1, 2013 — It was once thought that each cell in a person's body possesses the same DNA code and that the particular way the genome is read imparts cell function and defines the individual. For many cell types in our bodies, however, that is an oversimplification. Studies of neuronal genomes published in the past decade have turned up extra or missing chromosomes, or pieces of DNA that can copy and paste themselves throughout the genomes. Share This: ? The only way to know for sure that neurons from the same person harbor unique DNA is by profiling the genomes of single cells instead of bulk cell populations, the latter of which produce an average. Now, using ...
A Chip In The Head: Brain Implants Will Be Connecting People To The Internet By The Year 2020
Post Date: 2013-11-01 04:50:21 by Tatarewicz
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Would you like to surf the Internet, make a phone call or send a text message using only your brain? Would you like to “download” the content of a 500 page book into your memory in less than a second? Would you like to have extremely advanced nanobots constantly crawling around in your body monitoring it for disease? Would you like to be able to instantly access the collective knowledge base of humanity wherever you are? Image: Wikimedia Commons. All of that may sound like science fiction, but these are technologies that some of the most powerful high tech firms in the world actually believe are achievable by the year 2020. However, with all of the potential ...
How Deep The Mariana Trench Actually Is
Post Date: 2013-10-30 16:49:34 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:How low is Obama? Lower than whale dung at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.
Making Rubber from Dandelion Juice
Post Date: 2013-10-30 04:49:21 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Oct. 28, 2013 — Rubber can be extracted from the juice of the dandelion. Yet the decisive breakthrough to industrial manufacturing is proving to be a tough step. Working jointly with industry and science, the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME has optimized the cultivation and production engineering over the past few years. Now the researchers -- in collaboration with Continental -- are building the first ever pilot system to extract vast quantities of dandelion rubber for making tires: an important milestone on the path to rubber procurement in Europe. Share This: 1 The joint project officially started at the beginning of October. The ...
Why It's Time to Throw Out Your Laptop
Post Date: 2013-10-28 18:13:16 by BTP Holdings
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Why It's Time to Throw Out Your Laptop Forbes called this next breakthrough one of the "Ten Things That Will Change the Way We Live." They compared it to the plow, the printing press, cars, planes, and the telephone. Toshiba says that within the next five years, the market for this one discovery could be as big as the entire multi-billion dollar market for computer chips is today. And the experts at London’s Institute of Physics even put a number on it, saying this could be worth as much as $100-billion a year. Other insiders whisper about this technology that I'm about to reveal to you right now as the "holy grail" of computing. No, I'm not talking ...
Morgellons Explained
Post Date: 2013-10-27 19:56:47 by Southern Style
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This video provides a clear and succinct talk on Morgellons, demystifies the supporting role played by chemtrails and explains how the effects this bio-engineering will have on the human race and other lifeforms on earth. Very chilling in its' implications. Poster Comment:Yeah, it's an hour long...take/make the time to watch it.
Designer creates incredible futuristic city where people live beneath the waves
Post Date: 2013-10-26 14:40:46 by X-15
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Fancy living in a city under the sea? A designer who is passionate about the concept of living underwater has created his own dream community, and hopes that his big idea will one day become a reality. Phil Pauley says that he has dreamed about building an underwater city for the past 20 years, and has now released images of what the futuristic development might look like. Sub-Biosphere 2 comes compete with eight 'bio-dome' structures, and is 1,105ft wide. Conceptual designer Mr Pauley, who describes himself as a futurist, says the structure will consist of a central support biosphere, an observation pod, and dwelling pods which will house up to 100 people. Each of the dwelling ...
Breakthrough for Solar Cell Efficiency
Post Date: 2013-10-26 03:00:10 by Tatarewicz
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Oct. 25, 2013 — Did you know that crystals form the basis for the penetrating icy blue glare of car headlights and could be fundamental to the future in solar energy technology? Crystals are at the heart of diodes. Not the kind you might find in quartz, formed naturally, but manufactured to form alloys, such as indium gallium nitride or InGaN. This alloy forms the light emitting region of LEDs, for illumination in the visible range, and of laser diodes (LDs) in the blue-UV range. Research into making better crystals, with high crystalline quality, light emission efficiency and luminosity, is also at the heart of studies being done at Arizona State University by Research Scientist ...
Next generation of robots will have a gentle touch
Post Date: 2013-10-25 04:19:32 by Tatarewicz
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Swiss info The new field of soft robotics aims to produce robots made of materials which are more adaptable, flexible and less hazardous than traditional steel and hard plastic. Swiss institutions are at the forefront of research in this novel field. Robots are becoming more and more a feature of everyday life. They are no longer to be found just in factories, tirelessly assembling auto parts, but also in the home, vacuuming the living room or mowing the lawn, and even in the children’s rooms, where a robot in the shape of a dinosaur or a dog might be seen entertaining the youngest members of the family. All these robots have one thing in common: they have a rigid body, with a metal ...
Gilding the Gum Tree: Scientists Strike Gold in Leaves
Post Date: 2013-10-24 06:12:26 by Tatarewicz
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Science Digest Oct. 23, 2013 — Eucalyptus trees in the Kalgoorlie region of Western Australia are drawing up gold particles from Earth via their root system and depositing it their leaves and branches. Scientists from CSIRO made the discovery and have published their findings in the journal Nature Communications. "The eucalypt acts as a hydraulic pump -- its roots extend tens of metres into the ground and draw up water containing the gold. As the gold is likely to be toxic to the plant, it's moved to the leaves and branches where it can be released or shed to the ground," CSIRO geochemist Dr Mel Lintern said. The discovery is unlikely to start an old-time gold rush -- ...
Hacks and Tricks for Google Chrome
Post Date: 2013-10-23 03:15:51 by Tatarewicz
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Every browser has its intriguing secrets and devoted fans, whether Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. If your thing is Chrome, you probably love the Gmail advantage and the new Chrome mobile browser for iPhone. But you’ve got to dig a little deeper to get to some of the best aspects of Chrome. Let's take a look at 5 favorite Chrome hacks: 1) Permanent Pin Tabs Chrome Pin Tabs are super helpful, allowing you to create a small browser tab that always stays open and in place. This comes in handy for sites like Gmail or Facebook that you tend to keep open. Creating a Pin Tab is simple: just right-click a tab and then select Pin Tab. Unfortunately, when you close ...
Hair Regeneration Method Is First to Induce New Human Hair Growth
Post Date: 2013-10-22 02:42:27 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Oct. 21, 2013 — Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have devised a hair restoration method that can generate new human hair growth, rather than simply redistribute hair from one part of the scalp to another. The approach could significantly expand the use of hair transplantation to women with hair loss, who tend to have insufficient donor hair, as well as to men in early stages of baldness. The study was published today in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Share This: ? "About 90 percent of women with hair loss are not strong candidates for hair transplantation surgery because of insufficient ...
Scientist Uncovers Internal Clock Able to Measure Age of Most Human Tissues; Women's Breast Tissue Ages Faster Than Rest of Body
Post Date: 2013-10-22 02:21:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Oct. 20, 2013 — Everyone grows older, but scientists don't really understand why. Now a UCLA study has uncovered a biological clock embedded in our genomes that may shed light on why our bodies age and how we can slow the process. Published in the Oct. 21 edition of Genome Biology, the findings could offer valuable insights into cancer and stem cell research. While earlier clocks have been linked to saliva, hormones and telomeres, the new research is the first to identify an internal timepiece able to accurately gauge the age of diverse human organs, tissues and cell types. Unexpectedly, the clock also found that some parts of the anatomy, like a woman's breast ...
Scientist discovers 'biological clock' that may further explain aging
Post Date: 2013-10-21 19:01:43 by scrapper2
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The Fountain of Youth is still out there -- somewhere -- many of us hope. And scientists say they now have a new guide in the quest. A study published in the medical journal Genome Biology explains that all humans have a biological clock that measures the age of tissues. The find may help scientists with cancer and stem cell research as well as offer clues on how to slow the aging process. According to a officials at UCLA, where the study's author Dr. Steve Horvath teaches genetics, the study found that some human tissue ages more quickly than others. While earlier biological clocks have been linked to saliva, hormones and telomeres, the new research is the first to result in the ...
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