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Billboard converts desert air into drinking water
Post Date: 2013-02-26 02:51:06 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News: An advertising agency has created what it's calling the world's first billboard that converts air into drinking water. The billboard—a collaboration between agency Mayo DraftFCB and Peru's University of Engineering and Technology—was placed in Peru's rain-starved desert capital, Lima. Lima gets less than an inch of rain per year on average, but since the city's humidity hovers around 98 percent, generators attached to the structure are able to capture atmospheric moisture, filter it and produce potable water. The harvested water is then stored in 20-liter tanks and can be retrieved from taps at the base of the billboard. "Agua aqui," ...
Particle Physics Research Sheds New Light On Possible 'Fifth Force of Nature'
Post Date: 2013-02-25 07:07:50 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Feb. 21, 2013 — In a breakthrough for the field of particle physics, Professor of Physics Larry Hunter and colleagues at Amherst College and The University of Texas at Austin have established new limits on what scientists call "long-range spin-spin interactions" between atomic particles. These interactions have been proposed by theoretical physicists but have not yet been seen. Their observation would constitute the discovery of a "fifth force of nature" (in addition to the four known fundamental forces: gravity, weak, strong and electromagnetic) and would suggest the existence of new particles, beyond those presently described by the Standard Model ...
Efforts to Protect Earth From Asteroids Are Under Way. But Will It Be Enough?
Post Date: 2013-02-24 04:46:13 by Tatarewicz
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Wired Magazine: In the wake of Earth’s largest meteor strike in more than a century, the world’s attention has turned skyward. The 17-meter bolide exploded in the air over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on Feb. 15, shattering windows and injuring around 1,000 people. But had the meteor come in at a slightly different angle, the space rock could have impacted the ground and the fallout could have been much worse. More money is already flowing toward future asteroid detection and mitigation strategies, but we may never be able to fully protect ourselves. There are plenty of programs already in place for monitoring relatively large near-Earth objects, and more will be coming ...
Iran tests new shoulder-launched anti-aircraft gun
Post Date: 2013-02-24 02:19:29 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV: Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has tested a shoulder-launched anti-aircraft gun, which can be used to shoot down any helicopter intruding into Iranian airspace. The spokesman for the Payambar-e Azam 8 (The Great Prophet 8) war games, Brigadier General Hamid Sarkheili, said on Saturday that the new weapon was domestically designed and developed by IRGC defense technicians. He added that the 20-mm caliber weapon can target helicopters at a distance of 1,400 meters (4,593 feet). The IRGC Ground Forces started the Payambar-e Azam 8 exercise, which includes practice maneuvers of various defense tactics, in the southeastern province of Kerman on Saturday. ...
Iran will build 16 nuclear power plants: AEOI
Post Date: 2013-02-23 05:40:14 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV: Following months of efforts, 16 new sites for nuclear power plants have been designated in coastal areas of the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, [southwestern province of] Khuzestan and northwestern part of the country.” The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announces that the Islamic Republic plans to construct 16 nuclear power plants. “Following months of efforts, 16 new sites for nuclear power plants have been designated in coastal areas of the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, [southwestern province of] Khuzestan and northwestern part of the country,” the AEOI said on ...
China deploys uranium enrichment centrifuge
Post Date: 2013-02-23 04:55:41 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's largest atomic energy developer on Friday announced the successful installation of a domestically produced uranium enrichment centrifuge for industrial use. The centrifuge was built in a uranium enrichment plant in northwest China's city of Lanzhou, according to a statement from the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). Uranium centrifuges are necessary to obtain concentrated U235, which is used as fuel for nuclear power plants. Many countries are developing such devices, although few have had success with industrialized production. The installation of the centrifuge marks a strategic accomplishment in terms of safeguarding the ...
Dutchsinse Radio Interview -- Adam Kokesh Radio
Post Date: 2013-02-22 09:25:37 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This is about weather modification.
Universe doomed: LHC scientists say
Post Date: 2013-02-20 02:45:27 by Tatarewicz
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A leading scientist says the universe we live in has a limited life span and will most likely be “wiped out” billions of years from now. Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, made the remarks in Boston on Monday before he presented his research at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The hypothesis was formulated as scientists were working on the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, which is believed to be the subatomic particle that gives matter its mass. “If you use all the physics that we know now and you do what you think is a ...
Explainer: what is a quark?
Post Date: 2013-02-20 02:28:20 by Tatarewicz
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One of humanity’s eternal questions surrounds what we are fundamentally made of. Many ancient philosophies believed in a set of classical elements: from water, air, fire and earth of ancient Greeks; to water, fire, earth, metal and wood of East Asian Wu-Xing thought. Physicists today believe that matter is made up of twelve fundamental particles – quarks and leptons – that have no substructure and cannot be broken down into smaller particles. Quarks and leptons interact via four forces to make the universe we know today. How these particles work to make matter Six types of quarks have so far been experimentally confirmed, given the names of “up”, ...
Cell growth mechanism uncovered
Post Date: 2013-02-20 02:12:54 by Tatarewicz
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A Melbourne-based research team has discovered a genetic defect that can halt cell growth and force cells into a death-evading survival state. The finding has revealed an important mechanism controlling the growth of rapidly-dividing cells that may ultimately lead to the development of new treatments for diseases including cancer. The discovery was made by Associate Professor Joan Heath, Dr Yeliz Boglev and colleagues at the Melbourne-Parkville Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Dr Kate Hannan, Associate Professor Rick Pearson and Associate Professor Ross Hannon at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, also contributed to the work, which was published in the journal PLOS ...
Russian scientist urges creation of anti-meteorite shield
Post Date: 2013-02-20 00:52:08 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Russia needs about 2 billion U.S. dollars to build a working anti-meteorite defense system, a Russian scientist said Monday. "Beside a network of ground-base telescopes we need some space-based platform. For all that, we need 58 billion rubles (some 2 billion dollars) for 10 years," said Lidia Rykhlova, head of department at the Astronomy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The draft federal program of creating an anti-meteor shield has been approved by Russian space agency Roscosmos and submitted to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, she said. The project gained urgency after a meteorite burst into the sky over Russia's Urals ...
China Has Found A Brutally Simple Way To Steal Corporate Secrets
Post Date: 2013-02-19 09:11:40 by Ada
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Zhang Zhaozhong — Formerly Rear Admiral may be showing a whole generation of Chinese how to hack your data The Chinese army appears to be conducting cyberhacking and espionage against large US corporations, according to an extensive report from computer security firm Mandiant. The report even identifies the unit and the building behind the cyberwar. Beijing has long been suspected of espionage costing global corporations billions of dollars—such as when a hacking incident at Lockheed Martin was followed by the appearance of suspiciously familiar Chinese jets—though it was hard to find evidence. Indeed, it makes sense that China, in its breakneck push to become a world ...
Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining
Post Date: 2013-02-19 06:55:55 by Tatarewicz
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Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But human intelligence is suffering for other reasons as well. According to Crabtree, our cognitive and emotional capabilities are fueled and determined by the combined effort of thousands of genes. If a mutation occurred in any of of these genes, ...
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Post Date: 2013-02-18 07:48:00 by Lod
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Meteorite-hit Russia proposes common space defense system
Post Date: 2013-02-18 03:42:23 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Saturday proposed establishing a common defense system to counter space threats, one day after a meteorite explosion injured some 1,200 people in the Chelyabinsk region in Russia's Urals region. "Humankind must create a system to identify and neutralize objects that pose a danger to the Earth," the official wrote on his Twitter account. Rogozin said he would present Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Monday with proposals on how to tackle similar incidents in the future. Local experts also advocated for the building of a common space threat monitoring and warning system. Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of ...
Predation: Lies, Myths, and Scientific Fraud
Post Date: 2013-02-15 00:18:36 by X-15
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“A great deal of misinformation surrounds predators, in general, and wolf recovery in particular,” Dr. Charles Kay told the audience at the WyFB wolf seminar. “Simply put, the government lied to minimize opposition to wolf recovery.” “And, unfortunately this has not been the only lie,” Kay continued. Dr. Charles Kay delivered the keynote address at “Wolves: Wyoming’s Reality,” a seminar sponsored by the Wyoming Farm Bureau Foundation May 25-26 in Riverton. “Did you ever wonder how we went from our forefather’s view that wolves and other predators decimated your herds to today’s widely held belief that predators have little or no ...
Go Karts on Railroad Tracks
Post Date: 2013-02-13 00:20:03 by X-15
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Smart car parks itself
Post Date: 2013-02-10 07:49:38 by Tatarewicz
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Local - Germany: The days of slowly losing patience trying to find a parking space and then ditching your ride in a rush to catch a plane or train could soon be over thanks to self-parking cars being developed in Germany. The German Aerospace Centre in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, this week tested its clever car parking system in a public space for the first time. The driver pulled up outside the city's train station and walked off, leaving the car to find a parking spot and put itself neatly there. When the driver "returned" from his fictional journey, a simple call via a smartphone to the car was enough to summon it to the front of the station, ready to be driven home. ...
Iran producing new combat drone: Defense Minister
Post Date: 2013-02-10 06:59:15 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV: Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says Iran is producing a new Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) with the capability of launching air-to-air missiles. “Our newest combat drone with the capability of launching air-to-air missiles is in its final stages of production and will be unveiled in future,” Vahidi said on Saturday. “Today, we are producing more than 20 models of drones in the country in different sectors of reconnaissance and combat, some of which have high flight endurance,” the Iranian defense minister added. “Our reconnaissance drones are able to take clearest of pictures of the enemies’ measures and movements by ...
Where evil lurks: Neurologist discovers 'dark patch' inside the brains of killers and rapists
Post Date: 2013-02-06 16:53:17 by noone222
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A German neurologist claims to have found the area of the brain where evil lurks in killers, rapists and robbers. Bremen scientist Dr Gerhard Roth says the 'evil patch' lies in the brain's central lobe and shows up as a dark mass on X-rays. He discovered it when investigating violent convicted offenders over the years for German government studies. 'We showed these people short films and measured their brain waves,' he said. 'Whenever there were brutal and squalid scenes the subjects showed no emotions. In the areas of the brain where we create compassion and sorrow, nothing happened.' The dark mass at the front of the brain, he says, appears in all ...
Report shows UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming
Post Date: 2013-02-05 08:01:06 by Ada
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The Earth has been getting warmer -- but how much of that heat is due to greenhouse gas emissions and how much is due to natural causes? A leaked report by a United Nations’ group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought. “[Results] do suggest the possibility of a much larger impact of solar variations on the stratosphere than previously thought, and some studies have suggested that this may lead to significant regional impacts on climate,” reads a draft copy of a major, upcoming report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The man who leaked the report, StopGreenSuicide blogger ...
Quantum Microscope for Living Biology
Post Date: 2013-02-05 05:56:03 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Feb. 4, 2013 — A team of Australian scientists has developed a powerful microscope using the laws of quantum mechanics to probe the inner workings of living cells. The team, a collaboration between The University of Queensland and the Australian National University, believe their microscope could lead to a better understanding of the basic components of life and eventually allow quantum mechanics to be probed at a macroscopic level. Their world-first discovery has been published online in Nature Photonics. Team leader Associate Professor Warwick Bowen, of UQ's ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, said the study relied on quantum interactions ...
Twitter: Account hack affects 250,000 users
Post Date: 2013-02-02 18:34:38 by scrapper2
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A quarter of a million Twitter users have had their accounts hacked in the latest of a string of high-profile internet security breaches. Twitter's information security director Bob Lord said about 250,000 users' passwords had been stolen, as well as usernames, emails and other data. Affected users have had passwords invalidated and have been sent emails informing them. Mr Lord said the attack "was not the work of amateurs". He said it appeared similar to recent attacks on the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The US newspapers reported that their computer systems had been breached by China-based hackers. 'Not isolated' Twitter has 200 million ...
Coming soon, the car that runs on air: Peugeot Citroen unveil new 117mpg hybrid
Post Date: 2013-01-27 00:36:08 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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If you have ever grimaced at your petrol bill and dreamed of a car that runs on fresh air, your prayers are about to be answered. French car giant PSA Peugeot Citroen believes it can put an air-powered vehicle on the road by 2016. Its scientists say it will knock 45 per cent off fuel bills for an average motorist. And when driving in towns and cities costs could be slashed by as much as 80 per cent because the car will be running on air for four-fifths of the time. The system works by using a normal internal combustion engine, special hydraulics and an adapted gearbox along with compressed air cylinders that store and release energy. This enables it to run on petrol or air, or a ...
Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal Saturday
Post Date: 2013-01-25 23:54:28 by freepatriot32
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The feds mandate fidelity between carriers and users: New rule under DMCA outlaws unlocking new handsets without carrier permission For all you polyamorous types out there who don't like the long-term monogamy demanded by most American wireless carriers when it comes to smartphones, I have bad news. Starting this Saturday, it becomes illegal in this great land to unlock a new smartphone without the permission of the carrier that locked it in the first place. This all goes back to a final rule issued in late October by the Librarian of Congress (PDF) -- the Library of Congress handles the rulemaking for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is the specific law we're talking ...
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