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Geoengineering: The Elephant in the Sky
Post Date: 2013-05-24 21:03:44 by christine
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Growing up in Michigan, I was surrounded by some of the most beautiful natural scenery and raised to appreciate the outdoors, which led to summers on the water and many camping trips along Lake Michigan. I remember staring up into the sky pointing out to my mother what each cloud was called, showcasing what I had learned in school. The infamous game of finding the best cloud shapes that resembled real objects kept us entertained and the kids competitive. As I grew up, this stayed with me. I would always look to the sky when I was deep in thought or lost in frustration; the sky was my peace, my grounding calm. A couple years after high school, I joined the military working in ...
U.S. researchers find molecule behind sensation of itch
Post Date: 2013-05-24 01:54:37 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, May 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers reported Thursday the discovery of a key molecule responsible for triggering the sensation of itch in our brain but warned that the molecule may not be a good drug target since it's involved in many body functions. Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health said that there will be no itch if the molecule, a small neuropeptide called natriuretic polypeptide b, or Nppb, is taken away, but injecting it in the right place, the itch will come back. The findings, according to the researchers, show that Nppb is an essential link between the skin receptor cells that sense itching and the nerve cells that send the perception of itch ...
White tiger's coat down to one change in a gene
Post Date: 2013-05-23 21:39:26 by Dakmar
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Chinese scientists have acquired new insights into how white tigers get their colouration.The researchers have traced the cause to a single change in a gene known to drive pigmentation in a host of animals, including humans. White tigers are a rare variant of the customary orange Bengal sub-species. Today, they are found exclusively in captive programmes where the limited numbers are interbred to maintain the distinctive fur colour. Shu-Jin Luo of Peking University and colleagues report in the journal Current Biology how they investigated the genetics of a family of tigers living in Chimelong Safari Park in Panyu, Guangzhou Province. This ambush of tigers included both white and orange ...
This solar panel printer can make 33 feet of solar cells per minute
Post Date: 2013-05-23 14:51:50 by wudidiz
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This solar panel printer can make 33 feet of solar cells per minute By Sarah Laskow University of Melbourne Whatever oil and gas true believers want to think, the world is doing this solar power thing. It’s getting cheaper and cheaper to make solar panels, and the panels are getting more and more effective. For example: A team in Australia just built a gigantic printer that spits out solar cells at a rate, Gizmodo reports, of about 33 feet every minute. It’s not even particularly complicated technology, according to the researchers. Gizmodo writes: [The printer system] utilizes only existing printer technology to embed polymer solar cells (also known as organic or plastic ...
Explainer: why are tornadoes so destructive?
Post Date: 2013-05-23 04:28:51 by Tatarewicz
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Researchers use the Fujita Scale to measure the strength of tornadoes. The strongest tornadoes recorded had winds of up to 500km/h, dislodging asphalt from roads. Tornadoes are a part of life for people living in the Great Plains of the United States. In Oklahoma, a state that averages 62 tornadoes a year, people are prepared as best as they can be and are well warned. It’s imperative that they are when a large population centre – the metro-area of Oklahoma City that contains over 1 million people – is in one of the most dangerous places on earth for significant and destructive tornadoes. Monday May 20 starkly highlighted this vulnerability when a violent and deadly ...
Valdez Fly-In 2013
Post Date: 2013-05-23 00:27:41 by X-15
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People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests
Post Date: 2013-05-22 19:22:47 by Ada
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Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline. In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era. What exactly explains this decline? Study co-author Dr. Jan te Nijenhuis, professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Amsterdam, points to the fact that women of high intelligence tend to have fewer children than do women of lower intelligence. This negative association between I.Q. and fertility has been demonstrated time and again in research over the last century. But this isn't the first evidence of a possible decline in human intelligence. ...
Drawing Closer to Alzheimer’s Magic Bullet? Drugs Found to Both Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's Disease in Mice
Post Date: 2013-05-22 03:09:23 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: May 21, 2013 — Imagine a pharmaceutical prevention, treatment or even cure for Alzheimer's disease. Share This: ? It is almost impossible to overstate how monumental a development that would be and how it would answer the prayers of millions. Though science isn't there yet, a new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience spearheaded by USC Davis School of Gerontology researchers offers a tantalizing glimpse of potential solutions. "Our data suggests the possibility of drugs that can prevent and treat Alzheimer's," said lead author, professor and lab principal Christian Pike of USC Davis. "It's just mouse data but extremely ...
Engineers Devise New Way to Produce Clean Hydrogen
Post Date: 2013-05-22 02:51:29 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: May 21, 2013 — Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications, While hydrogen is ubiquitous in the environment, producing and collecting molecular hydrogen for transportation and industrial uses is expensive and complicated. Just as importantly, a byproduct of most current methods of producing hydrogen is carbon monoxide, which is toxic to humans and animals. The Duke engineers, using a new catalytic approach, have shown in the laboratory that they can reduce carbon monoxide levels to nearly zero in the presence of hydrogen and ...
NASA awards grant for 3-D food printer; could it end world hunger?
Post Date: 2013-05-22 02:19:10 by Tatarewicz
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Some 3-D printer food made from meal worms (TNO research) Call it food for thought. Or perhaps thought for food: NASA has given a six-month grant to a company developing what could be the world’s first 3-D food printer. And the project’s developer, reports Quartz, an online digital news site, believes the invention could be used to end world hunger. Quartz explains that the printer is the brainchild of mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor. Being developed by Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corp., it will use proteins, carbohydrates and sugars to create edible food products. Contractor says one of his primary motivations is a belief that food will ...
Do Salamanders' Immune Systems Hold the Key to Regeneration?
Post Date: 2013-05-21 05:43:55 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: May 20, 2013 — Salamanders' immune systems are key to their remarkable ability to regrow limbs, and could also underpin their ability to regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue and even parts of their hearts, scientists have found. In research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University found that when immune cells known as macrophages were systemically removed, salamanders lost their ability to regenerate a limb and instead formed scar tissue. Lead researcher, Dr James Godwin, a Fellow in the laboratory of ARMI Director Professor Nadia Rosenthal, ...
The Known Universe (Video)
Post Date: 2013-05-20 01:15:21 by Original_Intent
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Poster Comment:Not too bad. I wish the resolution was better.
VP: Iran to Unveil 4 Scientific Achievements in New Energy Sources
Post Date: 2013-05-18 23:14:53 by Tatarewicz
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Fars: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah announced that the country plans to unveil four scientific achievements in the field of new energy resources in the near future. Iran has so far inaugurated solar power plants in 4 universities and a fifth one will kick off work in Niroo Research Institute affiliated to the energy ministry tomorrow, Soltankhah said in Tehran on Saturday. She also announced that Iranian scientists have managed to produce raw material for building wind turbines, adding that the related production line will be inaugurated on Sunday. The country formerly imported the raw material from foreign countries. Soltankhah ...
(my title) NWO Illuminati imports Nylanderia fulva in effort to quash Patriot electronics
Post Date: 2013-05-18 12:21:42 by PSUSA2
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Invasive fire ants have been a thorn in the sides of Southerners for years. But another invasive species, the so-called "crazy" ant — that many describe as being worse — has arrived and is displacing fire ants in several places. "When you talk to folks who live in the invaded areas, they tell you they want their fire ants back," said Edward LeBrun, a researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, in a statement from the school. "Fire ants are in many ways very polite. They live in your yard. They form mounds and stay there, and they only interact with you if you step on their mound." Crazy ants, on the other hand, "go everywhere," ...
Mitochondrial DNA Study Reveals Origins of Minoan Civilization
Post Date: 2013-05-17 03:10:02 by farmfriend
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Mitochondrial DNA Study Reveals Origins of Minoan Civilization May 16, 2013 by Sci-News.com A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Minoans, who 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete, probably were descendents of the first Neolithic humans to reach the island around 7,000 BC and that they have the greatest genetic similarity with modern European populations. The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in the early 1900s named the Minoans after a legendary Greek king, Minos. Based on similarities between Minoan artifacts and those from Egypt and Libya, Sir Evans proposed that the Minoan civilization ...
Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years
Post Date: 2013-05-16 18:37:37 by X-15
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One of the dreams for security experts is the creation of a quantum internet that allows perfectly secure communication based on the powerful laws of quantum mechanics. The basic idea here is that the act of measuring a quantum object, such as a photon, always changes it. So any attempt to eavesdrop on a quantum message cannot fail to leave telltale signs of snooping that the receiver can detect. That allows anybody to send a “one-time pad” over a quantum network which can then be used for secure communication using conventional classical communication. That sets things up nicely for perfectly secure messaging known as quantum cryptography and this is actually a fairly ...
Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
Post Date: 2013-05-15 23:40:59 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed. The result is a harvest of human embryonic stem cells, the seemingly magic cells capable of morphing into any of the 200-plus kinds that make up a person. The feat, reported on Wednesday in the journal Cell, could re-ignite the field of stem-cell medicine, which has been hobbled by technical challenges as well as ethical issues. Until now, the most natural sources ...
Warp Drive Feasible? Relativity Loophole Means 'Star Trek' Device Might Actually Work, Physicists Say
Post Date: 2013-05-15 07:41:56 by Ada
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In the "Star Trek" TV shows and films, the U.S.S. Enterprise's warp engine allows the ship to move faster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would say, "highly illogical." However, there's a loophole in Einstein's general theory of relativity that could allow a ship to traverse vast distances in less time than it would take light. The trick? It's not the starship that's moving — it's the space around it. In fact, scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field test toward proving the possibility of warp drives and faster-than-light travel. Maybe the warp drive on "Star Trek" is possible after all. [See ...
Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Post Date: 2013-05-15 04:13:24 by Tatarewicz
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In the near future our mobile phones will be powered by wearable electronics that incorporate piezoelectric devices into fabric. Image: Image: Yonggang Huang/Northwestern University Imagine having a wafer-thin touchscreen on your sleeve that, like a scene out of a Philip K. Dick novel, gives you all the functionality of a smartphone without the awkwardness of a cumbersome battery. The best part about this scenario is it may not be as far from reality as you think. The bulky packaging of batteries limits innovation of some of the amazing new, ultra-slim electronics today. If you open up an iPhone 5, you’ll see that a large proportion of the phone’s volume is taken up by the ...
Wheat-tomato rotation helps reduce nematodes: study
Post Date: 2013-05-14 23:38:58 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, May 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers said Tuesday they have found a resistant strain of wheat that can reduce nematode numbers in soil and protect the next rotation of tomato plants. Root-knot nematodes cause crop losses around the world, and they can be difficult to control. Once they are present in soil, they can survive winter in a fallow field and infect plants during the next growing season. The resistant wheat, however, serves as a trap crop to trick the nematodes into starting their life cycle but then prevents them from reproducing, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, who described it in the journal Crop Science as "a better option ...
Solar Panels as Inexpensive as Paint?
Post Date: 2013-05-14 02:27:48 by Tatarewicz
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May 13, 2013 — Most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power, recent polls suggest. A major impediment, however, is the cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panels. Simply put, most people and businesses cannot afford to place them on their rooftops. Share This: Tweet Fortunately, that is changing because researchers such as Qiaoqiang Gan, University at Buffalo assistant professor of electrical engineering, are helping develop a new generation of photovoltaic cells that produce more power and cost less to manufacture than what's available today. One of the more promising efforts, which Gan is working on, involves the use of ...
3D Printing Companies
Post Date: 2013-05-13 16:41:11 by Lod
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AL GORE ADMITS…. SPRAYING 90 MILLION TONS PER DAY OF TOXIC CHEMICALS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE
Post Date: 2013-05-13 10:44:56 by christine
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FROM THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE INTERNET….. He must know more than us average folks do. Here is something he obviously knows about stratospheric aerosol spraying (a.k.a.) chemtrails that I have not heard up to this point. Listening to Mr. Al Gore(-ithum) or Ellen normally makes me want to change the channel immediately, or puke, however this time he shared information which he must be privy to that disclosed the magnitude of the toxic chemicals which are being dumped into the atmosphere on a DAILY basis. NINETY MILLION tons, PER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He acts like it’s terrible that they would spend all that money to pollute the atmosphere and we should unite to put a stop to ...
Adventure shapes brain/personality
Post Date: 2013-05-12 04:04:39 by Tatarewicz
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THE act of exploring helps shape the brain and adventuring is what makes each individual different, according to researchers in Germany. The findings published in the US journal Science may offer new paths to treating psychiatric diseases, scientists said. Researchers sought to pin down why identical twins are not perfect replicas of each other, even when they have been raised in the same environment, and studied the matter using 40 genetically identical mice. The mice were kept in an elaborate, five-level cage connected by glass chutes and filled with toys, scaffolds, wooden flower pots, nesting places and more. The space available to explore spanned about five square metres (yards). ...
Is science being corrupted to the point of fraud?
Post Date: 2013-05-12 02:54:23 by Tatarewicz
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Petroleum and coal are referred to as fossil fuels, which supposedly means they started out as biological materials. They didn't. Oil and coal are in a higher state of chemical energy than biological materials. They are often called hydrocarbons, because they have hydrogen attached to carbon, which is a high energy state. Biological materials have a lot of oxygen added, which is a lower energy state. There is no method of increasing chemical energy other than through radiation. Commentators blissfully mention heat and pressure. Those forces cannot increase chemical energy, because they act upon nuclei, while chemical energy is in electrons which spin around nuclei. No force acting upon ...
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