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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 ...
Will computers kill gun control?
Post Date: 2013-01-25 09:28:50 by Ada
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3-D printing technology could make efforts to curb weapons impossible. Do-it- yourself techies are cool with that (Credit: 0833379753, defpicture via Shutterstock/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock) “How’s that national conversation going?” sneers Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, an organization dedicated to making it easy for anyone to 3-D print their own gun. It’s the opening line of a video showcasing Defense Distributed’s successful employment of a 3-D printer to manufacture a plastic high-capacity ammo clip for an AR-15 rifle. Wilson is namechecking Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s call for a “new conversation” on gun control in ...
Whatever Happened to Global Warming?
Post Date: 2013-01-24 15:04:10 by scrapper2
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Are you freezing? Join the crowd. Arctic air is sweeping across Canada. Snow and ice are wreaking havoc on Britain. Russians are dying from the cold. And Germans are sneaking into forests to cut down trees because their fuel bills are so high. Hey! Whatever happened to global warming? That’s a naive question, of course. Everybody knows there’s little or no connection between daily weather events and climate change (except when there’s a heat wave, a hurricane or some other natural disaster, in which case global warming is invariably to blame). Experts will tell you that our bitter winter weather proves nothing about climate change – that the world is still warming up ...
Captain Kirk’s Predecessor: Star Trek Was RAND Corporation Predictive Programming
Post Date: 2013-01-24 07:39:58 by Ada
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In a rare and recently unearthed interview from 1965, the actor who preceded William Shatner as first captain of the Enterprise, stated that the series was based on the RAND Corporation’s “projection of things to come”. Actor Jeffrey Hunter, who played captain Christopher Pike in the Star Trek pilot “The Cage” told a Hollywood columnist in January of ’65 that he hoped the pilot- episode would be picked up as a series because he was intrigued by the fact that the series was based on the RAND corporation’s “projection of things to come.” “We should know within several weeks whether the show has been sold.”, Hunter stated almost half a ...
DNA study traces ancestry of Native Americans to Beijing
Post Date: 2013-01-23 08:13:53 by Ada
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Present-day Asians and Native Americans are descended from a group of people who were already in China 40,000 years ago, according to an analysis of fossil DNA published this week. The genetic analysis showed that the early modern humans in Beijing had already diverged genetically from the ancestors of modern-day Europeans. The researchers took nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from a leg bone found in the Tianyuan Cave in China in 2003. Using this, they reconstructed the genetic profile of the leg’s owner, a person who lived at a very interesting time in the history of modern humans, the researchers said in a statement Monday. “This individual lived during an important ...
School of Law Professor Speaks on Chemtrails
Post Date: 2013-01-22 17:44:04 by CadetD
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Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow?
Post Date: 2013-01-21 11:28:47 by Ada
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The scientific debate about Europe’s unlikeliest wildlife sanctuary. Valentina Sachepok darted ahead while I chased her through a forest in the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A camera crew followed us; they were shooting a documentary about the babushkas of Chernobyl. The 1986 disaster forced the permanent evacuation of 300,000 people, but a smattering of women still live semi-legally in their old homes. Sachepok, a retired nurse in her 60s with tufts of gray hair peering from under a maroon kerchief, didn’t walk but trotted, sprinting abruptly while the rest of us scrambled to keep up. After collecting fat yellow mushrooms from a clump of moss, ...
Charges Dropped Against Cancer Doctor Burzynski
Post Date: 2013-01-21 11:28:10 by noone222
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China unveils top 10 sci-tech news events of 2012
Post Date: 2013-01-20 00:55:02 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, or the country's elite think-tank duo, unveiled on Saturday top 10 news events of domestic science and technology progress for the year 2012. Selected via a vote by academicians from both organizations, the 10 news events are as follows: -- Three Chinese astronauts on June 24 successfully completed a manual docking between the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, the first such attempt in China's history of space exploration. -- China's manned submersible, the Jiaolong, set a new national dive record after reaching more than 7,000 meters below sea level ...
New gun goes on sale that turns ANYONE into a sharpshooter able to hit a target almost one mile away
Post Date: 2013-01-13 19:33:06 by James Deffenbach
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A controversial new Wi-Fi-enabled 'smart-gun' equipped with a computerized scope that enables anyone to become a master marksman goes on sale at the beginning of next week. Boasting three on-board processors and a precision guided firing system, the TrackingPoint rifle evaluates environmental factors such as wind speed and calculates the positions of moving targets with a claimed accuracy of almost a mile for novices. Compensating for human error, looking through the futuristic laser rangefinder sight resembles the view a pilot has in a jet fighter cockpit and turns conventional bolt action rifles into deadly snipers - albeit at a cost of $17,000. The $17,000 TrackingPoint ...
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