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Larger brains and eyes go with living in higher latitudes: Study
Post Date: 2011-07-28 20:46:55 by Tatarewicz
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IQALUIT — Coping with the Arctic winter's long nights and short days may bring some hidden benefits to people living in the high latitudes. That's because the further away that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains and eyes become, suggests a new study in the journal Biology Letters. By studying skulls from 12 different populations at varying latitudes, Oxford University scientists determined that people living in places with long winters evolved bigger eyes and brains to better process what they see. The bigger vision areas in the brain help cope with the low light levels experienced at high latitudes, a university news release said Wednesday. ...
Part Human/Part Animal Hybrid Monsters Are Being Created By Scientists All Over The Planet
Post Date: 2011-07-28 06:07:01 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Part Human/Part Animal Hybrid Monsters Are Being Created By Scientists All Over The Planet Crazed scientists all over the globe are "playing god" with the very building blocks of life. Today, thanks to extraordinary advances in the field of genetic modification, scientists are now able to do things that were once unthinkable. Part human/part animal hybrid monsters are being created by scientists all over the planet and it is all perfectly legal. Scientists justify mixing the DNA of humans and animals by claiming that it will help them "cure diseases" and "feed the world", but the reality is that all of this genetic modification is a tremendous ...
Earth's Traveling Companion
Post Date: 2011-07-28 01:18:31 by Tatarewicz
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There's something deeply intriguing about the interplanetary objects known as Trojan asteroids. The great French dynamicist Joseph-Louis Lagrange predicted in 1772 that small bodies might be sharing Jupiter's orbit, in gravitationally stable sweet spots (now called Lagrange points) located ahead of and behind the planet by 60°. But it wasn't until 1906 that the first of these, 588 Achilles, was spotted. Today more than 4,800 Jupiter Trojans are known, with roughly two-thirds in the preceding "Greek camp" (L4) and a third in the trailing "Trojan camp" (L5). Earth's Trojan asteroid Not much to look at, the asteroid 2010 TK7 nonetheless represents ...
How does a site get an https designation?
Post Date: 2011-07-27 22:13:11 by Lod
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Thanks for any information.
Feds silence scientist over salmon study
Post Date: 2011-07-27 15:00:27 by Original_Intent
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Feds silence scientist over salmon study By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News July 27, 2011 Comments (16) VANCOUVER — Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News. The documents show the Privy Council Office, which supports the Prime Minister's Office, stopped Kristi Miller from talking about one of the most significant discoveries to come out of a federal fisheries lab in years. Science, one of the world's top research journals, published Miller's findings in January. The journal considered the ...
Physicists have created a "hole in time" using the temporal equivalent of an invisibility cloak.
Post Date: 2011-07-27 07:10:04 by Tatarewicz
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Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists' newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme ways. The idea is steer light around a volume of space so that anything inside this region is essentially invisible. The effect has generated huge interest. The first invisibility cloaks worked only at microwave frequencies but in only a few years, physicists have found ways to create cloaks that work for visible light, for sound and for ocean waves. They've even designed illusion cloaks that can make one object look like another. Today, Moti Fridman and buddies, at Cornell University in Ithaca, go a step further. These guys have designed and built a cloak that hides ...
Mozilla enters smartphone operating system business
Post Date: 2011-07-27 05:35:38 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Mozilla announced Boot to Gecko (B2G), a new operating system, to crown the open source organization’s entry into the smartphone operating system business, according to media reports Wednesday. The organization said it“believes that the Web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development” with a cloud-based operating system based around HTML 5. In other words, Mozilla wants to free smartphone users from the tyranny of not only proprietary smartphone OSes like Android and Windows Phone, but whole widget devices like Apple’s iOS ecosystem, too. The group thinks it can accomplish this mission with an open source ...
Computer modelling of the cancer process
Post Date: 2011-07-27 01:40:45 by Tatarewicz
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Computers could enable scientists to treat cancer patients more effectively. Hans Lehrach and his Team at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics use computer power to create a virtual patient. They analyse the genetic make-up of the patient and its tumour and compare the differences. The results are used to create an individual model of both the patient and the tumour predict if a tumor responds to a certain drug. This could enable scientists to treat cancer patients more effectively. Title: Every tumor is different, Author: MaxPlanckSociety, 3 February 2011
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Post Date: 2011-07-26 19:26:23 by Lod
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Are We Alone In the Universe? New Analysis Says Maybe
Post Date: 2011-07-26 11:36:56 by Ada
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Scientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) work under the assumption that there is, in fact, intelligent life out there to be found. A new analysis may crush their optimism. To calculate the likelihood that they'll make radio contact with extraterrestrials, SETI scientists use what's known as the Drake Equation. Formulated in the 1960s by Frank Drake of the SETI Institute in California, it approximates the number of radio-transmitting civilizations in our galaxy at any one time by multiplying a string of factors: the number of stars, the fraction that have planets, the fraction of those that are habitable, the probability of life arising on such ...
HK scientists prove time travel impossible
Post Date: 2011-07-26 02:28:43 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Hong Kong scientists announced that they had determined the idea of time travel is impossible by proving nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. The finding is contained in a study done by a research team from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The study was published Monday in a scientific journal "Physical Review Letters" in the United States. "The study, which showed that single photons also obey the speed limit c, confirms Einstein's causality, that is, an effect cannot occur before its cause," the university said on its website. "By showing that single photons cannot travel faster than the speed ...
Japan to test-drill for seabed solidified natural gas
Post Date: 2011-07-25 05:26:18 by Tatarewicz
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An attendant highlights an experiment with "burning ice," methane hydrate, at an energy resources event. Japan will seek to extract seabed deposits of the energy-rich mineral in the world's first such offshore experiment, a news report said Monday An attendant highlights an experiment with "burning ice," methane hydrate, at an … Japan will seek to extract natural gas from seabed deposits of methane hydrate, also known as "burning ice", in the world's first such offshore experiment, a news report said Monday. The test is scheduled for a stretch of ocean southwest of Tokyo, between Shizuoka and Wakayama prefectures, over several weeks in the ...
Physicists Confirm Existence of New Particle
Post Date: 2011-07-23 23:44:09 by Tatarewicz
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Physicists working at Fermilab’s particle accelerator have confirmed the observation of an entirely new particle — the the Xi-sub-b baryon. Baryons are particles formed of three quarks, in different configurations. The proton is a baryon that consists of two up and one down quark, and the neutron is two down and one up. The Xi-sub-b has an up quark, a strange quark (yes, that’s its real name) and a heavy bottom quark (again, real name), meaning that it weighs around six times as much as a proton or neutron. Its existence has been predicted for some time, but hadn’t previously been observed. It doesn’t stick around long, though — traveling a fraction of a ...
Mozambique sends first biofuel export to German airliner
Post Date: 2011-07-23 23:18:13 by Tatarewicz
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Mozambique has exported its first batch of biofuel produced from the jatropha plant for use by the German airline Lufthansa, a company official told AFP on Friday. Oil crushed from non-edible seeds from the drought resistant and fast growing plant are produced in the central province of Manica by British company Sun Biofuels which has sent 30 tons to Germany. "The world market is demanding huge quantities of bio-fuel," the firm's director of corporate affairs Sergio Gouveia told AFP. "Luftansa alone is seeking 400 million litres per year of bio-fuel across the world." He did not reveal how much they had been paid for the shipment, but said biofuel prices vary ...
Scientists identify seventh and eighth bases of DNA
Post Date: 2011-07-23 21:27:29 by Tatarewicz
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For decades, scientists have known that DNA consists of four basic units -- adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. Those four bases have been taught in science textbooks and have formed the basis of the growing knowledge regarding how genes code for life. Yet in recent history, scientists have expanded that list from four to six. Now, with a finding published online in the July 21, 2011, issue of the journal Science, researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered the seventh and eighth bases of DNA. These last two bases – called 5-formylcytosine and 5 carboxylcytosine – are actually versions of cytosine that have been modified by Tet proteins, molecular entities ...
China makes nuclear power breakthrough
Post Date: 2011-07-22 06:52:00 by Tatarewicz
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China said Friday it had hooked its first so-called "fourth generation" nuclear reactor to the grid, a breakthrough that could eventually reduce its reliance on uranium imports China said Friday it had hooked its first so-called "fourth generation" nuclear reactor … China said Friday it had hooked its first so-called "fourth generation" nuclear reactor to the grid, a breakthrough that could eventually reduce its reliance on uranium imports The experimental fast-neutron reactor is the result of more than 20 years of research and could also help minimise radioactive waste from nuclear energy, the state-run China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) said. ...
Google Chrome question
Post Date: 2011-07-21 22:02:28 by Lod
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Is it possible to change the font type in this puppy? Thanks much, lod
Toyota's new pre-crash technology directs steering
Post Date: 2011-07-21 06:19:55 by Tatarewicz
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SUSONO, Japan (AP) — Toyota is developing a safety technology that takes control of the steering so the vehicle can veer away when it isn't able to stop before impact. Toyota Motor Corp. showed some of its up and coming safety innovations in a demonstration to reporters Thursday at its facility in this town, west of Tokyo, near Mount Fuji. All the world's automakers are working on special safety technology in an effort to woo customers, as competition intensifies among manufacturers already neck-and-neck in delivering the regular features for their products. Cars that stop or slow down automatically before an object or person in anticipation of a possible crash are not new. ...
Diamonds aren’t forever: study
Post Date: 2011-07-21 04:12:08 by Tatarewicz
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This is the first time light-induced evaporation has been shown to occur in diamonds. In a paper published in the US journal Optical Materials Express this week, Macquarie University researchers show that even the earth's hardest naturally occurring material, the diamond, is not forever. Associate Professor Richard Mildren and his colleagues from the Macquarie University Photonics Research Centre discovered that diamonds evaporate under exposure to light. "Although this type of light-induced evaporation has been observed in some materials, this is the first time it's been shown to occur for diamond," Mildren said. The diamonds were exposed to intense light pulses in ...
Israeli researchers identify protein that may slow down pancreatic cancer
Post Date: 2011-07-21 02:13:34 by Tatarewicz
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Study indicates the naturally occurring hormone klotho may be effective in future treatment of pancreatic cancer; researchers' next goal to reduce side effects. Israeli researchers have discovered a protein that seems to prevent the growth of pancreatic cancer. The protein could potentially be effective against other aggressive cancers as well. Researchers from the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer studied the behavior of the protein klotho, a natural hormone emitted by the brain and kidneys that is known to retard the aging process. (The protein is named after the Greek mythological fate that spun thread to keep a person alive. ) A study done by Sheba ...
Bill Gates to 'reinvent' the toilet
Post Date: 2011-07-21 00:36:12 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON - The man who reinvented computers and made PCs a household item in most wealthy nations, Microsoft tycoon turned philanthropist Bill Gates, is now focusing his attention on recasting the WC. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is pledging millions of dollars in grants to reinvent the toilet, said its Director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programs Frank Rijsberman, calling it a "huge issue for Africa". The aim is to boost health in developing countries by giving the 2.6 billion people who don't have access to a WC a hygienic, safe place to go to the toilet. Speaking by phone from a pan-African conference on sanitation that opened in the Rwandan capital ...
Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims (James Watson)
Post Date: 2011-07-20 19:50:13 by gengis gandhi
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m Times Online October 17, 2007 Black people 'less intelligent' scientist claims Helen Nugent One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people. James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has provoked outrage with his comments, made ahead of his arrival in Britain today. More fierce criticism of the eminent scientist is expected as he embarks on a number of engagements to promote a new book ‘Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science’. Among his first commitments is a speech to a London audience at the Science ...
Half of earth's radiated heat due to radioactivity
Post Date: 2011-07-20 02:52:21 by Tatarewicz
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Half of the extraordinary heat of the Earth that erupts on its surface volcanically and drives the titanic motions of the continents is due to radioactivity, scientists find. This new discovery shows that the planet still retains an extraordinary amount of heat it had from its primordial days. To better understand the sources of the Earth's heat, scientists studied antineutrinos, elementary particles that, like their neutrino counterparts, only rarely interact with normal matter. Using the Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Antineutrino Detector (KamLAND) located under a mountain in Japan, they analyzed geoneutrinos — ones emitted by decaying radioactive materials within the Earth ...
Aussie scientists working on bionic eye
Post Date: 2011-07-20 01:46:15 by Tatarewicz
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In a new approach to restoring sight, Swinburne researchers are focusing on gold nanoparticles and laser light The research program incorporates aspects of physics, engineering and biomedical science The new bionic eye model would ‘stimulate’ the nervous system People cannot see nanoparticles, but nanoparticles may one day help people to see. Microscopic gold nanoparticles fixed to optical nerves and assembled to respond to different laser light wavelengths could become the key to bionic vision – to restoring sight using a vision prosthesis or ‘bionic eye’. This laser stimulation of nerves, particularly optic nerves, is the focus of an innovative new research ...
Loch Ness Monster-Like Animal Filmed in Alaska?
Post Date: 2011-07-19 18:58:44 by Ferret
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The alleged sea serpent has a long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes and back bumps that stick out of the water. A video from 2009 shows something mysterious moving across the surface of the sea that resembles an Alaskan version of the Loch Ness monster. Some are claiming that the animal is a "Cadborosaurus," a type of reptile or lizard that got its name from Cadboro Bay, in British Columbia. They say that what's in the video is a sea serpent that dwells in the North Pacific and possibly other regions. Accounts generally describe it as having a long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes, and back bumps that stick out of the water. PHOTOS: Six Mysterious and Famous ...
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