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Mysterious Maine Earthquakes Caused by Ice Age Rebound
Post Date: 2011-05-10 06:54:37 by Tatarewicz
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On the last day of April and first five days of May, dozens of tiny earthquakes caused Maine’s eastern coast to tremble. What could have shaken this geologically quiet region, located in the middle of a tectonic plate, far from any active faults? The last ice age, say geologists. Like a trampoline’s surface after liftoff, Earth’s crust along the eastern seaboard is still springing back from the pressing weight of a massive ice sheet that has since melted. The earthquakes are a present-time reminder of processes that are prehistoric at a human scale, but from a geological perspective still ongoing. “This action is still taking place,” said Robert Marvinney, ...
Shale gas drilling 'contaminates drinking water'
Post Date: 2011-05-10 06:19:16 by Tatarewicz
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Rising prices has led to a sharp increase in shale gas extraction schemes Continue reading the main story Shale gas drilling operations increase the risk of nearby drinking water becoming contaminated with methane, a study has suggested. Researchers found, on average, methane concentrations 17 times above normal in samples taken near drilling sites. Growing demand for energy has led to a sharp increase in shale gas extraction around the globe, prompting concerns about the impact of the technology. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We found surprising levels of methane in home-owners' wells that were close to natural gas wells, " ...
ufo accompaning comet?
Post Date: 2011-05-10 05:37:08 by Tatarewicz
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Based on reports published by China's space agency, Sergio Toscano, director for Astronomical Research in Missions, said that behind the comet Elenin could be approaching a UFO. "Detrás del cometa, descubierto en diciembre del año pasado, los científicos chinos aseguran que viene algo que ellos llamaron cluster , que significa cúmulo globular o, tal vez nave extraterrestre ", dijo Toscano . "Behind the comet, discovered in December last year, Chinese scientists say that is something they called cluster, which means globular cluster, or perhaps alien spacecraft," said Toscano. Según el informe que cita el astrónomo ...
Worldwide Night Sky Photo
Post Date: 2011-05-09 20:04:06 by Armadillo
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What do you see? This was the anthropic question of a year-long photographic project dubbed the Photopic Sky Survey, meant to reveal the entire night sky as if it rivalled the brightness of day. In it we see tens of millions of stars, the glowing factories of newborn ones, and a rich tapestry of dust all floating on a stage of unimaginable proportions. I hope you enjoy this new view of our place in the universe as much as I have enjoyed making it. Nick Risinger. The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familiar Milky ...
Fossil of a giant ant found in North America
Post Date: 2011-05-07 21:38:05 by X-15
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The fossil of a gigantic ant, similar to ones that lived 50 million years ago in Europe, has been found for the first time in North America. Some scientists believe it is a new species. The winged queen ant collected in the Green River Formation in Wyoming is "about the size of a small bird — about the body mass of a small bird as well," said Bruce Archibald, the Simon Fraser University researcher who identified it. "It's pretty impressive." Archibald, who specializes in studying fossil insects, is lead author of a paper about the ant published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The fossil had spent some time in a drawer at the Denver Museum of ...
Tiny new micro-camera is as small as a grain of sand
Post Date: 2011-05-06 23:50:41 by X-15
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Researchers at a German medical institute have created a camera lens so tiny that you can only barely see it with the naked eye. The electronic eye measures just 1.5 millimeters at its widest, and is designed to peer inside the human body in endoscopic procedures. Obviously, the smaller the device being inserted into your body, the better, so news of such a miniscule camera is certainly important from a medical standpoint. The new camera is impressive for another reason as well: it's disposable. The materials used in its construction make the mini lens cheap enough to be tossed after each operation, meaning no more sterilizing and reusing the same camera multiple times. The new ...
Magic Highway USA
Post Date: 2011-05-06 13:24:03 by X-15
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Intel unveils 3-D transistors
Post Date: 2011-05-05 07:52:37 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Intel Corp. on Wednesday announced that it will mass-manufacture chips using new transistors featuring a three-dimensional (3-D) structure, calling it a technical breakthrough in microprocessors. The 3-D transistor, called Tri-Gate, represents a fundamental departure from the two-dimensional planar transistor structure that has powered computers, mobile phones and other modern electronics, Intel said. "Intel's scientists and engineers have once again reinvented the transistor, this time utilizing the third dimension," Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive officer, said in a statement. Intel on Wednesday also demonstrated a 22-nanometer ...
Longevity Study on C2C Thurs. night
Post Date: 2011-05-02 02:27:53 by Tatarewicz
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Longevity Study Date: 05-05-11 Host: George Noory Guests: Howard S. Friedman Professor of Psychology Howard Friedman will discuss an eight decade study which documents who really thrives under certain conditions and who dies early. The comprehensive study busts myths about the secrets to living a longer life. Website(s): * howardsfriedman.com Book(s): * The Longevity Project
Too little or too much sleep linked with cognitive decline
Post Date: 2011-05-02 00:30:31 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Middle-aged adults who sleep too less or too much may be more likely to suffer cognitive decline, a new study suggests. According to the study, less than six hours of sleep each night is considered too little and more than eight hours as too much for middle-aged adults. The study, conducted by researchers at University College London Medical School, was published May 1 in the American medical journal Sleep. The researchers conducted the study in two periods -- the 1997- 1999 period and the 2003-2004 period. The participants were asked how many hours they slept on an average week night, and were asked the same question in 2003-2004 after an average 5.4 ...
Gerald Celente - Cold Fusion is a Reality
Post Date: 2011-05-01 20:26:02 by gengis gandhi
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GMO Franken Foods
Post Date: 2011-04-30 19:13:38 by Original_Intent
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GMO Franken Foods Genetically-modified foods (GMOs) have been commercially available since the first transgenic tomato was approved in 1994. It’s estimated that 70-75% of supermarket processed foods—soda, soup, corn chips, veggie burgers, pizza, baby food and infant formula—contain GMO ingredients of which we are completely unaware. GMOs approved for human consumption include: corn, rice, soy, wheat, alfalfa, flax, barley, apples, papaya, potatoes, peas, tomatoes, sweet peppers, peanuts, canola oil, cow, pig, cow’s milk. A cow was recently developed to produce human breast milk. align="right" border="1" height="282" ...
Female dogs smarter than males--study
Post Date: 2011-04-30 07:52:26 by Tatarewicz
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Female pooches might have a leg up on males when it comes to intelligence, as a new study published in 'Biology Letters,' states that female canine brains are more responsive to situations and better able to detect a change in events than male dogs. Female pooches might have a leg up on males when it comes to intelligence, as a new study published in 'Biology Letters,' states that female canine brains are more responsive to situations and better able to detect a change in events than male dogs. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Vienna, Germany, suggests that like humans, animals too have sex differences in how brain processes the information. ...
Pigs have 'evolved to love mud'
Post Date: 2011-04-30 06:09:18 by Tatarewicz
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It is a true picture of contentment, and now a scientist is suggesting that a pig's love of mud is more than just a way to keep cool. A researcher in the Netherlands has looked at wallowing behaviour in pigs' wild relatives to find out more about what motivates the animals to luxuriate in sludge. His conclusions suggest that wallowing is vital for the animals' well-being. The study is published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science. It is already well accepted that pigs use wallows to keep cool. The animals do not have normal sweat glands, so they are unable, otherwise, to regulate their body temperature. Liking shallow water could have been a point in the ...
Russian mathematician claims he can control Universe
Post Date: 2011-04-29 00:07:55 by Tatarewicz
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Grigori Perelman, a brilliant mathematician from St. Petersbrug, who became famous worldwide after he had solved the Poincare conjecture, has finally explained his refusal to accept a million-dollar prize. According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, the secluded scientist opened his heart to a journalist and producer of a film company, which is going to make a documentary about him. The reporter at first contacted Grigori Perelman's mother through the Jewish community of St. Petersburg. She talked to her son, and the latter agreed to give an interview. That was quite an achievement indeed - no other journalist has managed to ask any question to Mr. Perelman before. "Perelman ...
Clapped-out Mustang lays down the smack on Pass Time
Post Date: 2011-04-27 15:55:49 by X-15
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SETI hunt for alien life put on hold
Post Date: 2011-04-26 23:43:09 by Tatarewicz
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Computerworld - The federal and state budget squeeze is affecting life here on Earth -- and beyond. Astronomers at the SETI Institute in Northern California announced that it has been forced to stop operations at the Allen Telescope Array, a field of more than 40 radio dishes that scan the skies for communications from aliens. The array began scanning for signals from extraterrestrial life in October of 2007, and SETI planned to eventually expand the project to 350 dishes, covering 90 square miles. But financial constraints are forcing the institute's astronomers to put the array into hibernation. "Effective this week, the [Allen Telescope Array] has been placed into ...
Should every child be taught to play chess?
Post Date: 2011-04-26 05:30:23 by Tatarewicz
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Armenia is making chess compulsory in schools, but could mandatory study of a board game really help children's academic performance and behaviour? Every child aged six or over in Armenia is now destined to learn chess. The authorities there believe compulsory lessons will "foster schoolchildren's intellectual development" and improve critical thinking skills. The country has plenty of reasons to believe in chess. It treats grandmasters like sports stars, championships are displayed on giant boards in cities and victories celebrated with the kind of frenzy most countries reserve for football. Chess is nothing less than a national obsession. It may only have a ...
IQ tests measure motivation - not just intelligence
Post Date: 2011-04-26 04:39:21 by Tatarewicz
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Intelligence tests are as much a measure of motivation as they are of mental ability, says research from the US. Researchers from Pennsylvania found that a high IQ score required both high intelligence and high motivation but a low IQ score could be the result of a lack of either factor. Incentives were also found to increase IQ scores by a noticeable margin. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Firstly, it analysed previous studies of how material incentives affected the performance of more than 2,000 people in intelligence tests. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, found that incentives increased all IQ scores, but ...
Official kilo losing weight (atoms)?
Post Date: 2011-04-26 02:10:01 by Tatarewicz
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Ensuring a pound of butter is indeed a pound, or a gallon of milk a full gallon, has long been the province of government agencies that deal with weights and measures. But now it seems scientists are having a little trouble with the golf-ball-size piece of metal that is used to set the standard weight for a kilogram, or kilo. A bunch of these prototypes have been made over the years, seven of which are kept in a triple-locked vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, with one known as the International Prototype. The problem is that as these prototypes have been taken out and weighed, which last happened in 1990, something odd has turned up - their weights ...
China building own space station
Post Date: 2011-04-26 00:49:05 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Authorities in charge of the manned space program unveiled plans on Monday to build a 60-ton space station, made up of three capsules, and develop a cargo spaceship to transport supplies. The China Manned Space Engineering Office said at a news conference that it also wants the public to get involved by suggesting names for the space station, due to completed around 2020. According to documents provided by the office, the space station, weighing about 60 tons, is composed of a core module and two others where experiments will be conducted. A cargo spaceship to transport supplies will also be developed. The 18.1-meter-long core module, with a maximum ...
Scientists Prove Abiotic Oil is REAL!
Post Date: 2011-04-25 10:20:00 by Itistoolate
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Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find What would happen if it were proven that "fossil fuels" weren't the result of decaying plant and animal matter, were actually created within the Earth due to simple chemistry and you could not be scared into believing that we were "running out" of oil and natural gas? Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. As late as May of 2009 a report published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology suggested that we may have used more than we think. The idea that we are running out of oil is not a new one. ...
Huge CO2 lake found on Mars
Post Date: 2011-04-25 06:53:19 by Tatarewicz
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NASA scientists recently discovered an underground dry ice lake containing more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The trapped carbon dioxide is thought to have come from the planet's atmosphere earlier in its history when it was conducive for life on Mars to exist. "It really is a buried treasure," said Jeffrey Plaut, a scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a report appearing in the journal Science. "We found something underground that no one else realized was there." The discovery was made possible through ground-penetrating radar of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter who is searching for clues of life on Mars, according to Empowered News. The ...
Higgs boson (God particle) found?
Post Date: 2011-04-25 01:20:27 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists Abuzz Over Controversial Rumor that God Particle Has Been Detected http://LiveScience.com A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle." The controversial rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not entirely clear at this point if the memo is authentic, or what the data it refers to might mean — but the note already has researchers talking. The buzz started when an ...
Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines
Post Date: 2011-04-24 06:54:01 by Tatarewicz
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Car engines could soon be fired by lasers instead of spark plugs, researchers say. A team at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics will report on 1 May that they have designed lasers that could ignite the fuel/air mixture in combustion engines. The approach would increase efficiency of engines, and reduce their pollution, by igniting more of the mixture. The team is in discussions with a spark plug manufacturer. The idea of replacing spark plugs - a technology that has changed little since their invention 150 years ago - with lasers is not a new one. Spark plugs only ignite the fuel mixture near the spark gap, reducing the combustion efficiency, and the metal that makes them up ...
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