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Two new elements qualify for periodic table
Post Date: 2011-06-09 06:32:36 by Tatarewicz
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Two new elements have been added to the periodic table after a three-year review by the governing bodies of chemistry and physics. The elements are currently unnamed, but they are both highly radioactive and exist for less than a second before decaying into lighter atoms. The table is the official compendium of known elements, organised according to properties of their atomic structure. Details have been published in the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry. The review was conducted by a joint working party of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). In recent years, there have been several claims by ...
"Auditory" side effect of coffee?
Post Date: 2011-06-09 06:16:46 by Tatarewicz
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A new study from Australia’s La Trobe University has found that there is a connection between caffeine and auditory hallucinations. That is, drinking coffee, you might hear weird things. In the study people were asked to ring a buzzer whenever they heard Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”. Except, it was a trick and only white noise was played into their headphones. Those who were drank at least 380g of coffee a day incorrectly buzzed the buzzer more. They were trippin’ on the sweet black stuff! Studies are always coming out about coffee being good or bad for you, giving you a heart attack or sharpening your concentration. But it’s unclear which camp this falls ...
China moves up on innovation ladder
Post Date: 2011-06-08 02:22:39 by Tatarewicz
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Only a few years ago, China's approach to innovation barely played a role in international economic diplomacy. Today, China's innovation policy and its perceived threat to the US economy are a hot topic in US-China economic relations, adding to contentious disputes about exchange rates, trade and foreign direct investment. When Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the United States in January, public debate focused on widespread fears that China's emerging role in hi-tech innovation will challenge the US' leadership in the global knowledge economy. That China's innovation policy unfairly favors domestic producers and poses a threat to global intellectual property ...
‘Armchair astronaut’ Mars video goes viral (mars 'space station)
Post Date: 2011-06-07 09:20:47 by gengis gandhi
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‘Armchair astronaut’ Mars video goes viral By Liz Goodwin Email Print A self-described "armchair astronaut" claims to have found a base on the planet Mars using a satellite imaging map. He thinks the base could have been made by aliens The video David Martines uploaded to YouTube has been viewed more than 850,000 times. He says the 750'-by-150' cylinder-like structure that he's zoomed in on using Google Mars looks like it's made for people to inhabit. In the video, Martines say he assumes people live in the cylinder or have lived in it. He named the shape "Bio Station Alpha." Experts told Space.come that the image was most likely caused ...
Petri dish "brain" has 12 seconds of memory
Post Date: 2011-06-07 03:20:48 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists Create Tiny Artificial Brain That Exhibits 12 Seconds of Short Term Memory This Artificial Rat Brain Has 12 Seconds of Short-term Memory Ashwin Vishwanathan, Guo-Qiang Bi and Henry C. Zeringue, University of Pittsburgh It’s not artificial intelligence in the Turing test sense, but the technicolor ring you see above is actually an artificial microbrain, derived from rat brain cells--just 40 to 60 neurons in total--that is capable of about 12 seconds of short-term memory. Developed by a team at the University of Pittsburgh, the brain was created in an attempt to artificially nurture a working brain into existence so that researchers could study neural networks and how our ...
College for Dummies... and Non-Dummies
Post Date: 2011-06-06 16:24:42 by ghostdogtxn
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Canadian scientists 'bottle' antimatter
Post Date: 2011-06-06 05:14:14 by Tatarewicz
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Makoto Fujiwara has spent more than a decade in laboratories hunting an elusive prey, the stuff of science fiction - the missing half of everything. He and other Canadian researchers have finally managed to trap their lightning in a bottle. Only it isn't lightning they've got in the bottle - it's antimatter. In a paper appearing online Sunday in the journal Nature Physics, lead author Fujiwara and his colleagues say they've succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for more than 16 minutes - virtually an eternity for a rare substance that scientists have struggled to keep intact for more than a few fractions of a second. "It's a kind of game-changer," said ...
Something Strange With Volcano Eruption in Chile
Post Date: 2011-06-05 21:42:51 by farmfriend
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Something Strange With Volcano Eruption in Chile June 4, 2011 at 11:50 pm (PT) What appears to be an enormous ash cloud rising from the eruption of a long dormant volcano named Puyehuein southern Chile on June 4, 2011, isn’t quite matching up with the location of the recorded earthquakes today in the immediate area. “The Cordon Caulle (volcanic range) has entered an eruptive process, with an explosion resulting in a 10-kilometer-high gas column,” Chilean state emergency office said. The thing is, for some unknown reason, as of this writing, eight earthquakes near magnitude 5 have shook the earth near the Puyehue volcano. The problem is, the earthquakes are located 20 to 40 ...
China destined to eclipse the United States - Dam if you do, dam if you don't
Post Date: 2011-06-05 05:20:09 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Dam if you do, dam if you don't China's remarkable transformation over the past three decades is obviously an event of major geopolitical proportions, with far-reaching ramifications in both economic and security affairs. It has also led some observers to conclude that the PRC is destined to eclipse the (decadent) United States and its various feckless allies in part because its leaders are more farsighted and disciplined and able to set a course and stick to it despite occasional vicissitudes. This view implies that our own unruly political system needs more executive power and less democracy. (I'll confess to occasional grumpy thoughts along those lines, mostly when I'm ...
Maths model improves brain diagnosis
Post Date: 2011-06-04 03:34:54 by Tatarewicz
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The ability to obtain accurate measurement of different brain tissues from MRI scan imagery is a step closer as Griffith University develops new technology. Associate Professor Alan Liew from the School of Information, Communication Technology, has been working on computational algorithms which are important in the clinical diagnosis of brain conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease. Using this mathematical model, an MRI scanner can be used to accurately segment and measure different tissue classes. The data can then be used by a clinician as a diagnostic tool to compare the brain tissue of healthy patients. "These computations will allow the accurate ...
Nano-Engineering Making Big Strides
Post Date: 2011-06-03 05:09:31 by Tatarewicz
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Scientific and technological advances are increasingly powered by our ability to build things at the atomic level. Mimicking processes that take place in biology, scientists are using custom self-assembling structures to power new molecular breakthroughs. At the atomic level, there is no fundamental difference between the various scientific disciplines. Improving nanotechnology is converging them at an accelerating rate. An often-overlooked transformational technology is air conditioning. We don't usually think too much about it unless it stops working. It has, however, had profound impacts on how we live and could add profit to your portfolio... The great majority of residential ...
Windows XP Pirated Edition
Post Date: 2011-06-02 13:23:11 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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History This is without a doubt the most popular and most widely distributed version of Windows XP. Microsoft decided to attack Piracy by putting in an activation feature of Windows XP to prevent it being pirated. Pirates qsgf around activation, only to find out that Microsoft changed things so their patched file no longer worked. Every time Microsoft fixed XP activation, the Pirates patched it in 15 minutes and released the new file in less than a day. Yet every service pack that Microsoft released, caused more bloat and more security exploits, and Pirates had decided that they could do a much better job at writing Windows than Microsoft can. A book was written on Windows XP for Pirates, ...
How Medieval Knights remade Poland’s ecosystems
Post Date: 2011-06-01 23:08:29 by Stick To Disinformation
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Environmental Crusaders How Medieval Knights remade Poland’s ecosystems In 1280, victorious Teutonic Crusaders began building the world’s largest castle on a hill overlooking the River Nogat in what is now northern Poland. Malbork Castle became the hub of a powerful Teutonic state that crushed its pagan enemies and helped remake Medieval Europe. Now, ancient pollen samples show that in addition to converting heathens to Christians, the Crusaders also converted vast swathes of Medieval forests to farmlands. In the early-13th century, Prussian tribes living in the south-eastern Baltic became a thorn in the side of the Monastic State of Teutonic Knights, which was formed in 1224 ...
cold Fusion Steams Ahead at World's Oldest University
Post Date: 2011-06-01 08:51:44 by gengis gandhi
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cold Fusion Steams Ahead at World's Oldest University Progress accelerates as a year long study of Andrea Rossi's Nickel-Hydrogen Cold Fusion technology (energy catalyzer) at the University of Bologna is announced. The birthplace of higher education has become the developmental womb for a game changing technology! Professor Sven Kullander and Associate Professor Hanno Essen are interviewed by Ny Teknik. by Hank Mills with Italian translation editing help from Sepp Hasslberger Pure Energy Systems News The saga of Andrea Rossi's Nickel-Hydrogen Cold Fusion technology is only accelerating and not slowing down. Physicists are warming up to the technology, new calorimeter ...
Scientists unveil 3D map of "visible" universe
Post Date: 2011-06-01 05:26:06 by Tatarewicz
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If you’d like to see what 10 years of hard work looks like, we’ve got it right here. For a decade, a group of astronomers has worked to complete what you see here, a screenshot of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), which attempts to map out our entire known galaxy in 3D space. Extending to a distance of 380 million light-years, this new study uses infrared technology and ‘redshifts’ to determine the distance of more than 43,000 galaxies, covering 95 percent of our sky. The only thing we can’t yet see are the galaxies hidden behind our own Milky Way galaxy, which blocks our view. The black band in the middle of the above image represents everything currently blocked ...
Scientists Create GM Corn Which Prevents Human Conception
Post Date: 2011-05-30 23:59:22 by CadetD
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Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation. The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm. By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives. "We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies," said Epicyte president Mitch Hein. "We have also created corn plants that make antibodies ...
Roses are a no-show for Portland Rose Festival
Post Date: 2011-05-29 14:34:01 by Original_Intent
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Roses are a no-show for Portland Rose Festival Roses are late this year, leaving the city's signature parks like Peninsula Park Rose Garden looking more like March than nearly June."A rose! Ah, ha, ha!" whooped Hillary Joseph, bending over to inspect a button of orange, the only color bobbing in an aggressive sea of green at the International Rose Test Garden at Washington Park, where the great majority of approximately 8,500 roses are certain to be a no-show for the Portland Rose Festival. Thomas Wickboldt, Joseph's friend from San Francisco, was good-natured about missing Portland's iconic flower. "Since it's the City of Roses, it would be nice to see the ...
Scientists Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon
Post Date: 2011-05-28 00:13:50 by farmfriend
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Scientists Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon ScienceDaily (May 26, 2011) — There is water inside the moon -- so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions. Those measurements show that some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as Earth's upper mantle. Lunar melt inclusions are tiny globules of molten rock trapped within crystals that are found in volcanic glass deposits formed during explosive eruptions. The new finding, published this week in Science Express, shows lunar ...
Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100,000 Not to Attend College
Post Date: 2011-05-27 06:37:58 by Ada
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In a move meant to provoke thought about the value of higher education, Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, is giving 24 students money not to attend college for two years but to develop their ideas instead. The winners were announced today for a new fellowship that has sparked heated debate in academic circles for questioning the value of higher education and suggesting that some entrepreneurial students may be better off leaving college. Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, will pay each of the 24 winners of his Thiel Fellowship $100,000 not to attend college for two years and to develop business ideas instead. The fellows, all 20 years old or younger, will leave institutions ...
Robots invent own language
Post Date: 2011-05-27 04:22:04 by Tatarewicz
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University of Queensland (UQ) postdoctoral research fellow Dr Ruth Schulz and her colleagues have created a pair of robots that have their own language. The ‘Lingodroids' are a pair of mobile robots that communicate by developing their own words for places, and relationships between places based on distance and direction. The language sounds like a sequence of phone tones, which are easy for the robots to produce and hear in a noisy office environment, before being translated into syllables to make it easy for humans to recognise them. Dr Schulz said that the robots start by playing where-are-we games. “If they encounter an area that has not yet been named, one will ...
Electron may not be perfectly round
Post Date: 2011-05-26 04:45:41 by Tatarewicz
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The most accurate measurement yet of the shape of the electron has shown it to be almost perfectly spherical. Electrons are negatively-charged elementary particles which orbit the nuclei of atoms. The discovery is important because it may make some of the emerging theories of particle physics - such as supersymmetry - less likely. The research, by a team at Imperial College London, is published in the latest edition of Nature journal. In their scientific paper, the researchers say the electron differs from being perfectly round by a minuscule amount. "Conventionally, people think that the electron is round like a little ball. But some advanced theories of physics speculate that ...
Bacteria influence climate/weather
Post Date: 2011-05-25 07:08:52 by Tatarewicz
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A study of hailstones has found large numbers of bacteria at their cores. The find lends credence to the "bio-precipitation" idea, which suggests that bacteria are actively involved in stimulating precipitation. The bacteria have protein coatings that cause water to freeze at relatively warm temperatures. Researchers at the American Society for Microbiology meeting suggest bacteria may have evolved to use the water cycle to facilitate their own dispersal. The micro-organisms that can be found in precipitation such as snow have been studied since the 1960s. One bacterium that has appeared in many contexts is Pseudomonas syringae, which expresses a protein on its surface that ...
Mammals' large brains evolved for smell
Post Date: 2011-05-23 02:57:13 by Tatarewicz
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A highly developed sense of smell kick-started the development of mammals' big brains. Scientists used very high-resolution scanning to study the skulls of two of the earliest known mammal species. Comparing the shape of their brain cases to those of slightly earlier animals, or "pre-mammals", revealed that the first brain areas to over-develop were those associated with the sense of smell. The findings are published in Science. An improved sense of smell may have allowed our tiny, furry ancestors to hunt at night. The researchers were able to create 3D images of prehistoric animals' brains using the latest computed tomography, or CT, scanning methods. "Before ...
Best predictor yet of major earthquakes?
Post Date: 2011-05-22 04:59:24 by Tatarewicz
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Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake Infrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan, say scientists. Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmospheric phenomena in the days before big earthquakes. But good data to back up these stories has been hard to come by. In recent years, however, various teams have set up atmospheric monitoring stations in earthquake zones and a number of satellites are capable of sending back data about the state of the upper atmosphere and the ionosphere during an earthquake. Last year, we looked at some fascinating data from the DEMETER ...
Facebook and Google Join Forces to Oppose Privacy Bill
Post Date: 2011-05-19 23:35:22 by Original_Intent
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How quickly Facebook and Google made up after last week's secret smearing fiasco! Facebook, Google, Twitter, Skype and others cosigned a letter "strongly opposing" a bill introduced by California State Senator Ellen Corbett that would force sites to explain privacy settings in "plain language." Corbett is sick of social media companies duping people into sharing too much private information. Her recently introduced Social Networking Privacy Act (SB 242) would require a notice before users hand over their personal information to a site. In Sen. Corbett's own words, "You shouldn't have to sign in and give up your personal ...
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