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Tectonic plate movement affected by weather/climate
Post Date: 2011-04-18 04:11:11 by Tatarewicz
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Geologists have known for years that tectonic plates affect climate patterns. Now they say that the opposite is also true, finding that intensifying climate events can move tectonic plates. Using models based on known monsoonal and plate movement patterns, geologists say that the Indian Plate has accelerated by about 20% over the past 10 million years. “The significance of this finding lies in recognising for the first time that long-term climate changes have the potential to act as a force and influence the motion of tectonic plates,” Australian National University researcher Giampiero Iaffaldano told COSMOS. How the Heck: * The researchers plugged information from research on ...
Making a phone call with your thoughts
Post Date: 2011-04-18 03:09:57 by Tatarewicz
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Scrolling through your address book and pressing the "call" button could become obsolete. A new brain interface is being explored by researchers in San Diego, California, which could enable you to make calls just by thinking of the number. Participants who used it found it to be almost 100% accurate, though some people achieve higher accuracy than others. (More on TIME.com: See tips and tricks for your Windows 7 phone) The inventors? Neuroscience researcher Tzzy-Ping Jung and colleagues, from Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California. The participants had to sit in front of a screen and were shown a keypad with numbers flashing a different ...
World's 6,000 languages come from single African one
Post Date: 2011-04-16 05:54:42 by Tatarewicz
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The world's 6,000 or so modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue spoken by early African humans between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The finding, published Thursday in the journal Science, could help explain how the first spoken language emerged, spread and contributed to the evolutionary success of the human species. Cave art may have been spurred by the evolution of complex language. Quentin Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and author of the study, found that the first migrating populations leaving Africa laid the groundwork for all the world's cultures by taking their ...
What Will Happen to All the Shuttle Stuff?
Post Date: 2011-04-16 02:42:01 by RickyJ
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As the space shuttles get ready for their second lives as museum pieces, NASA officials are already sorting through their storage closets, trying to figure out what to do with all the memorabilia that isn’t useful anymore. “It’s like if you have to move out of your apartment pretty quickly,” said Bob Sherouse of NASA headquarters, who is handling the distribution of shuttle-related stuff. “You have a number of items that you take with you to your new house, but you rediscover items that you had under your bed or in your closet.” The shuttles themselves will go through a lengthy clean-up process before they’re ready for their public debuts. When a shuttle ...
Riderless-Bike Research Could Lead to Better Wheels
Post Date: 2011-04-16 02:09:42 by RickyJ
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Get a running start and try pushing your bike without riding it — it’ll stay balanced on its own, at least as long as it maintains a certain amount of speed. This has always been true, but a recently published research paper may debunk long-standing beliefs on why your bike can ride itself. And it may make for better bicycle designs in the future. A group of researchers from the United States and the Netherlands have collaborated to produce the two-mass-skate (TMS) bike, a riderless bicycle prototype that lacks two components commonly believed to contribute to the self-stability of bicycles. Before their results were published in Science magazine on Thursday, popular belief held ...
Ten most mysterious diseases
Post Date: 2011-04-15 06:04:31 by Tatarewicz
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Ten most mysterious diseases. 44017.jpegThere is a great deal of illnesses, which can be cured easily. However, there is a list of well-known illnesses to which scientists still have not found a clue. They are still incurable. AIDS The world learned about acquired immune deficiency syndrome 25 years ago. A quarter of a century has passed but there is still no cure for AIDS. The disease remains one of the world's most brutal killers which claims the largest number of lives in developing states. Chimpanzee suffer from AIDS as well. Moreover, scientists discovered that the disease can transmit from an ape to a human. Alzheimer's disease The disease has nothing in common with ...
Oven rust: key to unlimited energy from sun, water and CO2
Post Date: 2011-04-15 05:43:34 by Tatarewicz
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* Discovery raises the prospect of a very cheap power source created from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide Rust from ovens could be the key to making unlimited amounts of cheap fuel that could power anything, scientists have discovered. A team used ceria, which forms when ovens are heated, to strip oxygen from water and carbon dioxide and leave them with the basics of a liquid fuel. They said that potentially this fuel could be turned into cells which could power machines or converted into a natural gas for a generator. The discovery raises the prospect of a very cheap power source being created from just sunlight, water and carbon dioxide, some of the most plentiful elements on ...
Underground Experiment Fails to Find Dark Matter
Post Date: 2011-04-15 03:04:04 by RickyJ
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A sensitive Italian experiment has found no sign of dark matter in 100 days of searching for the invisible material that is believed to account for 80 percent of the mass of the cosmos. But even in the absence of a discovery, data collected by the XENON100 experiment may shed light on fundamental physics, team leader Elena Aprile of Columbia University and her collaborators say. The negative result, announced online April 13, doesn’t mean that dark matter doesn’t exist. It’s just harder to detect than some researchers had imagined. XENON100 is a tank filled with 161 kilograms of chilled liquid xenon buried beneath 1,400 meters of rock in the Gran Sasso Underground ...
New engine 3.5 times efficient than conventional
Post Date: 2011-04-14 01:49:09 by Tatarewicz
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Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent when compared with conventional combustion engines. The engine has a rotor that's equipped with wave-like channels that trap and ...
U.S. scientists unveil world's first human brain map
Post Date: 2011-04-13 03:13:34 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. scientists on Tuesday unveiled the world's first computerized human brain map, an online public resource developed to accelerate understanding of how the human brain works and in hopes to tackle neurological diseases like Alzeimer's and Parkinson's. Funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, the 55-million-U.S. dollar project, named the "Allen Human Brain Atlas," identifies 1,000 anatomical sites in the human brain, backed by more than 100 million data points that indicate the particular gene expression and underlying biochemistry of each site, said the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science. The data, ...
Shale gas 'worse than coal' for climate
Post Date: 2011-04-13 01:23:16 by Tatarewicz
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The new kid on the energy block, shale gas, may be worse in climate change terms than coal, a study concludes. Drawn from rock through a controversial "fracking" process, some hail the gas as a "stepping stone" to a low-carbon future and a route to energy security. But US researchers found that shale gas wells leak substantial amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. This makes its climate impact worse than conventional gas, they say - and probably worse than coal as well. "Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon, and is comparable over 100 years," they write in a ...
Study links better bone health with green tea, Taichi
Post Date: 2011-04-11 00:47:25 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Drinking green tea and practicing Taichi may promote bone health of postmenopausal women and reduce the risk of inflammation, a new study suggests. The study, conducted by researchers at the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, focused on postmenopausal women and investigated the potential for green tea to work synergistically with Taichi in enhancing bone strength of postmenopausal women. Originating as a martial art in China, Taichi is a mind-body exercise that utilizes slow, gentle movements to build strength and flexibility, as well as deep breathing and relaxation, to move qi, or vital ...
Conservatives rely on older amydala - Liberals use newer cognative brain
Post Date: 2011-04-10 05:01:28 by Tatarewicz
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A new study shows that brain structure may have something to do with which side a person lands on the political scale, researchers told LiveScience. Researchers at Britain's University College London scanned the brains of nearly 120 adults who ranked their political views on a scale of one to five from very liberal to very conservative. The results showed that those who considered themselves conservatives had a larger amygdala, a part of the brain that processes fear. Liberals tended to have a bigger anterior cingulate cortex, which monitors conflict and uncertainty. The difference in brain structure could explain some of the traits that distinguish conservatives and liberals, ...
Chemical mix allows mamals to regrow limbs
Post Date: 2011-04-09 07:49:51 by Tatarewicz
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Move over, newts and salamanders. The mouse may join you as the only animal that can re-grow their own severed limbs. Researchers are reporting that a simple chemical cocktail can coax mouse muscle fibers to become the kinds of cells found in the first stages of a regenerating limb. Their study, the first demonstration that mammal muscle can be turned into the biological raw material for a new limb, appears in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. Darren R. Williams and Da-Woon Jung say their "relatively simple, gentle, and reversible" methods for creating the early stages of limb regeneration in mouse cells "have implications for both regenerative medicine and stem cell ...
Thought control of computer via implant
Post Date: 2011-04-09 07:35:02 by Tatarewicz
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The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that a computer can listen to our thoughts. In a new study, scientists from Washington University demonstrated that humans can control a cursor on a computer screen using words spoken out loud and in their head, holding huge applications for patients who may have lost their speech through brain injury or disabled patients with limited movement. By directly connecting the patient's brain to a computer, the researchers showed that the computer could be controlled with up to 90% accuracy ...
Arctic cold water dump could alter climate in Europe - N. America
Post Date: 2011-04-09 07:06:47 by Tatarewicz
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A swirling pool of icy Arctic meltwater has the potential to flush quickly into the Atlantic Ocean and alter weather in Northern Europe, climate scientists reported Tuesday. Located just north of Alaska and Canada, the vast pool's percentage of freshwater from rivers has grown by about 20 percent since the 1990s and that change in salinity level could impact ocean circulation and cause temperatures in Northern Europe to cool, the experts said. That level of increase in Arctic freshwater has never before been observed by scientists, Laura de Steur, an oceanographer with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, told msnbc.com. "The volume of water discharged into the ...
New ‘shock wave’ engine to revolutionize vehicles
Post Date: 2011-04-08 23:20:12 by Armadillo
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Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a prototype of an entirely new type of engine that is partially powered by shock waves, which some in the auto industry believe could greatly reduce the fuel consumption of hybrid vehicles, reports New Scientist. ... Unlike internal combustion engines found in cars today, the Wave Disk Generator doesn’t need a transmission, radiator, pistons, valves or any number of other parts found on a traditional engine. This makes the new type of engine far lighter and smaller than a traditional engine, which further allows for less fuel consumption. A Wave Disk Generator is basically just a metal disk with channels cut into it. When the disk ...
800-horsepower Mustang on the way
Post Date: 2011-04-08 14:39:40 by X-15
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- An 800-horsepower version of the Ford Mustang will be unveiled at the New York Auto Show later this month. The 2012 Shelby GT500 Super Snake will be built by Shelby American Inc., a Las Vegas-based performance car company. Shelby works with Ford Motor Co. to create various high-performance versions of the iconic Mustang. While the base Super Snake will produce a mere 750 horsepower, those who feel the need for more power will be able to add an optional upgrade package that will provide 50 more. Shelby provides no warranty on the engine and transmission, in either case. The base version of the outgoing 2011 Super Snake produces 630 horsepower, although no-warranty ...
Going underground? Sales of spaces in U.S. doomsday bunker soar 1000% after Japan quake reawakens nuclear fallout fears [LOL]
Post Date: 2011-04-08 08:24:58 by Eric Stratton
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Going underground? Sales of spaces in U.S. doomsday bunker soar 1000% after Japan quake reawakens nuclear fallout fears Reservations for a doomsday bunker in the U.S. have rocketed since Japan's catastrophic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.The 137,000sq ft bunker - designed to house 950 people for a year and withstand a 50 megaton blast - is currently being built under the grasslands of Nebraska.Vivos, the California-based company behind it, is taking $5,000 (£3,100) deposits, which will have to be topped up to $25,000 (£15,600) to secure a place. Cower in luxury: Vivos's doomsday shelters are to be kitted out with all the modern conveniences American ...
Flu: Vitamin D better than vaccine at prevention
Post Date: 2011-04-07 06:33:47 by Tatarewicz
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NaturalNews) If scientists discovered something that worked better than vaccines at preventing influenza, you'd think they would jump all over it, right? After all, isn't the point to protect children and adults from influenza? A clinical trial led by Mitsuyoshi Urashima and conducted by the Division of Molecular Epidemiology in the the Department of Pediatrics at the Jikei University School of Medicine Minato-ku in Tokyo found that vitamin D was extremely effective at halting influenza infectionsin children. The trial appears in the March, 2010 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Am J Clin Nutr (March 10, 2010). doi:10.3945/ajcn.2009.29094) The results are from a ...
54 Planets Potentially Have Water - Kepler Team
Post Date: 2011-04-06 14:25:12 by gengis gandhi
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1235 Planets Discovered By NASA Kepler By Article Chase Technology 5th April, 2011 Life beyond our planet is not such a fantasy or part science fiction novel when you consider the findings of a prolific planet finding mission hosted by the NASA Kepler Space Observatory – a spacecraft detecting planets orbiting stars. Some 1235 planets and more have been discovered subject to confirmation to date. Photographic evidence of planets crossing their neighboring sun’s have been recorded by the Kepler mission, which is discovering planets faster than at any other point in human history. One of these planets could hold the key to answers that is on the lips of many scientists and ...
Glaciers in Chile 'melt at fastest rate in 350 years'
Post Date: 2011-04-06 01:56:37 by Tatarewicz
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Upsala glacier San Rafael Glacier in Patagonia, one of the 270 glaciers included in this study, has retreated about 8km since the peak of the 'Little Ice Age' Melting mountain glaciers are making sea levels rise faster now than at any time in the last 350 years, according to new research. Universities at Aberystwyth, Exeter and Stockholm looked at longer timescales than usual for their study. They mapped changes in 270 of the largest glaciers between Chile and Argentina since the "Little Ice Age". Studies showed glaciers have lost volume on average "10 to 100 times faster" in the last 30 years. The rapid melt rate is linked to their contribution to global ...
Study confirms genetic differences in breast tissue among races
Post Date: 2011-04-04 15:07:40 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Contact: Jeremy Moore Jeremy.Moore@aacr.org 267-646-0557 American Association for Cancer Research Study confirms genetic differences in breast tissue among races ORLANDO, Fla. — Scientists from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are working on a series of genetic analyses that suggest the underlying differences among racial groups are present not just in tumors, but in normal tissue as well. Lisa Baumbach, Ph.D., associate research professor, and colleagues will present the full study results at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, held here April 2-6. "Our group has been working for quite some time on the hypothesis that ...
China GM cows produce 'human milk'
Post Date: 2011-04-04 06:52:20 by Tatarewicz
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(UKPA) Scientists in China have created genetically modified cows that produce "human" milk, it has been reported. They have introduced human genes into dairy cows to produce milk similar to human breast milk, according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph. The researchers believe that milk from these herds of 300 cows can provide an alternative to human breast milk and formula milk for babies, which is often criticised as being an inferior substitute. Copyright © 2011 The Press Association. All rights reserved. Related articles * Cows make 'human' milk Sydney Morning Herald - 20 hours ago * Test Tube Cows Produce 'Human-Like Milk' Defamer Australia - 7 ...
Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson
Post Date: 2011-04-03 04:58:48 by Coral Snake
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Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson By Tom DeWeese Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won't read detailed reports or watch long videos. "Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out," I'm asked. So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page. I've also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the ...
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