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Single molecule pictured for the first time.
Post Date: 2009-08-29 21:38:01 by Armadillo
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This is very cool. It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule. 'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said. pentacene The delicate inner structure of a pentacene molecule has been imaged with an atomic force microscope The researchers focused on a single molecule of pentacene, which is commonly used in solar cells. The rectangular-shaped organic molecule is made up of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms. In the image above the hexagonal ...
International Paper Follows Monsanto's Blueprint to Grow `Frankenforests'
Post Date: 2009-08-28 11:49:01 by Brian S
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Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- International Paper Co., the world’s largest pulp and paper maker, plans to remake commercial forests in the same way Monsanto Co. revolutionized farms with genetically modified crops. International Paper’s ArborGen joint venture with MeadWestvaco Corp. and New Zealand’s Rubicon Ltd. is seeking permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to sell the first genetically engineered forest trees outside China. The Australian eucalyptus trees are designed to survive freezes in the U.S. South. Plantations of engineered trees would give International Paper a competitive advantage by providing a reliable supply of lower cost wood at a time when ...
School students find relief from summer heat under new 'fractal' sunshade
Post Date: 2009-08-26 22:55:36 by Prefrontal Vortex
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School students find relief from summer heat under new 'fractal' sunshade KYOTO -- Students at a Kyoto area high school have a new place to find shelter from the hot summer sun after their school teamed up with Kyoto University and Sekisui Chemical Co. to build a bower-like shady spot dubbed the "Fractal Sunshade." Kyoto Prefectural Kyotoyawata High School worked with Professor Satoshi Sakai of Kyoto University's Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies and Sekisui on the sunshade. The shade is made of vinyl chloride sheets cut into triangles, and allows sunlight through triangular spaces to dapple the ground below, hence the "fractal" name. ...
Gene Predicts Poor HCV Treatment Response in Blacks
Post Date: 2009-08-26 17:27:59 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Gene Predicts Poor HCV Treatment Response in Blacks Lack of a favorable genetic polymorphism (like a mutation) in people with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) predicts about 50 percent of all HCV treatment failures, according to a study published online August 16 in Nature. Because blacks are less than half as likely to have the favorable gene than white and Hispanic patients, this goes a long way toward explaining why they respond a lot less frequently to HCV treatment. One unexplained difference in HCV treatment rates has been in black patients. A number of studies, though not all, have found that black patients also respond less well than white patients. While some of the difference in ...
MJ Alive? Someone Wants You To Think So (Video)
Post Date: 2009-08-26 01:10:53 by TwentyTwelve
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MJ Alive? Someone Wants You To Think So Posted Aug 25th 2009 6:19PM by TMZ Staff This video is probably as real as the existence of unicorns -- but the clip, claiming to show Michael Jackson walking out of the back of a Coroner's van after his "death," is making the rounds on the Internet today. Read more: www.tmz.com/2009/08/25/mi...live-video/#ixzz0PGLeHd7h According to the LiveLeak post: "I checked the license plate number and it looks like the King of Pop is jumping out of the same van, his dead body has been in. I got the original video tape from a trustworthy source. I know him for years. And I am sure it´s real and Michael is alive." So ... Read ...
Trees advance in a warming world
Post Date: 2009-08-25 11:43:12 by buckeroo
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Trees around the world are colonising new territories in response to higher temperatures. From the US west coast to northern Siberia and south-east Asia, trees are growing at higher elevations, and at higher latitudes as the climate warms. Of 166 sites studied, trees are advancing at more than half, while they are receding at just two sites. The shift is revealed by the first global analysis of treelines published in the journal Ecology Letters. However, the trees aren't responding quite how scientists expected. Instead of advancing as summer temperatures rise, the trees' ability to colonise new areas appears to be more dependent on whether winter temperatures warm. Hospitable ...
The Japanese know it so why don't we....
Post Date: 2009-08-24 22:01:03 by Zenmaster
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This is English translation of a Japanese text from Benjamin's Blog today from Bill Hennessy Its worth a ponder ...... I am comfortable that this couldn't have been said better This is what I call good news. (In Benjamin’s Blog this morning). Bill Hennessy How Western civilization became like the Borg of Star Trek Western civilization has lost its most important asset: the ability to impartially seek the truth, no matter where it might lead. At its peak Western civilization used logic and science to blast away at superstition and ignorance. Any single person could, by means of evidence and logic, change the way Western civilization thought. The result was unprecedented ...
Analyst Bove sees 150-200 more U.S. bank failures
Post Date: 2009-08-24 11:47:33 by DeaconBenjamin
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent banking analyst said on Sunday that 150 to 200 more U.S. banks will fail in the current banking crisis, and the industry's payments to keep the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp afloat could eat up 25 percent of pretax income in 2010. Richard Bove of Rochdale Securities said this will likely force the FDIC, which insures deposits, to turn increasingly to non-U.S. banks and private equity funds to shore up the banking system. "The difficulty at the moment is finding enough healthy banks to buy the failing banks," Bove wrote. The FDIC is expected on August 26 to vote on relaxed guidelines for private equity firms to invest in failed banks, ...
Freak waves spotted from space-" waves as tall as 10 storey buildings"
Post Date: 2009-08-21 16:51:52 by gengis gandhi
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Freak waves spotted from space Wave, PA Esa tasked two of its Earth-scanning satellites to monitor the oceans with their radar The shady phenomenon of freak waves as tall as 10 storey buildings has finally been proved, the European Space Agency (Esa) said on Wednesday. Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously but, until now, no one quite believed them. As part of a project called MaxWave - which was set up to test the rumours - two Esa satellites surveyed the oceans. During a three week period they detected 10 giant waves, all of which were over 25m (81ft) high. Strange disappearances Over the last two decades more than 200 super-carriers - cargo ships over 20 ...
In Hot Water: World's Ocean Temps Warmest Recorded
Post Date: 2009-08-20 15:50:30 by Brian S
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(08-20) 11:00 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The world's oceans this summer are the warmest on record. The National Climatic Data Center, the government agency that keeps weather records, says the average global ocean temperature in July was 62.6 degrees. That's the hottest since record-keeping began in 1880. The previous record was set in 1998. Meteorologists blame a combination of a natural El Nino weather pattern on top of worsening manmade global warming. The warmer water could add to the melting of sea ice and possibly strengthen some hurricanes. The result has meant lots of swimming at beaches in Maine with pleasant 72-degree water. Ocean temperatures reached 88 degrees as far ...
Study Shows DNA Evidence Can Be Faked
Post Date: 2009-08-19 15:59:57 by farmfriend
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Study Shows DNA Evidence Can Be Faked Written by James Heiser Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:37 In recent years, a popular understanding has arisen that DNA is an infallible form of evidence; whether one is speaking of a crime scene or a paternity test, whether on the news or in a crime drama, “The genes don’t lie.” But now a new study has found that DNA can be as open to falsification as any other form of evidence. According to a report in the New York Times, a paper published in Forensic Science International: Genetics claims, “The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also ...
'Hidden Portal' Concept Described: First Tunable Electromagnetic Gateway
Post Date: 2009-08-17 15:09:25 by gengis gandhi
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ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science breakthroughs -- updated daily Science News Share Blog Cite Print Email Bookmark 'Hidden Portal' Concept Described: First Tunable Electromagnetic Gateway ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2009) — While the researchers can't promise delivery to a parallel universe or a school for wizards, books like Pullman's Dark Materials and JK Rowling's Harry Potter are steps closer to reality now that researchers in China have created the first tunable electromagnetic gateway. See also: Matter & Energy * Optics * Materials Science * Physics * Engineering * Weapons Technology * Chemistry Reference * Electrical ...
Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony?
Post Date: 2009-08-17 13:42:24 by TooConservative
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Special Report: Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony?Published on August 12th, 2009 Posted by John C Dvorak Is US CIO Vivek Kundra a Phony?Copyright by John C. Dvorak UPDATE Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony? This is the sort of question you might ask after trying to actually verify his supposed MS in Information Technology from the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The registrar has no record of it. After initially posting this article the degree has cropped up apparently at the nearby University Campus in 2001. This was found by Nextgov.Com. But his degree in biology has yet to appear as his record shows a degree from College Park ...
Moon Rising, Movie from Jose Escamilla
Post Date: 2009-08-17 11:17:31 by gengis gandhi
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New battery could change world, one house at a time
Post Date: 2009-08-16 21:28:17 by gengis gandhi
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New battery could change world, one house at a time * Story * Discussion * Image (6) Randy Wright - Daily Herald | Posted: Saturday, April 4, 2009 2:30 pm | No Comments Posted Font Size: Default font size Larger font size buy this photo ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Daily Herald Ceramatec President Ashok V. Joshi and his team John Gordon (from left to right), John Watkins, Grover Coors and Anthony Nickens at Ceramatec in Salt Lake City. The team has been working on developing a storage battery for homes and businesses. Photo taken at Ceramatec in Salt Lake City. Loading… * Ceramatec * Ceramatec * Ceramatec * Ceramatec (2) More Photos Related Stories * Related: First batteries, then what? * ...
amazing hubble deep field like you've never see it
Post Date: 2009-08-15 18:05:11 by gengis gandhi
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go to link. right click to zoom in and out. the swirly thingies are galaxies. http://home.exetel.com.au/bmgoau/space/008_1561b2.html
Businessman: US Must Heed Electronic Terror Threat
Post Date: 2009-08-14 19:19:53 by Brian S
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(08-14) 15:20 PDT Elma, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York businessman is sounding the alarm on a potential terror threat that he says has not gotten the attention or action it deserves, despite a congressional committee's finding that the country grows more vulnerable to it by the day. Henry Schwartz, chairman of Steuben Foods and Elmhurst Dairy, is so concerned that an enemy's electromagnetic pulse attack could paralyze America that he will gather a group of scientists, congressmen and others for a conference next month on how the country should protect itself. "I've never lived in fear in my life," said Schwartz, 75, an Air Force veteran whose unit handled nuclear warheads ...
Judge Rules DVD-Copying Software Is Illegal
Post Date: 2009-08-13 20:31:14 by christine
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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge ruled here late Tuesday that it was unlawful to traffic in goods to copy DVDs. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel’s ruling came in a decision in which she declared RealNetworks’ DVD copying software was illegal. She barred it from being distributed. Patel said the RealDVD software violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 that prohibits the circumvention of encryption technology. DVDs are encrypted with what is known as the Content Scramble System, and DVD players must secure a license to play discs. RealDVD, she ruled, circumvents technology designed to prevent copying. But the decision, although mixed, left open the door ...
Vaccine Court...WTF
Post Date: 2009-08-13 18:00:18 by Itistoolate
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Perseids Meteor Shower Continues Tonight
Post Date: 2009-08-12 20:46:53 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Strong Meteor Shower Expected Tonight - Yahoo! News ... news.yahoo.com/s/.../strongmeteorshowerexpectedtonight : "....The Perseids appear to emanate from the constellation Perseus, which rises high in the sky around midnight and is nearly overhead by dawn. Like most meteor showers, the hours between midnight and daybreak are typically the best time to watch, because that's when the side of Earth you are on is rotating into the direction of Earth's travels through space, so meteors are "scooped up" by the atmosphere at higher rates, much like a car's windshield ends the lives of more bugs than does the rear bumper. Astronomers expect up to 200 meteors per ...
China Warns Against an Arms Race in Space
Post Date: 2009-08-12 18:19:50 by farmfriend
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China Warns Against an Arms Race in Space Written by James Heiser Wednesday, 12 August 2009 12:30 Building on a February 2008 proposal by the governments of China and Russia, the communist regime in the People’s Republic of China is now pushing for a ban on weapons in space. According to an Associated Press story, Yang Jiechi, the Chinese foreign minister, addressed the topic today at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. AP quotes Yang as follows, "Outer space is now facing the looming danger of weaponization. Credible and effective multilateral measures must be taken to forestall the weaponization and arms race in outer space." Given the fact that China and the ...
Braking recharge will give GM Chev Volt 230 MPG
Post Date: 2009-08-12 06:33:09 by Tatarewicz
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GM's Chev Volt extended range electric vehicle is expected to get a fuel economy rating of 230 miles/gallon from the EPA, largely as a result of "charge-while-braking" in city driving. The Volt's range on a single charge will be 40 miles but it will be able to extend the range to more than 300 miles with "flex fuel-power engine-generator." Combined city and highway driving will more likely be 124 mpg. Toyata Prius is rated at 51 mpg and Ford's Fusion hybrid at 41. The Chev Volt is to go on sale next year, selling for approximately $40,000. Click for Full Text!
Are Environmentalists Responsible for Global Warming?
Post Date: 2009-08-11 06:39:11 by Ada
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Despite what many environmentalists would have you believe, nobody is really sure about the causes of global warming. Certainly, the earth has warmed over the past century, but perhaps that is only because it had cooled so much since Roman times. I imagine that had today's environmentalists been alive a thousand years ago, they'd be chastising people for burning wood and coal to keep warm and cook food. After all, anyone could see all the smoke rising up to the sky, blocking the warmth of the sun. Today, of course, no right-thinking person believes that burning wood and coal will lead to another ice age. This is the new millennium, after all, and we left such silly beliefs back in ...
Akridge Energy Buys 400 MW Free Energy Generator from BlackLight Power
Post Date: 2009-08-10 19:32:34 by gengis gandhi
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I know it may sound like science fiction, but if you remember we talked about BlackLight Power’s invention last year, you surely do remember it was about free energy. BlackLight’s hydrino (a hydrogen atom with a lower energy state than it was previously thought possible) stirred controversy in scientists’ world, bringing them bad fame as seekers of “free energy” and associating BlackLight Power with a scammer’s image. On July 30, BlackLight Power announced a commercial license agreement with Maryland-based Akridge Energy. BLP will allow Akridge to use their energy producing process for generating electricity in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Colombia, ...
Study: Redheads' extra pain may cause fear of dentists
Post Date: 2009-08-06 14:29:45 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Study: Redheads' extra pain may cause fear of dentists By Madison Park CNN (CNN) -- Despite two injections of anesthetic, Amy Anderson felt like her dentist was jamming rods into her tooth during a root canal. She writhed in pain as her infected tooth was hollowed with a drill, its nerve amputated, and then sealed. "I knew this time something was wrong. I could feel my lips," said the Syracuse, New York, resident, who told her dentist the drugs weren't working. Her doctor kept assuring her she had given her a proper dose and said: "I'm almost done." "I was hurting so bad, I was hitting myself in the stomach," said Anderson, a redhead. "I ...
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