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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Can plastic roads help save the planet? BBC News
Post Date: 2019-08-03 15:10:30 by BTP Holdings
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Engineer Toby McCartney explains how his Scottish start-up MacRebur is persuading councils to use local waste plastic to build roads. Two English councils have already started building roads this way. A smartphone film for BBC World Hacks by Dougal Shaw.. Poster Comment:Pot hole patch. Yeeee!
Why The United States Is Turning To Recycling Robots
Post Date: 2019-08-01 18:34:06 by BTP Holdings
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For decades, the United States and other wealthy countries have been dependent on China to buy and process almost half of the world’s plastic waste. Now, stricter recycling standards in China mean its cheaper for some US cities to simply send recyclables to the dump rather than pay a higher fee to process them. That’s why a number of researchers and tech companies are working on robots to make US recycling more efficient.
Earth's rotation is slowing - and it could cause major earthquakes
Post Date: 2019-07-29 02:37:00 by Tatarewicz
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pmf... Earth’s rotation is slowing - and it could cause major earthquakes Earth's rotation is slowing down as the Moon moves farther away from the planet - and scientists believe it could cause major earthquakes. Earth's rotation is slowing as our planet uses energy to keep the tidal bulge ahead of the Moon's orbit. The Moon's gravity keeps Earth's rotation in check, and to do this the lunar satellite's orbit must be slightly ahead of Earth's. As the Moon attempts to regulate Earth's rotation and slow it down, the Moon moves slowly away. According to Matthew Funke, solar system ambassador for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who wrote on Q+A ...
F-22 Raptor Twilight Afterburner Demo and Heritage Flight - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019
Post Date: 2019-07-29 01:42:39 by X-15
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Poster Comment:The F-22 is STILL the most badass fighter jet on the planet, Russian junk and Chinkernese copycat shit doesn't count at all.
The Deepest Hole in the World, And What We've Learned From It
Post Date: 2019-07-28 15:26:45 by BTP Holdings
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SciShow takes you down the deepest hole in the world -- Russia's Kola Superdeep Borehole -- explaining who dug it and why, and what we learned about Earth in the process. Don't fall!
SpaceX Starship and The Von Braun Rotating Space Station
Post Date: 2019-07-27 13:33:15 by BTP Holdings
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The Von Braun rotating space station will be the first commercial space construction project in history. It will be serviced by the SpaceX Starship and be designed to accommodate national space agency laboratories, billionaires who want to own property in space, and space tourists. Please visit our website at www.gatewayspaceport.com/membership
The space shuttle made in Switzerland
Post Date: 2019-07-27 12:52:05 by BTP Holdings
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A company led by Swiss engineer Pascal Jaussi is building a space shuttle by combining technologies from all over the world. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Jaussi, an engineer and Swiss Air Force military pilot, founded the company Swiss Space Systems in 2013 in Payerne, canton Vaud. Through the firm, he is pursuing his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. The company’s goal is to make space accessible by developing, manufacturing and operating suborbital spaceplanes. The SOAR (Sub-Orbital Re-Usable Aircraft) will be deployed in a first phase to put commercial satellites into orbit, with manned flights coming at a second stage. To make the project commercially viable, Swiss Space Systems ...
Star Wars: The Battle to Build the Next Shuttle
Post Date: 2019-07-27 12:43:32 by BTP Holdings
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May 5 (Bloomberg) --- Bloomberg's "The Next Space Race" is a journey through the booming business of space exploration. The International Space Station is a near zero-gravity laboratory dedicated to scientific research. The end of NASA's shuttle program in 2011 left the world with only one way to get there, buy a seat from the Russians. NASA is holding a competition challenging private enterprise to build America's next spacecraft. Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada are all multi-billion dollar aerospace companies competing to win the NASA contract that could cement dominance in the emerging space industry. Bloomberg gets rare access to these space pioneers, including ...
Road Minister: Iran Joins Radar Exporting Club of Nations
Post Date: 2019-07-21 20:42:16 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Road and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami underlined said Iran has developed its radar technology to an extent that it is turning into an exporter of such systems. "We have powerful experts and knowledge-based companies in the field of airport and navigation systems and now our country is turning into a manufacturer and exporter of radars," Eslami said on Sunday after participating in a ceremony to launch Koushk Bazm radar site. The home-made Iran air terminal radar named Koushk Bazm is one of the most advanced radars in the world and the second in the Middle-East after Bandar Abbas radar. It is equipped with the PSR radar system which can cover 120km ...
ASA Practices Space Gardening to Pack Lunchboxes for Mars
Post Date: 2019-07-21 14:26:24 by BTP Holdings
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ASA Practices Space Gardening to Pack Lunchboxes for Mars Sarah Mervosh 6 hrs ago Ham salad from a tube. Apricot cereal cubes. Thermostabilized Cheddar cheese spread. © Photo Illustration by Jessica Pettway for The New York Times The peppers being tested on Earth could be sent to space as early as next spring. These delicacies and more were packed inside Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s lunar lunchbox when Apollo 11 hurtled them into space 50 years ago this month, landing humankind on the moon for the first time. [Read our full coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.] A little unpalatable, perhaps, but it was enough to get them through their ...
New Cell Discovered That Can Heal Hearts
Post Date: 2019-07-20 03:31:44 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- University of Calgary researchers are the first to discover a previously unidentified cell population in the pericardial fluid found inside the sac around the heart. The discovery could lead to new treatments for patients with injured hearts. The study led by Drs. Paul Kubes, PhD, Justin Deniset, PhD and Paul Fedak, MD, PhD is published in the journal Immunity. The Kubes lab, in collaboration with the Fedak lab, found that a specific cell, a Gata6+ pericardial cavity macrophage, helps heal an injured heart in mice. The cell was discovered in the pericardial fluid (sac around the heart) of a mouse with heart injury. Working with Fedak, a cardiac surgeon and incoming Director ...
Change in How We Think About Gravity?
Post Date: 2019-07-16 00:23:48 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA) Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form. Physicists at Durham University, UK, simulated the cosmos using an alternative model for gravity -- f(R)-gravity, a so called Chameleon Theory. The resulting images produced by the simulation show that galaxies like our Milky Way could still form in the universe even with different laws of gravity. The findings show the viability of Chameleon Theory -- so called because it changes behaviour according to the environment -- as an alternative to General Relativity in explaining the formation of ...
AI Pores Over Old Scientific Papers, Makes Discoveries Overlooked By Humans
Post Date: 2019-07-14 08:10:07 by Horse
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"the algorithm was able to provide candidates for future thermoelectric materials, some of which may be better than those we currently use..."
Harley Davidson Unveils "LiveWire" Electric Motorcycle That Goes 0-60 In 3 Seconds
Post Date: 2019-07-12 23:59:06 by Horse
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Harley Davidson looks like it will be the first company to market with a mainstream electric motorcycle, according to engadget. The company's LiveWire electric motorcycle will soon be on the road and will have a longer range than expected, at 140 miles of city driving on a single charge. But, like any other electric vehicle, you’ll still need to hook it up to a charger once in a while. According to Harley Davidson's website, the bike will be "available in select dealerships through North America and Western Europe in the fall of 2019. Select additional markets will follow." The motorcycle has been in the works for more than four years now. You'll be able to ...
Watch Robot Chef Make Laksa In 45 Seconds
Post Date: 2019-07-12 01:48:20 by Horse
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According to a report by Channel News Asia (CNA), a new robot chef can prepare 80 bowls of laksa in an hour, therefore eliminating the need for human cooks, an ominous sign that robots will displace foodservice jobs in the next decade. Last Friday, the Singapore catering group Neo Group unveiled the robot chef, called Sophie, at a catering event held at the Singapore Management University School of Law. CNA published a video of the event, shows guest selecting their noodles and toppings, such as vegetables and seafood. Sophie then fries the noddles, adds shrimp, and at the end, pours in the laksa sauce. The entire cooking process takes about 45 seconds. Sophie is available for ...
The Proximity Fuse - Secret Weapon of World War 2
Post Date: 2019-07-11 17:58:43 by Horse
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Poster Comment:The VT Proximity Fuse. This was a highly classified invention of World War 2, which enabled bombs and projectiles to detonate at a set distance from the target.
Chromatin Stress Promotes Longevity
Post Date: 2019-07-11 17:17:31 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A newly described form of stress called chromatin architectural defect, or chromatin stress, triggers in cells a response that leads to a longer life. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Methodist Research Institute report in the journal Science Advances that moderate chromatin stress levels set off a stress response in yeast, the tiny laboratory worm C. elegans, the fruit fly and mouse embryonic stem cells, and in yeast and C. elegans the response promotes longevity. The findings suggest that chromatin stress response and the longevity it mediates may be conserved in other organisms, opening the possibility of new ways to intervene in human aging and ...
Russia’s capital ranks third among major cities worldwide for its availability of free public Wi-Fi hotspots
Post Date: 2019-07-09 22:49:08 by Tatarewicz
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The Moscow Times... Russia’s capital ranks third among major cities worldwide for its availability of free public Wi-Fi hotspots, according to a recent report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Moscow surpassed New York, Tokyo and London in the ranking, published ahead of the Moscow Urban Forum. The Russian capital fell behind South Korea’s tech-savvy capital of Seoul in second place and the island city-state of Singapore in first place. news Russia Has World’s 4th-Cheapest Mobile Internet, Research Says Read more Moscow’s number of free public Wi-Fi spots doubled in 2018 alone, bringing the city closer to Seoul in the global ranking, PWC said. Russia’s ...
"Save yourself" email threat -- trials of a net surfer
Post Date: 2019-07-08 10:48:11 by NeoconsNailed
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From: Save Yourself Subject: Your private data - cashel1964 Hi, I know one of your passwords is: cashel1964 - but not only that! Your computer was infected with my private malware, because your browser wasn't updated / patched, in such case it's enough to just visit some website where my iframe is placed to get automatically infected, if you want to find out more - Google: "Drive-by exploit". My malware gave me full access to all your accounts (see password above), full control over your computer and it also was possible to spy on you over your webcam! I COLLECTED ALL YOUR PRIVATE DATA and I RECORDED YOU through your webcam, I must say - the result is some good ...
A Complete List of Alternatives To The Google Search Engine
Post Date: 2019-07-08 08:49:08 by Ada
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We are living in a very interesting time, one in where we have a ‘ministry of truth’ that is quite Orwellian. This ministry of truth is deciding what’s real and what’s not for people, and they hold a tremendous amount of power and resources. Google is part of this ministry, and they are playing their part in censoring, demonetizing, and hiding information and platforms that does not suit the plans, agendas and the wants of the people that run Google and who are tied to. One of the most recent examples I wrote about was with regards to one of the top natural health/health awareness websites in the world, Mercola.com. They like many others including Collective Evolution, ...
Using AI to Better Predict Severe Weather
Post Date: 2019-07-08 01:24:41 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- When forecasting weather, meteorologists use a number of models and data sources to track shapes and movements of clouds that could indicate severe storms. However, with increasingly expanding weather data sets and looming deadlines, it is nearly impossible for them to monitor all storm formations -- especially smaller-scale ones -- in real time. When forecasting weather, meteorologists use a number of models and data sources to track shapes and movements of clouds that could indicate severe storms. However, with increasingly expanding weather data sets and looming deadlines, it is nearly impossible for them to monitor all storm formations -- especially smaller-scale ones -- ...
Thorium: Kirk Sorensen at TEDxYYC
Post Date: 2019-07-07 08:48:32 by BTP Holdings
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Kirk Sorensen discuss "Thorium" at TEDxYYC 2011. Kirk Sorensen is founder of Flibe Energy and is an advocate for nuclear energy based on thorium and liquid-fluoride fuels. For five years he has authored the blog "Energy from Thorium" and helped grow an online community of thousands who support a renewed effort to develop thorium as an energy source. He is a 1999 graduate of Georgia Tech in aerospace engineering and is also a graduate student in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee. He has spoken publicly on thorium at the Manchester International Forum in 2009, at NASA's Green Energy Forum in 2008, and in several TechTalks at Google. He has been ...
We're doomed if solar energy stalls—here's how to keep it rising | Varun Sivaram | TEDxYale
Post Date: 2019-07-06 16:11:27 by BTP Holdings
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Solar energy is the world’s cheapest and fastest-growing power source, but its rise is in danger of stalling, risking catastrophic climate change. Energy expert Varun Sivaram argues that realizing solar's potential will require innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems. Dr. Sivaram is the Philip D. Reed Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the book, "Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet" (MIT Press, 2018), which the Financial Times called "the best available overview of the solar industry and a roadmap for how to achieve that brighter ...
Making Safe Nuclear Power from Thorium | Thomas Jam Pedersen | TEDxCopenhagen
Post Date: 2019-07-06 09:18:51 by BTP Holdings
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Thomas Jam Pedersen, engineer and co-founder of Copenhagen Atomics, was skeptical at first upon discovering and reading about thorium energy, which is present everywhere in the world and could technically provide an inexpensive energy supply for everyone for thousand years. While the world is still heavily relying on fossil fuels, thorium energy and nuclear reactors, which reuse nuclear waste, are now part of the energy debate, proposing a pollution-free solution that could provide an unlimited supply of fuel for the next millennium. Thomas Jam Pedersen aims to build a thorium molten salt reactor in Copenhagen, and introduce thorium energy to the public eye. Thomas Jam Pedersen is ...
0:37 / 12:26 A new chapter in energy storage | Danielle Fong | TEDxDanubia
Post Date: 2019-07-05 20:37:21 by BTP Holdings
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Danielle Fong is passionate about finding a solution to energy sustainability. "I have patience with people but not with systems" and her life choices proves this. With guidance and advice from fellow contemporary innovators like Steve Jobs she continued to follow her vision of finding the missing technology -something she instinctively felt- to conserve energy. Self-described as ‘a girl from the future’, the 27-year-old Canadian innovator, entrepreneur and eco-pragmatist has been featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 in the category of Energy & Industry, as well as interviewed by Forbes.com in a video entitled "Danielle Fong May Save the World". She has ...
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