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China Focus: China-made degradable plastics promise end to ocean pollution
Post Date: 2018-09-05 05:20:38 by Tatarewicz
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China Focus: China-made degradable plastics promise end to ocean pollution Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-05 13:52:40|Editor: Liangyu BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have developed a plastic that degrades in seawater and could help curb the increasingly serious plastic pollution in the oceans. The new polyester composite material can decompose in seawater over a period ranging from a few days to several hundred days, leaving small molecules that cause no pollution, said Wang Gexia, a senior engineer at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "For a long time, people focused on 'white pollution' on land. Plastic pollution ...
The best note-taking apps for class, work, and life
Post Date: 2018-09-03 18:14:19 by Tatarewicz
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VERGE... You might want a note-taking app as an artist, to take notes during a meeting to remember important feedback, or to jot down insights from a meaningful panel. Maybe you’re a celebrity who needs to publish a public apology to social media, and you need more space than a typical post affords. Often, we don’t give much thought to which app we’re using. It’s either the first app that’s available or the one everyone says is good. Still, there’s a small quality-of-life improvement to enjoy when you switch from a mediocre, passable note-taking app to the best one you can find. And wouldn’t it be nice to have one app that fulfills your note-taking needs ...
Commander: Iran to Unveil Most Advanced Long-Range Radar Soon
Post Date: 2018-09-01 03:24:18 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Iranian Army's Khatam ol-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Alireza Sabahi Fard announced on Friday that the country will unveil a new home-made advanced long-range radar in the near future. "The Islamic Iran will soon witness that the most advanced long-range radar will be unveiled and put into operation to monitor the enemies' moves thousands of kilometers beyond the borders, which has been designed and produced by the Iranian scientists and innovative and creative young people," General Sabahi Fard said, addressing people before the Friday prayers in Tehran. He added that Iran has gained self-sufficiency in designing and ...
Suspected meteorite hits ISS, causes oxygen-leaking crack
Post Date: 2018-08-31 07:16:57 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A meteorite hitting a space station and causing depressurization seems like the beginning of a Hollywood space survival flick. But it's likely this is what happened to the International Space Station (ISS). The leak was found in the Soyuz craft, which is docked with the ISS, reported Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin. The official said air was being sucked out through a 1.5mm fracture, which may have been caused by a micrometeorite impact. “The crew safety is not in danger,” he said. “The spaceship will be kept, a repair kit will be used.” Read more © OlegMSK Cosmonauts accidentally break RT 360 GoPro camera during eight-hour spacewalk Rogozin said the ...
Three Volcanoes Erupt at Same Time & New Evidence of Gamma Ray Intensity
Post Date: 2018-08-30 09:13:47 by Ada
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A number of people have written in that they enjoyed the phrase I made up that we are like a pebble at the bottom of the ocean with no clue what lies above our heads. I have stressed that our computer correlated volcanoes with the decline in solar sunspot activity. What has also been strange is that further research has revealed that when we go into Solar Minimum, this is also simultaneously the maximum output of Gamma Rays. I offer no explanation as to why volcanoes tend to erupt more during solar minimum. My role here is simply to correlate everything to understand the trends set in motion behind the economy. Weather and shortage of food have been major factors in economic history ...
The End of Theoretical Physics As We Know It
Post Date: 2018-08-29 21:49:44 by Tatarewicz
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Quanta... Computer simulations and custom-built quantum analogues are changing what it means to search for the laws of nature. Theoretical physics has a reputation for being complicated. I beg to differ. That we are able to write down natural laws in mathematical form at all means that the laws we deal with are simple — much simpler than those of other scientific disciplines. Unfortunately, actually solving those equations is often not so simple. For example, we have a perfectly fine theory that describes the elementary particles called quarks and gluons, but no one can calculate how they come together to make a proton. The equations just can’t be solved by any known methods. ...
Europe’s First Driverless Taxis to Launch in Russia
Post Date: 2018-08-29 04:34:37 by Tatarewicz
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MT... Russian tech giant Yandex has announced the launch of Europe’s first driverless taxi, which will hit the road in Innopolis, also known as the “Russian Silicon Valley.” Yandex unveiled a driverless car prototype last year designed to operate under its Yandex.Taxi service. Companies across the world have been competing, with varying levels of success, to put a safe self-driving car on the road. On Tuesday, Yandex announced a deal with officials in Russia’s Tatarstan republic to test its self-driving cars on the roads of Innopolis, a young city in the suburbs of Kazan built to spur IT innovation. “Innopolis became the first city in Europe where you can use a ...
Iran opens its largest wind farm in renewable push
Post Date: 2018-08-29 02:24:50 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Iran has opened its largest wind farm, marking a turning point in its bid to procure electricity from renewable sources such as wind power, solar and hydropower. The 18 turbine wind farm in Tarom county in northern Iran has a nominal capacity of generating 61 megawatt hours of power annually, the official IRNA news agency reported. “The wind farm in Tarom Sofla has been built in one year, using the latest technology in the world, at a cost of 86 million euros,” the report said. Energy Minister Reza Ardekanian attended the opening of the farm which is estimated to forestall the release of 110,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases a year. Turbines at the 60-megawatt ...
Double degree: Shanghai twins both headed for MIT to study theoretical physics
Post Date: 2018-08-27 08:06:26 by Tatarewicz
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SCMP... Twin brothers from Shanghai have been accepted into the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with full scholarships to pursue doctoral degrees in theoretical physics. Dong Zhihuan and Dong Zhiyu, 22, have studied in tandem from a young age, correcting each other’s homework from side-by-side desks, forging a love of physics by joining summer competitions together, and most recently completing undergraduate degrees in the subject at Fudan University. Now they have won two of some 45 places that MIT’s department of physics offers to doctoral candidates each year. “They applied to about eight to 10 universities, and they both got the same offer from ...
PETA Seeks Records On 54 Stingray Deaths At Brookfield Zoo
Post Date: 2018-08-26 14:18:53 by BTP Holdings
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PETA Seeks Records On 54 Stingray Deaths At Brookfield Zoo July 19, 2018 at 1:35 pm CHICAGO (AP) — An animal rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Brookfield Zoo located outside Chicago in a search for documents that could shed light on the 2015 deaths of 54 stingrays. Court records show People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals since 2016 has been asking the Cook County Forest Preserve District to turn over documents detailing events leading to the stingray deaths. Southern stingrays. (Credit: Brookfield Zoo.) PETA says the county hasn’t responded to the request, prompting last week’s lawsuit. PETA attorney Jared Goodman told the Chicago Tribune it ...
Parrots can make complex economic decisions, scientists discover
Post Date: 2018-08-26 13:13:50 by Ada
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The parrots would refuse an immediate reward and instead choose a token that could be exchanged for a better reward later. Scientists have found that parrots are capable of making complex economic decisions. In tests, 33 parrots from four different species surprised scientists with their ability to recognise the value of tokens that could be exchanged for food rewards. The birds – macaws and African greys – were able to make difficult decisions about whether to accept an immediate reward, or instead “invest” in tokens that guaranteed a more worthwhile return later. High, medium and low value rewards were on offer – namely a piece of walnut, a nugget of dry corn, or ...
How trees talk to each other | Suzanne Simard
Post Date: 2018-08-26 01:55:00 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology and teaches at the University of British Columbia.
Deep Space (Episode 01) Ancient Space Program
Post Date: 2018-08-25 15:08:17 by BTP Holdings
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Watch the entire season on Gaia at: bit.ly/GoDeepOnGaia Since the 1960’s, NASA-born space programs have taken a prominent place in the media and collected accolades for their accomplishments of furthering humanity into the space age. But what if this was all a major front to obscure NASA’s interest in ancient space programs? Scattered all about the world, many ancient sites hold subtle clues that we have not been alone for a very long time. In this inaugural episode of Deep Space, we scour the world uncovering evidence of arcane extraterrestrial civilizations and examine NASA’s interest in recovering advanced technology from these locations. Become a Gaia member to find ...
Why Is Intelligence Declining? Our Rulers Don’t Want You to Know
Post Date: 2018-08-25 10:22:53 by Ada
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It’s a sure sign that a piece of “controversial science” is actually empirically accurate when our Cultural Marxist elite desperately tries to come up with some kind of environmental explanation for it, no matter how implausible. This means that the evidence is so overwhelming that it can’t be denied any longer. So it must, in some way, be due to human—and especially privileged human—behaviour. If it’s due to genetics, then environmental determinism is nonsense; and that’s unfair–unthinkable, even. This happened when the evidence for race differences in IQ became undeniable. And now it’s happening with evidence that, on average, we’re ...
What happens when you spend a year using science to improve your brain
Post Date: 2018-08-25 03:51:58 by Tatarewicz
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The Verge Here are two things that are both true. Neuroplasticity is real — that is, the brain really can change and learn and improve based on experience. And there’s little evidence that brain-training games are any better than placebo. “So,” wondered science journalist Caroline Williams, “if brain training isn’t the way to apply it, what should we be doing?” Williams is the author of My Plastic Brain: One Woman’s Yearlong Journey to Discover if Science Can Improve Her Mind. She picked areas in which she wanted to improve — everything from attention to anxiety to creativity to navigation — and spent a year trying new techniques to see ...
Engineers Discover a Glaringly Simple Way to Detect Bombs And Hidden Weapons
Post Date: 2018-08-24 05:20:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... You probably use Wi-Fi on the regular to connect your smartphone, computer, or other electronic device to the glory of the world wide web. But soon, that same technology could also keep you safe in real-life public areas. According to a peer-reviewed study led by researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, ordinary Wi-Fi can effectively and cheaply detect weapons, bombs, or explosive chemicals contained within bags. The study earned the researchers a best paper award at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, which focused solely on cybersecurity. According to the researchers' paper, most dangerous objects contain metals or liquids. ...
Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
Post Date: 2018-08-23 23:27:49 by Tatarewicz
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Ecologist Chelsea Rochman (left) and researcher Kennedy Bucci dig through washed-up debris along Lake Ontario. They're looking for small particles of plastic that make their way into oceans, rivers and lakes. Chris Joyce/NPR Plastic trash is littering the land and fouling rivers and oceans. But what we can see is only a small fraction of what's out there. Since modern plastic was first mass-produced, 8 billion tons have been manufactured. And when it's thrown away, it doesn't just disappear. Much of it crumbles into small pieces. Scientists call the tiny pieces "microplastics" and define them as objects smaller than 5 millimeters — about the size of one of ...
Controversy Surrounding The ‘Ice Age’ – Did It Actually Happen Like We Think It Did?
Post Date: 2018-08-23 06:45:57 by Ada
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History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’ – Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code Truth is, we don’t know much about history, not only is history written by the victors of past conflict, stories regarding accounts of our past in various fields are also skewed. As Graham Hancock once said, “we are like a species with Amnesia, trying to piece together our past with fragments we find here and there.” One thing is for certain, there is no lack of ...
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles Alaska
Post Date: 2018-08-23 06:31:25 by BTP Holdings
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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles Alaska 3 hrs ago © via USGS Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattles Alaska ADAK, Alaska — A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Wednesday night in Alaska. The Alaska Earthquake Center says the quake occurred in the remote Andreanof Islands region of Alaska, but was felt almost 70 miles (115 km) away in Adak. It had a depth of about 7 miles (11 km). There were no immediate reports of any injuries or damages. Poster Comment:I wonder what the chance of a tsunami would be?
Why you can't travel at the speed of light
Post Date: 2018-08-23 06:22:17 by BTP Holdings
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Why you can't travel at the speed of light A short history of Einstein's theory of relativity Alok Jha Sun 12 Jan 2014 06.51 EST First published on Sun 12 Jan 2014 06.51 EST Einstein's theory of special relativity. Photograph: Observer Albert Einstein is famous for many things, not least his theories of relativity. The first, the special theory of relativity, was the one that began the physicist's reputation for tearing apart the classical worldview that had come before. Special relativity, a way of relating the motion of objects in the universe, led scientists to re-evaluate their assumptions about things as fundamental as time and space. And it led to important ...
Planet Mars: It's Not Just a Rock
Post Date: 2018-08-19 18:23:59 by BTP Holdings
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38 Minutes that are guaranteed to change your perspective on the reality of both past and present life on Mars. The basics of "HOW, WHY and WHO" are covered here along with hundreds of telling images. This is not conspiracy theory. This is not the occult. This is reality and it is extremely important that we begin to understand our relationship to both the past and present inhabitants of the Red Planet. Why? Because evidence strongly indicates they were destroyed by nuclear explosions. Poster Comment:Paging My Favorite Martian, Ray Walston.
An Explanation of the EmDrive and Cannae Drive Part II
Post Date: 2018-08-19 09:28:39 by BTP Holdings
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Part II of an explanation of the EmDrive and the Cannae Drive and why they are controversial.
Chinese scientists discover gene helping rice adapt to cold climate
Post Date: 2018-08-19 03:15:22 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have found a gene which plays an important role in helping rice, originating in warm southern China, expand to the relatively cold northern regions. Rices grown in Asia include two subspecies: indica rice and japonica rice. The heat-resistant indica rice is mainly planted in southern China, as well as the tropical and subtropical areas in South Asia and Southeast Asia, while the japonica rice, after nearly 10,000 years of domestication and selection, can tolerate cold weather and has been expanded to northern China and the temperate zones in Northeast Asia. After analyzing 202 rice samples from various growing regions around the world ...
Is US Government Developing Real-Life Supersoldier, Wonder-Dog In New Research Program? Is US Government Developing Real-Life Supersoldier, Wonder-Dog In New Research Program?
Post Date: 2018-08-19 02:04:57 by Horse
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The US army has announced a new proposal for what really looks like a program to develop supersoldiers and wonder-dogs capable of fast healing, optimized physiological and mental performance, withstanding extreme environments, and wearing high-tech bio-enhancements and other gear. According to documents from the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), the "primary emphasis of the USSOCOM Biomedical, Human Performance, and Canine Research Program is to identify and develop techniques… for early intervention in life-threatening injuries, prolonged field care, human performance optimization, and canine medicine/performance." The project will allocate $15 million on ...
Mycorrhizal Fungi: The World’s Biggest Drinking Straws And Largest Unseen Communication System
Post Date: 2018-08-18 22:24:42 by Horse
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Quick, which is the biggest symbiotic association on Earth? Did you guess the mycorrhizae? They are the huge symbioses between fungi and the roots of most terrestrial plants. Their total size is not easy to measure because not all the fungal filaments in soils are mycorrhizal nor are the mycorrhizal ones always mycorrhizing (a new verb?). Even so, one can make the case that the combined mass of the participating fungi and plant roots is colossal. A friend, the soil microbiologist David Lipson, tells me that the mass of mycorrhizal fungi on the planet is estimated to be somewhere around 1-3 x 1010 tons (that’s between 1.4 and 4 tons per person). We are obviously talking about a topic ...
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