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What Termites Can Teach Us Roboticists are fascinated by their “swarm intelligence,” biologists by their ability to turn grass into energy. But can humans replicate their achievements?
Post Date: 2018-09-13 18:58:30 by Horse
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Isoptera have capacities that synthetic biologists and roboticists alike seek to copy. Illustration by Mikel Jaso New termite colonies are founded on windless evenings, at dusk, after the rain. Most termites have neither eyes nor wings, but every mature colony has a caste of translucent-winged seeing creatures called alates, which are nurtured by the colony’s workers until they are ready to propagate. When the time comes—given the right temperature and humidity—colonies release thousands of alates into the air, an event called “swarming.” Most of the nutrient-rich alates are eaten by animals as they glide to the ground. The few that survive shed their wings and ...
National Solar Observatory Mysteriously Closed As Geomagnetic Storm Looms
Post Date: 2018-09-12 03:06:15 by Horse
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The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico has been closed since last Thursday. ABC-7 Monday spoke with Shari Lifson, who is with AURA, the company that co-manages the Observatory with NMSU. “The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy who manages the facility is addressing a security issue at this time. We have decided to vacate the facility at this time as precautionary measure. It was our decision to evacuate the facility.” Lifson told ABC 7 there is no time-table for the Observatory to be re-opened. ABC-7 also reached out to the FBI, but did not hear back from the federal agency in time for deadline. The FBI did speak with local law enforcement ...
Here’s how to learn absolutely anything, according to a world expert
Post Date: 2018-09-07 23:57:38 by Tatarewicz
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It’s easy to get discouraged when we’re trying to learn a difficult new subject. But according to the creator of one of the world’s most successful online courses, almost anyone can learn anything—with the right technique. Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, is the creator of “Learning How to Learn,” a massive open online course (or MOOC) that’s already been taken by approximately 2.3 million students across 200 countries. The course draws on neuroscience research to offer practical advice for anyone struggling with a tough subject or a procrastination habit. Now she’s co-authored a new book, ...
A tiny hole in the Soyuz spacecraft could be a huge headache for NASA
Post Date: 2018-09-07 18:15:05 by BTP Holdings
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A tiny hole in the Soyuz spacecraft could be a huge headache for NASA Tim Fernholz 4 hrs ago The SpaceX Dragon 2 is designed to carry seven astronauts to the International Space Station. 3/4 SLIDES © Provided by Quartz The SpaceX Dragon 2 is designed to carry seven astronauts to the International Space Station. Flight controllers monitoring the International Space Station’s atmosphere detected a steady but small drop in pressure on Aug. 29. At the time, the six astronauts onboard were sleeping. Controllers didn’t wake them up right away—the station wouldn’t have run out of air for 18 days. Once awake, the astronauts discovered a 2-millimeter hole ...
Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To “Dangerous” Low Levels
Post Date: 2018-09-07 09:23:53 by Ada
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The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the worst water crisis in modern American history. As you will see below, Lake Powell and Lake Mead have both dropped to dangerously low levels, and officials are warning that we may soon be looking at a substantial shortfall which would require rationing. Unfortunately, many in the eastern half of the country don’t even realize that this is happening. The mighty Colorado River once seemed to be virtually invulnerable, but now it doesn’t even run all the way to the ocean any longer. Demand for water is ...
http://fna.ir/boeto7 Tue Sep 04, 2018 2:5 New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel
Post Date: 2018-09-06 06:49:33 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A new study used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy. They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using a mixture of biological components and human-made technologies. The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants. Photosynthesis is the process plants use to convert sunlight into energy. Oxygen is produced as by-product of photosynthesis when the water absorbed by plants is 'split'. It is one of the most important reactions on the planet because it ...
Climate Fraud At The New York Times
Post Date: 2018-09-05 19:41:15 by Horse
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Poster Comment:1930s were a lot hotter than today.NY Times lies.
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 ...
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