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Brilliant Iron Molecule for Cheap Solar Energy
Post Date: 2018-12-02 20:46:33 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The results indicate that the iron molecule could replace the more expensive and rarer metals used today. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The results indicate that the iron molecule could replace the more expensive and rarer metals used today. Some photocatalysts and solar cells are based on a technology that involves molecules containing metals, known as ...
Report: Trump Plans to Push Forward With Space Force
Post Date: 2018-12-01 10:48:31 by BTP Holdings
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Report: Trump Plans to Push Forward With Space Force (Jerilee Bennett/AP) By Cathy Burke | Thursday, 29 November 2018 05:31 PM President Donald Trump plans to go ahead with asking Congress to establish a Space Force as an independent branch of the military — committing to the biggest restructuring of the U.S. military in seven decades, Politico reported Thursday. Citing a draft presidential directive, Politico reported the first details about the new military service indicate Trump, who has championed the standalone Space Force, is still interested in pursuing an entirely new branch, despite criticism on Capitol Hill and even initially, the Pentagon. According to Politico, the ...
There's a Huge Problem With the Core of the Human Genome Project "The model needs to change.”
Post Date: 2018-11-27 17:49:47 by Tatarewicz
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The Human Genome Project, which began in the 1990s, was Homo sapiens’ successful attempt to map out the entirety of our species’ DNA. It produced the human reference genome, a finely polished collection of human DNA that’s crucial for genetics research and genetics testing services around the world. Integral as it has been to the science community, two researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered that the reference genome is missing a piece or two — well, 296,485,284 base pairs of DNA, to be exact. The reference genome is an essential map of human genetic material that is used as a basis for comparison. When we sequence our own DNA for insight into health, ...
Jumping the Global Warming Shark
Post Date: 2018-11-26 09:58:35 by Ada
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There’s a moment near the end of Ayn Rand’s mostly brilliant Atlas Shrugged where she details the unveiling of various government-funded boondoggles whose development we track as the story unfolds. All of them end in tragedy and mass death. From trains asphyxiating their passengers to sonic weapons killing spectators, the hubris and ineptitude of the rentier class which took over the U.S. government was on display in all its glory. So, every time I see some hare-brained idea in service of a politically-motivated lie I just look at my wife, shake my head and say, “Act III, Atlas Shrugged, hon.” The latest is the patently insane idea of dimming the sun by dispersing ...
Free WiFi - Is It A Trap?
Post Date: 2018-11-25 23:52:47 by Tatarewicz
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PMF... Your new neighbor has an unencrypted WiFi signal with no log-in showing on your drop down list of local internet WiFi providers. Did she forget to turn on encryption or is she just technically retarded to figure it out? She could be ignorant of how to turn on encryption, but it may be something else. 1 Is this open WiFi signal a "honey pot" to grab credit card data? 2. Maybe it is a police sting to catch data theft? 3. Is it a counter-intelligence operation to monitor internet activity of a suspected intel agent? 4. Are you under official observation and WiFi is bait to get something on you? The tactics used in foreign countries to monitor suspected ...
The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
Post Date: 2018-11-25 09:29:03 by Ada
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Is it possible to tell whether someone is a criminal just from looking at their face or listening to the sound of their voice? The idea may seem ludicrous, like something out of science fiction — Big Brother in “1984” detects any unconscious look “that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality” — and yet, some companies have recently begun to answer this question in the affirmative. AC Global Risk, a startup founded in 2016, claims to be able to determine your level of “risk” as an employee or an asylum-seeker based not on what you say, but how you say it. The California-based company offers an automated screening system known as a Remote Risk ...
All humans are descended from just TWO people and a catastrophic event almost wiped out ALL species 100,000 years ago, scientists claim
Post Date: 2018-11-24 18:08:46 by Ada
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Genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals from different species were surveyed The research deduced that humans and animals sprang from single pair This happened after a catastrophic event a long time after the last ice age All modern humans descended from a solitary pair who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, scientists say. Scientists surveyed the genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals - including humans - from 100,000 different species and deduced that we sprang from a single pair of adults after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race. These bar codes, or snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells, suggest that it's ...
Russia space agency chief: We’ll verify US moon landings
Post Date: 2018-11-24 10:03:25 by Ada
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MOSCOW (AP) — The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed Russian mission to the moon will be tasked with verifying that the American moon landings were real. “We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they’ve been there or not,” said Dmitry Rogozin in a video posted Saturday on Twitter. Rogozin was responding to a question about whether or not NASA actually landed on the moon nearly 50 years ago. He appeared to be joking, as he smirked and shrugged while answering. But conspiracies surrounding NASA’s moon missions are common in Russia. The Soviet Union abandoned its lunar program in the mid-1970s after four experimental ...
Making Complex Brain-Like Functions in Vitro
Post Date: 2018-11-22 23:16:23 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Researchers have designed neural circuits reproducing dynamic reconfiguration behaviors of the brain. One of the most important and surprising traits of the brain is its ability to reconfigure dynamically the connections to process and respond properly to stimuli. Researchers from Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) and the University of Barcelona, using neuroengineering tools, have created in vitro neural circuits that reproduce the capacity of segregation and integration of brain circuits and which allow researchers to understand the keys of dynamic reconfiguration. The study has been published in Science Advances. Dynamic reconfiguration is understood as the strengthening ...
Secrets of the Creative Brain
Post Date: 2018-11-21 08:16:31 by Tatarewicz
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The Atlantic A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness. Photo by: Eddie Opara As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies creativity, I’ve had the pleasure of working with many gifted and high-profile subjects over the years, but Kurt Vonnegut—dear, funny, eccentric, lovable, tormented Kurt Vonnegut—will always be one of my favorites. Kurt was a faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the 1960s, and participated in the first big study I did as a member of the university’s psychiatry ...
Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking
Post Date: 2018-11-15 23:59:09 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Humans think using their brain's navigation system: Researchers combine individual threads of evidence to form a theory of human thinking. It is one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How do humans think? Until recently, we seemed far from a conclusive answer. However, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany, and the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway, among them Nobel prize laureate Edvard I. Moser, offer a new proposal in the current issue of the journal Science-- Humans think using their brain's navigation system. When we navigate our environment, two ...
Technocracy & NWO
Post Date: 2018-11-15 07:39:18 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... The dark horse of the New World Order is not communism, socialism or fascism, it is technocracy, according to economist and financial analyst Patrick Wood. (Actually it's Zionism but MSM not allowed to say that) He joined guest host Jimmy Church (email) to discuss how prominent early 20th century scientists and engineers proposed a utopian energy-based economic system called "technocracy" that would be run by those same scientists and engineers instead of elected politicians. Wood described the movement as "the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to distribute goods and services to the entire population" that proponents hoped would replace ...
Kepler Telescope Dead After Finding Thousands of Worlds
Post Date: 2018-11-11 12:17:08 by BTP Holdings
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Kepler Telescope Dead After Finding Thousands of Worlds Artist's conception of the Kepler Space telescope (NASA/Handout via Reuters) Wednesday, 31 October 2018 07:34 AM NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for months. Its ability to point at distant stars and identify possible alien worlds worsened dramatically at the beginning of October, but flight controllers still managed to retrieve its latest observations. The telescope has now gone ...
Here's What It's Like to be Passed By a Tesla Semi on the Highway
Post Date: 2018-11-10 08:25:20 by BTP Holdings
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Here's What It's Like to be Passed By a Tesla Semi on the Highway Justin T. Westbrook 12 hrs ago Video player from: YouTube (Privacy Policy) Somebody spotted an electric Tesla Semi in the wild and all I can think is that conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with these giant silent future-looking trucks. Research the latest from Tesla on MSN Autos While we’ve surely spotted the Tesla Semi test mules quite a bit before, where it looked quick speeding around without a trailer attached, this video is notable for a few reasons. Steven, who kindly sent Jalopnik the video, also mentioned it offers a rare look at the rear “sleeper” door of the truck cab ...
How Bill Gates Aims to Save $233 Billion by Reinventing the Toilet
Post Date: 2018-11-10 05:50:03 by Tatarewicz
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Bloomberg... Gates Foundation spent $200 million funding toilet research LIXIL is among companies drawn to potential $6 billion market Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he’s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200 billion-plus in savings. The billionaire philanthropist, whose Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over seven years funding sanitation research, showcased some 20 novel toilet and sludge-processing designs that eliminate harmful pathogens and convert bodily waste into clean water and fertilizer. “The technologies you’ll see here are the most ...
The window sticker that cuts your electricity bill by 10%: Incredible see-through film blocks 70% of the sun's heat to save you from using air con
Post Date: 2018-11-08 20:40:20 by Horse
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A heat-blocking film that you can stick on your windows could replace the humble air conditioner. Scientists say the see through material keeps out 70 per cent of the sun's rays and automatically gets darker as temperatures rise to reject more heat on hotter days. The team claims that if every exterior-facing window on your house were covered in this film, the building's air conditioning costs could drop by 10 per cent. In the US, it's estimated that air conditioners use around six per cent of all electricity. This costs $29 billion (£22 billion) annually - an expense that's expected to grow as thermostats climb with global warming. Scroll down for video The ...
Why MX Linux Is the Windows Alternative You’ve Been Waiting For
Post Date: 2018-11-08 20:34:17 by Horse
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There is nothing quite like breathing new life into a desktop or laptop that’s been sitting in the closet or basement, collecting dust. Linux has always had the potential to do this. But MX Linux takes it a step further and brings a brand new OS about as close to a Windows environment as you could ask for, at zero cost. In fact, if you’re looking at buying a new computer, you could save a small fortune by buying one without any OS installed. Simply install MX Linux to get a lightning-fast computer without the learning curve of taking on an entirely new OS.
Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Post Date: 2018-11-05 12:34:45 by Ada
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Scientists in the US have recruited an unlikely ally in their efforts to develop a new flu treatment. Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against all types of flu, including new pandemics. Influenza is the ultimate shape-shifter, constantly mutating its appearance to evade our immune system. That is why a new flu jab is needed each winter and why the vaccine sometimes misses the mark. Science is on the hunt for a way to kill all types of flu, no matter the strain or how much it mutates. That's where the llama, better known for its wool, comes in. The animals produce incredibly tiny antibodies in comparison to our own. ...
What Engineers Found When They Tore Apart Tesla's Model 3
Post Date: 2018-10-31 20:37:13 by BTP Holdings
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Oct.17 -- Tesla's Model 3 boasts the best technology and motor of any electric vehicle, but a team of engineers in Detroit say there's a major flaw in the car's design that's hurting Tesla's profit margins. Bloomberg Television's Ed Ludlow reports.
Mind's Quality Control Center: Cerebellum
Post Date: 2018-10-28 00:37:17 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The cerebellum, once thought to be limited to controlling movement, is involved in every aspect of higher brain function, according to a new study. The cerebellum can't get no respect. Located inconveniently on the underside of the brain and initially thought to be limited to controlling movement, the cerebellum has long been treated like an afterthought by researchers studying higher brain functions. But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say overlooking the cerebellum is a mistake. Their findings, published Oct. 25 in Neuron, suggest that the cerebellum has a hand in every aspect of higher brain functions -- not just movement, but ...
Tectonic Plate Splits in Two Raising Risks for West Coast
Post Date: 2018-10-27 10:46:23 by Ada
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Recent studies have revealed that the massive earthquake which struck Mexico actually split a tectonic plate in two. This has done more than just shaken the ground. It has also shaken up the geologist community for this may even introduce a greater risk to California. That quake took place on September 7th, 2017, and was a magnitude 8.2 earthquake that struck southern Mexico. Earthquakes are common events around the world in different degrees. However, this powerful event wasn’t any run-of-the-mill tremor. It actually split the tectonic plate itself. Normally, earthquakes take place where two tectonic plates meet. They constantly move around Earth’s surface, either grinding ...
Why China Can Do AI More Quickly and Effectively Than the US
Post Date: 2018-10-27 01:30:17 by Tatarewicz
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Wired... When Enrico Fermi decided to leave Benito Mussolini’s Italy and emigrate to the United States, he changed the global balance of power. After arriving in the US, Fermi led the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago and played an indispensable role in the Manhattan Project, which led to the end of World War II in the Pacific and laid the groundwork for a new world order and America’s prominent role. So it is not surprising that some Americans think the same should be true with AI. Emigrant AI researchers like Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng, and Fei-Fei Li are the Enrico Fermis of AI and should secure an ...
Iranian Nano Scientists Produce Biodiesel from Chicken Fat
Post Date: 2018-10-26 02:07:05 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian nanotechnology researchers at Islamic Azad University of Bushehr used nano-calcium oxide catalyst to produce biodiesel from chicken fat and improve the fuel properties via blending with diesel. "In this research, biodiesel was produced using chicken fat in the presence of calcium oxide nano-catalyst. To do so, the effect of various parameters like temperature, reaction time, catalyst amount and methanol to oil ratio was investigated on the biodiesel production," Hossein Esmayeeli, one of the researchers, said on Wednesday. The results showed that the best conditions for biodiesel production were obtained in the temperature of 65 °C, methanol to ...
It’s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age
Post Date: 2018-10-24 09:28:02 by Ada
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It’s not a shock that Postmodernism has taken hold of subjects such as Literature or Social Anthropology. The more subjective the subject is, the easier it is for ideology to infiltrate it. But surely quantitative science—like genetics and physics—will survive as a fortress of logic? Wrong. An article this week in The New York Times interviewed “woke” geneticists, whose findings manifestly show that race and psychological racial differences are biological, revealing them clutching at the most desperate reasons why their research doesn’t prove what it clearly does. [Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed), By Amy Harmon, The ...
Using Sun's Heat for Cheap Renewable Electricity
Post Date: 2018-10-22 23:35:39 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists have developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power -- as heat energy -- more efficient in generating electricity. Solar power accounts for less than 2 percent of U.S. electricity but could make up more than that if the cost of electricity generation and energy storage for use on cloudy days and at nighttime were cheaper. A Purdue University-led team developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power -- as heat energy -- more efficient in generating electricity. The innovation is an important step for putting solar heat-to-electricity generation in direct cost competition ...
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