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Kalashnikov Unveils Anti-Drone Weapon
Post Date: 2017-08-31 02:32:35 by Tatarewicz
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RI... The makers of the classic AK-47 have gone futuristic Since the dawn of man there has always been an arms race—one man invents a new machine, another invents something to counter it. With their increasing availability, Drones, and therefore anti-drone tech, is becoming a major field in the defense industry. While western countries are reverting to medieval technology to combat illegal use of drones, legendary Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov, makers of the AK series, has developed an advanced anti-drone gun. Built on the MP-514K rifle system, the fully modular device comes equipped with interchangeable jamming units, which disrupt GPS, GLONASS, WiFi, and other electronic ...
Will Planet X Appear in September?
Post Date: 2017-08-31 01:38:12 by Tatarewicz
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C2S...With the solar eclipse having come and gone, believers in an impending apocalypse suspect that September will mark the beginning of the end via the infamous Planet X. Astronomer and author David Meade, who previously warned that last week's celestial event was a harbinger of doom, says that next month will see the arrival of the long-feared 'hidden' planet to fulfill that prophecy. The rogue researcher cites not only Biblical passages for his contention that the End Times are upon us, but also alleged clues hidden in the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. According to Meade, there are two passageways found within the pyramid which will align with the star ...
Hurricane Harvey: Why Is It So Extreme
Post Date: 2017-08-28 18:40:29 by farmfriend
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Hurricane Harvey is drowning southeastern Texas for the fourth day, putting a vast area under feet of water. Experts say Harvey has been stuck longer in one place than any tropical storm in memory. That is just one of the hurricane’s extremes; the storm is off the charts by many measures. Scientific American wanted to learn why, and we asked meteorologist Jeff Masters for help. Masters is the co-founder of Weather Underground, a web site that meteorologists nationwide go to for their own inside information about severe weather. Masters also wrote a fascinating article on why the jet stream is getting weird. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Article didn't mention global warming ...
Why Trump Should Pardon Bundys & Their Supporters
Post Date: 2017-08-28 18:02:19 by Ada
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Federal land grab was completely illegal Last week a Nevada jury dealt another blow this week to the government’s case against participants in an armed uprising against federal agents three years ago involving the family of rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters. The jury acquitted two men, Richard Lovelien and Steven Stewart, of all 10 charges against them, and two others, Eric Parker and O. Scott Drexler, on most counts. The jury deadlocked on the remaining charges against Parker and Drexler, and then Judge Gloria Navarro an appointee of President Obama hand- picked by Harry Reid, declared a mistrial. Navarro’s conduct in the case and her efforts to cook the results of the ...
With the USS McCain collision, even Navy tech can’t overcome human shortcomings
Post Date: 2017-08-28 06:32:55 by Ada
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One mistake can cascade into a disaster in heavy marine traffic, regardless of tech. Enlarge / Tugboats from Singapore assist the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) as it steers toward Changi Naval Base, Republic of Singapore, following a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on August 21. Ten sailors were missing after the collision. 150 In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore. Ten sailors are believed to have lost their lives in the McCain collision. When added to the seven who died in ...
From Next Month, Turkey Will Stop Teaching Evolution in The School Curriculum
Post Date: 2017-08-27 04:36:53 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert Changes to the Turkish secondary school science curriculum that has been expected to take effect by 2019 will be in place next month, according to recent updates on the controversial measure. While the government sees this as the foundation for a simpler, "values-based" education system, for many in the politically-charged nation it's a troubling sign of religious influences. Earlier this year drafts of the new Turkish education curriculum were discovered to no longer contain any mention of the word 'evolution', inspiring a call-to-arms from science advocacy groups such as the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Society. The chair of Turkey's Board of ...
A Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend
Post Date: 2017-08-26 20:27:18 by BTP Holdings
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A Sharp Spike in Honeybee Deaths Deepens a Worrisome Trend By MICHAEL WINES MAY 13, 2015 Researchers from Oregon State University testing bees last August for the effects of pesticides. Natalie Behring/Getty Images A prolonged and mysterious die-off of the nation’s honeybees, a trend worrisome both to beekeepers and to farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops, apparently worsened last year. In an annual survey released on Wednesday by the Bee Informed Partnership, a consortium of universities and research laboratories, about 5,000 beekeepers reported losing 42.1 percent of their colonies in the 12-month period that ended in April. That is well above the 34.2 ...
3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry
Post Date: 2017-08-26 15:47:55 by farmfriend
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A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today. The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in Southern Iraq by the American archaeologist and diplomat Edgar Banks, who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. The true meaning of the tablet has eluded experts until now but new research by the University of New South Wales, Australia, has shown it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, which was probably used by ancient architects to construct temples, palaces and canals. However ...
CIA uses a secret tool to spy on NSA, FBI and other intel partners
Post Date: 2017-08-26 15:45:28 by Ada
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It hides behind the guise of a software update. Apparently, nobody's exempt from the CIA's intelligence gathering, not even its own intelligence partners. According to a set of documents published by WikiLeaks, the CIA uses a tool called "ExpressLane" that hides behind a fake software update to collect information from agencies around the world that use its biometric collection system. In the US, the list includes fellow government agencies like the FBI, the NSA and Homeland Security. These partners are supposed to share data with the CIA, but clearly, the intelligence service wants to make sure they're not keeping anything from the agency. Based on the info ...
Proposed Mission to find life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
Post Date: 2017-08-26 14:51:28 by farmfriend
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean covered by a layer of ice. Some liquid escapes into space through cracks in the ice, which is the source of one of Saturn’s rings. In October 2015, the Cassini spacecraft flew directly through the plume of escaping material and sampled its chemical composition. They found that the plume contains molecular hydrogen, H2, a sign that the water in Enceladus’ ocean is reacting with rocks through hydrothermal processes. This drives the ocean out of chemical equilibrium, in a similar way to water around Earth’s hydrothermal vents, potentially providing a source of chemical energy. Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an ice-covered ...
NASA Maps Out Possible Lander Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa
Post Date: 2017-08-26 14:17:07 by farmfriend
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A potential NASA life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean- harboring moon Europa is really starting to take shape. The stationary Europa lander would use three different instrument suites to search for signs of alien life in samples collected from just beneath the moon's icy surface, according to a new report by the 21-member "Science Definition Team" (SDT) for the possible mission. These primary instruments would include an "organic compositional analyzer," a microscope system and a "vibrational spectrometer," stated the report, which was submitted to NASA on Tuesday (Feb. 7). Click for Full Text!
Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Closest Ever
Post Date: 2017-08-26 13:27:40 by farmfriend
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Astronomers have discovered a roughly Earth-size alien world around Proxima Centauri, which lies just 4.2 light-years from our own solar system. What's even more exciting, study team members said, is that the planet, known as Proxima b, circles in the star's "habitable zone" — the range of distances at which liquid water could be stable on a world's surface. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Article is a year old but still cool!
Quantum Computing Is Coming at Us Fast, So Here's Everything You Need to Know
Post Date: 2017-08-26 10:58:04 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... In early July, Google announced that it will expand its commercially available cloud computing services to include quantum computing. A similar service has been available from IBM since May. These aren't services most regular people will have a lot of reason to use yet. But making quantum computers more accessible will help government, academic and corporate research groups around the world continue their study of the capabilities of quantum computing. Understanding how these systems work requires exploring a different area of physics than most people are familiar with. From everyday experience we are familiar with what physicists call "classical mechanics," ...
Yandex is far superior to Google for Russian searches, and is destroying Google in the Russian market.
Post Date: 2017-08-26 10:24:14 by Tatarewicz
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Amazing New Features from Russian Search Giant Yandex While Google Censors Dissent Google just can't compete with Russia's homegrown search engine in Russia. You may think it obvious that a national search engine would take priority in it's own country, but this is not so in most of the world. In Germany and the UK, countries the west is always touting as being superior and more advanced to Russia, their internet users are effectively slaves to an American company, Google, with no national search engine. This excellent segment from Russia's main evening news show describes new Artificial Intelligence features just rolled out by Yandex.
China Focus: How robots are shaping tomorrow's world
Post Date: 2017-08-25 08:14:27 by Tatarewicz
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CHINA-BEIJING-WORLD ROBOT CONFERENCE (CN) A visitor experiences a bionic arm installation during the World Robot Conference 2017 in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 24, 2017. During the 5-day event, people came to Beijing Yichuang International Conference and Exhibition Center, experiencing the technology of robot and the possibility of future life. (Xinhua/Li Xin) BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Imagine it. You wake up in the morning and your robot housekeeper makes your bed, cooks breakfast and cleans the floors. Minutes later a driverless car whisks the kids off to school, while a robot nurse cares for you elderly parents. You arrive at the office only to find robots have done half of ...
Rumours Are Flying That a Big Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Imminent
Post Date: 2017-08-24 07:43:42 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Time to keep a close eye on the LIGO announcement schedule, folks, because if rumours are to be believed, we might be in for a big gravitational wave announcement very soon. At this stage, we're in the realm of speculation - nothing has been officially confirmed or denied. But there are pretty exciting hints out there that, for the first time, astrophysicists might have detected gravitational waves from a new source: merging neutron stars. Right now, a range of optical telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope are said to be following up the discovery, which, if confirmed, could greatly expand our understanding of gravitational waves and the dramatic events that ...
China opens first AI-assisted treatment center
Post Date: 2017-08-22 07:02:53 by Tatarewicz
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people's daily... China’s first artificial intelligence assisted treatment center opened in Hefei, the capital of eastern China's Anhui Province on Sunday. It will carry out research to guide machine-learning, such as recognizing messages and using visual neural networks to solve problems. The center features a voice-based information system, a computer-aided medical image diagnosis system and some other cutting-edge equipment. Studying multitudes of hospital imaging data, and two million real electronic patient cases, the system is expected to improve detection rates. AI serves not only as a helping hand but also as a competitor for doctors. It takes a doctor about half an ...
Mountain-side genome sequencing a win for science
Post Date: 2017-08-22 06:23:16 by Tatarewicz
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Rapidly reading the genome of an organism for analysis in the field should become a routine step in many areas of research, say scientists involved in a new study. Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have developed portable, real-time DNA sequencing that can be conducted on location, such as a mountainside, they report in a new study. "This research proves that we can now rapidly read the DNA sequence of an organism to identify it with minimum equipment," Joe Parker, a scientist at Kew, said in a press release. "Rapidly reading DNA anywhere, at will, should become a routine step in many research fields. Despite hundreds of years of taxonomic ...
For The First Time Ever, a Woman in China Has Been Cryogenically Frozen
Post Date: 2017-08-22 06:05:45 by Tatarewicz
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South China Morning Post... "I think it will be completely possible to revive her." Cryonics is the practice of deep-freezing recently deceased bodies (or even just the brains of those who have recently died) in the hopes of one day reviving them. It has been the subject of serious scientific exploration and study - as well as a fair share of pseudoscience, lore, and myth. Fictional accounts like Batman's Iceman, and the (untrue) rumours of Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen have cast a speculative shadow over the field of cryonics. But recently, for the first time ever in China, a woman has been cryogenically frozen. Zhan Wenlian died at the age of 49 from lung ...
Climate Madness & Keeping Warm as the World Cools
Post Date: 2017-08-21 08:37:31 by Ada
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As it gets colder, the elite owned media and Al Gore are turning up the heat trying to roast the world with their naked lies. Every prediction Gore has made has been wrong. The most recent attacks of the climate boogeymen went like this: (Associated Press) A federal climate report says the United States is already feeling the effects of climate change, with temperatures rising dramatically over the last four decades. That’s according to The New York Times, which acquired a draft copy of the report by scientists from 13 federal agencies. The report says extreme heat waves have become more common and extreme cold waves less common since the 1980s. (Proving that these 13 agencies and ...
America's Success Story In Saving Ozone Layer Has Added Climate Benefits, Study Says
Post Date: 2017-08-18 07:34:20 by BTP Holdings
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America's Success Story In Saving Ozone Layer Has Added Climate Benefits, Study Says By Pam Wright 15 hours agoweather.com Repairing Ozone Layer Had Unexpected Benefit Repairing the ozone layer had a happy, unexpected benefit. The Montreal Protocol banned CFCs in 1987, which were linked with the depletion of the ozone layer. A new study found that the protocol has also helped reduce greenhouse gases. Measures initiated some 30 years ago to reduce a hole in the ozone layer has gone remarkably well, a new study says, with an added timely benefit. Research published in Geophysical Research Letters this month examined the Montreal Protocol signed in ...
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Post Date: 2017-08-18 03:23:33 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Having your data secured and accessible, without taking up space on a hard drive is an incredibly valuable resource in 2017. But some companies will charge you hundreds of dollars to reserve large amounts of space in the cloud – and you can't even be sure how secure your information is. That's why we've teamed up with StackCommerce to bring you a new deal on Zoolz Dual Cloud 2TB Storage: Lifetime Subscription. For the lifetime of Zoolz, you'll be able to store 1TB in the instant vault – so you can get the information ASAP – and 1TB in the secure archive storage for important documents that you don't need every day. Plus all your files are ...
Baby Lambs Successfully Grown In Artificial Womb — Are Humans Next?
Post Date: 2017-08-15 03:39:03 by Tatarewicz
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Anonymous... Eight premature lamb fetuses were kept alive and grew substantially in the ‘artificial womb’ for four weeks. When babies are born prematurely, they can incur all sorts of health problems depending on how early they are born, and many of these issues can either cause their death within their first few years of life or lead to a painful existence marked by hospital visits and medication. According to the World Health Organization, 15 million babies are born prematurely in the world every year, and it’s the leading cause of death amongst children under five. About one million premature human babies die annually, but this could all change with a new development by ...
Can someone show us a climate prediction that has ever come true?
Post Date: 2017-08-14 19:37:09 by Ada
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It's another day, and we get a new story about how dire the climate threat is and that it is unambiguous that humans are a significant cause. What is rarely noted in these articles is actual facts that support the theory. I would love to see actual temperature data for each decade for the last 150 years, including where the measuring stations are located. It would be especially interesting to see rural data where cement and asphalt don't inflate the temperature. It should also always be noted that a "Little Ice Age" ended in 1715 and that some warming would be normal. Why don't we see a list of storms, droughts, and floods from each decade to show the trend? Even ...
New Chinese maglev train completes pilot run
Post Date: 2017-08-13 06:16:58 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) A new generation of Chinese middle-to-low-speed magnetically levitated (maglev) trains has completed a test run in Shanghai and is expected to enter the market in a year, CRRC Dalian announced Sunday.Research and development of the new maglev train began eight years ago, and the successful pilot run showed China has mastered core technology in new-generation magnetic suspension systems, according to Qu Tianwei, chief engineer with CRRC Dalian. The maglev underwent a test run of 120 km per hour in Shanghai. Compared with traditional rail transit system, the new middle-to-low speed trains produce little noise and have better climbing ability and a longer service life, Qu said. ...
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