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New Window Glass Switches From Clear to Opaque, So You'll Never Need Curtains Again
Post Date: 2017-08-12 05:44:58 by Tatarewicz
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Stanford Energy / YouTube/Sci-alert... Scientists have developed a brand-new type of electronic window that can switch from transparent to opaque, and back again, in under one minute. Even though similar 'dimmable glass' already exists, this invention relies on completely new technology, and if it's successfully scaled up, we could soon kiss goodbye to ugly window shades. "We did not tweak what was out there, we came up with a completely different solution," says researcher Michael McGehee, from Stanford University. "We've had a lot of moments where we've thought, 'how is it even possible that we've made something that works so well, so ...
This App Is Leading The Revolution in Free Access to Scientific Papers
Post Date: 2017-08-09 06:13:09 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... A perfect storm of technology and the public's demand for knowledge are driving a surge towards open access (OA) science and academia that anyone can read for free. Now, the researchers behind Unpaywall – a browser plug-in that helps you find free, legal copies of academic papers – have conducted a huge analysis of the state of OA literature, and it confirms that the barriers to scientific knowledge are truly crumbling. The team used three separate sampling methods to analyse the state of access to 300,000 random journal articles available online, and estimate that a stunning 28 percent of all scholarly literature – some 19 million articles, basically ...
There's a Simple New Way to Find Out if Hackers Already Have Your Password
Post Date: 2017-08-08 06:41:25 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Passwords suck. They're hard to remember, we all have about a million of them, and they're not supposed to be anything easy or memorable like your cat's name (sorry Furball1). Worst of all, when massive data breaches happen to the companies we actually trust with our online credentials, our usernames and passwords can become totally exposed – but luckily, there's now a simple way to find out if you've been compromised like this. Troy Hunt is an Australian security researcher and the man behind Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a website that lets people check if their email addresses and usernames have been involved in some of the biggest data breaches ever ...
Hydrogen Fuel Could Become a Viable Energy Alternative Thanks to This Aluminium Alloy
Post Date: 2017-08-08 06:27:03 by Tatarewicz
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Science Alert... If you have seen or read The Martian, you may recall the stranded astronaut converting a hydrogen-based fuel into water. Well, we may have just discovered material that easily reverses this process. Researchers at the US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground Research Laboratory were developing a high-strength aluminium alloy when they made a startling discovery. During routine testing of the alloy, water poured over its surface started bubbling and producing hydrogen gas. This is an unusual reaction - typically, aluminium exposed to water oxidises, creating a protective barrier to prevent further reactions from occurring. In this case, though, the hydrogen-producing reaction ...
How to Slam Dunk Creationists When It Comes to The Theory of Evolution
Post Date: 2017-08-07 04:19:06 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the first known upright ape-like creatures, was yet more proof of humanity's place among the great apes. And yet Mike Pence, then a representative and now US vice president, argues for the opposite conclusion. For him, our ideas about our ancestors have changed, proving once more that evolution was a theory, and therefore we should be free to teach other theories alongside evolution in our classrooms. How to respond? The usual answer is that we should teach students the meaning of the word "theory" as used in science – that is, a hypothesis (or idea) that has stood up to repeated testing. ...
Superfast Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says
Post Date: 2017-08-06 20:01:14 by BTP Holdings
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Superfast Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says By SPACE.com Staff | August 18, 2011 10:34am ET A superfast unmanned military plane traveled at 20 times the speed of sound and managed to control itself for three minutes before crashing into the Pacific Ocean in a recent test, military officials said. The prototype Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2), billed as the fastest aircraft ever built, splashed down in the Pacific earlier than planned on Aug. 11 shortly after launching from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on its second-ever test flight. The HTV-2 experienced some sort of anomaly, prompting the vehicle's autonomous flight safety ...
Beijing: a promising land for tech talent
Post Date: 2017-08-06 06:29:33 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A scanner magnifies a traditional Chinese painting by 200 times in an Artificial Intelligence Technology Center (AITC) in Beijing. Based on big data technology, the machine is capable of recording the specific details of certain cultural relics. This can be used to tell fakes from originals. The startup AITC in Yizhuang Economic and Technology Development area in the suburban Daxing district of Beijing was started in March by Hans Uszkoreit, scientific director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Uszkoreit said the center would focus on creating an AI service system and big data public technology platform. It will cooperate with ...
Hempcrete Could Change the Way We Build Everything
Post Date: 2017-08-05 09:47:21 by Ada
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First off, what is Hempcrete? As the name suggests, hempcrete is a building material that incorporates hemp into its mixture. Versatile and hardy, it can be used for wall insulation, flooring, walls, roofing, and more, and is fireproof, waterproof, and rot-proof, provided it’s used aboveground. Derived from the shiv or inside stem of the hemp plant, it’s then mixed with a lime base binder to create the final, negative carbon footprint product. Hempcrete is much more versatile and pliable than concrete, making it an easier material to work with. In fact, earthquakes cannot crack these structures, as they are three times more resistant to damage than regular concrete. Hempcrete ...
Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science - Essential Oils
Post Date: 2017-08-05 08:19:25 by BTP Holdings
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Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science Essential oils are no fad—they are backed by thousands of years of history. They’ve been used in Biblical medicine, Egyptian medicine, Chinese medicine and Greek medicine—and they’re still used throughout the world today. In fact, they’re actually more popular in many other parts of the world than they are in the U.S. Thankfully, America is now experiencing an essential oil revolution, and their use is growing in popularity every day. So, let’s celebrate the fact that essential oils are becoming so popular! But it needs to stay that way—and in order for that to happen, you ...
The Nature of Reality & The 5G Beast System -- Max Igan
Post Date: 2017-08-04 18:59:21 by Horse
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Tesla Completes Its First Solar Roof Installs
Post Date: 2017-08-03 04:31:18 by BTP Holdings
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Tesla Completes Its First Solar Roof Installs Bloomberg Tom Randall 4 hrs ago One of the first completed installations of a Tesla Solar Roof. Next Slide 1/3 SLIDES © Tesla One of the first completed installations of a Tesla Solar Roof. First the Model 3 electric car. Now the solar roof. In just one week, Tesla has challenged two distinct industries with radically new products. Tesla has completed its first solar roof installations, the company reported Wednesday as part of a second-quarter earnings report. Just like the first Model 3 customers, who took their keys last week, the first solar roof customers are Tesla employees. By selling to them first, Tesla says it ...
Eccentricity
Post Date: 2017-08-02 10:38:11 by Horse
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The first of the three Milankovitch Cycles is the Earth's eccentricity. Eccentricity is, simply, the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. This constantly fluctuating, orbital shape ranges between more and less elliptical (0 to 5% ellipticity) on a cycle of about 100,000 years. These oscillations, from more elliptic to less elliptic, are of prime importance to glaciation in that it alters the distance from the Earth to the Sun, thus changing the distance the Sun's short wave radiation must travel to reach Earth, subsequently reducing or increasing the amount of radiation received at the Earth's surface in different seasons. Today a difference of only about 3 percent ...
Why the Pentagon Falls for Elon Musk’s Gimmicks
Post Date: 2017-08-02 08:14:38 by Ada
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Bureaucrats focus on cost rather than quality. Would you choose a handyman for your house the same way you pick paper towels for your kitchen? What about deciding on the mechanic for your car versus the gas station you use to fuel it? How about the food you feed your children and the paper bag you put their lunch in? The answer, of course, is no. When most reasonable people are making important decisions, such as fixing a house, repairing a car, or feeding their kids, the value of the service or product being provided weighs as equally on our minds as the price. We’re all willing to spend a little more to have quality products when it comes to important purchases. While this seems ...
New NASA Climate Data is Inconvenient For Al Gore
Post Date: 2017-07-26 20:57:43 by Horse
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Qinghai to build China's first Mars village
Post Date: 2017-07-26 07:14:25 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) "Mars Village," China's first simulated Mars base, will be built in Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous Prefecture, NW China's Qinghai province, China News Service reported on July 25. Located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, the prefecture has diverse geography and magnificent natural scenery, including mountains, grasslands, dessert, rivers, and lakes. The main part of the region is the Qaidam Basin, which enjoys the reputation of "Cornucopia." (Photo/haixi.gov.cn) Desertification covers an area of 95,000 square kilometers, accounting for 75.6 percent of the total desert area in Qinghai province. The Gobi ...
Pet translator devices could let us talk to dogs within 10 years, Amazon-backed report says
Post Date: 2017-07-26 06:59:03 by Tatarewicz
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Independent, UK Research shows prairie dogs have different words to describe colours and species of predators Pet translators could let us talk to dogs within 10 years, a report backed by Amazon has claimed. A professor at Northern Arizona University is attempting to raise money to develop a cat and dog translation device, after he used AI software to analyse calls made by priarie dogs. Con Slobodchikoff found that the animal had different words to describe colours and species of predators. He now believes the concept could be applied to household pets. Read more Dog organisations warn teacup puppy craze is harmful to pets The woman who thinks we should use cannabis to treat pets ...
China to build near-space airborne mobile Wi-Fi hub with solar drones
Post Date: 2017-07-25 07:20:51 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) China is developing an airborne mobile Wi-Fi hub in near space with solar-powered drones. The Feiyun ("Flying Cloud") project is able to secure emergency communication for more than one week and proof of concept is expected to be demonstrated before the end of year, Science and Technology Daily reported on July 25. The near space region, which lies 20 to 100 km above sea level, has become an emerging strategic space for major countries. The thin air reduces the performance of traditional fuel-powered aircraft engines, so developing solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles that can fly continuously during long-term missions is the key primary equipment ...
Why not award 'father of hybrid rice' the Nobel Peace Prize?
Post Date: 2017-07-24 07:27:46 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily... Yuan Longping, the “father of hybrid rice,” is one of the strongest symbols of peace in China and across the world. Yet it was not this renowned Chinese scientist who was bestowed with the Nobel Peace Prize, it was Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident. “By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo the Norwegian Nobel Committee wanted to underscore the fundamental connection between developing democracy and creating and securing peace,” said Norwegian Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen. That statement suggests a political motivation. Democracy is a powerful ideology that divides the world into two parts, with Western democracies on the ...
‘Everything is changing’: We must act now to beat unemployment risks from AI – Mark Cuban
Post Date: 2017-07-24 03:27:24 by Tatarewicz
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‘Everything is changing’: We must act now to beat unemployment risks from AI – Billionaire Mark Cuban has warned that problems arising from artificial intelligence must be dealt with now to prevent mass unemployment. Speaking at the OZY festival Sunday in New York’s Central Park, the Dallas Mavericks owner predicted massive upheaval in the worlds of science, technology and commerce in the coming decades. Read more Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk (R) answers questions from Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval © Brian Snyder ‘Fundamental risk to civilization’: Elon Musk fears AI future (PHOTOS, VIDEO) "However much change you saw over the past ten years with ...
Our Minds Appear to Sync With Others When We're Holding a Conversation
Post Date: 2017-07-23 03:48:10 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Our brain waves can synchronise with others when we're in conversation with them, according to new research. It's not quite mind reading, but it could teach us more about the nature of language and relationships. Based on readings from electroencephalography (EEG) machines, the study shows remarkable similarities between brain activity as two people chat to each other – a sort of "interbrain synchronisation". And according to the the researchers from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL) in Spain, the findings could help in everything from treating those with speech difficulties to teaching new languages. "The brains of the ...
Astronomers Have Detected Strange Signals Coming From a Star 11 Light Years Away
Post Date: 2017-07-17 06:49:47 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Astronomers say they have detected "strange signals" coming from the direction of a small, dim star located about 11 light-years from Earth. Researchers picked up the mysterious signals on May 12 using the Arecibo Observatory, a huge radio telescope built inside of a Puerto Rican sinkhole. The radio signals appear to be coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star that's not yet known to have any planets and is about 2,800 times dimmer than the Sun. Abel Méndez, an astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, said the star was observed for 10 minutes, during which time the signal was picked up and "almost periodic". Méndez ...
Research Team Slams Global Warming Data In New Report: "Not Reality...
Post Date: 2017-07-16 21:52:12 by Ada
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Totally Inconsistent With Credible Temperature Data" As world leaders, namely in the European Union, attack President Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement which would have saddled Americans with billions upon billions of dollars in debt and economic losses, a new bombshell report that analyzed Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) data produced by NASA, the NOAA and HADLEY proves the President was right on target with his refusal to be a part of the new initiative. According to the report, which has been peer reviewed by administrators, scientists and researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Scientists Now Believe the Universe Itself May Be Conscious
Post Date: 2017-07-16 20:21:27 by Ada
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A new scientific concept has recently come to light, which scientists are calling “panpsychism.” Panpsychism says that the universe could be capable of consciousness, which could change everything. For quite some time, scientists have been working to understand the universe, where it came from, and why we are here. However, they have often come up short until now. The scientist responsible for such a notion is Gregory Matloff, and his ideas are shocking, to say the least. According to Matloff, a physicist at New York City College of Technology, in his recently published paper, humans could be like the rest of the universe, in substance and in spirit. Futurism reported that a ...
A 75,000-mile-wide HOLE has appeared on the sun – and experts warn it could knock out communications satellites and cause blackouts on Earth
Post Date: 2017-07-12 12:53:44 by Horse
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Nasa spotted the sunspot last week, but it has lingered through to today Dubbed AR2665, it is big enough to be spotted from Earth Experts have warned the spot is large enough to produce 'M-class' solar flares These can cause stunning auroras, and wipe out communication satellites A huge spot has appeared on the sun that could send dangerous solar flares down to Earth. The sunspot, dubbed AR2665, is 74,560 miles (120,000 kilometres) wide – big enough to be seen from Earth. Experts have warned that the spot is large enough to produce 'M-class' solar flares, which can cause radio blackouts on Earth, knock out communications satellites and create radiation storms. ...
Nikola Tesla, The Genius Who Electrified The World And Dreamed Up Death Rays
Post Date: 2017-07-11 06:42:26 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... July 10 is the birthday of Nikola Tesla, who would have been 161 years old today. It's a good time to celebrate the life of the Serbian-American engineer and physicist: Without Tesla, you might not be able to affordably power your home, let alone read this sentence. Tesla filed more than 300 patents during his 86 years of life, and his inventions helped pave the way for alternating current (AC), electric motors, radios, fluorescent lights, lasers, and remote controls, among many other things. Some of his ideas later in life, however, seem strange even now. He once described plans for a death ray, for example, and alluded to another idea for an impenetrable "wall of ...
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