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Scientists Fear Grid Failures During Solar Minimum
Post Date: 2017-07-10 11:25:59 by Horse
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As our sun’s activity slows and the star gets quieter, scientists’ fears of solar minimum are coming to the forefront. It isn’t the lack of activity that is terrifying those who study the sun, it’s what happens next that worries them all. There would be nothing any of us could do if the sun’s activity decreases to the point that it causes the outermost atmospheric layer to collapse. No amount of taxation in the name of “global warming” will save anyone on earth from this outcome. But first, scientists have to worry about the sun reaching “solar minimum” and the possibility of losing the outermost layer of the atmosphere thanks to the rapid ...
China's first unmanned lifeguard speedboat unveiled in Hefei
Post Date: 2017-07-10 05:35:02 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily... In China, lifeguards might soon join a growing list of professionals who will be replaced by robots or at least working with them in their jobs. The Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced recently that it has launched the country's first unmanned speedboat designed to save people from drowning. The craft made its debut in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, to monitor swimmers and tourists at the Swan Lake, where drownings often occur, said the IIM. The speedboat is equipped with cameras, GPS and infrared sensors to detect "moving targets" in the water, said Yu Yangdao, who led the unmanned ...
WikiLeaks Exposes CIA Targeting Linux Users With OutlawCountry Network Traffic Re-Routing Tool
Post Date: 2017-07-07 06:53:47 by Tatarewicz
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Another day, another government spying exploit rises to the surface courtesy of Wikileaks, this time originating from the CIA. This WikiLeaks data dump specifically lets us know of a CIA-engineered spying tool called OutlawCountry (no space), which, interestingly enough, explicitly targets Linux users. You know, those digital freedom loving passionate penguin peeps that appreciate having great control over their computer? But don't worry, the CIA has targeted Windows users en masse in the past as well; absolutely no one has proven safe and they obviously don't discriminate. OutlawCountry starts out as a Linux kernel module (nf_table_6_64.ko) that gets loaded into the system and ...
July 4, 2017 : Coldest July Temperature Ever Recorded In The Northern Hemisphere
Post Date: 2017-07-06 08:02:11 by Ada
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Greenland just set the record for coldest July temperature ever reported in the Northern Hemisphere at -33C. Click for Full Text!
This Battery-Free Cellphone Works by Harvesting Power From Ambient Radio Signals
Post Date: 2017-07-06 06:07:12 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-Alert... If there's a bottleneck in today's smartphones and mobile devices generally, it's battery life – or, rather, the lack of it – but a new innovation from researchers in the US could mean an end to constantly staring at that sad-looking little red battery icon. Scientists have developed a working battery-free cellphone that harvests all the power it needs to function from ambient radio signals and light, and which is capable of making voice calls using off-the-shelf components available from most electronics stores. "We've built what we believe is the first functioning cellphone that consumes almost zero power," says one of the researchers, ...
Reviving the Woolly Mammoth
Post Date: 2017-07-05 07:54:28 by Tatarewicz
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C2C-AM...Monday - July 3, 2017 Host George Noory In the first half, author Ben Mezrich discussed his latest work about the advances in technology that could possibly revive the woolly mammoth from extinction using ancient DNA. The mammoth, which was similar to an elephant, but somewhat larger, went extinct around 3,000 years ago, hunted and eaten by humans. However, well preserved bodies have been found in ice that DNA can be gleaned from. The geneticist George Church plans to sequence the animal's genome, synthesize it, and then place those genes into the embryo of an Asian elephant, Mezrich explained. It's possible to grow the mammoth in a synthetic see-through womb, he added. ...
Why 2,000 Year-Old Roman Concrete Is So Much Better Than What We Produce Today
Post Date: 2017-07-05 07:14:16 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-Alert... One of the fascinating mysteries of Ancient Rome is the impressive longevity of some of their concrete harbour structures. Battered by sea waves for 2,000 years, these things are still around while our modern concoctions erode over mere decades. Now scientists have uncovered the incredible chemistry behind this phenomenon, getting closer to unlocking its long-lost recipe. As it turns out, not only is Roman concrete more durable than what we can make today, but it actually gets stronger over time. Researchers led by geologist Marie Jackson from the University of Utah have been chipping away at the mysteries of Roman concrete for years, and now they have mapped its crystalline ...
Bones make hormones that communicate with the brain and other organs
Post Date: 2017-07-05 02:55:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceNews... Long typecast as the strong silent type, bones are speaking up. In addition to providing structural support, the skeleton is a versatile conversationalist. Bones make hormones that chat with other organs and tissues, including the brain, kidneys and pancreas, experiments in mice have shown. “The bone, which was considered a dead organ, has really become a gland almost,” says Beate Lanske, a bone and mineral researcher at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. “There’s so much going on between bone and brain and all the other organs, it has become one of the most prominent tissues being studied at the moment.” At least four bone hormones moonlight as ...
Human Emotions Really Are Affected by Gut Bacteria, New Study Suggests
Post Date: 2017-07-04 06:25:59 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-Alert... The more we find out about the bacteria that live in our gut, the more we're coming to realise how these microbiota could have an impact on every facet of our lives – and not just our physical health and well-being, but our thoughts and emotions too. A new study has identified associations between two kinds of gut microbiota and how they affect people's emotional responses, and the researchers say it's the first evidence of behavioural differences related to microbial composition in healthy humans. Up until now, most research looking into how gut organisms influence emotions has been conducted on animals, with scientists finding that the bacterial composition ...
NASA to build asteroid-smashing probe to divert Didymos space rock (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2017-07-03 07:30:49 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A spacecraft tipped to one day deflect potentially life-threatening asteroids from crashing into Earth has entered its first design phase, according to NASA. TrendsViral Part of a collaborative concept between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a probe that, when built, is expected to divert the trajectory of space rocks hurtling toward Earth. READ MORE: Threat of asteroid collision higher than previously thought – study With the idea given the green light for design, experts at the US space agency are now gearing up to prepare the craft for a outer space test in 2022. “DART would be NASA’s first mission to ...
The Sun Is 'Sneezing' Solar Storms Towards Earth
Post Date: 2017-07-01 06:36:13 by Tatarewicz
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Right now, the Sun is stirring up violent eruptions capable of wiping out the technology we are so dependent on, and new research has found that these blasts are even harder to predict than scientists first thought. The findings reveal that these coronal mass ejections hurl into Earth's atmosphere like a sneeze rather than a stream of bubble-like structures. The cloud-like eruptions are also strongly influenced by the solar wind, forcing researchers to reconstruct their space weather forecasting. "Up until now, it has been assumed coronal mass ejections move like bubbles through space, and respond to forces as single objects," said Mathew Owens, lead author from the ...
President Donald Trump's uncle Professor John Trump
Post Date: 2017-06-30 23:56:15 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Donald Trump's uncle was called in by the FBI to examine the works and notes of Nikola Tesla after the inventor died.
The sun is set to 'change form' as NASA says solar minimum is on the way
Post Date: 2017-06-30 08:50:48 by Ada
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Sunspots are heading toward a low point expected in 2019-2020, NASA says Solar minimum means certain types of activity, such as sunspots and flares, drop But, it could cause coronal holes and enhance the effects of space weather The sun is heading into a period known as solar minimum, during which activity at the surface will ‘change form.’ In this time, certain types of activity, such as sunspots and solar flares will drop – but, it’s also expected to bring the development of long-lived phenomena including coronal holes. According to NASA, solar minimum could also enhance the effects of space weather, potentially disrupting communications and navigation systems, ...
GIGO and the Intelligence of Countries: Disordered Thoughts
Post Date: 2017-06-28 12:02:00 by Ada
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Apologies to the reader. Perhaps I wax tedious. But the question of intelligence is both interesting to me and great fun as talking about it puts commenters in an uproar. It is like poking a wasp’s nest when you are eleven. I am a bad person. Clearing the underbrush: Obviously intelligence is largely genetic–if it were cultural in origin, all the little boys who grew up in Isaac Newton’s neighborhood would have been towering mathematical geniuses–and obviously the various tests of intellectual function have, at least among testees of similar background, considerable relation to intelligence. Some individuals have more of it than others. For example, Hillary, a National ...
Flying car? MIT’s new drone can fly, drive & communicate with other drones on its own
Post Date: 2017-06-27 07:09:07 by Tatarewicz
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RT... A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a drone prototype that can autonomously shift from flying to driving. The innovation comes with high hopes for the long-awaited flying cars of the future. By adding a driving platform to the bottom of a quadcopter drone, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) announced on Monday they have developed a prototype that can autonomously switch between flying over obstacles to driving through tight spaces that normal drones could not get through. “The ability to both fly and drive is useful in environments with a lot of barriers, since you can fly ...
Anonymous Says NASA Is About to Announce Evidence of Alien Life
Post Date: 2017-06-26 06:35:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert.. Hacker network Anonymous has made headlines today, this time claiming that NASA is on the verge of announcing evidence of alien life. It's a pretty bold statement, but before you get too excited, we've checked the science, and let's be clear right up front that Anonymous doesn't appear to have any substantial new evidence to back up their speculation. In fact, their latest video announcement centres around the Kepler Space Telescope's latest discovery of 219 new planet candidates outside our Solar System, as well as comments made by Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen at a US government hearing back in ...
Has 'Planet 10' Been Detected?
Post Date: 2017-06-25 01:48:50 by Tatarewicz
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Astronomers observing the mysterious Kuiper Belt deep in space believe they may have detected signs of heretofore undiscovered large planet in our solar system. In a newly-published paper, the researchers say that they've spotted strange perturbations in the orbits of some space rocks lingering in the mass of icy debris and other materials which make up the Kuiper Belt. By working through calculations involving the tilt of these objects and other astronomical factors, they concluded that "something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured." If this sounds familiar, that is because a similar discovery was made back in January of 2016, when ...
Here's How to Backup Life on Earth Ahead of Any Doomsday Event
Post Date: 2017-06-21 06:41:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... There are ten asteroids that the space organisation NASA said last month have been classified as "potentially hazardous" based on their size and their orbits in our Solar system. NASA has now identified 693 near-Earth objects thanks to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft that's been looking for potential threats to Earth since 2013. The organisation doesn't specify what kind of hazard these ten asteroids pose. But Earth has been hit by objects in the past, with devastating effects. Scientists largely agree that it was an asteroid or comet impact that started the chain of events that wiped out the dinosaurs around 60 million years ago. ...
Turning Urine Into Electricity Can Also Kill Pathogens in Wastewater
Post Date: 2017-06-20 07:04:11 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Fuel cells with microorganisms that feed on pee and generate electricity already sound like a pretty clever trick. It's one of the emerging biotechnology solutions in a world that's moving away from fossil fuels. But now scientists have taken it a significant step further, showing that not only can you power mobile phones and light globes with urine, but you can also kill pathogens in the wastewater as you do so. This development makes the technology even more attractive for use in the developing world. A research team from the University of the West of England (UWE) in the UK has already demonstrated that it's possible to rig a urinal with cheap pee-powered ...
New Documents From Wikileaks Expose How The CIA Exploits Wireless Devices
Post Date: 2017-06-19 08:26:38 by Ada
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In the latest ongoing WikiLeaks whistle-blowing scandal, the website has published documents from the CIA’s CherryBlossom project, exposing agency’s exploitation of Wi-Fi device security vulnerabilities. Released on Thursday, the new batch of CIA classified documents comes from the Vault 7 project. In a press release, WikiLeaks said: “Today, June 15th, 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CherryBlossom project of the CIA that was developed and implemented with the help of the US nonprofit Stanford Research Institute (SRI International).” CherryBlossom monitors the Internet activity of, and performs software exploits on, targets of interest. According to the ...
Liquified gas electrolytes power new lower-temperature battery
Post Date: 2017-06-19 03:28:13 by Tatarewicz
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"Better batteries are needed to make electric cars with improved performance-to-cost ratios," said researcher Shirley Meng. June 16 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed new electrolytes capable of powering batteries at temperatures as low as negative 80 degrees Celsius. The technology could help make lithium ion batteries safer and more efficient, as well as boost the range of electric vehicles during cold winter months. The new batteries could also power vehicles and instruments operating in extreme cold, like space rovers, satellites and high-alitiude weather baloons. The electrolytes are composed of liquefied gas solvents. Many gases ...
This Machine Could Print Synthetic Life Forms on Demand, And Our Minds Are Reeling
Post Date: 2017-06-17 06:11:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Back in 2016, biologist Craig Venter achieved something extraordinary. He built a new species of bacteria from scratch in the lab - the simplest genetic life form known to science, made entirely through chemical synthesis of a custom-made genome. Now, he's unveiled a new machine that could print these synthetic life forms on demand - simply feed in a genome design, and let the 'ink' form the building blocks of life. The invention could see us colonise Mars with synthetic life without ever setting foot on the Red Planet, and Venter and Elon Musk have teamed up to make this happen. Called 'biological teleportation', the technique could allow scientists to ...
This New 'Solar Paint' Could Transform Your Entire House Into a Clean Source of Energy
Post Date: 2017-06-16 06:53:34 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Powering homes using clean energy is becoming easier thanks to a growing number of innovative technologies and initiatives. Some government programs help homeowners with the financial burden of equipping their residences with energy-generating solar panels, and Elon Musk's Tesla has developed roofing tiles that double as solar panels to give solar power generation an aesthetic boost. Now, a new innovation out of Australia is poised to make clean energy even more appealing. A team of researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has developed a paint that can be used to generate clean energy. The paint combines the titanium oxide already used in ...
Security Update for Windows XP SP3 (KB4012598)
Post Date: 2017-06-16 01:51:30 by Tatarewicz
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Office 365 unlocks the potential of your device, and brings out the best in you. Get Office 365 Security Update for Windows XP SP3 (KB4012598) Select Language: Download Close A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. Details Version: 4012598 File Name: WindowsXP-KB4012598-x86-Custom-ENU.exe Date Published: 5/15/2017 File Size: 666 KB KB Articles: KB4012598 Security bulletins:MS17-010 A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, ...
Russia Has Developed a Cyber Weapon That Can Disrupt Power Grids, New Research Finds
Post Date: 2017-06-15 04:22:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Very real and very dangerous. Hackers allied with the Russian government have devised a cyber weapon that has the potential to be the most disruptive yet against electric systems that Americans depend on for daily life, according to US researchers. The malware, which researchers have dubbed CrashOverride, is known to have disrupted only one energy system - in Ukraine in December. In that incident, the hackers briefly shut down one-fifth of the electric power generated in Kiev. But with modifications, it could be deployed against US electric transmission and distribution systems to devastating effect, said Sergio Caltagirone, director of threat intelligence for Dragos, a ...
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