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Latest Articles: Science/Tech
This New Recipe For Cheap Hydrogen Fuel Uses Light And a Few Simple Ingredients
Post Date: 2017-09-05 08:08:04 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... Perhaps among all clean energy alternatives, nothing can be as clean as hydrogen. Burning hydrogen in fuel cells produces only water as a byproduct. In that sense, it's also truly renewable. Yet, manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells on a larger scale hasn't been that easy, primarily because fuel cells require rather complex and, until recently, expensive materials. A team of researchers working at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, together with scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), have discovered an alternative way of producing hydrogen as fuel. The key is to produce hydrogen from water using a combination of sunlight and ...
Global race for AI will ‘most likely cause’ WWIII as computers launch 1st strike – Musk
Post Date: 2017-09-05 08:04:26 by Ada
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Competition for superiority in Artificial Intelligence at national level will “most likely” cause World War Three, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has said, warning that an AI may deem first use its best chance of winning. “China, Russia, soon all countries with strong computer science. Competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3,” Musk tweeted. Click for Full Text!
9/11/Irma Possible Cat 5/Double Impacts 7 Days Apart!
Post Date: 2017-09-04 17:56:17 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Florida might get hit by Hurricane Irma on 9/11. A second hurricane could hit them 7 days later on 9-18.
Trump Appoints Conservative Ex-Navy Flier to Run NASA; Liberal Heads Explode
Post Date: 2017-09-04 13:20:45 by farmfriend
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The next head of NASA is likely to be an ex-Navy fighter pilot turned Republican congressman who believes strongly in space exploration but is skeptical about man-made climate change. What’s not to like about Trump’s nomination of Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Oklahoma) for the job of NASA’s administrator? Everything, if you’re a liberal. According to New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi, Trump just blew the perfect chance to change his “presidency from the chaotic mess of threats, bitterness and bilious paranoia to one of rationality and reasonableness.” Apparently, the job should have gone to a fully-fledged climate alarmist. Click for Full Text!
Putin: Leader in artificial intelligence will rule world
Post Date: 2017-09-04 09:15:58 by Tatarewicz
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HoustonChronicle... MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world. Putin, speaking Friday at a meeting with students, said the development of AI raises "colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict now." He warned that "the one who becomes the leader in this sphere will be the ruler of the world." Putin warned that "it would be strongly undesirable if someone wins a monopolist position" and promised that Russia would be ready to share its know-how in artificial intelligence with other nations. The Russian leader predicted ...
Hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars to be produced in Zhangjiakou to serve 2022 Winter Olympics
Post Date: 2017-09-03 06:23:04 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily Online)... Hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars will be produced in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei province, to serve the 2022 Winter Olympics to be jointly hosted by the city with Beijing, as an automatic production line of hydrogen fuel cell engines recently went operation, Beijing Daily reported on Sept. 1. The production base established with an investment of 1 billion RMB ($152 million) by Beijing SinoHytec Co., Ltd is projected to manufacture 10,000 vehicles a year after construction of all production lines is completed in 2018. The hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, with a maximum range of 500 kilometers, can be started at even 30 degrees Celsius below zero, and can be stored at ...
How to Kill Fruit Flies, According to a Scientist
Post Date: 2017-09-02 07:52:22 by Tatarewicz
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Sci-alert... As a researcher who works on fruit flies, I often get asked how to get them out of someone's kitchen. This happens to fly researchers often enough that we sit around fly conferences (these actually exist) and complain about getting asked this question. Meanwhile, we watch the same fruit flies buzz around our beers instead of discussing pithy and insightful questions about the research that we're pursuing. But I get it: Fruit flies are annoying. So, fine, here's how we get rid of them in my lab: We build a trap. It's not perfect, but it's OK. 1. Take a small jar (we use small canning jars) and pour in cider vinegar to about two centimetres deep. 2. ...
Pentagon wants to search 80% of world’s IP addresses for viruses – DARPA docs
Post Date: 2017-09-02 07:24:36 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The US Department of Defense wants to identify and neutralize cyber viruses by deploying software bugs on computers worldwide, according to a proposal for potential contractors put out by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The goal of DARPA’s new program is to identify and neutralize botnets and other large-scale malware through generating and installing “autonomous software agents” that would go after an adversary’s viruses, the agency posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website. DARPA, which is part of the Pentagon, wants proposers to be able to look at 80% of the global IP-address space in order to “fingerprint” networks ...
An Easy Math Trick Nobody Will Show You
Post Date: 2017-08-31 04:50:26 by Horse
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Poster Comment:amazing.
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 ...
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