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Russia Already Knows Man-Made Climate Change Is a Hoax. Now It's Time For the West to Wake Up
Post Date: 2017-02-27 01:48:39 by Tatarewicz
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RI... It's becoming more and more difficult to hide the fact that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax based on sloppy science. Earlier this month, a former top scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) blew the whistle on a key (and fraudulent) climate report issued just before the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in 2015: Dr. John Bates, led NOAA’s climate-data records program for ten years and reveals stunning allegations in a lengthy Daily Mail exposé posted February 4. His main charge is that the federal government’s top agency in charge of climate science published a flawed but widely accepted study that was meant ...
The end of whacking the ketchup bottle is nigh! Scientists sign first deal to bring revolutionary non-stick coating to supermarket shelves
Post Date: 2017-02-25 05:20:39 by Tatarewicz
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The non-toxic lubricant is called Liquiglide and it was developed at MIT It creates a so-called 'liquid-impregnated surface' so ketchup slides over it These multi-layer surfaces can also be customised for other applications For example, they can be added to bottles of glue, detergent and more LiquiGlide has signed a deal with Elmers Brand Glue and Adhesives Mayonnaise brand, and a toothpaste firm are also said to have signed up The lubricant can be used on both plastic and glass containers The days of gooey toothpaste tubes, bottles of stubborn ketchup and sticky glue pots are numbered. After unveiling its super slippery LiquiGlide coating last year, a team of Massachusetts-based ...
Israeli malware can hack isolated computers by forcing their LED indicators to blink
Post Date: 2017-02-23 02:50:04 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Israeli researchers have found a way to attack isolated computers by taking control of their LED indicators, which are forced to blink up to 6,000 times a second to send a signal containing data to a camera mounted on a drone near the targeted computer. Read more © Kai Pfaffenbach Germany creates cybersecurity squads, allocates funds for new spy satellite The technique specifically targets so-called “air-gapped” computers, which are cut off from the Internet and company networks, making them the most challenging targets for hackers. Consequently, they typically carry the most sensitive information. The LED control method, which makes it possible to steal data from ...
Rogue Cosmic Rays From Outer Space Are Causing Havoc With Our Smartphones
Post Date: 2017-02-22 07:37:36 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Under Earth's protective magnetic field, we don't usually need to worry too much about the health effects of cosmic radiation – although it's something that's known to impact astronauts in space, and even passengers travelling in airplanes. But the same can't be said for our technological systems – fierce solar storms can wreak havoc on Earth's communication networks, and new research shows that even ordinary levels of cosmic radiation can have a disruptive effect on our personal devices. "This is a really big problem, but it is mostly invisible to the public," says electrical engineer Bharat Bhuva from Vanderbilt University. ...
Nasa planetary scientists want to promote Pluto to the status of a planet again
Post Date: 2017-02-22 00:53:12 by Horse
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Planetary Scientists, including those working on the New Horizons mission by Nasa to explore Pluto want to redefine the definition of a planet. The current definition by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has stopped considering Pluto as a planet, and recognises that the solar system has eight planets. Pluto, and other objects like it in the outer solar system, have been designated a class of their own, known as dwarf-planets. The IAU definition is not enforceable by international law, and as such is a scientific convention. There are a number of shortcomings with the definition, as pointed out by researchers who specialise in studying planets, as against astronomers who study ...
Science and Status
Post Date: 2017-02-21 07:23:27 by Ada
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Tom Wolfe highlights the shabby treatment of two underappreciated intellectuals. Charles Darwin. Photo: Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin Tom Wolfe wrote a book ostensibly about science that reads as one on snobbery. The Kingdom of Speech offers not one but two haughty villains in Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky. Alfred Russel Wallace and Dan Everett, unheralded but quite accomplished, play the humble heroes. In 1858, Darwin received a manuscript from Wallace detailing the latter’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin maintained that the same idea had occurred to him more than two decades earlier. Wallace, a man who dropped out of school at 14 and sold exotic fly specimens ...
2 scientists forfeit US citizenship, become first foreign CAS academicians
Post Date: 2017-02-21 06:07:47 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily Online Chen-Ning Yang and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao have officially become academicians with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, after giving up their U.S. citizenship, according to the academy. Yang and Yao are the first two foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who applied to become official academicians. In accordance with procedural rules, Yang joined the Division of Mathematics and Physics, while Yao became a member of the Division of Information Technical Sciences. Yang received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Tsung-dao Lee for their work on parity non-conservation of weak interaction. Yang also proposed the Yang-Mills Theory and created the ...
This Battery Runs on Nothing but Dissolved CO2 and Air
Post Date: 2017-02-18 07:15:15 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... In our rapidly warming world, finding a cheap way to pull greenhouse gases from the atmosphere while satisfying our energy needs could be the key to our continued survival on Earth in the centuries to come. And new research has brought us one step closer by developing a rechargeable battery that runs on solutions of carbon dioxide and air. In the past, researchers have used greenhouse gas emissions to create an energy source by converting CO2 directly into a fuel such as ethanol, skipping the need for plants to do the dirty work. A different kind of proposal was made last year by a team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which suggested pumping emissions into ...
Earth Has a New Continent Called 'Zealandia', Study Reveals
Post Date: 2017-02-16 03:13:43 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Kids are frequently taught that seven continents exist: Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Geologists, who look at the rocks (and tend to ignore the humans), group Europe and Asia into its own supercontinent - Eurasia - making for a total of six geologic continents. But according to a new study of Earth's crust, there's a seventh geologic continent called 'Zealandia', and it has been hiding under our figurative noses for millennia. The 11 researchers behind the study argue that New Zealand and New Caledonia aren't merely an island chain. Instead, they're both part of a single, 4.9-million-square ...
China-made unmanned aerial passenger vehicle to be put into service in Dubai
Post Date: 2017-02-15 06:37:08 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) Unmanned aerial passenger vehicle Ehang-184 will begin operation in Dubai this summer, Dubai Transportation Administration of the United Arab Emirates declared on Feb. 13. In July, the city will become the first in the world to allow the operation of such vehicles. As the first vehicle of its kind, the Ehang-184 is designed to provide short-distance daily transportation. The vehicle's name alludes to its capacity: one passenger, eight propellers and four protracted engine arms. Mata Tayer, direct general of Dubai's transportation administration, noted that Dubai has conducted numerous test flights, and that unmanned transport is an integral tool in ...
Massive Amounts of Melting Carbon Have Been Found Under the Western US
Post Date: 2017-02-15 04:34:27 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists have used the world's largest array of seismic sensors to map what lies deep beneath Earth's surface, and have discovered an unidentified reservoir of melting carbon under the United States, covering an area of 1.8 million square km (695,000 square miles). The find, which is located roughly 350 km (217 miles) beneath the Western US, challenges what researchers have assumed about how much carbon is trapped inside the planet. Turns out, there's far more than anyone had predicted. The reservoir is far too deep for the researchers to physically get to, but a team from the University of Royal Holloway London used a vast network of 583 seismic sensors ...
Russian company plans space tourist service
Post Date: 2017-02-15 03:59:18 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A Russian company will conduct the first test flight for its tourist spacecraft in 2019-2020 with much cheaper tickets than previous services, an executive said Tuesday. The production of the reusable suborbital capsule will start in 2018, Pavel Pushkin, CEO of CosmoCourse company, was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying. The spacecraft is expected to be launched from either Russian Kapustin Yar cosmodrome or from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, said Pushkin. After three-day training and medical examination, space tourists will be offered with a 15-minute flight to an altitude of 180-220 km in a travel group of six tourists and one coach. Each person will ...
DNA editing likely to be approved in the future - report
Post Date: 2017-02-14 23:48:34 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Families with histories of genetic diseases, like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and some cancers, could find relief in the future after a leading US Science panel sanctioned human genome editing, with oversight. “Clinical trials for genome editing – adding, removing, or replacing DNA base pairs in gametes or early embryos – could be permitted in the future, but only for serious conditions under stringent oversight,” The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said in a report issued on Tuesday. The endorsement comes as new approaches are revolutionizing scientific research by enabling scientists to make changes to DNA. Using Meganucleases, ...
Microsoft calls for ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ to guard civilians against cyber attacks
Post Date: 2017-02-14 23:29:11 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Microsoft President Brad Smith says tech companies should remain neutral during international conflicts and has called for a 'Digital Geneva Convention' to establish rules for cyber attacks aimed at civilians. Smith was speaking at the RSA conference in San Francisco, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity events with 45,000 security professionals attending every year, according to RSA, an encryption and security network company. In his speech, Smith noted the growth of cybercrime for financial gain, as well as the proliferation of state-sponsored cyber attacks. He said a ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ would “commit governments to protecting civilians from ...
The Globalization of Environmental Degradation
Post Date: 2017-02-14 12:03:36 by Ada
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Figuratively speaking, a ginormous asteroid is hurtling to a cataclysmic rendezvous with earth, but we are not supposed to notice. The asteroid is the rising threat from environmental degradation. Evidence is accumulating that environmental degradation is becoming global. We can either act responsibly by accepting the challenge or take refuge in denial and risk the consequences. There is nothing new about climate change. It has been ongoing for as long as earth has had an atmosphere. Through change nature produced an atmosphere supportive of life. We know for a fact that human activities can have adverse impacts on the air, water, and land resources. If these impacts become global, as ...
Mish Michaels isn’t alone: Many meteorologists question climate change science
Post Date: 2017-02-14 08:19:22 by Ada
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Colleagues raised concerns about meteorologist Mish Michaels’s views on vaccines and climate change. They observe changes in the atmosphere like astronomers study the stars, analyzing everything from air pressure to water vapor and poring over computer models to arrive at a forecast. But for all their scrutiny of weather data, many meteorologists part ways with their colleagues — climate scientists who study longer atmospheric trends — in one crucial respect: whether human activity is causing climate change. Meteorologists are more skeptical than climate scientists, and that division was underscored by the recent departure of Mish Michaels from WGBH News. Michaels, a ...
Ford CEO reveals a major fear about self-driving cars
Post Date: 2017-02-13 01:47:54 by Tatarewicz
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BI... Ford is moving full speed ahead with its self-driving cars. The company aims to have its fully autonomous cars on the road in a commercial setting, such as a ride-sharing program, by 2021. Ford, though, isn't the only company trying to bring self-driving cars to market during the next five years. There's a number of automakers and tech companies developing autonomous vehicles working within the same timeline, if not sooner. While there's certainly growing pressure for these companies to be first to market, it's important for automakers and tech companies not to push these vehicles out too soon, Ford CEO Mark Fields said during a recent visit to Business ...
Could a £400bn plan to refreeze the Arctic before the ice melts really work?
Post Date: 2017-02-12 04:29:45 by Tatarewicz
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The Observer Temperatures are now so high at the north pole that scientists are contemplating radical schemes to avoid catastrophe Physicist Steven Desch has come up with a novel solution to the problems that now beset the Arctic. He and a team of colleagues from Arizona State University want to replenish the region’s shrinking sea ice – by building 10 million wind-powered pumps over the Arctic ice cap. In winter, these would be used to pump water to the surface of the ice where it would freeze, thickening the cap. The pumps could add an extra metre of sea ice to the Arctic’s current layer, Desch argues. The current cap rarely exceeds 2-3 metres in thickness and is being ...
NASA Surprise! LIGO Can Also Make Gravitational Waves
Post Date: 2017-02-11 06:49:56 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It's been almost a year now since the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the greatest scientific discovery of 2016. Though the first gravitational waves were actually detected in September 2015, it was only after additional detections were made in June 2016 that LIGO scientists finally confirmed that the elusive waves exist, solidifying Albert Einstein's major prediction in his theory of relativity. Now, the most sensitive detector of spacetime ripples in the world turns out to also be the best producer of gravitational waves. "When we optimise LIGO for detection, we also optimise it for emission [of gravitational ...
This new material can turn sunlight, heat, and movement into electricity - all at once
Post Date: 2017-02-10 05:13:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists have discovered that a certain type of mineral has the right properties to extract energy from multiple sources at the same time - turning solar, heat, and kinetic energy into electricity. The mineral is a type of perovskite - a family of minerals with a specific crystal structure - and this is the first time researchers have identified one that can convert energy from all three sources at room temperature. Since the first perovskite solar cell was invented back in 2009, these minerals have been positioned as the 'next big thing' in renewable energy technology. Perovskite solar cells have proven to be cheaper and more efficient than traditional silicon ...
New evidence could finally explain the Amazon's mysterious 'Stonehenge'
Post Date: 2017-02-09 06:15:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... More than 450 huge earthworks have been discovered in western Brazil, revealing the last vestiges of land use by ancient societies, before the dense foliage of the Amazon rainforest concealed them centuries ago. While nobody knows exactly what these mysterious sites were used for, the landmarks are evidence that indigenous societies habitually cleared and altered the Amazon landscape for hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas. "The fact that these sites lay hidden for centuries beneath mature rainforest really challenges the idea that Amazonian forests are 'pristine ecosystems'," says archaeologist Jennifer Watling from the ...
Physicists make the case that our brains' learning is controlled by entropy
Post Date: 2017-02-08 21:17:51 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The way our brains learn new information has puzzled scientists for decades - we come across so much new information daily, how do our brains store what's important, and forget the rest more efficiently than any computer we've built? It turns out that this could be controlled by the same laws that govern the formation of the stars and the evolution of the Universe, because a team of physicists has shown that, at the neuronal level, the learning process could ultimately be limited by the laws of thermodynamics. "The greatest significance of our work is that we bring the second law of thermodynamics to the analysis of neural networks," lead researcher ...
30 things being 3D printed right now
Post Date: 2017-02-08 12:21:21 by Horse
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here are 30 things to start the discussion off. 1. RAF Tornado fighter jet parts Early this year, BAE Systems said that British fighter jets had flown with the first time with components made using 3D printing technology. Its engineers are making parts for four squadrons of Tornado GR4 aircraft, with the aim of saving £1.2m of maintenance and service costs over the next four years. "You are suddenly not fixed in terms of where you have to manufacture these things," said BAE's Mike Murray. "You can manufacture the products at whatever base you want, providing you can get a machine there." 2. Arms for children Time's article from earlier this month on the ...
Scientists have found a crazy new way to print on paper using light
Post Date: 2017-02-07 00:27:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert.. A new method for printing on paper using light promises to be much cheaper, and easier on the environment than the traditional ink-based printing we're used to. Scientists have developed a special nanoparticle coating that's easy to apply to normal paper and changes colour when ultraviolet (UV) light shines on it. The colour change can be reversed when the coating is heated to 120 degrees Celsius (248 degrees Fahrenheit), and allows for up to 80 rewrites. The team of researchers from the US and China say that their new high-resolution light printing technique could be used everywhere from newspapers to labels, saving on the cost of ink and paper, and on the ...
Hundreds of ancient earthworks resembling Stonehenge found in Amazon rainforest
Post Date: 2017-02-06 17:16:51 by Ada
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Hundreds of ancient earthworks resembling those at Stonehenge were built in the Amazon rainforest, scientists have discovered after flying drones over the area. The findings prove for the first time that prehistoric settlers in Brazil cleared large wooded areas to create huge enclosures meaning that the 'pristine' rainforest celebrated by ecologists is actually relatively new. The ditched enclosures, in Acre state in the western Brazilian Amazon, have been concealed for centuries by trees, but modern deforestation has allowed 450 to emerge from the undergrowth. They were discovered after scientists from the UK and Brazil flew drones over last year. The earthworks, known by ...
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