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The top 10 most outrageous science hoaxes of 2016
Post Date: 2017-01-20 18:24:12 by Horse
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Science hoaxes were running rampant throughout 2016, pushed by the fakestream media (CNN, WashPost, NYT, etc.) alongside complicit government organizations working in collusion with dishonest corporations steeped in scientific fraud (Monsanto, Big Pharma, etc.). 2016 saw more science hoaxes than a typical year, with the media placing special emphasis on the Zika virus terror campaign (rooted in total scientific hucksterism) and more climate change propaganda (all based on fraudulently altered data). In every case, those pushing the science frauds claimed to have a divine monopoly on “science” while declaring all opposing views to be “unscientific.” In this way, much of ...
Life among the monkey hunters: The Amazon tribe that has evolved flat feet after years of catching primates to eat by climbing trees and shooting them with blowpipes
Post Date: 2017-01-20 07:41:15 by Ada
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The Huaorani tribe - there are only 4,000 of them - live a simple life in the rainforests of eastern Ecuador They live off the land, shooting blowpipes to kill monkeys, which they then skin and roast over open fires They also eat peccary pigs and toucans as well as plants and herbs which they have foraged in the forests Their lifestyle has led to their feet evolving - most have very flat feet, which help them to climb the trees In 1990 the Ecuadorean government set up the Waorani Ethnic Reserve to protect the forest they live in Photographer Pete Oxford said: 'One of my greatest joys is spending time with people unlike myself' There are no fast food restaurants or grocery ...
A new twist on fusion power could finally create limitless clean energy
Post Date: 2017-01-20 05:13:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... In a world struggling to kick its addiction to fossil fuels and feed its growing appetite for energy, there’s one technology in development that almost sounds too good to be true: nuclear fusion. If it works, fusion power offers vast amounts of clean energy with a near limitless fuel source and virtually zero carbon emissions. That’s if it works. But there are teams of researchers around the world and billions of dollars being spent on making sure it does. In February last year, a new chapter of fusion energy research commenced with the formal opening of Wendelstein 7-X. This is an experimental €1 billion (AU$1.4bn, US$1.06bn) fusion reactor built in ...
‘Global Warming is Good’ Says President Trump’s Science Guru
Post Date: 2017-01-19 12:24:24 by Ada
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If you want to know why President-elect Donald Trump is going to be so great not just for America but also for the causes of honest science, common sense, and weapons-grade trolling, look no further than his gloriously provocative recent meeting with William Happer, the Princeton physicist who argues (rightly, by the way) that ‘global warming’ is good for mankind. Professor Happer would make a great pick for a senior scientific post in the Trump administration, perhaps replacing the dismal and somewhat terrifying eugenicist John Holdren as Director of the Office of Science and Technology. First – and perhaps most importantly – it would drive the Greenies to the kind ...
Massive photovoltaic power station put into operation in Zhejiang
Post Date: 2017-01-17 07:04:10 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) China’s largest photovoltaic (PV) power station built on a fish farm officially began operation on Jan. 11, People.cn reported. Located in Cixi, Zhejiang province, the project cost 1.8 million RMB ($259,927) and covers an area of 300 hectares, with a total installed capacity of 200MW. Its average annual production capacity is expected to reach 220 million kilowatt-hours. The new mode of power generation features PV panels installed above the pond, which serve to provide shade and facilitate fish farming under the water. The power generated by the station will be connected to the state grid, yielding an annual income of 240 million RMB. In addition, ...
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Post Date: 2017-01-15 03:09:11 by Tatarewicz
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SCIENCEALERT Artificial intelligence and machine learning are everywhere in science these days, but they're also vital tools for companies that want to stay ahead of their competitors. Smarter algorithms and software can help businesses become more efficient, competitive, and faster to adapt. And that means companies are on the look-out for people who know how to work with the technology. To help you get started, we're offering the Machine Learning & AI For Business Bundle on ScienceAlert Academy for the special price of US$39. The bundle includes four courses to help you understand and learn how to program AI and machine learning software, and you can study them all online ...
IQ: A Skeptic’s View
Post Date: 2017-01-14 16:58:16 by Ada
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Intelligence is worth talking about because both the reality of intelligence and perceptions regarding intelligence set limits on the possible and influence policy. For example, if the population of India on average really is below borderline retardation, the country can never amount to anything. If Latino immigrants really are as stupid as white nationalists hope, then they will always inhabit an underclass and, through intermarriage, enstupidate the American population. IQists–those who believe that IQ is a reliable measure of intelligence–insist that intelligence is largely genetic, which it obviously is, and that IQ tests reliably measure it. The latter is doubtful. A bit ...
We now know bacteria can communicate electrically, and we should be worried
Post Date: 2017-01-14 02:59:23 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... We already have a lot to worry about when it comes to bacteria, as more and more strains becoming resistant to our dwindling arsenal of antibiotics. Last year, a woman in the US was killed by a superbug resistant to every antibiotic available. But scientists continue to discover more worrying facts about the apparently simple, single-cell organisms we call bacteria: such as the way they beam out electrical signals to recruit other species to join their communities. That's the conclusion of new research studying biofilms, the thin layer of cells and slime formed whenever bacteria glue themselves to a surface, and it can teach us more about how these microscopic ...
The world's tightest knot could yield new building materials
Post Date: 2017-01-13 05:22:41 by Tatarewicz
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MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Scientists from the University of Manchester have tied the world's tightest knot using molecular strands. The knot was made possible by a new technique for braiding molecular strands. The technique has enabled scientists to loop strands into tighter and more complex formations. Ultra-tight molecular knots could pave the way for a new class of advanced materials. The record-setting knot is a 192-atom closed loop with eight crossings; it measures 20 nanometers in length. With their breakthrough molecular tying process, scientists will be able to test how different knot formations affect strength and other physical properties. Scientists expect ...
Russian Scientists Obtain Unique Material to Make Combat Vehicles Invisible
Post Date: 2017-01-13 05:10:34 by Tatarewicz
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© Sputnik A team of researchers at Moscow's National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS) have come up with a unique metamaterial which can make combat vehicles invisible, the authoritative scientific journal Physical Review wrote. Metamaterial is a substance engineered to have a property that is not found in nature. It is capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves by blocking, absorbing, enhancing, or bending them to make things invisible. Metamaterials can be widely used in the development of new types of weapons and the design of supercomputers where conventional electrical signals will make way for photonic ones. Russian Warships to Be Modernized With Use ...
Planet Nine could be a rogue planet that got captured by our Solar System
Post Date: 2017-01-13 04:43:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists are still trying to track down the exact location of the elusive Planet Nine – the hypothesised ninth planet of our Solar System that was proposed by scientists in January last year. But while they're at it, new research has offered up an explanation for how this huge and mysterious world could have come to orbit our Sun in the first place: it was once a free-floating nomad, before it got snatched into our Solar System by the gravitational pull of the Sun. According to simulations, Planet Nine may be what's called a rogue planet – a free-roaming planetary body that's not bound to any particular star. Or at least, it was one back in the ...
President-Elect Trump Announces Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to Lend Expertise to Cyber Security Efforts
Post Date: 2017-01-12 16:44:01 by hondo68
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(New York, NY) — President-elect Trump is very pleased to announce former Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning private sector cyber security problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector. This is a rapidly evolving field both as to intrusions and solutions and it is critically important to get timely information from all sources. In addition, from time to time because of the changing nature of this problem, it is contemplated that the President-elect will be hosting a series of meetings with senior corporate executives from companies which have faced or are facing challenges similar to those ...
Age of Apple is over, says Peter Thiel
Post Date: 2017-01-12 05:53:54 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Arguably the most desired smartphone in the world, Apple’s iPhone, is losing popularity, says PayPal co-founder and first Facebook investor Peter Thiel. Read more © Siphiwe Sibeko China’s largest social network launches alternative to Apple App Store When asked if "the age of Apple is over” by The New York Times, Thiel answered: "Confirm. We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It’s not the fault of Tim Cook, but it’s not an area where there will be any more innovation." In October, Apple reported its first annual revenue decline in 15 years, as for the first time iPhone sales slumped. In the three months ending September 24, the ...
Pravda: “Scientists Now Warn Of A New Ice Age” As Temperature Plummets to – 80°F In Russia!
Post Date: 2017-01-10 12:32:07 by Ada
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Some impressive winter events have been taking place all across the northern hemisphere lately. Especially eastern and southeastern Europe have been pounded by massive snowfalls and tremendously cold temperatures. Turkey has been buried by heavy snows and extreme temperatures have gripped the entire USA and vast areas of Russia. The global warming climate appears to have been hacked by natural factors. Extreme cold and snow pound the northern hemisphere as some scientists warn of the potential for ice age conditions. Photo of Greenland by NASA (public domain) In Russia Moscow celebrated the coldest orthodox Christmas in 125 years. Snowfall paralyzed the city of Istanbul, Turkey. ...
Mysterious fast radio burst located for first time
Post Date: 2017-01-10 04:14:03 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Astronomers studying a recurring series of 'fast radio bursts' detected from space have managed to determine the origin of the mysterious pulses for the first time. The fleeting phenomena have vexed scientists since they were discovered in 2001 and the enigma became all the more puzzling when the discovery of a repeating FRBs last year upended previous theories about the bursts. The recurring pulses led to speculation that perhaps the bursts were some kind of alien signal akin to what humans may send out into space in hopes of reaching intelligent life. Fortunately the newfound predictability of these particular FRBs allowed astronomers to focus in on the phenomenon and ...
Those Sweet, Surly Bonds of Earth
Post Date: 2017-01-08 17:31:09 by Ada
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Why is it that all our heroes inevitably try to kill us? From Winston Churchill to Albert Einstein, the people we laud the most were, at one point, responsible for great harm done, and not always by their own intention. “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions,” said T.S. Eliot. Earlier this month, The New York Times Magazine ran a profile piece on someone who, I predict, will someday become another savior-cum-killer. Sara Seager is a brilliant astrophysicist at M.I.T. who is dedicated to discovering more earthlike planets in the universe. Her life’s work has been committed to finding habitable planets light-years away from our own lowly blue ...
DELINGPOLE: Green Energy is a Charter For Crooks And Liars. The Scam Must End Now
Post Date: 2017-01-08 10:53:47 by Ada
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When is the rest of the Western world going to catch up with Donald Trump and point out that the green emperor is wearing no clothes? I ask as a concerned UK taxpayer absolutely sick to death of the vast sums of money that continue to be funnelled into the pockets of crooks, liars, spivs, chancers, con-artists and fantasists in the name of solving the non- existent problem of “climate change.” Let me give you some examples of what I mean. Wales’s £18 million tidal energy flop If there’s one thing everyone who thinks of themselves as reasonable and well-informed knows, tidal power is the thing. How do they know this? Well, because they’re aware that wind ...
Intel Unveils 'Credit Card-Sized' Computer
Post Date: 2017-01-08 06:42:28 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- At CES 2017 Intel has unveiled the Intel Compute Card. It is designed to bring computer power and connectivity "to virtually any product, anywhere," and is thus a very compact but modular design. However, it does contain all the elements of a full computer within its small and slim frame. Credit card sized is an often overused term but Intel does indeed get pretty close, with its 95 x 55 x 5mm device. The Intel Compute Card contains an Intel SoC, memory, storage, and Wi-Fi / Bluetooth connectivity, with flexible I/O options available. We don't have a detailed spec list unfortunately, but users will be able to configure the card with a range of processors ...
Cleveland zoo says 32-year-old gorilla has died
Post Date: 2017-01-07 21:42:04 by Dakmar
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CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the Cleveland's zoo's two male western lowland gorillas died on Friday, zoo officials said. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo first announced the death of 32-year-old Bebac on its Facebook page. Zoo Executive Director Chris Kuhar called Bebac one of the zoo's iconic animals in an interview Saturday. Dozens of tributes along with photos of Bebac taken by zoo visitors were posted on Facebook. Bebac, pronounced BEE'-bak, and 29-year-old Mokolo, pronounced mo-KO'-lo, came to the Cleveland zoo in 1994 from Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, where they both were born. The zoo's medical staff struggled to find a treatment to make Bebac well after his ...
Chinese scientists develop fireproof, waterproof paper
Post Date: 2017-01-07 05:48:11 by Tatarewicz
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China Daily... In January 2015, a fire in one of Russia's largest university libraries damaged more than 1 million historical documents, an incident which some media described as a "cultural Chernobyl". Important documents of our age can probably avoid the same fate in the future thanks to a new fire-resistant paper developed by a team of scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhu Yingjie, a researcher from the institute, and his team developed a set of methods to produce paper with a new material, hydroxyapatite, the inorganic constituent of tooth enamel and bone. The invention was reported on ACS Applied Materials ...
NASA says mysterious object hurtling towards Earth could be an asteroid or a comet
Post Date: 2017-01-07 05:15:36 by Tatarewicz
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Mirror UK... The American space agency says that one object is a massive comet, but has so far been unable to identify the other The comet is set to fly close to Earth this week, but the mystery object isn't expected to make an appearance until February. The object, dubbed "2016 WF9", was detected by NASA's asteroid- and comet-hunting NEOWISE project on 27 November 2016. It is roughly 0.3 to 0.6 miles (0.5 to 1 kilometres) across and is in an orbit that takes it on a scenic tour of our solar system. At its farthest distance from the sun, it approaches Jupiter's orbit. Over the course of 4.9 Earth-years, it travels inward, passing under the main asteroid belt and ...
We just got the first experimental proof of a 70-year-old hypothesis of magnetism
Post Date: 2017-01-06 02:05:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Physicists have finally demonstrated the magnetic behaviour of a special class of 2D materials in the lab, delivering the first experimental proof of a widely accepted hypothesis proposed more than 70 years ago. The hypothesis, known as the Onsager solution, explains how certain types of 2D materials - materials that are just one-atom thick, such as graphene - go through magnetic phase transitions. Just like the phase transition that takes H20 from ice to liquid water, a magnetic phase transition describes how a material loses its magnetism as temperatures heat up. But despite the fact that this process was described more than 70 years ago by Nobel Prize-winning chemist ...
'The internet will shut down for 24 hours in 2017 causing financial markets to crash'
Post Date: 2017-01-05 06:36:03 by Tatarewicz
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RT... 'The internet will shut down for 24 hours in 2017 causing financial markets to crash' © Reuters Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked from the internet this year as the global network will shut down for 24 hours, US technology security vendor LogRhythm predicted in December. Read more © Kacper Pempel Mass cyber-attack cripples some of world’s biggest websites including Twitter, Spotify The company’s chief information security officer and vice president James Carder told Business Insider, it won’t just be a technical issue stopping people from uploading their selfies on Instagram. "In 2017, we’re going to see it hit ...
Chickens exhibit Machiavellian tendencies, scientists discover
Post Date: 2017-01-03 15:27:47 by Horse
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Chickens are not as ‘bird brained’ as previously thought. Scientists have found they are capable of greater logical reasoning than children, have distinct personalities, and even exhibit Machiavellian tendencies. A review of previous research by scientists in the US, published in the journal Animal Cognition, has concluded that chicken intelligence has been greatly underestimated with the farmyard bird demonstrating thinking skills that are similar to mammals and primates. They were found to be masters of deceit with males making food calls when no food was present to attract females to the area, and clucking more quietly during courtship behavior if rivals were present, so as ...
The 7 greatest scientific breakthroughs of 2016
Post Date: 2017-01-01 02:06:22 by Tatarewicz
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RT... © The SXS Project / Reuters From the discovery of an Earth-like planet to the unraveling of one of the great mysteries of physics, 2016 has been a blockbuster year for scientific breakthroughs. Gravitational waves Perhaps the biggest scientific feat of 2016 was the detection of gravitational waves in the fabric of space-time, from a pair of colliding black holes. The development added more weight to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The researchers backed up their findings by repeating the feat a few months later. The discovery was named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year and is hotly tipped to earn a Nobel Prize. READ MORE: ‘New era of astronomy’: ...
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