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The Sun and Moon are in the Wrong Place?
Post Date: 2017-05-09 02:50:43 by Horse
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ICE AGE BRITAIN: River Thames will FREEZE OVER on 'this date' – and could kill millions
Post Date: 2017-05-08 19:55:13 by Ada
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A GLOBAL cool down will “march in with vengeance” to usher in a 100-year mini-ice age that could freeze over the River Thames, climate scientists told Daily Star Online. Experts told Daily Star Online planet Earth is on course for a “Little Age Ice” within the next three years thanks to a cocktail of climate change and low solar activity. Research shows a natural cooling cycle that occurs every 230 years began in 2014 and will send temperatures plummeting even further by 2019. Scientists are also expecting a “huge reduction” in solar activity for 33 years between 2020 and 2053 that will cause thermometers to crash. Both cycles suggest Earth is entering a ...
Smart Meters Uncloaked And How To Fight Back
Post Date: 2017-05-05 16:58:21 by Horse
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The battle of AMI Smart Meters is heating up across the land. Too many utility customers are getting sick after those meters unknowingly are/were retrofitted on to their home utility meters. After researching the timeline on what happened either to them or their children’s health, customers realize it all started after AMI Smart Meters were retrofitted on to their electric, natural gas or water utility meters. The problem is the non-thermal radiation waves AMI Smart Meters emit, which causes electrosmog and an adverse health problem known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). However, I want to share with readers information which may help in dealing with, and/or removing, those ...
Here's How SpaceX Plans to Give Everyone on Earth Internet Access
Post Date: 2017-05-05 05:37:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The fact that you're able to read this article means you are one of the more than 3.77 billion people in the world that has access to the internet. While that's already a good number - more than half of the world's population, in fact - some 3 billion others don't have such access. Thankfully, a number of efforts are underway to bring the internet to the farthest corners of the globe, and one of those is being put forth by SpaceX. Back in November, Elon Musk's company filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as part of its plan to create a high-speed, global internet network. At yesterday's Senate hearing on US ...
Wi-Fi & phone signals could be used to map your home – study
Post Date: 2017-05-05 00:15:38 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Scientists are now able to create an image of objects in remote spaces using only wireless internet and phone signals, according to new research that’s likely to alarm privacy advocates. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) created hologram images of an aluminum cross by bombarding it with microwave radiation from household Wi-Fi transmitters and measuring the distortions as the waves reflected off it. The result is a microwave hologram. Writing in the journal Physical Review Letters, Friedemann Reinhard, the director of the Emmy Noether Research Group for Quantum Sensors at the Walter Schottky Institute of TUM, said: “Using this technology, we can ...
Iran inaugurates its biggest solar plant ever
Post Date: 2017-05-04 02:37:43 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN, April 27, YJC - Iran has inaugurated a major solar power plant as the country is pressing ahead with an ambitious agenda to use renewable energy resources. Iran inaugurates its biggest solar plant ever TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The plant was constructed with an annual production capacity of 10 megawatts over an area of 20 hectares near the central city of Isfahan would produce. Iran’s Ghadir Electricity and Energy Company and Greece’s Metka engineering firm cooperated over the project that took seven months to complete through an investment of around $15 million. The plant has around 39,000 solar panels each with an area of around 0.64 square meters, ...
The UK Just Switched on an Ambitious Fusion Reactor - and It Works
Post Date: 2017-05-02 08:35:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The UK's newest fusion reactor, ST40, was switched on last week, and has already managed to achieve 'first plasma' - successfully generating a scorching blob of electrically-charged gas (or plasma) within its core. The aim is for the tokamak reactor to heat plasma up to 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) by 2018 - seven times hotter than the centre of the Sun. That's the 'fusion' threshold, at which hydrogen atoms can begin to fuse into helium, unleashing limitless, clean energy in the process. "Today is an important day for fusion energy development in the UK, and the world," said David Kingham, CEO of Tokamak ...
10 Strange Facts About Pythagoras: Mathematician And Cult Leader
Post Date: 2017-05-02 08:00:54 by Ada
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Pythagoras, the man behind the Pythagorean theorem was more than just a mathematician. He was a spiritual leader with followers who thought he’d been sent from Heaven. For the Pythagoreans, math was a religious experience and some equations were divine secrets, unfit for public eyes.When your middle school teacher showed you how to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle, you probably didn’t get down on your knees and start worshiping him as a god. But when it first happened in ancient Greece, that was pretty much how people reacted.There was a whole cult behind the man who figured out how to measure the side of a triangle, and—as you might imagine—they had some pretty ...
Hyundai Motor picks CATL as 1st battery supplier in China
Post Date: 2017-05-01 06:47:37 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) SEOUL, May 1 -- Hyundai Motor, South Korea's biggest automaker, has selected Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) as its first battery supplier in China to enhance cooperation in new energy vehicles. "We selected CATL as our first Chinese battery partner as Hyundai seeks to diversify its supplier base," a Hyundai official who declined to be identified told Xinhua Monday. The official said CATL was widely recognized for its competitiveness in the automobile battery market. The Fujian Province-based company will provide batteries for Hyundai's plug-in Sonata sedans that are expected to hit the Chinese market in the first half of 2018. The Sonata ...
Elon Musk Wants to Build High-Speed, Subterranean 'Car Sleds' to Finally Beat Traffic
Post Date: 2017-05-01 01:32:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Elon Musk isn't a man who likes to be kept waiting. After hinting last year at a new venture to dig roads underground, it seems the super-billionaire visionary won't be satisfied with ordinary old tunnels. These ones will put your car on a sled and shoot it along at speed of up to 200 km/h (124 mph). Because why the hell not? In a conversation with TED's head curator, Chris Anderson, Musk explained his tunnel vision for a high-speed future. "You should be able to get from Westwood to LAX in 5 to 6 minutes," Musk said; a huge difference to the usual half-hour trip for Los Angeles commuters. This is a man who loves his tunnels – just as ...
The US Military Wants to Hack the Human Brain to Help Us Learn a Second Language Faster
Post Date: 2017-05-01 01:12:15 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It's not easy being a soldier or a spy: you have to immerse yourself in dangerous situations, assess intelligence in the field, speak foreign languages, and handle all kinds of technical equipment and weaponry. Learning how to do all of that takes a lot of training, which is why the research wing of the US Department of Defence wants to figure out ways to make its workers learn these vital skills quicker – even if they have to zap them to do it. To explore these possibilities, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just awarded more than an estimated US$50 million in funding to eight teams looking into how electrical stimulation of the nervous ...
Physicists Just Came Up With a Mathematical Model for a Viable Time Machine
Post Date: 2017-04-30 06:25:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... "Mathematically, it is possible." Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical "time machine" - a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space. The trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in the box, and that circle allows them to skip into the future and the past. "People think of time travel as something as fiction. And we tend to think it's not possible because we don't actually do it," says theoretical physicist and mathematician, Ben Tippett, from the University of British ...
Artificial intelligence to take over half of all jobs in next decade – China's top techie
Post Date: 2017-04-29 08:54:56 by Tatarewicz
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RT...New recruit "Pepper" the robot, a humanoid robot designed to welcome and take care of visitors and patients, Ostend, Belgium, 2016 © Francois Lenoir / Reuters Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will replace humans in 50 percent of all jobs in just ten years, says Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures and a reputable Chinese technologist. Commerce Bot, a robot that provides customer service with artificial intelligence technology and voice recognition is seen at SK telecom's stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 2017© Paul Hanna / Reuters AI is the “singular thing that will be larger than all of human tech ...
Physicist Pops Bermuda Triangle 'Methane Bubble' Theory
Post Date: 2017-04-29 08:13:10 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... One of the most popular prosaic explanations for the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle has been debunked. Skeptics searching for an answer to the puzzling phenomenon have long suggested that lost ships and planes fell victim to a surge of methane gas erupting from the ocean floor. However, author and bubble physicist Helen Czerski says that the 'methane bubble' theory is simply scientific hot air. According to her explanation, if a large amount of methane erupted from the ground underwater, it would quickly form into tiny bubbles rather than a ship-sinking giant mass of gas. Additionally, these tiny bubbles would push the water below ...
The race to build the world’s first sex robot The $30bn sex tech industry is about to unveil its biggest blockbuster: a $15,000 robot companion that talks, learns, and never says no
Post Date: 2017-04-28 00:21:20 by Horse
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n the brightly lit robotics workshop at Abyss Creations’ factory in San Marcos, California, a life-size humanoid was dangling from a stand, hooked between her shoulder blades. Her name was Harmony. She wore a white leotard, her chest was thrust forward and her French-manicured fingers were splayed across the tops of her slim thighs. Harmony is a prototype, a robotic version of the company’s hyper-realistic silicone sex toy, the RealDoll. The Realbotix room where she was assembled was lined with varnished pine surfaces covered with wires and circuit boards, and a 3D printer whirred in the corner, spitting out tiny, intricate parts that will be inserted beneath her PVC skull. Her ...
Spotlight: Perfectly imperfect -- experimental dialogues between China-made humanoid, world's leading AI experts
Post Date: 2017-04-27 07:50:46 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) Chen Xiaoping (R), director of a robot research and development team, and Jia Jia, an interactive robot that looks like a real Chinese young woman in traditional outfit, talk through internet with Kevin Kelly on screen, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, April 24, 2017. Jia Jia was invited as a special reporter of the Xinhua News Agency to conduct the man-machine dialogue with Kelly on Monday. Jia Jia was unveiled in 2016 by Chen's robot research and development team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. It took the team three years to research and develop this new-generation interactive ...
New Material Replicates Photosynthesis to Generate Clean Energy and Suck Up CO2
Post Date: 2017-04-27 06:19:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists have created an artificial form of photosynthesis that could reduce levels of carbon dioxide in the air, and provide solar fuel at the same time – two potential benefits to help stabilise our changing climate. The chemical reaction is triggered by blue light mimicking the blue wavelength of sunlight, and converts carbon dioxide into two reduced forms, formate and formamides, which can be used as energy sources. After the reaction is finished, what's left is cleaner air and excess energy, just like the photosynthesis process in plants that converts light energy to chemical energy. The team from the University of Central Florida has high hopes for its ...
Mind hacking: Scientists want new laws to stop our thoughts from being stolen
Post Date: 2017-04-27 05:43:29 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Researchers have called for radical new legislation protecting people’s thoughts from being stolen and maybe even deleted. Biomedical ethicists Marcello Ienca and Roberto Andorno believe that while rapid advances in neurotechnology have created opportunities in modern medicine, they also present new challenges for human privacy. Writing in the journal Life Sciences, Society and Policy, the pair have warned that brain-hacking and “hazardous use of medical neurotechnology” could threaten the integrity of our thoughts. Paralyzed man uses thoughts to move arm & hands thanks to electrode implants (VIDEO) t.co/0p3W3F84K6pic.twitter.com/1wVlFCPkiW — RT (@RT_com) ...
Asteroid Shock Waves Could Have Provided the Building Blocks for RNA
Post Date: 2017-04-24 07:30:52 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A now famous experiment conducted by chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey back in 1952 showed that even if we don't know for sure how the first living cells formed, at least some of their molecular building blocks could have been produced by simple chemical reactions under conditions on ancient Earth. Now, more than half a century later, researchers from France and the Czech Republic have used a similar experiment to expand this list of potential ingredients to include all four RNA bases, filling in some possible stepping stones on the pathway from chemical soup to the origins of life. While the results don't show how life probably formed, they do demonstrate ...
Syria designs robotic grenade-launcher
Post Date: 2017-04-23 00:16:19 by Tatarewicz
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PravdaReport... Syrian engineers designed a combat remote-controlled platform, which can be equipped with both rocket-propelled grenades and various kinds of small arms. The serial production of the latest development has already begun. Photos and videos of the new product of the Syrian defense industry have already appeared on the Internet. The use of such robots will help reduce losses of the Syrian army as military men will not have to go into the line of enemy's fire. Two grenade launchers of the new robotic machine can kill snipers or destroy terrorists' machine-gun emplacement. As an alternative weapon, photos of the new machine show a 7.62 mm PKM machine gun. The weapon is ...
Armageddon: Russian Scientists Visualize Doomsday Asteroid Rage
Post Date: 2017-04-21 07:27:38 by Tatarewicz
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Russian scientists have simulated the Earth’s collision with a one-kilometer-wide (0.6 mile) asteroid and created a model of the catastrophic consequences this could have on our planet. In a plotline taken straight from a science-fiction movie, experts from the Emergency Situations Ministry’s Scientific Research Institute, the Institute of Astronomy and the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of the Academy of Sciences of Russia have predicted that a one-kilometer-wide (0.6 mile) asteroid slamming into the Earth’s surface could wipe out a major city or cause a devastating tsunami if it lands in the sea. This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 ...
Unpaywall This New Browser Plug-in Lets You Access Millions of Scientific Papers for Free
Post Date: 2017-04-21 07:24:36 by Tatarewicz
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If you're of the mindset that knowledge should be freely accessible to as many humans as possible, paywalls for academic journals can be downright frustrating. Now a free browser extension is promising to bust through those paywalls wherever possible. Unpaywall was launched earlier this month by the open source not-for-profit Impactstory – funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation – and it's already making a splash in the traditional publishing industry. Install the plug-in on your Chrome or Firefox desktop browser, and it will start displaying a little lock symbol whenever you're on the landing page of an article in an academic ...
Type messages with your brain’: Facebook teases development of new silent speech technology
Post Date: 2017-04-21 04:38:31 by Tatarewicz
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RT.... Facebook says it is developing non-invasive technology that will allow people to transform thoughts into text through sheer mind power, sparing them the time and effort required to type words. The project has received a fairly mixed response, however. The social media giant announced its intention to create the potentially revolutionary technology at its developer conference, F8, on Wednesday. The far-reaching plans to combine the “convenience of voice” and “the privacy of text” were presented by the head of Facebook’s Building 8 hardware research division, Regina Dugan. What makes the project so exceptional is its focus on transferring data ...
The Nerve Agent Attack that Did Not Occur: Analysis of the Times and Locations of Critical Events in the Alleged Nerve Agent Attack at 7 AM on April 4, 2017 in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria
Post Date: 2017-04-20 17:06:43 by Ada
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By Theodore A. Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT. Postol’s main expertise is in ballistic missiles. He has a substantial background in air dispersal, including how toxic plumes move in the air. Postol has taught courses on weapons of mass destruction – including chemical and biological threats – at MIT. Before joining MIT, Postol worked as an analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment, as a science and policy adviser to the chief of naval operations, and as a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory. He also helped build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study weapons technology in ...
Guangdong police release nation’s first ID authentication app
Post Date: 2017-04-20 07:04:26 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) Guangdong citizens no longer need to worry about proving their identities, even if they don't happen to have their ID cards on them. On April 19, Guangzhou police unveiled an identity authentication app that enables citizens to prove their identities via their mobile phones. To date, the city has authorized 20 offices to help citizens register for the service. Once they register, they can use facial recognition technology, available via the app, to prove their identities whenever and wherever necessary. Developed by police in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, the app provides highly accurate results while at the same time protecting against personal ...
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