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Shockingly Powerful Lightning on Earth | Space News
Post Date: 2016-12-31 17:57:13 by Horse
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Scientists Discover New Mechanism of How Brain Networks Form
Post Date: 2016-12-30 05:53:07 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Scientists have discovered that networks of inhibitory brain cells or neurons develop through a mechanism opposite to the one followed by excitatory networks. Excitatory neurons sculpt and refine maps of the external world throughout development and experience, while inhibitory neurons form maps that become broader with maturation. This discovery adds a new piece to the puzzle of how the brain organizes and processes information. Knowing how the normal brain works is an important step toward understanding the nature of neurological conditions and opens the possibility of finding treatments in the future. The results appear in Nature Neuroscience. "The brain represents ...
‘Not the Russians’: John McAfee talks hacking allegations, cybersecurity with Larry King (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2016-12-30 02:45:02 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Following the release of an FBI report outlining Russia’s alleged role in hacking the 2016 election, Larry King sat down to talk with tech pioneer John McAfee to discuss the current state of cybersecurity. McAfee is no stranger to cybersecurity. As the developer of the first commercial antivirus program, he has been a major player in the industry for the past 50 years. He is also the CEO of MGT Capital Investments, and an outspoken former presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. Based on all of his experience, McAfee does not believe that Russians were behind the hacks on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John Podesta’s emails, and the Hillary Clinton ...
White paper sets out China's vision as a space power
Post Date: 2016-12-28 00:41:31 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily Online... China aims to become a space power, according to a white paper on the nation's space activities issued on Tuesday. The white paper, titled "China's Space Activities in 2016," was the fourth white paper on the country's space activities issued by the State Council Information Office, following the previous three in 2000, 2006 and 2011. "The white paper sets out our vision of China as a space power, independently researching, innovating, discovering and training specialist personnel," said Wu Yanhua, deputy chief of the China National Space Administration at a press conference. China's space industry took off 60 years ago and ...
Chinese company to test world's first single-passenger drone in US
Post Date: 2016-12-28 00:31:51 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) The world’s first passenger drone, the Ehang 184, capable of autonomously carrying a person in the air for 23 minutes has received necessary approval from Nevada's governor's office needed to develop and be tested at the state's Federal Aviation Administration-approved drone test site. The Chinese firm Ehang, which unveiled the electric Ehang-184 single passenger drone at CES in Las Vegas in January, says the Ehang 184 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) is a 142-horsepower “personal flying vehicle” that can transport a single human being from Point A to Point B at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet. The southern China's ...
6 more mysterious radio signals have been detected coming from outside our galaxy
Post Date: 2016-12-27 05:57:25 by Tatarewicz
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Science Alert... Back in March, scientists detected 10 powerful bursts of radio signals coming from the same location in space. And now researchers have just picked up six more of the signals seemingly emanating from the same region, far beyond our Milky Way. These fast radio bursts (FRB) are some of the most elusive and explosive signals ever detected from space - they only last milliseconds, but in that short period of time, they generate as much energy as the Sun in an entire day. But despite how powerful they are, scientists still aren't sure what causes them. Until the detection of the 10 repeating signals back in March, it was thought that the bursts were only ever one-off ...
British scientists make major atomic discovery
Post Date: 2016-12-26 23:15:15 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily Online LONDON, Dec. 26 -- Scientists at the University of Manchester, where the atom was first split a century ago, announced another atomic discovery on Monday, which they claimed would have a global impact. "There are still surprising gaps in our knowledge about how actinide elements form chemical bonds with other elements. One of the big questions is the extent to which electrons are shared between the elements, known as covalency," said a spokesman with the university. Researchers at Manchester used a technique known as pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) to measure how key elements form those chemical bonds. Because the extent of covalency has ...
France installs world's first solar road
Post Date: 2016-12-24 08:42:25 by Tatarewicz
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Automobiles drive on a solar panel road during its inauguration in Tourouvre-au-Perche Village, north France, Dec. 22, 2016. France installed the world's first solar road in Normandy in north France, which aims to provide power to the local streetlights and encourage renewable energy use needed to combat climate change. (Xinhua/Zhang Xuefei)
Physicists have mimicked an elusive 'synthetic' magnetic state
Post Date: 2016-12-22 06:50:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have managed to mimic one of physics' most sought-after phenomena - a strange 'synthetic' magnetic state that has previously only been seen in hard-to-study solid materials. This means the team can finally use an experimental model to test the behaviour, known as spin-orbit coupling, which could play a big role in developing the future of ultra-fast 'spintronic' devices and quantum computers. The team was able to model this synthetic magnetic state using an atomic clock, which are usually used to keep more precise time thanks to lasers isolating the atoms and using their electrons to keep a beat. In this case, the jumping of confined atoms ...
China claims to have a working version of NASA's impossible engine orbiting the Earth
Post Date: 2016-12-21 06:30:41 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists in China claim they’ve created a working prototype of the ‘impossible’ reactionless engine – and they say they’re already testing it in orbit aboard the Tiangong-2 space laboratory. The radical, fuel-free EmDrive recently stirred up controversy after a paper published by a team of NASA researchers appeared to show they’d successfully built the technology. If the physics-defying concept is brought to reality, it’s said the engine could get humans to Mars in just 10 weeks. But now, scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology claim NASA’s results ‘re-confirm’ what they’d already achieved, and have plans to ...
Google believes the secret to longevity may lie in naked mole rats
Post Date: 2016-12-16 05:19:08 by Tatarewicz
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RT... For centuries, the mystery of aging has plagued mankind, but not naked mole rats. Calico Labs has received $1.5 billion from Google to find out what humans can learn from the strange little rodents. Ponce de Leon’s search for the Fountain of Youth in the 1500s may be mythical, but Google is entirely serious about its new research funding. Calico Labs, short for the California Life Company, is home to a large number of the naked mole rats, valued for their 30-year-long lifespans, which dwarf those of similar animals like mice that typically live for less than two years. The difference between a mouse’s lifespan and a naked mole rat’s is so stark that Calico Labs has ...
Multi-material 3D printer squirts out homemade electronic circuits
Post Date: 2016-12-15 16:09:23 by Horse
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As 3D printers shrink in size and price and make their way into more homes, they're starting to bring more of the higher-end functions, like the ability to print objects with multiple materials, down to the consumer level. German startup Next Dynamics has now unveiled the NexD1, a multi-color, multi-material 3D printer for the home that can use a conductive resin to create custom electronic circuit boards. The conductive resin allows the NexD1 to print circuit boards that are as conductive as regular... The NexD1 can be controlled through a 10-inch touchscreen, or connected to Wi-Fi to give remote... The NexD1 can print in a variety of materials, including tough and flexible ...
Test subjects move robotic arm with only their minds
Post Date: 2016-12-15 05:34:07 by Tatarewicz
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"Three years ago, we weren’t sure moving a more complex robotic arm to grasp and move objects using this brain-computer interface technology could even be achieved," researcher Bin He said. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- In recent experiments, study participants used brain-computer interface technology to manipulate a robotic arm using only their minds. "This is the first time in the world that people can operate a robotic arm to reach and grasp objects in a complex 3D environment using only their thoughts without a brain implant," lead researcher Bin He, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, said in a news release. "Just by ...
China launches first project for primordial gravitational wave detection in northern hemisphere
Post Date: 2016-12-15 05:05:40 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) The China Institute of High-Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the official launch of Project Ngari on Dec. 13. The project team plans to build the Ngari 1 telescope and begin scientific observation within five years. Once constructed, it will be the first observatory for primordial gravitational wave detection in the northern hemisphere. In fact, since the existence of gravitational waves was first predicted by Albert Einstein, no trace was captured in scientific research until Feb. 11, 2016, when the LIGO experimental group and U.S. National Science Foundation jointly declared that they had detected a gravitational wave produced ...
The Pointless and Dangerous War on “Hate”
Post Date: 2016-12-14 07:56:36 by Ada
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If one’s reality derived entirely from the mainstream mass media, one would conclude since Trump arrived on the political scene America is awash in the modern-day plagues of Biblical proportions :the hatreds of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and, no doubt, a few others to be named later. Further add how mere disagreement over policy is now classified as “hate,” as in opposition to same sex marriages is “hate.” Leaving aside the questionable accuracy of these sky-is-falling accusations, should we be worried? Are we to listen to the alarmists who draw parallels with pre-Hitler Germany and today’s allegedly hate-filled ...
Earth is totally unprepared for a surprise asteroid strike, NASA scientists warn
Post Date: 2016-12-14 06:51:58 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... NASA is certainly not in the business of spreading panic over asteroid strikes - every time one comes close, we see yet another press release telling us that all known 'potentially hazardous asteroids' have less than a 0.01 percent chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years. But with NASA detecting around five new asteroids every night, there are a whole lot out there still to be discovered, and if one happens to catch us by surprise, the only option we’ll have is to prepare for the worst. "The biggest problem, basically, is there’s not a hell of a lot we can do about it at the moment," Joseph Nuth from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
Diet drinks DON'T help you lose weight: Study finds they contain a chemical that BOOSTS appetite
Post Date: 2016-12-13 15:50:12 by Horse
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Calorie-free drink increase someone's hunger and desire to eat, a study found Adults given artificial sweeteners should have lost weight by avoiding sugar But new research found they made up the difference in calories during lunch The study looked at aspartame, found in many celebrity-backed health drinks Calorie-free drinks like Diet Coke and Sprite Zero increase someone¿s hunger and desire to eat, according to scientists Calorie-free drinks like Diet Coke and Sprite Zero increase someone's hunger and desire to eat, according to scientists Diet drinks do not help people lose weight, a study has found, because they eat more to compensate. Calorie-free drinks like Diet Coke ...
Pioneering Nanotechnology Captures Energy from People
Post Date: 2016-12-11 06:53:52 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Engineering researchers created a new way to harvest energy from human motion, using a film-like device that actually can be folded to create more power. The day of charging cellphones with finger swipes and powering Bluetooth headsets simply by walking is now much closer. Michigan State University engineering researchers have created a new way to harvest energy from human motion, using a film-like device that actually can be folded to create more power. With the low-cost device, known as a nanogenerator, the scientists successfully operated an LCD touch screen, a bank of 20 LED lights and a flexible keyboard, all with a simple touching or pressing motion and without the ...
Western Digital Announces High-Capacity 12TB, 14TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives
Post Date: 2016-12-11 06:44:44 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Western Digital was the first company to bring helium-filled hard drives to market, and the company is doubling down on its technology with the introduction of two new drives, with a 12TB drive shipping now and a 14TB coming in the near future. Hard drives may not demand the enthusiast attention they once did, thanks to the vastly improved performance of SSDs. But they still offer much more storage at a lower cost per gigabyte than your typical solid state drive. The 12GB HGST Ultrastar He12 (HGST is a subsidiary of Western Digital) is an eight-platter drive that packs 864Gbits/sq. inch and spins at 7200 RPM. It’s available in both SATA and SAS, with a maximum burst ...
Vladimir Putin reveals surprising trillion pound TELEPORTATION plans
Post Date: 2016-12-11 05:27:31 by Tatarewicz
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Daily Star...RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin told politicians in Moscow about his technological schemes for the future and touched on the subject of time traveling. The clip – filmed by Ruptly TV – shows Putin address a number of issues including national and international problem areas. But suddenly a man called Dmitri Peskov – director of a union called the Young Professionals – asks: "British newspaper The Telegraph claimed that your team would be able to create teleportation by the year 2035 for two trillion dollars and that it will pose a threat to the national security of all Western countries." In response Putin simply smiled and uttered: "The ...
Monkeys should be able to speak if human brain in control: study
Post Date: 2016-12-11 01:37:25 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Monkeys have the vocal tracts to produce human speech sounds, but what they lack is a speech-ready brain, a new study has found. The study, conducted by researchers from the U.S. and Europe and published this week in the U.S. journal Science Advances, used X-ray video to see within the mouth and throat of macaque monkeys induced to vocalize, eat food, or make facial expressions. The scientists then used these data to build a computer model of a monkey vocal tract, allowing them to answer the question "what would monkey speech sound like, if a human brain were in control?" The results showed that monkeys could easily produce many different ...
Another fatal Tesla crash reportedly on Autopilot emerges, Model S hits a streetsweeper truck – caught on dashcam
Post Date: 2016-12-05 17:38:56 by Artisan
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New reports are coming out of China today claiming that the first fatality in a Tesla Model S on Autopilot was not the widely-covered crash in Florida in May 2016 that resulted in the death of Joshua Brown, but actually an accident in China in January 2016. The accident was under investigation for the first half of the year, but the family of the victim reportedly sued ‘Tesla China’ back in July and now details of the crash are coming to light in the Chinese media. A video of the accident was captured by the dashcam of the Tesla Model S driver, a 23-year man borrowing his dad’s car according to a report (Chinese). He was driving on the highway reportedly in the Hong Kong ...
It took thousands of years, but we finally have a digital sundial
Post Date: 2016-12-05 06:37:34 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... From around 1500 BCE, right up to the 14th century, many of our ancestors figured out the time using a sundial - you know, those triangular devices that cast a shadow on a dial below, revealing what hour it was. They might not be as accurate as the clocks we have today, but sundials still work based on the simple premise of the Sun's predictable shift in position as our planet spins. And now a French engineer has finally brought the device into the digital age, creating a 3D-printed sundial that displays the time in '80s-style digital-style numbers. Okay, so it's not technically digital. But as Earth spins on its axis and the position of the Sun shifts in our ...
Apple reportedly to fly drones to beat Google Maps
Post Date: 2016-12-04 02:44:57 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Apple is reportedly planning to use drones and new indoor navigation features to improve is maps app, aiming to compete with longtime leader Google, Bloomberg News quoted sources familiar with the matter as saying. The tech giant has been assembling a team of experts in robots and data-collection who will use drones to quickly capture and update map information, a major upgrade to its existing fleet of camera-and-sensor ladened minivans, one of the sources told Bloomberg News. The drones will allow Apple to examine and monitor roads, street signs and construction areas. The data collected would be send to the Apple teams that rapidly update Apple Maps to ...
My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic
Post Date: 2016-12-03 20:38:47 by Ada
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My research was attacked by thought police in journalism, activist groups funded by billionaires and even the White House. Much to my surprise, I showed up in the WikiLeaks releases before the election. In a 2014 email, a staffer at the Center for American Progress, founded by John Podesta in 2003, took credit for a campaign to have me eliminated as a writer for Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website. In the email, the editor of the think tank’s climate blog bragged to one of its billionaire donors, Tom Steyer: “I think it’s fair [to] say that, without Climate Progress, Pielke would still be writing on climate change for 538.” WikiLeaks provides a window into a ...
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