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Here Are the Ages You Peak at Everything Throughout Life
Post Date: 2017-03-19 06:16:06 by Tatarewicz
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Business Insider/ScienceAlert Ageing can seem like a scary prospect, but a wealth of scientific studies have found that youth isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are plenty of cases in which human beings peak well into middle and old age. Teenagers, for instance, may have vitality on their side, but older people are generally more psychologically stable. And so it goes with several phenomena people experience as they age. Age you peak at everything Many of the points mark the middle of an age range that scientists have identified, which means they are all determined by averages. Some are also surveys, not controlled trials, so there is a possibility the self-reports ...
Climate trend colder, not warmer
Post Date: 2017-03-18 02:26:30 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Retired professor of climatology and now Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, Dr. Tim Ball, contends that climate data has been manipulated, and climate issues have focused on faulty computer modeling rather than empirical data. In a scientific debate that's become politicized, those who believe climate change/global warming is the result of man-made causes such as increased C02, accuse Ball of being a "climate change denier." But when people find out the extent to which they've been deliberately deceived on these issues, such as when data has been fabricated or altered, "then, the credibility of science is going to go out the window," ...
Ancient ‘Atlantis’ Alloy Recovered From 2,600yo Shipwreck
Post Date: 2017-03-17 08:22:52 by Ada
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An alloy, which according to Greek legend was mined on the ancient mythical island of Atlantis, has been discovered on a shipwreck which sank off the coast of Sicily 2,600 years ago. Some 47 ingots of ‘orichalcum’ have so far been recovered from the ancient underwater find. Described as brass-like and made through the reaction of zinc ore, charcoal, and copper, the alloy has never before been discovered in such quantity. Uncovered back in 2015, the ingots’ composition was revealed only after analysis using X-ray fluorescence, reported Seeker. Two Corinthian helmets, believed to have been part of the ship’s defense against pirates, were also discovered at the ...
Let the 10th Doctor Teach You Einstein's General Relativity in 3 Minutes
Post Date: 2017-03-17 05:31:47 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... On 14 March 2017, the world celebrated what would have been Albert Einstein's 138th birthday. But while all of us know and love the revolutionary physicist by name, how many of us actually understand his work well enough to explain it over the dinner table? If the thought of that makes you break out in a cold sweat, don't worry, because David Tennant, Doctor Who's 10th Doctor, is here to explain it for you in his delightful Scottish accent, and the whole thing suddenly makes so much more sense. After all, who better than someone who played a time lord to break down the complexities of space-time and general relativity (you know, all that wibbly wobbly time-y ...
Why String Theory Could Be the Key to Uncovering the 'Theory of Everything'
Post Date: 2017-03-13 04:57:49 by Tatarewicz
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Science alert... A central goal that modern physicists share is finding a single theory that can explain the entire Universe and unite the forces of nature. The standard model, for example, leaves dark matter, dark energy, and even gravity out of the picture - meaning that it really only accounts for a very small percentage of what makes up the Universe. String theory stitches Einstein's conception of the general theory of relativity together with quantum mechanics, and the result is quantum theory applied to gravity. This application allows us to break down the Universe beyond the subatomic particle level into vibrating strings whose interactions and vibrations make up the Universe. ...
Hawking Suggests Unsettling Safeguard Against AI
Post Date: 2017-03-13 01:30:31 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Once again warning about the dangers associated with artificial intelligence, Stephen Hawking offered a solution that may have some people siding with the robots. In an interview discussing yet another award bestowed upon the renowned theoretical physicist and pop culture icon, Hawking expressed concern about humanity's headlong embrace of technology. However, Hawking's answer to the problem presents a veritable Sophie's Choice for anyone trying to avoid a dystopian future: a one world government. Lest one think that Hawking hadn't considered the downside of such an idea, he did conceded that it turn tyrannous. Unfortunately, he did not extrapolate on the concept ...
Growing Potatoes on Mars Could Actually Work, Says NASA-Backed Experiment
Post Date: 2017-03-10 04:49:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... In the 2015 blockbuster movie The Martian, a fictional botanist-turned-astronaut gets stranded on Mars, forcing him to "science the shit" out of his dire situation. Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) survives by fertilising Martian soil with his faeces, slicing up potatoes, and planting the cuttings in the soil. This eventually grows him enough food to last hundreds of days. Growing potatoes and other food on Mars is not just a sci-fi curiosity. Now, a NASA-backed "Potatoes on Mars" experiment is showing that Watney's fictional feat might actually be possible. NASA has eyed a crewed mission to the red planet for decades - and Congress even passed a ...
What the CIA thinks of your anti-virus program
Post Date: 2017-03-09 08:22:25 by Ada
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PARIS (AP) — Peppering the 8,000 pages of purported Central Intelligence Agency hacking data released Tuesday by WikiLeaks are reviews of some of the world's most popular anti-virus products. The hackers are quoted taking potshots at anti-virus firms, suggesting the American intelligence agencies are keenly aware of flaws in the products meant to be keeping us all safe online. The data published by WikiLeaks isn't systematic enough to draw firm conclusions about the reliability of one product or another and the uncertain dating means the CIA's critiques provide more of a snapshot than an overview. Still, the posts show America's top cyberspies aren't always ...
HyperLoop One reveals sneak peak of ‘train of the future’ test (PHOTOS)
Post Date: 2017-03-08 00:18:07 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Journalists and guests look over tubes following a propulsion open-air test at Hyperloop One in North Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. May 11, 2016. © Steve Marcus / Reuters The first images of the Hyperloop One test track were shown off during the Middle East Rail conference, demonstrating progress on the high-speed transport system that promises to be faster than air travel. Hyperloop One CEO Rob Lloyd unveiled never-before-seen images of the ‘DevLoop’ development site, in Las Vegas, during the 11th annual Middle East Rail conference in Dubai on Tuesday. The images show an aerial view of the construction of the world’s first full-system Hyperloop test site, with a test ...
Americans are having less sex than they once did
Post Date: 2017-03-07 20:41:27 by Ada
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It used to be that along with certain tax benefits, one advantage to being married was having more sex than singletons. That benefit is steadily diminishing, according to a study released Tuesday. Overall, American adults are having less sex than they did a quarter century ago, with married people showing the most dramatic decline of all. The paper, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, showed a drop across gender, race, region, education level and work status. One factor is the higher percentage now of unpartnered people, who tend to have less sex than partnered ones. But a major driver is a steady fall in the rate of sexual activity for people who are married or living ...
Shock finding: P-T mass extinction was due to an ice age, and not to warming
Post Date: 2017-03-07 07:47:22 by Ada
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The cold exterminated all of them Through age determinations that are using the radioactive decay of uranium, scientists have discovered that one of the greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not to a warming of Earth temperature Permian-Triassic boundary in shallow marine sediments, characterised by a significant sedimentation gap between the black shales of Permian and dolomites of Triassic age. This gap documents a globally recognized regression phase, probably linked to a period of a cold climate and glaciation. CREDIT © H. Bucher, Zürich The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the ...
New Record-High Temperatures in Antarctica Are Giving Us Serious Anxiety
Post Date: 2017-03-03 05:23:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... We've been hearing a lot about how Antarctica is in seriously dire straights right now, with a massive rift in the Larsen ice shelf gaining 10 km (6.2 miles) in 2017 alone, and a vast, 2-km-wide (1.2-mile) crater signalling that our planet's southernmost landmass isn't as stable as we once thought. Now, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has verified new "record-high temperatures" for Antarctica, and they're more than a little unsettling - in recent history, the coldest continent on Earth has hit a positively balmy 19.8°C (67.6°F), and 17.5°C (63.5°F). "The temperatures we announced today are the absolute limit to ...
China Focus: Riding an asteroid: China's next space goal
Post Date: 2017-03-03 02:38:51 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- After sending a probe to Mars in 2020, China plans to explore three asteroids and land on one of them to conduct scientific research, according to a Chinese asteroid research expert. The "China's Space Activities in 2016" white paper, issued by the Information Office of the State Council recently, also mentioned asteroid exploration in outlining the major tasks of the country's space industry in the next five years. Ji Jianghui, a researcher at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the expert committee for scientific goal argumentation of deep space exploration in China, took part in expert ...
A Forgotten War Tech Could Could Safely Power Earth for Millions of Years
Post Date: 2017-03-02 07:01:32 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The lifeblood of modern civilisation is affordable, free-flowing energy. It gives us the power to heat our homes. Grow and refrigerate food. Purify water. Manufacture products. Perform organ transplants. Drive a car. Go to work. Or procrastinate from work by reading a story about the future of energy. Today's cheap, bountiful supplies make it hard to see humanity's looming energy crisis, but it's possibly coming within our lifetimes. Our numbers will grow from 7.36 billion people today to 9 billion in 2040, an increase of 22 percent. Rapidly developing nations, however, will supercharge global energy consumption at more than twice that rate. Fossil fuels could ...
Russian engineers unveil drone-like 'hoverbike'
Post Date: 2017-03-02 05:10:46 by Tatarewicz
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March 1 (UPI) -- A team of Russian engineers have unveiled the latest model of their "hoverbike," an airborne vehicle inspired by quadcopter drone technology. The Hoversurf team posted a video to YouTube showing the Scorpion 3 hoverbike, which bears a stronger resemblance to a giant recreational drone than it does to a bicycle. The team said the hoverbike could have applications in extreme sports as well as transportation. They said there are plans to use the Scorpion platform to build flying cars, taxis and cargo transport vehicles. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more news from UPI.com Related UPI Stories British inventor builds homemade hover bike Swedish ...
Climate Hustle 2016 full documentary, Christopher Rogers
Post Date: 2017-02-27 17:58:09 by Horse
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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 ...
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