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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 ...
Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data
Post Date: 2017-02-06 09:17:41 by Ada
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The Mail on Sunday can reveal a landmark paper exaggerated global warming It was rushed through and timed to influence the Paris agreement on climate change America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration broke its own rules The report claimed the pause in global warming never existed, but it was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data Data Science,Climate and satellites Consultant John J Bates, who blew the whistle to the Mail on Sunday The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence ...
New Mustangs: 1,200hp - only $45,000!!
Post Date: 2017-02-05 22:04:04 by X-15
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In case you needed further proof that this decade is the golden age of muscle car performance, well, here you go: a dealership in Ohio is offering new twin-turbo Ford Mustangs capable of 1,200 horsepower for a starting price of $44,499. God bless America. Lebanon Ford of Lebanon, Ohio, even whipped up a special name for their twin-turbo 'Stang build: the LFP Hellion. (LFP stands for "Lebanon Ford Performance," in case you were wondering.) To build a Hellion, LFP takes a new Mustang GT and adds a pair of 62mm turbos, a set of Turbosmart VEE port bypass valves, and a big vertical flow dual inlet intercooler, as well as a cat-back exhaust. Add in the base price of the V-8 ...
Snakes in the Toilet? Welcome to the New Homeowner’s Nightmare
Post Date: 2017-02-04 10:04:45 by Ada
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They always say look before you leap, but what about before you go to the bathroom? Homeowners, you might want to put snake inspections at the top of your yearly maintenance checklist. You thought “Snakes on a Plane” was bad? (It was.) Wait until you encounter snakes in the drain or, worse, the commode. Last week, a family in Jones County in West Texas spotted a deadly rattlesnake emerging from one of their home’s toilets, according to the Dallas News. The father, Jason McFadden, called Big Country Snake Removal located in nearby Buffalo Gap, TX. The Washington Post reported that by the time the inspector, Nathan Hawkins, arrived on the scene, the toilet snake had already ...
Scientists have a plan to replace fossil fuels with nuclear fusion by 2030
Post Date: 2017-02-03 03:10:35 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Nuclear fusion is premised on building technology that would replicate the reaction that naturally powers our Sun - two light atoms, in this case, hydrogen, are fused together under extreme temperatures to produce another element, helium. The process would release vast amounts of clean energy drawn from an almost limitless fuel source, with nearly zero carbon emissions. However, it has yet to be done on a scale that would make it usable. Canadian scientists are hoping to change that, announcing plans to harness and develop nuclear fusion technology so they can deliver a working nuclear fusion plant prototype by 2030. What they need, however, is for the government to ...
>> Prototype eco-car unveiled for Shell Eco-Marathon in the Philippines
Post Date: 2017-02-03 03:00:33 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily... Engineering majored students carry their prototype eco-car for the Shell Eco-Marathon Philippines at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City, the Philippines, Feb. 1, 2017. Shell Eco-Marathon is a competition in which participants build special vehicles to achieve the highest possible fuel efficiency. Many student teams will compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon Philippines from February 2 to 5. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
Australian led scientists discover new bacteria that could change evolution theory
Post Date: 2017-02-03 01:42:13 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia announced on Thursday they have discovered a new bacterium that could change long thought to be certain theories on evolution. Regular convention dictates there are three domains of life; bacteria and archaea which are single cell organisms without a nucleus, and eukaroytes, which comprise of every other living creature, big and small. A particular bacterium has never fit the mould, 'Gemmata obscuriglobus' has been given the monniker of the platypus of microbiology, due to how it defies convention by having features that are inclusive of those found in eukaroytes. The discovery by the team led by ...
Scientists confirm 'lost continent' beneath Mauritius
Post Date: 2017-02-02 05:23:57 by Tatarewicz
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Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Like most islands, Mauritius is made of up of mostly young rock, formed by hardened magma. But as new research confirmed, an ancient "lost continent" is hiding beneath the fresh face of Mauritius. According to an international team of scientists, Mauritius is a continental fragment, severed from Madagascar as the the supercontinent, Gondwana, split into Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica, some 200 million years ago. Scientists realized Mauritius' continental origins while studying bits of the mineral zircon found on the island. "Earth is made up of two parts -- continents, which are old, and oceans, which are 'young'. On the continents ...
Swearing is actually a sign of more intelligence - not less - say scientists
Post Date: 2017-02-02 05:01:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The use of obscene or taboo language - or swearing, as it’s more commonly known - is often seen as a sign that the speaker lacks vocabulary, cannot express themselves in a less offensive way, or even lacks intelligence. Studies have shown, however, that swearing may in fact display a more, rather than less, intelligent use of language. While swearing can become a habit, we choose to swear in different contexts and for different purposes: for linguistic effect, to convey emotion, for laughs, or perhaps even to be deliberately nasty. Psychologists interested in when and why people swear try to look past the stereotype that swearing is the language of the unintelligent ...
Scientists have turned cooking oil into a material 200 times stronger than steel
Post Date: 2017-02-01 03:00:44 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene - a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the much-touted nanomaterial. Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties - it's 200 times stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. Under certain conditions, it can even be turned into a superconductor that carries electricity with zero resistance. That means the material has the potential to make better electronics, more effective solar cells, and could even be used in medicine. Last year, a study suggested that graphene could help mobile phone batteries last ...
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