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Battery-powered revolution: Tesla storage plant to power 15K Californian homes
Post Date: 2017-01-31 05:14:40 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Small batteries make big difference for Californians as Tesla storage plant goes live providing power for 15k homes. The pilot project is aimed at curbing power outages and replacing fossil-fueled grids. Tesla’s 80 megawatt storage station at Mira Loma substation uses 400 of the company’s new Powerpack 2 lithium-ion batteries, and works by sucking up the power generated by renewables such as wind and solar energy during the day and feeding it back into the system on demand when the sun sets. “It’s sort of hard to comprehend sometimes the speed all this is going at,” said J B Strubel, Tesla’s Chief Technology Officer, according to Bloomberg. “Our ...
Produced when meat, eggs and dairy are digested, TMAO may trigger plaque buildup in vessels, researchers explain
Post Date: 2017-01-30 22:47:50 by Tatarewicz
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A molecule produced in the digestion of red meat, eggs and dairy products is linked to an increased risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke, researchers say. Patients with high blood levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) were six times more likely within the next month to die, suffer a heart attack or stroke, or require surgery to reopen a blocked artery, according to the study. TMAO also predicted long-term health risks, researchers said. People with the highest blood levels of TMAO were nearly twice as likely to die within seven years. "A high TMAO level predicted who went on to experience a major cardiovascular event," said ...
Earth’s magnetic poles are set to swap places - and we're totally unprepared
Post Date: 2017-01-30 05:32:00 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Earth’s magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field - protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away. Far from being constant, this field is continuously changing. Indeed, our planet’s history includes at least several hundred global magnetic reversals, where north and south magnetic poles swap places. So when’s the next one happening and how will it affect life on Earth? During a reversal the magnetic field won’t be zero, but will assume a weaker and more complex form. It may fall to 10 percent of the present-day strength and have magnetic poles at the equator or even the simultaneous existence ...
Key to restoring great tomato flavor discovered
Post Date: 2017-01-28 00:22:23 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Modern tomatoes lack sufficient sugars and volatile chemicals critical to better flavor. Those traits have been lost during the past 50 years because breeders have not had the tools to routinely screen for flavor, he said. What's wrong with the supermarket tomato? Consumers say they lack flavor, so a University of Florida researcher led a global team on a mission to identify the important factors that have been lost and put them back into modern tomatoes. In a study published today in the journal Science, Harry Klee, a professor of horticultural sciences with UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, identifies the chemical combinations for better tomato ...
NASA 'cuts live feed from international space station' after mysterious object appears on camera
Post Date: 2017-01-27 02:19:08 by Tatarewicz
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Independent. A self-styled alien hunter believes he has spotted a UFO during a live feed from the International Space Station. John Craddick, from Wolverhampton in the UK, claims he has never seen anything like it before. He told the Mirror: "I've been watching it [the live feed] for years but never seen any UFOs on it before. "I was showing a friend how it worked at around 11.30pm when the feed cut out, and 35 seconds after it came back on, this object appeared. "At first it was really small and then it grew bigger, lasting for about 25 seconds," he said. Mr Craddick claims that it must be alien because "nothing human can fly that high" Below shows ...
Animals are way smarter than we give them credit for
Post Date: 2017-01-27 01:42:52 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert..What is the smartest species in the world? You might think it's humans by a long shot, but the reality is a lot more complicated. Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University, has a new book out called Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? and in it he gives hundreds of examples of surprising intelligence from non-human species, including many instances where other animals appear to be smarter than we are. Chimpanzees, for instance, can easily beat humans at recalling a set of numbers that was displayed for a fraction of a second. Octopuses can learn to open pill bottles protected by childproof caps, which many humans can't figure out on their ...
Animal Farm: Scientists create first pig-human hybrid (PHOTO)
Post Date: 2017-01-26 20:09:57 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Scientists have created the first human-pig hybrid in a groundbreaking study that marks the first step in growing human organs inside animals. Named chimera, after the cross-species beast in Greek mythology, the pig-human embryos were created in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California and are the first hybrid made using two large, distantly-related species. “The ultimate goal is to grow functional and transplantable tissue or organs, but we are far away from that,” Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who led the project, said. “This is an important first step.” First peer-reviewed account published of creating pig–human hybrid fetuses; ...
Lethal dose of caffeine given to students in university experiment
Post Date: 2017-01-26 01:22:26 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Lethal dose of caffeine given to students in university experiment The men were given the equivalent of 300 cups of coffee. © Bruno Kelly / Reuters A UK university which put two students’ lives in danger by giving them a lethal amount of caffeine has been fined £400,000. The students, who were participating in a scientific experiment, consumed the equivalent of 300 cups of coffee. An ill-placed decimal point on a mobile phone being used to calculate the caffeine dosage led to the sports science students at Northumbria University being given 30g of caffeine instead of 0.3g. Death can occur at 18g, the court was told. The students, both in their twenties, were taking ...
China showers ¥1.15b on rainmaking project for parched northwest
Post Date: 2017-01-25 20:27:51 by Tatarewicz
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SCMP... China’s top economic planning agency has approved a 1.15 billion yuan (HK$1.3 billion) rainmaking project for the country’s dry northwestern provinces in one of the biggest government programmes to modify weather. According to the National Development and Reform Commission, a feasibility study by the China Meteorological Administration found that rainfall and snow could be increased in an area of 960,000 sq km, 10 per cent of the country’s territory, if the proposed investments were made. The NDRC approved the budget to buy four new planes, upgrade eight existing aircraft, develop 897 rocket launch devices and connect 1,856 devices to digital control systems. The ...
Google is giving $20m to the first team to land a spacecraft on the Moon in 2017
Post Date: 2017-01-25 06:36:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Google's nearly decade-long quest to get private space explorers to land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon is finally coming down to the wire – the five remaining teams have until the end of 2017 to meet the epic challenge. The Lunar XPRIZE competition, first announced back in 2007, may amount to the most ambitious 'contest' Earth has ever seen – not to mention the Moon – and now the race is on, as the remaining entrants scramble for the chance to make space history. Google announced the five finalists this week, dashing the hopes of 11 other teams from around the world that are now out of the running for the top US$20 million prize. While that ...
When the self-driving car revolution comes, how will you spend your free time in your vehicle?
Post Date: 2017-01-23 04:56:23 by Tatarewicz
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Treehugger... Some experts foresee millions of self-driving cars on the roads within the next five years, which could free up some drive time for other activities. Automation, whether it's in the home, the factory, or vehicles, is gearing up to be one of the most significant aspects of the near future, and could bring about radical change across a number of different facets of modern life. Factory automation promises to increase efficiencies and production, although at a cost of reducing jobs in certain sectors, and automation at home promises to not only make homes more convenient, but to also increase energy efficiency and add a layer of control, although at the risk of opening up ...
Heat from Earth's Core Could Be Underlying Force in Plate Tectonics
Post Date: 2017-01-23 02:26:24 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- For decades, scientists have theorized that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates is driven largely by negative buoyancy created as they cool. New research, however, shows plate dynamics are driven significantly by the additional force of heat drawn from the Earth's core. The new findings also challenge the theory that underwater mountain ranges known as mid-ocean ridges are passive boundaries between moving plates. The findings show the East Pacific Rise, the Earth's dominant mid-ocean ridge, is dynamic as heat is transferred. David B. Rowley, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, and fellow researchers came to the conclusions by ...
Samsung says faulty battery causes Galaxy Note 7 to catch fire
Post Date: 2017-01-23 02:10:37 by Tatarewicz
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Samsung Electronics said Monday that faulty battery caused its flagship Galaxy Note 7 to catch fire after discontinuing the fire-prone device more than three months ago. In a special press conference in its headquarters in Seoul, Samsung said the mix of thin battery design and other manufacturing issues caused the Note 7s to explode or set on fire, which led to property damages and injuries. The findings are based on two investigations by U.S.-based firms UL and Exponent, which examined batteries and one supply-chain analysis by a German company TUV Rheinland. The first group of the devices carried batteries with thin separators between the positive and negative layers that raise a ...
Segway's 'mobility robot platform' to begin mass production
Post Date: 2017-01-22 05:27:40 by Tatarewicz
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Loomo, the first consumer robot produced by Segway, is on display during a press conference held in January 19, 2017 in Beijing. [Liu Zheng/chinadaily.com.cn] A China-made mobile robot is set to begin mass production for consumers later this year. Ninebot (Beijing) Tech Co Ltd, backed by Smartphone maker Xiaomi, unveiled its self-balancing two-wheeled robot on Thursday in Beijing. Named "Loomo", the robot was transformed from the Ninebot Mini series scooter, which was first launched in October 2015, months after the company made an announcement to acquire the 12-year-old US-based balancing-scooter pioneer Segway Inc, and became one of the largest patent holders in the ...
A discovery about the movement of tectonic plates will have scientists rewriting textbooks
Post Date: 2017-01-21 18:18:41 by Horse
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The East Pacific Rise: Tectonic plates are driven by an additional force of heat drawn from Earth’s core. NOAA Plate tectonics is the widely accepted theory that the Earth's crust is divided into several sections that float around on the mantle — the mostly solid layer between the core and the crust. But how they move around has been a subject of much debate among scientists since the theory was first accepted in the 1950s. The sections, known as plates, move at a rate of about 2 to 5 centimeters per year, which is a similar speed to how fast your fingernails grow. When they grind past each other, it's called a transform plate boundary, which can cause earthquakes. When ...
Scientists say it's time we discussed creating humans from stem cells
Post Date: 2017-01-21 08:13:52 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A paper landed in my inbox this week with a startling premise: soon, stem cells swabbed from human beings’ cheeks or skin could be cultured to create germ cells (sperm and eggs), and from there to create a human being. The process, known as in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), has never been completed with cells from people. And, in fact, human and primate studies have been met with limited success. But there have been real, live mice (and more mouse embryos that were not allowed to develop) created through this process. Every indication is that human beings will soon follow. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, three researchers ...
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, ...
Special offer: Get smarter in 2017 with the Machine Learning & AI for Business Bundle
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 ...
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