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Russian Scientists Obtain Unique Material to Make Combat Vehicles Invisible
Post Date: 2017-01-13 05:10:34 by Tatarewicz
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© Sputnik A team of researchers at Moscow's National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS) have come up with a unique metamaterial which can make combat vehicles invisible, the authoritative scientific journal Physical Review wrote. Metamaterial is a substance engineered to have a property that is not found in nature. It is capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves by blocking, absorbing, enhancing, or bending them to make things invisible. Metamaterials can be widely used in the development of new types of weapons and the design of supercomputers where conventional electrical signals will make way for photonic ones. Russian Warships to Be Modernized With Use ...
Planet Nine could be a rogue planet that got captured by our Solar System
Post Date: 2017-01-13 04:43:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Scientists are still trying to track down the exact location of the elusive Planet Nine – the hypothesised ninth planet of our Solar System that was proposed by scientists in January last year. But while they're at it, new research has offered up an explanation for how this huge and mysterious world could have come to orbit our Sun in the first place: it was once a free-floating nomad, before it got snatched into our Solar System by the gravitational pull of the Sun. According to simulations, Planet Nine may be what's called a rogue planet – a free-roaming planetary body that's not bound to any particular star. Or at least, it was one back in the ...
President-Elect Trump Announces Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to Lend Expertise to Cyber Security Efforts
Post Date: 2017-01-12 16:44:01 by hondo68
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(New York, NY) — President-elect Trump is very pleased to announce former Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning private sector cyber security problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector. This is a rapidly evolving field both as to intrusions and solutions and it is critically important to get timely information from all sources. In addition, from time to time because of the changing nature of this problem, it is contemplated that the President-elect will be hosting a series of meetings with senior corporate executives from companies which have faced or are facing challenges similar to those ...
Age of Apple is over, says Peter Thiel
Post Date: 2017-01-12 05:53:54 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Arguably the most desired smartphone in the world, Apple’s iPhone, is losing popularity, says PayPal co-founder and first Facebook investor Peter Thiel. Read more © Siphiwe Sibeko China’s largest social network launches alternative to Apple App Store When asked if "the age of Apple is over” by The New York Times, Thiel answered: "Confirm. We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It’s not the fault of Tim Cook, but it’s not an area where there will be any more innovation." In October, Apple reported its first annual revenue decline in 15 years, as for the first time iPhone sales slumped. In the three months ending September 24, the ...
Pravda: “Scientists Now Warn Of A New Ice Age” As Temperature Plummets to – 80°F In Russia!
Post Date: 2017-01-10 12:32:07 by Ada
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Some impressive winter events have been taking place all across the northern hemisphere lately. Especially eastern and southeastern Europe have been pounded by massive snowfalls and tremendously cold temperatures. Turkey has been buried by heavy snows and extreme temperatures have gripped the entire USA and vast areas of Russia. The global warming climate appears to have been hacked by natural factors. Extreme cold and snow pound the northern hemisphere as some scientists warn of the potential for ice age conditions. Photo of Greenland by NASA (public domain) In Russia Moscow celebrated the coldest orthodox Christmas in 125 years. Snowfall paralyzed the city of Istanbul, Turkey. ...
Mysterious fast radio burst located for first time
Post Date: 2017-01-10 04:14:03 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Astronomers studying a recurring series of 'fast radio bursts' detected from space have managed to determine the origin of the mysterious pulses for the first time. The fleeting phenomena have vexed scientists since they were discovered in 2001 and the enigma became all the more puzzling when the discovery of a repeating FRBs last year upended previous theories about the bursts. The recurring pulses led to speculation that perhaps the bursts were some kind of alien signal akin to what humans may send out into space in hopes of reaching intelligent life. Fortunately the newfound predictability of these particular FRBs allowed astronomers to focus in on the phenomenon and ...
Those Sweet, Surly Bonds of Earth
Post Date: 2017-01-08 17:31:09 by Ada
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Why is it that all our heroes inevitably try to kill us? From Winston Churchill to Albert Einstein, the people we laud the most were, at one point, responsible for great harm done, and not always by their own intention. “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions,” said T.S. Eliot. Earlier this month, The New York Times Magazine ran a profile piece on someone who, I predict, will someday become another savior-cum-killer. Sara Seager is a brilliant astrophysicist at M.I.T. who is dedicated to discovering more earthlike planets in the universe. Her life’s work has been committed to finding habitable planets light-years away from our own lowly blue ...
DELINGPOLE: Green Energy is a Charter For Crooks And Liars. The Scam Must End Now
Post Date: 2017-01-08 10:53:47 by Ada
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When is the rest of the Western world going to catch up with Donald Trump and point out that the green emperor is wearing no clothes? I ask as a concerned UK taxpayer absolutely sick to death of the vast sums of money that continue to be funnelled into the pockets of crooks, liars, spivs, chancers, con-artists and fantasists in the name of solving the non- existent problem of “climate change.” Let me give you some examples of what I mean. Wales’s £18 million tidal energy flop If there’s one thing everyone who thinks of themselves as reasonable and well-informed knows, tidal power is the thing. How do they know this? Well, because they’re aware that wind ...
Intel Unveils 'Credit Card-Sized' Computer
Post Date: 2017-01-08 06:42:28 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- At CES 2017 Intel has unveiled the Intel Compute Card. It is designed to bring computer power and connectivity "to virtually any product, anywhere," and is thus a very compact but modular design. However, it does contain all the elements of a full computer within its small and slim frame. Credit card sized is an often overused term but Intel does indeed get pretty close, with its 95 x 55 x 5mm device. The Intel Compute Card contains an Intel SoC, memory, storage, and Wi-Fi / Bluetooth connectivity, with flexible I/O options available. We don't have a detailed spec list unfortunately, but users will be able to configure the card with a range of processors ...
Cleveland zoo says 32-year-old gorilla has died
Post Date: 2017-01-07 21:42:04 by Dakmar
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CLEVELAND (AP) — One of the Cleveland's zoo's two male western lowland gorillas died on Friday, zoo officials said. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo first announced the death of 32-year-old Bebac on its Facebook page. Zoo Executive Director Chris Kuhar called Bebac one of the zoo's iconic animals in an interview Saturday. Dozens of tributes along with photos of Bebac taken by zoo visitors were posted on Facebook. Bebac, pronounced BEE'-bak, and 29-year-old Mokolo, pronounced mo-KO'-lo, came to the Cleveland zoo in 1994 from Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, where they both were born. The zoo's medical staff struggled to find a treatment to make Bebac well after his ...
Chinese scientists develop fireproof, waterproof paper
Post Date: 2017-01-07 05:48:11 by Tatarewicz
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China Daily... In January 2015, a fire in one of Russia's largest university libraries damaged more than 1 million historical documents, an incident which some media described as a "cultural Chernobyl". Important documents of our age can probably avoid the same fate in the future thanks to a new fire-resistant paper developed by a team of scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhu Yingjie, a researcher from the institute, and his team developed a set of methods to produce paper with a new material, hydroxyapatite, the inorganic constituent of tooth enamel and bone. The invention was reported on ACS Applied Materials ...
NASA says mysterious object hurtling towards Earth could be an asteroid or a comet
Post Date: 2017-01-07 05:15:36 by Tatarewicz
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Mirror UK... The American space agency says that one object is a massive comet, but has so far been unable to identify the other The comet is set to fly close to Earth this week, but the mystery object isn't expected to make an appearance until February. The object, dubbed "2016 WF9", was detected by NASA's asteroid- and comet-hunting NEOWISE project on 27 November 2016. It is roughly 0.3 to 0.6 miles (0.5 to 1 kilometres) across and is in an orbit that takes it on a scenic tour of our solar system. At its farthest distance from the sun, it approaches Jupiter's orbit. Over the course of 4.9 Earth-years, it travels inward, passing under the main asteroid belt and ...
We just got the first experimental proof of a 70-year-old hypothesis of magnetism
Post Date: 2017-01-06 02:05:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Physicists have finally demonstrated the magnetic behaviour of a special class of 2D materials in the lab, delivering the first experimental proof of a widely accepted hypothesis proposed more than 70 years ago. The hypothesis, known as the Onsager solution, explains how certain types of 2D materials - materials that are just one-atom thick, such as graphene - go through magnetic phase transitions. Just like the phase transition that takes H20 from ice to liquid water, a magnetic phase transition describes how a material loses its magnetism as temperatures heat up. But despite the fact that this process was described more than 70 years ago by Nobel Prize-winning chemist ...
'The internet will shut down for 24 hours in 2017 causing financial markets to crash'
Post Date: 2017-01-05 06:36:03 by Tatarewicz
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RT... 'The internet will shut down for 24 hours in 2017 causing financial markets to crash' © Reuters Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked from the internet this year as the global network will shut down for 24 hours, US technology security vendor LogRhythm predicted in December. Read more © Kacper Pempel Mass cyber-attack cripples some of world’s biggest websites including Twitter, Spotify The company’s chief information security officer and vice president James Carder told Business Insider, it won’t just be a technical issue stopping people from uploading their selfies on Instagram. "In 2017, we’re going to see it hit ...
Chickens exhibit Machiavellian tendencies, scientists discover
Post Date: 2017-01-03 15:27:47 by Horse
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Chickens are not as ‘bird brained’ as previously thought. Scientists have found they are capable of greater logical reasoning than children, have distinct personalities, and even exhibit Machiavellian tendencies. A review of previous research by scientists in the US, published in the journal Animal Cognition, has concluded that chicken intelligence has been greatly underestimated with the farmyard bird demonstrating thinking skills that are similar to mammals and primates. They were found to be masters of deceit with males making food calls when no food was present to attract females to the area, and clucking more quietly during courtship behavior if rivals were present, so as ...
The 7 greatest scientific breakthroughs of 2016
Post Date: 2017-01-01 02:06:22 by Tatarewicz
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RT... © The SXS Project / Reuters From the discovery of an Earth-like planet to the unraveling of one of the great mysteries of physics, 2016 has been a blockbuster year for scientific breakthroughs. Gravitational waves Perhaps the biggest scientific feat of 2016 was the detection of gravitational waves in the fabric of space-time, from a pair of colliding black holes. The development added more weight to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The researchers backed up their findings by repeating the feat a few months later. The discovery was named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year and is hotly tipped to earn a Nobel Prize. READ MORE: ‘New era of astronomy’: ...
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 ...
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