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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 ...
Sleep mode: Your brain dozes off even while you’re awake, study finds
Post Date: 2016-12-03 03:01:00 by Tatarewicz
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RT... One moment you’re alert and paying attention, the next you’ve somehow zoned out and missed something key. New research says this might be a result of parts of the brain switching off even while you’re awake. Researchers from Stanford University have discovered that, even during waking hours, parts of our brains fall asleep and wake back up all the time. This is similar to the big ebbs and flows in activity that take place during sleep but on a much smaller scale, with only small portions of the brain switching off for a few seconds at a time. Essentially, we all go through a daily cycle of alertness and tiredness based on whether neurons in our brain are switched on ...
BlackBerry poised to be at forefront of secure self-driving cars
Post Date: 2016-12-01 05:52:26 by Tatarewicz
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Globe & Mail... A timely acquisition six years ago is putting BlackBerry in the forefront of in-car infotainment systems and enabling development of secure autonomous vehicles. You may be using its product already, says Thomas Bloor, business development manager for BlackBerry QNX software systems. “We’re in a majority of IVI [in-vehicle infotainment] head units out there today; we’re in 60 million vehicles,” he said in a recent interview at the Los Angeles Auto Show. “We’re the predominant operating system in that marketplace today. It’s a nice place to be.” A pilot program in Canada will be sending autonomously driven vehicles onto Ontario ...
Stephen Hawking encourages China to build hadron collider
Post Date: 2016-12-01 01:11:31 by Tatarewicz
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People's Daily... Many renowned Chinese and foreign physicists have joined a discussion about whether China should build a next-generation large hadron collider. Britain physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking is encouraging China to do just that. “China has an incredible opportunity to become the world leader here — don’t waste it. A good example is to build the Great Collider that can lead high energy physics for the next fifty years,” Hawking wrote. Well-known mathematician Shing-Tung Yau is in favor of Hawking's suggestion, and proposed that China choose a place near Shanhai Pass in Qinhuandao, Hebei province as its building site. Meanwhile, Chen Ning ...
We now have scientific evidence for why you should never go to bed angry
Post Date: 2016-11-30 05:28:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... We're always told to 'never go to bed angry', but is this just a relationship cliché, or wise words to live by? According to new research, it may be the latter, because scientists have found that sleep actually consolidates bad memories, making you live with them for longer. Sleep's role in helping us consolidate our memories is vital in how we process and store useful information, but a new study shows that the same principle applies to negative thoughts – if we fall asleep with them, they can be harder to forget in the long term. "This study suggests that there is certain merit in this age-old advice: 'Do not go to bed ...
The stupidity of IQ Testing
Post Date: 2016-11-29 03:38:01 by Tatarewicz
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We all know that people differ mentally in a great many ways: some are reflective, others impulsive; some are sympathetic, others are sociopathic; some are creative, others seem never to have a witty or imaginative thought; some are sensible, others are flighty, fanatical, or prone to panic; and some are smart, whereas others cannot do a simple arithmetical calculation in their head or solve an elementary logical puzzle. So how do we measure the human intellect? Among educators and psychologists, the most common procedure is to conduct a test of reasoning ability that yields a result called an intelligence quotient, or IQ. Some people think IQ’s are terrifically important and that ...
SOURCE: Thomas Massie Being Considered For Trump Administration Post Published on November 28, 2016 in Politics
Post Date: 2016-11-28 21:31:21 by Ada
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A confidential source on the Trump transition team has told The Liberty Conservative that Rep. Thomas Massie, an award-winning, MIT-educated engineer, elected to Congress in 2012, is under consideration for the job of Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a role commonly known as Science Advisor to the President. Massie currently serves as Chairman for the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation in the House of Representatives. Massie’s office did not respond to our requests for comment. During his time at MIT, Massie invented a technology that enables people to interact with computers using their sense of touch, and leveraged that technology to found SensAble ...
Cyber Monday sale: All tech and science courses 50% off today only
Post Date: 2016-11-28 08:10:48 by Tatarewicz
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SCIENCEALERT It’s getting closer to the holiday season, so if you were planning on learning a new skill in 2016, like the basics of computer science, AI and deep learning, or how to become an ethical hacker, now’s a great time to get started. To celebrate Cyber Monday on November 28, we’re offering 50 percent off all ScienceAlert Academy courses purchased today – because you shouldn’t have to pay thousands (or even hundreds) of dollars to learn a new skill. All you have to do is use the code CYBER50 at the checkout. The code will work from 00:01am PST on Monday, November 28 (7:01pm Sydney time, 3:01am New York time, and 8:01am London time) for 24 hours. Check ...
Chinese Robot Goes Rogue, Smashes Booth and Injures Visitor at Tech Fair in South China
Post Date: 2016-11-28 07:26:00 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) A robot went out of control at the China Hi-Tech Fair 2016 in Shenzhen on Thursday, smashing a glass window and injuring a visitor. The robot that went violent is named “Fatty” and is designed for household use. This is the first time in China that a robot has injured a human being. Some Chinese netizens on Weibo said that they fear the incident signals the start of the "invasion" of robots. However, the event organizer said human error was responsible for the mishap. The operator of the robot hit the “forward” button instead of “reverse,” according to one of the fair’s organizers. This command sent the robot off ...
Brace yourself, the polar vortex is shifting
Post Date: 2016-11-27 03:25:43 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Climate change has hit the Arctic worse than ever over the past few years, but that doesn't mean the Northern Hemisphere is going to be experiencing a mild winter this year. In fact, a new study shows that the polar vortex is shifting, and it's going to make winters on the east coast of the US and parts of Europe even longer, with exceptionally cold temperatures expected during March. The polar vortex is that lovely zone of cold air that swirls around the Arctic during winter. When parts of the vortex break apart and splinter off, it can cause unseasonably cold conditions in late-winter and early-spring in the Northern Hemisphere. This happened in early 2014 - as ...
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