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Your dog remembers what you did: study
Post Date: 2016-11-26 01:21:49 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Attention, dog owners: your dogs are paying attention and they'll remember what you did. We humans have a remarkable ability to remember and recall events from the past. Now, a new study out Wednesday presented evidence that dogs have that kind of "episodic memory" too. It found dogs can recall a person's complex actions even when they don't expect to have their memory tested, according to the study published in the U.S. journal Current Biology. "The results of our study can be considered as a further step to break down artificially erected barriers between non-human animals and humans," Claudia Fugazza of MTA-ELTE ...
Delete yourself from the internet by pressing this button
Post Date: 2016-11-25 15:20:33 by Southern Style
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Delete yourself from the internet by pressing this button by Juan Buis The internet can be a beautiful and horrible place at the same time, and it isn’t weird to sometimes feel like you want to leave — there’s wasn’t an easy way out, until now. Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck created Deseat.me, which offers a way to wipe your entire existence off the internet in a few clicks. When logging into the website with a Google account it scans for apps and services you’ve created an account for, and creates a list of them with easy delete links. Every account it finds gets paired with an easy delete link pointing to the unsubscribe page for that ...
Could moving walkways be the key to car-free cities of the future?
Post Date: 2016-11-25 04:45:05 by Tatarewicz
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Scientists in Switzerland are considering the future of the city, specifically a metropolis without cars. Without vehicles, how will people move quickly and efficiently throughout an urban center? One seemingly fanciful option is the moving walkway. In a new study, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, or EPFL, considered the potential of moving walkways in the 21st century city, and how they might mix with more traditional forms of eco-friendly transport. According to EPFL scientists, their analysis revealed promising potential. Accelerating walkways can move people at speeds upwards of 10 miles per hour -- ...
Solar homes could get batteries from glowing dye
Post Date: 2016-11-25 04:41:06 by Tatarewicz
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A fluorescent dye called BODIPY could be an ideal material for stockpiling energy in rechargeable, liquid-based batteries that could one day power cars and homes, say researchers. BODIPY— short for boron-dipyrromethene — shines brightly in the dark under a black light. But the traits that facilitate energy storage are less visible. According to new research, the dye has unusual chemical properties that enable it to excel at two key tasks: storing electrons and participating in electron transfer. Batteries must perform these functions to save and deliver energy, and BODIPY is very good at them. In experiments, a BODIPY-based test battery operated efficiently and with longevity, ...
Tesla unveils sleek glass solar roof tiles
Post Date: 2016-11-25 04:35:56 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Tesla chief executive Elon Musk unveiled a new series of glass roof tiles with built-in solar panels in Los Angeles Friday night. The line of new solar paneled roofing, produced by solar power company SolarCity, is intended to become part of a personal alternative energy ecosystem made up of Tesla products including solar roofs, batteries and electric cars, the company said. Musk showed off the new solar paneled roof tiles, which come in several styles including smooth, textured and tuscan, by fitting them to several houses on the set of former ABC television series Desperate Housewives at Universal Studios Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles Times ...
New Russian weapon will paralyze combat drones
Post Date: 2016-11-25 04:31:46 by Tatarewicz
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UPI/RBTHL... A Russian defense company announced it has finished work on a new kind of weapon designed to disable swarms of mini combat drones. The weapon, produced by Russia's United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation, will fry the drones' radio-electric systems, according to sources, turning a drone into "a useless piece of iron and plastic." Drones, which armies began using as weapons about 10 years ago, have completely changed the situation on the battlefield, where the soldier is gradually being squeezed out as the main combat unit. Reconnaissance and attack, things that earlier were impossible to do without direct human involvement, can now be done by robots. ...
SpaceX wants to surround Earth with an internet service that's 200 times faster
Post Date: 2016-11-25 03:29:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the Mars-hungry tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to enshroud the planet in high-speed internet coverage. On November 15, the company filed a lengthy application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the r/SpaceX community on Reddit.) That is a hell of a lot of satellites. According to a database compiled by the Union of Concerned Scientists, there are 1,419 active satellites currently orbiting Earth. There are estimates of roughly 2,600 satellites that no longer work floating in space, but even factoring those in, SpaceX’s planned ...
Thinning, retreat of West Antarctic Glacier began in 1940s
Post Date: 2016-11-24 08:57:53 by Ada
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Summary: The present thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is part of a climatically forced trend that was triggered in the 1940s, new research by an international team shows. FULL STORY In mid-October 2011, NASA scientists working in Antarctica discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that drains the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Extending for 19 miles (30 kilometers), the crack was 260 feet (80 meters) wide and 195 feet (60 meters) deep. Eventually, the crack will extend all the way across the glacier, and calve a giant iceberg that will cover about 350 square miles (900 square kilometers). Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, ...
Patent applications near 3 million in 2015, spurred by Chinese innovations, UN reports
Post Date: 2016-11-24 02:26:49 by Tatarewicz
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- A new report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Wednesday found that spurred by Chinese innovations, the number of patent applications rose to 2.9 million in 2015, up nearly 8 percent from the previous year, Farhan Haq, the UN deputy spokesman, told reporters here. "The jump was powered by innovators in China who filed more than one million applications for the first time within a single year," Haq said. After China, innovators from the United States and Japan filed the most applications, he said. According to the report, Chinese innovators filed the most patent applications (1,010,406) in 2015, followed by those from ...
Earth’s surface ‘vaporized’ from asteroid impact that killed off dinosaurs – study
Post Date: 2016-11-24 01:06:48 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The asteroid that annihilated the dinosaurs and “reset the clock” for life on Earth could not have done the job without first liquefying the planet’s surface, a new study found. Lead researcher and geophysicist Sean Gulick spoke to RT. The scientific consensus has been for some time that about 66 million years ago, Earth changed forever. But exactly how is still being learned, and new research from the University of Texas at Austin goes as far as to alter “clues into the origin of life on earth,” Sean Gulick, a research professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Institute for Geophysics, told RT’s Manila Chan. Not only was the sun blocked out ...
Programmers are having a huge discussion about the unethical and illegal things they’ve been asked to do
Post Date: 2016-11-21 10:23:44 by Ada
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Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It's called "Code I’m Still Ashamed Of." In it he recounts a horrible story of being a young programmer who landed a job building a website for a pharmaceutical company. The whole post is worth a read, but the upshot is he was duped into helping the company skirt drug advertising laws in order to persuade young women to take a particular drug. He later found out the drug was known to worsen depression and at least one young woman committed suicide while taking it. He found out his sister was taking the drug and warned her off it. Decades later, he still feels guilty about it, he told ...
Creepy new website makes its monitoring of your online behaviour visible
Post Date: 2016-11-21 09:58:29 by Ada
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IF YOU think you are not being analysed while browsing websites, it could be time to reconsider. A creepy new website called clickclickclick has been developed to demonstrate how our online behaviour is continuously measured. Dutch media company VPRO and Amsterdam based interactive design company Studio Moniker are the masterminds behind the site, which observes and comments on your behaviour in great detail. The website — which is not harmful to your computer — contains nothing but a white screen and a large green button. From the minute you visit the website, it begins detailing your actions on the screen in real-time. The site also encourages users to turn on their audio, ...
Elon Musk says a Tesla solar roof could cost less than your crappy normal roof
Post Date: 2016-11-21 05:49:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert.. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the solar roof that will be sold under a combined Tesla-SolarCity will likely cost less than a normal roof to install. Tesla and SolarCity shareholders voted in favour of the US$2 billion deal Thursday. In late October, Musk unveiled a new solar roof product to show his vision for a combined company with SolarCity, but did not provide specifics on how much it would cost. On Thursday after the shareholder vote, Musk said its solar roof will likely cost less than a normal roof: "It’s looking quite promising that a solar roof will actually cost less than a normal roof before you even take the value of electricity into account. So the basic ...
Trump's Space Policy Begins to Take Shape
Post Date: 2016-11-21 05:25:31 by Tatarewicz
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As the impending Trump administration begins to form, there are indications that NASA's agenda may drastically change under the new President. A senior advisor to the Trump campaign, Congressman Robert Walker, told Forbes that the goals of America's space program will shift away from scientific missions in low Earth orbit towards something far more ambitious. He told Forbes that the "Trump space policy anticipates human exploration far beyond low-Earth orbit and even beyond Mars." Outlining the key facets of this policy, Walker forecast the development of technology for humans to explore the solar system "by the end of this century" and a change in NASA's ...
Solar energy from the farm
Post Date: 2016-11-21 03:25:19 by Tatarewicz
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DW... Solar panels on top, wheat and potatoes down below: researchers aim to make farmers' fields twice as productive with a revolution in power generation. A pilot facility in southwest Germany is exploring the new concept. Pilot project solar agriculture (Picture: Fraunhofer ISE) Feeding the world's growing population requires land, especially if crops are to be grown in an environmentally friendly manner. But space for such crops is becoming increasingly limited. "Agricultural land areas are not available in unlimited quantities," said Petra Högy, a professor with the Institute of Landscape and Plant Ecology at the University of Hohenheim, in southern Germany. ...
Russian scientists 'discover NOAH'S FLOODWATER at bottom of deepest hole in the world'
Post Date: 2016-11-19 19:36:07 by Ada
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RUSSIAN scientists dug the world's deepest hole and discovered water from Noah's great flood, "disproving the myth" that the earth is made up of dry, rocky layers, it has been claimed. The Kola Borehole could only go down as deep as 12km before being blocked by a mystery force. A video exposing the so-called Kola conspiracy says the established view of the earth's makeup – crust, mantle and core – was proved wrong by the geological dig. Scientists were shocked to discover that instead of solid, dry, dense rock massive amounts of water were found. The video's publishers, Plano Existential, claim this proves the Biblical event of Noah's flood is a ...
SOIL not DIRT - Dr Elaine Ingham talks Soil Microbiology
Post Date: 2016-11-18 12:32:34 by Horse
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Poster Comment:This is the best introduction to her works I have seen. No need for pesticides, fertilizers and plowing. Reduce your costs and increase your yields.
What is the Speed of Gravity?
Post Date: 2016-11-17 00:39:24 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Bishop Nicholas Sykes currently the rector of St. Alban's Anglican Church, George Town, Cayman Islands, treasurer of the Cayman Ministers' Association and member of the Cayman Islands' Human Rights Commission.
Professor Stephen Hawking says humans will be WIPED OUT in 1,000 years unless we find new planet
Post Date: 2016-11-16 15:34:09 by Ada
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The world's most influential scientist says humans must continue to go into space to find a new place to live or otherwise face mass extinction Professor Stephen Hawking says humans have less than 1,000 years on Earth before we are wiped out by extinction. The celebrated physicist said humans will only survive if another planet was found to live on. The 74-year-old said unless this happens then humans will be wiped out in a mass extinction. Speaking at the Oxford Union, he said: “We must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity. "I don’t think we will survive another 1000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.” READ MORE Professor ...
What Humans Can Learn From The Mice Utopia Experiment
Post Date: 2016-11-14 16:07:07 by Dakmar
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In 1950, an American ethologist named John Calhoun created a series of experiments to test the effects of overpopulation on the behaviour of social animals. The animals which Calhoun chose for his experiments where mice (and later on rats). He chose rodents as these reproduce rapidly thus allowing him to observe the development of several generations of mice in a relatively short space of time. Calhoun and his researchers found that in a space-limited/resource unlimited environment, the population of mice would explode; peak-out and then collapse to extinction. This test was replicated several times and it was found that these led to the same outcome each ...
Trump Troglodytes May Breed Subhuman Species
Post Date: 2016-11-11 06:12:41 by Ada
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Ricki Lewis, a science writer with a PhD in genetics, wonders if Trump voters are turning into a different species of human. Excerpt: Do the deep differences between the two groups of voters in any way reflect underlying genetics? I’ve dismissed studies purporting to identify gene variants associated with political party or conservatism. But now I fear they might be onto something, in the big picture. No one will say it out loud, connect the dots, but the pieces of evidence leading to an obvious conclusion have been zipping around social media for months: 1. Educational attainment differs on the sides of the new divide. Yes, I know that PhDs can be idiots, and those with little or ...
You can't see it, but humans actually glow with our own form of bioluminescence
Post Date: 2016-11-11 04:07:21 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... When you hear about bioluminescence, your mind probably jumps to deep-sea creatures like the angler fish, which uses millions of bacteria to make a light appear in front of its head to catch prey and illuminate your nightmares. But what about humans? According to a study conducted in 2009 by Japanese researchers, human bioluminescence in visible light exists - it’s just too dim for our weak eyes to pick up on. "The human body literally glimmers," the team from the Tohoku Institute of Technology wrote in their study published in PLOS One. "The intensity of the light emitted by the body is 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eyes." ...
Autonomous AI: New robots will learn as children do & set own goals
Post Date: 2016-11-08 01:58:54 by Tatarewicz
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RT...A new generation of self determining robots able to set their own goals and experiment and mimic the human learning process are under development as part of an EU-funded project led by Italian scientists. The GOAL (Goal-based Open-ended Autonomous Learning) robots will learn and develop skills from scratch as children do and will go on to ’self-generate’ goals. More than 3.4 million euros ($3.75mn) has been allocated by the EU under the FET Open research projects initiative for the development of the bots which launched this month. It is expected to have been completed by 2020. The programme is being led by the Laboratory of Computational Embodied Neuroscience (LOCEN), an ...
This classic physics experiment could finally reveal the long-awaited 'theory of everything'
Post Date: 2016-11-07 20:39:00 by Tatarewicz
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An iconic physics experiment used to demonstrate the strange properties of the quantum world is now even stranger than we thought, and not only could it force us to rethink some fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics - it could be the key to finally unifying the two biggest theories of modern physics. Physicists have found evidence that a key component of the classic 'double-slit experiment' could actually be tested, and seeing as it appears to violate the current laws of physics, testing it could give us a whole new way to investigate the holes in quantum mechanics. Let’s start at the beginning, with the iconic double-slit experiment, which gave us one of the strangest ...
Russia Just Got the Tools to 'Blind' Nosey NATO Reconnaissance Planes in Syria
Post Date: 2016-11-05 08:07:02 by Tatarewicz
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SPUTNICK... Last week, NATO announced that it had begun tracking the movement of Russian military aircraft operating in Syria using AWACS reconnaissance planes operating from Turkish bases. But as luck would have it, Russia has just received all the tools it needs to neutralize the alliance's snooping. In late September, NATO announced that a fleet of 16 Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) aircraft would be sent to Turkey, ostensibly to help the alliance's ongoing efforts against the Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists. A month later, the alliance confirmed that the aircraft had been deployed, and that they started their surveillance of Syrian airspace beginning October 20. ...
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