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Step to Cloning? Scientists Aim to Recreate Human Genome in a Decade
Post Date: 2016-05-14 05:04:09 by Tatarewicz
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Some of the world’s top scientists gathered behind closed doors at Boston’s Harvard Medical School on Tuesday to discuss a project to synthesize the entire human DNA genome in a move that could make cloning humans possible. Social Media Helps Solve Health Mystery That Doctors Couldn’t Explain The meeting concerned a proposed international project that would synthesize “a complete human genome in a cell line within a period of 10 years,” according to the organizer’s premise. All attendees were asked to refrain from speaking publicly about the summit. The project, dubbed “HGP-Write: Testing Large Synthetic Genomes in Cells” (where HGP stands for ...
Can Our Bodies Handle the Hyperloop?
Post Date: 2016-05-14 03:04:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScientificAmerican... Hyperloop One wants to transport commuters through a tube at close to the speed of sound, but can regular humans handle it? Credit: Photo by Hyperloop One Advertisement Today, in the sunburnt desert north of Las Vegas, a tech firm conducted a demo of a cutting-edge propulsion system. The firm is among a handful of companies and universities vying to build the first hyperloop. Hyperloop is a futuristic transportation system that resembles a supersized version of a pneumatic tube at the drive-through window of a bank. Here’s how it would work. People hop into a pod, which would travel up to 760 miles per hour inside a tube. That’s a whisker shy of breaking ...
Scientists are uncovering a terrible new effect that space might have on our bodies
Post Date: 2016-05-13 07:37:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... If humanity is ever going to realise its ambitions of travelling to Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System, one of the challenges we're going to have to address is how to stay healthy in space over long periods of time. NASA estimates it's going to take at least 150 days for humans to get to Mars, and that's a long time to be exposed to things like cosmic radiation without the benefits of Earth's protective magnetic field. Unfortunately, some of the latest research on the effects of spending time in space doesn't have very positive findings. A recent study found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with the early signs of ...
Scientists have unveiled the world's first holographic flexible smartphone
Post Date: 2016-05-11 04:30:17 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Canadian researchers have developed what they are claiming is the world's first holographic flexible smartphone, with a bendable display that allows multiple people looking at the device to see different 3D images depending on their perspective. To view the device, called Holoflex, you don't need those dumb plastic glasses you have to wear in the cinema to watch 3D movies, and it doesn't employ head tracking to tailor the appearance to the viewer, as seen in devices like the newer Nintendo 3DS. Instead, the smartphone sports a Full HD LED display with 1,920 x 1,080 resolution – albeit one that's flexible, as you can see in the video below. So how ...
New plastic-free wrap keeps fruit fresh for more than a week outside the fridge
Post Date: 2016-05-09 05:21:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Our kitchens might be about to get a whole lot more sustainable, with researchers announcing the development of a new type of edible food wrap that can keep fruit fresh for more than a week - without a fridge or plastic. That's incredibly promising, seeing as researchers have shown that we're tossing out so much plastic these days, that by 2050, there'll be more plastic than fish in our oceans. Unfortunately, one of the things we rely on plastic for the most is keeping our fruits and vegetables fresh between the farm and our shelves - and that's an important job, seeing as an estimated half of the world's fruit and vegetables are lost because they go ...
Come to think of it or not: Study shows how memories can be intentionally forgotten
Post Date: 2016-05-09 03:34:55 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College, and his collaborators show that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories. Context plays a big role in our memories, both good and bad. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" on the car radio, for example, may remind you of your first love -- or your first speeding ticket. But a Dartmouth- and Princeton-led brain scanning study shows that people can intentionally forget past experiences by changing how they think about the context of those memories. The findings have a range of potential applications ...
How GPS Came to Be—and How It May Be Altering Our Brains A history of GPS examines the costs of relying on it.
Post Date: 2016-05-08 06:59:24 by Tatarewicz
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Bloomberg Businessweek In Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds, Greg Milner tells two stories. One’s about how the Global Positioning System became one of the 21st century’s most important technologies. The other’s about how it may be stunting the brains of the ingenious species that created it. We use GPS today to guide airplanes, ships, and tractors. It keeps tabs on sex offenders and helps find oil deposits. “GPS surveys land, and builds bridges and tunnels,” Milner writes. “GPS knows when the earth deforms; it senses the movement of tectonic plates down to less than a millimeter.” GPS can tell you how long until your ...
10 Mind Blowing Facts About Time That Will Destroy Your Biological Clock
Post Date: 2016-05-06 02:29:36 by Tatarewicz
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DailyForest... Time is always there yet it is non existent. Time is a measurement that we use to scale our lives in a way that we can understand. We use minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years as a means to structuring our lives in meaningful ways yet despite our usage we still don’t understand it as fully as we could. Despite not having a rock solid understanding of what time actually is, we set our life and eventual death by the belief in it. We decided to pull together some mind blowing facts about time that will leave you reeling. Listed below are 12 facts about time and what it has meant to the world that will leave your biological clock reeling. Time will eventually come ...
'Cancer cells simply melt away': Miracle drug amazes Australian researchers after lengthy trials
Post Date: 2016-05-06 01:22:56 by X-15
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Cancer patients are finally catching a break, as Australian researchers have tested a miracle drug that leads to big improvement in a majority of cases, and total recovery in some. The drug targets a specific protein that helps cancer cells survive. The Melbourne-based trial took place over four years and tested 116 patients. It was shown by researchers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre that the drug Venetoclax can greatly reduce cancer blood cells. Positive results were seen in 79 percent of cases involving patients suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Some patients who had previously undergone treatment were left as good as new after agreeing to ...
The south is SINKING: Giant chunks of the Earth's mantle are falling off and causing quakes across the southeastern US - and more are coming, warn researchers
Post Date: 2016-05-05 08:40:41 by Ada
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Area hit by a series of strange unexplained quakes Most recent was 2011 magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia Area should be seismically quiet as it is in middle of Earth's tectonic plate The southeastern United States has been hit by a series of strange unexplained quakes - most recently, the 2011 magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia that shook the nation's capital. Researchers have been baffled, believing the areas should be relatively quiet in terms of seismic activity, as it is located in the interior of the North American Plate, far away from plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur. Now, they believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of ...
Trial operation of magnetic levitation line in Changsha to start
Post Date: 2016-05-05 04:00:23 by Tatarewicz
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A train runs on the magnetic levitation line in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, May 5, 2016. CHANGSHA, May 5, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A train runs on the magnetic levitation line in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, May 5, 2016. A trial operation of the magnetic levitation line in Changsha is scheduled to start on May 6. The maglev shuttles between Changsha's south railway station and the airport. It takes about ten minutes to complete the 18.55-km journey, according to a statement from operator Hunan Maglev Transport Co. Poster Comment:Great photo gallery at link. Amazing what "American dollars" can do domestically if not used for ...
Marines Taking Robots to Military-Grade Level
Post Date: 2016-05-04 22:15:09 by BTP Holdings
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Marines Taking Robots to Military-Grade Level Published Wed, May 4, 2016 | Greg Miller, Senior Analyst Marines Taking Robots to Military-Grade Level Things look pretty tough right now for the Terminator. Forget “I’ll be back”… some robots are struggling to even get there in the first place. Take Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), for example, which recently put its Boston Dynamics robotics division up for sale. Having only acquired the company at the end of 2013, it’s not like Boston Dynamics isn’t putting in the effort or making substantial progress. Far from it, in fact. (Take a look at some clips on YouTube if you don’t believe me.) Rather, it’s ...
10-year-old Finn awarded 10,000 USD for discovering security fault in Instagram
Post Date: 2016-05-04 01:58:42 by Tatarewicz
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HELSINKI, May 3 (Xinhua) -- A 10-year-old Finnish boy has received 10,000 U.S. dollars from Instagram after finding a security fault in the service, reported Finnish daily Iltalehti on Tuesday. The boy whose name was given as Jani discovered the security vulnerability in the Instagram app, a mobile photo-sharing service owned by Facebook, in March this year, said the daily. He found he could delete other people's comments when he inputted malicious code into the comment field of the application. Jani informed Instagram about the technical fault by email. After a few days, Instagram replied to him that the flaw was fixed. As a reward, he received 10,000 U.S. dollars from Instagram. ...
Wastewater discharge into streams can lead to rapid antibiotic resistance, bacterial infections and disease
Post Date: 2016-05-02 22:12:50 by BTP Holdings
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Wastewater discharge into streams can lead to rapid antibiotic resistance, bacterial infections and disease Monday, May 02, 2016 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Discharges from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) may be a major contributor to the evolution of antibiotic resistance in the wild, according to a study partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Bacteria naturally possess an intrinsic resistance to toxic chemicals, including antibiotics, and new resistance may also develop naturally through mutation. But scientists agree that widespread overuse of antibiotics has rapidly accelerated the evolution of antibiotic resistance, by killing off ...
A New Madrid Earthquake Is Coming And America Will Be Shaken Like Never Before
Post Date: 2016-05-02 11:22:55 by Ada
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Most Americans expect the next great earthquake in the United States to come on the west coast. But what if it strikes right down the middle of the country instead? The New Madrid fault zone is six times larger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers portions of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Back in 1811 and 1812, a series of absolutely devastating earthquakes along the New Madrid fault zone opened very deep fissures in the ground, caused the Mississippi River to run backwards in some places, and were reportedly felt as far away as Washington D.C. and Boston. They were the strongest earthquakes ever recorded east of ...
Japan has approved gene editing using a fertilised human egg
Post Date: 2016-05-02 03:10:32 by Tatarewicz
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FUTURISM/ScienceAlert A Japanese government bioethics panel has approved the modification of genes from fertilised human egg cells for basic research. They did so just last week, on Friday April 22. However, they rejected clinical testing of gene modification technology, citing unknown and possibly harmful impacts on the next generation. Clinical trials of gene editing technology, which involve correcting genetic defects and putting the egg back into the womb, carry too many risks and potential detrimental effects on the offspring. So the eggs that are modified will not currently be brought to term. The bioethics panel agreed that researchers could use the technology and modify ...
Free will could all be an illusion, scientists suggest after study shows choice may just be brain tricking itself
Post Date: 2016-05-01 10:17:20 by Ada
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Research adds to evidence suggesting 'even our most seemingly ironclad beliefs about our own agency and conscious experience can be dead wrong' A woman looks at a human brain at an exhibition in Bristol Matt Cardy/Getty Images Free will might be an illusion created by our brains, scientists might have proved. Humans are convinced that they make conscious choices as they live their lives. But instead it may be that the brain just convinces itself that it made a free choice from the available options after the decision is made. The idea was tested out by tricking subjects into believing that they had made a choice before the consequences of that choice could actually be seen. In ...
Artificial intelligence explained
Post Date: 2016-04-30 06:56:46 by BTP Holdings
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Artificial intelligence explained Katie Couric Global Anchor April 29, 2016 By Kaye Foley When it comes to the future of artificial intelligence, the ultimate battle between man and machine may come to mind — but that’s really the stuff of science fiction. AI actually has a presence in our daily lives on a much more useful and less apocalyptic level. Think personal assistant devices and apps like Alexa, Cortana and Siri, web search predictions, movie suggestions on Netflix and self-driving cars. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined back in 1956. It describes a machine’s ability to perform intelligent behavior such as decision-making or speech ...
Astronomers might have finally detected where mysterious, extragalactic neutrinos are coming from
Post Date: 2016-04-30 04:12:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Just over three years ago, physicists working in Antarctica announced they'd detected the first evidence of mysterious subatomic particles, known as neutrinos, coming from outside our galaxy. It was a huge moment for astrophysics, but since then, no one's quite been able to figure out where those particles are coming from, and what's sending them hurtling our way. Until now, that is - a team of astronomers has just identified the possible source of one these extragalactic visitors, and it appears that it started its journey to us nearly 10 billion years ago, when a massive explosion erupted in a galaxy far, far away (seriously, George Lucas couldn't make ...
Hackers showed us how to break into the grid — and it was shockingly easy
Post Date: 2016-04-29 21:16:04 by BTP Holdings
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A power company in the Midwest hired a group of white hat hackers known as RedTeam Security to test its defenses. We followed them around for 3 days, as they attempted to break into buildings and hack into its network, with the goal of gaining full access. And it was all much easier than you might think. Based on our experiences, it would seem that power companies need to step up their game in the fight against cyber attackers or it could be "lights out." Poster Comment:Watch video at source. You will not believe how easily they got in.
CHINA'S NUKE-HYPERSONIC MANEUVERING WARHEAD SPEEDSTER...
Post Date: 2016-04-29 05:01:35 by Tatarewicz
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PravdaMainForum... China successfully tests nuclear-capable hypersonic missile China successfully carried out a flight test of its state-of-the-art high-speed maneuvering warhead last week, sources in the Pentagon said. The trial took place just days after a hypersonic glider was reportedly tested by Russia. The DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle was launch on Friday by a ballistic missile fired from the Wuzhai site in central China, unnamed US military officials told the Washington Free Beacon website. The maneuvering glider was tracked by American satellites as it was traveling at the speed of several thousand kilometers per hour along the edge of the atmosphere towards an impact area in ...
Historical Evidence of Climate Change Links to Political Change
Post Date: 2016-04-27 16:53:24 by Ada
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QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I have read your thesis on global warming and that this is only part of a natural cycle. I admit that you have persuaded me whereas the claims are false especially that New York City should have been under water by now according Al Gore. You mentioned that there was global warming which enabled the Vikings to reach America because the ice melted. My question is rather blunt. If we are headed now into a global cooling period, what is the historical evidence that society also declines? Thank you in advance PD ANSWER: I have reported that the peat fires in Borneo and Sumatra have exceeded all the emissions from the entire U.S. economy. This whole movement is to ...
Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg
Post Date: 2016-04-26 22:52:57 by NeoconsNailed
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Also at Phoenix 2nite: As the economic collapse accelerates, home invasions for FOOD start appearing in the press... Poll: Trump Reaches 50 Percent Support Nationally for the First Time Giant wave-riding platform design puts solar power out to sea Graphene-based ultracapacitors give trucks a boost of acceleration Scientists Create New Quantum State Of Water By Squeezing It WISP Is A Tiny Wireless Computer That Draws Power From Radio Waves The Hell on Earth Paved by Samantha Power's Good Intentions For a Nation of 1.4 Billion People, China Can Sure Look Empty 04-26-2016 • http://www.wired.com, LAURA MALLONEE ... ROUGHLY 1.4 BILLION people live in China, yet Bence Bakonyi ...
The Global Warming Hoax, Paris Climate Accord and NWO Global Governance
Post Date: 2016-04-25 09:20:22 by Ada
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“Global warming is the biggest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.” Longtime meteorologist and Weather Channel founder John Coleman With last Friday’s Earth Day marked by the US among 170 nations out of the planet’s 190 nations signing last December’s UN Paris climate change agreement at the United Nations, the topic “global warming/climate change” is once again all abuzz these days. Additionally, in less than a week a documentary entitled “The Climate Hustle” is being released in movie theaters nationwide on May 2nd debunking the notion that humans have caused global warming from the alleged increased CO2 ...
Pro-Monsanto Bill Nye the 'science guy' says GMOs are awesome and climate change skeptics should be thrown in prison... yeah, really
Post Date: 2016-04-24 18:35:28 by BTP Holdings
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Pro-Monsanto Bill Nye the 'science guy' says GMOs are awesome and climate change skeptics should be thrown in prison... yeah, really Saturday, April 23, 2016 by: Daniel Barker (NaturalNews) Celebrity scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku and Bill Nye keep their careers afloat by embracing mainstream scientific theories and presenting them to the public in a reassuring show-biz manner – and not by applying any real criticalal thought themselves. You don't get invited to appear in the mainstream media on a regular basis by questioning the status quo or being skeptical about Big Pharma, the biotech industry or vaccine safety, for example. And you certainly ...
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