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Meet the Immortus, the world’s first solar-powered exotic sports car
Post Date: 2015-08-31 06:13:27 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Just because you’re solar-powered doesn’t mean you can’t bring the style. That’s the thinking behind the Immortus, a limited-edition bespoke solar electric sports car currently being developed in Australia. The Immortus is the brainchild of electric vehicle startup EVX, which is working on the vehicle with researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. While at heart it’s an electric vehicle that runs on juice from your wall socket, extensive solar panelling on the Immortus’s roof is intended to give the car considerable staying power on the road. Perhaps never-ending staying power, in fact. “The ability to run on ...
First evidence of galaxy 'metamorphosis' found by Cardiff University team
Post Date: 2015-08-31 02:26:05 by Tatarewicz
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CARDIFF, Wales, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A team of international scientists, led by astronomers from Cardiff University in Wales, have unraveled the history of galaxies -- providing first direct evidence of galaxy "metamorphosis." For the study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers observed about 10,000 galaxies in the universe. The scientists classified the galaxies into the two main types: flat, rotating, disc-shaped galaxies, such as our own -- the Milky Way -- and large, spherical galaxies with hordes of disordered stars. "By observing the sky as it is today, and peering back in time using the Hubble and Herschel telescopes, the team ...
‘Almost perfect’ battery from MIT will last longer, won’t degrade - and never blow up in your face
Post Date: 2015-08-30 23:30:30 by Tatarewicz
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RT Material scientists have developed a solid-state electrolyte, which can greatly boost modern battery technology. It would allow batteries to endure hundreds of thousands of recharges, pack more juice and be safe from combustion. Electrolyte is one of key components of a battery, transporting charged ions from one electrode to another during charging and discharging. Modern lithium-ion batteries use liquid electrolyte, but a group of scientists claim to have developed a better all-round solid-state electrolyte. The research was published in Nature Materials in a paper by MIT postdoc Yan Wang, visiting professor Gerbrand Ceder, and five others. Their invention belongs to a class of ...
How to spot a psychopath through yawns, sense of smell and speech patterns
Post Date: 2015-08-30 02:23:16 by Tatarewicz
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IBTimes... Anton ChigurhReally bad haircuts, such as Javier Bardem's in No Country for Old Men, are reliable indicators of psychopathy (Paramount Vantage/ Miramax) Psychopathy – the absence of empathy or caring about other people – is characterised by a number of traits, such as being selfish, manipulative and having an antisocial lifestyle. There are a number of ways to spot a psychopath, such as lack of empathy, superficial charm and self-centered impulsivity. However, there are also some more straightforward methods to do with physical behaviours, scientists have found over recent years. Immunity to contagious yawning A study published earlier this month found ...
Russia and China are developing drones that could make stealth aircraft obsolete
Post Date: 2015-08-28 15:28:29 by BTP Holdings
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Russia and China are developing drones that could make stealth aircraft obsolete Jeremy Bender Aug. 27, 2015, 11:10 AM China Drone Tian YiFYJSChina's new stealth drone, Divine Eagle. Here's the most expensive weapons system ever and all of its ammunition in one photo The US and its allies continue to invest heavily in the F-35 and other stealth-capable aircraft. But Russia and China are rapidly developing systems that would negate the benefits that stealth offers. According to Zarchary Keck writing in The National Interest, both Beijing and Moscow have begun development of unmanned aerial vehicles that have the goal of finding, detecting, and ...
Researchers turn to seaweeds to develop new antibiotics
Post Date: 2015-08-28 00:46:04 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- UK researchers are trying to use the antimicrobial properties of seaweeds from the country's coastline to develop a new generation of antibiotics in a bid to fight the growing threat of resistant superbugs, according to a report released Thursday by the University of Exeter. As the number of multidrug-resistant bacteria, also known as superbug, rises, there is an urgent need for new drugs that can be used to treat infections when others fail. Natural environments can be a rich source of antibiotics. A research team from the University of Exeter are trying to uncover properties that could form the basis for a new generation of antibiotics that can curb ...
This is what the invisible wireless signals all around us look like
Post Date: 2015-08-27 04:18:06 by Tatarewicz
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ScieneAlert... It’s easy to forget as we go about our day that we’re constantly surrounded by an invisible network of communication streams transmitting data from one place to another. While an empty space might look uninhabited to human eyes, it could actually host a crowded intersection of intangible electronic signals. That’s the premise of Architecture of Radio, a data visualisation exhibit on show next month at the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The interactive project is the work of Dutch artist Richard Vijgen, who has created an iPad app that lets users explore the ‘infosphere’ – a fluid term used to describe an environment, much ...
Low-Energy, Healthy Homes: Europe's Answer to Shale Gas?
Post Date: 2015-08-26 07:38:03 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... BRUSSELS (Reuters) - With street names such as Temperance and Hygiene and plenty of green open spaces, the 1920s Bon Air (Good Air) housing estate in a working-class district of Brussels was meant to provide a healthy "garden city" way of life. Now 21st-century planners are striving to turn it into a modern ideal with the kind of renovations EU policymakers sitting in their shiny offices across the city want to see throughout the European Union. Work starts in Bon Air in September to transform a prototype from damp and dingy into a light, well-ventilated and very low-energy home. It is the model for 86 social houses in Bon Air and La Roue (the Wheel), another ...
Scientist Comnfesses: "Global Warming a $22 Billion Scam"
Post Date: 2015-08-25 16:19:51 by BTP Holdings
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The documents have been released and the truth is staggering. For years now Al Gore has been spearheading the crusade of global warming alarmism to the masses, holding seminars, clean energy initiatives, and even unveiling a critically acclaimed documentary. The real “Inconvenient Truth” behind global warming? It is all a lie. Al Gore spreads “global warming” propaganda for his own profit. Have you been duped? Imagine, for a moment, sitting at a prestigious steakhouse in Palm Beach, Florida, a hot spot for some of the wealthiest and most famous — Donald Trump, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, James Patterson, Rush Limbaugh, and hundreds more. And, imagine dining ...
Fifth test of China's WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle conducted
Post Date: 2015-08-24 23:42:50 by Tatarewicz
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Want... China successfully carried out the fifth test of its WU-14 hypersonic glide vehicle from the Wuzhai missile test range in northern China's Shanxi province on Aug. 19, reports the Washington Free Beacon. Pentagon officials said the WU-14 — as it has been designated by the Pentagon — not only traveled along the edge of the atmosphere but also demonstrated evasive maneuvers during the latest test, the report said. This information indicates that the hypersonic glide vehicle was designed particularly for a potential war with the United States, the report said. US missile defense systems are developed to intercept missiles that follow predictable flight paths. They are ...
Deceptive temperature record claims
Post Date: 2015-08-24 09:08:13 by Ada
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Warmest month announcements have no scientific basis The U.S. government is at it again, hyping meaningless records in a parameter that does not exist in order to frighten us about something that doesn’t matter. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced this week that according to their calculations, July 2015 was the hottest month since instrumental records began in 1880. NOAA says that the record was set by eight one-hundredths of a degree Celsius over that set in July 1998. NASA calculates that July 2015 beat what they assert was the previous warmest month (July 2011) by two one-hundredths of a degree. But government spokespeople rarely ...
Deep beneath Antarctica's ice, signs of bizarre particles from space
Post Date: 2015-08-23 16:58:44 by Ada
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An observatory on the southern continent has detected high-energy neutrinos, some of which come from beyond our galaxy. Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way. Finding these cosmic neutrinos not only confirms their existence but also sheds light on the origins of cosmic rays, the researchers said. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is made up of 86 shafts dug 8,000 feet into the ice near the South Pole. The shafts are equipped with detectors that look for the telltale light from high-energy particles plowing through the surrounding ice. [See Photos of the IceCube ...
NASA: Huge asteroid will not destroy Earth in September
Post Date: 2015-08-23 01:34:10 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- NASA struck down apocalyptic theories that a giant asteroid will hit Earth in September, saying there is "not one shred of evidence" the rumors are true. In response to online rumors about a massive asteroid strike between Sept. 15 and 28, the U.S. space agency sought to clarify "numerous recent blogs and web postings" as false. "All known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids have less than a 0.01 percent chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years," NASA said. "There is no scientific basis -- not one shred of evidence -- that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates," said Paul Chodas, ...
World's luckiest seal escapes death off Cape Cod - Raw video: Great white shark lunges out of the water in failed predation attempt
Post Date: 2015-08-21 15:05:01 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Super Solar Flare Could Send Earth Back to Dark Ages
Post Date: 2015-08-21 06:59:32 by Tatarewicz
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A rare super-flare from the sun is coming one day -- and it may be so intense it could plunge the Earth into utter chaos with casualties predicted in the millions. Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts have been hard at work trying to predict when the next super-flare may strike the Earth. The astronomers have studied 84 stars that closely resemble our sun, observing 29 solar flares of similar magnitude over a four year period. The flares were said to be 150 times more powerful than the average solar flare. If a large solar storm were to erupt, it would bombard the Earth within 12 hours, leaving us little time to prepare, the British ...
This narcolepsy ‘smart drug’ makes ordinary people smarter
Post Date: 2015-08-21 05:37:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Feeling a little slow today? This may help. A medication called modafinil is commonly used to treat people who experience narcolepsy, but it’s suspected that the vast majority of those who use the drug are taking it for another purpose that isn’t medically authorised: as a general cognitive enhancer for tasks such as studying or meeting a deadline. Now a comprehensive review of the medication has looked at this ‘off licence’ use of the drug by healthy, non-sleep-deprived subjects to determine whether modafinil is safe – and to confirm whether the belief that it acts as a general-purpose ‘smart drug’ is grounded in reality. According to ...
Faith-Based Physicists
Post Date: 2015-08-20 16:24:57 by Ada
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Writing in The Spectator, Alexander Masters points out that despite the idea that scientists deal only in the world of facts, some physicists believe bizarre things that, if professed by non-scientists, would qualify as religion. Excerpts: Physicists have a nerve. I know one (I’ll call him Mark) who berates every religious person he meets, yet honestly thinks there exist parallel universes, exactly like our own, in which we all have two noses. He refuses to give any credit to Old Testament creation myths and of course sneers at the idea of transubstantiation. But, without any sense of shame, he insists in the same breath that humans are made from the fallout of exploded stars; that ...
Weird Science: Neurologist Claims to Have Grown a 99% Complete Human Brain
Post Date: 2015-08-20 04:17:37 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... An Indian-born neuroscientist based in Columbus, Ohio claims to have grown a functioning mini-copy of the human brain using adult skin cells. The discovery may be used for testing medicines and for various other studies, although it is hard to assess its real value as the artificial brain is being kept secret due to a pending patent. Since the 1983 comedy hit ‘The Man With Two Brains', an iconic image associated with mad scientists has been that of an animated brain in a glass jar. Now a professor at Ohio State University has managed to grow his own tiny brain in a lab. Professor Rene Anand presented the work Tuesday at the Military Health System Research Symposium in ...
The mysterious massacre that wiped out Europe's first farmers:
Post Date: 2015-08-18 05:48:24 by Ada
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Remains reveal prehistoric torture and mutilation of men and children, while women were kidnapped 7,000 year old mass grave found near Frankfurt Skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers found 'Terrible wounds' was either torture or mutilation, researchers say Believe wounds were inflicted as a warning to others Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave with skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers bearing terrible wounds. Archaeologists painstakingly examined the bones of some 26 men, women and children buried in the Stone Age grave site at ...
Apple is scouting locations to test its top-secret self-driving cars
Post Date: 2015-08-17 04:25:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Over the weekend, correspondence obtained by The Guardian showed that staff at Apple have been in talks with officials from GoMentum Station, a former naval base near San Francisco that now serves as a high-security testing ground for autonomous vehicles. The documents, which were obtained under a public records act request, contain the first record of Apple’s involvement in the self-driving car market, though it’s been rumoured for months that something like this was in the works. Back in May, Apple senior vice-president Jeff Williams called the car "the ultimate mobile device", and added that the company was interested in expanding into whatever ...
Samsung shows off the world’s biggest hard drive: a 16TB SSD
Post Date: 2015-08-15 06:03:34 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It’s not always easy to fit our computing lifestyles within the bounds of our computing hardware. Photos, movies, music, games – you name it. All our digital media starts to add up after a while, and before you know it you’ve run out of room on your hard drive. Which is why the news that Samsung has just unveiled the world’s biggest hard drive immediately piqued our interest. The Korean company revealed its new uber-mega-drive this week at the Flash Memory Summit currently underway in California. And this thing really is big, offering a whopping 16 terabytes of storage, which is a whole 6 terabytes larger than the previous record holder. To put things ...
Humans May Face Malnutrition If Birds and Bees Disappear
Post Date: 2015-08-15 02:55:29 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... (Reuters Health) - If all the birds, bugs, bees and other creatures that pollinate our food crops were to disappear from the planet, humans could face a sharp increase in malnutrition, disease and death in many parts of the world, scientists estimate. Researchers analyzed supplies of 224 types of food in 156 countries, quantified the vitamins and nutrients in foods dependent on animal pollinators, and then calculated what nutritional deficits people could face if pollinators ceased to exist. Globally, dietary changes forced by the extinction of pollinators might increase deaths from non-communicable diseases and malnutrition-related problems by about 1.4 million, or a 2.7% ...
AVOWED ATHEIST INVOKES 'GOD PARTICLE' - Stephen Hawking’s new doomsday warning
Post Date: 2015-08-13 13:24:30 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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“This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming,” Hawking claimed in the book. Stephen Hawking says the ‘God Particle’ that scientists believe created the world could actually end it, too. The particle – know as Higgs boson – “has the worrisome feature” that it could become unstable at extremely high energies and create a “black hole” that would collapse the universe, the legendary British physicist has warned in a new book titled Starmus, according to the Daily Express. “This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming,” Hawking claimed in the book. But don’t quit your job and ...
Scientists discover molecular difference in male, female brains
Post Date: 2015-08-13 03:50:07 by Tatarewicz
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While an experimental drug affected neurotransmitters in female brains, it had no effect on male brains. Researchers found a difference in the way a specific endocannabinoid in the brain reacts to a drug designed to help it inhibit neurotransmitters in the brain. Neurotransmitters are released at synapses, the gap between neurons. EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Male and female brains function differently on a molecular level, researchers found while testing the effects of an anti-depressant drug. While the study was conducted on mice, researchers at Northwestern University said the research is important because the drug they were working with, URB-597 -- an anti-depressant that ...
Charged liquid droplets levitate atop electric blue light
Post Date: 2015-08-12 04:38:29 by Tatarewicz
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AQUITAINE, France, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Researchers in France have levitated a liquid droplet using a stream of electricity, creating a thin layer of plasma beneath. The phenomenon is similar to the Leidenfrost effect, in which floating droplets are propped up by a layers of hot vapor. Instead of hot air, the droplets are buoyed by a charge of radiation. Scientists, who detailed their recent discovery in the journal Applied Physics Letters, say the tecnique offers a simple, new way to generate freely movable microplasma. The levitating droplets may help researchers answer fundamental questions of physics. "This method is probably an easy and original way to make a plasma," Cedric ...
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