|
Latest Articles: Science/Tech
Biohacking: Get Ready for Homemade GMOs
Post Date: 2015-10-15 19:59:53 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
Biohacking: Get Ready for Homemade GMOs Posted on October 15, 2015 by Brad Hoppmann Have you ever heard of a "biohacking" party? Biohacking is basically figuring out various tricks and shortcuts to enhance our physical processes such as athletic performance, sleep, mental clarity, weight loss, etc. I first learned about the concept a while ago. Yet it wasn’t until recently that I heard about parties being thrown devoted to discussions of biohacking right in your own kitchen by modifying genetic organisms. Not only are discussions going on, but one company now makes it possible to do your own, homemade genetic engineering. According to a recent article on the ...
How the internet works
Post Date: 2015-10-15 10:58:18 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
2 Comments
DARPA: Genetically Modified Humans for a Super Soldier Army
Post Date: 2015-10-15 05:50:08 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
DARPA: Genetically Modified Humans for a Super Soldier Army October 11, 2015 By Paul A. Philips You’ve seen it as science-fiction on TV or in the movies, but now it’s science-fact. I’m talking about the Pentagon’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) creation of a super soldier army with super human abilities achieved through genetic modification. Going on for some years, shrouded in secrecy, these mutants will make future wars totally different games. The genetic modification of specific human genes will give these soldiers certain characteristics advantageous on the battlefield, giving rise to the most amazing abilities and performances. ...
Catastrophic ice shelf collapse would see oceans rise for millennia, say experts
Post Date: 2015-10-15 03:38:06 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
ScienceAlert... With the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference set to commence next month with the objective of securing a binding, universal agreement to limit global temperature increase, there’s never been a more dramatically opportune moment for world leaders to take a meaningful stand against rising sea levels. And we don’t have any time to lose. New research published this week suggests that if temperatures rise just 1.5°C to 2°C above present levels it will result in a catastrophic collapse in Antarctic ice sheets, ensuring sea levels will rise for not hundreds of years – but potentially thousands. “The long reaction time of the Antarctic ...
German, Iran firms ink solar energy accord
Post Date: 2015-10-14 07:32:18 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
PressTV... Germany’s Green Energy 3000 GmbH has signed an agreement to generate 10 megawatts of solar power in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, a news agency says. The MoU signed with Khuzestan District Electricity Company (KDEC) is a prelude to the German holding’s construction of a 100-megawatt power plant in the province, KDEC head Mahmoud Janqorban said on Wednesday. He signed the agreement with Managing Director of Green Energy 3000 Andreas Renker who welcomed the new opening in trade relationship between Iran and Germany after the July conclusion of nuclear talks. “It is import to us to upgrade economic cooperation between Iran and German,” the Tasnim ...
Genetic changes could make pig organs usable for human transplant
Post Date: 2015-10-14 06:37:40 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
BOSTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A gene editing technique called CRISPR could allow scientists to genetically modify pig organs to be better matches for human transplant patients, according to new research. Researchers at Harvard Medical School found 62 DNA sequences in pigs, which are the remnants of a virus called porcine endogenous retrovirus, or PERV, that has been shown to infect human cells in lab experiments. Scientists think that pig organs could be used for human transplant patients because they are similar in size. PERV, and the intense immune response to pig cells, have held back their use. "Basically, this whole field has been in the doldrums for 15 years," George Church, ...
Watch Ted Cruz Embarrass Climate Change Scientist – With Science
Post Date: 2015-10-12 20:27:28 by BTP Holdings
2 Comments
Watch Ted Cruz Embarrass Climate Change Scientist – With Science Ted Cruz is a veteran of the political circuit. Just when liberals think they might have him with his back against the wall Cruz manages to get the upper hand on his political opponents. In a recent exchange with one of the most liberal, pro-man made global warming alarmists around, Cruz managed to make him look quite the fool. Sierra Club President Aaron Mair simply couldn’t come up with an answer when Cruz asked him why satellite data didn’t support their argument global warming is taking place. For America wrote: Mair grew visibly uncomfortable during the judiciary subcommittee hearing as Cruz asked ...
British Petroleum's "Smart Pig" The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown
Post Date: 2015-10-11 13:14:31 by BTP Holdings
1 Comments
British Petroleum's "Smart Pig" Tuesday, August 8, 2006 The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown by Greg Palast For The Guardian (UK) Is the Alaska Pipeline corroded? You bet it is. Has been for more than a decade. Did British Petroleum shut the pipe yesterday to turn a quick buck on its negligence, to profit off the disaster it created? Just ask the "smart pig." Years ago, I had the unhappy job of leading an investigation of British Petroleum's management of the Alaska pipeline system. I was working for the Chugach villages, the Alaskan Natives who own the shoreline slimed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker grounding. Even ...
With Ice Growing at Both Poles, Global Warming Theories Implode
Post Date: 2015-10-11 13:13:17 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
0 Comments
In the Southern Hemisphere, sea-ice levels just smashed through the previous record highs across Antarctica, where there is now more ice than at any point since records began. In the Arctic, where global-warming theorists preferred to keep the public focused due to some decreases in ice levels over recent years, scientists said sea-ice melt in 2014 fell below the long-term mean. Global temperatures, meanwhile, have remained steady for some 18 years and counting, contrary to United Nations models predicting more warming as carbon dioxide levels increased. Of course, all of that is great news for humanity — call off the carbon taxes and doomsday bunkers! However, as global-warming ...
Canadian firm opens facility to pull carbon from air
Post Date: 2015-10-11 03:46:29 by Tatarewicz
9 Comments
Yahoo... Squamish (Canada) (AFP) - A company with global plans to pull carbon from thin air to make fuel, while tackling climate change, opened a pilot plant in this remote western Canadian community. Carbon Engineering, backed by Bill Gates and other investors, unveiled a test facility able to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using giant fans. That carbon goes through a series of chemical processes and emerges as pellets, which can be used to make fuel -- or simply be stored underground. The company was founded in Calgary in 2009 by David Keith, a Harvard University climate scientist, with funding from private investors. Unlike existing machines that capture carbon from ...
Controversy in China over Nobel Prize winner, academy membership rules
Post Date: 2015-10-11 00:36:50 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want China Times Chinese medical researcher Tu Youyou, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, is a controversial figure mainly because she is not a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences. Tu, 84, along with two foreign scientists, has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her role in developing an anti-malaria drug that has saved millions of lives in Africa and Asia. The award is considered a milestone in China's history of science and technology, as Tu is not only the first Chinese citizen but also the first Chinese-trained scientist ever to receive the prestigious science award. In China, she is a controversial figure who is being referred to by ...
TRUTH-TELLING STARTS WITH FACT-FINDING
Post Date: 2015-10-10 08:43:36 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
TRUTH-TELLING STARTS WITH FACT-FINDING by David Dittman, Executive Editor Editors' Note: Welcome to the new Wall Street Daily Weekend Edition. In addition to our regular roundup of top content featured at Wall Street Daily during the week that was, we're now including extended commentary from Editorial Director David Dittman. And highlighting this new digest is the video-based Saturday Spotlight, which will "shine" on one member of our talented and hard-working team of market analysts each week. Enjoy! And please let us know what you think of the new format by contacting us here. Greg Miller is the kind of analyst who pounds the pavement in search of every last bit ...
CLIMATE ALARMIST CAUGHT IN ‘LARGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL IN U.S. HISTORY’
Post Date: 2015-10-10 07:55:35 by Ada
0 Comments
The plan by climate alarmists to have other scientists imprisoned for their ‘global warming’ skepticism is backfiring horribly, and the chief alarmist is now facing a House investigation into what has been called “the largest science scandal in US history.” Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)60% , Chairman of the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, has written to Professor Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University, in Virginia, requesting that he release all relevant documents pertaining to his activities as head of a non-profit organization called the Institute of Global Environment And Society. Smith has two main areas of concern. First, the apparent engagement by ...
2km-wide asteroid approaching Earth, NASA warns
Post Date: 2015-10-10 02:26:20 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
RT... An asteroid big enough to kill millions of people is on its way to Earth but is expected to brush past, missing by a mere 25 million kilometers – a narrow distance by space standards, NASA said. The celestial object, called Asteroid 86666 (2000 FL10), was first observed 16 years ago. On Saturday it will pass Earth, one of the biggest asteroids to approach our planet so closely. The rock’s exact size is unknown, but it could be as wide as 2.6 kilometers, according to estimates. It will zip past at a speed of more than 64,000 kilometers an hour at a distance of about 25 million kilometers – about 67 times further than the moon. READ MORE: #Trilliondollarbaby: See ...
China to invest US$30bn in intelligent transportation industry: expert
Post Date: 2015-10-09 06:31:37 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Want... Wu Zhongze, chairman of China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association (ITS China), revealed in an exclusive interview with Xinhua during the 22nd ITS World Congress in France that China's investment in the intelligent transportation industry (ITS) is estimated to amount to about US$30 billion by 2020. Wu said that intelligent transport has developed rapidly in China in recent years, noting that the country has established a national motor vehicle and driver information management system while public transport IC card systems are connected in the Pearl River Delta and eastern China's Jiangsu province. Electronic toll collection (ETC) systems are adopted in 29 Chinese ...
Scientists discover why elephants rarely get cancer
Post Date: 2015-10-09 04:03:52 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
As elephants evolved, their bodies made many extra copies of a gene that prevents tumors from forming Miami (AFP) - Despite their big size, elephants rarely get cancer, and scientists said Thursday they have discovered the secret to the creatures' special protection. It's in the genes. Elephants have 38 additional modified copies of a gene that encodes p53, a compound that suppresses tumor formation. Humans, on the other hand, have only two, according to the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This means that as elephants evolved, their bodies made many extra copies of a gene that prevents tumors from forming. Elephants have been considered an ...
Candle soot can power lithium ion batteries
Post Date: 2015-10-08 06:15:42 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
HYDERABAD, India, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Carbon is a common ingredient in the production of smaller lithium batteries, but it doesn't work as well in larger batteries, like those used to power electric cars. That could soon change. Researchers in India have discovered a unique material for carbon-based anodes, the parts of a lithium battery that store energy and facilitate the flow of electricity. The material is candle soot, the unique carbon nanoparticles wafting off the end of a candle flame. Carbon used in smaller batteries loses its conductivity when scaled up, but candle soot features the proper density for use in larger batteries. As the scientists experiments proved, the shape and ...
Here's how to make perfect diamonds in the microwave
Post Date: 2015-10-07 07:28:02 by Tatarewicz
3 Comments
ScienceAlert...Right now, odds are that one in every four diamonds on sale around the world is a blood diamond - mined in a war zone and sold to finance armed conflict and civil war. And for those wanting to steer clear of such a commodity, it’s becoming nearly impossible to figure out the difference between a clean and a dirty diamond. Which is why the market for lab-made diamonds is slowly but surely growing, offering a cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and ethically sound option that looks just as pretty as its natural counterpart. "To a modern young consumer, if they get a diamond from above the ground or in the ground, do they really care?" Chaim Even-Zohar from ...
Modern parenting may hinder brain development, research suggests
Post Date: 2015-10-07 07:24:39 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research presented recently at a symposium at the University of Notre Dame. "Life outcomes for American youth are worsening, especially in comparison to 50 years ago," says Darcia Narvaez, Notre Dame professor of psychology who specializes in moral development in children and how early life experiences can influence brain development. "Ill-advised practices and beliefs have become commonplace in our culture, such as the use of infant formula, the isolation of infants in their own rooms or the belief that ...
DNA scientists win 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Post Date: 2015-10-07 07:20:41 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceDaily... STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and Turkish-born Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA, giving insight into cancer treatments, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “Their work has provided fundamental knowledge of how a living cell functions and is, for instance, used for the development of new cancer treatments,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement awarding the 8 million Swedish crowns ($969,000) Thousands of spontaneous changes to a cell’s genome occur on a daily basis while radiation, free radicals and carcinogenic ...
Deadly Robot Wars: Delay in UN Treaty Could Spell Doomsday
Post Date: 2015-10-07 00:26:38 by Tatarewicz
3 Comments
Sputnik... An urgent warning has been lodged with the United Nations that delays over negotiations pertaining to autonomous lethal weapons of the future could spell failure in the fight to stop deadly robot wars from becoming a reality. The fight for a preemptive ban on killer robots is intensifying at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, but the deal may not happen in time from such Terminator-type robots from being deployed, the Guardian reported. The robotics industry worldwide is now worth an incredible $30 billion, and is growing exponentially. This represents a challenge for scientists to reign in the manufacture of the technology before it is uncontrollable — and ...
Physics duo wins the Nobel Prize for solving longstanding neutrino puzzle
Post Date: 2015-10-06 22:40:01 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceAlert... Canada’s Arthur B McDonald and Japan’s Takaaki Kajita have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their surprising discovery that tiny, subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass. Their experimental results forced scientists to rethink the Standard Model of particle physics that had successfully explained all observations of the subatomic world for decades. What are neutrinos? Neutrinos are produced when radioactive isotopes decay and have been shrouded in mystery ever since Wolfgang Pauli first proposed them in 1930. In the Standard Model, they were assumed to have no mass (like particles of light, photons) and be neutral (lacking electric charge). ...
Living ‘mini-brains’ that cost just 25 cents could replace animal testing
Post Date: 2015-10-06 07:33:54 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
ScienceAlert... Working miniature brains with functioning nervous tissue could easily and inexpensively be used for testing in biomedical research, possibly lessening reliance on animals, researchers say. According to the team behind the ‘mini-brains’ – which are functional in that they are an electrically active sphere of central nervous system tissue – the mini-brains could be ideal for testing things like drugs research, neural tissue transplants, or experiments with stem cells. The process for building them is described in a new paper by researchers from Brown University in the US. “We think of this as a way to have a better in vitro [lab] model that can ...
Giant magnet tricks migrating songbirds
Post Date: 2015-10-06 03:58:59 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A variety of research suggests migrating birds use electromagnetic maps to guide their paths north and south. But it is a difficult hypothesis to prove. To show that electromagnetic navigation is more important than visual cues, researchers decided to manipulate the earth's electromagnetic fields along the migration route of Eurasian reed warblers traveling along the Russian coast. Previously, the same team of researchers -- from the Queen's University Belfast, in Northern Ireland -- captured a flock of a warblers near the Biological Station Rybachy, along the Russian coast, and released the birds 1,000 miles east in Kishkinev, Russia. ...
Chernobyl disaster: Exclusion zone around plant has become wildlife haven
Post Date: 2015-10-06 00:02:39 by NeoconsNailed
0 Comments
This is O. Henry-level irony: the worst nuclear disaster in history turns the area into a natural paradise. Missing in action from the article: how can these creatures thrive in a contamination zone where people are still banned? 'The scientists found no evidence to support earlier studies suggesting that wildlife in the region had suffered from the radiation released after the Chernobyl accident of 1986 which sent plumes of radioactive emissions across much of northern Europe, causing radiation “hotspots” within the exclusion zone' -- ??? I was told by some Dutch people after Chernobyl that the radiation caused produce to grow in giant sizes in Western Europe but the ...
Latest [Newer] 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 [Older]
|