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Researchers say carbon's journey to the middle of a desert aquifer takes 10,000 years
Post Date: 2015-07-29 09:24:46 by Tatarewicz
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URUMQI, China, July 28 (UPI) -- Keeping track of CO2 isn't easy. It's everywhere. Most of the carbon dioxide released into the air by humans (roughly 70 percent) ends up in the atmosphere or the ocean, but the greenhouse gas is also soaked up by plant life. But plants can't account for all the missing gas. New research suggests aquifers flowing beneath the world's deserts are hiding away large amounts of CO2. According to the new study, these "carbon sinks" may hold more carbon than all the planet's plants combined. A team of international researchers suggest the process by which carbon makes its way into large underground pools was accelerated by the ...
Microsoft offers Windows 10 upgrade for free
Post Date: 2015-07-29 08:37:25 by Tatarewicz
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REDMOND, Wash., July 29 (UPI) -- Beginning Wednesday, about 600 million registered users of Windows 7 and 8 will be able to upgrade to Microsoft's newest Windows 10 free of charge over the Internet. The operating system will be available for download in 190 countries. In what is anticipated to be a rough day for the Internet due to traffic, Windows users who earlier registered for the download when prompted by their system will begin to be sent a link to download the new OS, which feature the return of a Start button, a faster Internet browser named Edge and a Siri-like voice search app called Cortana. Additionally, Xbox One gamers will be able to play opponents on PCs or Xbox One ...
Up and Away: MiG-29 Performs Amazing Vertical Takeoff
Post Date: 2015-07-27 05:06:55 by Tatarewicz
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A spectacular maneuver performed by Russian-made fighter aircraft. The legendary MiG-29 once again demonstrates its capabilities as it performs a spectacular vertical takeoff. Those planes were certainly built to last.
New Long March-5 carrier rocket tested in China
Post Date: 2015-07-27 04:55:01 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Chinese scientists on Friday successfully tested the power system of a Long March-5 carrier rocket scheduled for flight in 2016. Development of the rocket, the fifth-generation launch vehicle of the Long March family, has entered a "runoff" phase, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The rocket will have a payload capacity of 25 tonnes to low Earth orbits, or 14 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit, about twice the current capacity. The would-be capacity will be equivalent to that of mainstream rocket carriers now in use around the world. The rocket will serve as the final chapter of China's three-step– ...
As Good as New: ‘Bio-Cement’ Will Regenerate Bones!
Post Date: 2015-07-25 03:59:47 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... Doctors are set to scan damaged bones and 3D-print the missing parts, which will later transform into the recipient’s own tissue. Operation Russia May Begin Development of Artificial Heart in 2015 The scientists of the Russian National Research Nuclear University developed a technique to convert animal bones into material that can substitute the damaged parts of human bones, the institution’s press service said in a statement. The new substance is based on biological hydroxyapatite – a white powder that resembles cement when mixed with a biological polymer. It is soft and flexible like plasticine when kneaded but hardens after being placed on the damaged bone. ...
Scientists Discover Secret to Why We Grow Old in a Lowly Roundworm
Post Date: 2015-07-25 03:41:59 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda... A new study, conducted by researchers from Northwestern University in Illinois, has revealed that a simple genetic "switch" may be the key to the solving the mystery of aging. Caenorhabditis elegans, the roundworm, is a deceptively simple animal, and yet one of some notoriety: it was the first creature to have its genome sequenced and to have all of its neural connections mapped. By exploring this worm, Richard I. Morimoto and his fellow researchers were able to find a certain genetic marker that turns on the aging process. According to the study, the turning point coincides with the moment the worm reaches reproductive maturity, eight hours into its lifetime. The ...
Engineers Call This The "Soalr Panel Killer"
Post Date: 2015-07-24 17:22:28 by BTP Holdings
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This new device may demolish the entire solar panel industry. If you or someone you know is concerned about their electricity bill each month... Or you are considering shelling out tens of thousands of your HARD-EARNED money on the solar panels... Then you absolutely must STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING immediately and watch this very short video before it's too late! It describes a new and cheap invention that is so DANGEROUS and revolutionary to the status-quo politicians and giant energy companies… Because it lets ANYONE, no matter how smart or rich you are, generate ALL of the electricity that your home needs… And it lets you do it COMPLETELY FOR FREE using materials ...
Ambitious plans for hybrid fission-fusion reactor in China by 2030
Post Date: 2015-07-24 06:23:59 by Tatarewicz
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Want... The first nuclear fusion-fission hybrid reactor will be launched in China before 2030, according to Duowei News, a US-based news outlet run by overseas Chinese, citing a report in state-owned Science and Technology Daily. Nuclear fusion refers to a nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei come very close and then collide at a very high speed, joining to form a new type of atomic nucleus, whereas in nuclear fission, the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts. The report said that this newly launched reactor will be three times more powerful than a fission reactor. The hybrid reactor is comparatively safe as the power of the machine can be controlled externally, according to ...
Guizhou radio telescope may pick up signs of alien life
Post Date: 2015-07-24 04:17:28 by Tatarewicz
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Want... A 500-meter aperture spherical telescope (FAST) is currently being constructed on top of a Karst landscape in Pingtang county in the Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture of Guizhou. Once complete, the radio telescope will be the most likely avenue for China to make first contact with aliens, according to our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily. On July 22 the installation of the first set of 1000 panels began. The telescope will incorporate 4,450 panels on completion, forming a 250,000-square-meter reflecting surface, roughly the size of 30 football pitches, which will give it the largest diameter of any telescope of its kind in the world at 500 meters. The cable net ...
Gorgeous NASA Photo Captures Earth from 1 Million Miles Away
Post Date: 2015-07-21 16:26:00 by BTP Holdings
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Gorgeous NASA Photo Captures Earth from 1 Million Miles Away SPACE.com By Mike Wall July 20, 2015 3:42 PM Undated handout photo issued by NOAA of the Earth photographed from one million miles way by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. Humanity's home planet looks pretty amazing from nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away. NASA released today (July 20) the first image of the sunlit side of Earth taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft from its final science orbit, and the beautiful photo has already made quite an impact. "Just got this new blue marble photo from ?@NASA. A beautiful reminder that we ...
Birth order has no noticeable effect on personality, IQ, study says
Post Date: 2015-07-21 02:52:43 by Tatarewicz
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill., July 20 (UPI) -- Birth order produces a small, statistically significant difference in personality and IQ, but it is far too small to be noticeable to anybody in everyday life. Most birth order-related differences in children are more likely based on the actions and interpretation of their parents, not the slight differences between them, according to a study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. "The message of this study is that birth order probably should not influence your parenting, because it's not meaningfully related to your kid's personality or IQ," Rodica Damian, a professor of psychology at the University of Houston, said in a ...
A rock worth $5.4 trillion is flying by Earth this weekend - here's how to watch
Post Date: 2015-07-18 07:45:05 by Tatarewicz
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Asteroids might not look like much on the outside, but you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Underneath the surface of some asteroids is a treasure trove of a type of mineral, called platinum, that is rare on Earth but extremely lucrative - 1,000 cubic centimetres of platinum is worth close to $US1 million. And asteroids have a lot more than that. One of these platinum-loaded asteroids will be flying by Earth on Sunday, July 19. And this particular one, called asteroid 2011 UW-158, is thought to harbour an estimated $US5.4 trillion worth of platinum. Although asteroid mining is a goal for near-future for space exploration, we don’t have the technology right now to mine one. ...
A robot has just passed a classic self-awareness test for the first time
Post Date: 2015-07-18 07:28:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A researcher at Ransselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US has given three Nao robots an updated version of the classic 'wise men puzzle' self-awareness test... and one of them has managed to pass. In the classic test, a hypothetical King calls forward the three wisest men in the country and puts either a white or a blue hat on their heads. They can all see each other's hats, but not their own, and they're not allowed to talk to each other. The King promises that at least one of them is wearing a blue hat, and that the contest is fair, meaning that none of them have access to any information that the others don't. Whoever is smart enough to work out ...
Man with 90-minute memory baffles doctors
Post Date: 2015-07-18 04:54:34 by Tatarewicz
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LEICESTER, England, July 16 (UPI) -- Doctors have been baffled by a man who was brought to the hospital in 2005 after a root canal with tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, and an ability to remember things for 10 minutes after they occurred before the memories would disappear forever. The memory problem, called anterograde amnesia, has been seen before in people with structural damage to their brain. In this case, however, the man had not experienced trauma that would harm the hippocampus, which makes new memories. "I remember getting into the chair and the dentist inserting the local anesthetic," the man, whose identity has been withheld to protect his privacy, told the BBC. But ...
Massless particle discovered 85 years after it was theorized
Post Date: 2015-07-18 04:37:48 by Tatarewicz
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PRINCETON, N.J., July 17 (UPI) -- Researchers have discovered a massless particle, which was first theorized 85 years ago and thought to be a possible building block for other subatomic particles. The discovery of the Weyl fermion, conceived of by mathematician and physicist Hermann Weyl in 1929, could be a boon for electronics, researchers said. It could allow electricity to flow more freely and efficiently providing greater power, most notably for computers. "The physics of the Weyl fermion are so strange, there could be many things that arise from this particle that we're just not capable of imagining now," M. Zahid Hasan, a professor of physics at Princeton University, ...
Researchers say seaweed tastes like bacon
Post Date: 2015-07-16 07:54:08 by Tatarewicz
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CORVALLIS, Ore., July 15 (UPI) -- Having trouble getting your kids to eat vegetables? A new strain of designer seaweed might be just what you're looking for. Scientists at Oregon State University (OSU) have been successfully growing a patented strain of bright red algae that they say, when cooked, tastes like bacon. It's a superfood for people who don't eat superfoods. Dulse (Palmaria palmata) is a red alga that grows wild off the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific. Harvested and dried, the seaweed fetches a hefty price as snack food and cooking ingredient -- used commonly along the coasts of Ireland as a flavor enhancer for soups and stews. While the new strain of ...
UNPRECEDENTED IN HISTORICAL RECORD - Record 117-Month Major Hurricane Drought Continues
Post Date: 2015-07-15 21:44:21 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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(CNSNews.com)—It has been 117 months since a major hurricane, defined as a Category 3 or above, has made landfall in the continental United States, according to 2015 data from the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).This is the longest span of time in which no major hurricane has struck the mainland U.S. in NOAA hurricane records going back to 1851.The second longest time between major hurricane strikes was the eight years between 1860 and 1869—146 years ago.A recent study published May 5 and co-authored by Tim Hall of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Institute for Space Studies ...
The Netherlands plans to pave its roads with recycled plastic
Post Date: 2015-07-14 04:16:51 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Road surfacing may not be the first application that comes to mind for recycled plastic bottles, but Dutch construction firm VolkerWessels has plans to use the material for a pilot scheme in the city of Rotterdam. While the idea is still at the conceptual stage for now, the company says that its plastic, environmentally friendly roads could be in place within three years. There are many benefits to using recycled plastic rather than asphalt for a driving surface: producing the material would have a much smaller environmental footprint; it would last longer; require less maintenance; and be able to withstand greater extremes in temperature. The plastic solution would be ...
Scientists Scream After This Invention Proves To Be 12 Times More Efficient Than Solar Panels
Post Date: 2015-07-13 17:08:30 by BTP Holdings
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Scientists find evidence of geothermal heating under Antarctic ice sheet
Post Date: 2015-07-13 03:16:30 by Tatarewicz
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Recent research has revealed evidence of geothermal heating from below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which could be bad news amidst concerns of rising sea levels. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been under recent fire from rising global temperatures, shedding much of its mass into the Southern Ocean in the form of liquid fresh water. According to a report from UPI, that’s not all the ice sheet needs to be concerned about – scientists have just detected a surprising amount of heat being applied to the ice from geothermal activity below. Using a deep probe, scientists took measurements of the flow of heat in the sediments underneath the ice sheet. They were shocked to find ...
Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will 'go to sleep' in 2030 and could cause temperatures to plummet
Post Date: 2015-07-12 07:12:06 by Tatarewicz
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Dailymail.com The Earth could be headed for a 'mini ice age' researchers have warned. A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles - and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out. This, they say, will lead to a phenomenon known as the 'Maunder minimum' - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London's River Thames to freeze over. Scroll down for video A silent sun: In 2011 this image was captured showing an almost clear sun - which experts say could happen for almost a decade from 2030. A silent sun: In 2011 this image was captured showing an almost clear sun - ...
Way Better and Cheaper Than Solar Panels
Post Date: 2015-07-11 12:13:38 by BTP Holdings
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Slash Your Electricity Bill By 80% Or More... Starting TODAY! Hi, I'm Abel Thomas and in the next 6 minutes I am going give you the startling reason why EVERYTHING you need to gain complete energy independence is sitting in your trashcan... ...your backyard...and even your kitchen cabinets... Show you how you can slash your electricity bill by 80% or more starting TODAY...by using an unconventional, but HIGHLY effective power generating method that people in Vietnam, Korea, and the Philippines have been exploiting for over 200 years to keep their homes lit and their food cooked...even though they live on less than $1.50 per day... Without having invest in fancy solar panels that ...
Driverless taxis will cut greenhouse emissions by up to 90%, study finds
Post Date: 2015-07-11 03:56:50 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft may dominate today's headlines, but the next auto revolution looks to be even more transformative, with scientists predicting truly huge environmental benefits when self-driving cars like those developed by Google hit the streets en masse. Researchers from the Berkeley Lab in the US say the kinds of lightweight electric vehicles that will be used for driverless cars by 2030 will offer outstanding benefits in terms of cost efficiency, while slashing global greenhouse emissions by as much as 90 percent. It almost sounds too good to be true, but the findings, published this week in Nature Climate Change, are firmly rooted in ...
Cheer up, the post-human era is dawning
Post Date: 2015-07-10 21:26:59 by Southern Style
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Cheer up, the post-human era is dawning Artificial minds will not be confined to the planet on which we have evolved, writes Martin ReesSo vast are the expanses of space and time that fall within an astronomer’s gaze that people in my profession are mindful not only of our moment in history, but also of our place in the wider cosmos. We wonder whether there is intelligent life elsewhere; some of us even search for it. People will not be the culmination of evolution. We are near the dawn of a post-human future that could be just as prolonged as the billions of years of Darwinian selection that preceded humanity’s emergence. The far future will bear traces of humanity, just as our ...
Shocking Report from Medical Insiders
Post Date: 2015-07-07 10:44:04 by NeoconsNailed
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A shocking admission by the editor of the world’s most respected medical journal, The Lancet, has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief of the Lancet recently published a statement declaring that a shocking amount of published research is unreliable at best, if not completely false, as in, fraudulent. Horton declared, “Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards ...
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