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The earliest known Mayan calendar has been found in an ancient house in Guatemala and it offers no hint that the world's end is imminent, say researchers.The earliest known Mayan calendar has been found in an ancient house in Guatemala and... more
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In an attempt to ‘stop global warming’, scientists have been experimenting with dumping several tons of iron into the Antarctic ocean in order to potentially fertilize the development of plankton. Despite raising a multitude of red flags raised from leading scientific organizations and health watch organizations, a new study is now calling for the practice to be even further extended as a worldwide ‘geoengineering’ strategy to alter the climate via dumping hundreds of tons of iron dust into the ocean. Previous research found that by dumping the heavy metal into oceans worldwide it could not only devastate the marine life population, but deplete oxygen levels and explode the growth of certain unwanted organisms. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/43075-geoengineering-fraud-dumping-iron-at-sea-capture-carbon-and-then-sell-carbon-credits-In an attempt to ‘stop global warming’, scientists have been experimenting... more
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Printing three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using “two-photon lithography”. With this technology, tiny structures on a nanometer scale can be fabricated. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have now made a major breakthrough in speeding up this printing technique: The high-precision-3D-printer at TU Vienna is orders of magnitude faster than similar devices (see video). This opens up completely new areas of application, such as in medicine. http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/news/concerts-news/item/ultra-high-resolution-3d-printer-with-nano-precision-breaks-speed-recordsPrinting three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using... more
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A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana is reporting the creation of a "solar paint" that could mark an important milestone on the road to widespread implementation of renewable energy technology.
link:http://www.gizmag.com/notre-dame-solar-paint/20925/A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana is reporting the... more
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A summer research expedition organized by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to the identification of gigantic amoebas at one of the deepest locations on Earth.
link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111024165037.htmA summer research expedition organized by scientists at Scripps Institution of... more
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Forget your car keys? Soon it won’t make a difference, as long as you have your laptop. An interesting viral Web video (see below) making the rounds since the Black Hat cybersecurity conference earlier this month depicts two researchers from iSEC Partners (a San Francisco-based security firm) breaking into a 1998 Subaru Outback via their PC. In less than 60 seconds, they wirelessly find the car’s security system module, bypass it and start the engine remotely. iSEC researchers Don Bailey and Mat Solnik claim to be able to hack their way into a securely locked car because its alarm relies on a cell phone or satellite network that can receive commands via text messaging. Devices connecting via a cellular or satellite network are assigned the equivalent of a phone number or Web address. If hackers can figure out the number or address for a particular car, they could use a PC to send commands via text messages that instruct the car to disarm, unlock and start. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/43000-thieves-could-steal-cars-via-text-messages-in-60-secondsForget your car keys? Soon it won’t make a difference, as long as you have your... more
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In science fiction movies, when robots talk to one another it's not really a "language" as much as a stream of beeps or long strings of binary. Even so, one group of Australian researchers have managed to teach robots to do something that, until now, was the reserve of humans and a few other animals: they've taught them how to invent and use spoken language.
The goal of the research is to understand how language evolves and develops naturally over time. Since it's impossible to find two humans who have no language and experiment with them to see how they invent one, the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology researchers decided to use robots instead. The robots, called LingoDroids, are equipped with microphones, speakers, cameras, range finders, and sonar that they use to map their surroundings and speak to one another. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/42967-lingodroid-project-robots-taught-to-invent-own-languageIn science fiction movies, when robots talk to one another it's not really a... more
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It's not wise to cut on science, education and culture: José Manuel Barroso says this during a visit in Italy to receive a laurea ad honorem at the Luiss University in Rome. His words probably have reached even the many Italians who live abroad and every day have to go in other countries if they want to work in areas such as research and culture which collect less and less interest from the political world in Italy.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/resistance/barrosonotaglicultura140311.htmlIt's not wise to cut on science, education and culture: José Manuel... more
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Among other important tasks of quantum photonics there is a problem of building an interface between atoms and light photons. Joint think-tank of physicists from Russia and United States studies how single photons interact with quantum objects and has already built a prototype device for transferring information from an atom to a photon. The device is an integrated chip in an artificial atom with a fibre port. The simplest application of future device is a memory cell, as for more complicated things, this device can become a single-photon transistor, working on the level of individual quanta, for building complex logic systems.. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/16003-quantum-computing-reaches-for-true-power-the-pioneers-of-qcAmong other important tasks of quantum photonics there is a problem of building an... more
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Obesity rates among people worldwide have soared over the last several decades -- but it turns out that humans aren't the only ones packing on the pounds. According to a recent study from the University of Alabama, many animals that spend too much time living around humans are prone to becoming overweight, and researchers aren't entirely sure why.
:http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/animals-are-becoming-obese-like-us-says-study.phpObesity rates among people worldwide have soared over the last several decades -- but... more
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Spaced-out adolescents in headphones litter YouTube, some panting and others wincing as they listen to droning, pulsating soundtracks known as iDoses. hey have fallen victim to an insidious new digital drug culture that preys on vulnerable young teens with money to burn. ith nothing but an mp3 player and an internet account they can can legally download 'binaural' audio downloads that claim to deliver a “high” that can mimic drugs like LSD and Crystal Meth. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/11915--i-dosing-or-digital-drugSpaced-out adolescents in headphones litter YouTube, some panting and others wincing... more
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Russian author Gennady Belimov published an article in which he described experiments led by Vadim Chernobrov, the inventor of a time machine in 1987. Chernobrov claims his machine can slow or speed up the course of time by tinkering with the Earth's magnetic field. His biggest success was the slowing of time for 1.5 seconds. One of the problems remote viewers have is acquiring time lines for future or past events that they examine. For example, a viewer might foresee a major catastrophe like a volcanic eruption, airplane crash or hurricane, but pinning down an exact moment when it will occur is extremely difficult. To deal with this problem, Aaron C. Donahue spent years developing an advanced form of viewing, which he calls the acquisition and practical application of non-historical data. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/10506-vadim-chernobrovRussian author Gennady Belimov published an article in which he described experiments... more
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Scientists in Japan have created something unusually cool in the name of research. The researchers discovered a way to render a dead animal’s flesh and muscles completely transparent while dying their skeletal systems a variety of bright colors. The colorful skeletons are beautiful and give us a completely different look at animals we’re used to seeing.
Read more: http://www.whitespace.bz/ws/web/forms/pulse/PulseMainArticle.aspx?id=508Scientists in Japan have created something unusually cool in the name of research. The... more
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Graphics processing units are powerful enough to conduct quick, effective brute-force attacks on password-protected systems. The researchers pointed out that GPUs have been amped-up over the years to handle increasingly sophisticated computer games, and in the process have achieved the power of a mini-supercomputer. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/1931-surprising-secret-weaponGraphics processing units are powerful enough to conduct quick, effective brute-force... more
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Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly ``cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.
http://www.grabi.co.cc/index.php/novosti/off/31940-old-marijuanaResearchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a... more
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Every physicist is taught that information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light. Yet laboratory experiments done over the last 30 years clearly show that some things appear to break this speed limit without upturning Einstein's special theory of relativity. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/405-faster-than-lightEvery physicist is taught that information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed... more
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One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things - where real-world objects are connected to the Internet - is the massive amount of new data on the Web that will result. As more and more "things" in the world are connected to the Internet, it follows that more data will be uploaded to and downloaded from the cloud. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/389-data-explosion-One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things - where real-world objects... more
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Goats that produce spider silk protein in their milk could enable researchers to collect large
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