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“A secret document prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is claiming that President Medvedev confirmed in his extended meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in February 2011 that the new planet named Tyche (pronounced ty-kee) by NASA will be appearing in the Earth’s night sky by 2012. Though the existence of this planet had long been known to the ancients, it has only been in the past year that Western scientists have begun informing their citizens about this unprecedented event soon to occur, but who are, also, still failing to tell how catastrophic its appearance will be....... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/submit-an-article/42993-nibiru-great-arrival-of-planet-x-timeline-of-2012-cataclysm“A secret document prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Russia’s Ministry... more
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier, a vast, turbulent expanse where the Sun's influence ends and the solar wind crashes into the thin gas between stars. ...... In November 2003, the Voyager team announced it was seeing events unlike any encountered before in the mission's then 26-year history. The team believed the unusual events indicated Voyager 1 was approaching a strange region of space, likely the beginning of this new frontier called the termination shock region. There was controversy at that time over whether Voyager 1 had indeed encountered the termination shock or was just getting close. "The consensus of the team now is that Voyager 1, at 8.7 billion miles from the Sun, has at last entered the heliosheath, the region beyond the termination shock," said Dr. John Richardson from MIT, Principal Investigator of the Voyager plasma science investigation.... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/submit-an-article/42955-voyager-entersNASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the solar system's final frontier, a... more
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The biggest solar blast in four years erupted late Monday, and it’s sending jets of charged particles right at Earth. The flare will spark bright auroras when it hits the magnetosphere in the next 24 to 48 hours.
A cluster of sunspots called Active Region 1158 unleashed the flare at 8:50 p.m. EST, Feb. 14 [1:50 a.m. UT, Feb. 15]. The flare was classified as a class X2.2, meaning it is the most powerful flare since December 2006. The sunspots have continued to let loose smaller flares and may still be active now.
NOAA forecasters estimate a 45 percent chance of geomagnetic activity on Thursday, Feb. 17, when the bulk of the radiation hits Earth’s magnetic field. It may create a stunning display of aurora borealis, better known as northern lights. So look up! If you take pictures, send us your best shots. If we get enough, we’ll create a reader gallery.The biggest solar blast in four years erupted late Monday, and it’s sending jets... more
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Scientists have managed to push back the date for the earliest known presence of a magnetic field on Earth by about 250 million years.
The evidence is seen in tiny iron minerals that are aligned inside ancient dacite rocks from the Barberton mountains in South Africa.
Analysis of the 3.45-billion-year-old minerals indicates the strength the field was much weaker than today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8659019.stmScientists have managed to push back the date for the earliest known presence of a... more
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The giant ALICE detector is already underway at CERN, and researchers are scrambling to add an electromagnetic calorimeter to capture jet-quenching, the newest way to look inside the quark-gluon plasma — the hot, dense state of matter that filled the earliest universe, which the Large Hadron Collider will soon recreate by slamming lead nuclei into one another. ...... http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=165:meet-alice-new-cerns-giant-detector&catid=29:the-cms&Itemid=20The giant ALICE detector is already underway at CERN, and researchers are scrambling... more
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The Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field which is generated by the flow of molten material in the earth’s core and the flow of ions in the atmosphere. Amazingly, a number of animals are able to sense this magnetic field. Just as a compass helps us navigate by detecting magnetic north, animals that possess a magnetic sense are able to identify direction and navigate over long distances.
Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) waves on the Earth are produced by processes occurring in the magnetosphere and by the solar wind. Some of these waves originate as far away as the Sun and are carried by the solar wind, while other sources are much closer to Earth. There are many sources of these waves, both external and internal to the earth’s magnetosphere.
The forces of the solar wind are carried by charged particles that are pushing against the earth’s magnetic field, thus creating distortions around a cavity of the Earth, named magnetosphere
Subrahmanyam et al., 1985, found, that yoga practitioners were able to better remain in balance when subjected to stress generating fields. Almost two decades of stress research carried out by the Institute of HeartMath also provides evidence that humans are better able to adjust to stress when trained in heart coherence. The advantage of heart coherence is that even for people with very little time to spare, a few minutes of daily heart coherence practice can help to significantly reduce daily stress.clipped:
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The controversial new paper, published in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society), will deflect geophysicists’ attention from postulated motion of conducting fluids in the Earth’s core, the twentieth century’s answer to the mysteries of geomagnetism and magnetosphere.
Correlations have now been found between ocean currents and disturbances sometimes called “geomagnetic jerks” in Earth's magnetic field confirming a theory postulated by Professor Gregory Ryskin from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University in Illinois.The controversial new paper, published in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the... more
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The lasting impression left by the Apollo missions is of a Moon that is gray, dusty, desolate and dead. But instruments left behind by Apollo astronauts recorded moonquakes and wobbles in its rotation that gave hints of a still molten core.
Now, a rock collected more than 36 years ago during Apollo 17, the last human visit to the Moon, reveals that the molten core may have once churned and generated a magnetic field.The lasting impression left by the Apollo missions is of a Moon that is gray, dusty,... more
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Reports from Russia’s Northern Fleet to Prime Minister Putin, who this past summer had expanded their operating range into the Arctic Ocean Regions, are stating that the United States has reinstituted its “Operation Plowshare” programme and detonated a series of hydrogen bomb explosions in the Arctic in an attempt to locate what these American’s claim are vast undersea oil and gas deposits belonging to their Nation.Reports from Russia’s Northern Fleet to Prime Minister Putin, who this past... more
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The world geological community is warning that today's seismic activity on our planet is nothing compared with what's to come.The world geological community is warning that today's seismic activity on our... more
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"Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?
Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.
Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.
In the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say the Earth's magnetic fields may influence the behaviour of these animals.
The Earth can be viewed as a huge magnet, with magnetic north and south situated close to the geographical poles.
Many species - including birds and salmon - are known to use the Earth's magnetic fields in migration, rather like a natural GPS.
A few studies have shown that some mammals - including bats - also use a "magnetic compass" to help their sense of direction.
Dr Sabine Begall, from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, has mainly studied the magnetic sense of mole rats - African animals that live in underground tunnels.
"We were wondering if larger animals also have this magnetic sense," she told BBC News.
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This sense may be quite widespread in the animal kingdom
Dr Begall and colleagues first decided to study the natural behaviour of domestic cattle.
The researchers surveyed Google Earth images of 8,510 grazing and resting cattle in 308 pasture plains across the globe.
"Sometimes it took hours and hours to find some pictures with good resolution," said Dr Begall.
The scientists were unable to distinguish between the head and rear of the cattle, but could tell that the animals tended to face either north or south.
Their study ruled out the possibility that the Sun position or wind direction were major influences on the orientation of the cattle.
Dr Begall said: "In Africa and South America, the cattle (were) shifted slightly to a more north-eastern-south-western direction.
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Forest dormitory: Deer "beds" are seen in a line
"But it is known that the Earth's magnetic field is much weaker there," she explained.
The researchers also recorded the body positions of 2,974 wild deer in 277 locations across the Czech Republic.
Their fieldwork revealed that the majority of grazing and resting deer face northward. About one-third of the deer faced southward.
"That might be some kind of anti-predatory behaviour," speculated Dr Begall.
Willy Miller - a Scottish cattle farmer - remarked: "I've never noticed that my cows all face the same way."
Cows are social animals: "[They] all sit down before it rains [and] huddle together in a circle formation during blizzards. But from a cow's point of view, that's just sensible," he told BBC News.
Professor John Phillips, a sensory biologist from Virginia Tech University, US, commented that this sixth magnetic sense might be "virtually ubiquitous in the animal kingdom".
He added: "We need to think about some really fundamental things that this sensory ability provides in animals."
The challenge remains for scientists to explain how the animals behave in this way - and if Scottish cattle are the exception to the rule!"
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If you're lost in the countryside without a compass, don't panic.
Just look for a herd of cows and see which way they are pointing.
After monitoring the behaviour of thousands of cattle, scientists have found that they tend to face north after aligning themselves with the Earth's magnetic field.
The astonishing ability appears to be a relic of the days when the wild ancestors of today's domesticated cattle used inbuilt compasses to find their way across the plains of Africa, Asia and Europe on long migrations.
The finding - based on satellite images of cattle all over the world - has astonished farmers and animal behaviourists.
Although cows are famed for their ability to forecast rain hours in advance, their talent for navigating has so far gone overlooked.
Dozens of species of animals use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate - including birds, turtles, termites and salmon.
The ability is also found in some mammals including rats and bats.
Animals are thought to use internal magnets - made of crystals of magnetite - to find their way around.
Homing pigeons, for instance, have a tiny blob of these crystals in their beaks.
Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen used Google Earth to find images of cattle in worldwide locations including Britain, Ireland, India and the U.S.
They also directly observed almost 3,000 deer in the Czech Republic.
The deer tended to face north when either resting or grazing, and while the satellite images of the cattle were not detailed enough to show which way they were facing, their bodies were clearly aligned in a north-south direction.
This suggested that they were behaving in the same way as their close relatives, the deer.
Because the direction of the wind and sunlight varied hugely in the different locations, the scientists were able to rule out weather and the position of the sun as an explanation.
'We conclude that the magnetic field is the only common and most likely factor responsible for the observed alignment,' the researchers wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Gywn Jones, who has kept dairy cattle for 25 years in West Sussex, confirmed: 'They know what weather to expect in advance.
'Beef cattle will head up to higher altitudes if the weather is going to good.
'My dairy cattle have their favourite fields where they go if it is going to be sunny.
'I let mine go in and out, and if it's going to be wet they head inside.
'In rough weather they like to have their backs to the wind. But I've not noticed a preference for facing north.' If you're lost in the countryside without a compass, don't panic.
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