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Topic: Science and Nature News Redux Posted: 04-Nov-2011 at 15:57 |
City Lights Could Reveal E.T. Civilization
"In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomers have hunted for radio signals and ultra-short laser pulses. In a new paper, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Edwin Turner (Princeton University) suggest a new technique for finding aliens: look for their city lights. "Looking for alien cities would be a long shot, but wouldn't require extra resources. And if we succeed, it would change our perception of our place in the universe," said Loeb. As with other SETI methods, they rely on the assumption that aliens would use Earth-like technologies. This is reasonable because any intelligent life that evolved in the light from its nearest star is likely to have artificial illumination that switches on during the hours of darkness....."
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Posted: 05-Nov-2011 at 05:19 |
Take care people cause CIA's vengeful librarians are watching you: (Big Brother is shortest but...) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/22/lulzsec-hackers-cia
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Posted: 05-Nov-2011 at 09:21 |
Two-Headed Albino Milk Snake Born in Fla.Published November 02, 2011| Associated Press
RIDGE MANOR, Fla. – A University of Central Florida biologist says a rare, two-headed albino milk snake was recently born.
Daniel Parker told Orlando television station WKMG-TV the snake hatched last week in an incubation container.
Parker says most two-headed snakes have typical coloration. Albino snakes don't have dark pigmentation in their skin. Albino milk snakes appear in bright shades of red, orange and white. |
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/02/two-headed-albino-milk-snake-born-in-fla/
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Posted: 05-Nov-2011 at 16:01 |
Russian battle station from Moon raker movie will competes for NASA's money also: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/almaz_excalibur.html#ccdev
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Posted: 05-Nov-2011 at 18:18 |
Wind Farms Disrupting Radar, Scientists SayPublished November 05, 2011 | FoxNews.com
This one's really off the radar.
Wind farms, along with solar power and other alternative energy sources, are supposed to produce the energy of tomorrow. Evidence indicates that their countless whirring fan blades produce something else: "blank spots" that distort radar readings.
Now government agencies that depend on radar -- such as the Department of Defense and the National Weather Service -- are spending millions in a scramble to preserve their detection capabilities. A four-star Air Force general recently spelled out the problem to Dave Beloite, the director of the Department of Defense’s Energy Siting Clearinghouse. | http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/05/wind-farms-disrupting-radar-scientists-say/
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Posted: 06-Nov-2011 at 04:48 |
Bigger social network could mean brain gain
"By comparing the brains of monkeys living in large groups to those living in smaller groups, scientists have found that the brain can change shape to accommodate social network size. The finding, published in Science today, reveals that there are still opportunities for the brain to change, even during adulthood. It also suggests that a complex social environment puts pressure on improving brain plasticity - our brain's ability to efficiently adapt to changes. The researchers found that areas of the brain known to process social information such as facial expressions were larger in monkeys who lived in larger groups, and vice versa...." http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4932/bigger-social-network-could-mean-brain-gain-baby
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Posted: 06-Nov-2011 at 04:53 |
Sea life to swim faster to survive
"Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned.
Sea life, particularly in the Indian Ocean, the Western and Eastern Pacific and the subarctic oceans will face growing pressures to adapt or relocate to escape extinction, according to a new study by an international team of scientists published in the journal Science.
“Our research shows that species which cannot adapt to the increasingly warm waters they will encounter under climate change will have to swim farther and faster to find a new home,” says team member Professor John Pandolfi of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and The University of Queensland...."
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Posted: 06-Nov-2011 at 04:57 |
Humans, climate killed Ice Age mammals
"In the largest study of its kind, scientists including the University of Sydney's Dr Simon Ho have unravelled the factors that caused the extinction of iconic Ice Age mammals such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth.
The study, published in the journal Nature this week, shows that both climate change and humans were responsible for the mass extinctions of large mammals - called megafauna - 50,000 years ago.
An extensive interdisciplinary research team, involving over 40 academic institutions around the world, studied the extinction of six Ice Age mammals and found the impacts of climate change and humans had dramatically different consequences for each species....."
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Posted: 06-Nov-2011 at 09:23 |
Mysterious 'Unicorns of the Sea' Tracked by Scientists for First Time By Katharine Gammon Published November 01, 2011| LiveScience
The frigid waters of the Arctic are home to near-mythical creatures, sometimes called the "unicorns of the sea" for the long, ivory tusk that spirals several feet out of the top of their heads.
Worldwide there are only about 50,000 to 80,000 narwhals, as they are more commonly known, with about two-thirds of these whales summering in the fjords and inlets of Nunavut in northern Canada.Scientists are hoping to learn more about narwhals through a new effort to track them as they move around the icy waters of northern Canada, as well as more about how declining amounts of sea ice are affecting the creatures.
"Although we've been working on a better understanding of the narwhal in the past seven or eight years, it was only recently that people have figured out how to fit satellite radios to them, so we know where they go and what they're eating,” said Pete Ewins, an Arctic species specialist for the environmental group WWF-Canada. |
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/01/mysterious-unicorns-if-sea-tracked-by-scientists-for-first-time//
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 01:37 |
I always have asked my students:Who do need time precision one second in 100 years or in million?Swiss men?Most of navigation tech today will not have existed if would have not been this man work:Norman Ramsey.He needs 4 years more to see with own eyes delay from 1 second on his watch!?!In honor to atomic clock man read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/us/norman-ramsey-dies-at-96-work-led-to-the-atomic-clock.html
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 01:56 |
Tomorrow asteroid 2005 YU 55 will fly by near earth,on trajectory close than moon,and go forward after: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/main/index.html
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 03:33 |
Flexible solar cells one step closer
"panels that can be printed like newspapers have inched a step closer with the development of an energy efficient organic small-molecule solar cell. The solar cell, which was developed by a team from theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara has energy efficiencies of 6.7 per cent, which rivals the best polymer-based solar cells. Most polymer-based designs have reached the 6 to 8 range for efficiency. "These results provide important progress for solution-processed organic photovoltaics and demonstrate that solar cells fabricated from small donor molecules can compete with their polymeric counterparts," the authors, who include Nobel Prize winner Professor Alan Heeger, write....." http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/07/3356603.htm
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 03:35 |
Oral drug replaces insulin
"A team of researchers at Curtin University have found a substitute for insulin to help treat diabetes orally. Over 10 years, Professor Erik Helmerhorst and his colleagues looked at millions of compounds on pharmaceutical databases to try to emulate the molecular map of insulin.
“On a computer, in silico, we searched three million compound structures for their ability to fit that map,” explains Professor Helmerhorst.
In short, they found one, and are developing it as part of their dream to ‘take the needle out of diabetes’......" http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20110611-22804.html
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 03:37 |
Moving saves rare marsupial
"A Recent translocation of 12 Gilbert’s potoroos (Potorous gilbertii) is helping save a species once thought to be extinct and revealing some surprise findings.
The Gilbert’s potoroo is a critically endangered Australian native animal and is the world’s rarest marsupial—existing only in pockets of WA’s south coast.
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) principal research scientist Dr Tony Friend says tracking the freshly transferred potoroos with radio transmitters is already yielding some surprising results about their behaviour....."
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 14:39 |
Study audits sea-level rise budget
"An international research team has balanced the sea-level rise budget by showing that the total amount of contributions to sea level rise explains the measured rise over recent decades.
Scientists have accounted for all the contributions to global sea-level rise in a study that balances the sea-level rise ‘budget’ and explains the observed rise over recent decades.
In work led by CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship scientists Drs John Church and Neil White and published in mid-September in the American Geophysical Union’s Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers also reviewed the related Earth’s energy budget – confirming that 90 per cent of the energy stored in the climate system resides in the ocean and this warming drives one component of sea-level rise...."
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 20:10 |
White House Denies Alien ContactPublished November 07, 2011| NewsCore
The White House said Monday that there is no evidence of aliens making their presence known on Earth, but it has not given up on the search for extraterrestrial life.
A petition submitted through the White House's "We the People" project -- which lets anyone submit a petition requesting government action -- asked for a formal acknowledgment of "an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race." |
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/07/white-house-denies-alien-contact/
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 20:12 |
Mystery of Phoenix UFO Lights SolvedBy Benjamin Radford Published November 07, 2011| Discovery News
On Friday night Oct. 28, four bright lights were seen and videotaped during a high school football game in Scottsdale, Ariz., near Phoenix. The strange lights, which were seen by hundreds of people and videotaped by at least two of them, seemed to move slowly in the sky, sometimes blinking randomly. The entire sighting lasted for about a minute and a half.
According to Fox 10 News, one fan at the high school took a video and posted it to YouTube, where within days it became one of the top stories on Yahoo News, sparked "a national mystery" and garnered over 50,000 views. |
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Posted: 07-Nov-2011 at 20:15 |
Russia Plans Mars Mission, Haunted by Past FailuresPublished November 07, 2011| Reuters
Russia hopes to end a humiliating two-decade absence from deep space with the launch on Wednesday of an ambitious three-year mission to bring back a soil sample from Mars' moon Phobos.
Russian scientists have dreamed of probing the Red Planet's potato-shaped satellite since the 1960s heyday of pioneering Soviet forays into space. |
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Posted: 08-Nov-2011 at 01:29 |
Full history about it above with pictures and more facts from third source but very reliable!Anatoly Zak knows beter than they!Website with lot of critical approach.But read again about Phobos-Grunt mission here: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/phobos_grunt.htmland for those with knowledge of Russian(this one have not translated,but data&pictures are amazing) http://www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=375 This event fulfills all criteria about authenticity:we have 3 different type of sources.We know now this is a historic event,not a story tale.
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