Rethinking European Borders as Alpine Ice Melts - ABC News
Italy and Switzerland are redrawing their borders because the glaciers that once acted as the demarcation line are melting away.
Rethinking European Borders as Alpine Ice Melts - ABC News
Italy and Switzerland are redrawing their borders because the glaciers that once acted as the demarcation line are melting away.
Lab leaks and Breast enlargement
Jul. 11th, 2007 05:11 pmPhysics Org
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 Sun's in the clear over global warming, says study - Scientists on Wednesday said that the rise in global temperatures that has been detected over the past two decades cannot be blamed on the Sun, a theory espoused by climate-change sceptics. |
 Happy, sad, angry or astonished? - How do people respond when they walk past an advertising poster? Do they stop and turn around to look at it with interest or march angrily past? A new system of detailed facial analysis can recognize a person’s mood in an instant. |
New Scientist Tech - Weapons Technology
| Plague of bioweapons accidents afflicts the US - Plague, anthrax, Rocky Mountain spotted fever - these are among the bioweapons some experts fear could be used in a germ warfare attack against the US. But the public has had near-misses with those diseases and others over the past five years, ironically because of accidents in labs that were working to defend against bioterrorists. Even worse, they may be only the tip of an iceberg. |
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 The Secrets to Living Past 100 - A new project to partially sequence the genomes of 100 people age 100 or older could shed light on the genetic variations that allow some people to stay healthy decades beyond the average life expectancy. Dubbed the Methuselah Project, the endeavor will serve as a test bed for a new approach to sequencing developed at the Rothberg Institute a non-profit research center in Guilford, CT. About 1 in 7,000 people live to be 100, many of them spry well into their 90s, but the reasons for their good health remain largely unknown. |
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 Fat 'can grow new breasts' - Fat from the tummy or bottom could be used to grow new breasts in a treatment which could be carried out in an hour - or a lunch break. |
 Antibiotic resistance blocked - US scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the growing problem of bacteria becoming resistant to current drug treatments. |
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 Sheeps Being Trained to Weed Vineyards - University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but stay off the grapes. Enthusiastic and unpicky eaters, sheep are already being used in some vineyards as a green alternative to tractors. They don't use gasoline and keep down weeds a necessary task to deter pests and keep vines healthy sans herbicides. |
 Joke Comprehension May Decrease With Age - a new study suggests older adults have a harder time getting jokes as they age. The research indicates that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension. |
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Women drawn to men with muscles - Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday. Their study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate. |
Antigravity and carbon sinks
Apr. 27th, 2007 03:22 pmSource: PhysOrg  Batten down the hatches, a storm is coming! Well, it's not quite that bad. Scientists predict that Solar Cycle 24, the next period of solar storms, will start in March and continue to increase until it peaks in 2011 or 2012. Scientists are unable to agree as to how strong the next cycle will be, but predict that there will be GPS disruptions and potentially a blackout or two. |
Source: PhysOrg Canada's Conservative government has finally decided that greenhouse gas emissions need to be dealt with (really? Who'd a've thunk it!) So are planning to implement measures to curb greenhouse gas generation over the next 5 years before reducing our emission rate by 20 percent of today's emission levels by 2020. Our original Kyoto target was a reduction in emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels; however, we are already 30 percent above 1990 levels to achieving that has become unrealistic. Another way to read it is that we don't plan to stop increasing emissions until after the end of the NEXT political term, at which point it becomes someone else's problem. Gotta love politics. |
Source: PhysOrg  Speaking of greenhouse gas emissions, earlier this week was the first successful demonstration of a technology that can "scrub" carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and is the first step toward a commercially-viable technology. The system extracts carbon dioxide from the air and generates a stream of pure carbon dioxide (for industrial use or sequestration) and carbon dioxide-reduced air that is returned to the atmosphere. A device with an opening of 1 square metre can extract 10 tons of carbon dioxide each year. |
Source: instructables  ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small} ztrooper sent me this just as I was writing up this tech post.... a taxidermy project to build a computer mouse out of a dead mouse. Go check out the video and step-by-step instructions. |
Source: New Scientist ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} ancalagon_tb. This year's AIAA award winner is a paper calling for testing of a drive based on an obscure physics theory by Burkhard Heim who had proposed a theory that linked general relativity with quantum physics. The theory depends on the existence of 6 (not 4) dimensions and couples gravity with electromagnetism. To the theory's credit, he used it to predict the masses of elementary particles to well within an expected level of error. In fact, updating the equation with more recently-derived cosmological constants only increased the accuracy of the predictions. The experiment? A huge rotating electromagnetic coil placed above a superconductive ring should, according to his theory, experience a reduction in gravitational attraction. The paper theorizes that a spacecraft fitted with the ring-and-coil should be capable of propulsive lift. A far-fetched idea, but I'd still be interested in seeing it test. Give that the theory has demonstrated itself to work as a predictive model, there is a faint chance that he might be right about this. And even if it doesn't work, it demonstrates where the theory breaks down. |
