Italian Scientists Claim To Have Discovered Nickel-Hydrogen Cold Fusion, Create Copper As Byproduct. DARPA's MSEE to develop new mathematical language, race of sentient machines. Did NASA Discover Life on One of Saturn's Moons? China's Second Mass UFO Sighting In Two Weeks - Technorati Technology - (Build 20100722150226) Shanghai Daily is reporting that a mass UFO sighting has taken place in the Chinese city of Chongqing, less than two weeks after another UFO sighting disrupted airline travel in Hangzhou.
On July 15, multiple witnesses reported “four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape that hovered over Chongqing’s Shaping Park for over an hour.” This follows the July 7 sighting of “a twinkling object” which shut down Hangzhou’s Xioshan Airport for nearly an hour when first spotted over the city. Subsequent requests from UFO investigators to obtain radar images from Xioshan Airport were refused. The explanation given by airport officials, according to Shanghai Daily, was that “radar caught nothing.” Although UFO sighting reports are relatively rare in China, this is at least the second time that a sighting has occurred in Chongqing.
According to CNN, MIT weapons analyst Geoffrey Forden believes that many of the images of the recent China UFOs were created using Photoshop. Harvard scientists reverse aging in mice, laugh maniacally at human possibilities. After 14 Years of Drilling, the World's Longest Tunnel Breaks Through the Swiss Alps Today. WikiLeaks. A shocking discovery. The 100-year leap. In December 1837, the British mathematician Charles Babbage published a paper describing a mechanical computer that is now known as the Analytical Engine.
Anyone intimate with the details of electronic computers will instantly recognize the components of Babbage’s machine. Although Babbage was designing with brass and iron, his Engine has a central processing unit (which he called the mill) and a large amount of expandable memory (which he called the store). The operation of the Engine is controlled by program stored on punched cards, and punched cards can also be used to input data. Inside the mill, individual operations are controlled by the equivalent of a microprogram. The Secret Code Inside the Supervirus Attacking Iran Nuclear Power. Earth-like planet that could support life found. New Delhi: Astronomers have discovered an earth-like planet that could support the crucial conditions needed for life.
The new planet sits directly in the middle of what is referred to as the habitable or Goldilocks zone, unlike any of the nearly 500 other planets astronomers have found outside Earth's solar system. This new planet is three times the mass of the earth and slightly larger in width. Reportedly this planet orbits every 37 days and does not rotate much so one side of it is almost bright, the other dark. Temperatures can be as hot as 71 degrees Celsius or as frigid as minus 4 degrees Celsius, but in between, in the land of constant sunrise, it would be "shirt-sleeve weather," according to co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The astronomers' findings are being published in Astrophysical Journal and were announced by the National Science Foundation on Wednesday. Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098. Video: Canadian Student Becomes First Human to Fly By Flapping Wings. A Canadian engineering student achieved sustained flight in a human-powered ornithopter for the first time in August, and has just filed a claim for a world record, according to the University of Toronto.
The Snowbird is the first contraption of its kind to allow humans to fly like birds, by flapping massive wings to create lift. The record stands on the likely-enormous shoulders of Todd Reichert, an engineering PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, who designed and piloted the craft. First plasma obtained in Kazakhstan. Advanced Computer Worm Was Specifically Designed to Attack Iranian Nuclear Reactor, Experts Say. The sophisticated computer worm called Stuxnet, which has been targeting industrial operations around the world, was likely designed to take out Iran's new Bushehr nuclear reactor, cybersecurity experts say.
It's the first known cyber-super-weapon designed to destroy a real-world target, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Researchers studying the worm say it was built by an advanced attacker with plentiful resources — possibly a nation-state. Initially, experts thought it was designed for industrial espionage, but upon examining its code, they now think it was built for sabotage. Ralph Langner, an expert on industrial systems security, has been studying Stuxnet since it was first discovered at a Belarus-based security firm in June. Curing Blindness. LHC results: Not just the same old thing. Humungous bubbles blown from small black hole. July 9, 2010 § You know how much I love bubbles.
This is the coolest one I have seen in a while. The universe is such an amazing place. I wouldn’t live anywhere else. ;-) Read the Story behind this image on NewScientist.com. No drugs needed to cure diabetes in rats. WASHINGTON U.
-ST. LOUIS (US)—Researchers have cured diabetes in rats using transplants from both embryonic and adult pigs. The rats adopted the pig transplants as their own and produced enough insulin to control their blood sugar—all without the need for anti-rejection drugs. A Single Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster than Your P. A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer.
The Blueprint To All Our Data Is Hidden Inside This Mountain For. New Quantum Imaging Technique IDs Objects Using a Single Photon. Physicists have long been able to "ghost image" -- that is, to use a split laser beam to detect the presence of an object without actually seeing or interacting with it -- but the process is complicated and can take a while.
Now physicists at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics say they've devised a simpler means to detect the presence of a known object using a single photon. Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 10 Miles of Empty. Scientists in China have broken the record for quantum teleportation, achieving a distance of about 10 miles, according to a new study in Nature Photonics.
That's a giant leap from previous achievements. The feat brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal transmission, the researchers note. Although it's called teleportation, no matter is really moved. Rather, the quantum state of one object is transferred to another object. It works by entangling two objects, like photons or ions. Using Ultracold Atoms Instead of Electrons, Atomtronics Could Re. The electron has been good to us. It has christened an entire field of both theoretical exploration and practical devices -- electronics -- and has allowed us to leverage its most simple property, charge, to create complex devices and processing methods. But a group of researchers in Colorado think we're selling ourselves short.
Fujitsu's quantum dot laser fires data at 25Gbps, not just for s. Social media can help save the planet, says Greenpeace boss - CN. Online success of Greenpeace viral Kit Kat video shows power of social mediaCampaign against Nestle was aimed at reducing use of palm oil grown on deforested landGreenpeace will continue to work with companies and use public campaigning (CNN) -- Greenpeace is well-known for taking direct action in the name of saving the environment, but key to its campaigning now is the collective power of the Internet and social media, says Greenpeace's executive director, Kumi Naidoo. Naidoo was talking to CNN about a recent campaign to stop Nestlé using palm oil sourced from plantations that it says are responsible for deforestation, primarily in Indonesia.
Palm oil is used in a variety of consumer products, from chocolate to washing powder, and is used by numerous companies across the world, not just Nestlé. The Unknown Promise of Internet Freedom. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space MELBOURNE – Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm. Synthetic life: Dr Craig Venter seeking ‘monopoly’, claims gene. Seven atom transistor sets the pace for future PCs. 24 May 2010Last updated at 12:01.
Quantum Computers. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declares the gloves are of. South Korea restarts propaganda broadcasts to North. 25 May 2010Last updated at 15:20 Mrs Clinton said inter-Korean peace was a shared responsibility The US and China must work together on an "effective response" to the sinking of a South Korean warship, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. Speaking in Beijing, Mrs Clinton said ensuring peace on the Korean peninsula was "a shared responsibility". South Korea blames Pyongyang for sinking the Cheonan in March - Pyongyang has denied the charge. NASA Announces Date of Next Mars Lander Mission. Behold our dark, magnificent horror. There is, you have to admit, a sort of savage grace, a tragic and terrible beauty, to the BP oil spill.
Breakthrough In Magnet Technology Could Lead to Handheld MRI Sca. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a handy scientific tool to have around (for instance, it's the fundamental tech behind magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI). Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First-Ever Solar Sail. The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According toJAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place. Astronomers Capture First Images of an Exoplanet Orbiting Its St. For the first time, astronomers have been able to follow the path of an exoplanet as it orbits its star, a breakthrough for planet-hunters and anyone interested in how planets are made. The image above is a composite of images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, showing a planet orbiting the nearby star Beta Pictoris.
The dark circle in the center is from a piece of metal that blocks Beta Pictoris' bright light, allowing observations of the fuzzy planetary disc around it. Look inside the dark circle. Access : Quantum optics: Single-atom transistor for light : Natu. Stem cells made without new genes.