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Ancient History repeating as Wolves associate with monkeys showing the early...
In the alpine grasslands of eastern Africa, Ethiopian wolves and gelada monkey are giving peace a chance. The geladas – a type of a baboon – tolerate wolves wandering right through the middle of their...
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Carnival of Space 409
NASA begins testing of InSight Mars lander for launch in 2016 InSight is a robotic exploration mission that will record measurements of the interior of the Red Planet, giving scientists unprecedented...
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Australia plans mach 20 scramjet in 2018 that can fly 120 miles in 30 seconds
Australia's DSTO has been doing hypersonic experiments in Woomera, South Australia and Norway. In 2018, it plans to launch a glider with an air-breathing scramjet engine that will cruise at hypersonic...
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Disruptive CRISPR gene therapy is 150 times cheaper than zinc fingers and...
Biologists have long been able to edit genomes with molecular tools. About ten years ago, they became excited by enzymes called zinc finger nucleases that promised to do this accurately and...
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Joe Eck finds superconducting transition at 141C which is above soldering...
Superconductors.ORG herein reports the discovery of room temperature superconductors number 25 and 26 - further advancing the world record for high Tc. Sn9SbTe4Ba2MnCu15O30+ displays a critical...
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Progress to Mine Seawater for Lithium
Researchers at Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency have come up with a new method of processing seawater to extract lithium—an element that plays a key role in advanced batteries for electric vehicles and one...
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What Are The Bright Spots On Ceres?
A guest post by Joseph FriedlanderPaul Scott Anderson of The Meridiani Journal blog has written about the bright spots on Ceres, as has Brian Wang of Next Big...
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China, Ukraine, Russian tanks battle in the arms export market
In an effort to increase sales of its tanks in the face of declining global demand, China North Industries Group Corp, the country's biggest developer and maker of land armaments, is turning to a...
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Startup Sentent can link one million processors from excess data center...
A private company called Sentient with only about 70 employees, says it can cheaply assemble even larger computing systems to power artificial-intelligence software.Sentient’s power comes from linking...
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California's slow motion economic high speed train wreck
In 2008, California voters approved a ballot measure to authorize $9.95 billion in bonds to fund construction of the country's first bullet train. It would, the ballot measure promised, whisk...
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70 more intelligence related genes found
At a European Society of human genetics talk a scientist reported 70 genome wide hits for genes associated with human intelligence.An older paper reported 18 genome wide hits for genes associated with...
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Latest on CRISPR and genomics starting with compression of full genome data...
It is now possible to record a human genome (differences relative to a reference is only 2 megabytes. This is instead of 9 terabytes for a human genome with image data. Genomes for the entire human...
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Count Dooku, Count Dracula Saruman actor has died
Actor Christopher Lee has died at the age of 93Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee is perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films (about 281 movies). Although most notable...
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Google's new Sidewalk Labs will try to use breakthrough technology to solve...
Google CEO Larry Page announced a new Google Startup +Sidewalk Labs. Sidewalk will focus on improving city life for everyone by developing and incubating urban technologies to address issues like cost...
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USA Revamping military to re-establish superiority gap over China and Russia...
The military playing field is more even than it has been for many years. The US effort to pull away from military peers is what Secretary of Defence Hagel calls the “third offset strategy”, because it...
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Broad Group CEO says the approvals are nearing for the 202 story Sky City...
A 57 story mini Sky City was completed on 17 February 2015. The 57 story tower was built in two bursts: the first 20 storeys went up in a week in 2014, but red tape held up construction for a year,...
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Spacex Files with FCC to begin testing satellite internet service
Spacex has asked the federal government for permission to begin testing on an ambitious project to beam Internet service from space, a significant step forward for an initiative that could create...
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Genetic modification of mice embyros approaching 100% efficiency using CRISPR...
Mice embryos can be genetically modified with CRISPR gene therapy. The procedure is approaching 100% efficiency already.Prof Perry said the technique could one day be performed during fertility...
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US Navy plans to make a network of undersea charging stations for robotic...
Sometime in the early 2020s the Navy will start deploying unmanned, underwater pods where robots can recharge undetected — and securely upload the intelligence they’ve gathered to Navy networks.The...
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Hyperinflation is evil
Zimbabwe offers its people a new exchange rate: US$1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old Zimbabwe dollars.Zimbabweans have until September to turn in their old banknotes, which some people sell as souvenirs...
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