NASA’s Astrobiology Discovery: Arsenic-Eating Bacteria, Not ‘Aliens’ (includes full conference video)
Huffington Post The discovery of a strange bacteria that can use arsenic as one of its nutrients widens the scope for finding new forms of life on Earth and possibly beyond. While researchers discovered the unusual bacteria here on Earth, they say it shows that life has possibilities beyond the major elements that have been [...]
Read More →New Brain-Machine Interface Taps Human Smarts to Enhance Computers’ Abilities, Instead of Vice Versa
PopSci Brain-machine interfaces hold potential for a variety of ends, from helping the neurologically or physically disabled communicate and interact with their environments, to creating thought-controlled computers that augment the brain with computing power. A group of researchers at Columbia are turning that model on its ear, using brain power to augment computing tasks. Their [...]
Read More →Sun and sand breed Sahara solar power
New Scientist The raw materials are all around Life might take a hammering on the sun’s earthly anvil, the Sahara desert, but the two most abundant resources the desert has to offer – sunlight and sand – could help solar power to “breed” and thrive there. The Sahara Solar Breeder Project is a joint initiative [...]
Read More →Iran terror attacks: MI6, Mossad, CIA
PressTV The British daily The Independent has confirmed the role of the spy agencies of Israel, Britain and the US in the recent terror attacks on two Iranian nuclear scientists. In an article quoting the Zionist commentator on strategic issues, terrorism and intelligence, Yossi Melman, the daily said three “not seemingly related” events took [...]
Read More →The "Great Game" and the Conquest of Eurasia: Towards a World War III Scenario?
Global Research “The great wars of history — we have had a world-war about every hundred years for the last four centuries — are the outcome, direct or indirect, of the unequal growth of nations, and that unequal growth is not wholly due to the greater genius and energy of some nations as compared with [...]
Read More →Wikileaks leaks toxic acid in every direction, except to Israel
Aletho News Let us ponder for a second about the meaning of ‘leaking’. When something is leaking, it is usually understood that some fluid substance that is supposed to be flowing in a certain direction, is escaping from its designed route because of a defect in the structure that was built to guide it. Usually, [...]
Read More →Bailouts Are For Banks: Unemployed People Get Zilch
Huffington Post In Washington, the agenda has long since moved on from bailing out megabanks to figuring out how to stop paying for things that regular people need — luxuries like health care, retirement benefits and unemployment insurance. In the suburbs of Denver, Anthony Roebuck and his family find themselves confronting an action list that [...]
Read More →Tighter food supplies, high prices to persist
Reuters World food prices are set to remain high in 2011/12 with supplies tightening and demand running strong, the United Nations’ food agency economist told Reuters on Wednesday after a new jump in prices. “The chances of prices to remain high and extremely volatile well into 2011/12 are stronger than ever,” FAO’s economist Abdolreza Abbassian [...]
Read More →There may be 3 times as many stars in the universe as we thought
io9 Check out that extra-bright galaxy towards the top of this image. That’s an elliptical galaxy, which are among the largest galaxies in the universe. And now scientists believe these galaxies hold five to ten times more stars than previously thought. Until recently, astronomers believed elliptical galaxies contained around a trillion stars each, as compared [...]
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