A timeline of the distant, disturbing future
If humans still exist millions or billions of years from now, they’ll have to deal with supervolcanoes, supernovas and other civilization-threatening calamities.
Read More →The Mind vs. Brain Debate (What is Consciousness?)
By Dylan Charles | Waking Times The mind vs. brain debate has been going on since before Aristotle. He and Plato argued that the soul housed intelligence or wisdom and that it could not be placed within the physical body. In a well-described version of dualism, Descartes identifies mind with the consciousness and self-awareness of [...]
Read More →Patent Filing Claims Solar Energy “Breakthrough”
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Ronald Ace, photographed at his home in Laurel, Maryland, May 4, 2013, said his flat-panel “Solar Traps,” which can be mounted on rooftops or used in power plants, will shatter barriers that have stymied efforts to make solar energy cheap, clean and reliable. His claimed discoveries, which exist only on [...]
Read More →Living on Mars: What Would it be Like?
By Zachary Stieber | The Epoch Times The Mars One mission to Mars—one-way—has attracted more than 78,000 applicants only two weeks into the application process. So, if the mission is successful, what’s it going to be like for those who are chosen to go? Is it Dangerous? “Mars is no picnic.” —Mars One website Life is comparable [...]
Read More →Human takeover by machines may be closer than we think
By By Tia Ghose | LiveScience Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea of superintelligent machines may sound like the plot of “The Terminator” or “The Matrix,” but many experts say the idea isn’t far-fetched. Some even think the singularity — the point at which artificial intelligence can match, and then overtake, [...]
Read More →Moon Once Harbored a Long-Lived Dynamo – Magnetic Field Existed 3.6 Billion Years
The Daily Galaxy MIT’s research on an ancient lunar rock suggests that the moon once harbored a long-lived dynamo — a molten, convecting core of liquid metal that generated a strong magnetic field 3.56 billion years ago. The findings point to a dynamo that lasted much longer than scientists previously thought, and suggest that an alternative energy [...]
Read More →Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays
By Bob Yirka | phys.org Russian physicists Alex Gurevich and Anatoly Karashtin claim, in a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, they have found more evidence to support their idea that lightning is caused by cosmic rays. The notion was first proposed by Gurevich back in 1992, and has been a source of [...]
Read More →U.S. Military ‘scramjet’ breaks hypersonic speed record
By Scott Sutherland | Yahoo The Boeing X-51A, an experimental ‘scramjet’ missile for the U.S. Military, broke hypersonic speed records this week as it flew at Mach 5.1 for three and a half minutes. The X-51A is nicknamed The Waverider, due to riding the shockwave of compressed air that it creates as it flies. Its scramjet engine is similar [...]
Read More →NASA’s Grover will explore Greenland ice sheet
Since the Arctic sun shines 24 hours a day during the summer, the solar-powered rover will be able to operate continuously.
Read More →China Emerging as a New Force in Drone Warfare
By Christopher Bodeen | Real Clear Defence Determined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China’s security forces considered a tactic they’d never tried before: calling a drone strike on his remote hideaway deep in the hills of Myanmar. The attack didn’t happen – the man was later captured and brought to China for [...]
Read More →UN report calls for moratorium on ‘killer robots’
ANI A United Nations report has said that killer robots that can attack targets without any human input “should not have the power of life and death over human beings”. The report for the UN Human Rights Commission posted online this week deals with legal and philosophical issues involved in giving robots lethal powers over [...]
Read More →Bioelectromagnetics: Bees & Flowers Communicate Using Electrical Fields, Scientists Find
By Christina Sarich | Natural Society Did you know that flowers and bees communicate with one another about the amount and quality of pollen available using bioelectromagnetics? The Communication Between Bees and Flowers In a recent study from the University of Bristol and published in Science Express, scientists put electromagnetic detectors in flowers’ pollinators to [...]
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