We’re so use to it that a lot of us hardly notice the noise that surrounds us everyday, but our hearts may be picking up the buzz. Researchers in Germany had more than 100 people record their heart activity over several 6-hour spans. They also recorded surrounding noise levels. The sounds were classified as either […]
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Noise Pollution
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Ozone Pollution Police
Ozone pollution is a significant problem and may be resulting in the deforestation of Earth. The Environmental Defense Fund Wrote This Is Your Final Warning: Enforcement Needed To Curtail Continued Pollution Problems What makes you slow down more, a speeding ticket with a hefty fine or a warning? For most people, getting a ticket for […]
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Tagged climate change, danger, enforcement, Environment, fines, global warming, ozone pollution, penelty, pollution, warming
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The World’s Smallest Movie
The star of the new movie made by IBM is 1/25,000,000 inch tall. The ability to move single atoms, one of the smallest particles of any element in the universe, is crucial to IBM’s research in the field of atomic-scale memory. In 2012, IBM scientists announced the creation of the world’s smallest magnetic memory bit, […]
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Tagged atoms, data storage, harddrive, information technology, Internet, movies, smallest movie, storage, technology, videos
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Space Debris and Data Security
Cyber Security at the Membrane Domain Hire Cyber Security Experts Committed to promoting safety and transparency in the space domain, U.S. Strategic Command maintains a registry of tens of thousands of man-made objects in space and shares the information freely with anyone who seeks it through a command-run website. Air Force Space Command, recognizing […]
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More Fire, Less Snow
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is yes, if it happened in New Mexico’s Jemez River Basin on June 26, 2011, at 1 p.m. local time. The tipping of one tree as it creaked and fell hinted at a […]
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The Missing Link
Scientists have unveiled partial skeletons of the two million-year-old species Australopithecus sediba that were discovered in South Africa in 2008. “All of the research so far shows that sediba had a mosaic of primitive traits and newer traits that suggest it was a bridge between earlier australopiths and the first humans,” said Professor Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg […]
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Tagged apes, Australopithecus sediba, chimpanzee, evolution, humans, skeltons, the missing link
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Human Asteroid Initiative
NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA’s science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on […]
Sound Thinking
A conversation on FaceBook about the Universal Hum / Om: Nehal Mankad i’ve been trying to figure out how it fits into e=mc². i think i’m getting warmer… Like · · Daniel Brouse er, a… the problem with the hum of the universe… is sound doesn’t travel through space Nehal Mankad vibrations travel though. […]
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Tagged . sound, chromesthesia, colors, E=MC^2, engineering, hear colors, light, resonant vibration, see sounds, sounds, speed of light, standing wave
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Happy Birthday Universe!
Q: How old is the universe? A: 13.8 billion years old Planck, the European space agency, in cooperation with NASA have created a detailed map of the universe. “Astronomers worldwide have been on the edge of their seats waiting for this map,” said Joan Centrella, Planck scientist. “These measurements are profoundly important to many […]
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