Formula calculates thickness of bombproof concrete
We can simulate detonations of different blasting forces – from 100 to 2,500 kilograms TNT at distances from 35 to 50 meters from buildings. And that’s without even having to use exp...
Ames Laboratory scientists named ‘Most Influential Scientific Minds’
Three Ames Laboratory physicists, Paul Canfield, Sergey Bud’ko, and Costas Soukoulis, were recently named to Thomson Reuters’ World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014. The thre...
Earth not due for a geomagnetic flip in the near future, researchers show
This drop in intensity is associated with periodic geomagnetic field reversals, in which the Earth’s North and South magnetic poles flip polarity, and it could last for several thous...
100% Renewable Electricity: Is It Possible Right Now?
By Roberto Verzola Most national 100%-renewable electricity scenarios target the 2030-2050 period, which is still a long way off. The same energy plan also refers to a National Rene...
What is global warming?
Human activities such as burning coal and oil inject additional CO2 into the atmosphere, which acts as an extra blanket to trap solar radiation, worsening the greenhouse effect Soon...
What Higher Consciousness Really Means, How We Attain It, and What It Does for the Human Spirit
“[Leonardo da Vinci’s] unique brain wiring … allowed him the opportunity to experience the world from the vantage point of a higher dimension,” Leonard Shlain wrote in his stimulatin...
Spooky Action Is Real: Bizarre Quantum Entanglement Confirmed in New Tests
They found that the Schrödinger wave equation, the fundamental quantum mechanics equation, could not describe the individual state or position of some groups of particles, dubbed ent...
Scientists date the origin of the cacao tree to 10 million years ago
Chocolate, produced from seeds of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, is one of the most popular flavors in the world, with sales around 100$ billion dollars per year. Studies of the evo...
New satellite to measure plant health
ESA plans to track the health of the world’s vegetation by detecting and measuring the faint glow that plants give off as they convert sunlight and the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide in...
Lower Austria Claims 100% Renewable Electricity
Lower Austria, the largest of Austria’s nine states, has announced it now generates 100% of its electricity from renewable sources. Lower Austria’s electricity production is broken d...
Galileo satellites set for year-long Einstein experiment
Applications Galileo satellites set for year-long Einstein experiment 09/11/2015 13062 views 137 likes Europe’s fifth and sixth Galileo satellites – subject to complex salvage manoe...
Destination: Venus
Although winds on the planet’s surface move very slowly, at a few kilometres per hour, the atmospheric density at this altitude is so great that they exert greater force than much fa...
Predicting solar flares
Experts have warned that even a single ‘monster’ solar flare could cause up to $2 trillion worth of damage on Earth, including the loss of satellites and electricity grids, as well t...
Powerful jets from non-spinning black holes
A multi-wavelength image of the ultra-luminous X-ray source X2 in the galaxy M82. A new paper successfully proposes an alternate explanation to magnetically dominated black hole rota...
MAVEN results: Delving into the atmosphere of Mars
This issue of Science features four studies highlighting results from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, designed to study Mars’ upper atmosphere, ionosphere...
Large Hadron Collider luminosity upgrade project moving to next phase
This week more than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at CERN to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC – a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will i...
The US Clean Energy Revolution In Three (or Four) Charts
As stated in an Energy Department press release, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has timed the latest update of Revolution…Now to lead into the upcoming COP21 United Nations Climate Ne...
Rapid evolution of body size enhanced dinosaur and bird survival
Therefore, being able to accurately estimate body mass in extinct birds has important implications for our understanding of the origins of flight. What they found, using a range of a...
Mapping winds and dune evolution on the Red Planet
This is a subset of NASA HiRISE image ESP_011909 taken of a dune in Proctor Crater on Mars, showing various directions of ripples on the surface of a Martian dune (image is approxima...
Environment and climate helped shape varied evolution of human languages
It’s well known that gradual adaptation to the environment shaped the development of human bodies and brains, but recent work by an international group of researchers suggests that t...
5 Basic Principles of Linux System Security
Know your system(s) The first principle is about knowing what your system is supposed to do. What is its primary role, what software packages does it need and who needs access? Secu...
NASA finds new way to track ocean currents from space
NASA’s GRACE satellites (artist’s concept) measured Atlantic Ocean bottom pressure as an indicator of deep ocean current speed. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A team of NASA and universit...
Water scarcity and climate change through 2095
When they incorporated water use and availability in this powerful engine and ran scenarios of possible climate mitigation policy targets, they found that without any climate policy ...
Researchers identify key components of the cellular engine in living cells
The researchers showed that force-dependent vinculin binding to talin plays a critical role in mechanically connecting the actin cytoskeleton to the extracellular substrate to contri...
Preshistoric plumage patterns
An undergraduate University of Alberta paleontology student has discovered an Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and soft tissue. The discovery is shedding light on t...