GE has announced the first power plant to integrate wind and solar power with natural gas—a 530-megawatt plant that will start operating in Turkey in 2015. The power plant is made practical by a flexible, high-efficiency natural-gas system the company announced two weeks ago and a solar thermal power system created by eSolar, a Burbank, Read more about GE Combines Natural Gas, Wind, and Solar in hybrid powerplant[…]

A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells. The researchers found a way to make an “optical battery,” said Stephen Rand, a professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics and Applied Physics. In the process, Read more about Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible[…]

Now this is from MS themselves, so obviously they’ll have picked sites which work best for IE, but most importantly it shows that there is a huge variability in the amount of power each browser uses. This is not only useful for laptop users who want to maximise their batteries, but also for the global Read more about Browser Power Consumption compared – big differences[…]

Nearly all the energy we use on this planet starts out as sunlight that plants use to knit chemical bonds. Now, for the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have created a potentially cheap, practical artificial leaf that does much the same thing—providing a potentially limitless source of energy Read more about Artificial leaf – Spinning the Sun’s Rays Into Fuel[…]

The Foresight project Global Food and Farming Futures final report and executive summary provide an overview of the evidence and discuss the challenges and choices for policy makers and others whose interests relate to all aspects of the global food system. via Reports and publications | Our work | BIS.

The story then says that radiation levels are still ‘safe’. I’d say radiation levels were still ‘safe’ too. As far as I’m concerned we get enough radiation levels from the global background radiation, we really don’t need ANY more radiation from any source at all. Except medical X-Rays – these fall under what I term Read more about TSA Airport perv scanners emit 10 times more radiation than initially stated.[…]

Companies are measuring the responses your brain gives to parts of movies, allowing producers to tweak movies to provide the kinds of responses they want. How Hollywood Studios Harness Your Brainwaves to Win Oscars.

The test of replicability, as it’s known, is the foundation of modern research. Replicability is how the community enforces itself. It’s a safeguard for the creep of subjectivity. Most of the time, scientists know what results they want, and that can influence the results they get. The premise of replicability is that the scientific community Read more about Why is a lot of science not reproducible – the decline effect[…]

This is the second time scientific results are being questioned on a very deep level in a very short time. It’s a very disturbing trend. In just the last two months, two pillars of preventive medicine fell. A major study concluded there’s no good evidence that statins drugs like Lipitor and Crestor help people with Read more about A lot of medical science in question[…]

Recently, it has been shown that the massless quantum vacuum state contains entanglement between timelike separated regions of spacetime, in addition to the entanglement between the spacelike separated regions usually considered. Here, we show that timelike entanglement can be extracted from the Minkowski vacuum and converted into ordinary entanglement between two inertial, two-state detectors at Read more about Time travel using entanglement[…]

Oddly enough, if you have a 7Hz wave and 2 testtubes, one filled with twater and one with bacterial DNA, after 18 hours you will find the DNA teleported to the water! The best thing about this quantum entanglement is that the effect lasts for a very very long time, it’s not transient. 1012.5166v1.pdf application/pdf Read more about DNA Teleports into water[…]

Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash TGF, a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is estimated that about 500 TGFs Read more about Antimatter created by Thunderstorms[…]

NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth. Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell Read more about Life Built With Arsenic – life will never be the same![…]

“When we flipped the telomerase switch on and looked a month later, the brains had largely returned to normal,” said DePinho. More newborn nerve cells were observed, and the fatty myelin sheaths around nerve cells — which had become thinned in the aged animals — increased in diameter. In addition, the increase in telomerase revitalized Read more about Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice[…]

The technology decontaminates the air and exposed surfaces by bathing them in a narrow spectrum of visible-light wavelengths, known as HINS-light. Clinical trials at Glasgow Royal Infirmary have shown that the HINS-light Environmental Decontamination System provides significantly greater reductions of bacterial pathogens in the hospital environment than can be achieved by cleaning and disinfection alone, Read more about Disinfectant using light[…]

Led by Steven Dubowsky, a professor in both the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and graduate students Amy Bilton and Leah Kelley, the group built a small prototype of the system last spring to test algorithms they had developed to run it. They have since demonstrated that the prototype Read more about Drinking water, from sunshine[…]

Farming spiders for their silk is very very difficult. Farming silkworms is easy. Spider silk is one of the strongest light materials known to man and is better for all kinds of things than hemp, including making lightweight bulletproof vests. GM silkworms to produce super spider silk | COSMOS magazine.

In a first step toward helping severely paralyzed people communicate more easily, Utah researchers have shown that it is possible to translate recorded brain waves into words, using a grid of electrodes placed directly on the brain. Although they have only done it with one person and individual words can only be identified with accuracy Read more about Electrodes translate brain waves into words – latimes.com[…]

An upper layer of Earth s atmosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads NASA announced Thursday. The layer of gas – called the thermosphere – is now rebounding again. This type of collapse is not rare but its magnitude shocked scientists. “This is the Read more about Thermosphere collapses and nobody knows why[…]

Scientists find antibodies that prevent most HIV strains from infecting human cells — Science Blog.

It could potentially also be used to regenerate bones Tooth Regeneration Gel Could Replace Painful Fillings : Discovery News.