Sci-Tech news

• Researchers find higher than expected carbon emissions from inland waterways

  24-05-2016 23:43
  
  Washington State University researchers have found that greenhouse-gas emissions from lakes and inland waterways may be as much as 45 percent greater than previously thought.
  
  Read more

• Researchers developed a Time Reverse Imaging algorithm to alert coastal areas against incoming tsunamis

  24-05-2016 23:30
  
  Seismologists have created a new algorithm that could one day help give coastal cities early warning of incoming tsunamis.
  
  Read more

• After Delay, Solar Plane Will Fly From Ohio to Pennsylvania

  24-05-2016 22:41
  
  After a delay, a solar-powered airplane will take its planned flight from Ohio to Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning
  
  Read more

• Tinder Sues Dating App 3nder

  24-05-2016 22:40
  
  3nder has snapped back with a social media campaign, fueled by dirty socks.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Cargill Plans to Keep Several Operations in Wichita

  24-05-2016 22:29
  Agribusiness giant Cargill says it is keeping several of its operations in Wichita, Kansas, and is searching for a new facility to house them
  
  Read more

• High performance golf club comes with annoying sound

  24-05-2016 22:23
  
  In 2007, a new type of golf club hit the market. The distribution of mass in the club head made it less likely to twist, making an off-center hit less likely to send the ball veering off course. It did have one drawback: a loud noise when it struck the ball, piercing through the tranquility of a golf course. The club never grew popular among players, with many saying they disliked the noise.
  
  Read more

• Toyota to invest in ride-hailing app Uber

  24-05-2016 22:13
  
  Toyota is investing in Uber, making it the latest car company to put money in a ride-hailing app.
  
  Read more

• Nuclear foes renew push to shut plant near Manhattan

  24-05-2016 22:13
  
  Environmentalists urged US nuclear regulators Tuesday to shut down a nuclear plant near New York after inspections showed an unusually high number of degraded bolts in a reactor.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• High-speed camera captures amazing lightning flash

  24-05-2016 22:00
  
  Scientists at Florida Institute of Technology used a high-speed camera to capture an amazing lighting flash from a May 20 storm near the university's Melbourne campus.
  
  Read more

• Mucus may play vital role in dolphin echolocation

  24-05-2016 21:59
  
  A dolphin chasing a tasty fish will produce a stream of rapid-fire echolocation clicks that help it track the speed, direction and distance to its prey. Now researchers have developed a model that could yield new insights into how the charismatic marine mammals make these clicks - and it turns out snot may play an important role.
  
  Read more

• Google ex-boss Schmidt reveals he has an iPhone

  24-05-2016 21:44
  
  Tech industry titans Tim Cook and Eric Schmidt took their battle for corporate domination to the heart of Europe on Tuesday seeking to win over new startups and IT enthusiasts.
  
  Read more

• Harnessing nature's vast array of venoms for drug discovery

  24-05-2016 21:42
  
  Scorpions, snakes, snails, frogs and other creatures are thought to produce tens or even hundreds of millions of distinct venoms. These venoms have been honed to strike specific targets in the body.
  
  Read more

• French Raid Google in Latest Probe Into Tech's Tax Tactics

  24-05-2016 21:41
  Google's French office raided by police looking for evidence that the Internet company cheated on its taxes
  
  Read more

• Twitter Is Making Changes to Allow Longer Tweets

  24-05-2016 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Twitter has (finally) eliminated user names, URLs, and media attachments from the character count in its tweets, the microblogging service said.
  
  Read more

• Twitter Makes It Easier to Squeeze in More Characters

  24-05-2016 21:09
  
  Twitter's 140-character limit, which has long been the foundation of the site, is now being relaxed.
  
  Read more

• Ferocious Solar Storms May Have Helped Life Take Root on Earth

  24-05-2016 21:00
  
  Ferocious solar storms 4 billion years ago may have been key to warming the Earth and creating the conditions for life to form on the planet, according to a new study.
  
  Read more

• Experts develop method for including migration uncertainty in population projections

  24-05-2016 20:47
  
  Statisticians at the University of Washington have developed the first model for projecting population that factors in the vagaries of migration, a slippery issue that has bedeviled demographers for decades.
  
  Read more

• Hunting for dark matter's 'Hidden Valley'

  24-05-2016 20:19
  
  Kathryn Zurek realized a decade ago that we may be searching in the wrong places for clues to one of the universe's greatest unsolved mysteries: dark matter. Despite making up an estimated 85 percent of the total mass of the universe, we haven't yet figured out what it's made of.
  
  Read more

• Silencing cholera's social media

  24-05-2016 20:00
  
  Bacteria use a form of "social media" communication called quorum sensing to monitor how many of their fellow species are in the neighborhood, allowing them to detect changes in density and respond with changes in collective behavior. Because of the importance of quorum sensing to the behavior of disease-causing bacteria like Vibrio cholerae, the cause of the deadly disease cholera, understanding how it works has the potential to allow us to disrupt it for therapeutic purposes.
  
  Read more

• Best Buy offers weak profit view, says CFO stepping down

  24-05-2016 19:55
  
  Best Buy Co. on Tuesday offered a disappointing profit outlook for the current quarter, weighed in part by a recent earthquake in Japan that hurt the availability of some highly profitable products.
  
  Read more

• Hubble finds clues to the birth of supermassive black holes

  24-05-2016 19:54
  
  Astrophysicists have taken a major step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes formed. Using data from Hubble and two other space telescopes, Italian researchers have found the best evidence yet for the seeds that ultimately grow into these cosmic giants.
  
  Read more

• Single-step hydrogen peroxide production could be cleaner, more efficient

  24-05-2016 19:53
  
  Bottles of dilute hydrogen peroxide sit on shelves in medicine cabinets across the world, yet synthesizing the chemical at the large scale requires a surprisingly complicated process that is economically unfeasible for all but a few industrial facilities.
  
  Read more

• China's Huawei sues Samsung over wireless patents

  24-05-2016 19:49
  
  Chinese technology titan Huawei said Tuesday it filed suit in the United States against Samsung, claiming its South Korean rival has infringed on patents on wireless connectivity for mobile devices.
  
  Read more

• Scientist suggests possible link between primordial black holes and dark matter

  24-05-2016 19:31
  
  Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view is that dark matter is made of black holes formed during the first second of our universe's existence, known as primordial black holes. Now a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, suggests that this interpretation aligns with our knowledge of cosmic infrared and X-ray background glows and may
  
  Read more

• NASA Astronomer Reveals Possible Link Between Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter

  24-05-2016 19:28 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center suggests a possible link between primordial black holes and dark matter. Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view is that dark matter is made of […]
  The post NASA Astronomer Reveals Possible Link Between Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
  Read more

• Microsoft opens wallet to extend Internet in remote areas

  24-05-2016 19:15
  
  Microsoft has joined other tech giants working to deliver the Internet in remote parts of the world, although it's taking a smaller-scale approach than some of its rivals.
  
  Read more

• Wildfire - it's not spreading like wildfire

  24-05-2016 19:14
  
  A new analysis of global data related to wildfire, published by the Royal Society, reveals major misconceptions about wildfire and its social and economic impacts.
  
  Read more

• Organizational innovations to accelerate technology transfer and translational research do they work?

  24-05-2016 19:12
  
  Innovations in life sciences, engineering, and technology have enabled new products in numerous sectors such as innovative diagnostics, treatments for human and animal health, medical devices, advances in communication, e-learning, aviation, and 3D printing. Yet transfer of scientific discovery and technology to innovation-in-society is onerous, and can take several decades to materialize. In order for societies to fully enjoy the expected benefits of technology investments, research findings ha
  
  Read more

• House measure supports shippers on ballast water dumping

  24-05-2016 18:10
  
  A plan gaining support in Congress and backed by the cargo shipping industry would establish a nationwide policy for dumping ballast water into U.S. waterways that environmental groups say would open the door to more invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels, which have wreaked economic havoc from the Great Lakes to the West Coast.
  
  Read more

• Google Maps directions may soon lead you to ... more ads

  24-05-2016 18:08
  
  You might start seeing more ads when getting directions from Google's popular mapping service.
  
  Read more

• Scientists discover methane-producing microbes in California rocks

  24-05-2016 18:07
  
  Deep in vents on the ocean floor, methane-producing microbes feed off chemical reactions between water and rock. Now evidence of this process has been found on land in a freshwater spring in California.
  
  Read more

• Barium leaches directly from fracked rocks, study finds

  24-05-2016 18:06
  
  Dartmouth College researchers are shedding light on the early chemical reactions in the organic sediments that would ultimately become the Marcellus Shale, a major source of natural gas and petroleum.
  
  Read more

• Precise atom implants in silicon provide a first step toward practical quantum computers

  24-05-2016 18:02
  
  Sandia National Laboratories has taken a first step toward creating a practical quantum computer, able to handle huge numbers of computations instantaneously.
  
  Read more

• Polling caller guesses found to be useful in predicting which respondents will follow through on claims

  24-05-2016 18:00
  
  (Phys.org)—A trio of researchers has, by conducting two studies, found evidence that suggests untrained polling callers are able to "guess" with almost 60 percent accuracy, which people they call will actually follow through on claims they have made regarding whether they will vote in an upcoming election. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Todd Rogers, with Harvard University and Leanne Brinke and Dana Carney with the University of California, des
  
  Read more

• Bayer-Monsanto tie-up fuels anti-GM debate in Germany

  24-05-2016 17:57
  
  A proposed tie-up between Bayer and Monsanto may still face numerous hurdles but it has already inflamed opinion in Germany where most people oppose genetically modified foods.
  
  Read more

• Friends, Romans: help restore Rome's ruins, monuments

  24-05-2016 17:45
  
  Rome has pleaded for patrons to help pay for the restoration and maintenance of some of the hundreds of fountains, monuments, archaeological sites and historical streets in the Italian capital.
  
  Read more

• Why vocal fry? A recent phenomenon among pop musicians, the lowest vocal register is being examined by researchers

  24-05-2016 17:43
  
  Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are studying the lowest vocal register used by chorus singers to better understand the emotional properties of music.
  
  Read more

• UK anti-fracking groups to fight on after landmark decision

  24-05-2016 17:43
  
  Campaigners in Britain said Tuesday they would take their fight against fracking national after the first scheme since 2011 was given the green light.
  
  Read more

• Poland begins logging primeval forest despite activist pleas

  24-05-2016 17:40
  
  Poland on Tuesday began a logging project aimed at protecting the Bialowieza forest, which includes some of Europe's last primeval woodland, despite protests from environmental groups, scientists and the EU.
  
  Read more

• New tabletop instrument tests electron mobility for next-generation electronics

  24-05-2016 17:40
  
  The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, with facilities in Florida and New Mexico, offers scientists access to enormous machines that create record-setting magnetic fields. The strong magnetic fields help researchers probe the fundamental structure of materials to better understand and manipulate their properties. Yet large-scale facilities like the MagLab are scarce, and scientists must compete with others for valuable time on the machines.
  
  Read more

• Getting the most out of natural gas

  24-05-2016 17:39
  
  ETH scientists have discovered a new catalyst that allows the easy conversion of natural gas constituents into precursors for the production of fuels or complex chemicals, such as polymers or pharmaceuticals. The new catalyst is extremely stable and results in fewer unwanted by-products.
  
  Read more

• Researchers find new method for doping single crystals of diamond

  24-05-2016 17:38
  
  Along with being a "girl's best friend," diamonds also have remarkable properties that could make them ideal semiconductors. This is welcome news for electronics; semiconductors are needed to meet the rising demand for more efficient electronics that deliver and convert power.
  
  Read more

• Video: Making polystyrene dissolve like magic

  24-05-2016 17:36
  
  Have you ever seen a foam cup appear to melt away in acetone? Foam cups, bowls and containers are made of a lightweight but strong material - expanded polystyrene. How then does acetone reduce this substance to a blob of goo?
  
  Read more

• Closing in on the elusive rotational-vibrational CH5+ spectra

  24-05-2016 17:34
  
  Protonated methane, a.k.a. CH5+, is a highly unusual molecule that scientists and astronomers suspect may be found within the interstellar medium where stars and planets are formed.
  
  Read more

• Astrophysicists detect most luminous diffuse gamma-ray emission from Arp 220

  24-05-2016 17:28
  
  A University of Oklahoma team has detected for the first time the most luminous gamma-ray emission from a galaxy—the merging galaxy Arp 220 is the nearest ultraluminous infrared galaxy to Earth, and it reveals the hidden extreme energetic processes in galaxies. The first gamma-ray detection of an ultraluminous infrafred galaxy occurs when the most energetic cosmic rays collide with the interstellar medium causing these galaxies to glow—expanding observations of these galaxies to the
  
  Read more

• How much can a mode-2 wave move?

  24-05-2016 17:27
  
  Look out over the ocean and you might get the impression that it's a mass of water acting as a single entity. However, the world's oceans are made up of layers of different densities, called stratifications, with complex fluid dynamics. Often bulges, called mode-2 internal waves, form in the thickness of these layers, trapping materials inside that then move along with the wave.
  
  Read more

• Facebook Making Changes to Trending Topics Following Backlash

  24-05-2016 17:25
  
  Facebook is making several changes following an investigation stemming from anonymous allegations of political bias in the social network’s trending topics feature.
  
  Read more

• The flower breeders who sold X-ray lilies and atomic marigolds

  24-05-2016 17:20
  The Chelsea Flower Show, one of the biggest and best known horticultural shows in the world, is now open. In the coming days, some 150,000 visitors will make their way to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, expecting to be wowed by innovative garden designs and especially by gorgeous flowers. Among other things, show-goers will have a chance to learn the winner of the Royal Horticultural Society's Plant of the Year award. This annual prize goes to the "most inspiring new plant" on display at the show &n
  
  Read more

• Researchers propose new method for creating extremely strong spin currents

  24-05-2016 17:12
  
  In our computer chips, information is transported in form of electrical charge. Electrons or other charge carriers have to be moved from one place to another. For years scientists have been working on elements that take advantage of the electrons angular momentum (their spin) rather than their electrical charge. This new approach, called "spintronics" has major advantages compared to common electronics. It can operate with much less energy.
  
  Read more

• Study of fungi-insect relationships may lead to new evolutionary discoveries

  24-05-2016 17:10
  
  Zombie ants are only one of the fungi-insect relationships studied by a team of Penn State biologists in a newly compiled database of insect fungi interactions.
  
  Read more

Follow @NewslockSciTech on Twitter!