Top 10 Future Food Sources

Future Food Sources

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Pills

For those of you who are not big on flavor, there is always food in pill form.  While a common detail in movies and books about the future, the ‘meal in a pill’ is actually already here, though probably not as you imagined it.

Researchers in the UK have developed a pill that provides the health benefits of eating a Mediterranean diet. According to the developers, each pill has the vitamins and minerals that you would get from eating six and a half pounds of tomatoes.

Icebergs Floated Solution for World's Water Woes

Solution for World's Water Woes

 

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"Iceberg, dead ahead!"

The cry that heralded the Titanic's doom may now signal hope for thirsty people around the world, if glaciologists and engineers can somehow harness flotillas of icebergs at the frozen corners of the Earth. Such a dream took a step forward recently when a French team simulated how to tow an iceberg from the Arctic to countries that need fresh drinking water.

Ambitions for making icebergs into the world's drinking fountains began with Saudi Prince Mohammed al Faisal in the 1970s. Al Faisal, nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, teamed up with French engineer Georges Mougin to create an ill-fated company based on tapping iceberg water. Since 2003, Mougin has resurrected the idea with the help of computer modeling from the French company Dassault Systemes.

X-Ray Microscope Enables Nanovision

X-Ray Microscope Enables Nanovision

Magnetic domains appear like the repeating swirls of fingerprint ridges. As the spaces between the domains get smaller, computer engineers can store more data. CREDIT: UC San Diego View full size image

Forget X-ray glasses. A new X-ray microscope can see details a small as a billionth of a meter — without even using a lens.

Instead, the new microscope uses a powerful computer program to convert patterns from X-rays bouncing off materials into images of objects as small as a one nanometer across, on the scale of a few atoms.

Unlike Superman's X-ray vision, which allows him to look through walls to see the bad guys beyond, the new technology could be used to look at different elements inside a material, or to image viruses, cells and tissue in great detail, said study researcher Oleg Shpyrko, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego. But one of the most important applications is in nano-sized engineering, Shpyrko said.

Top 10 Strangest Things in Space

Strangest Things in Space

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Antimatter

Like Superman's alter-ego, Bizzaro, the particles making up normal matter also have opposite versions of themselves. An electron has a negative charge, for example, but its antimatter equivalent, the positron, is positive. Matter and antimatter annihilate each other when they collide and their mass is converted into pure energy by Einstein's equation E=mc2. Some futuristic spacecraft designs incorporate anti-matter engines.

Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth

Huge 'Ocean' Discovered

 

Scientists scanning the deep interior of Earth have found evidence of a vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia that is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean.

The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle.

The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will be detailed in a forthcoming monograph to be published by the American Geophysical Union.

Gravity: You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

Gravity

It's all in your head

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Gravity may be pretty consistent on Earth, but our perception of it isn't. According to research published in April 2011 in the journal PLoS ONE, people are better at judging how objects fall when they're sitting upright versus lying on their sides.

The finding means that our perception of gravity may be less based on visual cues of gravity's real direction and more rooted in the orientation of the body. The findings may lead to new strategies to help astronauts deal with microgravity in space.

Weird! Our Universe May Be a 'Multiverse,' Scientists Say

Our Universe May Be a 'Multiverse,'

 

Is our universe just one of many? While the concept is bizarre, it's a real possibility, according to scientists who have devised the first test to investigate the idea.

The potential that we live in a multiverse arises from a theory called eternal inflation, which posits that shortly after the Big Bang that formed the universe, space-time expanded at different rates in different places, giving rise to bubble universes that may function with their own separate laws of physics.

Infinity Symbol Found at Center of Milky Way

Infinity Symbol

New image of a ring of gas and dust that lies at the center of the Milky Way. The ring has an unexplained twist in it. ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech

A twisted ring of gas stretching more than 600 light-years across the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has  been observed in its entirety for the first time. The gaseous ring, which gives birth to new stars, has a kink in the middle, such that it looks like a cosmic infinity symbol.

Parts of the ring have been seen before, but the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Telescope has just made unprecedented observations of the whole structure. The Herschel spacecraft is specially suited to peer into the Milky Way's center because it detects infrared and sub-millimeter light, which can penetrate through the dust hovering between here and there.

Missing 'Island' Floating In Earth's Atmosphere

Missing 'Island'

Illustration of the floating island of Laputa, a strange land in Jonathan Swift's 'Guliver's Travels.' CREDIT: Public domain image

A floating "island" is at large somewhere in the Earth's atmosphere.

The 23-foot-wide, helium-filled model of a desert island was constructed by two artists for a festival in Cambridgeshire, England. Tethered by ropes, it hovered above a lake on the grounds of the Secret Garden Party festival until the wee hours of July 24, when vandals let it loose. Reminiscent of the airborne island of Laputa in "Gulliver's Travels," it floated away.

Based on meteorological data, the inflatable's creators say "Is Land," as they call their art piece, may be hovering in the troposphere above the Czech Republic by now. They've asked for help retrieving it via their website.

Earth's Surface 'Recycled' Surprisingly Quickly

Earth's Surface 'Recycled'

The volcanic islands of Hawaii are thought to be fueled by a plume of hot rock that moves upward from the lower portions of the Earth's mantle. CREDIT: NASA

The ground we stand on seems permanent and unchanging, but the rocks that make up Earth's crust are actually subject to a cycle of birth and death that changes our planet's surface over eons. Now scientists have found evidence that this cycle is quicker than thought: 500 million years instead of 2 billion.

The tectonic plates that make up Earth's crust are constantly jostling against each other: brushing past one another in some places, moving apart in other areas, and butting head-on in still other places.

How Are Voicemails Hacked?

How Are Voicemails Hacked?

 

Voicemail hacking is surprisingly easy — for low-brow tabloids desperate for stories, temptingly so.

Most mobile networks assign a default PIN (personal identification number) to customers that allows them to access their voicemail messages from anywhere. A cellphone user can simply dial his or her own phone number from another phone, let it go to voicemail, enter the PIN and listen away. Most users don't change their PIN from the default, and so hackers often need only dial in to a hacking victim's voicemail inbox remotely and try the handful of default PINs assigned by the major networks. Some networks use a generic number, such as 0000. Others use the last four digits of the corresponding phone number.

What If Everyone On Earth Jumped at Once?

What If Everyone On Earth Jumped at Once?

If we all jumped at once, we could move the Earth a tiny bit. Credit: sxc.hu

There are roughly 7 billion people on Earth, with a total weight of approximately 800 billion pounds (363 billion kg). What if we all jumped at once?

Because people are spread somewhat equally around the planet's spherical surface, if we all jumped in place, nothing much would happen — all our lift-offs and impacts would, in effect, cancel each other out, resulting in zero net force on the Earth, according to work by physicist Rhett Allain.

Enceladus rains water onto Saturn

Rains water onto Saturn

ESA's Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying the source of the water in Saturn's upper atmosphere. Herschel's latest results mean that Enceladus is the only moon in the Solar System known to influence the chemical composition of its parent planet.

A new way to measure the expansion of the universe

Measure the expansion of the universe

A PhD student from The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth has produced one of the most accurate measurements ever made of how fast the Universe is expanding. Florian Beutler, a PhD candidate with ICRAR at the University of Western Australia, has calculated how fast the Universe is growing by measuring the Hubble constant.

"The Hubble constant is a key number in astronomy because it's used to calculate the size and age of the Universe," said Mr Beutler.+

Polar climate change may lead to ecological change

Polar climate change may lead to ecological change

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Ice and frozen ground at the North and South Poles are affected by climate change induced warming, but the consequences of thawing at each pole differ due to the geography and geology, according to a Penn State hydrologist. "The polar regions, particularly the Arctic, are warming faster than the rest of the world," Michael N. Gooseff, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, told attendees August 11 at the 96th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Austin, Texas. "As a consequence, polar ecosystems respond directly to changes in the Earth systems at the poles."

15 Creative High School Album Pics

High School Album Pics

Few Students of a Russian School got some awesome creative ideas to capture their memories in a memorable photo album. These guys are really smart!

Suicide Notes From 10 Famous People

Suicide Notes

Suicide is an act of taking ones own life, a path chosen by those who suffer from serious mental despair. Nothing can justify this act, no matter how big the problem or cause of depression may be. Some famous people took their lives by committing suicide and left the world mourning. Those who ruled the world and the hearts of people were themselves ruled by their own depression and despair.

10. James Whale – Film Director (July 22, 1893 – May 29, 1957)

James Whale, Film Director

Amazing!! two Headed Animals, which are surviving in this world...

Amazing!! two Headed Animals

 



Amazing!! two Headed Animals, which are surviving in this world... When we were Kids we heard a lot of stories about the two headed evil animals... which eat children... But these were not at all false, because humans have discovered the 2 headed differen species of animal that survive in today's world, but the wrong information we got earlier on our childhood is that, they won't eat Kids....

10 Awesome Crochet Arts

Crochet Arts

Polish-born artist Olek has presented her awesome Crochet Arts in “Knitting is for Pus****” exhibition, New York. Her Art was very unusual and attractive. After seeing them, only one thing i can say is "WoW!".

Mind blowing rain photography!!

Rain photography!!