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Penn State University scientists have discovered a way to build a flow battery that converts carbon dioxide into usable energy While this technology might not be commercially available for a long time, it could eventually help to drastically decrease carbon emissions as we move away from fossil fuels Here’s how this inexpensive flow battery works. Flow batteries normally contain two channels of liquid divided by a membrane that prevents them from mixing. In this recent discovery, the scientists placed a sodium bicarbonate and water solution with air on one side, and dissolved CO2 in between manganese oxide electrons on the other. This resulted in a higher concentr…

June 1, 2017: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in astronomy has been firmly opened. As was the case with the first two detections, the waves were generated when two black holes collided to form a larger black hole. Source

According to this Time article, which contains a link to a UT SW Medical Center announcement, researchers have determined that a KROX20 protein is responsible for hair growth and that the deletion of a stem cell factor gene it affects causes graying. Enjoy!

http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-space-probes-have-detected-a-human-made-barrier-shrouding-earth According to this NASA research, we have built up a shield surrounding earth which alters the properties of space surrounding earth - one of the features being we are shielded from some forms of radiation. This would, in theory, make it possible for someone else to detect artificial changes to space, indicating life.

Hi, I back again Apple Company has been filled a patent in 2016 for new technology to prevent recording videos or capturing images for special events by using I-Phone mobile in Concerts Venues, in Cinemas or Theatres. It can prevent recording events in specific direction only, so if we turn our phone 90 degree (toward our friends), it will start recording in that event. But, one of disadvantages of that technology, that someone talent expert may dismantled the smart phone & then put IR absorber material on sensor & then camera will work anywhere. Also you may use another easy trick without previous risk method. Any kind of camera or phone except I…

A suggestion that tiny fluctuations of expansion and contraction can average out to reduce the effect of vacuum energy. https://www.universetoday.com/135570/new-explanation-dark-energy-tiny-fluctuations-time-space/ https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.103504 https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00543

Recently students and teachers from Harvard University has successfully created Metal Hydrogen which they claim had never existed before. What are its likely applications and potential? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qitm5fteL0

CocaCola sponsoring research on soda as part of your diet The Sugar Industry blaming fats not sugar Big tobacco says tobacco is good for your health Any more examples? Turns out people are far more skeptical about research sponsored by corporations. https://www.quarkish.com/2017/05/08/people-dont-trust-research-sponsored-by-corporations/ Link Study done by Michigan State

Turns out we can use autonomous cars to sort of "guide" traffic and improve overall traffic flow. Would be interesting to see this in action! Link Study by the University of Illinois

"The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur, including bones, soft tissue, and even feathers, has been found preserved in amber, according to a report published today in the journal Current Biology." That was from a National Geographic article published December 8, 2016. How did I miss this incredible find? Enjoy!

According to The Guardian, investigators are organizing a new search for the elusive Queensland (Australia) thylacine after reported sightings of the believed extinct animal by reliable sources. The sad history of this last marsupial predator includes being hunted to extinction because of it's ferocious appearance rather than any potential threat to livestock or humans. Before recent sightings of at least 4 individuals, the last living specimen of thylacinus is believed to have died in a Hobart zoo in 1936. If found, I welcome its rediscovery and encourage its protection from those apex predators (humans) responsible for its extinctions elsewhere.

Different methods to reduce the fuel consumption of Rocket (Aerospace Science) Note: You must have LinkedIn account to read it. Commercial website link removed by moderator Enjoy Reading in Your Leisure Time

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39642992 "Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed." Seems like it might be a big science story. Is it? Anyone care to comment?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39518580 This seems to be a highly significant breakthrough, if verified. Further references welcome.

They weren't homo sapiens; who were they? This info opens a lot of questions, for example did these people get here by boat?

The relationships between modern dog breeds are shown in this cladogram published in Cell Reports. An impressive diagram.

Computer pioneer Harry Huskey dies aged 101 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37307825 Did it strike anyone else that five is quite young for a computer pioneer.

According to this Quartz article: Although I don't think it possible to synchronize music to brain "chemistry", music can affect our mood and mood is merely an expression of brain function. Essentially, what this article discusses isn't much of a revelation. We've known since Stone Age humanity's first drumbeat that music can elicit certain behavioral responses. Therefore, it isn't a stretch of credulity or ground breaking discovery that music can alter the brainwave frequencies underpinning our moods and behaviors. The article attempts to make a distinction between synchronizing music to brainwave frequencies as opposed to taste--which was a distinction lost…

This is pretty cool and could help solve a major problem for many.

All over the world, the number of people with diabetes continues to be on the rise since the 1980s, with 422 million people diagnosed by 2014. The United States alone has experienced a considerable rise in the incidence of diabetes, with the number of Americans diagnosed increasing from 5.5 million in 1980, to approximately 22 million in 2014—an increase of about 400 percent in less than forty years. In the UK, in 2016, the number of people living with diabetes in crossed the 4 million mark – an increase of 65 per cent in 10 years. .... .... Source: Drug Watch .... .... Now, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, led by Dr. Step…

Hello Science forums, I wanted to try and contribute to the forum by posting articles I find from different websites on current science news. I am trying to work on a Youtube webshow where I talk about a bunch of science/technology news and innovative gadets and part of that is looking up new information on science related topics. https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/articles/shining-a-light-on-the-future-of-electrophysiology-286992 This article describes how electrophysiological techniques are used in academic research and drug discovery settings. It also considers what the future for its use may look like when we consider the emerging optical reporters …