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Australian Telescope Joins $100 Million Search for Alien Life The Parkes radio telescope in Australia is the third telescope to begin searching for signs of intelligent alien life as part of the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project.  Credit: CSIRO By Mike Wall A $100 million  search for intelligent alien life  just added a big arrow to its quiver. Breakthrough Listen  has begun using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia to scan the heavens, representatives of the ambitious, decade-long project announced Monday (Nov. 7). The Parkes dish becomes the third telescope to be employed by Breakthrough Listen, joining the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory in Northern California. "The addition of Parkes is an important milestone," billionaire entrepreneur Yuri Milner, founder of the Breakthrough Initiatives, which include Breakthrough Listen,  said in a statement . "These major instrument

This Scientist Is Building A Real Time Machine - And Thinks It Will Work By: Rob Waugh's Yahoo Blog ‘If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?’ Stephen Hawking asked in A Brief History Of Time. But one scientist believes that time travel is possible - and he has the design for a working ‘time telephone’, which he believes will receive messages from the future. Ronald Mallett, 69,  is a respected theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, and the subject of a new documentary, ‘ How To Build a Time Machine ’. He believes that a ‘tunnel’ of laser light can send messages through time - and that a time machine will be built this century. He also thinks he has the answer to Stephen Hawking’s question about why we have never seen a time traveller. Mallett’s quest to build a time machine has been a lifelong one - inspired by the death of his father, when he was aged 10. The young Mallett - who read a comic book ve

Credit: www.express.co.uk The "bone" (inset left) and "Claw" laid over Mars UFO investigators are claiming 2016 will shine new light on allegations Mars has hosted intelligent life amid claims a mammal-like bone and an alien claw have been seen on the surface of the Red Planet.  Separate videos posted to YouTube by Martian investigators have laid claim to the discovery of proof of alien life in images taken by NASA's Curiosity Rover - a space probe currently exploring the surface of the Red Planet. YouTube channel Martian Archaeology is claiming the credit for the bone-like object, which could realistically also be an odd-shaped rock. But Scott C Waring, who promoted the video on website UFO Sightings Daily, is convinced it is the bone of a once-living being. Credit: www.express.co.uk Martian Archaeology YouTube channel believes this is a bone on Mars Read more >> Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/631415/

REUTERS/China Daily The fall caused some drastic damage, but Hu looked hopeful before the surgery. The ability to design and print replacement body parts that are customized to an individual's needs is revolutionizing medicine. This year alone, doctors have printed tubes that  stabilized a child's collapsed windpipe  and they've  installed the first ever 3D printed vertebra  in a 12-year-old boy. Now, in a surgery that was one of the first of its kind, doctors replaced part of a Chinese man's skull with 3D printed titanium mesh that was molded to perfectly restore the part of his skull that had been smashed in an accident. In October of 2013 the man, a 46-year-old named Hu who lives in a town near Xi'an,  was working  on a construction project when he fell. He plunged three stories and  smashed his head on a pile of wood . The fall caved in a significant portion of his skull, damaging his brain, causing vision loss, especially in his left

Source: Youtube Audience applauds as Regina E. Dugan -- former Director of DARPA and current executive at Google -- describes with excitement the coming BEAST TECH smart tattoos and ingestible biochips that are ALREADY FDA APPROVED and that people will want to receive (and then be REQUIRED to receive) by 2017. She glows about the "super powers" the MARK will give her and says today's generation wants them too. Unfortunately, as documented in the book BEAST TECH, she is right.   Source: youtube

Chinese Did Successful Skull Surgery 5,000 Years Ago Credit: greaterancestors.com From CRI Online A human skull, which is believed to have had a successful brain operation some 5,000 years ago, was recently shown to the public at the Shangdong Provincial Museum. The human skull was discovered in 1995, among relics of the Dawenkou culture, a society that lasted about 1,500 years, beginning around 6,100 years ago. The skull was eventually excavated by archaeologists about six years ago. Experts found a hole, 3.1 by 2.5 centimeters wide, on the right part of the top back of the skull, which is believed to be that of an adult male. The circular arc on the edge of the hole was grown naturally, but only after some modifications and bone tissue repair was done. Many experts believe this growth indicates that the skull’s owner survived the operation for a long period of time afterwards, proving the prehistoric operation’s success. Credit: greaterances

Credit: The Independent A genetic disease has been cured in living, adult animals for the first time using a revolutionary genome-editing technique that can make the smallest changes to the vast database of the DNA molecule with pinpoint accuracy. Scientists have used the genome-editing technology to cure adult laboratory mice of an inherited liver disease by correcting a single “letter” of the genetic alphabet which had been mutated in a vital gene involved in liver metabolism. A similar mutation in the same gene causes the equivalent inherited liver disease in humans – and the successful repair of the genetic defect in laboratory mice raises hopes that the first clinical trials on patients could begin within a few years, scientists said. Read more >> Source: The Independent

Face-recognition software: Is this the end of anonymity for all of us? Credit: The Independent The software is already used for military surveillance, by police to identify suspects - and on Facebook. Now the US government is in the process of building the world's largest cache of face-recognition data, with the goal of identifying every person in the country From 2008 to 2010, as Edward Snowden has revealed, the National Security Agency (NSA) collaborated with the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to intercept the webcam footage of 1.8 million Yahoo users. The agencies were analysing images that they downloaded from webcams and scanning them for known terrorists who might be using the service to communicate, matching faces from the footage to suspects with the help of a new technology called face recognition. The outcome was pure Kafka, with innocent people being caught in the surveillance dragnet. In fact, in attempting to find faces, th

Bionic Camera Inspired by Insects Every insect eye consists of lots of small units called facets. Each facet is comprised of lens, pigment, and photoreceptors. The lens is mounted on a transparent crystalline cone that allows the light to reach the photoreceptors. Black pigment isolates facets from each other and screens out background light. The hemispherical shape allows extremely wide-angle fields of view, and the other advantage of this design is that it has incredible depth of view, which keeps objects focused despite the distance from the camera. John Rogers, a physical chemist and materials engineer at the  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  and leader of the research, said “We think of the insect world as an inspiration for design, but we’re not constrained by it… It’s not bio-mimicry; it’s bio-inspiration.” In these artificial insect eyes the tiny lenses are located on top of columns based on a flexible membrane – all made from elastic polymer also

This image made available by CERN shows a typical candidate event in the search for the Higgs boson. Photo by AP Tel Aviv University professor shares Nobel for physics British scientist Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Englert, a Holocaust survivor, discovered the 'God particle' and will share $1.2 million prize. Belgian Jewish physicist Francois Englert and his British colleague Peter Higgs won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. Asked how it felt to be a Nobel winner, Englert, who has a longstanding affiliation with Tel Aviv University, told reporters by phone link to Stockholm: "You may imagine that this is not very unpleasant, of course. I am very, very happy to have the recognition of this extraordinary award." Englert, a Belgian Jew and Holocaust survivor who is married to an Israeli, has maintained “a

The tiny robot  that roams the body to seek and destroy cancer. The very idea of a beetle moving around inside your  body  could be the products of  horror movies .  Yet scientists believe an insect-shaped robot could be a major weapon in the fight against cancer. The device, less than an inch long, is designed to be inserted into the body through a small incision. Once inside,  medical doctors  can control its movements and direct it to areas where scientific studies are needed .    Read more>>> Source :  Daily Mail

The  history of robots  has its roots as far back as ancient myths and legends. Modern concepts were begun to be developed when the Industrial Revolution allowed the use of more complex mechanics and the subsequent introduction of electricity made it possible to power machines with small compact motors. After the 1920s the modern formulation of a humanoid machine was developed to the stage where it was possible to envisage human sized robots with the capacity for near human thoughts and movements, first envisaged millennia before. The first uses of modern robots were in factories as industrial robots – simple fixed machines capable of manufacturing tasks which allowed production without the need for human assistance. Digitally controlled industrial robots and robots making use of artificial intelligence have been built since the 1960s. Chinese accounts relate a history of automata back to the 10th century BC when Yan Shi is credited with making an automaton resembling a human