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Monday, September 24, 2012
Eighteen Victims of Cyber-crime Every Second – report
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Every minute another person in New Zealand becomes a victim of cybercrime according to a new report which claims there are 556 million victims worldwide every year after the two NRI jailed for a major cyber fraud case revealed in this news blog.
The report released by anti-virus company Norton researched 24 countries, including New Zealand, to find out how many people fell victim to crime on the internet as well as the price tag of consumer cybercrime for each country.
On a global scale there were 1.5 million victims of consumer cybercrime every day – or 18 victims per second. And putting paid to the stereotype that men are more technology savvy, the report says they are more likely to become victims of cybercrime with 71% falling prey compared to 63% of women. The report put the world-wide price of consumer cybercrime at $US110 billion ($135.2 billion) annually, or $US197 ($242) per person. In New Zealand the price tag of online crime topped $462.9 million ($569 million). It said the face of cybercrime is changing, with more and more people becoming victims through social media and mobile phones. Half of all New Zealand adults now use a mobile device to access the internet, with 19% of those having received a text message from someone they didn’t know requesting they click on an embedded link or dial an unknown number to retrieve a ‘voicemail’ message.
Around 39% of New Zealand’s social network users have fallen victim to cybercrime scam on social network platforms, while 13% reported that someone had hacked into their profile and pretended to be them. And while many consumers have become aware of the traditional threats associated with online shopping, it said many are still unaware of how cybercrime is rapidly changing. It found 85% of New Zealand adults do not use a security solution for their mobile device, and 63% were not aware that security options for their mobile even existed.
The report found that two out of three adults had been the victims of cybercrime in their lifetime, with close to half of online adults having fallen victims to attacks such as malware, viruses, hacking, scams, fraud and theft in the past year alone. But the report’s authors did praise Kiwis for their “security IQ”, saying New Zealanders got “high marks” in this area, with 91% of people deleting suspicious emails from people they don’t know, 77% do not open attachments or links in unsolicited emails or texts, while 82% of people have a basic anti-virus package. However, the report warned that many people in New Zealand (44%) are still too laid back about using complex passwords and not changing them regularly. The highest number of internet crime victims was found in Russia (92%), China (84%), and South Africa (80%).
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Don't Inhale: Researchers Warn Second-Hand Smoke Can Damage Memory
http://www.dailytech.com/Dont+Inhale+Researchers+Warn+SecondHand+Smoke+Can+Damage+Memory/article27664.htm
Those exposed forget 1 out of every 5 things their unexposed peers would recall
Northumbria University, located near Newcastle in the Northeastern coast of England, has produced a cautionary study warning that second-hand smoke may lead to memory loss.
Published [abstract] in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, the work by Psychologists Drs. Tom Heffernan and Terence O'Neil compared 27 second-hand smokers (SHS), 27 current-smokers (CS), and 29 non-second-hand smokers (non-SHS). Participants were subjected to the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT), a common memory test. The researchers took into consideration age, other drug use, mood, and IQ, in an effort to narrow the correlation down to smoke inhalation or lack thereof.
Current smokers fared the worst on the test, recalling approximately 25-30 percent less than their non-exposed peers in time- and event-based tasks. But somewhat more surprising, the researchers also observed a time-based memory gap in those exposed to second-hand smoke. They recalled over 15 percent less than their non-exposed peers. Interestingly, memory was not affected in event-based tasks.
The authors conclude:
The second-hand smokers in the study were exposed to, on average, 25 hours a week (3.6 hr. per day) for 4 and 1/2 years.
As with other studies on drug abuse, it's important to note that the observed phenomena was merely a correlation -- how exactly smoke affects the brain is very poorly understood, beyond basic reward circuitry.
There are many compelling questions raised by the study. The biggest is how exactly the memory impairment works on a neurological level. Another major question is whether so-called "third-hand" smoke -- smoke absorbed by a building occupied by a heavy smoker -- could have a similar, but smaller affect. Some studies have suggested that this may be the case with other smoking-related health issues.
Alcohol has been linked to similar memory impairment (though recent studies rebuke the hypothesis of brain cell death). However, there is no second-hand analogy with alcohol. On the other hand marijuana has been linked to short-term memory loss. Given the poor understanding of second-hand (tobacco) smoke and memory loss with tobacco (the NU paper claims to be the first study on the topic), the impact of second-hand marijuana smoke is likely poorly misunderstood.
Smoking has been linked to many adverse health affects. [Image Source: Reuters / Alexandra Beier]
In addition to memory affects, previous studies have shown a link between tobacco smoking and brain damage. Another study indicated smoking reduced brain activity in teens. Tobacco has also been linked to a variety of cancers, including testicular cancer. Habitually smoking marijuana also showed a clear correlation with certain kinds of testicular cancer.
It's clear that you should be careful what you inhale -- there is compelling evidence that it could damage your memory or cause other adverse affects, though researchers in some cases aren't sure quite how that process occurs.
Northumbria University, located near Newcastle in the Northeastern coast of England, has produced a cautionary study warning that second-hand smoke may lead to memory loss.
Published [abstract] in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, the work by Psychologists Drs. Tom Heffernan and Terence O'Neil compared 27 second-hand smokers (SHS), 27 current-smokers (CS), and 29 non-second-hand smokers (non-SHS). Participants were subjected to the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT), a common memory test. The researchers took into consideration age, other drug use, mood, and IQ, in an effort to narrow the correlation down to smoke inhalation or lack thereof.
Current smokers fared the worst on the test, recalling approximately 25-30 percent less than their non-exposed peers in time- and event-based tasks. But somewhat more surprising, the researchers also observed a time-based memory gap in those exposed to second-hand smoke. They recalled over 15 percent less than their non-exposed peers. Interestingly, memory was not affected in event-based tasks.
The authors conclude:
In a sample of never-smoked adults, exposure to SHS is associated with increased time- based, but not event-based objective PM impairments when compared with a Non-SHS group, but not to the same level of impairments as observed in current smokers. Given the concerns raised by the World Health Organisation in relation to the global impact of current smoking and exposure to SHS upon a range of health measures and other indices this is a topic that is of major public interest. Despite this, there is little in the way of systematic study on what impact exposure SHS has on everyday remembering, with the findings presented here representing the first in this line of research.
At an applied level, the findings from the present study could be incorporated into campaigns that alert people to the dangers of exposure to SHS beyond health indices and highlighting the everyday cognitive consequences of such exposure. Clearly the findings from this exploratory study could be integrated into such initiatives.
At an applied level, the findings from the present study could be incorporated into campaigns that alert people to the dangers of exposure to SHS beyond health indices and highlighting the everyday cognitive consequences of such exposure. Clearly the findings from this exploratory study could be integrated into such initiatives.
The second-hand smokers in the study were exposed to, on average, 25 hours a week (3.6 hr. per day) for 4 and 1/2 years.
As with other studies on drug abuse, it's important to note that the observed phenomena was merely a correlation -- how exactly smoke affects the brain is very poorly understood, beyond basic reward circuitry.
There are many compelling questions raised by the study. The biggest is how exactly the memory impairment works on a neurological level. Another major question is whether so-called "third-hand" smoke -- smoke absorbed by a building occupied by a heavy smoker -- could have a similar, but smaller affect. Some studies have suggested that this may be the case with other smoking-related health issues.
Alcohol has been linked to similar memory impairment (though recent studies rebuke the hypothesis of brain cell death). However, there is no second-hand analogy with alcohol. On the other hand marijuana has been linked to short-term memory loss. Given the poor understanding of second-hand (tobacco) smoke and memory loss with tobacco (the NU paper claims to be the first study on the topic), the impact of second-hand marijuana smoke is likely poorly misunderstood.
Smoking has been linked to many adverse health affects. [Image Source: Reuters / Alexandra Beier]
In addition to memory affects, previous studies have shown a link between tobacco smoking and brain damage. Another study indicated smoking reduced brain activity in teens. Tobacco has also been linked to a variety of cancers, including testicular cancer. Habitually smoking marijuana also showed a clear correlation with certain kinds of testicular cancer.
It's clear that you should be careful what you inhale -- there is compelling evidence that it could damage your memory or cause other adverse affects, though researchers in some cases aren't sure quite how that process occurs.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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No, we’re not issuing a fraud alert seeing as this is from a legit study that suggests coconut oil is capable of fighting tooth decay and could be used as mouthwash or toothpaste.
Scientists have discovered that when oil is treated with digestive enzymes, it is capable of harming bacteria in the mouth. Among all the types of oil used in the experiment, only the coconut oil has shown an impact in inhibiting the growth of bacteria strains. This might be because enzymes can breakdown fatty coconut oil into acids that consequently turn against bacteria. Previous research showed that partially digested milk can be used against microorganisms got the group interested in examining further effects of enzyme-modified foodstuffs.
Their study shows that digested milk protein reduces the possibility of bacteria clinging to the intestines and avoiding their entry into a cell. Their research on coconut oil and other enzyme-modified food is aimed at determining how they react with harmful bacteria in the human system.
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Norton Scientific Journal : Coconut oil as toothpaste?
http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2012/09/10/norton-scientific-journal-coconut-oil-as-toothpaste/
No, we’re not issuing a fraud alert seeing as this is from a legit study that suggests coconut oil is capable of fighting tooth decay and could be used as mouthwash or toothpaste.
Scientists have discovered that when oil is treated with digestive enzymes, it is capable of harming bacteria in the mouth. Among all the types of oil used in the experiment, only the coconut oil has shown an impact in inhibiting the growth of bacteria strains. This might be because enzymes can breakdown fatty coconut oil into acids that consequently turn against bacteria. Previous research showed that partially digested milk can be used against microorganisms got the group interested in examining further effects of enzyme-modified foodstuffs.
Their study shows that digested milk protein reduces the possibility of bacteria clinging to the intestines and avoiding their entry into a cell. Their research on coconut oil and other enzyme-modified food is aimed at determining how they react with harmful bacteria in the human system.
According to the results of the study, enzyme-treated coconut oil is good in preventing the development of Streptococcus strains, including the one that causes tooth decay. Several tests were already suggestive that coconut oil treated with enzymes is harmful to the yeast that causes thrush. More studies following this one will focus on how coconut oil impacts bacteria at a molecular level and what other strains of microorganisms it can affect.
Researchers from Ireland’s Athlone Institute of Technology has conducted experiments to test the effect of olive oil, vegetable oil and coconut oil on human teeth. The results were presented during a meeting at the University of Warwick of the Society for General Microbiology.
Dr. Damien Brady of Athlone Institute of Technology, lead researcher of the study, said, “Incorporating enzyme-modified coconut oil into dental hygiene products would be an attractive alternative to chemical additives, particularly as it works at relatively low concentrations. Also, with increasing antibiotic resistance, it is important that we turn our attention to new ways to combat microbial infection. Our data suggests that products of human digestion show antimicrobial activity. This could have implications for how bacteria colonise the cells lining the digestive tract and for overall gut health.”
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Medical Research Fraud: Professors Go Unpunished in Glaxo $3 Billion Guilty Plea Over Paxil
http://www.thenation.com/blog/169262/medical-research-fraud-professors-go-unpunished-glaxo-3-billion-guilty-plea-over-paxil#
The head of the UCLA hospital, Dr. David Feinberg, and twenty-one other academics are going unpunished despite their role in perpetrating a healthcare fraud that has resulted in the largest fine ever paid by a pharmaceutical company in US history.
On July 3 GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its bestselling antidepressants for unapproved uses. The heart of the case was an article in a medical journal purporting to document the safety and efficacy of Paxil in treating depression in children. The article listed more that twenty researchers as authors, including UCLA’s Feinberg, but the Department of Justice found that Glaxo had paid for the drafting of the fraudulent article to which the researchers had attached their names.
The study, which, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, had been criticized because it “dangerously misrepresented data” and had “hidden information indicating that the drug promoted suicidal behavior among teenagers,” was published in 2001 in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The lead “author” was Martin B. Keller, at the time a professor of psychiatry at Brown University. He retired this month. The article had been exposed as fraudulent in a 2007 BBC documentary and in the 2008 book Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, by Alison Bass. Glaxo’s guilty plea, according to the Chronicle, included an admission that “the article constituted scientific fraud.”
Paxil went on sale in the US in 1993 and, according to Bass, prescriptions for children “soared” after the study appeared, even though research showed Paxil was not more effective than a placebo. But in 2004, theChronicle reports, British regulators warned against prescribing Paxil to children, after a study reported that children taking Paxil were nearly three times more likely to consider or attempt suicide. Then the US FDA issued a similar warning. Paxil sales totaled more than $11 billion between 1997 and 2005.
Brown University officials said they had no plans to take action against Keller. At UCLA, Dale Triber Tate, a spokesperson for the medical center and Dr. Feinberg, had no comment. The journal that published the fraudulent research has failed to retract it, and editor-in-chief Andres S. Martin, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, told the Chronicle he had no comment on the options the journal might take.
Feinberg and Keller were among twenty-two people listed as “authors” on the fraudulent article. Others included Karen D. Wagner, now professor and vice chair of psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Boris Birmaher and Neal D. Ryan, professors of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh; Graham J. Emslie, professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; and Michael A. Strober, professor of psychiatry at UCLA.
Although Glaxo pled guilty and paid $3 billion in fines, none of the academics have been disciplined by their universities for their roles in perpetrating research fraud. Moreover, according to the Chronicle, several continue to receive federal grants from the National Institute of Health.
The head of the UCLA hospital, Dr. David Feinberg, and twenty-one other academics are going unpunished despite their role in perpetrating a healthcare fraud that has resulted in the largest fine ever paid by a pharmaceutical company in US history.
On July 3 GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed pay $3 billion in fines for promoting its bestselling antidepressants for unapproved uses. The heart of the case was an article in a medical journal purporting to document the safety and efficacy of Paxil in treating depression in children. The article listed more that twenty researchers as authors, including UCLA’s Feinberg, but the Department of Justice found that Glaxo had paid for the drafting of the fraudulent article to which the researchers had attached their names.
The study, which, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, had been criticized because it “dangerously misrepresented data” and had “hidden information indicating that the drug promoted suicidal behavior among teenagers,” was published in 2001 in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The lead “author” was Martin B. Keller, at the time a professor of psychiatry at Brown University. He retired this month. The article had been exposed as fraudulent in a 2007 BBC documentary and in the 2008 book Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, by Alison Bass. Glaxo’s guilty plea, according to the Chronicle, included an admission that “the article constituted scientific fraud.”
Paxil went on sale in the US in 1993 and, according to Bass, prescriptions for children “soared” after the study appeared, even though research showed Paxil was not more effective than a placebo. But in 2004, theChronicle reports, British regulators warned against prescribing Paxil to children, after a study reported that children taking Paxil were nearly three times more likely to consider or attempt suicide. Then the US FDA issued a similar warning. Paxil sales totaled more than $11 billion between 1997 and 2005.
Brown University officials said they had no plans to take action against Keller. At UCLA, Dale Triber Tate, a spokesperson for the medical center and Dr. Feinberg, had no comment. The journal that published the fraudulent research has failed to retract it, and editor-in-chief Andres S. Martin, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, told the Chronicle he had no comment on the options the journal might take.
Feinberg and Keller were among twenty-two people listed as “authors” on the fraudulent article. Others included Karen D. Wagner, now professor and vice chair of psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Boris Birmaher and Neal D. Ryan, professors of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh; Graham J. Emslie, professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; and Michael A. Strober, professor of psychiatry at UCLA.
Although Glaxo pled guilty and paid $3 billion in fines, none of the academics have been disciplined by their universities for their roles in perpetrating research fraud. Moreover, according to the Chronicle, several continue to receive federal grants from the National Institute of Health.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
University of Texas panel: No scientific misconduct in anti-gay parenting study
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/09/university-of-texas-panel-says-no-scientific-misconduct-anti-gay-parenting-study/
AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas advisory panel consisting of four senior faculty members has concluded that the author of an anti-gay parenting study had not published nor committed falsification of data, plagiarism or other ethical breaches constituting scientific misconduct.
As a result, the panel found that no formal investigation of allegations against Mark Regnerus — an associate professor of sociology who had published the study back in June — is warranted.
In his study, which has been widely denounced by LGBT advocacy groups, RRegnerus claimed “that the adult children of gay parents reported significantly different, and often worse, life experiences than the children of married, heterosexual biological parents.”
Mark Regnerus
“I think it’s a just and wise decision, and I’m certainly pleased with it,” Regnerus told the Austin American-Statesman, in an email. “It was a thorough and fair process, and conducted professionally.”
A number of sociologists and gay marriage advocates objected to Regnerus’ findings, contending that they subverted a decade of research.
The critics also questioned his methodology, the peer review process and the fact that the study was paid for by two conservative groups, the Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation. An internal draft audit by Social Science Research, the journal that published the study, found “serious flaws” in the peer review process and concluded that the journal never should have published his report.
One of the leading critics of the study, freelance writer Scott Rosensweig, who uses the byline Scott Rose, leveled allegations of scientific misconduct in a letter to UT President Bill Powers.
After consultation with Robert A. Peterson, a research integrity officer in the UT Office of the Vice President for Research, Powers ordered the inquiry.
Rosensweig charged among other things that the anti-gay-rights Witherspoon Institute long cultivated a relationship, with Regnerus before approaching him to commission a study that would demonize gay people and be available in time for pernicious exploitation during the 2012 elections.
Rosensweig disputed UT’s review results, noting that some peer reviewers of the study were also paid consultants, which he labeled “a most serious matter.”
Peterson told the American-Statesman that he felt that the question of whether Regnerus’ study has serious flaws is one best left to debate among scholars, future research and an expected release by Regnerus of the data underlying his research.
UT had hired Alan Price, a former chief research fraud investigator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and now working as a private consultant, to monitor the inquiry.
In a statement, Price said that the inquiry was handled “consistent with the University policy and procedures for scientific misconduct” as well as “consistent with federal regulatory requirements of inquiries into research misconduct.”
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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This is a review of Broad and Wade’s Betrayers of the Truth. The author uses a subtitle which is revealing: the loyalist responds to heresy not by seeing that something might be wrong, that there may be some merit to this sort of reassessment, but by defending the ideology. Zinder has managed to misread Broad and Wade in several places. There is sufficient misrepresentation to mean that he read the book very selectively. “The authors continually confound science with scientists. And the book not only fails to enlighten us on science but doesn’t even begin to provide any insight on scientific method.” (p. 94) “Thirty four cases of fraud over a 2,000 year period are documented in the book, a number roughly comparable to the number of lawyers who went to jail for Watergate. Despite this small number, the authors imply that scientific fraud is common.
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On June 25, the hottest man-made temperature has been recorded in a huge atom-smasher at New York at 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit — just 250,000 times hotter compared to the sun’s core. This achievement occurred in the particle accelerator RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), a 3.9-kilometer tunnel under New York that researchers use to [...]
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A planet similar to Earth in its ability to sustain water was discovered by astronomers in a nearby Norton Scientific Journal star system. This Earth-twin is located in the habitable area of its host star — a narrow region where temperatures are just right for liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface. Astronomers were astonished [...]
Monday, August 13, 2012
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On June 25, the hottest man-made temperature has been recorded in a huge atom-smasher at New York at 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit — just 250,000 times hotter compared to the sun’s core. This achievement occurred in the particle accelerator RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), a 3.9-kilometer tunnel under New York that researchers use to [...]
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
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On June 25, the hottest man-made temperature has been recorded in a huge atom-smasher at New York at 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit — just 250,000 times hotter compared to the sun’s core.
This achievement occurred in the particle accelerator RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), a 3.9-kilometer tunnel under New York that researchers use to smash particles into one another to replicate conditions that happened a split-second after the Big Bang.
Creating the hot temperature in a controlled environment was done in Brookhaven National Laboratory through colliding gold nuclei with each other at the speed of light.
Once the collision of ions happened, the huge amount of energy it emits will melt the protons and neutrons in the gold nuclei, turning into a liquid composed of smaller particles called gluons and quarks.
At 7 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, normal matter would usually break down into sub-atomic particles, the gluons and quarks that supposedly composed the earliest plasma that scientist thought resembles the thing that consisted the universe right after the Big Bang happened, 13.7 billion years ago.
According to the head of the Brookhaven program, particle physicists formerly thought that quarks and gluons would be in gas form but this new study revealed that it is behaving more like a liquid. And while they already expected to get to such extreme temperatures, they were really surprised of it having an almost perfect liquid behavior.
Surprisingly, the liquid could occur at both ends of the spectrum — that is, a similar behavior of the liquid in trapped atom samples has been seen at extremely cold temperatures.
“Other physicists have now observed quite similar liquid behavior in trapped atom samples at temperatures near absolute zero, ten million trillion times colder than the quark-gluon plasma we create at RHIC,” said the head of Brookhaven’s particle and nuclear physics program.
The extremely hot temperature has been recognized by Guinness as the hottest temperature in history. By the way, Norton Scientific Journal measured that temperature through identifying the color of light coming from it.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hottest Temperature at 7.2 trillion F in New York
http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2012/08/03/hottest-temperature-at-7-2-trillion-f-in-new-york/
On June 25, the hottest man-made temperature has been recorded in a huge atom-smasher at New York at 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit — just 250,000 times hotter compared to the sun’s core.
This achievement occurred in the particle accelerator RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), a 3.9-kilometer tunnel under New York that researchers use to smash particles into one another to replicate conditions that happened a split-second after the Big Bang.
Creating the hot temperature in a controlled environment was done in Brookhaven National Laboratory through colliding gold nuclei with each other at the speed of light.
Once the collision of ions happened, the huge amount of energy it emits will melt the protons and neutrons in the gold nuclei, turning into a liquid composed of smaller particles called gluons and quarks.
At 7 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, normal matter would usually break down into sub-atomic particles, the gluons and quarks that supposedly composed the earliest plasma that scientist thought resembles the thing that consisted the universe right after the Big Bang happened, 13.7 billion years ago.
According to the head of the Brookhaven program, particle physicists formerly thought that quarks and gluons would be in gas form but this new study revealed that it is behaving more like a liquid. And while they already expected to get to such extreme temperatures, they were really surprised of it having an almost perfect liquid behavior.
Surprisingly, the liquid could occur at both ends of the spectrum — that is, a similar behavior of the liquid in trapped atom samples has been seen at extremely cold temperatures.
“Other physicists have now observed quite similar liquid behavior in trapped atom samples at temperatures near absolute zero, ten million trillion times colder than the quark-gluon plasma we create at RHIC,” said the head of Brookhaven’s particle and nuclear physics program.
The extremely hot temperature has been recognized by Guinness as the hottest temperature in history. By the way, Norton Scientific Journal measured that temperature through identifying the color of light coming from it.
The Higgs Boson Discovery and Mystery
http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2012/07/12/the-higgs-boson-discovery-and-mystery/
Scientists across the world seem to be in celebration mode this week with what is deemed as the 21st century’s greatest scientific discovery – the Higgs boson.
Apparently, if scientists fail to find the Higgs boson, all that have been established about how everything works in the universe would be meaningless. This means that we would probably have all this nice equations and formulas that govern every little thing in the world but they would have been incorrect.
And even while the rest of us do not understand a thing about it, this discovery is expected to change the world in previously unimaginable ways — at least that’s what the scientists are in the opinion of. Adding to the confusion is the declarations from the likes of them that this could also affect philosophy and religion along with everything else.
Before we all freak out about this incomprehensible and somewhat important discovery, let’s at least try to understand just what all this fuss is about.
Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner for his work in quantum physics, took time to explain some things on one of his books called The Character of Physical Law. According to him, no one really understands quantum physics (surprise!) because as one digs deeper into the sub-atomic realm, its practical implications and meaning gets overshadowed by the mathematical challenge.
Meanwhile, Norton Scientific Journal experts point out that a boson is a special type of particle (Higgs being a person’s name appended to it) because apparently, two of them can occupy the same space, at the same time. That claim alone turned the most basic of my scientific knowledge upside down. From what we know, two stones cannot possibly occupy the same space simultaneously. Scientists are aware of this confusion so they suggest that we stop referring to bosons as particles but as “entities” instead. (Though that doesn’t make much difference to me.)
Of course, the most important thing about Higgs boson is its being the reason for other particles to have mass (i.e. to have weight at all). So it is sort of a particle that “imparts mass to other particles” — except that, it is not really right to call it a ‘particle’.
Seems like the science community failed in communicating to the general public their enthusiasm about this great discovery. People are as anxious as ever to know just how exactly this is going to change anything, especially because everyone has an investment in this – through taxpayers’ money that funded the project.
But I’m sure they’ll figure out an effective way to explain the whole thing to the rest of us, eventually.
Norton Scientific Journal : Russian Startup Pirate Pay Claims to Stop Illegal Downloads
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An up-and-coming Russian tech startup gained financial backing from Microsoft for developing a new technology that claims to shut down illegal downloads through torrents.
An up-and-coming Russian tech startup gained financial backing from Microsoft for developing a new technology that claims to shut down illegal downloads through torrents.
Pirate Pay (a homage to the prominent file-sharing site The Pirate Bay) has apparently stopped thousands of illegal downloads during a project carried out with big-time producers.
The Seed Financing Fund of Microsoft invested about USD 100,000 along with Russia’s Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology’s (Bortnik Fund) USD 34,000.
The founding team responsible for the project is composed of three Russian programmers — brothers Alexei and Andrei Klimenko together with Dmitry Shuvaev. Initially, they planned to build a program that could handle traffic management for file-sharing. But they soon realized that it could have other useful applications.
Pirate Pay CEO Andrei told Norton Scientific Journal, “After creating the prototype, we realised we could more generally prevent files from being downloaded, which meant that the program had great promise in combating the spread of pirated content.”
Pirate Pay would not really say how the system works but it is widely speculated that it floods torrent servers with bogus requests until they get warnings and terminate communication. This is because in order to download a file using torrent, one must need to know the IP address of another PC that has the file.
“We used a number of servers to make a connection to each and every P2P client that distributed this film. Then Pirate Pay sent specific traffic to confuse these clients about the real IP addresses of other clients and to make them disconnect from each other.”
Though not all the goals were accomplished, almost 50,000 users were not able to finish their downloads.
“It was not so hard to do from inside an ISP’s network. But to turn the technology into global service, we had to convince all ISPs to acquire our solution. That is what some could call mission impossible. So to create a global service, we had to find the way to do it from the cloud. So we needed money for development.” Andrei added.
He confirmed that high-level backing indeed permits their firm to turn its concepts into a profitable business.
They said that the service might cost customers from USD 12,000 to USD 50,000 but it still depends on the level of defense required. To date, Pirate Pay has already worked with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures.
Although Pirate Pay is not the only anti-piracy software available, someone has yet to figure out an effective way to stop illegal file-sharing. Torrents are diverse and difficult to pin down, making it a challenge to stop them altogether. But just in case Pirate Pay actually works, we’ll definitely see more advanced piracy measures that can circumvent it.
The firm is located at the Skolkovo Innovation Center that provides tax benefits and exposes Pirate Pay to other startups. Ironically, Pirate Pay is based in Russia, the country being accused of leniency in cracking down pirates.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Scams - Fall River, MA - The Herald News
By Holly Rebello
It used to be a scammer
would come to your home, usually dressed as some type of a repairman (i.e., plumber, roofer),
and tell you it will cost thousands of dollars to do the repairs, but you would
have to pay some money upfront. These scammers were eventually thwarted once
the news media in television and printed newspaper go the word out to the
public. It was a small victory to put a stop to it, but a victory nonetheless.
The next wave of scammer
came in the form of postal mailings to your house or in the form of a phone
call to your house. The mailing would state “you may have already won” or “your
name and address were chosen” – something like that is how they got your
attention. The phone calls were usually stating it was for some organization,
some even stating it was for a police or firefighter organization. These
scammers preyed on those who had their hearts in the right place and were
willing to help do good in the community. That went on for some time until
victims began going to their local news media outlet to report the
victimization and complain that they weren’t happy with the way their local
police department were handling the case. As with the first scammers, the scams
were thwarted by the news media in both television and newsprint.
Then came electronic
scamming by way of electronic mail, commonly referred to as email. Scammers
even found a way to incorporate encoding into pop-up advertisements to install
hidden software that would steal your information – or even to take control of
your computer. This brought scamming to an entirely new level in which now it
was clear that scamming people out of their money was now global. It took no
time at all for companies like Microsoft and AOL to devise spam detection
technology into their email programs. From this, came the birth of spam
filtering software and webmail developers, as well as anti-virus and internet security
software from companies like Symantec (Norton) and TrendMicro. The subject line
reads “FBI…” or “Dear Beneficiary” HELLLOOOOO! This is one of many scams in the
form of an email. Answer me this, if you can: Why would anyone open and respond
to emails like this? As informed a society as we are, it makes no sense to me
whatsoever why people would still be opening and even responding to emails like
that – emails with the clear intention of getting your financial and other
personal information so that these thieves can steal your money as well as your
identity. In a thirty-day period, I receive up to nearly 300 emails like this –
thankfully, those emails all end up in the SPAM folder automatically. Why would
anyone click on a pop-up ad anymore? The encoding in some of those pop-up ads
have viruses that will crash your computer hard drive or
worms that will steal your passwords and personal/financial information.
Some scams that are
seemingly as old as this country are better known as extortion. In 2010, a
Florida woman was married to a seemingly wealthy man.
She met another man at a gas station one day, and she came up with a plan to
extort $50,000 from her husband, by a kidnapping plot. The two were caught, the
husband divorced the woman, and a bill totaling $86,000 in overtime costs from
the law enforcement personnel that were involved in this case. This was the
costs that were involved for what was initially a kidnap-for-ransom case. One
scam that I just saw was on Craigslist in the apartment/housing section for
Rhode Island. An ad for a single family house and after the interested party
stated it was not the right fit, the person who placed the ad simply said “Ok,
just fill out the application and send the completed form to me.” <-THAT is
phishing for your personal information. Another scam that actually surprised
me: international scammers posing as United States military personnel – to get
your money.
So what is the bottom
line / moral of this writing? Trust no one but yourself and when in doubt,
don’t open it!
Until next time!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
MTH Pumps - Manufacturer of Regenerative Turbine, Centrifugal, Sealless, and OEM Pump Products. (Tvinx :: News)
http://nortonscientificcollection-bradkepler.blogspot.com/
REESEOATHMORE - TVINX NEWS - MTH Pumps is a commercial and industrial pump manufacturer serving a wide variety of markets and industries including boiler feed, condensate return, chillers / temperature controllers, water services, refrigeration, petroleum, as well as many chemical process applications. Our standard product lines include mechanically sealed regenerative turbines for low flow, high pressure applications (1000PSI & 150GPM) as well as a line of small centrifugal's (60PSI & 100GPM). Our custom engineered products include sealless canned versions of our turbine product lines. MTH Pumps has endeavored to provide the broadest line of turbine and sealless canned pump products available in the world. We have extensive experience custom designing pumps for specific OEM needs where high reliability and cost reduction are a primary concern. In addition, all units are tested to specifications before leaving the factory. Please browse our site for more information and contact us if you don't see what you need as our custom engineered product lines change frequently.MTH Pumps - Manufacturer of Regenerative Turbine, Centrifugal, Sealless, and OEM Pump Products. (Tvinx :: News)
REESEOATHMORE - TVINX NEWS - MTH Pumps is a
commercial and industrial pump manufacturer serving a wide variety of markets
and industries including boiler feed, condensate return, chillers / temperature
controllers, water services, refrigeration, petroleum, as well as many chemical
process applications. Our standard product lines include mechanically sealed
regenerative turbines for low flow, high pressure applications (1000PSI &
150GPM) as well as a line of small centrifugal's (60PSI & 100GPM). Our
custom engineered products include sealless canned versions of our turbine
product lines. MTH Pumps has endeavored to provide the broadest line of turbine
and sealless canned pump products available in the world. We have extensive
experience custom designing pumps for specific OEM needs where high reliability
and cost reduction are a primary concern. In addition, all units are tested to
specifications before leaving the factory. Please browse our site for more
information and contact us if you don't see what you need as our custom
engineered product lines change frequently.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Norton Scientific Journal: Researchers Call for Open-access Journals
http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2012/04/13/norton-scientific-journal-researchers-call-for-open-access-journals/
Britain’s Wellcome Trust, one of the largest research charities worldwide expressed their support to scientists who wants to make their work accessible to all. Officials at the organization gave hints of their plan to introduce a free online journal that can rival established academic publications.
Researchers are now demanding that their work be opened to the public, believing that in this way, progress in scientific research will speed up. Besides, researches that are publicly funded should not be exclusive for private publishing houses as the research findings must be available to all. Trust seems to be advocating that charity- and public-funded scientific research must be accessible for anyone who wants to read it.
It is evident that Wellcome Trust does not want to pay for medical studies that only end up in private parties so it is now considering ways to bring the research papers under an open-access framework.
Most of the world’s scientific research which is estimated to be around 1.5 million new articles every year is only released through journals owned by several big publishing companies like Wiley, Springer and Elsevier. Influential journals such as New England Journal and Nature and Science are only accessible via paid subscription. And because of the frustrations with the expenses of academic journals, researchers staged a boycott of the biggest publisher worldwide, Elsevier. Over 9,200 said they will not submit manuscripts anymore, nor act as peer reviewer for Norton Scientific Journal.
With this intervention from the second largest non-government funder of medical research, the movement gained a considerably strong ally in their demand to open online journals.
The director of Wellcome Trust Sir Mark Walport, announced that they are in the final stages of introducing a high-caliber scientific journal called eLife, set to directly rival the premiere publications like Nature and Science, and is set to launch the website this year. But not like the traditional journals that can cost universities millions in cash every year to access, articles published on eLife would be free to view online once they are released.
“The broad principle is obviously correct, publicly-funded research should be in the public domain as soon as possible,” said the Labour chair of the House of Commons science and technology committee. And in fact, if you look at what really makes information dissemination effective, you will find that open content obviously spreads faster, has more influence and reach a wider audience — it could even be used in ways that the authors do not expect.
Wellcome Trust provides financial assistance in form of grants so that they can pay publishers to make their work available for free. Those who do not open their work for public access in accordance with Trust’s terms can be sanctioned in future grant applications.
The government also appeared to be giving their assent for calls on open access journals. During its launch of innovation strategy in December, the minister for universities and science said that he would like to see all state-funded researched released in the public domain.
Wellcome Trust even teamed up with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Max Planck Society of Germany in their setting up of the open-access online journal eLife. Walport commented, “The idea is that that will take on the very top end of the scientific publishing industry, a visible high-profile competitor to Nature and Science. In no sense is this a war in which we’re trying to put them out of business, the thing that would be best for them [publishers] to do is to change their publishing model.”
As expected, prominent scientists started to steer away from academic publishing and give their medical studies to open-access journals like the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), which also has a peer-review system in place for its articles.
Britain’s Wellcome Trust, one of the largest research charities worldwide expressed their support to scientists who wants to make their work accessible to all. Officials at the organization gave hints of their plan to introduce a free online journal that can rival established academic publications.
Researchers are now demanding that their work be opened to the public, believing that in this way, progress in scientific research will speed up. Besides, researches that are publicly funded should not be exclusive for private publishing houses as the research findings must be available to all. Trust seems to be advocating that charity- and public-funded scientific research must be accessible for anyone who wants to read it.
It is evident that Wellcome Trust does not want to pay for medical studies that only end up in private parties so it is now considering ways to bring the research papers under an open-access framework.
Most of the world’s scientific research which is estimated to be around 1.5 million new articles every year is only released through journals owned by several big publishing companies like Wiley, Springer and Elsevier. Influential journals such as New England Journal and Nature and Science are only accessible via paid subscription. And because of the frustrations with the expenses of academic journals, researchers staged a boycott of the biggest publisher worldwide, Elsevier. Over 9,200 said they will not submit manuscripts anymore, nor act as peer reviewer for Norton Scientific Journal.
With this intervention from the second largest non-government funder of medical research, the movement gained a considerably strong ally in their demand to open online journals.
The director of Wellcome Trust Sir Mark Walport, announced that they are in the final stages of introducing a high-caliber scientific journal called eLife, set to directly rival the premiere publications like Nature and Science, and is set to launch the website this year. But not like the traditional journals that can cost universities millions in cash every year to access, articles published on eLife would be free to view online once they are released.
“The broad principle is obviously correct, publicly-funded research should be in the public domain as soon as possible,” said the Labour chair of the House of Commons science and technology committee. And in fact, if you look at what really makes information dissemination effective, you will find that open content obviously spreads faster, has more influence and reach a wider audience — it could even be used in ways that the authors do not expect.
Wellcome Trust provides financial assistance in form of grants so that they can pay publishers to make their work available for free. Those who do not open their work for public access in accordance with Trust’s terms can be sanctioned in future grant applications.
The government also appeared to be giving their assent for calls on open access journals. During its launch of innovation strategy in December, the minister for universities and science said that he would like to see all state-funded researched released in the public domain.
Wellcome Trust even teamed up with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Max Planck Society of Germany in their setting up of the open-access online journal eLife. Walport commented, “The idea is that that will take on the very top end of the scientific publishing industry, a visible high-profile competitor to Nature and Science. In no sense is this a war in which we’re trying to put them out of business, the thing that would be best for them [publishers] to do is to change their publishing model.”
As expected, prominent scientists started to steer away from academic publishing and give their medical studies to open-access journals like the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), which also has a peer-review system in place for its articles.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Norton Scientific Journal : Google Goggles Use Augmented Reality
Before the year ends, we might see the dawn of another trend on digital devices as Google is set to launch Goggles, basically an eyewear with smartphone capability. The lenses will serve as a monitor where you can view information, entertainment and advertisements wherever you are. It focuses on the projection of an information layer over physical objects that you see or what is called augmented reality.
Though no one has confirmed seeing the Google glasses firsthand, rumors continue flying as Norton Scientific Journal reported in detail about the product. This might be because it is being developed in the uber secretive offices of Google X, a laboratory near Google’s main campus where engineers/scientists are working on other projects.
Goggles will reportedly use the same Android OS that powers tablets and smartphones, equipping the glasses with motion sensors and GPS. The eyeglasses will also sport audio I/O and camera.
Via the built-in camera on the eyeglasses, Google can stream and overlay information to the wearer. For example, if the wearer is looking at a landmark, he would be able to see detailed information and perhaps, comments about it left by his friends. And if ever facial recognition software is approved to be used in such a scale, the glasses could also enable the wearer to read details about the person he is looking at. On a more plausible and fun side, Goggles can be used for virtual reality games with the real world as playground.
As expected, Google will integrate its other services to the glasses such as Google Latitude and Google Maps, which would be a huge help especially if you want to know how far you are from your destination, what the weather is like and other local details.
Though Google Goggles is said to have more focus on objects than people, an advocacy group for web privacy has requested FTC to suspend the use of facial recognition programs. Electronic Privacy Information Center suggested that until the government has figured out proper privacy standards to protect users, such products should not be made available.
Google Goggles is said to be like the design of Oakley Thump and will overlay the screen with contextual information as opposed to browser-like pages we see on smartphones. Operating it can be as simple as tilting your head back and forth. And although these spectacles can look really cool, they are not designed for constant use.
With it, comes inherent privacy concerns. Perhaps that’s a reason why Google is taking its time before launching the product, and rightly so. People should at least be able to tell if they are being recorded by a person with a camera on his eyewear.
Now these ultra modern glasses seem to be one of the pieces Google wants to have in order to know what users are doing and where they are going to 24/7. Recently, Google has already announced a unification of its 60 online services for, apparently, continuous online tracking.
The Google Goggles will reportedly cost up to USD 600, just like a smartphone, and will be available before the year ends. As of new, Google does not seem ready to deny or confirm anything about a smart eyewear in development.
Though no one has confirmed seeing the Google glasses firsthand, rumors continue flying as Norton Scientific Journal reported in detail about the product. This might be because it is being developed in the uber secretive offices of Google X, a laboratory near Google’s main campus where engineers/scientists are working on other projects.
Goggles will reportedly use the same Android OS that powers tablets and smartphones, equipping the glasses with motion sensors and GPS. The eyeglasses will also sport audio I/O and camera.
Via the built-in camera on the eyeglasses, Google can stream and overlay information to the wearer. For example, if the wearer is looking at a landmark, he would be able to see detailed information and perhaps, comments about it left by his friends. And if ever facial recognition software is approved to be used in such a scale, the glasses could also enable the wearer to read details about the person he is looking at. On a more plausible and fun side, Goggles can be used for virtual reality games with the real world as playground.
As expected, Google will integrate its other services to the glasses such as Google Latitude and Google Maps, which would be a huge help especially if you want to know how far you are from your destination, what the weather is like and other local details.
Though Google Goggles is said to have more focus on objects than people, an advocacy group for web privacy has requested FTC to suspend the use of facial recognition programs. Electronic Privacy Information Center suggested that until the government has figured out proper privacy standards to protect users, such products should not be made available.
Google Goggles is said to be like the design of Oakley Thump and will overlay the screen with contextual information as opposed to browser-like pages we see on smartphones. Operating it can be as simple as tilting your head back and forth. And although these spectacles can look really cool, they are not designed for constant use.
With it, comes inherent privacy concerns. Perhaps that’s a reason why Google is taking its time before launching the product, and rightly so. People should at least be able to tell if they are being recorded by a person with a camera on his eyewear.
Now these ultra modern glasses seem to be one of the pieces Google wants to have in order to know what users are doing and where they are going to 24/7. Recently, Google has already announced a unification of its 60 online services for, apparently, continuous online tracking.
The Google Goggles will reportedly cost up to USD 600, just like a smartphone, and will be available before the year ends. As of new, Google does not seem ready to deny or confirm anything about a smart eyewear in development.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Norton Scientific Journal: Silver Set for Huge Rise
Prices of silver are up by almost 7% this week marking their best weekly performance since January. It is expected to increase almost 30% year, making it the best performing in the precious metal industry this year.
The silver-gold ratio or the quantity of silver ounces required to purchase an ounce of gold, slumped to 50 last week, the lowest since October.
Meanwhile, platinum group metals relaxed after continuous 5-month highs last week on supply worries regarding a strike in the top manufacturer in South Africa.
To aid in strengthening the physical silver market, Sprott looks to the bullion supply source. He requested the mining firms to think about holding 25 percent of their 2011 cash reserves instead in physical silver.
So after several months, it is interesting to know how Norton Scientific Journal reacted, knowing that they are well-informed of the history and role of precious metals as good money. But many executives of mining firms are more informed about things like core samples, extraction rates and ore grades than in economics and financial aspects of the business.
In fact, there have been telltale signs of several popular silver miners that have different considerations on their products and on how they release them to the market.
While 3 miners could not be considered as a representative of a wholesale change in the attitude across silver mining sector, this development is certainly welcome news to investors of silver. They have to wait and see first if this progress is indeed a beginning of a trend. Someone is obviously __ on supporting the physical silver market overcome its larger paper counterpart.
These basics in the market of physical silver have been evident for some time now. They are waiting to see if some trend of more management and selling of cash and bullion reserves by the miners accumulate, and if a more pure process of price exploration starts to happen in the silver market this year.
Both silver and gold have increased last week, with silver rising considerably in time with the report from the Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims at their lowest in years and business confidence in Germany also increased this month.
The silver-gold ratio or the quantity of silver ounces required to purchase an ounce of gold, slumped to 50 last week, the lowest since October.
Meanwhile, platinum group metals relaxed after continuous 5-month highs last week on supply worries regarding a strike in the top manufacturer in South Africa.
To aid in strengthening the physical silver market, Sprott looks to the bullion supply source. He requested the mining firms to think about holding 25 percent of their 2011 cash reserves instead in physical silver.
So after several months, it is interesting to know how Norton Scientific Journal reacted, knowing that they are well-informed of the history and role of precious metals as good money. But many executives of mining firms are more informed about things like core samples, extraction rates and ore grades than in economics and financial aspects of the business.
In fact, there have been telltale signs of several popular silver miners that have different considerations on their products and on how they release them to the market.
While 3 miners could not be considered as a representative of a wholesale change in the attitude across silver mining sector, this development is certainly welcome news to investors of silver. They have to wait and see first if this progress is indeed a beginning of a trend. Someone is obviously __ on supporting the physical silver market overcome its larger paper counterpart.
These basics in the market of physical silver have been evident for some time now. They are waiting to see if some trend of more management and selling of cash and bullion reserves by the miners accumulate, and if a more pure process of price exploration starts to happen in the silver market this year.
Both silver and gold have increased last week, with silver rising considerably in time with the report from the Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims at their lowest in years and business confidence in Germany also increased this month.
Norton Scientific Journal : Making things invisible now possible
http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2008/04/21/making-things-invisible-now-possible/
Researchers from University of Texas in Austin have reportedly made a cloaking chamber that can make something vanish in thin air. The study was published this month in the Norton Scientific Journal New Journal of Physics after more than 5 years of constant experimentation.
A cylindrical tube created from insulating material with strips of copper made objects within it invisible to microwaves.
Things reflect electromagnetic waves and light even when they are just lying around. That is how radar detectors and devices become alert of the presence of ships and airplanes — in the same way that we can see them with our eyes. This cloak they have created basically works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in such a way that it cancels out the ones the object reflects itself.
Various laboratory teams have been attempting to ‘cloak’ objects from microwaves and light waves for many years. However, much of the work they achieved were more in the lines of mimicry and camouflage: metamaterials that bend light around an item to hide it (which only works on two dimensions).
Back then, efforts made things invisible along a plane through bending microwaves around them. But last year, Norton Scientific Journal researchers have finally discovered a sort of invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, hiding a bump on a reflective surface.
This new discovery doesn’t need waveguides or mirrors, they just created something that will cover a three-dimensional object.
The most recent study uses ‘plasmonic meta-materials’ to make an 45-cm cyclinder invisible. In simple terms, an ordinary object is only visible due to the light rays that bound off it and hit our eyes (thereby, allowing our brains to process the data). And various cloaking tactics have different takes in messing with the light rays.
Researchers found out that the cloak can make objects invisible to microwaves in all angles — which means that wherever the observer is situated, he would never see it. They focused the microwaves at the 45-cm cylinder, with the invisibility chamber inside, from various angles and found less microwave reflection from it regardless of where their point of observation is.
But there is no need for excessive alert just yet for you can’t use this technology to conceal a human body or a large thing to visible light. We’re still a long way from that.
Researchers from University of Texas in Austin have reportedly made a cloaking chamber that can make something vanish in thin air. The study was published this month in the Norton Scientific Journal New Journal of Physics after more than 5 years of constant experimentation.
A cylindrical tube created from insulating material with strips of copper made objects within it invisible to microwaves.
Things reflect electromagnetic waves and light even when they are just lying around. That is how radar detectors and devices become alert of the presence of ships and airplanes — in the same way that we can see them with our eyes. This cloak they have created basically works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in such a way that it cancels out the ones the object reflects itself.
Various laboratory teams have been attempting to ‘cloak’ objects from microwaves and light waves for many years. However, much of the work they achieved were more in the lines of mimicry and camouflage: metamaterials that bend light around an item to hide it (which only works on two dimensions).
Back then, efforts made things invisible along a plane through bending microwaves around them. But last year, Norton Scientific Journal researchers have finally discovered a sort of invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, hiding a bump on a reflective surface.
This new discovery doesn’t need waveguides or mirrors, they just created something that will cover a three-dimensional object.
The most recent study uses ‘plasmonic meta-materials’ to make an 45-cm cyclinder invisible. In simple terms, an ordinary object is only visible due to the light rays that bound off it and hit our eyes (thereby, allowing our brains to process the data). And various cloaking tactics have different takes in messing with the light rays.
Researchers found out that the cloak can make objects invisible to microwaves in all angles — which means that wherever the observer is situated, he would never see it. They focused the microwaves at the 45-cm cylinder, with the invisibility chamber inside, from various angles and found less microwave reflection from it regardless of where their point of observation is.
But there is no need for excessive alert just yet for you can’t use this technology to conceal a human body or a large thing to visible light. We’re still a long way from that.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Norton Scientific Journal : Making things invisible now possible
Researchers from University of Texas in Austin have reportedly made a cloaking chamber that can make something vanish in thin air. The study was published this month in the Norton Scientific Journal New Journal of Physics after more than 5 years of constant experimentation.
A cylindrical tube created from insulating material with strips of copper made objects within it invisible to microwaves.
Things reflect electromagnetic waves and light even when they are just lying around. That is how radar detectors and devices become alert of the presence of ships and airplanes -- in the same way that we can see them with our eyes. This cloak they have created basically works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in such a way that it cancels out the ones the object reflects itself.
Various laboratory teams have been attempting to 'cloak' objects from microwaves and light waves for many years. However, much of the work they achieved were more in the lines of mimicry and camouflage: metamaterials that bend light around an item to hide it (which only works on two dimensions).
Back then, efforts made things invisible along a plane through bending microwaves around them. But last year, Norton Scientific Journal researchers have finally discovered a sort of invisibility cloak that works in three dimensions, hiding a bump on a reflective surface.
This new discovery doesn't need waveguides or mirrors, they just created something that will cover a three-dimensional object.
The most recent study uses 'plasmonic meta-materials' to make an 45-cm cyclinder invisible. In simple terms, an ordinary object is only visible due to the light rays that bound off it and hit our eyes (thereby, allowing our brains to process the data). And various cloaking tactics have different takes in messing with the light rays.
Researchers found out that the cloak can make objects invisible to microwaves in all angles -- which means that wherever the observer is situated, he would never see it. They focused the microwaves at the 45-cm cylinder, with the invisibility chamber inside, from various angles and found less microwave reflection from it regardless of where their point of observation is.
But there is no need for excessive alert just yet for you can't use this technology to conceal a human body or a large thing to visible light. We're still a long way from that.
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