Ever notice how you feel more productive while listening to a great song? It’s not just you. Researchers just discovered that a certain type of solar panel works most efficiently when exposed to the acoustic vibrations of pop music . Crank it up! Read more…
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Pop Music Makes Experimental Solar Panels Work 50% Harder
Normally, intentionally elongated or flattened skulls are associated with ancient Mesoamerican cultures . But this exquisite specimen, which dates back some 1, 500 years, was recently found at a dig in Alsace, France. Read more…
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French Archaeologists Discover Beautifully Preserved Deformed Skull
This is incredible. Scientists have found an underground water reserve in Kenya so large that it could meet the entire country’s water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer—an underground layer of water-bearing material—that contains 200 billion cubic meters of fresh water. Read more…
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Scientists Have Found a Huge Underground Water Reserve in Kenya
Over a hundred years ago, archaeologists dug up these nine blackened, corroded lumps of stone from a pre-dynastic Egyptian cemetery. But it wasn’t until now that we realized just how old they are—and that they came from outer space. Read more…
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Archaeologists Just Realized 5K-Year-Old Egyptian Beads Are From Space
Scuba divers have found a 50, 000 year-old Bald Cypress forest that was likely uncovered when Hurricane Katrina swept through the region back in 2005. Read more…
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An ancient underwater forest has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico
schwit1 sends this news from Businesweek: “After 2,000 years, a long-lost secret behind the creation of one of the world’s most durable man-made creations ever — Roman concrete — has finally been discovered by an international team of scientists, and it may have a significant impact on how we build cities of the future. Researchers have analyzed 11 harbors in the Mediterranean basin where, in many cases, 2,000-year-old (and sometimes older) headwaters constructed out of Roman concrete stand perfectly intact despite constant pounding by the sea. The most common blend of modern concrete, known as Portland cement, a formulation in use for nearly 200 years, can’t come close to matching that track record. In seawater, it has a service life of less than 50 years. After that, it begins to erode. The secret to Roman concrete lies in its unique mineral formulation and production technique. As the researchers explain in a press release outlining their findings, ‘The Romans made concrete by mixing lime and volcanic rock. For underwater structures, lime and volcanic ash were mixed to form mortar, and this mortar and volcanic tuff were packed into wooden forms. The seawater instantly triggered a hot chemical reaction. The lime was hydrated — incorporating water molecules into its structure — and reacted with the ash to cement the whole mixture together.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture
Virtucon writes “U.S. Magistrate William Callahan Jr. of Wisconsin has ruled in favor of the accused in that he should not have to decrypt his storage device. The U.S. Government had sought to compel Feldman to provide his password to obtain access to the data. Presumably the FBI has had no success in getting the data and had sought to have the judge compel Feldman to provide the decrypted contents of what they had seized. The Judge ruled (PDF): ‘This is a close call, but I conclude that Feldman’s act of production, which would necessarily require his using a password of some type to decrypt the storage device, would be tantamount to telling the government something it does not already know with “reasonably particularity” — namely, that Feldman has personal access to and control over the encrypted storage devices. Accordingly, in my opinion, Fifth Amendment protection is available to Feldman. Stated another way, ordering Feldman to decrypt the storage devices would be in violation of his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination.'” If the government has reasonable suspicion that you have illicit data, they can still compel you to decrypt it. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys
A 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest known European Medieval food recipes, according to new research. Read more…
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Oldest European Medieval Cookbook Found
It may sound hard to believe, but doctors from Mississippi are saying that for the first time, an infant has been cured of an HIV infection. The New York Times relays reports from doctors who say the infant had tested positive for HIV on five separate occasions and now, at age two and a half and off drugs for an entire year, the child shows no signs of the virus in its body. More »
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A Baby Has Been Cured of HIV
Zothecula writes “At about 100 times the strength of steel and a sixth the weight, with impressive electrical conductive properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have promised much since their discovery in 1991. The problem has been translating their impressive nanoscale properties into real-world applications on the macro scale. Researchers have now unveiled a new CNT fiber that conducts heat and electricity like a metal wire, is very strong like carbon fiber, and is flexible like a textile thread.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Threadlike Carbon Nanotube Fiber Unveiled