or more than three for every person on the planet, will be connected to the internet by the end of 2020.
"Attacks by Iranian hackers have targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries, among others,
and was catapulted then into the mainstream at a star-studded press conference. But the backlash began soon after,
Many, many moons ago I used to be a DJ myself and one of the terms that DJS use when you go record-shopping is rate-digging,
and manage musicians and sports stars. Roc Nation boasts an impressive roster of talent including executives from established music labels.
The stars were all in town for the Grammy Awards, held on February 8, and so Jay z took the chance to meet with his friends about music streaming.
Journalists and industry figures packed into the space in preparation for the press conference. Jamie Mccarthy/Getty Images for Roc Nationthe modern event space featured areas where guests could try Tidal on expensive headphones,
The event space was lined with photos of music icons like Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder.
The stars had been waiting in the backstage area with a host of famous names. Director Baz Luhrmann was there,
"and Music Ally called it"big on stars, less so on details.""The press conference featured a video filmed at the Fig House meeting in Los angeles in February.
it has an entire online-radio station with shows by stars like Josh Homme and Elton john. Getty Images Europeapple hired BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe to present its own online-radio station.
and space and it's therefore very likely to find potent antibiotics in such an environment,
#Airbus patents plane that could fly from New york to London in 1 hour A rocket-plane that could fly from Vancouver to Tokyo in three hours instead of 10 has been patented by Airbus. The U s. patent for an"ultra-rapid air vehicle
a rocket motor for rapid acceleration; and ramjets for high-altitude cruising. The turbojets and rocket motor fold into the body of plane
when not in use and the plane also has adjustable fins to make it more aerodynamic. It would be fuelled by hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
"like a rocket, while ramping up to supersonic speed and its cruising altitude of 30,000 to 35,000 metres 20 kilometres higher than conventional commercial aircraft.
For example, last summer, it filed a patent to bicycle-style seats on planes that would make it possible to cram more passengers in the same amount of space.
#Mars simulation project: 6 people start 1 year of isolation in Hawaii dome Six people will spend the next year living in a dome in Hawaii in the name of science.
The crew is part of the University of Hawaii's fourth Hawaii space exploration analog and simulation (HI-SEAS) mission,
which simulates Mars missions. The six members entered the dome on Friday. They will spend the next 365 days pretending to be on Mars. They'll be living in a two-storey dome where cameras,
body movement trackers and other devices will monitor them, according to a University of Hawaii statement.
and support a good team for a round-trip to Mars. The journey is estimated to last three years.
Gifford tweeted"a last view of Earth"before she and the rest of the crew entered the dome.
In the dome, the crew will share a kitchen, a dining space, an exercise area, an office and a lab on the first floor.
The second floor is a loft space with six bedrooms, each with a bed, desk and chair.
They enjoyed their"first dinner in simulated space.""On the menu? Cheese and turkey quesadillas,
#Giant sea scorpion may have been Earth's 1st big predator Earth's first big predatory monster was a weird water bug as big as Tom cruise, newly found fossils show.
Earth's dominant large predator was a sea scorpion that grew to 170 centimetres (5 feet 7 inches), with a dozen claw arms sprouting from its head and a spike tail, according to a new study.
#International trio blasts off for 2-day journey to Space station A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three-man international crew,
including Denmark's first astronaut, roared off on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, beginning a two-day journey to the International space station (ISS).
The rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-18m spaceship lifted off to the $100 billion orbiting laboratory at 10:37 a m.,leaving just a puff of white smoke in the sky.
The crew is commanded by veteran Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, joined by rookie Andreas Mogensen from the European space agency (ESA) and Aidyn Aimbetov,
another first time space flyer from Kazakhstan's space agency Kazcosmos. ESA dubbed Mogensen"Denmark's Gagarin,"a reference to the Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
The Dane told a preflight news conference on Tuesday that he had shaved his right leg to allow Volkov to better apply electrodes during scientific experiments in space.
One of Mogensen's jobs will be to test new equipment on Danish-made exercise bikes, ESA said.
The Danish exercise bikes with no seats as none is needed in gravity-free conditions were launched in 2001
and have been replaced or upgraded several times since. They help astronauts battle the negative impact of weightlessness.
Aimbetov, the third ethnic Kazakh in space, said he was taking dried mare's milk and traditional Kazakh cheese to orbit.
Fermented mare's milk, or"kymyz",is popular among nomadic cultures of Central asia. While in space, he will wear a special dosimeter to study the effects of space radiation on the brain.
Volkov is the first son of a cosmonaut who has flown to the 15-nation space outpost."
"It's our family tradition already to carry Kazakhs into space, "joked Volkov, whose father, Alexander Volkov, commanded a Soyuz spaceship that took the first-ever Kazakh cosmonaut, Tokhtar Aubakirov, into space in 1991.
Mogensen and Aimbetov are set to return to Earth on Sept. 12, together with veteran Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, 57,
who has been working aboard the ISS since March. By then, Padalka will have racked up a total of 878 days in space, more than any other person.
Volkov will return to Earth in March together with NASA ASTRONAUT Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko
who will have spent one year in space by that time. The Soyuz rocket will take two days to reach the ISS,
rather than a six-hour approach usually taken in recent years. Russia's Roscosmos space agency said the altitude of the station,
boosted in July to avoid space debris, requires the slower approach p
#Porsche, Audi unveil all-electric models to challenge Tesla Tesla will soon face competition in the luxury all-electric car segment after Porsche
and Audi unveiled new all-electric models at the Frankfurt Auto Show. Audi unveiled the concept car for its"e-tron quattro"vehicle, a sporty SUV, with a range of more than 500 km.
Porsche showed the prototype of its first battery-powered sports car, titled"Mission E."Similar in appearance to its iconic 911,
it has an 800-volt electric powertrain with 600 horsepower that can accelerate to 100 km per hour in 3. 5 seconds."
"When we designed this car, we knew it had to be a real Porsche, "chief executive Matthias Müller said in an interview on the eve of the Frankfurt Motor Show."
Scientists Enlist E coli To Make Planet-Saving Plastic Out Of Practically Nothing The Intertubes have buzzing with news of a new way to make plastic without using petroleum or petrochemicals.
Based on artificial photosynthesis, the process uses sunlight and carbon dioxide to make the building blocks for renewable plastics as well as fuels, paints,
one recent development is proposed a new $75 million round of funding for an Energy department project for making fuel out of sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
The new process starts by harvesting sunlight with a nanostructure of wires made from silicon and titanium:
hen sunlight is absorbed, photo-excited electron#hole pairs are generated in the silicon and titanium oxide nanowires,
at least that's what I generally need money for after the sun goes down. Not that I don't think this idea has merits.
Homes with rooftop solar panels and batteries can actually use energy from their solar systems during power outages and
Last year, nearly 645,000 US homes and businesses were using power from the sun. That like saying every person in Nashville,
that at higher temperatures resultant from prolonged exposure to sunlight, solar cells become increasing inefficient at converting sunlight photons into electricity.
which is designed to maximise the radiating of heat, in the form of infrared light, out and away from the cell into space.
however, the material allows visible sunlight through to the cell, thereby preserving the energy that required to produce electricity.
the overlay may actually provide an enhancing effect on the cell capacity to absorb sunlight in addition to increasing cell efficiency through the cooling mechanism.
the technology works in the face of direct sunlight and was tested as such when it was installed on a Stanford rooftop.
During testing, an overlay was fitted to a solar absorber a device that provides an analogue to the properties of a solar cell and measures absorption of solar radiation,
where sunlight absorption is required either for functional (such as solar cells) or aesthetic reasons (such as maintaining the colors for cars, clothes etc
The apparatus was isolated from Earth natural magnetic field so there was no interference. One tube contained a fragment of DNA (approximately 100 bases long)
and is secreted out into a cavity between the lining of the uterus and the placenta known as the intervillous space.
#Fly to the moon in FOUR hours: The british scientist who says he's found the secret of Star trek's'warp speed'Anyone who has watched ever an episode of Star trek
The good guys are minding their business in outer space when suddenly the Klingons or the Dark Empire bear down on them out of nowhere.
At the flick of a switch, our heroes are flashed in a blur of passing stars to safety elsewhere in the universe.
a miraculous power source that allows a spacecraft to fly at unimaginable speeds. But while it so far confined to the realms of sci-fi,
U s. space agency Nasa is thought to have tested successfully a revolutionary new power source that could enable spacecraft to travel to the Moon in just four hours instead of more than three days and to Mars in two or three weeks instead of seven months.
Load up the spacecraft, wee all off for a long weekend on Venus! The invention fuelling such hopes is called an electromagnetic drive
because it broke one of the basic laws of physics governing the universe. This rule is Sir Isaac newton third law:
Indeed, every rocket engine ever made has fired burning rocket fuel out behind it, thus powering the craft forward.
when the news comes from Nasa an organisation that put men on the Moon and sent rockets to Mars. According to Nasa engineer Paul March,
to recreate the emptiness of outer space. Some suggest the Emdrive is set to become one of many wonderful British inventions
he said he was pleased Nasa was aving funwith his creation and felt some vindication after years of scepticism.
An aerospace engineer who worked for the Galileo space project to build a European satnav system,
not only speed us to new galaxies, but ut an end to wings and wheelsby making traditional forms of transport redundant.
His prototype looks like something sci-fi writer Jules Verne might have dreamt up to blast Victorians to the Moon.
Nasa researchers claimed when lasers were fired into their Emdrive chamber, some of them travelled aster than the speed of light suggesting it could power a craft at the same velocity.
Mr Shawyer is sceptical, saying he believes such speeds are impossible. He also explains that the Emdrive accelerates gradually
Its inventor calculates that an interstellar probe would take ten years to reach two-thirds the speed of light,
but this steady increase in pace should avoid subjecting astronauts to dangerously rapid forces of acceleration.)
Mr Shawyer is excited more about Emdrive potential to save this planet rather than reach new ones.
an NYU School of engineering professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering and the study's co-author.
The aerospace manufacturer is designing a hypersonic jet that it hopes will take people between the two major cities faster than most daily commutes.
A rocket motor would take it to an altitude of 100, 000ft (30,000 metres. The wing-mounted ramjets would then take control to push the jet to its final speed.
which artificially triggers the light sensors in a person's eyes to make their brain believe the sun is coming up.
#Solar activity is linked NOT to global warming: Sunspot theory of climate change is the result of an ancient error in the data The theory that solar activity is linked to rising global temperatures has been cast into doubt after scientists corrected an ancient error in the calculations.
Until now, the general consensus was that solar activity-in particular sunspots -and temperatures have been trending upwards since the harsh winters of the 17th century when the spots were thought to have been at a low.
But when the error was corrected, the records show there was no such culmination in solar activity in the late 20th century,
suggesting climate change cannot be plotted using this sunspots method. Scroll down for video In fact, solar activity appears to have remained relatively stable
since the 1700s while global temperatures have fluctuated. According to the previous calculations, harsh winters in the 17th and 18th centuries corresponded with low numbers of sunspots,
which suggested a link between climate and solar activity. This period is known as the Maunder Minimum,
and solar activity is said to have peaked in the late 20th century, sometimes called the Modern Grand Maximum, around the time of the Industrial revolution.
The correction, called the Sunspot Number Version 2. 0 was led by Frédéric Clette, Director of the World Data centre (WDC) SILSO, Ed Cliver of the National Solar Observatory and Leif Svalgaard
known as the Wolf Sunset Number and the Group Sunspot Number, showed different levels of solar activity before 1885,
The Group Sunspot Number had a major error that showed a gradual increase in solar activity for the past 300 years.
The limitations of early telescopes led to questions about the accuracy of the constant counting of sunspots for the last 300 years, leading to the Group Sunspot number being started in 1998.
we then consider the implications on our knowledge of solar activity over the last 400 years.''
''The newly corrected series clearly indicates a progressive decline of solar activity before the onset of the Maunder Minimum,
solar activity had returned already to levels equivalent to those observed in recent solar cycles in the 20th century.'
'And the trends recorded are over much longer periods than the well known 11-year cycle of the sun,
#The universe is DYING: Astronomers unveil stark new evidence that shows galaxies'energy is half
what it was two billion years ago The universe is confirmed slowly dying astronomers studying 200,000 galaxies.
Energy generated by the galaxies is only half what it was two billion years ago
-and fading steadily, according to the results of a survey using seven of the world's most powerful telescopes.
It is happening across all light wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the infrared.''The universe is fated to decline from here on in,
like an old age that lasts forever, 'said lead scientist Professor Simon Driver, from the International Centre for Radio astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Western australia.'
'The universe has plonked basically itself down on the sofa, pulled up a blanket and is about to nod off for an eternal doze.'
'The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) study, released on Monday, is the largest multi-wavelength research to date.
Researchers collated data from the world most powerful telescopes, including the VIST and the VST at Chile Paranal Observatory, Nasa GALEX, WISE and a European space agency Herschel telescope.
In an unprecedented collection of data, they aimed to map and model all of the energy generated in the universe today.
They will now look into mapping the history of the universe's energy. All the energy in the universe was created in the Big bang that created the cosmos
with some of it locked up as mass. Stars shine by converting their mass into energy,
as described by Albert Einstein's famous equation E=MC squared. However, this energy-making process is steadily in diminishing.
Professor Driver said:''While most of the energy sloshing around was created in the aftermath of the Big bang,
additional energy is constantly being released by stars as they fuse elements like hydrogen and helium together.'
'This newly released energy is absorbed either by dust as it travels through the host galaxy,
or escapes into intergalactic space and travels until it hits something such as another star, planet, or very occasionally a telescope mirror.'
'The fact that the universe is slowly fading has been known since the late 1990s but the new work is the most accurate and prolific study to date.
Professor Driver presented the findings at the International Astronomical Union's general assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii i
#Charge your smartphone in SIX minutes:''Yolk and shell'battery technology could end long waits while devices power up It is a problem almost everyone with a smartphone has faced at some point their device is almost out of battery
and there is not enough time to charge it before heading out for the evening. But a new type of battery made with tiny capsules filled with aluminium could soon mean smartphone users will be able to fully charge their device within six minutes of plugging it in.
The battery also has four times the capacity of current lithium ion batteries and degrades less over time.
#Perseids meteor shower will show hundreds of shooting stars across Europe Stargazers across Britain were treated to a stunning lightshow overnight as hundreds of shooting stars filled the sky as the annual Perseids meteor shower neared its peak.
and the north of England as limited cloud cover allowed the hotly-anticipated meteor shower to light up the sky.
with the Perseids offering one of the greatest displays of the past seven years as the meteor shower coincides with a new moon for the first time since 2007.
Tonight's show will also be enhanced by the International space station which orbits earth every 90 minutes and will be visible for four minutes from 10. 28pm.
Scroll down for videolast night's dazzling display was just the beginning of this year's Perseids meteor shower,
with experts eagerly awaiting further stunning offerings tonight. Occurring yearly between July 17 and August 24, the Perseids reach their peak tonight with more than 100 meteors an hour expected to be produced.
A similar show will occur on Thursday. Professor Mark Bailey, director of Armagh Observatory in Northern ireland, called the Perseids the'best and most reliable meteor shower of the year'.
'Mr Bailey added that the Perseids may produce an outburst of activity around 7. 40pm tonight
with keen astronomer John Downing, 71, saying the'moon will be the biggest factor'.'He said:'
'If it is a full moon then you can't see much but this year we've got a clear sky.
We could be lucky and being able to see the ISS is added an bonus.'Robin Scagell,
vice-president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said:''The thing about shooting stars is they're a wonderful free spectacle we can all enjoy, assuming clear skies.'
these meteors are bright enough for a few to be visible.''The moon is out of the way
which makes a lot of difference because the sky will be much darker all night. For every bright shooting star you see there are always fainter ones,
and this will make it easier to see the fainter meteors and ring up the numbers.''The Perseids are usually fairly bright.
You can see the train hanging there glowing in the sky for a few seconds-sometimes for several minutes-after the meteor has gone.'
'He also urged people to keep a special eye out for the International space station.''It will move from the west below the bright star Arcturus
and then move towards the south, fading out as it passes into the Earth's shadow at 10. 32pm,
'he said.''And it will be the brightest thing in the sky, apart from aircraft. It'll be in mid sky from southern England
'Meteors are the result of particles as small as a grain of sand entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed
'The Perseid's radiant is in the northeast constellation of Perseus. The Perseids make an August appearance each year as the Earth passes through debris shed by the comet Swift-Tuttle.
The streaks in the sky, sometimes known as shooting stars, are grains of dust and ice shed by the comet that enter the atmosphere at 37 miles per second (60 km/s). As they hit the atmosphere,
friction causes them to burn up as they heat the air around them, causing the trails seen from the ground.
The meteor show is named after the constellation Perseus as when viewed from the ground the shower seems to come from a focal point, known as a radiant, in the constellation.
Exceptionally dark skies will provide the best possible conditions for viewing the shooting stars this week due to an invisible new moon.
This is the first time since 2007 that the shower has coincided with a new moon, offering the best visibility of the light show.
The shower is active from around 17 july to 24 august but peaks between late evening on Wednesday and Thursday morning. i
Space elevator in a tower 12 miles high could one day give astronauts a leg-up into the cosmos
While Nasa is busy testing its biggest ever rocket in the hope it will propel mankind to Mars,
one company is planning a rather different approach to usher in a new era of space travel.
Canadian space firm Thoth has outlined plans for an elevator to space, potentially saving huge amounts of fuel and money that form part of the vast cost of launching rockets into orbit.
reaching 12 miles (20 km) above the planet's surface. The space tower would be more than 20 times the height of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
President and chief executive of Thoth Caroline Roberts claims the space tower will also include self-landing rocket technologies to herald a new era of space transportation.
Referring to the powered landing system being developed by Space X, she said:''Landing on a barge at sea level is a great demonstration,
but landing at 12 miles (20 km) above sea level will make space flight more like taking a passenger jet.'
'As well as tourism, the elevator could also be used for wind energy generation and communications. The mastermind behind the project is inventor Dr Brendan Quine.
'Astronauts would ascent to 12 miles (20km) by electrical elevator.''From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit,
returning to the top of the tower for refuelling and reflight.''While other designs for space elevators have involved complex designs using graphene or carbon nanotubes,
the Thoth design reportedly uses inflatable sections and flywheels to provide dynamic stability. This is not the first time a space elevator has been proposed,
with many engineers considering it as a possibility since it was suggested first by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895.
-and applied it to the concept of an elevator that takes humans into space. When building any tall structure-from gothic cathedrals to skyscrapers
and eventually a space elevator-the sturdiness and balance comes from its centre of gravity. By creating strong, far-reaching foundations deep into the Earth,
the centre of gravity is shifted from above the ground, to below it. The second part of Mr Debney's plan is to place a satellite in geostationary orbit,
and lower a cable from it to the ground. But as soon as the cable lowers, it changes the centre of gravity of the satellite,
placing it at a lower orbit and causing it to move relative to the ground.
To keep the whole thing in orbit a cable would then also need to be extended up at the same time,
to keep the system balanced. Because this would make a nonlinear system, the cable would need to extend out almost twice as far as it is brought down.
such as a suitably sized asteroid, beyond geostationary orbit to balance the cable and save the excessive length.
The design by Thoth seeks to get around the complication of geostationary orbit by limiting its height to just 12 miles (20km) instead of the full 62 milles (100 km) considered the end of our atmosphere and the beginning of space e
choosing to spend more time in open, brightly lit spaces than normal mice, which preferred dark, enclosed spaces.
#The moon has a NEON atmosphere: Ladee spacecraft confirms presence of the gas for the first time The presence of neon in the moon atmosphere has been a subject of speculation for decades.
Now, for the first time, scientists have confirmed the gas is not only present, but abundant on the moon. The discovery was made by analysing data sent back from Nasa Lunar Atmosphere and Dust environment Explorer,
known as Ladee. he presence of neon in the exosphere of the moon has been a subject of speculation since the Apollo missions,
but no credible detections were made, said Mehdi Benna of Nasa's Goddard Space flight Centre in Greenbelt,
Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. e were pleased very to not only finally confirm its presence,
but to show that it is relatively abundant. Readings from the spacecraft Neutral Mass spectrometer (NMS) instrument published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters,
show there is not enough neon to make the moon glow, but its thin atmophere is made up of mostly, helium, argon and neon.
While the gas is used in electric signs On earth, there is not enough neon to make the moon glow visibly,
because the moon's atmosphere is about 100 trillion times less dense that the Earth at sea level.
The moon atmosphere is referred technically to as an exosphere because it so thin. Exospheres are the most common type of atmosphere in our solar system,
so scientists are keen to learn more about them. t's critical to learn about the lunar exosphere before sustained human exploration substantially alters it,
Dr Benna said. Since the moon's atmosphere is so thin, rocket exhaust from spacecraft could easily change its composition.
Most of the moon's exosphere comes from the solar wind, which is a thin stream of electrically conducting gas blown from the surface of the sun into space at around a million miles per hour.
Most of the solar wind is hydrogen and helium but it contains many other elements in small quantities,
including neon. All these elements impact the moon, but only helium, neon, and argon are volatile enough to be returned back to space.
The rest of the elements will stick indefinitely to the moon surface. Ladee NMS instrument confirmed the moon exosphere is made up of mostly helium, argon, and neon.
The make-up of the mixture changes depending on the time of day, with argon peaking at sunrise, neon at 4am and helium at 1am.
The instrument conducted measurements of the gases for seven months, which allowed the team to understand how they are supplied to the exosphere,
and how they are lost ultimately. While most of the lunar exosphere comes from the solar wind,
the readings showed that some gas comes from lunar rocks. For example, Argon-40 comes from the decay of naturally occurring radioactive potassium-40,
found in the rocks of all the terrestrial planets as a leftover from their formation. e were surprised also to find that argon-40 creates a local bulge above an unusual part of the moon's surface,
the region containing Mare Imbrium and Oceanus Procellarum, Dr Benna said. The scientists found that argon-40 creates a local bulge above an unusual part of the moon's surface
the region containing Mare Imbrium (shown)+ 6 The scientists found that argon-40 creates a local bulge above an unusual part of the moon's surface,
the region containing Mare Imbrium (shown) Although the reason for this local enhancement is understood not yet,
ne could not help to notice that this region happens to be the place where potassium-40 is most abundant on the surface. o there may be a connection between the atmospheric argon, the surface potassium and deep interior sources,
he explained. The team also noted that a second surprising behaviour of argon that the overall amount in the lunar exosphere was not constant over time.
In fact it increased and decreased by about 25 per cent during the course of the Ladee mission.
Dr Benna believes this transient source of argon may be the result of enhanced outgassing-the release of a gas that was dissolved,
trapped, frozen or absorbed in some material-from the surface that is triggered by tidal stress on the moon.
Ladee readings also revealed an unexpected source of some of the helium in the lunar exosphere. bout 20 percent of the helium is coming from the moon itself, most likely as the result from the decay of radioactive thorium and uranium
The spacecraft entered its science orbit around the moon's equator in Mid-november and its mission was extended.
However, the craft lacked fuel to maintain a long-term lunar orbit or continue science operations and was sent intentionally into the lunar surface,
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