Neanderthal Cloning Comments Spark Controversy in Scientific Community

Neanderthal Cloning Comments Spark Controversy in Scientific Community - US News and World Report: "Cloning controversy has pushed other applications of synthetic biology to the back burner"

Next Up for SEALs: Upgraded Batman-Style Grappling Hook Gun

Next Up for SEALs: Upgraded Batman-Style Grappling Hook Gun | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Even Navy SEALs need to feel like Batman sometimes. Especially when they’re trying to scale walls or board ships."

Scientists studying snouts of bizarre star-nosed moles find genes that could be the key to beating pain

Scientists studying snouts of bizarre star-nosed moles find genes that could be the key to beating pain | Mail Online: "One of the world’s ugliest creatures could hold the key to beating chronic pain, scientists believe.



The star-nosed mole, which boasts a bizarre snout fringed by 22 waggling tentacles that are highly sensitive to touch, could lead to new painkillers for people whose lives are blighted by arthritis and other conditions that leave them in constant pain."

Alien planet hunters redefine the 'habitable zone' - and find Earth is right on the edge

Alien planet hunters redefine the 'habitable zone' - and find Earth is right on the edge | Mail Online: "In astronomical terms, it is known as the 'habitable zone, or the 'goldilocks zone', where condition are not too far, and not too close - just right for life to exist. Now researchers have redefined the boundaries using new, more accurate calculations - and found that Earth is right on the edge of the habitable zone."

Virtual Superheroes Are More Heroic In Real Life

Virtual Superheroes Are More Heroic In Real Life : Discovery News: ""With great power comes great responsibility" is perhaps the most famous -- albeit foreshortened -- phrase in comic book history, attributed to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Amazing Fantasy #15, the issue that first introduced the world to Spider-Man.



However, this adage also holds true for virtual superheroes. A recent study found that having superpowers in a virtual world made people more likely to be helpful in real life."

DNA Data Storage: Your Genetic Material is a Hard Drive

DNews: DNA Data Storage: Your Genetic Material is a Hard Drive : Discovery News: "Using DNA as a hard drive? Scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute over in the UK, have actually done it. Anthony find out if you'll ever do this at home."

Freeze Yourself to Live Forever? The Truth About Cryonics

DNews: Freeze Yourself to Live Forever? The Truth About Cryonics : Discovery News: "Would you consider freezing yourself, hoping future technology could bring you back to life? Battling with brain cancer, that's what 22 year old Kim Suozzi did! Trace explains the science."

'Zombie Planet' Resurrected: Fomalhaut b is Real

'Zombie Planet' Resurrected: Fomalhaut b is Real : Discovery News: "The past year has seen announcements of some of the most Earth-like planets yet discovered, and even a small planet around one of the two stars in Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system. But in all of this, there’s been one thing in the back of our minds that has been sitting slightly uncomfortably: 25 light-years away lies Fomalhaut b, a planet that has been the cause of an astronomical altercation."

Drones to Watch Over US Highways

Drones to Watch Over US Highways : Discovery News: "Drones could help human workers safeguard the 4 million miles of U.S. highways crisscrossing the country. The flying robots could inspect bridges and roads, survey lands with laser mapping, and even alert officials to traffic jams or accidents."

Roswell: Endless Entertainment

Roswell: Endless Entertainment | Mysterious Universe: "Back in July 2007, I travelled to Roswell, New Mexico, where I was due to lecture on my book Body Snatchers in the Desert – a book that most within Ufology hated and dearly hoped would not prove to be the answer to the pesky, long-gone affair that has obsessed so many for so very long. Anyway, just before I hit the road to Roswell I prepared a lengthy article on the looming anniversary, but which has never been published. Until now. So, I figured why not bring it to your attentions? I think it’s all still pretty much relevant, six years later. You may agree or disagree. But, whatever your view on the article, it goes like this…"

Israeli warplanes carry out air strike on Syria

Israeli warplanes carry out air strike on Syria | World news | The Guardian: "Attack confirmed by Syrian regime comes after Israel aired suspicions of weapons convoys heading to Lebanon"

Inside the Ring: New al Qaeda threat

Inside the Ring: New al Qaeda threat - Washington Times: "A jihadist website posted a new threat by al Qaeda this week that promises to conduct “shocking” attacks on the United States and the West."

The Kraken Awakes: What Architeuthis is Trying to Tell Us

The Kraken Awakes: What Architeuthis is Trying to Tell Us - Boing Boing: "Captured live on video in its deep-sea element, for the first time, the Kraken of tall tales and sea shanties—Architeuthis, the giant squid—is coming into sharp focus, a flesh-and-blood reality. But why now?"

The next interface: You

CES 2013: The next interface: You | CNET: "Lindsey Turrentine and Brian Cooley host an all-star panel of industry luminaries, focusing on how humans will interact with the next generation of devices using their bodies instead of traditional input devices."

The end of injections? Painless 'tattoo' can apply DNA vaccines through a stick-on patch

The end of injections? Painless 'tattoo' can apply DNA vaccines through a stick-on patch | Mail Online: "It could finally mean the end of painful injection, and instead deliver a powerful new type of vaccine through a stick on 'tattoo'. Researchers say patches covered in 'microneedles' may be a far safer, and less painful, way to deliver a new generation of vaccines."

How scientists could use reflected starlight to create maps of alien worlds thousands of light years away

How scientists could use reflected starlight to create maps of alien worlds thousands of light years away | Mail Online: "Moons like the one depicted in the film Avatar may be among the most common places to find alien life, scientists believe."

Privacy fears as government allowed to take data on suspects from Apple and Google cloud servers

Privacy fears as government allowed to take data on suspects from Apple and Google cloud servers | Mail Online: "Campaigners raised fears that a renewed piece of American legislation allows federal agencies to spy on foreign nationals without warning by hacking into cloud-based servers. Now because of the renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. government granted itself the right to spy on anyone using the internet storage facilities provided by American companies.This move means that any non-American who opts to store data on the cloud services that are used by the likes of Amazon, Google, and Apple, opens themselves up to investigation by the federal authorities."

Missile Defense Agency successfully tests 'kill vehicle' to block ICBMs

Missile Defense Agency successfully tests 'kill vehicle' to block ICBMs | Fox News: "The Missile Defense Agency quietly tested a “kill vehicle” over the weekend, successfully showing that the nation's first line of defense can block the threat of ballistic missiles."

Radioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima

Radioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima : Discovery News: "Thousands of cows were abandoned in the evacuated zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tōhoku region of Japan and released radioactive materials from the plant."

The Elusive Bunyip: Australia’s Chameleon Cryptid

The Elusive Bunyip: Australia’s Chameleon Cryptid | Mysterious Universe: "On a recent episode of The Gralien Report, host Micah Hanks asked me about that mythical Australian swamp monster, the Bunyip. Providing an adequate answer to the question of what the Bunyip is can be difficult, for there are almost as many descriptions of the elusive creature as there are sightings. If the Bunyip does indeed exist, it is Australia’s chameleon cryptid."

Meet ARGUS: The World’s Highest Resolution Video Surveillance Platform

Meet ARGUS: The World’s Highest Resolution Video Surveillance Platform | A Lightning War for Liberty: "The most interesting this about this creepy camera brought to you by the kind folks at the Defense Advance d Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is the fact that just like in George Orwell’s classic dystopic novel 1984, the government wants you to know they have this technology."

Study: Almost Half Of College-Educated Workers Overqualified For Their Jobs

Study: Almost Half Of College-Educated Workers Overqualified For Their Jobs – The Consumerist: "Do you have a college degree? Do you have a job? You might well be overqualified for whatever it is you’re doing, suggests a new study, as almost half college-educated Americans are apparently in jobs they’re overqualifed for. And the way things are going, that’s how it will be for recent graduates down the line as well."

Better Than The Borg: The Neurotech Era

Better Than The Borg: The Neurotech Era | Singularity Hub: "What if you could read my mind? What if I could beam what I’m seeing, hearing, and thinking, straight to you, and vice versa? What if an implant could store your memories, augment them, and make you smarter?"

A giant mystery: 18 strange giant skeletons found in Wisconsin - Sons of god; Men of renown

A giant mystery: 18 strange giant skeletons found in Wisconsin - Sons of god; Men of renown: "Here’s one for your "Forbidden Archaeology" file. Scientists are remaining stubbornly silent about a lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan, Wisconsin, in May 1912. The dig site at Lake Delavan was overseen by Beloit College and it included more than 200 effigy mounds that proved to be classic examples of 8th century Woodland Culture. But the enormous size of the skeletons and elongated skulls found in May 1912 did not fit very neatly into anyone’s concept of a textbook standard. They were enormous. These were not average human beings."

Suicidal Sensors: Darpa Wants Next-Gen Spy Hardware to Literally Dissolve

Suicidal Sensors: Darpa Wants Next-Gen Spy Hardware to Literally Dissolve | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Forget about a kill switch. Planned obsolescence? Already obsolete. The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers want tomorrow’s military hardware to literally cease to exist at a predetermined point. Welcome to the age of suicidal sensors."

Milky Way directs dung beetles: How a beetle can use the stars to navigate its way across the deserts of Africa

Milky Way directs dung beetles: How a beetle can use the stars to navigate its way across the deserts of Africa | Mail Online: "It might look small and insignificant but the dung beetle has its sights set firmly on the stars. The beetle is the first insect proven to use the light of the Milky Way to help steer its course."

Scientists create bionic body using artificial limbs and organs

Scientists create bionic body using artificial limbs and organs | Mail Online: "It cost six million dollars to create bionic superhero Steve Austin. Scientists however have built a man from artificial limbs for a sixth of the price. Known as Rex – short for robotic exoskeleton – his 6ft frame is made up of an array of artificial limbs and organs from around the world."

The 300-million-year-old fossil that inspired Alien

The 300-million-year-old fossil that inspired Alien | Mail Online: "Most of us do not believe in aliens but looking at this strange fossil might just make you stop and think. This relic is in fact the ancient fossil that inspired the extra-terrestrial antagonists in Ridley Scott's classic sci-fi horror, Alien.



The creator of Alien was Swiss surrealist artist, Hans Rudolf Giger, who was sought out by Ridley Scott to design the creatures after he saw Giger's artwork Necronom IV, one among his many designs that are said to have been based on the fossils."

US military to test lasers on warplanes in 2014

US military to test lasers on warplanes in 2014 | Fox News: "Laser weapons small enough to fit aboard fighter jets could begin ground-based firing tests aimed at shooting down threats to U.S. military warplanes in 2014."

Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn

Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming, skeptics warn: "A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming."

Gun Shoots DNA Bullets to Tag Criminals

Gun Shoots DNA Bullets to Tag Criminals : Discovery News: "Criminals are often caught because they leave their DNA at a crime scene. Now police can catch a criminal by leaving DNA on the suspect. The technique involves firing a type of paintball gun that shoots a pellet filled with artificial DNA instead of dye. It was built by SelectDNA, a company in the U.K."

Hubble's Latest Mind Blowing Cosmic Pictures

Hubble's Latest Mind Blowing Cosmic Pictures : Discovery News: "Hubble's Latest Mind Blowing Cosmic Pictures"

Terror Lurks in Pennsylvania

Terror Lurks in Pennsylvania | Mysterious Universe: "The parking garage in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, looked safe enough when David Jenkins pulled downtown on a winter’s day in 2008. Jenkins drove forty minutes from his home in nearby York, Pennsylvania, into this city of about 500,000 people to meet a friend he hadn’t seen in a year. He didn’t know evil would greet him when the sun went down."

Here Come The Drones, Or The True Reason For The Mali Incursion

Here Come The Drones, Or The True Reason For The Mali Incursion | Zero Hedge: "Given our recent discussion of the rising importance of Africa in the world's power and money echelons, it is not entirely surprising that the NY Times reports that US military command in Africa is actively preparing to establish a drone base in northwest Africa to increase "unarmed surveillance missions on the local affiliate of Al Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups" that American and other Western officials say pose a growing menace to the region."

The Age of Neo-Feudalism: A Government of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Corporations

The Rutherford Institute :: The Age of Neo-Feudalism: A Government of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Corporations: "The pomp and circumstance of the presidential inauguration has died down. Members of Congress have taken their seats on Capitol Hill, and Barack Obama has reclaimed his seat in the White House. The circus of the presidential election has become a faint memory. The long months of debates, rallies, and political advertisements have slipped from our consciousness. Now we are left with the feeling that nothing has really changed, nor will it."

Who Rules the World? Follow the Money -- Forget Brussels: now we are ruled by the giants of Geneva

Forget Brussels: now we are ruled by the giants of Geneva - Telegraph: "Much of the regulation issuing from the EU is being passed down from even bigger, global bodies"

‘Proof’ of Bigfoot? Group releases list of top 10 filmed encounters

‘Proof’ of Bigfoot? Group releases list of top 10 filmed encounters: "What do Bigfoot and Facebook have in common? A lot of followers. Yet despite decades of hunting, there’s little scientific evidence to support belief in the stories of a giant, hairy man creature that haunts the woods. Facebook/FindBigfoot aims to change that. Founded in 2010, it’s the first social network dedicated to collecting, curating and analyzing Bigfoot photos and videos."

Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?

BBC News - Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?: "Disappearing in one place and reappearing in another. Being in two places at once. Communicating information seemingly faster than the speed of light. This kind of weird behaviour is commonplace in dark, still laboratories studying the branch of physics called quantum mechanics, but what might it have to do with fresh flowers, migrating birds, and the smell of rotten eggs? Welcome to the frontier of what is called quantum biology."

How Scientists Accidentally Discovered Supertasting Mutant Humans

How Scientists Accidentally Discovered Supertasting Mutant Humans | Gizmodo Australia: "Supertasters have long ruled the world of sommeliers and chefs, but our knowledge of their existence is still a relatively new phenomenon.



As The Atlantic notes, a recent article by Andrew Haan revealed the incidental nature of these supposed superhumans. The scientists involved even offer a first hand account of the revelation:"

Genetically modified food technology is mystery to some, a worry for others

Genetically modified food technology is mystery to some, a worry for others | Courier-Post | courierpostonline.com: "About 90 percent of the corn, soybeans and sugar beets and the plant sources of most cottonseed and canola oil in the American food supply has been genetically modified to resist pests or tolerate herbicides or both. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration soon is expected to approve the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption: a new breed of fast-growing salmon."

UFO: 'Alien pyramid' over Amherst, MA, even Air Force puzzled

UFO: 'Alien pyramid' over Amherst, MA, even Air Force puzzled: "Residents of Amherst and Pelham, Massachusetts reported seeing an unusually low-flying pyramid-shaped object moving slowly and silently across the sky between 5:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., on Jan. 8. The US Air Force is unable to explain the sighting."

Better Than The Borg: The Neurotech Era

Better Than The Borg: The Neurotech Era | Singularity Hub: "What if you could read my mind? What if I could beam what I’m seeing, hearing, and thinking, straight to you, and vice versa? What if an implant could store your memories, augment them, and make you smarter?"

"The Singularity" -SciFi or Reality?

"The Singularity" -SciFi or Reality?: ""It seems plausible that with technology we can, in the fairly near future create (or become) creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Events beyond such an event -- such a singularity -- are as unimaginable to us as opera is to a flatworm."

Ito: Think twice about immortality and the singularity

Ito: Think twice about immortality and the singularity | Cutting Edge - CNET News: "The director of the MIT Media Lab said sci-fi visions of computers and humans emphasize the wrong priorities for development. Technological progress should aim for resilience, not efficiency."

Scientists unlock another piece to the Transhumanism puzzle

Scientists unlock another piece to the Transhumanism puzzle: "Since 2010, graphene’s unique properties have spawned a new and lucrative industry that includes integrated circuitry and transistors, touchscreens and other electronic displays (including ‘organic’ light emitting diodes), electrochemical cells, desalination, solar cells, graphene nanoribbons and quantum dots,  and as a medium for biomedical devices and even DNA sequencing. Now, Duke’s team have discovered that graphene can be controllably crumpled and uncrumpled, leading to speculation that these super thin sheets could become artificial muscle."

Forget 3D! Now 4K TVs are the latest must-have (but with a £25,000 price tag you'll be part of a select bunch of viewers)

Forget 3D! Now 4K TVs are the latest must-have (but with a £25,000 price tag you'll be part of a select bunch of viewers) | Mail Online: "It was not so long ago that we had to exchange our old box televisions for flat-screens.And then there were the endless upgrades to high definition and screens that could show 3D images. But it seems it could all have be in vain as the technology is already out of date through the arrival of the 4K picture."

Pay dirt! Antarctic drilling reaches surface of lake buried beneath ice

Pay dirt! Antarctic drilling reaches surface of lake buried beneath ice | Fox News: "U.S. scientists successfully drilled into Lake Whillans, a subglacial expanse of water hidden deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, they reported on Sunday, Jan. 27."

Red Pills of the Week — January 26th

Red Pills of the Week — January 26th | Mysterious Universe: "Greetings, fellow Coppertops! Here we are ready for another exciting trip inside the Fortean Matrix, where we’ll study ancient gamma ray bursts along with ancient Martian lakes, Neanderthal babies & artificial brains. And as we observe the launching of another private space mining enterprise, we’ll ready ourselves to visit once more the epic saga that happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away... "

Researchers unravel mysteries of spider silk

Researchers unravel mysteries of spider silk: "(Phys.org)—Scientists at Arizona State University are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spiders spin – weight for weight - at least five times as strong as piano wire. They have found a way to obtain a wide variety of elastic properties of the silk of several intact spiders' webs using a sophisticated but non–invasive laser light scattering technique."

World Economic Forum identifies extraterrestrial life as an 'emerging concern'

World Economic Forum identifies extraterrestrial life as an 'emerging concern': "The World Economic Forum recently identified the discovery of extraterrestrial life as an “emerging concern.”"

UFO Over Massachusetts Not Easy For Air Force To Explain Away

UFO Over Massachusetts Not Easy For Air Force To Explain Away: "It's taken over two weeks for the Air Force to suggest that a UFO reported over Massachusetts may have only been a huge cargo plane, but even they're not sure."

Bigfoot in Oregon? Roaring and Screeching Has Locals Spooked

Bigfoot in Oregon? Roaring and Screeching Has Locals Spooked: "Bigfoot is in Oregon, according to a number of reports from local residents in the area."

School of Mines testing biometric payment program

School of Mines testing biometric payment program | The Argus Leader | argusleader.com: "RAPID CITY — The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is partnering with a technology firm to offer a pilot biometric program on campus."

Davos 2013: world leaders to discuss aliens, super-humans, and immortals

Davos 2013: world leaders to discuss aliens, super-humans, and immortals: Voice of Russia: "This year, apart from the traditional economic concerns, the program of the World Economic Forum in Davos is scheduled to address a number of highly controversial issues which have been kept classified for decades. Called the 'X factors', these issues include the potential risks of medically induced enhancement of cognitive abilities, prolongation of human life, and discovery of extraterrestrial life."

How Quickly Could a Single Supervirus Spread to Every Single Person on Earth?

How Quickly Could a Single Supervirus Spread to Every Single Person on Earth? | Popular Science: "If it’s a particularly contagious virus, it would spread across the planet in a year. “If it starts in New York, it’s going to be in London certainly within a week,” says Ira Longini, a biostatistician at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle who uses computer models to analyze how viruses globe-trot. “And from there, it will quickly travel to the rest of North America and Europe.” "

Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years: "There is now a way to extend the lifespan of organisms so that humans could conceivably live to be 800 years old. In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold — and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate into humans. It involves tinkering with two genes, and cutting down your calorie intake. Tests have already started on people in Ecuador."

Don't count 'doomsday asteroid' out yet

Don't count 'doomsday asteroid' out yet - CNN.com: "With the recent fly-by of a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid labeled 99942 Apophis, one of a class of space rocks referred to as "near-Earth objects" or "Earth-grazers," scientists have revised their worst estimates of its chances of striking Earth. Current thinking is: We're safe. For the next couple of decades. But this does not mean the danger is over. Far from it."

Living Wire Can Heal Itself When Cut | Liquid Metal Wire

Living Wire Can Heal Itself When Cut | Liquid Metal Wire | LiveScience: "In the classic sci-fi film "2001: A Space Odyssey," the evil computer Hal 9000 is finally defeated when a courageous scientist disconnects Hal's internal processing units. But if researchers from North Carolina State University in Raleigh succeed in bringing their self-healing wire to market, Hal could live again."

Set for take-off: Britain's deadly superdrone that even picks its own targets

Set for take-off: Britain's deadly superdrone that even picks its own targets | Mail Online: "Military chiefs believe Taranis’s ground-breaking technology will allow a powerful new generation of drones equipped with deadly payloads to fly from British bases to attack targets worldwide. But the new developments in pilotless aircraft are controversial as they allow the possibility of autonomous computers  targeting and killing enemy combatants outside human  control."




Experts even warned last night that the new technology raised the nightmare spectre of out-of-control robots waging war on humans – and called for a global ban on autonomous technology.

The Singularity: Should We Worry?

The Singularity: Should We Worry? - Yahoo! News: "Science fiction authors and futurists have long speculated about the Singularity: a coming technological event that transforms humanity in ways people can’t even begin to understand."

Technological Convergence and Transhumanism

Technological Convergence and Transhumanism - Transhumanity.net: "Many futurists agree about “technological convergence” but have diverging views about a possible “technological singularity,” some see it as a very likely scenario, while others do not believe that there will be any sudden and dramatic changes due to progress in artificial intelligence, for example. Most scientists and engineers also agree that there is an increasing, even exponential, rate of technological change. In fact, the rapid emergence of new technologies has generated scientific developments never dreamed of before."

Darpa's Plan to Recruit Military Dogs: Scan Their Brains

Darpa's Plan to Recruit Military Dogs: Scan Their Brains | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Dogs do it all for the military: sniff for bombs, detect narcotics and rescue hapless humans. But to recruit the best canine squadmates, the Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers are working on a plan to scan their brains — and figure out how dogs think. Belly rubs won’t cut it anymore."

Super-Efficient Solar Cell 'Evolved' in a Lab

Super-Efficient Solar Cell 'Evolved' in a Lab : Discovery News: "Scientists are using principles of natural selection to evolve a more efficient solar cell. Engineers at Northwestern University wrote a computer program that "mates" design elements and assesses the fitness of their "offspring" to come up with the most efficient possible organic solar cell. Organic solar cells are made with the so-called organic elements — carbon, oxygen and nitrogen -- and are cheaper to make, lighter and more flexible than the traditional silicon cells available in solar panels today."

Fears Abound of World 'Plunging into Currency War'

Businessweek: Fears Abound of World 'Plunging into Currency War': "Many government officials around the world are concerned that massive monetary easing in numerous nations is sparking a global currency war."

Schools of Sleeper Drones Could Swim Future Seas

Schools of Sleeper Drones Could Swim Future Seas : Discovery News: "Airborne drones are becoming commonplace, especially in the military. But what about seaborne drones? Swarms of autonomous vehicles out in the ocean could help monitor coastlines or dangerous passageways rife with pirates."

Uncovered, the 'toxic' gene hiding in GM crops: Revelation throws new doubt over safety of foods

Uncovered, the 'toxic' gene hiding in GM crops: Revelation throws new doubt over safety of foods | Mail Online: "A virus gene that could be poisonous to humans has been missed when GM food crops have been assessed for safety.



GM crops such as corn and soya, which are being grown around the world for both human and farm animal consumption, include the gene."

11 Body Parts Defense Researchers Will Use to Track You

11 Body Parts Defense Researchers Will Use to Track You | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Cell phones that can identify you by how you walk. Fingerprint scanners that work from 25 feet away. Radars that pick up your heartbeat from behind concrete walls. Algorithms that can tell identical twins apart. Eyebrows and earlobes that give you away. A new generation of technologies is emerging that can identify you by your physiology. And unlike the old crop of biometric systems, you don't need to be right up close to the scanner in order to be identified. If they work as advertised, they may be able to identify you without you ever knowing you've been spotted."

Drones, Beware: United Nations Investigates Obama's Targeted Killings

Drones, Beware: United Nations Investigates Obama's Targeted Killings | Danger Room | Wired.com: "After years of warning that President Obama’s targeted killing program flirted with lawlessness, the United Nations has announced it’s investigating the centerpiece of the U.S.’s shadow wars worldwide.



The inquiry will be led by Ben Emmerson, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for human rights and counterterrorism. It’ll focus on most of the places that the U.S.’s armed drones and elite special-operations forces operate: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; as well as in the Palestinian territories, indicating that Israel’s targeted attacks on Hamas will be a subject as well."

IBM reveals nanotech gel that can 'explode' superbugs

IBM reveals nanotech gel that can 'explode' superbugs | Mail Online: "IBM has revealed a hi-tech gel that could obliterate hospital superbugs. The computer firm hopes its breakthrough could replace antibiotics."

DNA gun that can invisibly tag criminals for weeks after a riot

DNA gun that can invisibly tag criminals for weeks after a riot | Mail Online: "It may look more like a high tech water pistol or something out of a sci-fi film than the latest weapon in the fight against crime."

The real-life tractor beam (but it won't be dragging spaceships quite yet)

The real-life tractor beam (but it won't be dragging spaceships quite yet) | Mail Online: "A real-life tractor beam has been developed by scientists for use in medical testing.



Although light manipulation techniques have existed since the 1970s, researchers said this is the first time a light beam has been used to draw objects towards the light source, albeit at a microscopic level."

Deadly GM flu research that could 'wipe out significant portion of humanity' set to restart

Deadly GM flu research that could 'wipe out significant portion of humanity' set to restart | Mail Online: "Scientists last night ended a voluntary ban on creating mutant forms of bird flu, despite warnings that an accidental release could kill millions of people. Research into H5N1 transmission stopped a year ago amid fears information about how to create potentially dangerous viruses could be used for bioterrorism."

Atomic scale: protons are smaller than thought

Atomic scale: protons are smaller than thought: "How many protons can dance on the head of a pin? The answer is nowhere near as straightforward as one may think — and it might offer new insights into one of the most well-tested theories in physics."

New video of ‘Kraken’ in natural habitat released

More Here: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/24/video-kraken-in-natural-habitat-released/

People in the US Still Die from Black Death

People in the US Still Die from Black Death : Discovery News: "The United States is one of the many countries around the world that technically still suffers from what was once called the Black Death. Although we're not keeling over like medieval peasants, there are regular cases of bubonic plague that spring up every year in the American southwest. Occasionally, they lead to deaths."

The Robot Doctor Will See You Now

The Robot Doctor Will See You Now : Discovery News: "They may not be replacing doctors and nurses just yet, but robots could be providing bedside care in hospitals across the United States sooner than you think."

Robots and Astronauts Will Defend the Earth

Robots and Astronauts Will Defend the Earth : Discovery News: "The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission to a binary asteroid will be the first precise test as to whether, sometime in the future, a deadly asteroid barreling toward Earth could be knocked off course by whacking it with a projectile."

Star People: New Book Deals with Aliens in Ancient America

Star People: New Book Deals with Aliens in Ancient America | Mysterious Universe: "The modern notion that humankind may have been influenced in ancient times by an intelligence far exceeding our own is not only popular; it’s almost endemic to Western culture. Among the faithful believers in paleo-contact, as Carl Sagan termed it, mankind’s earliest innovations were the result of an alien intervention, either by beings who showed us techniques that would lead to the formation of a civilized society, or by direct manipulation of our genetic substructure for purposes of speeding along the natural evolutionary process."

30 Population Control Quotes That Show That The Elite Truly Believe That Humans Are A Plague Upon The Earth

30 Population Control Quotes That Show That The Elite Truly Believe That Humans Are A Plague Upon The Earth - BlackListedNews.com: "There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it."

Storing Digital Data in DNA - Scientists Store King Speech, Shakespeare Sonnets in DNA

Scientists Store King Speech, Shakespeare Sonnets in DNA - WSJ.com: "Scientists have stored audio and text on fragments of DNA and then retrieved them with near-perfect fidelity—a technique that eventually may provide a way to handle the overwhelming data of the digital age."

What the devil? Scientists tap power of ‘Lucifer’

What the devil? Scientists tap power of ‘Lucifer’: "'It’s one of the most powerful and advanced telescopes in the world – and it uses the fierce power of LUCIFER to capture images of planets outside our solar system and peer back toward the beginning of time."

The Coming Artilect War

The Coming Artilect War - Forbes.com: "The issue of species dominance will dictate our global politics this century. Given the rate at which technologies are developing that enable "artilects"--artificial intellects--it is likely that humanity will be able to build artilects with mental capacities that are literally trillions upon trillions of times above the human level. Humanity will then have to choose whether to become the No. 2 species on the planet or not."

Laser tail gunners: DARPA seeks to use laser weapons to defend aircraft from rearward attack

Laser tail gunners: DARPA seeks to use laser weapons to defend aircraft from rearward attack - Military & Aerospace Electronics: "Laser experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. will move forward with flight tests of a futuristic laser weapon system designed to protect combat aircraft against attacks from the rear... "

Freeze lifted on bird flu virus research

Freeze lifted on bird flu virus research - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Scientists who created a mutant bird flu virus will resume the controversial research after taking a year-long break amid fears the bug would escape the lab or fall into terrorist hands."

Alien life discovered in meteorite which crash-landed in Sri Lanka

Alien life discovered in meteorite which crash-landed in Sri Lanka - Mirror Online: "A top British scientist discovered the two-inch wide rock was pitted with tiny fossils of algae, similar to the kind found in seaweed"

I robot, would you like fries with your burger?

I robot, would you like fries with your burger? - The National: "California's Silicon Valley is in the throes of giving birth to its next world-changing technology - robotics."

CCHR Exposes Exorbitant Psychiatric Military Spending to Create Super-Soldiers

CCHR Exposes Exorbitant Psychiatric Military Spending to Create Super-Soldiers - Yahoo! News: "The mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights announces the last in a four-part series by award-winning investigative journalist Kelly Patricia O'Meara exploring how the nation's military forces have been used as guinea pigs for psychological and pharmaceutical experiments. This last installment looks at the long standing relationship between the military and psychiatry that has been in place since WWII and the psychiatric research being conducted on U.S. soldiers."

Time Traveler in 1938 film….?

Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose 'apocalyptic' threat, top expert says

Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose 'apocalyptic' threat, top expert says | Society | The Guardian: "Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies tells MPs issue should be added to national risk register of civil emergencies"

Cancer victim growing a new nose in his arm: Businessman who lost organ to disease hopes to have new one sewn on to his face

Cancer victim growing a new nose in his arm: Businessman who lost organ to disease hopes to have new one sewn on to his face | Mail Online: "A British businessman who lost his nose to cancer is growing a new one – in his arm.



If all goes well it will eventually be removed and sewn on to his face, with experts at University College London hoping he will have feeling and a sense of smell.

The new nose, the first in the world to be grown from scratch, will also look just like the 56-year-old man’s old one – slightly crooked."

The bizarre 'ghost cape' that can make one object look like another

The bizarre 'ghost cape' that can make one object look like another | Mail Online: "Chinese researchers have revealed a 'ghost cape' that can make one object appear to look like another. The team from Southeast University in Nanjing, China say their technique is far simpler that other invisibility devices, because instead of making an object disappear entirely, it makes it look like something else."

Mining for metals on an asteroid: Spacecraft could begin drilling on passing rocks within just TWO YEARS

Mining for metals on an asteroid: Spacecraft could begin drilling on passing rocks within just TWO YEARS | Mail Online: "Asteroids could be mined for useful ores and minerals as they hurtle past the Earth under plans by a U.S. company to launch its first rock-prospecting spacecraft by 2015.



Deep Space Industries announced today that it intends to launch a fleet of unmanned ships to intercept small asteroids as they speed past our own planet, possibly finding metals such as platinum.

The company joins a host of other start-up firms which hope to soon exploit the untapped resources of near-Earth objects to help fuel our civilisation's next phase of technological development."

The Nephilim Cometh: Surrogate Mother Wanted for Neanderthal Baby

Surrogate Mother Wanted for Neanderthal Baby : Discovery News: "This may go down as one of the oddest job postings in history: A respected Harvard professor of genetics has proposed finding an "extremely adventurous female human" to serve as surrogate mother for a cloned Neanderthal baby."

Does China Plan To Establish “China Cities” And “Special Economic Zones” All Over America?

Does China Plan To Establish “China Cities” And “Special Economic Zones” All Over America? - BlackListedNews.com: "So how in the world did we get to this point?  A few decades ago, the United States was the unchallenged economic powerhouse of the world and China was essentially a third world country."

Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot

Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot | Reuters: "(Reuters) - Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has wondered if her life is worth living. Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in 2009."

U.S. begins transporting French troops, equipment to Mali

U.S. begins transporting French troops, equipment to Mali | Reuters: "(Reuters) - The United States has started transporting French soldiers and equipment to Mali as part of its logistical aid to French forces fighting Islamist militants in the north of the country, a U.S. official said on Tuesday."

Genetically engineering 'ethical' babies is a moral obligation, says Oxford professor

Genetically engineering 'ethical' babies is a moral obligation, says Oxford professor - Telegraph: "Genetically screening our offspring to make them better people is just 'responsible parenting', claims an eminent Oxford academic."

Group Finds More Fake Ingredients in Popular Foods - ABC News

EXCLUSIVE: Group Finds More Fake Ingredients in Popular Foods - ABC News: ""Food products are not always what they purport to be," Markus Lipp, senior director for Food Standards for the independent lab in Maryland, told ABC News."

Dramatic UFO videos

See most dramatic UFO videos ever: "'The Watchers' explores spiritual dimensions of wars, alien implants, 'black-eyed children'"

The Singularity Institute: How their arguments are broken

Alexander Kruel · The Singularity Institute: How their arguments are broken: "The argumentative framework employed by the Singularity Institute to justify its mission is fallacious because it is ambiguous."

What's Going On At Fort Campbell, KY?

What's Going On At Fort Campbell, KY? - The Gralien Report: "Much like other clandestine locales across the United States (Area 51, the highly-secretive base near Groom Lake, Nevada, comes to mind), many have asserted over the years that there are numerous oddities associated with Fort Campbell, ranging from strange synchronistic parallels to famous rock bands and iconic artists, to the appearances of UFOs and covert “black helicopters” associated with popular conspiracy theories. But what might draw one into taking an interest in such a location? For me, it all started falling together, and innocently enough, following an odd email that appeared in my inbox, which referred to the place as “The Area 51 of Appalachia.”"

Trans-humanity and post-Europe: Satanic agenda of US intelligence

Trans-humanity and post-Europe: Satanic agenda of US intelligence - English pravda.ru: "When I first read the Global Trends redacted by the NIA, I first thought I was reading a bad screenplay for a low-budgeted Sci-Fi movie.



We are no more free citizens in modern nations; for there are no nations and no free citizens. We are just grey and febrile pawns, volatile and nervous ants and cyber-cockroaches - name it as you want - lodging in a big technological concentration camp named the American matrix. An individual will be by no mean himself, for the old Christian subject is dead. For our ruling elites, who always lament the Russian resilience and threaten strangulated Iran, there are no nations, no races, no spirituality and no soul: there is just a cyber-personality in search of an ergonomic perfection and a global network of electronic prisons and ecological surveillance. As foresaw Job, the current man is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare."

Spy Bases: 9 Secretive HQs of the World's Intelligence Agencies

Spy Bases: 9 Secretive HQs of the World's Intelligence Agencies | Danger Room | Wired.com: "The same basic principle is true for the world's spy agencies. All show their secrecy in their buildings, while some may appear starkly utilitarian, and some may even be frightening and alienating. But they also have their quirks and differences, whether it be an isolated complex hidden by trees, in a location that's never been officially disclosed, or a prominent complex built by superstar architects and put on prominent display in the middle of a capital city.
From Virginia to Berlin to Moscow, here are nine of them."

Neanderthal man, DNA experiments and the shadow of Dr Frankenstein

Neanderthal man, DNA experiments and the shadow of Dr Frankenstein | Mail Online: "The phrase ‘Frankenstein science’ has never been so apt. A Harvard professor says that by injecting Stone Age genes into a human embryo — and then implanting the embryo into a human surrogate mother — it will soon be possible to create a living Neanderthal."

Company to unveil fleet of asteroid-mining ships for deep-space colonies

Company to unveil fleet of asteroid-mining ships for deep-space colonies | Fox News: "A new asteroid-mining company launches Tuesday with the goal of helping humanity expand across the solar system by tapping the vast riches of space rocks."

Doubling down: four-stranded, 'quadruple helix' DNA discovered

Doubling down: four-stranded, 'quadruple helix' DNA discovered | Fox News: "60 years after scientists first described the “double helix” shape of human DNA, the chemical code of life, scientists have discovered the first quadruple helix."

Tractor Beams 'Pull' Tiny Particles Backward"

Tractor Beams 'Pull' Tiny Particles Backward : Discovery News: "In space opera, it's not uncommon for the hero's ship to be snagged by a tractor beam that pulls him towards the enemy -- think of the famous scene in Star Wars where Darth Vader's Death Star captures Hans Solo's spaceship, the Millennium Falcon in an invisible grasp. Scientists have now made a real tractor beam, that while not capable of snaring spacecraft yet, is able to tug on tiny particles."

UFOs: Silencing The Insiders

UFOs: Silencing The Insiders | Mysterious Universe: "There is probably not a single person within Ufology who isn’t familiar with the controversy of the Men in Black; those dark-suited characters who do their very best to silence members of the public to UFO activity. That at least some MIB appear to come from within government (although certainly not the majority – which are a very different and far weirder and ghoulish breed) begs two important questions: What happens when those on the inside of officialdom see UFOs? Do they get similarly silenced? Yes, they most certainly do. And here’s one perfect – but, until now, barely known – example."

As Extremists Take Hold, Young Syrians Are Getting Pretty Sick of This So-Called Revolution

As Extremists Take Hold, Young Syrians Are Getting Pretty Sick of This So-Called Revolution - Global - The Atlantic Wire: "For many lucky young Syrians, their country's civil war is so routine that they've forgotten what life was like before it started and so confusing that they're not sure what they believe in any more. We say "lucky" because the Syrian youth who recently opened up to The Los Angeles Times about their disillusionment in the Syrian revolution were only able to do so because, for one reason or another, they'd been spared from the violence. And it's been a very violent war so far. Just under two months before its two-year anniversary, the Syrian conflict's death toll is north of 60,000 according to the United Nations and well over half a million refugees have fled their homes to escape the violence."

Google aims to replace passwords with ID ring

Google aims to replace passwords with ID ring - Telegraph: "The struggle to remember several long and increasingly complicated passwords simply to carry out everyday web tasks could soon become a thing of the past, if Google gets its way and introduces a ring that can confirm your identity online."

Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops

Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops: "How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years?"

Zombie attack Japanese man ‘bit snake-possessed son to death’, say media reports

Zombie attack Japanese man ‘bit snake-possessed son to death’, say media reports « count down to zero-time: "TOKYO – A 53-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of biting his adult son to death to get rid of a “snake haunting him”, Japanese media have reported."

Navy Planning To Stash Drones On The Ocean Floor Around The World

Navy Planning To Stash Drones On The Ocean Floor Around The World: "The U.S. Navy wants to pack aerial drones and other intelligence-gathering technology into special containers built to withstand deep ocean pressures and distribute them around the world’s seas. The containers will rise to the surface when called into service from a remote location."

300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok

300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok: Voice of Russia: "Lighting the fire during a cold winter evening a resident of Vladivostok found a rail-shaped metal detail which was pressed in one of the pieces of coal that the man used to heat his home. Mesmerized by his discovery, the responsible citizen decided to seek help from the scientists of Primorye region. After the metal object was studied by the leading experts the man was shocked to learn about the assumed age of his discovery. The metal detail was supposedly 300 million years old and yet the scientists suggest that it was not created by nature but was rather manufactured by someone. The question of who might have made an aluminum gear in the dawn of time remains unanswered."

Scientists warn of another Mount Tongariro eruption

Scientists warn of another Mount Tongariro eruption | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond: "January 21, 2013 – NEW ZEALAND – Scientists are warning Mount Tongariro may erupt again as the Department of Conservation looks at re-opening the remainder of the iconic Tongariro Crossing next month. GNS Science say emissions of steam and a gas plume have been a continuous feature of the mountain since the August 2012 eruption."

Egyptian court sentences Christian family to 15 years for converting from Islam

Egyptian court sentences Christian family to 15 years for converting from Islam: "The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come, according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation's Islamist government is bad news for Christians in the North African country."

Japan Warns It May Fire On Chinese Aircraft Over Disputed Islands; China Retorts: "There Will Be No Second Shot"

Japan Warns It May Fire On Chinese Aircraft Over Disputed Islands; China Retorts: "There Will Be No Second Shot" | Zero Hedge: "A week ago we reported that following what China said was a response to counter "Japanese military aircraft disrupting the routine patrols of Chinese administrative aircraft" over the East China Sea, the world's most populous country (and one which has the largest, 2.25 million strong, standing army) scrambled several jets and put its military on high alert. Japan says it may fire warning shots and take other measures to keep foreign aircraft from violating its airspace in the latest verbal blast between Tokyo and Beijing that raises concerns that a dispute over hotly contested islands could spin out of control."

Goldman bankers get rich betting on food prices as millions starve

Goldman bankers get rich betting on food prices as millions starve - Business News - Business - The Independent: "Bank criticised for making £250m after destructive spikes in global food market"

Kim Dotcom: 'Nothing will stop Mega'

Kim Dotcom: 'Nothing will stop Mega' — RT: "A defiant Kim Dotcom vowed to win his upcoming extradition hearing during the Sunday night launch party for his new project, Mega."

Gamma-ray burst 'hit Earth in 8th Century'

BBC News - Gamma-ray burst 'hit Earth in 8th Century': "In 2012 researchers found evidence that our planet had been struck by a blast of radiation during the Middle Ages, but there was debate over what kind of cosmic event could have caused this."

'Strongest evidence yet to there being life on Mars'

'Strongest evidence yet to there being life on Mars' - Telegraph: "Martian rocks from a crater hit by a meteorite may contain the strongest evidence yet that there is life on Mars."

Snowpocalypse Russia: 'Snow tsunami' swallows streets, cars, buildings

Snowpocalypse Russia: 'Snow tsunami' swallows streets, cars, buildings (PHOTOS) — RT: "Unrelenting snowfalls have caused unprecedented chaos in Russia. Over the past week, the country has seen scores of traffic accidents, flight delays and, in some cases, the complete isolation of some remote settlements and towns."

Wanted: 'Adventurous woman' to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby

Wanted: 'Adventurous woman' to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby | Mail Online: "A leading geneticist is on the hunt for an 'adventurous woman' to help turn back the hands of time - and give birth to a Neanderthal baby.




Contrary to belief, Neanderthals had a larger brain size and may have been more intelligent than humans


George Church, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School, believes he can bring back the extinct ancestor of modern man after more than 33,000 years. Contrary to popular belief, Neanderthals were in fact a highly intelligent race and Prof Church believes they could be recreated through modern medicine."

Multiple Paths Lead To One World Government

Multiple Paths Lead To One World Government | UK Column: "One of the most obvious of the agendas that our politicians are pushing is that of “World Government”. The British Parliament is now subservient to so many foreign bodies and institutions it is hard to keep count."

Japan To Replace Nuke Plant With Wind Farm

Japan To Replace Nuke Plant With Wind Farm : Discovery News: "In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor disaster, the Japanese government has opted to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm."

American Milk Banned in Europe Because it Does No Body Good

American Milk Banned in Europe Because it Does No Body Good - Waking Times : Waking Times: "If milk does a body so much good, why is US-produced milk banned in Europe? It turns out that in 1994, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). rBGH in milk is believed to increase the risk of cancer. In an attempt to protect its citizens from genetically-modified milk, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the U.N. Food Safety Agency representing 101 nations worldwide, has banned rBGH milk in the 101 nations that it represents. Canada is another country where rBGH milk is banned."

Student Kicked Out Of School For Refusing To Wear RFID Tracking Badge Following Failed Appeal

Student Kicked Out Of School For Refusing To Wear RFID Tracking Badge Following Failed Appeal | CNS News: "Having lost her appeal, 15 year-old student Andrea Hernandez is leaving John Jay High School after school officials denied her request to allow her to continue her "education uninterrupted" by permitting her to use her old (chipless) ID badge which "does not signify participation in a program which I believe conflicts with my religious beliefs.""

The first solar-powered vertebrate

Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate - life - 18 January 2013 - New Scientist: "But all these creatures are only distantly related to us. No backboned animal has been found that can harness the sun – until now. It has long been suspected, and now there is hard evidence: the spotted salamander is solar-powered."

Stunning photo reveals newborn stars emerging from a giant space cloud some 600 light years from Earth

Stunning photo reveals newborn stars emerging from a giant space cloud some 600 light years from Earth | Mail Online: "This stunning photograph shows a dark cloud in deep space where new stars are forming alongside a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged.



The cloud, known as Lupus 3, lies about 600 light years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). The picture, recently taken from a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, is regarded as the best image ever taken of Lupus 3."

Neanderthal to be born to surrogate mother (Bringing back the nephilim...?)

Neanderthal to be born to surrogate mother? - Unexplained Mysteries: "There have been indications that a cloning experiment to create a live Neanderthal may be on the cards."

Rivers on the red planet: Astonishing new pictures reveal a 1500km river that once ran across Mars

Rivers on the red planet: Astonishing new pictures reveal a 1500km river that once ran across Mars | Mail Online: "They are yet more proof of the red planet's wet past.The European Space Agency today released an astonishing series of pictures showing the remnants of a huge river than once ran across Mars.



Taken by the ESA’s Mars Express, they show Reull Vallis, the 'river-like structure' is believed to have formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past."

Is the ‘quantum singularity’ near?

Is the ‘quantum singularity’ near? | KurzweilAI: "Four research groups have announced progress on a quantum-computing proposal made two years ago by MIT researchers."

Google patent shows laser keyboard for Glass

FutureTech on NBCNews.com: "A new patent application from Google augments the company's Glass head-mounted computer with a laser projector, which can be used to project an interface on any nearby surface, including the user's own hand."

Meteorologists confounded, as snow disappears from Chicago skies

Meteorologists confounded, as snow disappears from Chicago skies | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond: "January 19, 2013 – CHICAGO, Il - Whether you like it or not, we will officially break another record for no snow today, according to the National Weather Service. “It’s pretty incredible,” said NWS meteorologist Gino Izzi. “It’s the middle of January and there’s no snow on the ground. Dallas, Texas has had more snow than us.”"

West Point center cites dangers of 'far right' in U.S.

West Point center cites dangers of 'far right' in U.S.: "A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports “civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government.”"

Newsweek Now Says That Obama Is 'The Second Coming'

Newsweek Now Says That Obama Is 'The Second Coming': "Although it is now digital, Newsweek celebrated President Obama’s upcoming inauguration with a “cover” that calls the event “the second coming,” an apparent reference to the return of Jesus Christ, The Blaze reported Friday."

NASA caught deleting UFO photos from its website

NASA caught deleting UFO photos from its website - Honolulu exopolitics | Examiner.com: "In a news alert issued today, NASA has been caught deleting photos from its website of what is unmistakable evidence of a UFO. The UFO photos first appeared on the NASA Johnson Space Center website in May 2011 and clearly showed a spacecraft of some advanced design."

'Widow ghost' terrifies village in northeastern Thailand

'Widow ghost' terrifies village in northeastern Thailand | Bangkok Post: news: "SURIN – Fearful villagers in tambon Tha Sawang have hung red shirts in front of their homes to repel a "widow ghost" rumoured to have taken the lives of 10 apparently healthy men in the village since last month. People in the village told a reporter that 10 strong men have mysteriously died, some in their sleep and others just dropped dead while walking."

Nearly perfect, ultrathin invisibility cloak could have wide practical applications

Nearly perfect, ultrathin invisibility cloak could have wide practical applications: "(Phys.org)—Researchers have created a dc invisibility cloak made of a metamaterial that not only shields an object almost perfectly, but at 1-cm thick is also the thinnest cloak ever constructed, reaching the ultimate limit of thinness for artificial materials. As the first invisibility cloak that combines both near-perfect performance and extreme thinness, it could open the doors to practical applications. In the past, invisibility cloaks have been too large to be used in many real-world applications."

U.S. quietly trying to suppress dangers of Syria’s chemical arsenal

WASHINGTON: U.S. quietly trying to suppress dangers of Syria’s chemical arsenal - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com: "WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has quietly arranged for thousands of chemical protective suits and related items to be sent to Jordan and Turkey and is pressing the military forces there to take principal responsibility for safeguarding Syrian chemical-weapons sites if the country’s lethal nerve agents suddenly become vulnerable to theft and misuse, Western and Middle Eastern officials say."

The new cold war: US leads race to find life under Antarctica

The new cold war: US leads race to find life under Antarctica | Fox News: "Russia, the United States and Great Britain are facing off -- and this cold war is set in the coldest place on Earth. A trio of teams from the three countries have spent years planning, drilling and digging in a race to reach one of a handful of freshwater lakes buried up to a mile and a half beneath Antarctica’s trillion tons of ice, spring-fed lakes warmed by the Earth below and sheathed by thick ice above. The studies hope to find new life forms in the pitch dark, freezing water that has never seen sunlight."

A Supercomputer Fit to Dominate the Cosmos

A Supercomputer Fit to Dominate the Cosmos : Discovery News: "It may not be self-aware (yet) but this computing monster is ready to take over the world. Well, at least a telescope in Chile."

Syria crisis: al-Qaida fighters revealing their true colours, rebels say

Syria crisis: al-Qaida fighters revealing their true colours, rebels say | World news | The Guardian: "A schism is developing in northern Syria between jihadists and Free Syrian Army units, which threatens to pitch both groups against each other and open a new phase in the Syrian civil war"

US Department of Defense Tactical Electromagnetic Cyber Warfare: Plant Malware Through the Air

US Department of Defense Tactical Electromagnetic Cyber Warfare: Plant Malware Through the Air: "With thumb drives now a known vulnerability, most countries have banned their use on sensitive systems. Iran forbade them at Natanz shortly after the Stuxnet worm began to work its magic; the Pentagon banned their use in 2008.



It was right around that time that scientists began to turn their attention to another project: trying to access these protected networks remotely, through the air, by reading activity via electromagnetic field distortions and inserting code via radio frequencies. Accessing these networks — networks that don’t have wireless routers and aren’t connected to the Internet — became something of a holy grail, dubbed “jumping the gap.”"

‘Mali a potential long-term, Afghanistan-like conflict for France’

‘Mali a potential long-term, Afghanistan-like conflict for France’ — RT: "Al-Qaeda plans to use North Africa as a stepping stone to Europe and France may witness an Afghanistan-like backlash with the US entering another war, former Pentagon official Michael Maloof told RT."

Intelligent molecules

Intelligent molecules | KurzweilAI: "It sounds like science fiction: “intelligent molecules” that react to external stimuli and reversibly change their shape. But now Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) physicists have succeeded for the first time in creating a chemical reaction, using a single polymer molecule, that makes this process visible."

Rockwell Collins, DARPA examine tiny GPS use

Rockwell Collins, DARPA examine tiny GPS use | Air Traffic Management | Air Traffic Management - ATM and CMS Industry online, the latest air traffic control industry, CAA, ANSP, SESAR and NEXTGEN news, events, supplier directory and magazine: "Imagine having GPS navigation capability embedded on something as small as a hummingbird-size unmanned aerial vehicle. That day may be coming soon, thanks to ongoing research and successful testing completed by Rockwell Collins and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)."

Archaeological discovery supports Biblical account of Shiloh's destruction

Archaeological discovery supports Biblical account of Shiloh's destruction - National Western Religions | Examiner.com: "The discovery of a broken clay pitcher in a bed of ashes near Shiloh, the ancient capital of Israel, suggests the city was burned to the ground, according to an article in yesterday's Huffington Post.



The Ark of the Convenant, which was the centerpiece of a Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones movie, was kept in Shiloh by the Israelites around the 12th century B.C. until it was captured by the Philistines. Spielberg's movie was named Raiders of the Lost Ark and included a plot in which the U.S. government asked Indiana Jones to find the Ark before the Nazis did. Although Spielberg's film was fictional, the Ark did actually temporarily fall into the hands of the Philistines in ancient days."

UFOs On The Moon: Scientists, Astronauts And YouTube Users Report Strange Sightings (VIDEO)

UFOs On The Moon: Scientists, Astronauts And YouTube Users Report Strange Sightings (VIDEO): "People claim to videotape UFOs in the sky above Earth. They also spot unusual-looking objects in NASA camera feeds at the International Space Station. Now, a growing number of individuals insist they're using their telescopes and cameras to reveal UFOs around the moon, according to the International Business Times."

Australian inferno previews fire-prone future

Australian inferno previews fire-prone future - environment - 17 January 2013 - New Scientist: "CLIMATE change is ramping up fire risk around the world. In Australia, home to some of the most fire-prone regions on Earth, the bush fires raging now could be a taster of what's to come."

More Transhumanist Conditioning…

Secret Nuclear Redesign Will Keep U.S. Subs Running Silently for 50 Years

Secret Nuclear Redesign Will Keep U.S. Subs Running Silently for 50 Years | Danger Room | Wired.com: "The U.S. Navy is betting the future of its submarine force on a secret and revolutionary nuclear drive system that aspires to be more efficient and quieter than anything under the water today.



The heart of the planned ballistic missile Ohio Replacement (OR) program will be built around a drive that will not need to be refueled for the 50-year life of the boats and cuts out potentially noisy direct mechanical connection to the drive train. In other words, the Navy’s next-gen subs could be almost silent, and keep running for a half-century straight."

Tropical fish diseases passed to humans: Humans at risk of impetigo, pneumonia from diseases to drug-resistant tropical fish

Tropical fish diseases passed to humans: Humans at risk of impetigo, pneumonia from diseases to drug-resistant tropical fish | Mail Online: "If you keep tropical fish in tanks at home or at work you may be at risk from bacterial infections and life-threatening diseases."

Warp speed: what hyperspace would REALLY look like

Warp speed: what hyperspace would REALLY look like: "The science fiction vision of stars flashing by as streaks when spaceships travel faster than light isn't what the scene would actually look like, a team of physics students says."

Giant Squid: King of the Ocean

DNews: Giant Squid: King of the Ocean : Discovery News: "At last, researchers have captured footage of the giant squid. How is it different from other big squid? Trace has the details."

3D Printed Guns Render Gun Control Moot

Land Destroyer: 3D Printed Guns Render Gun Control Moot: "January 17, 2013 (LocalOrg-Tony Cartalucci) - Forbes has recently published an article about New York Congressman Steve Israel's promise to ban 3D printed high capacity ammunition magazines. The congressman's comments come after Defense Distributed, an open source DIY gunsmith group working to manufacture both guns and their accessories using 3D printing technology, successfully printed and tested a 30-round AR-15 magazine."

NYPD looks to GPS bottles to combat pill bandits

NYPD looks to GPS bottles to combat pill bandits - New York News | NYC Breaking News: "The New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around the city to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS tracking chips."

A Collection of Essays About What We Should Fear

A Collection of Essays About What We Should Fear : The New Yorker: "This year, Brockman’s panelists (myself included) agreed to take on the subject of what we should fear. There’s the fiscal cliff, the continued European economic crisis, the perpetual tensions in the Middle East. But what about the things that may happen in twenty, fifty, or a hundred years?"

Malicious virus shuttered U.S. power plant - DHS

UPDATE 1-Malicious virus shuttered U.S. power plant -DHS | Reuters: "an 16 (Reuters) - A computer virus attacked a turbine control system at a U.S. power company last fall when a technician unknowingly inserted an infected USB computer drive into the network, keeping a plant off line for three weeks, according to a report posted on a U.S. government website."

Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up On Pawleys Island

Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up On Pawleys Island | wltx.com: "PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC (WLTX) --There is a mystery along the South Carolina coast.Thousands of dead fish washed up on the beach at the south end of  Pawleys Island Tuesday afternoon."