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QUT physicist corrects Oxford English Dictionary
By Escape The Illusion on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
Dr Stephen Hughes said he had discovered last year that the dictionary’s definition of the word siphon, and most other dictionaries’, was incorrect. A siphon is a tube commonly used to empty containers of liquid that are otherwise difficult or impossible to empty, such as fish tanks or p... -
Solar Explosion Tracked All the Way from the Sun to E...
By Escape The Illusion on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
An international group of solar and space scientists has built the most complete picture yet of the full impact of a large solar eruption, using instruments on the ground and in space to trace its journey from the Sun to Earth. Dr Mario Bisi of Aberystwyth University presented the team’s resul... -
Hair Conditioning Shampoo Component Captures 90% of C...
By Escape The Illusion on March 28, 2010 | No Comments
Aminosilicones are regularly used in hair-conditioning shampoos and fabric softeners, but recently they show usefulness in fighting global warming by filtering carbon dioxide out of flue gases from coal plants. The discovery has been reported at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical So... -
Oldest Measurement of Earth’s Magnetic Field Re...
By Escape The Illusion on March 14, 2010 | No Comments
Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the Earth’s magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today, and that this weakness, coupled with a strong wind of energetic particles from the young Sun, likely stripped water from the early Earth̵... -
Southern Russia overwhelmed with purple snow
By Escape The Illusion on March 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
The very morning following the widely celebrated Woman’s Day – people in Southern Russia could not believe their eyes when they found purple snow piled on city streets. Scientists confirmed a multi-coloured snowfall – ranging from light purple to brown – had landed in Russia’s ... -
Waste Could Generate Up to 7 Percent of Electricity i...
By Escape The Illusion on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity in Spain. These residues are alternative sources of renewable energy, which are more environ... -
SETI Opens All Data and Coding to the Public
By Escape The Illusion on February 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) just announced that it is releasing all information to the public. SETIQuest.org was launched on Wednesday to facilitate the release and help coordinate an ‘army of citizen scientists’ to help search for anomalies in interstellar microwave patt... -
Is Pot Legalization Push in California a Trend That W...
By Escape The Illusion on February 8, 2010 | No Comments
San Francisco – It’s almost a cliché these days that this city and its sister to the east, Oakland, stand as the primary incubators of some of California’s infamously wacky but later transformational social and political ideas. From the Silicon Valley to Oakland and Berkeley to th... -
Earth’s Oceans: Our Largest Plastic Landfills
By Escape The Illusion on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
Travel through any city, or inhabited rural area, in just about any country. There’s one thing, above all, that you’ll be sure to find: garbage. We are an incredibly untidy species. Garbage disposal is a problem everywhere in our Insta-Life society. There are things we simply can’t throw away ... -
Worst Alternative Energy Sources Receive Most Attenti...
By Escape The Illusion on September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
(NaturalNews) Energy solutions getting the most attention from poli ticians and the press are 25 to 1,000 times more polluting than the best available choices according to studies by Stanford professor Mark Jacobson. The findings were published in a recent issue of Energy and Environmental Science. ...











































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