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Cosmic Rays Give Secret Chamber Away in Great Pyramid of Giza

November 3, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Scientists brought modern equipment to one of the pillars of the Ancient Egyptian culture, the Great Pyramid of Giza. This tomb is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and has been marvelously faced the test of time. Thanks to modern particle physics, researchers discovered a secret chamber that escaped previous observations of archaeologists.

The Newly Discovered Secret Chamber Hasn’t Been Explored Yet

Journal Nature published a report on the latest discovery in Egypt. The found room measures 100 feet long and is located above the Grand Gallery. The entire tomb was built around 2,500 B.C., and it managed to keep this ample space hidden for such a long time.

On the other hand, experts caution people not to indulge into romantic interpretations of such a discovery. The room is considered secret only because scientists weren’t able to find it so far. There are chances that the body of the king himself rests here. However, there are no investigations to back up such speculations at this point.

Nonetheless, the generous size of this secret chamber made scientists believe that it was created for a higher purpose. On top of that, the fact that the architects designed this part to make it hard for people to penetrate is also speaking volumes.

Scientists Used Non-Intrusive Muon-Detecting Techniques to Map the Great Pyramid of Giza

Mehdi Tayoubi at the HIP Institute in Paris together with his colleagues brought non-destructive analytical tools to the Great Pyramid of Giza to further investigate it. They chose a modern technique of imaging that employs muons. These are small particles such as electrons.

“What is strange, for me, is to use those very, very small particles for a huge monument like the pyramid.”

Muons are the result of the impact between cosmic rays and the atmospheric atoms. Muons rain down on Earth and they can pass through hard materials such as stones. However, they start losing energy and eventually decay. By detecting these particles, researchers can create a map of a structure with each space and wall clearly delimited.

The team claimed that they were only testing the modern technology at first. They placed the muon-detecting film in Queen’s Chamber. They started analyzing muons to determine whether they can see the above floor with King’s Chamber and Grand Gallery or not. However, they managed more than that as they intercepted the presence of a third void.

It turned out to be the newly discovered secret chamber. They now need to collaborate with Egyptologists to explore the space. On top of that, they intend to use this non-intrusive and effective technology to map other pyramids as well.

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Classified JFK Files About His Assassination Will Surface with Trump’s Permission

October 23, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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President Donald Trump is the only authority that has the power to decline thousands of classified JFK files from being opened. However, Trump turned to his Twitter account to inform the public that he is not going to deny the truth to the people. Therefore, Americans will finally be close to learning more details about the assassination of the 35th President of the United States.

3,000 Classified JFK Files Have High Chances to Be Made Public This Thursday

This Thursday, the law will require authorities to make around 3,000 classified documents public. All these reports have hundreds of thousands of pages that describe each known detail about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The bill in question appeared in 1992 under the name of JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. The text forces officials to disclose the collection of documents on its 25th anniversary, which is 26th October.

The President of the United States is the only person in the country that can deny this imperative. While Donald Trump admitted on Twitter that he has no objection so far to this law, he can still choose to withhold certain files from the public eye.

“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.”

Historians Believe the Documents Would Offer More Details but Not the Entire Truth

On Saturday, a White House representative gave further explanations to Trump’s direction regarding this event. The President embraced transparency in this case.

However, federal agencies still have time to present their case and persuade Donald Trump that some piece of information should remain classified. These justifications need to invoke law enforcement infringement or national security concerns to be taken into consideration.

On the other hand, national historians don’t believe that the thousands of hundreds of pages are going to reveal the ultimate truth. Instead, the classified JDK files will help them learn and perceive the nuances of the events that led to the assassination of the 35th President.

One of the most ardent matters that need clarification is the nature of Lee Harvey Oswald’s trip to Mexico only weeks before he committed murder. Some believe the answer to this question is going to widen even more the problems between Mexico and the United States.

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The Antarctica Ice Develops a Mysterious Hole the Size of Maine

October 15, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Scientists have recently spotted the biggest opening in the Antarctic Ice since the 1970s. A satellite took the first picture of the mysterious hole on September 25, 2017.

The New Hole in the Antarctica Ice Is Known as Polynya

Around a month ago, a team of scientists from the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and the University of Toronto came upon a harrowing discovery. Their project to learn more about last year’s opening of a hole needed them to investigate the area through satellite monitoring. In the end, they learned about the formation of a new hole.

Such an appearance is known as a polynya. The term describes an ice pack growing an area of unfrozen water in it. Some of them can last over numerous winters. This was the case of the Weddell Polynya that only the new hole equals in its large dimensions.

As Antarctica is renowned for its aggressive winters, it is hard for scientists to discover such mysterious points in its ice to study them. This year, the team knew where to look for based on last year’s discovery. However, the difference this year is that the hole features a much larger size.

The location of the event is the part of the Southern Ocean with warmer and saltier water. Ocean currents are carrying these corrosive agents all the way to the surface. The high temperature starts melting holes in the blankets of ice which will come to be known as polynya.

Scientists Need More Data to Better Understand Such Phenomena

The contact between water and the atmosphere makes it difficult for new layers of ice to cover the hole. Even though the water of the surface cools, it will sink to the bottom to be reheated. In the meantime, a fresh mass of tepid water will take its place.

On the other hand, scientists don’t know precisely why these holes are reopened after some time. Kent Moore, professor of physics at the University of Toronto, claims that the culprits are marine mammals. They use these openings to breathe. Nonetheless, researchers will continue to investigate polynya to learn of its possible long-term effects.

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The Hight Rate of Divorced Couples Might Be Due to Their DNA

October 8, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

married coupleAn intriguing new study is challenging the concept of a divorce. It turns out that this devastating life event might not be entirely linked to the history of the pair. One of the reasons why some people request separation can have a genetic nature. Therefore, some divorced couples risked reaching this point from the moment they were born.

Adoptees Were More at Risk to Replicate Their Biological Parents’ Divorce Than Those of Their Adoptive Family

So far, research showed that offspring of divorced parents are more inclined to repeat their family’s history than those kids from two-parent households. A new paper that appeared in Psychological Science took a more in-depth look into this issue.

The reason why kids from broken marriages have higher chances to experience a divorce themselves might have little to do with the way their parents nurtured them. Instead, this destiny might be encoded directly into their genes.

An international team of scientists from Sweden and the United States was behind this study. They investigated data from 20,000 Swedish cases of adults who were adopted as kids. Their findings point out that this pool of grownups was more inclined to replicate the divorces their biological parents went through than the history of their adoptive family.

Lead author Jessica Salvatore, Ph.D., believes these observations are of great significance. They actually go against popular beliefs that blame parents of exposing their offspring to the experience of a divorce. However, this new paper contradicts this scenario and blames this behavioral heritage on genetics.

On the other hand, Salvatore doesn’t match a child’s love life to the example their parents set for them as divorced couples. However, this is merely a risk factor.

“We all bring liabilities into our relationships, whether we come from a happy, harmonious home or a troubled and fractured home.”

The Study Indicates that Divorced Couples Are the Result of a Plethora of Genetic, Environmental Factors

The study contains a secondary sample with 80,000 participants. This time, the cases regarded grownups with a biological mother and a stepfather.

The findings indicate that the participants’ divorce rates were influenced by their biological fathers, even though they didn’t share a home together. On the other hand, the mother’s relationship with stepfather was considered as an even more powerful influence in children’s love life.

Therefore, the study concludes that a divorce is the result of a cocktail of agents. Some of them have even genetic materials. Therefore, this is an indication for professionals who work with struggling or divorced couples to better consider how they formulate their guidance.

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Apple’s Watch 3 Aims at Being Crowned as Top Smart Fitness and Health Wearable

September 13, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Apple has finally announced some much-awaited news about its next flagship iPhone, called iPhone X. The presentation represented quite a remarkable event for the large community of enthusiasts who support this high-tech company. However, Apple has also gone to great length to develop its line of wearables. The Watch 3 receive numerous upgrades while the design is even sleeker. The new fitness and health features include intuitive activity coaching, services for swimmers, and a professional heart rate monitor.

Apple’s Watch 3 Offers A Larger Overview on Owners’ Heath Status

Apple has finally organized its annual fall hardware event in Cupertino, California which focused on new iPhone X, iOS 11, and Apple Watch. Some juicy details about the latter were released earlier in June. However, enthusiasts now have an official date when they can finally get one of these top-notch wearables for themselves. Apple will launch its new flagship watch on September 19.

The gadget has new cool features that can level up the fitness wearable industry to much higher grounds. For instance, one of its most innovative novelties is a heart rate app that can keep track of measurements.

Therefore, customers will always be informed about their history in resting heart rate, recovery heart rate. They will receive a notification whenever they experience a surge in heart rate even though they are inactive. This service is helpful for athletes, but also those people with irregular heart beat.

The Tech Giant Has Also Worked on a Connectivity Platform Called Gym Connect

To render best of performance, Apple has even started a collaboration with Stanford medicine and American Well. The company intends to find the ideal way for its Watch 3 to track down abnormal heart rhythms which lead to a condition called arrhythmia. In its turn, this can cause AFIB which is the leading cause of heart attack.

Another feature of interest for those who are following or want to enter the world of fitness is Gym Connect. This service enables users to connect to fitness gear such as a treadmill and extract any available workout data for tighter control over an active lifestyle.
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Dumped Orange Peels Represent the Cure to Barren Lands

September 1, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Most experimental studies are in a hurry to produce results. Therefore, time is not by their side. However, an intriguing conservation experiment went through a lawsuit after which it was forgotten. Nonetheless, its authors returned to it after several years to observe any signs of change. What they discovered was a luxuriant forest instead of a wasteland with dying nature. The secret to this transformation seems to be dumped orange peels.

Within Six Months, the Dumped Orange Peels Formed a Rich Layer of Organic Fertilizer over the Wasteland

In the mid-1990s, a team of researchers enrolled in a mission to find a cure for wastelands. Such barren spots lost their regenerative powers for various reasons to grow a forest. Therefore, they started off by asking a juice company called Del Oro to select a barren pasture in Costa Rica as the site to unload 1,000 trucks of 12,000 tones of orange waste.

While Princeton researchers Winnie Hallwachs and Daniel Janzen received tons of raw materials for their research, the company paid nothing to discard its waste. The land measured 3 acres of barren soil with seldom green spots on it. However, the experiment didn’t manage to survive more than two years.

Within six months, the dumped orange peels turned into a thick layer of organic fertilizer that covered the entire wasteland. However, the site presented itself not so charming for human’s senses. The material was gross but perfect for fly larvae.

A Judge Ordered the Evacuation of the Site which Remained Unaltered for 15 Years

A lawsuit followed the experiment as the location was in the proximity of the Guanacaste Conservation Area. Del Oro donated this land to the national park. Therefore, rival juice manufacturer TicoFruit sued Del Oro for defiling a national park. The Supreme Court ruled to address these allegations.

As a consequence, the experiment fell into oblivion for 15 years. In 2013, another Princeton ecologist Timothy Treuer visited the location for other matters. However, the only problem he encountered was finding the former wasteland. In its place, there was a luxurious vine-filled jungle.

Treuer’s team compared the Costa Rica former wasteland to a nearby control area which didn’t receive the orange peel treatment. The differences were obvious. However, scientists have now a new quest. They need to find out what exactly caused the dumped orange peels to regenerate a barren land in just 16 years.
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Trump Administration Refuses Helping Coal Industry Executive

August 24, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Trump administration has recently taken the first decision to go against the industry that the President believes in most, namely the coal industry. A prominent coal executive asked support to win an emergency order that would have protected power plants based on coal. However, the CEO didn’t receive the help Donald Trump promised in the first place.

The White House Supported the Energy Department in Its Decision to Refuse Issuing Emergency Order for Coal Industry

The Energy Department was in full process of weighing in the cons and pros of issuing a crucial order for coal players. All plants that produce massive energy yet are promoting air pollution face numerous environmental regulations that translate in market stress. In the end, the department considered the order as unnecessary. Contrary to what Donald Trump promised, the White House supported this decision.

The outcome of this process is a rare display of friction between the coal industry and the President of the United States. Donald Trump claimed numerous times that he believes the U.S. economy has nothing but to gain from promoting coal-based plants.

Murray Energy chief executive Robert Murray stated that President Donald Trump showed him his commitment to the coal market numerous times both public and private. The Executive released several letters that attest these details.

The text informed the president that his withdrawal from this agreement would render thousands of coal miners losing their jobs. On top of that, thousands more pensions would become vulnerable overnight. However, the White House did not identify the claims that the president was first on board with this as true or not.

On Tuesday, spokeswoman Kelly Love made a public statement where she claimed that this measure was not good enough to aid the coal industry. However, she reminded the public that Trump showed many signs of his support for miners. Some of these actions were the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, and repeal of the “Waters of the U.S. Rule” and the Clean Power Plant.

Murray Energy Wanted Two-Year Moratorium to Counteract the Fatal Side Effects of FirstEnergy Solutions Filing for Bankruptcy

Murray wanted Trump to take advantage of a rarely used U.S. Federal Power Act. This bill enables the Energy Department to intervene in case of a crisis like war or natural disaster. At the same time, power plants receive a temporary exemption from abiding by environmental laws.

Murray Energy was planning to use this federal intervention to activate a two-year moratorium on coal-based plant closures. In this case, the emergency crisis concerns a crucial customer, FirstEnergy Solutions, which is nearing a status of bankruptcy. This event would take Murray Energy down as well.
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U.S. Bipartisan Group to Propose Bill Regarding the Security of the Internet of Things

August 2, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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A group of U.S. senators decided to confront the vulnerabilities the Internet of Things trigger even at the level of governmental high-security institutions such as the Pentagon. The tech industry defines this system like the entirety of computing devices that serve the needs on a daily basis. Since all these tools are connected to the Internet, they can send and receive data. Therefore, the U.S. bipartisan group intends to strengthen global cyber security.

The U.S. Bipartisan Group Is Supporting a Paper Created by Harvard and Atlantic Council Experts

The proposal of the U.S. senators concerns vendors first and foremost. Those who are in direct partnership with the government will have to secure their Internet-connected products before moving them into the property of the state. This includes making sure the equipment can receive patches for any kind of issues and it is in alignment with industry security standards.

The new bill is going to create a safer cyber environment for the government. Another requirement is going to force vendors to discard devices with passwords that cannot be changed or any other tool that bears suspicions of security flaws.

The bipartisan group constitutes of Republicans Steve Daines and Cory Gardner and Democrats Ron Wyden and Mark Warner. However, the creators of the bill were actually professionals at the Atlantic Council and Harvard University.

Manufacturers Are Currently Free to Design Any Security Level They Want

Mark Warner stated that they are reviewing the bill to change it into the most seamless version possible. To his view, the legislation is but an answer to a market weakness. At the moment, there is no regulation to give manufacturers the incentive to build their products with security matters in mind.

On another note, the text will allow exceptions to the rule to address all possibilities. For instance, federal agencies will still have the possibility to acquire non-compliant devices. However, this will be possible only if the U.S. Office of Management and Budget will attest that there are other security measures instead such as network segmentations.

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Milky Way Might Share a Lot with Other Galaxies Thanks to Intergalactic Winds

July 30, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Even though there’s not a drop of air out there in cosmos, winds are still traveling the dark infinite at high speeds. Gas particles can reach hundreds of kilometers per second under the influence of supernovae. When stars explode, they can propel streams of photons that swipe gas along. Eventually, these projectiles can travel far and become intergalactic winds. Scientists believe that such phenomena had a saying in the genesis of our Milky Way.

Scientists Used Computer Simulations to Attest the Existence of Intergalactic Winds

Astronomers have been trying to decipher for decades the mechanism that puts galactic winds in motion. Daniel Anglés-Alcázar together with his colleagues at Northwestern University in Illinois started off such an ambitious mission from the process called wind recycling. This happens when the cosmic wind travels the void only for a part of it to be sucked back in. Scientists ran this kind of data in computer simulations to compare them with older versions. The results were surprising.

Their findings indicate that supernovae are powerful enough to eject fast winds of gas. In their turn, they can exit their parent galaxies, sign up for journey of billions of years across the intergalactic space until they enter a different galaxy. As a consequence, the new host can use the additional material to produce new stars.

Half of Our Milky Way May Be Created from Stardust from 1 Million Light-Years Away

The result of the research is a new niche in astronomy that was dubbed as an intergalactic transfer. Scientists observed a pattern according to which the intergalactic winds travel from smaller to larger galaxies such as Milky Way.

Based on the computer simulations, scientists extracted the conclusion that larger galaxies are 50% made of matter that was transported from a far away galaxy. As a consequence, more than half of our Milky Way consists of matter that pertains to another corner of the universe. Planets, the solar system, and even human beings can be made of stardust coming from 1 million light-years away.

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Michael Kors to Land an Appealing Shoe Deal with $1.2 Billion Investment in Jimmy Choo

July 25, 2017 By Amilia Allport Leave a Comment

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Bag and shoe company Jimmy Choo was the coveted prize during a recent auction. There were numerous international bidders that took part at this event. However, U.S. fashion brand Michael Kors was the winner of the shoe deal thanks to a $1.2 billion investment.

Jimmy Choo Has an 11 Year Expertise in the Shoe and Bag Market

Michael Kors is going to integrate one of the most notorious shoe companies in the world. The U.S. brand agreed to buy Jimmy Choo for £230 per share. Both bidder and Jimmy Cho directors who own only 1.3% of the company agreed that the shoe deal is final. However, the only way that would allow executives to change the terms of the agreement is the presence of a new offer that surpasses that from Kors.

Jimmy Choo went a long way to reach the position it has in today’s world. It all started off with a Hackey workshop that Malaysian designer Jimmy Choo opened in east London in 1996 together with Tamara Mellon. The latter was back then the editor of Vogue accessories. Nowadays, the small workshop turned into a world renowned brand that celebrities are dying to wear on red carpets. Its strappy stilettoes are a trade signature that has been the favorite of stars such as Beyonce or the Duchess of Cambridge.

The Shoe Deal Will Not Remove Pierre Denis from His Position of Chief Executive

JAB Luxury is one of the company’s main shareholders that decided to put the firm to auction back in April. JAB is the property of the Reimann family. They intend to redirect their 67.6% stake on other consumer goods such as edible products.

Despite the takeover, chief executive Pierre Denis will continue to run the company as he did since 2012. On top of that, he is allowed to keep creative director Sandra Choi and finance director Jonathan Sinclair by his side. The only major change concerns the founders and their loss of any right over the company.

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