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Gut-on-a-chip: researchers mimic the essential functions of your 25-foot-long intestinal tract on a silicon chip the size of your thumb. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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“One of the stupidest phrases in the English language is ‘He died doing what he loved,’” says Chris Welsh, the millionaire adventurer who will pilot the Virgin Oceanic sub to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. He'll rely on an experimental, high-tech sub to keep him alive. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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She went blind at age 14, and learned to program by sense of touch. When she got a job at IBM Tokyo she set out to bring the Web to the blind. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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One of Taiwan's brightest engineering minds explains his proudest achievement: creating those tweaked Taiwanese news animations. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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This year, a robotic exoskeleton that allows paraplegic people to walk again hits the market. Article + video. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Why companies like Apple, Intel, and HP suddenly got very interested in Congo's bloody civil war: a new law on "conflict minerals." (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Pro Tip: Don’t Fall in the Thames (lastwordonnothing.com)

submitted 5 months ago by newsbeagle to science

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An authoritative, blow-by-blow account of what went wrong in the first 24 hours of the Fukushima nuclear accident. Find out just how close they came to averting catastrophe. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Experts: 30 years till Japan can close nuke plant (usatoday.com)

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North Korea is ready to join the world market, and wants Coke and KFC to invest in its moribund economy. Here's a great article on a recent "soft-drink summit" between a Coke investor and the DPRK. (forbes.com)

submitted 7 months ago by newsbeagle to worldnews

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When Chinese engineers set out to build the deepest diving research sub in the world, they had never actually seen a submersible--"We had only read some reference papers that had pictures." (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Reporters explore Gadhafi's internet monitoring headquarters in Tripoli, browse dossiers about Libyan activists' activities. (Most of the article is behind the WSJ's paywall, but it's easy to find on Google news.) (online.wsj.com)

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Wow -- Chinese propaganda video includes a clip of a cyber attack by the "Electrical Engineering University of China’s People’s Liberation Army.” (blog.english.caing.com)

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Russia's first floating nuclear power plant is seized by court order -- but for reasons that have nothing to do with safety or environmental concerns. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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TED Talk: A cheap, low cost system for shooting down Mosquitoes with lasers at home and in the Developing World. It can track insects in flight, distinguish harmless insects from harmful ones, and is built only using off-the-shelf consumer electronic components. by TheZorchin technology

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The strange but true tale of Gary McKinnon, an autistic hacker who busted into U.S. military networks... on a quest to find UFO secrets. He faces up to 70 years in prison. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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How NOAA scientists predict the hurricane season's storm count -- with satellites and supercomputers. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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While the Syrian police have cracked down on protesters in the streets, a hacker group called the Syrian Electronic Army is cracking down on protesters on Facebook. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Q&A with a former head of the Fukushima Dai-1 nuclear power plant. One interesting/troubling detail: he's seriously worried about the structural integrity of the spent fuel pools. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Yuri Gagarin's speech after returning from the first manned mission to orbit. Including: "My state of being during the entire period of weightlessness was superb." (theatlantic.com)

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20 myths about Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight, including: Yuri's spacecraft had a self-destruct button; Yuri was later assassinated; and the whole mission was a hoax. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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What scientists hope to get out of Richard Branson's "Virgin Oceanic" missions, in which a manned sub will explore the deepest parts of the ocean. (nature.com)

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Here's why Japan has had rolling blackouts since the earthquake & tsunami: its fragmented electricity grid can't cope. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Nuclear risk expert believes that Fukushima Dai-1's nuclear fuel has leaked out of reactor vessels and is currently eating into the concrete floors of the primary containment structures. Sounds bad, but he says that's not the worst thing happening. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Can cutting-edge face recognition technology tell the difference between identical twins? Biometrics researchers head to the Twin Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio to find out. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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