You know kaiju, right? Those Japanese-style monsters now have their own watering hole, which serves booze and eats. There’s an important rule, though: No superheroes allowed. Don’t you dare break it! Read more…
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Get Drunk with Kaiju at This New Japanese Bar
In a surprising breakthrough for the world of materials science, researchers have created some of the world’s most powerful artificial muscles we’ve ever seen. And they did it with simple fishing line. These freakishly strong and cheap muscles could revolutionize robotics, and perhaps one day our own bodies. Read more…
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Scientists just created some of the most powerful muscles in existence
Life is hard for soldiers in the battlefield, so when the troops want something that might make things a little more bearable—say, a particular food item in their meal rations—the military listens. And right now, soldiers want pizza. They want it bad . And it looks like they’re finally going to get it. Read more…
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The Army’s Perfecting a Pizza That Lasts for Years and Years
Scientists from Penn State University have just taken us a major step closer to a Fantastic Voyage future. For the first time ever, researchers have controlled the movements of living cells by inserting tiny synthetic motors directly inside them. Read more…
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Researchers control nanomotors inside living cells for the first time
Technologically speaking, smaller is virtually always better. So it’s perhaps no surprise that scientists have developed the first ever single-molecule LED . But why is it potentially such a big deal? Read more…
Sure, early hominins used fire for upwards of a million years. But when did early hominins start acting like humans—for example, cooking in the same spot each night? The new discovery of an old ( really old) hearth at an Israeli dig site could hold the answer. Read more…
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Archaeologists Uncover 300,000-Year-Old Kitchen in Israeli Cave
In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , researchers recount the fascinating case of an electrician who, after sustaining a 14, 000-volt shock to his left shoulder , presented with “bilateral stellate anterior subcapsular opacities of the lens.” Translation: Starburst-shaped cataracts. Read more…
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A 14,000-volt electrical shock gave this man star-shaped cataracts
An anonymous reader writes “GNU MacChanger’s developer has found by chance that The Coca-Cola company got a range of MAC addresses allocated at the OUI, the IEEE Registration Authority in charge of managing the MAC addresses spectrum. What would Coca-Cola want around 16 million MAC addresses reserved? What are they planning to use them for? Could this part of a strategy around the Internet-of-things concept?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses
Nerval’s Lobster writes “Commercial package-delivery drones such as those revealed by Amazon and DHL could face danger from more than shotgun-toting, UAV-hunting yahoos following the successful test of a drone-killing laser by the U.S. Army. Though it’s more likely to take aim at enemy observation drones than Amazon’s package-deliver ‘copters, the U.S. Army’s High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL-MD) did prove itself in tests last week by shooting down 90 incoming mortars and a series of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The original goal during the test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was to burn out or blow up mortar rounds and blind the cameras or other sensors carried by drones. The laser proved capable enough to damage or slice off the tails of target drones, which brought them down, according to Terry Bauer, HEL MD program manager, as quoted in the Dec. 11 Army announcement of the test. The quarter-sized beam of super-focused light set off the explosives in the 60-millimeter mortars in mid-flight, leaving the rest to fall ‘like a rock, ‘ Bauer said. The laser could target only one mortar at a time, but could switch targets quickly enough to bring down several mortars fired in a single volley. The laser and its power source are contained in a single 500-horsepower, four-axle truck but was directed by a separate Enhanced Multi Mode Radar system. The next step is a move from New Mexico to a testing range in Florida early next year ‘to test it in ran and fog and things like that, ‘ according to Bauer.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test
theodp writes “Code.org, backed by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, boasts in a blog post that thanks to this week’s Hour of Code, which featured a Blockly tutorial narrated by Gates and Zuckerberg, ‘More students have participated in computer science in U.S. schools in the last three days than in the last 100 years.’ Taking note of the impressive numbers being put up on the Hour of Code Leaderboards (’12, 522, 015 students have done the Hour of Code and written 406, 022, 512 lines of code’), the Seattle Times adds that ‘More African American and Hispanic kids learned about the subject in two days than in the entire history of computer science, ‘ and reports that the cities of Chicago and New York have engaged Code.org to offer CS classes in their schools. So, isn’t it a tad hyperbolic to get so excited over kids programming with blocks? ‘Yes, we can all agree that this week’s big Hour of Code initiative is a publicity stunt, ‘ writes the Mercury News’ Mike Cassidy, ‘but you know what? A publicity stunt is exactly what we need.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years