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Horrible Flesh Eating Parasite Could Get a Vaccine One Day
Image: CDC/ Dr. D.S. Martin Being healthy is good. That is what we should all aspire to be: Not dead, but with all of our flesh on our bodies intact. Unfortunately for us humans, having our flesh eaten is one of the possible side effects of being alive. Anyway, scientists at Georgia Tech interested in…
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‘I Was in Severe Pain’: Lawsuit Alleges Illegal Electronic Searches and Physical Violence at US Border
Photo: Getty Americans who say their phones and laptops were seized by US border agents filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts on Wednesday arguing that their First and Fourth Amendment rights had been violated. Eleven plaintiffs, including journalists, a military veteran, an independent filmmaker, and a NASA engineer, contend that they were detained at the US…
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Ford Funded That Weirdo in a Car Seat Costume Who Pretended to Be a Self-Driving Car
GIF GIF Source: Ford At first, it seemed to be a quirky prank—a man was driving around town dressed up like a car seat and convincing people his car had no one at the wheel. Then we learned that it was all a shadowy research project by Virginia Tech. And now we know that Ford…
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Citing Russian Ties, Homeland Security Boots Kaspersky Software From Government Agencies
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, participates in a panel discussion during day 3 of the 48th Munich Security Conference at Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 5, 2012 in Munich, Germany. (Photo: Getty) American government agencies are now banned from using software created by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab and will have to begin…
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Every Room in My House Needs a Voice-Tracking, Licorice-Launching Catapult
GIF If there was a downside to snacking on candy at the office all day, it would be the inconvenience of having to interrupt your work to actually fetch some processed sugar. It’s a pain that hacker Vije Miller knew all to well, until he built a licorice-launching catapult that automatically flings candy in the…
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UN chief calls situation Rohingya catastrophic
NEW YORK – UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, the authorities of Myanmar Wednesday called for military action to suspend the violence against the Rohingya muslims to an end. The humanitarian situation is now “catastrophic”, said Guterres in a press conference. According to the UN-ceo, is the crisis in the buddhist-dominated country and destabilising. The displacement of…
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Five deaths due to suicide attack in mosque
YAOUNDÉ – By a suicide attack in a mosque in the north of Cameroon are Wednesday, five believers who are praying for the life to come. According to the authorities walked a young girl with a bomgordel to go inside and blew themselves out. The action bears all the hallmarks of the islamic terrorist organisation…
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Wounded in Toulouse after the attack dolleman
Toulouse – In the French city of Toulouse are Wednesday night, seven people were injured when they were attacked by a man a year or forty. According to the witness he screamed Allahu Akbar while he was on unsuspecting passers-by jump. That report French media. Nearby agents could the man quickly arrested. The situation is…
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Scientists have learned to turn cells into stem cells by using antibodies
Stem cells represent a generic item, from which the body builds tissue and organs. Immature stem cells are able to renew themselves, to divide and further differentiate into specialized cells. Ten years ago, scientists made a very important discovery: they managed to reprogram skin cells through the introduction in their DNA certain genes, so that…
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Astronomers figured out why galaxies have different form
In 1926, the famous astronomer Edwin Hubble developed a morphological classification of galaxies. This method divided the galaxies into three basic groups – elliptical, spiral and lenticular. Since then, astronomers have devoted a significant amount of time and effort to find out how galaxies have been evolving for several billion years and why they acquire…