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Rolls-Royce reckons robot cargo ships are the future of the seas  

A million pirates yelled 'splice the mainbrace, me hearty!'

Comment Rolls-Royce and the Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) believe the future of cargo transportation is autonomous and they have published an 88 page white paper (PDF) to prove it.…

 
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New ISS crew will spend their time bombarding computers with radiation  

And seeing what happens to your bones in zero-G

Three new astronauts currently rocketing up to space in the Soyuz spacecraft will be conducting new experiments, including sequencing DNA and blasting computers with radiation.…

 
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The Art and Business of Creating Life-Like Baby Dolls  

Jean Campbell is dedicated to her craft—building “reborn” dolls that bear a shocking resemblance to real-life babies. In this short documentary, Reborning, Campbell explains the meticulous process of creating these dolls, and her motivations behind doing so. She says goal for the finished product is to have a doll that is indistinguishable from the real thing: "You want it to be so real-looking that heads turn and say, 'Oh what a beautiful baby, can I hold it?'"

The film is produced, directed, and edited by Yael Bridge and Helen Hood Scheer, who also served as cinematographer. Bridge is currently working on the feature-length documentary Saving Capitalism, and Scheer is an Assistant Professor at California State University Long Beach in the Department of Film and Electronic Arts.

 
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Photos of the Day: July 8, 2016  

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Photos of the Week 7/2-7/8 (35 photos)  

Tears for Alton Sterling, haute-couture fashion, a swollen river in China, a rocket to the International Space Station, gorgeous goldfish, Eid al-Fitr in a 14th century mosque, lightning strikes the Las Vegas strip,  and much more.

 
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r0B0t: AI system sifts through drinker feedback to make tastier beer - Inquirer  

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AI system sifts through drinker feedback to make tastier beer Inquirer ROBOT-MADE BEER is now a thing thanks to the IntelligentX Brewing Company, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to fine-tune beer to the taste buds of piss heads connoisseurs. The brewer joined forces with machine learning company Intelligent Layer ... This beer has been brewed with an AIAlphr Your next bottle of beer could well be brewed by an artificial intelligenceT3 Beer brewed with the help of AI? Yup, that's now a thingWired.co.uk CNET -Science World Report -Forbes -Engadget all 11 news articles »

 
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German aeronautical inventor, was born July 8, 1838.

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Does the UK comparatively underinvests in meningitis research?  
Recent research by the UK's Wellcome Trust ¹ suggests that when it comes to infectious disease, the UK is not proportionately investing public funds in meningitis research as much as it should. And it hasn't been for a long time.



In the Research Investments (ResIn) in Global Health report, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, meningitis is shown to be the 5th largest communicable disease killer (303,500 deaths globally in 2013), but only ranks 17th for public investments proportionate to the number of deaths caused by the disease in that same year.

The UK's average spend per infectious disease death is over 10 times higher across all causes than it is for meningitis. We spend only £29 on meningitis compared to an average of £337 for all causes combined.

Total UK research investments from public bodies and research charities into infectious diseases between 1997 and 2013 totalled over £3.7 billion.

Of this, meningitis received just £91m - or 2.4% of the total.

This 2.4% is for a disease that consistently ranks in the UK as the condition parents most want their children vaccinated against.

Our course, this study is only part of the picture. It does not include investments from the private sector - most notably pharmaceutical companies. A total picture would be very useful. But it is a good window into where public and charity money is going now.

Meningitis Research Foundation and our incredible supporters do everything possible to make sure meningitis research is a priority in this country. With their support, we have invested nearly £20 million in research over the past 30 years. But elsewhere in the public domain, I am increasingly worried that meningitis is somehow slipping into the 'job done' category in the UK and nothing could be further from the truth.

Some of my fears will be tested next Monday when we await news from the Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation (JCVI) about whether they have recommended the MenB vaccine for extension to under 2 year olds. If it isn't it will be interesting to hear on what grounds.

At the same time we still await detailed plans for the teenage evaluation of the MenB vaccine despite the JCVI recommending this two years ago. And we want to know when the cost effectiveness working party recommendations will be made public so everyone can see and question whether these are fair.

So we're a long way from eradicating this dreadful disease and this is no time for the UK to take its foot off the gas. It's time to put the money, and action, where the facts indicate they should go.

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¹Research Investments in Global Health: A Systematic Analysis of UK Infectious Disease Research Funding and Global HealthMetrics, 1997-2013, Head et al, 2015, published in EBiomedicine
²Called Investment per mortality observed.

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How Was Your Day ... Tough Mudder Obstacle Director?  
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Why a Former Olympic Athlete Wants to Kill Your Password  
Dylan Casey has competed for Olympic gold. Now he has a new goal: Steer Yahoo back on course.  
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This printer gives me hope that one day I might own a cute printer  

Printers are ugly. Big time ugly. They also haven't changed much over time. It's not like we went from a cuddly soft printer to a more industrial one — they've always looked cold and unlovable. A man named Ludwig Rensch envisioned a new kind of printer that challenges old standards. Take that, old printers. His design experiment, Paper, is a copier, scanner, and printer that looks like a thing I would willfully put in my house. Check it out in the photos below and the video above.

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This isn't the first time someone has attempted to make a pretty printer. In 2013 there was the Little Printer, which was definitely high up on the cute scale but no longer exists. Samsung also created t...

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Cities can decouple pollution from growth  
This piece is co-authored by Bettina Kamuk, Global Market Director, Ramboll Energy

From July 10 decision makers from all over the world gather at the World Cities Summit in Singapore. Waste-to-energy plants and other smart approaches can help them save money while at the same time create a more sustainable environment.



On the small Copenhagen island Amager where I work in Ramboll Headquarters, we are helping to build a spectacular plant. On the outside, the Copenhill waste-to-energy facility has climbing walls and ski slopes. Inside it raises the bar for resource optimisation with an energy efficiency of 107% and high potential for recycling and recovery.

On a somewhat bigger Island, Pulau Ujung where the majority of Singapore's citizens live, we are helping to build another plant that is spectacular in other ways: It will be the world's largest of its kind, and integrated with an adjacent water reclamation plant to fully exploit the synergies between waste and wastewater treatment.

Waste-to-energy-plants like these are one of the solutions to the global growth challenge, as identified by NGOs such as the World Wildlife Fund: A paradox at this point in history is that cities are requiring so many resources yet producing so little - aside from a lot of waste.


Waste-to-energy generates renewable energy to a city and recovers metals from bottom ash. The technology is therefore one of the hot topics on the World Cities Summit 2016 in Singapore. The summit will explore how cities can better govern and build resilience through policy, technology and social innovations.

One way for cities to succeed and attract new citizens is to coordinate better between political administrations and combine with for example innovative water technology. According to a Harvard University Study, the use of trees, plants and open spaces - so called green infrastructure - can not only reduce floods and water pollution but also provide many benefits for public health, local communities, and the environment.

If combined with canals and other waterways - so-called blue-green infrastructure - the benefits are even larger, as cities such as Singapore and Greater Copenhagen have learned. However, the first thing to ensure if cities want their inhabitants to thrive is to decouple pollution from growth - and thereby making it possible to reduce air and water pollution while enabling growth. It can be done not only in the Western world, but also in for example Middle Eastern cities such as Jeddah and Indian cities such as Udaipur.

Experience has shown that you get the best results if your approach is trans-disciplinary - and if your long term planning integrates green energy, climate adaptation and other necessary sustainable steps early in the construction of building or infrastructure.

If cities manage to adapt this holistic approach, they will be able to save money and at the same time reduce inconvenience and create a more sustainable environment. Just like Copenhagen and Singapore are doing it with the two future waste-to-energy plants.

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Frogs that can take the heat expected to fare better in a changing world  
Amphibians that tolerate higher temperatures are likely to fare better in a world affected by climate change, disease and habitat loss, according to two recent studies.  
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Marine heatwave triggers dramatic ecosystem transition  
Rapid warming off the western coast of Australia has transformed large stretches of kelp forests into tropical and subtropical marine ecosystems, a new study reports.  
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What An Hour Of Emotion Makes Visible  

Kim was an accomplished doctor with plenty of friends. But a few pulses from an electromagnet to her brain at age 54 made her reconsider how she sees herself — and the world.

 
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Dishonesty is aggressively punished in the world of paper wasps  

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A sharper focus for plasmonic lasers  

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In the past decade, researchers have attempted to miniaturize photonic technologies for dense integration onto tiny semiconductor chips. To that end, they are seeking to develop even smaller nanolasers, of which plasmonic lasers are the tiniest. Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to induce plasmonic lasers to emit a narrow beam of light by adapting a technique called distributed feedback. This unique ability of plasmonic lasers makes them attractive for potential applications in integrated (on-chip) optics, for transporting large swathes of data on-chip and between neighboring chips, and for ultrafast digital information processing.

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Idiot brings gun-shaped iPhone to airport  

If only his dad had been firing blanks

Pic Cops at Stansted airport in Essex, UK, couldn't believe their eyes when a passenger turned up for a flight with what looked like a gun in his bag.…

 
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