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Science X Newsletter Monday, Oct 20

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Here is your customized Phys.org Newsletter for October 20, 2014:


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Spotlight Stories Headlines
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BEST OF LAST WEEK – FIRST MAP OF HIDDEN UNIVERSE, PURSUIT OF COMPACT FUSION AND NEW CLUES ABOUT THE CAUSES OF DEPRESSION
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-week-hidden-universe-pursuit-compact.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SERIOUS SECURITY: DEVICE-INDEPENDENT QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION GUARDS AGAINST THE MOST GENERAL ATTACKS
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-device-independent-quantum-key.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
RESEARCHERS BUILD REVERSIBLE TRACTOR BEAM THAT MOVES OBJECTS 100 TIMES FARTHER THAN OTHER EFFORTS
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-reversible-tractor-efforts.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SEE-THROUGH
, ONE-ATOM-THICK, CARBON ELECTRODES POWERFUL TOOL TO STUDY BRAIN DISORDERS
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-see-through-one-atom-thick-carbon-electrodes-powerful.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
MENTAL REST AND REFLECTION BOOST LEARNING, STUDY SUGGESTS
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-mental-rest-boost.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
WILD MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS IN A NEW HYDROGEN MIXTURE
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-wild-molecular-interactions-hydrogen-mixture.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SCIENTISTS RESTORE HEARING IN NOISE-DEAFENED MICE, POINTING WAY TO NEW THERAPIES
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-scientists-noise-deafened-mice-therapies.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
ROUNDED CRYSTALS THAT MIMIC STARFISH SHELLS COULD ADVANCE 3-D PRINTING PILLS
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-rounded-crystals-mimic-starfish-shells.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
HEAVY METAL FROST? A NEW LOOK AT A VENUSIAN MYSTERY
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-heavy-metal-frost-venusian-mystery.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
AN ANDROID OPERA: JAPAN'S SHIBUYA PLOTS NEW ERA OF ROBOT MUSIC
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-android-opera-japan-shibuya-plots.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
WARMING EARTH HEADING FOR HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD (UPDATE)
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-planet-hottest-september.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
USER-FRIENDLY
ELECTRONIC 'EYECANE' ENHANCES NAVIGATIONAL ABILITIES FOR THE BLIND
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-user-friendly-electronic-eyecane-abilities.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
MASSIVE DEBRIS PILE REVEALS RISK OF HUGE TSUNAMIS IN HAWAII
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-massive-debris-pile-reveals-huge.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
NEW STUDY DEMONSTRATES ADVANCES IN CREATING TREATMENT FOR COMMON CHILDHOOD BLOOD CANCER
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-advances-treatment-common-childhood-blood.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
BRAIN ACTIVITY PROVIDES EVIDENCE FOR INTERNAL 'CALORIE COUNTER'
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-brain-evidence-internal-calorie-counter.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter


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Latest News On TECHNOLOGY:
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KICKSTARTER SUSPENDS PRIVACY ROUTER CAMPAIGN
Kickstarter has suspended an anonymizing router from its crowdfunding site. By Sunday, the page for "anonabox: A Tor hardware router" carried an extra word "(Suspended)" in parentheses with a banner below stating "Funding for this project was suspended 2 days ago."
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-kickstarter-privacy-router-campaign.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

JAPAN FIRM SHOWCASES BAT-SIGNAL OF THE FUTURE
A free-floating image created by firing lasers into thin air was unveiled in Japan on Monday, offering the possibility one day of projecting messages into a cloudless sky, as seen in Batman.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-japan-firm-showcases-bat-signal-future.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

NEW 100 GBPS HIGH-SPEED TRANSATLANTIC NETWORK TO BENEFIT SCIENCE COLLABORATIONS
Scientists across the U.S. will soon have access to new, ultra high-speed network links spanning the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to a project currently underway to extend ESnet (the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network) to London, Amsterdam and Geneva. Although the project is designed to benefit data-intensive science throughout the U.S. national laboratory complex, heaviest users of the new links will be particle physicists conducting research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle collider. The high capacity of this new connection will provide U.S. scientists with enhanced access to data at the LHC and other European-based experiments by accelerating the exchange of data sets between institutions in the U.S. and computing facilities in Europe.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-high-speed-transatlantic-network-benefit-science.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

USER-FRIENDLY ELECTRONIC 'EYECANE' ENHANCES NAVIGATIONAL ABILITIES FOR THE BLIND
White Canes provide low-tech assistance to the visually impaired, but some blind people object to their use because they are cumbersome, fail to detect elevated obstacles, or require long training periods to master. Electronic travel aids (ETAs) have the potential to improve navigation for the blind, but early versions had disadvantages that limited widespread adoption. A new ETA, the "EyeCane," developed by a team of researchers at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, expands the world of its users, allowing them to better estimate distance, navigate their environment, and avoid obstacles, according to a new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-user-friendly-electronic-eyecane-abilities.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

AN ANDROID OPERA: JAPAN'S SHIBUYA PLOTS NEW ERA OF ROBOT MUSIC
Life and death, surveillance and privacy, humans and robots: Keiichiro Shibuya likes to unsettle and push boundaries in music.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-android-opera-japan-shibuya-plots.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

SCIENTISTS TRACK INTERNET USAGE AS IT PULSES ACROSS THE GLOBE DAILY (W/ VIDEO)
Researchers studying how big the Internet is have found that it "sleeps," almost like a living creature.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-scientists-track-internet-usage-pulses.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

BLOCKS WILL GO BEYOND JUST IMAGINING A SNAP-TOGETHER SMARTWATCH
"Imagine countless blocks of cutting-edge technology, which you can snap together to build your own personal, unique wearable device..." such is the beckoning call of a modular concept in smartwatch assembly—not by the technician in a factory but by you, the owner. Just as the modular piece concept gained media attention with Google Project Ara, a team of engineers and designers behind Blocks have been working to provide a smartwatch wearable in customizable blocks form.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-blocks-snap-together-smartwatch.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

IBM TO PAY $1.5B TO SHED ITS COSTLY CHIP DIVISION
IBM will pay $1.5 billion to Globalfoundries in order to shed its costly chip division.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-ibm-15b-chip-division.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

STRONG IPHONE 6 DEMAND BOOSTS TAIWAN EXPORT ORDERS
Booming shipments of the iPhone 6 helped Taiwan's export orders jump 12.7 percent in September year-on-year to a record $43.3 billion, the government said Monday.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-strong-iphone-demand-boosts-taiwan.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

OUTSIDE THE CITIES AND TOWNS, RURAL BRITAIN'S INTERNET IS FIRMLY STUCK IN THE 20TH CENTURY
The quality of rural internet access in the UK, or lack of it, has long been a bone of contention. The government says "fast, reliable broadband" is essential, but the disparity between urban and rural areas is large and growing, with slow and patchy connections common outside towns and cities.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-cities-towns-rural-britain-internet.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

WHEN EMOTIONS CONTROL OBJECTS
Dimming a light, immersive playing on a computer, and tracking yoga exercises in real time – sensors developed by SmartCardia use various vital signs to transmit data to a host of everyday objects.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-emotions.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

ELECTROMOBILITY, EFFICIENT AND SAFE: VISIO.M CONSORTIUM PRESENTS NEW ELECTRIC CAR
An attractive electric vehicle at an affordable price that provides safety and comfort combined with a reasonable driving range: that was the goal of the Visio.M project. The participating researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen who put together the car in collaboration with specialists from industry are now unveiling it to the public.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-electromobility-efficient-safe-visiom-consortium.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

IBM 3Q DISAPPOINTS AS IT SHEDS 'EMPTY CALORIES'
IBM disappointed investors Monday, reporting weak revenue growth again and a big charge to shed its costly chipmaking division as the tech giant tries to steer its business toward cloud computing and social-mobile services. Shares fell more than 7 percent as investors sold off sharply and the stock dragged the Dow 30 into the red.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-ibm-profit-plunges-disposal-chip.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

FACEBOOK SUES LAW FIRMS, CLAIMS FRAUD
Facebook is suing several law firms that represented a man who claimed he owned half of the social network and was entitled to billions of dollars from the company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-facebook-sues-law-firms-fraud.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

NEW IPHONES DELIVER BIG PROFITS FOR APPLE (UPDATE)
The new big-screen iPhones helped propel Apple's profit and revenue in the past quarter, as the California tech giant delivered stronger-than-expected results.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-iphones-big-profits-apple.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

JAPAN MAN JAILED FOR MAKING GUNS WITH 3D PRINTER
A Japanese court on Monday jailed a man for two years for making guns with a 3D printer in what is believed to be a first in a nation with strict gun controls.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-japan-guns-3d-printer.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

TECHNOLOGY AND DATA ANALYTICS SHOULD TRANSFORM MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT, PROFESSORS SAY
Rarely is the term "city hall" considered synonymous with the words "innovation" or "efficiency." Too often, the public image of municipal government is of a static bureaucracy staffed with disinterested clock-watchers focused on petty tasks and arcane processes.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-technology-analytics-municipal-professors.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

FIRST-OF-A-KIND SUPERCRITICAL CO2 TURBINE
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will supply a first-of-a-kind supercritical CO2 turbine to a demonstration plant being built in Texas, USA. The plant will be developed by NET Power, LLC, a U.S. venture, together with CB&I, the most complete energy infrastructure focused company in the world, Exelon Corporation, one of the leading competitive energy providers in the U.S., and 8 Rivers Capital, the inventor of the unique supercritical CO2 power cycle that will be demonstrated by this plant. The turbine is an essential part of the system, and Toshiba will start delivering the key equipment in August 2016. The plant is expected to enter the commissioning stage later in 2016.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-first-of-a-kind-supercritical-co2-turbine.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

VATICAN'S MANUSCRIPTS DIGITAL ARCHIVE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT services provider, today announced its deployment of a new application for accessing and browsing the Vatican Apostolic Library's digital archive online, enabling people to view digital reproductions of more than 4,000 ancient manuscripts at the Library's website.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-vatican-manuscripts-digital-archive-online.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter




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