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Remotely hacking a pacemaker or insulin pump should be impossible, but sadly it isn’t. It puts the millions of people who use wireless medical implants at potential risk. Researchers at Rice University believe they have a solution: a touch-based device that will use a person’s own heartbeat as a password to permit or deny access to their implant.
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Swedish flat-pack furniture giant IKEA will start selling residential solar panels at its stores in Britain, the first step in its plan to bring renewable energy to the mainstream market worldwide.

The company started selling solar panels made by China’s Hanergy in its store in Southampton on Monday. It will sell them in the rest of Britain in coming months, it said.

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In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice.
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Derrick, Thomson and Thompson, Magnum, and Poirot are the newest recruits at a Dutch police department. These Rotterdam rats have been trained to keep the streets clean and are expected to save the police both time and money.

Police inspector Monique Hamerslag is in charge of the project, which is overseen by Mark Wiebes, head of the police “innovation” center. In a statement to AFP, Wiebes said, “As far as we know we’re the first in the world to train rats to be used in police investigations.”
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NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, who since May has been working as a flight engineer as a member of the orbiting outpost’s resident crew, revealed the toy dinosaur floating on the space station on Thursday.

“Made in space!” Nyberg, an Expedition 37 crew member, exclaimed in her caption for a photo of the toy giant lizard that she uploaded to the … Read More → "Rawwr! Astronaut creates a toy dinosaur from space station scraps"

When Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí was tragically killed by a train in 1926, he was in the middle of building of his masterpiece—the Barcelona basilica, Sagrada Familia. Eighty-six years later, the church still isn’t complete. But according to Jordi Faulí, the current architect on the magnificent life-sized sand castle, it’ll be done by 2026. This is what it’s going to … Read More → "Here’s how Sagrada Familia will look when it’s finally done in 2026"

At any given time, upwards of 100,000 people across the US are awaiting an organ transplant — and now some of them have figured out how to jump to the front of the line. By launching online petitions or soliciting donors on Facebook, some patients are able to find an organ they desperately need faster than conventional means usually allow.

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Reports in August gave the world a new word in the intelligence lexicon: LOVEINT, the act of illicitly looking up a significant other with the NSA’s surveillance tech. The offenses weren’t supposed to be common, but a steady trickle of them were said to have been revealed over the years. And now, a letter sent to Senator Chuck Grassley ( … Read More → "The NSA reveals how many analysts abused its database to spy on their lovers"