A slap in Lebanon’s face

Source: Asharq Alawsat

Diana Moukalled is a prominent and well respected TV journalist in the Arab world, thanks to her phenomenal show "Bil Ayn Al Mojarada" (By The Naked Eye), a series of documentaries around controversial areas and t ...
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Invisible coating waterproofs electronics

Source: Military Times

The Defense Department spends big bucks “hardening” individual electronic devices that allow Marines who operate around water to coordinate movements and call in close-air support in the surf and rain. One company is revolution ...
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Scientists capture rainbow using 25,000 miniscule 'invisibility cloaks

Source: Daily Mail - UK

While the idea of an invisibility cloak may seem more science fiction than actual science, a group of American researchers are well on their way. Researchers from Towson University and the University of Maryland use ...
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Bangalore: Experts to explain Venus transit

Source: DNA India

As the world is going to witness one of the rarest celestial events, transit of Venus, on June 6, a group of amateur astronomers wants to educate the public on this and promote astronomy. “The transit will occur at dawn and we will be p ...
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 26

Source: Wired

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning a ...
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Face Transplant UCLA: New Program Replaces Devastated Faces (PHOTOS)

Source: The Huffington Post

Imagine going from having no face to having someone else's face. Face transplantation is the process of removing part or all of a donor's face and attaching it onto a patient who has suffered devastating facial in ...
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Don't miss June's rare transit of Venus

Source: Astronomy.com

Venus will cross the Sun’s face June 5/6 for the last time in 105 years. Venus' small black disk will transit the Sun on June 5/6, offering most earthbound observers a view similar to this one from 2004. On the afternoon of June 5, people ...
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A closer look at bladder cancer

Source: FindLaw: Attorney Blog

Readers in Alabama are well aware of the ongoing product liability litigation between Takeda Pharmaceuticals and former users of the drug maker's type 2 diabetes drug Actos. The patients all developed bladder cancer a ...
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Sic Transit Venus

Source: Scientific American

One brisk wintry day in 1639, a young man named Jeremiah Horrocks — barely 20 — set up a telescope in his quarters near Preston, England and focused an indirect image of the sun onto a small card. Lack of fi ...
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