Textilproducenter i Bangladesh har gått med på att höja arbetarnas minimilöner, efter möten med landets premiärminister.

En 19-årig man fördes till sjukhus med ambulanshelikopter efter att ha kört in i ett träd vid väg 160 på Orust strax innan klockan 16.

rtoz writes "MIT researchers have found that adding genetically modified viruses to the production of nanowires will boost the performance of lithium-air battery used in electric cars. The key to their work was to increase the surface area of the wire, thus increasing the area where electrochemical activity takes place during charging or discharging of the battery (abstract). The increase in surface area produced by their method can provide a big advantage in lithium-air batteries' rate of charging and discharging. Unlike conventional fabrication methods, which involve energy-intensive high temperatures and hazardous chemicals, this process can be carried out at room temperature using a water-based process."

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Rob Ford refuses to step down as Toronto mayor despite having admitted to smoking crack cocaine during "drunken stupor".

Borta i 100 år.

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Nerval's Lobster writes "University of Toronto researchers have demonstrated an invisibility cloak that hides objects within an electromagnetic field, rather than swaddling it in meta-materials as other approaches require. Instead of covering an object completely in an opaque cloak that then mimics the appearance of empty air, the technique developed by university engineering Prof. George Eleftheriades and Ph.D. candidate Michael Selvanayagam makes objects invisible using the ability of electromagnetic fields to redirect or scatter waves of energy. The approach is similar to that of 'stealth' aircraft whose skin is made of material that absorbs of the energy from radar systems and deflects the rest away from the radar detectors that sent them. Rather than scattering radio waves passively due to the shape of its exterior, however, the Toronto pair's 'cloak' deflects energy using an electromagnetic field projected by antennas that surround the object being hidden. Most of the proposals in a long list of 'invisibility cloaks' announced during the past few years actually conceal objects by covering them with an opaque blanket, which becomes 'invisible' by displaying an image of what the space it occupies would look like if neither the cloak nor the object it concealed were present. An invisibility cloak concealing an adolescent wizard hiding in a corner, for example, would display an image of the walls behind it in an effort to fool observers into thinking there was no young wizard present to block their view of the empty corner. 'We've taken an electrical engineering approach, but that's what we are excited about,' Eleftheriades said in a public announcement of the paper's publication. (The full text is available as a free PDF here.)"

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Det laboratorium som hanterade proverna i samband med den så kallade cellprovsskandalen i Jämtland 2012 var inte ackrediterat, det vill säga kvalitetssäkrat, enligt SVT:s Uppdrag granskning.

Psykiatrin i Region Halland får kritik av Inspektionen för vård och omsorg för den avlidne riksdagsledamoten William Petzälls död, uppger bt.

En flicka överfölls vid 17-tiden på onsdagen i en gångtunnel i Piteå.

Turkiet återupptar utredningen av vad som hände när 33 kurdiska bybor dog i ett flyganfall 1994.

PERSPEKTIV Timosjenkos frigivning absolut villkor för EU.

cartechboy writes "A new survey out this week says that the number of motorists who surf the Web has nearly doubled over the past four years. In 2009, 13 percent of motorists admitted that they'd accessed the Internet while driving. In 2013, that figure had jumped to 24 percent. Smartphones are the primary culprit, making the unsafe task even easier. Other distracted driving behavior is on the rise, too, and younger drivers are the biggest issue — 76 percent of motorists 18 to 29 said that they talked on a hand-held cell phone while driving. 70 percent said they were texting. Keep in mind we have states legislating smartphone use task by task, which clearly doesn't help."

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