2015-05-25 Malaysia Science

Grand Forks Herald   

Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs allow precise, smooth movement   
Grand Forks Herald
Patient Erik Sorto takes a drink in this handout photo taken April 2015, provided by Lance Hayashida/Caltech. REUTERS/Spencer Kellis and Christian Klaes, Caltech/Handout via Reuters. Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs allow precise, smooth movement.
Paralyzed Man Drinks Beer with Help of Mind Reading Robot   GOOD Magazine
Brain implant senses 'intent' to move robotic arm   The Sun Daily
New neural implant reads a person's intentions to control robotic arm   Ars Technica (blog)
Design & Trend   
Huffington Post   
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CTV News   

Is it a UFO? Sun halo sparks fear and jokes in Mexico   
CTV News
MEXICO CITY - Was it a UFO? A sign that the end is nigh? A rainbow-like halo surrounded the sun over Mexico City on Thursday, an optical phenomenon that triggered a social media frenzy of pictures and jokes about the end of the world. Some weren't so ...

Halo Around Sun Dazzles Mexico City   Huffington Post
Solar halo captivates stargazers   Belfast Telegraph

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Stuff.co.nz   

It's finally 2015 - man breaks hoverboard record   
Stuff.co.nz
Catalin Alexandru Duru becomes the first person ever to break the Guinness World Records Title for the Farthest journey by hoverboard. It's finally 2015! This is the year that Marty McFly travelled to in Back to the Future II; this is, for real, the future. Hence ...

Canadian Catalin Duru breaks world record for furthest hoverboard flight   BBC News
Canadian sets record for farthest flight by hoverboard   Toronto Sun
Montreal man sets world record for furthest flight by hoverboard   CTV News
CBC.ca   
HardOCP (press release)   
Guinness World Records   
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Empire State Tribune   

Rare “Naked” Star has Scientists Awed   
Empire State Tribune
Sometimes space may seem scary, even violent. This is what has driven scientists to call a new star discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope as “Nasty 1.” This is because the start is quite different from our own star, the Sun. Nasty 1, unlike most stars, has ...

This Wolf-Rayet Star Is Like Nothing Astronomers Have Ever Seen - The News ...   Gazette Herald
This Wolf-Rayet Star Is Like Nothing Astronomers Have Ever Seen   The News Ledge
Hubble discovers BL**DY NASTY cannibal star 3000 light-years away from Earth   Inferse
The Daily Galaxy (blog)   
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