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What does a mummy smell like? Woodsy and sweet, with a 'note of pistachio'

Scientists have recreated the scent of the embalming fluid used to preserve a noblewoman more than 3,500 years ago — and they say it's quite lovely, indeed.



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Equity overload: Federal department keeps 294 DEI staffers on payroll, most with six-figure salaries

The Health and Human Services Department employs 294 people whose jobs focus on diversity, and the department maintains seven separate "minority health" offices spread across its various agencies, according to a new report that suggests it will be tough for the incoming Trump administration to unwind it all.




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Fired FEMA supervisor cites 'political hostility' as reason for avoiding homes with Trump lawn signs

The Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor who was fired after she told her staff to skip hurricane-damaged homes with Trump signs in their yards says it wasn't an isolated incident and is a "colossal event."




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UAPs return to Capitol Hill with joint House hearing on Wednesday

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena -- that's UAPs for short -- are the centerpiece of a hearing Wednesday co-conducted by the two subcommittees of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The joint hearing is titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth."




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Steven Witkoff chosen by Trump as special envoy to the Middle East

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Steven Witkoff to be special envoy to the Middle East, marking another key position for his incoming administration.




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Robot dog is making waves with its underwater skills

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson discusses how MAB Robotics' Honey Badger 4.0, a versatile robot, now walks underwater with amphibious skills.



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Score big on Amazon Black Friday 2024 with my insider tips

Amazon's Black Friday sales event starts Friday, Nov. 22. Kurt the CyberGuy offers some tips on how to get the best deals on merchandise.



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Davis Cup: Fognini draws Italy level with France at 1-1

… level with France in the Davis Cup quarterfinals Friday. The 20th-ranked Fognini … all five of his previous Davis Cup matches and beat Fognini recently ….




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Dive into Early Access with We Need to go Deeper

As our submersible descended, the waters grew darker around us. Looming teeth, some as long as a man’s leg, skirted the edge of our floodlights. The captain was sure this area held caves filled with golden bounty, but to those creatures of the deep it was our flesh and blood that were the true prizes… […]








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Exclusive: Liz Truss urged to act with Britain facing biggest loss of sports facilities in a generation




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British Athletics want 'open' category for transgender women to compete with men




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Only 23 per cent of Canadians have a healthy relationship with work; AI can help, says HP

Artificial intelligence can be the key to unlocking better relationships with work, HP revealed in its new Work Relationship Index (WRI) report. “AI represents a significant opportunity to transform our work dynamics and unlock a more positive and productive environment for all,” stated Dave Shull, president of HP Workforce Solutions at HP Inc.. “To foster […]

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Crocodiles baited with 'nausea-inducing chemical' to prevent them from eating toxic, invasive toad

Scientists in Australia are boosting the country's dwindling freshwater crocodile numbers by getting the animals to stop eating a poisonous toad.



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Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft lands back on Earth without a crew

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed on Earth Saturday morning, with two test pilots left behind because of NASA's concerns that their return was too risky.



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NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.



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Alienware celebrates 25 years with revamped Aurora desktop PC

Alienware was born in a garage near Miami in 1996. The first Aurora arrived in 2004.




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Laser Mapping Reveals Previously Unknown Maya City with Stone Pyramids in Mexico

Using a laser-based detection system, archaeologists have discovered over 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures -- including a previously unknown Maya city named Valeriana -- in Campeche, Mexico.

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Blood test could diagnose ALS with up to 97 per cent accuracy

ALS, the most common form of motor neuron disease, can take a long time to diagnose, but a blood test could help doctors spot the condition sooner




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Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat or dog 'pen pal'

Interacting with animals seems to provide emotional support to young people with a serious illness, even when the contact is via letters and not face to face




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Map of the immune system changing with age may help optimise vaccines

Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why we become more susceptible to certain conditions




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Can we finally reverse balding with these new experimental treatments?

Male pattern baldness could soon be a thing of the past, with new hair loss treatments beginning to show tantalising results




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Your toothbrush is teeming with hundreds of types of viruses

More than 600 types of viruses that infect bacteria have been found living on toothbrushes and showerheads – and many of them have never been seen before




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The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-reaching health impacts

Most ingredients touted as the key to better health fail to live up to the hype but fibre bucks this trend, with benefits for the whole body, not just the gut




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Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with breast cancer

The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to include women with breast cancer in some of his pieces




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More people are living with pain today than before covid emerged

Chronic pain has increased among adults in the US since 2019, which could be due to a rise in sedentary lifestyles or reduced access to healthcare amid covid-19 restrictions




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Trump announces pick of real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff for Middle East envoy

President-elect Trump announced that he had picked real estate investor and campaign donor Steve Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East.



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ICE nabs another illegal immigrant in Mass. charged with child sex crime, as gov snubs Trump deportations

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested another illegal immigrant charged with child sex offenses, as the state's governor says police won't help the Trump administration.



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Sandwiches made with Brie cheese recalled because of Listeria concerns

CIBUS Fresh of Noblesville, IN, is recalling CIBUS Fresh products containing Glenview Farms Spreadable Brie, 2/3lb because of a supplier notification of possible Listeria monocytogenes (products are listed below).  More information regarding the recent Brie recall can be found here. The product was distributed under the following labels: CIBUS Fresh,... Continue Reading




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British woman busted at Los Angeles airport with meth-soaked T-shirts: police

Myah Saakwa-Mante, a 20-year-old British university student, was caught at Los Angeles International Airport and arrested after allegedly attempting to smuggle T-shirts soaked with methamphetamine.



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Oregon man defaced synagogue with antisemitic graffiti multiple times: DOJ

A man from Eugene, Oregon, pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes on Tuesday after he spray-painted antisemitic graffiti on a synagogue in 2023 and 2024.



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Jessica Simpson sparks divorce rumors with cryptic post

Jessica Simpson sparked rumors this week with a cryptic post about making new music and having put up with "everything I did not deserve."



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Dolphins' Tyreek Hill floats latest theory about arrest near NFL stadium amid battle with wrist injury

In the first quarter of Monday's Dolphins-Rams game, ESPN reported that Tyreek Hill said a torn ligament in his wrist became worst after he was detained by police.



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Honor a Loved One With an IEEE Foundation Memorial Fund



As the philanthropic partner of IEEE, the IEEE Foundation expands the organization’s charitable body of work by inspiring philanthropic engagement that ignites a donor’s innermost interests and values.

One way the Foundation does so is by partnering with IEEE units to create memorial funds, which pay tribute to members, family, friends, teachers, professors, students, and others. This type of giving honors someone special while also supporting future generations of engineers and celebrating innovation.

Below are three recently created memorial funds that not only have made an impact on their beneficiaries and perpetuated the legacy of the namesake but also have a deep meaning for those who launched them.

EPICS in IEEE Fischer Mertel Community of Projects

The EPICS in IEEE Fischer Mertel Community of Projects was established to support projects “designed to inspire multidisciplinary teams of engineering students to collaborate and engineer solutions to address local community needs.”

The fund was created by the children of Joe Fischer and Herb Mertel to honor their fathers’ passion for mentoring students. Longtime IEEE members, Fischer and Mertel were active with the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society. Fischer was the society’s 1972 president and served on its board of directors for six years. Mertel served on the society’s board from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1989 to 1993.

“The EPICS in IEEE Fischer Mertel Community of Projects was established to inspire and support outstanding engineering ideas and efforts that help communities worldwide,” says Tina Mertel, Herb’s daughter. “Joe Fischer and my father had a lifelong friendship and excelled as engineering leaders and founders of their respective companies [Fischer Custom Communications and EMACO]. I think that my father would have been proud to know that their friendship and work are being honored in this way.”

The nine projects supported thus far have the potential to impact more than 104,000 people because of the work and collaboration of 190 students worldwide. The projects funded are intended to represent at least two of the EPICS in IEEE’s focus categories: education and outreach; human services; environmental; and access and abilities.

Here are a few of the projects:

IEEE AESS Michael C. Wicks Radar Student Travel Grant

The IEEE Michael C. Wicks Radar Student Travel Grant was established by IEEE Fellow Michael Wicks prior to his death in 2022. The grant provides travel support for graduate students who are the primary authors on a paper being presented at the annual IEEE Radar Conference. Wicks was an electronics engineer and a radio industry leader who was known for developing knowledge-based space-time adaptive processing. He believed in investing in the next generation and he wanted to provide an opportunity for that to happen.Ten graduate students have been awarded the Wicks grant to date. This year two students from Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) and two students from Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) were able to travel to Denver to attend the IEEE Radar Conference and present their research. The papers they presented are “Target Shape Reconstruction From Multi-Perspective Shadows in Drone-Borne SAR Systems” and “Design of Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Ships from ISAR Images.”

Life Fellow Fumio Koyama and IEEE Fellow Constance J. Chang-Hasnain proudly display their IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies at this year’s IEEE Honors Ceremony. They are accompanied by IEEE President-Elect Kathleen Kramer and IEEE President Tom Coughlin.Robb Cohen

IEEE Nick Holonyak Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies

The IEEE Nick Holonyak Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies was created with a memorial fund supported by some of Holonyak’s former graduate students to honor his work as a professor and mentor. Presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors, the medal recognizes outstanding contributions to semiconductor optoelectronic devices and systems including high-energy-efficiency semiconductor devices and electronics.

Holonyak was a prolific inventor and longtime professor of electrical engineering and physics. In 1962, while working as a scientist at General Electric’s Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory in Syracuse, N.Y., he invented the first practical visible-spectrum LED and laser diode. His innovations are the basis of the devices now used in high-efficiency light bulbs and laser diodes. He left GE in 1963 to join the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a professor of electrical engineering and physics at the invitation of John Bardeen, his Ph.D. advisor and a two-time Nobel Prize winner in physics. Holonyak retired from UIUC in 2013 but continued research collaborations at the university with young faculty members.

“In addition to his remarkable technical contributions, he was an excellent teacher and mentor to graduate students and young electrical engineers,” says Russell Dupuis, one of his doctoral students. “The impact of his innovations has improved the lives of most people on the earth, and this impact will only increase with time. It was my great honor to be one of his students and to help create this important IEEE medal to ensure that his work will be remembered in the future.”

The award was presented for the first time at this year’s IEEE Honors Ceremony, in Boston, to IEEE Fellow Constance Chang-Hasnain and Life Fellow Fumio Koyama for “pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and VCSEL-based photonics for optical communications and sensing.”

Establishing a memorial fund through the IEEE Foundation is a gratifying way to recognize someone who has touched your life while also advancing technology for humanity. If you are interested in learning more about memorial and tribute funds, reach out to the IEEE Foundation team: donate@ieee.org.




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Stranded Astronauts Set to Come Home After SpaceX Capsule With Extra Seats Reaches ISS

Two astronauts relinquished their seats on a four-person spacecraft so that their colleagues could return to Earth from the ISS, where they’ve been stuck since June.






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Allies providing Sudan's warring parties with weapons are 'enabling the slaughter,' UN official says




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The Chonky Superstar of Fat Bear Week Is Missing, and the Competition Won't Be the Same Without Him

While other bears battled over fish in a prime spot, Otis would sit off to the side and wait for the fish to come to him. But so far this year, he hasn’t been spotted in Katmai National Park and Preserve




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Hurricane Helene Battered the 'Salamander Capital of the World' With Floods and Landslides. Will the Beloved Amphibians Survive the Aftermath?

The storm decimated a region rich with dozens of species already struggling with habitat loss and disease






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Kamala Harris Makes History With VP Nomination

Harris has made history multiple times over.

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'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Drama Reboot in the Works With Will Smith Producing

The reboot will be a darker version of the '90s sitcom.

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'AGT': Daredevil Annaliese Nock Terrifies Judges With Wheel of Death Stunt

'AGT' returned on Tuesday with live shows from Universal Studios Hollywood.

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How to Transform Your Online Presence with a Custom Website

In today’s digital age, your website is more than just a virtual storefront—it’s the heart of your online presence. Whether you’re a small business, a growing startup, or an established brand, a custom-designed website can be the key to standing out in a crowded market. But what does it take to truly transform your digital […]

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Integrating Sentiment Analysis with AI Trading Bots: A New Frontier

Have you been on the lookout for ways to improve your trading game? You will come across a number of suggestions and tips, one of which is using sentiment analysis. It has become quite a hot topic in the trading space these days and for a good reason. In today’s fast-paced trading environment, staying ahead […]

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