Day's Headlines: Watery Volcano; Colored Electrons; Magnetic Circuits; Asteroid Drill; 1950's Bomb; 20,000 Poorer; Police Eaves; Cracked Media; Pollution Day!; Berlin Wall 2; and 300k Alerted

Monday, November 7, 2016

Watery Volcano; Colored Electrons; Magnetic Circuits; Asteroid Drill; 1950's Bomb; 20,000 Poorer; Police Eaves; Cracked Media; Pollution Day!; Berlin Wall 2; and 300k Alerted

Creation

Giant Volcano Appears to Be Filled With Water gizmodo

Investigating a strange electrical anomaly, geologists have discovered an enormous water reservoir beneath the now-dormant Uturunco volcano in the Bolivian Andes. It’s a remarkable find that speaks to the vast amounts of water stored in Earth’s deep interior, possibly since our planet was formed.

“It’s probably somewhere between Lake Superior and Lake Huron,” Jon Blundy, a geologist at the University of Bristol and co-author on the new discovery published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, told New Scientist. “It’s a staggeringly large amount.”

Research

These Are the First Color Images Ever Produced By an Electron Microscope gizmodo

A research team from the University of California, San Diego universityofcalifornia.edu is the first to create a multicolor electron microscope, allowing for three colors at a time (green, red, and yellow). Technically speaking, the microscope is not producing “true” color images, but rather a false-color visualization of key features found within microscopic objects, such as cells. Importantly, the colors are not “added” after the fact—they’re genuinely indicative of discrete biological components.

Tech

Future wearables could use magnetic circuits to self-heal engadget v

The concept is pretty simple. The team crushed up a bunch of neodymium permanent magnets, like the kind you find in electric motors and hard drives, into microscopic particles. It then inserted them into the ink used to make printed electronics, along with carbon powder to increase conductivity. The ink is then subjected to a magnetic field, aligning the particles so that when it's torn or cut, each side is magnetically attracted to the other, healing the breach.

Space

NASA and FEMA hold asteroid impact simulation exercise en.trend.az

This was the third in a series of exercises the agencies have held to help increase collaboration, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement November 4. NASA and FEMA would lead the US response to a major asteroid hit.

Military

Nuclear weapon missing since 1950 'may have been found' bbc

Sean Smyrichinsky was diving for sea cucumbers near British Columbia when he discovered a large metal device that looked a bit like a flying saucer. The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) forces.gc.ca believes it could be a "lost nuke" from a US B-36 bomber that crashed in the area in 1950.

A spokesperson for DND told the BBC the department had conferred with its American counterparts, and that the object the diver found could very well be the bomb. The American military do not believe the bomb is active or a threat to anyone, he said, but Canada is sending military ships to the site to make sure.

Banking

Raid on 20,000 Tesco Bank accounts fuels UK cybercrime fears reuters

The bank, which manages 136,000 current accounts, did not explain how the thefts had happened but said it would repay people who had lost money in the online bank heist, which targeted 40,000 accounts in all and fuelled fears about the British financial sector's vulnerability.

Also see Tesco Bank attack: What do we know? bbc

Quebec

Coderre stands by Montreal police chief, won't have 'public lynching' cbc.ca

La Presse reported Saturday that Montreal police sought, and obtained, a warrant that allowed them to listen to the "private conversations" of two journalists — Patrick Lagacé and Vincent Larouche — with police officers who were under investigation.

Turkey

Journalists arrested as Ankara steps up crackdown on dissent theguardian

The arrests, a day after the co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP) were jailed pending trial, are likely to spark more concern among Turkey’s allies about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s intolerance of dissent.

More than 110,000 officials, including judges, teachers, police and civil servants, have been detained or suspended following a failed coup in July. Erdoğan’s critics say he is using the coup as a pretext to crush the opposition. Ankara says the crackdown is necessary to root out terrorists.

India

Delhi smog: Schools closed for three days as pollution worsens bbc

The move came after levels of PM2.5 - tiny particles that can clog people's lungs - soared to over 90 times the level considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO) and 15 times the Indian government's norms.

Germany

German crews build barrier higher than Berlin Wall to separate town from refugee wave foxnews

A local judge of the Administrative Court in Munich permitted the wall, saying the new arrivals should not be able to use the wall for “ball throwing games” or other “leisure use”, local news Merkur reported.

Also see Huge wall built in Munich to protect families from migrants who will live next door news.com.au

NATO

Nato puts 300,000 ground troops on 'high alert' as tensions with Russia mount independent.co.uk

Jens Stoltenberg britannica, the secretary-general of Nato, said the alliance hoped to speed up the response time of thousands of its troops to allow it to react to a combat situation more effectively.

Also see Russian warplanes keep buzzing the Baltics. Here’s how NATO scrambles. washingtonpost

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