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May 10, 2013

MakerBot and Robohand
New York NY (SPX) May 10, 2013
"Lend me a hand" has taken on a totally new meaning, thanks to the inspirational project called Robohand. Robohand is a story of collaboration from 10,000 miles apart between Richard Van As, a woodworker from Johannesburg, South Africa, and Ivan Owen, a theatrical prop designer from Seattle, Washington, and made possible via MakerBot's sharing website Thingiverse.com and 3D printing on a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. Robohand is a mechanical 3D printed hand that you can make on a Maker ... read more

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Austria Aims For Mars Via Morocco Mars 2013 analog field simulation, held by the Austrian Space Forum in Morocco this February is over, and now the organizers have published the full report from the mission. The project's goal ... more		Is Iran widening its shadow war with West? Kenya this week sentenced two Iranians convicted of plotting attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets while three Nigerian terrorist suspects allegedly trained in Iran are awaiting trial in the West African state on similar charges. ... more		Tunisia at war with 'international terrorism' Press reports warned Thursday that Tunisia was "at war with international terrorism" after the government revealed that jihadists being pursued by the army have ties to Al-Qaeda and the Islamist rebellion in Mali. ... more
				Tunisia Al-Qaeda groups will be defeated: PM Prime Minister Ali Larayedh insisted on Wednesday that Tunisia's security situation was improving and that fugitive jihadist groups with links to Al-Qaeda would be defeated. ... more		Tunisia links two wanted jihadist groups to Al-Qaeda Tunisian authorities on Tuesday recognised that two jihadist groups which the army has been hunting on the Algerian border have links to Al-Qaeda, stressing their determination to take them out. ... more

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Chinese star calls on Asia to help end elephant slaughter Ivory jewelry and carvings are prized by some in Asia, but people should know they come from the massacre of elephants whose survival is threatened by rampant poaching, popular Chinese film star Li Bingbing has warned. ... more		Dengue epidemic hits Angola for first time An epidemic of dengue fever has broken out in oil-rich Angola for the first time, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday. ... more		AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department		Jihadists hunted in Tunisia 'former Mali fighters' Jihadists being pursued by the army on Tunisia's border with Algeria are veterans of the Islamist rebellion in Mali, where France led an intervention to oust them in January, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said Wednesday. ... more
				Tanzanian troops head for UN mission to fight Congo rebels Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete bade farewell Wednesday to 1,280 troops off to join a new UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and fight insurgents there. ... more		Nigeria's Islamists boost military threat A recent spate of coordinated attacks in northern Nigeria involving hundreds of heavily armed Islamist militants demonstrate that the insurgents have undergone guerrilla warfare training, probably by al-Qaida groups in North Africa, marking a dangerous deterioration in the oil-rich country's unfolding security crisis. Nigerian and North African security sources said several hundred Boko Haram members underwent military training with AQIM in 2012 around Timbuktu in northern Mali, a region the jihadists, armed with weapons plundered in Libya during its 2011 civil war, seized in 2012. ... more

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China hails new WTO boss as nod to developing world China on Thursday welcomed the appointment of Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevedo to head the World Trade Organization, with state media saying it showed the growing clout of emerging economies. ... more		Singapore now a gas hub Singapore's first liquefied natural gas terminal has received its first commercial cargo, putting the island country on course to become a major gas trading hub. ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Gunmen threaten unique CentrAfrican elephant reserve: WWF A group of 17 gunmen entered an animal park in the Central African Republic, threatening "one of the biggest massacres of elephants" in the region, conservationist body WWF said Tuesday. ... more
				Dinosaur predecessors gain ground in wake of world's biggest biodiversity crisis Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth's largest mass extinction, approximately 252 ... more		Iraq: Shell's $17 billion gas project 'a milestone' Iraq has inaugurated a $17 billion natural gas project run by Royal Dutch Shell that the Financial Times hails as a "milestone" in the country's postwar recovery, even as the Oil Ministry is scaling back ambitious oil production targets. ... more

Zeal to ensure clean leafy greens takes bite out of riverside habitat in California

Scientists alarmed by rapid spread of Brown Streak Disease in cassava

Agriculture and Livestock Remain Major Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall

JFAST scientists retrieve temperature data from Japan Trench observatory

Spain lawmakers pass contested coastal reform

After cold winter, fewer Americans believe in global warming

Pacific's Marshall Islands facing drought emergency

Merkel calls for redoubling of efforts to reach climate change treaty

New Wyoming Lithium Deposit could Meet all US Demand

British lawmakers: Lack of clear policy hindering energy investment

EU lawmakers to vote on reform of 'polluter pays'

	Two soldiers wounded in Tunisia jihadist hunt: medic Two Tunisian soldiers were wounded Monday when a device exploded in the Mount Chaambi border region during the ongoing hunt for a jihadist group who have mined the area, the defence ministry said. ... more		Seven killed in Iraq attacks Shootings and a bombing killed seven people in Iraq on Tuesday, officials said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki condemned attacks on mosques he said were aimed at promoting sectarian strife. ... more		Deadly bombings hit drive to save Somalia A series of bombings in Mogadishu shows that the Islamist al-Shabaab movement, allied to al-Qaida, remains a lethal force despite the loss of key Somali strongholds to a U.N.-backed African force last fall. ... more		Iraq took steps on fake bomb detectors: PM Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday the government took the necessary steps "a long time ago" on fake bomb detectors, despite the fact that they are still in widespread use in the country. ... more

DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins

ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms

Planet and Carbon Mapper Plan SWIR-Only Tanager Satellite for Wider Methane Detection

Egypt says Arab peace proposal to Israel unchanged		Iraq PM's coalition leads in 7 of 12 provinces		Nigeria fighter jet crashes in Niger, two killed		Zimbabwe defence chief refuses to meet PM: report		Vietnam, S.Africa target illegal rhino hunters
South Africa government in crisis over wedding scandal		Algerian sought for IT virus extradited to US		Tunisian army unable to find jihadists: ministry		Outside View: Media crackdown in Iraq		Tunisia hunting 'armed groups' near Algeria border

S.African diplomat suspended over Indian plane scandal

Israel strikes at jihadist threat in Sinai

Canada, Uganda test drug to treat brain disease

East Africa's 'embarrassment of riches' in energy

Questions in S.Africa after Zuma's rich friends use military base

Hong Kong seizes 113 smuggled ivory tusks

What Happened to Dinosaurs' Predecessors After Earth's Largest Extinction 252 Million Years Ago?

US report warns of crisis for Pakistan minorities

Nigeria court delays verdict against Iran 'arms dealer'

As people live longer and reproduce less, natural selection keeps up

S.Africa army death toll in Central Africa rises to 14

Insiders doubt Libya's oil push plan

Five car bombs kill 18 in Iraq

Iraq PM points to Syria over deadly 'sectarian' strife

Israel air raids target Gaza militants: witnesses

Kerry backs moves to revive Arab peace initiative

Sudan state declared rebel 'target' as aviation warned

Mali 'cannot have two armies': French minister

China nears US in money to Africa: study

Bouteflika stroke triggers Algerian crisis

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