April 23, 2026

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If you can organize graphene in three dimensions, you can greatly expand the amount of hydrogen you can store in graphene.  This could greatly reduce the cost of hydrogen storage, and even allow for bulk room-temperature storage.  Researchers out of the Istituto Nanoscienze, a research consortium, published results from an experiment that demonstrates organizing graphene in three dimensions is possible.

3D arrangement of graphene enables storage of larger quantities of hydrogen

From innovationorigins.com
2022-02-09 11:00:00

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A research consortium has discovered how to organize graphene in three dimensions. This novel process could be used to store larger quantities of hydrogen and develop more sensitive gas sensors….

He found the relevant expertise at the Institute for Sensor and Actuator Systems at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. Here, Professor Ulrich Schmid‘s group has been researching processes for years that make it possible to integrate extremely fine, porous structures into dense materials in a controlled manner….

Dr. Stefano Veronesi, a member of Dr. Heun’s research group at the Istituto Nanoscienze, explains what the application of this process means in terms of hydrogen storage: “Graphene can bind (store) molecular as well as elemental hydrogen on the surface. At room temperature, however, only elemental hydrogen binds well to graphene. Molecular hydrogen, on the other hand, forms only a very weak bond with the graphene surface. By selective functionalization (“grafting”) of the graphene surface, the ‘storage’ capability of the graphene surface can be significantly increased even at room temperature. How much hydrogen can be stored is determined by the graphene surface area present – the more graphene, the more hydrogen can be stored.”

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Insect Robots Might One Day Rescue You or Arrest You

A horde of flying insect robots might one day rescue you when you get lost in the forest, or track you down when you’re invading a police state.  Either way, scientists are making these things.  To be exact, researchers from Bristol’s Faculty of Engineering are building these things, and their findings are ‘promising.’

Scientists develop tiny flying ‘insect robots’ that could help save people – and the planet

From www.bristolpost.co.uk
2022-02-09 12:46:38

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Scientists have developed tiny flying insect robots that could be made in their billions and help save people – and the planet.

The pioneering bug-sized machines have an artificial muscle system that creates wing motion using no rotating parts or gears.

They could help in search and rescue operations, after terrorist attacks.- or maybe act as pollinators.

Typical micro flying robots have used motors, gears and other complex transmission systems to achieve the up-and-down flapping motion.

This new advance could pave the way for smaller, lighter and more effective micro flying robots.

 

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Thanks to graphene, our ability to think and see that thought become a machine’s action is just a few short years away.  Researchers out of the University of Technology Sydney have been developing a new type of EEG sensor using graphene that could break down the hurdles that have prevented engineers from fully developed thought to machine action technology up to this time.

Graphene biosensor will drive new innovations in brain-controlled robotics – Physics World

From physicsworld.com
2022-02-09 09:33:53

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Recently, researchers have developed EEG sensors made from graphene, which offers excellent conductivity and biocompatibility. Graphene-based biosensors, however, often have low durability, corroding upon contact with sweat, and exhibit high skin-contact impedance that hampers the detection of signals from the brain. A novel graphene-based biosensor developed at the University of Technology Sydney aims to overcome these limitations, detecting EEG signals with high sensitivity and reliability – even in highly saline environments.

The sensor, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, is made from epitaxial graphene (EG) grown on a silicon carbide (SiC)-on-silicon substrate. This structure unites graphene’s favourable properties with the physical robustness and chemical inertness of SiC.

“We’ve been able to combine the best of graphene, which is very biocompatible, very conductive, with the best of silicon technology, which makes our biosensor very resilient and robust to use,” says senior author Francesca Iacopi in a press statement.

….“With our sensor, the contact resistance improves when the sensor sits on the skin,” Iacopi explains. “Over time, we were able to achieve a reduction of more than 75% of the initial contact resistance. This means the electric signals being sent by the brain can be reliably collected and then significantly amplified, and that the sensors can also be used reliably in harsh conditions, thereby enhancing their potential for use in brain–machine interfaces.”

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Douglas Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ Husband, was recently rapidly evacuated from a high school in America after the school received a bomb threat.  Emhoff was making at an appearance at Dunbar High School in Washington DC to talk about Black History Month when he was suddenly escorted out of the building.

US Vice President Kamala Harris’ Husband Douglas Emhoff Evacuated In Bomb Threat

From www.ndtv.com
2022-02-09 06:00:32

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The husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris was evacuated Tuesday after a reported bomb threat at the Washington high school he was visiting to celebrate African American history, officials said.

Douglas Emhoff, whose official title is second gentleman, was pulled away by his security detail during commemorations of Black History Month at Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. Pupils were also told to leave.

“It was a bomb threat,” Washington public schools spokeswoman Enrique Gutierrez told reporters. “We had a threat today to the facility so… basically we took the precaution of evacuating everybody, as you saw. I think everyone is safe. The building is clear.”

No immediate details about the nature of the bomb threat were made public.

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After the EU fined Poland for not bending its knee to the EU’s demands that it cuts off a power station and ends a lignite mining operation, Poland told the EU it’s just not paying the fines.  Now, as the EU prepares to doll out the cash it gives out to member nations, it has informed Poland it will simply withhold the funds that it needs to pay the fine.

EU notifies Poland it will withhold its EU cash to cover unpaid fines

From www.euronews.com
2022-02-09 10:15:41

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BRUSSELS – The European Commission notified Poland on Tuesday it would withhold cash that the EU was to pay Warsaw as part of regular EU transfers, to cover the first part of fines imposed by the EU’s court on Poland which the country did not pay.

This is the first time that the Commission has to withhold EU money for a member country because it is not complying with a ruling by the EU’s top court.

Last September, the Court of Justice of the European Union put a 500,000 euro ($571,000) daily fine on Poland for not stopping the operations of its Turow lignite mine and power plant on the border with Czech Republic.

This followed a complaint from Prague that its operations were endangering water sources of residents across the border. Poland’s eurosceptic and nationalist government refused to comply with the court ruling.

“The Commission has informed Poland that it would proceed with the offsetting of payments for penalties due under case C-121/21 Czechia v Poland on Turów lignite mine”, Commission spokesman Balazs Ujvari said in a statement.

 

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Fed Protects Politicians’ Covid Portfolios

Reuters is reporting that a FOIA request they made to the US Federal Reserve for documents that would reveal the types of Covid-beneficial trades that our elected politicians and appointed experts have been engaged in has been summarily and fully and completely and finally DENIED.
That’s right, folks, we the American people and the ‘free press’ have no right to know just how the ones who have been orchestrating our Covid culture for the last two years may have or may not have benefited by the decisions they made that had such profound effects on hundreds of millions of the human beings they allege to be serving, most of which have been resoundingly negative.
While children have seen their lives upended and turned into mask ghost life floating on zoom calls, our politicians and experts have had free rein to trade in our markets as they saw fit, with no accountability, and with immunity from insider trading laws. The wealth shift in America has been astounding, and it happened under the so-called party of the poor, the Democrat Party. But that party has morphed into an elite club of mad billionaires who want to live forever and float around space from their giant enormity, lording it over the very poors the DNC once alleged to champion.
We have become their experiment in the religion of elite man makes poor man in his image and purges the unmakeable from the frame. This is the reality of power when the advantaged attain what I call Citadelian status, where they exist outside the socio-cultural consequences of action the vast majority of us find ourselves facing. These consequences are the result, mostly, of the opportunistic power-advantaged exapting any popular outrage ideology into a social control device designed to eliminate future competition to the power the advantaged currently hold.
From Christianity to Islam, from Confucianism to Buddhism, from every philosophical, theological, economical, scientific thought that gained an audience, the power-advantaged were ready to exapt the patterns from serving the cause to exploiting, commodifying, ‘tweaking’ the original code, preserving the language and the emotions, but creating new outcomes, outcomes designed to serve the very people that created the outrage from which the original ideas emerged in the first place.
The bible verse, Isiah 30:18 constantly comes to mind, and I will continue to repeat it wherever I see it lived out again.
As for the scoundrel, his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words even when the plea of the needy is right.
Don’t expect our masters to expose the gosh derned business just yet, folks, but, nice try Reuters. Maybe your masters have realized their team may have gone too far, and there will be heck to pay when the inevitable happens and the truth of the colonization of the American lands in the Covid culture of the DNC using fear and hate to create just enough compliant, just enough willing to enforce the ‘new normal,’ which was, and is, nothing short of doing anything possible to dismantle the American culture of the Bill of Rights, where, no matter the vote or the good intentions, the state cannot violate the basic sovereignty of the individual, from which its fundamental authority and legitimacy is derived.
We are not a nation of priest-kings and gnostic-like shamans with gossamer-winged languages to mesmerize us to complacency. Our ploughmen know the Bill of Rights code and, so far, that spirit does not appear to have died in the majority of Americans, across all the divides the DNC would have you zealously fixate your whole heart and mind upon, as if your very life were nothing in comparison to ending hate once and for all, ending history, ending god and entering man, in total, in everything, in full equality, in ecstasy of union……etc……That spirit has names that go back thousands of years, with Balaam perhaps being the most often used, the spirit of sacrifice, where the new and the old are sacrificed to the now, the disciples of the social where human becomes all in all by all for all, and all non-human is purged from the living.
The ecstasy of the left was protected today by the Federal Reserve, for now, but lies beget lies beget enemies beget secret recordings, etc, etc, etc….It’s only a matter of time before Haman learns why he ordered the gallows made in the first place. Hint, it wasn’t for who he thought it was for.

Fed denies release of correspondence on pandemic trades made by policymakers

From www.reuters.com
2022-02-09 11:38:00

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Feb 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by Reuters, said there are about 60 pages of correspondence between its ethics officials and policymakers regarding financial transactions conducted during the pandemic year 2020.

But it “denied in full” to release the documents, citing exemptions under the information act that it said applied in this case.

The disclosure of trading by two regional reserve bank presidents during the pandemic led them to resign last fall, and prompted Fed chair Jerome Powell to overhaul Fed ethics rules and request the central bank’s inspector general to investigate.

The FOIA responses to Reuters for the first time quantify how much back and forth may have occurred over policymakers’ personal trading in a year when markets first cratered, then rebounded on the basis of both massive federal fiscal stimulus and an aggressive rescue effort by the…

 

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Terror groups enjoy greater freedom in Afghanistan than any time in recent history: UN report

From www.financialexpress.com
2022-02-09 10:12:51

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Terror groups enjoy greater freedom in Afghanistan than at any time in recent history and there are no signs that the Taliban leadership has taken steps to limit the activities of foreign terrorists in the war-torn country, a report of the UN Secretary-General has said.

The report says the dreaded Islamic State terrorist group aims to position itself as the “chief rejectionist force” in Afghanistan, expands into neighbouring Central and South Asian countries and is viewed by the Taliban as its primary armed threat.

The ’14th report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIS to international peace and security and the range of United Nations efforts in support of Member States in countering the threat’ notes…

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Libyan parliament set to name new PM amid signs of power struggle | News

From www.aljazeera.com
2022-02-09 11:21:38

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Interim PM Dbeibah says he will not hand over power, a position that could lead to a flare-up of conflicts between rival factions.

Libya’s parliament is set to name a new prime minister to head the transitional government on Thursday, raising concerns over the possibility of a new power struggle.

The effort to replace interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah comes after the date for Libya’s first presidential election – scheduled for December 24 last year – came and went during his watch.

Lawmakers argue that the mandate of Dbeibah’s government ended when the presidential election was supposed to happen: December 24. He has refused to leave.

The postponement dealt a major blow to international efforts to end a decade of chaos in the oil-rich Mediterranean nation.

The presidential vote was postponed over disputes between rival factions on laws governing the elections and controversial hopefuls.

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Ukraine projects calm over Russia fears despite US rhetoric

From news.yahoo.com
2022-02-09 07:30:13

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….But even as the rhetoric out of Washington ramps up, a sense of calm prevails in the Eastern European nation among soldiers and citizens alike, from relatives of those in the trenches on up to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who campaigned on a promise of ending the drawn-out conflict and has repeatedly called for diplomacy to carry the day.

“We are defending our country and are on our own territory. Our patience can have an impact on provocations, when we don’t respond to provocations but behave with great dignity,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday in an appearance with French President Emmanuel Macron.

While waves of Ukrainians fled their homes during 2014 fighting that saw Russia annex the Crimean Peninsula and back separatists in the eastern province of Donbas, so far people are staying put in the areas closest to the Russian troop movements.

 

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Slovakia Pushed to US Defense Alliance

Slovakia lawmakers approve defense military treaty with US – CBS17.com

From www.cbs17.com
2022-02-09 11:44:18

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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a defense military treaty with the United States.

The Defense Cooperation Agreement passed 79-60 in the 150-seat legislature in a vote split between lawmakers from the four-party ruling coalition and the opposition.

The treaty allows the U.S. military to use two Slovak air force bases — Malacky-Kuchyna and Sliac — for 10 years while Slovakia — a NATO member — will receive $100 million from the U.S. to modernize them.

 

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