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Weak-nosed humans have long relied on working dogs to use their special snouts to enforce laws and protect the populace. This new invention from the Army gets their noses in tip-top shape.

Prellis Biologics announces web-based interface for biologists and tissue engineers to quickly produce libraries of 3D scaffolds much like hollow blood vessels. TissueWorkshop™ can be learned in minutes and lets users to build CAD files allowing printing of structures on bioprinters.

The National Institute of Informatics (NII; Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Dr. Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Director General) has constructed a long-distance link with a world's top-class transmission speed of 400 Gbps between Tokyo and Osaka as part of an academic information network, SINET5(*1). The existing SINET5 provides 100 Gbps links covering all of Japan's prefectures. The new link has a capacity four times that of existing links. It will come into service on December 9.

Scholastica, a peer review and publishing software and service provider for academic journals, is pleased to announce the launch of a new fully open access journal out of the University of California Press using its platform, Media+Environment.

Following a dramatic decline in numbers over the past decade, White's Seahorse, also known as the Sydney Seahorse, has recently been listed as an 'Endangered' species. It is now Australia's only threatened Seahorse species and the second Endangered Seahorse species worldwide. A new breeding and conservation project aims to reverse the decline.

With initial support from Shell, Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons. Carbon Hub's goal is a zero-emissions future in which hydrocarbons are not burned. Instead, they are split to make clean hydrogen energy and valuable carbon materials.

The atmosphere of the central Arctic is polluted with fine dust from Siberia and North America. This was the result of a preliminary evaluation of the first lidar measurements carried out by TROPOS during the one-year MOSAiC expedition on board of the RV Polarstern. For the first time, a multi-wavelength lidar was used during polar night in the central Arctic, which can measure dust particles with laser pulses from the ground.