China turns Soviet aircraft carrier into hotel
This is the Kiev, currently anchored in the Chinese port of Tianjin. Once she was the flagship of the mighty Soviet navy’s Pacific fleet. Now she’s available for business retreats, intimate getaways or simple relaxation. That’s because the Chinese have bought the aircraft carrier and transformed her into a floating luxury hotel. The Kiev will…
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Spencer Ackerman - Danger Room
Behold, the future’s bioluminescent billboards
Scientists at UC San Diego have made a bioluminescent bacterial billboard. They call it a “living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs.” Making it all work “involved attaching a fluorescent protein to the biological clocks of the bacteria, synchronizing the clocks of the thousands…
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