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The Baltimore Sun
When Baltimore State's Attorney Maryliyn Mosby charged six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, she said they had ignored Gray's pleas for medical care during his arrest and a 45-minute transport van ride.
Records obtained by The Baltimore Sun show that city police often disregard or are oblivious to injuries and illnesses among people they apprehend — in fact, such cases occur by the thousands.
From June 2012 through April 2015, correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center have refused to admit nearly 2,600 detainees who were in police custody, according to state records obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act request.
In those records, intake officers in Central Booking noted a wide variety of injuries, including fractured bones, facial trauma and hypertension. Of the detainees denied entry, 123 had visible head injuries, the third most common medical problem cited by jail officials, records show.
The jail records redacted the names of detainees, but a Sun investigation found similar problems among Baltimore residents and others who have made allegations of police brutality.
The Guardian
Thousands of people have been brought to the Baltimore city jail in recent years with injuries too severe for them to be admitted, newly released records have shown.
The records, obtained by the Baltimore Sun through a Maryland Public Information Act request, showed that correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center refused to admit nearly 2,600 detainees who were in police custody between June 2012 and April 2015.
The records did not indicate how the people were injured or whether they suffered their injuries while in custody. However, they suggested police officers either ignored or did not notice the injuries. Suspects are constitutionally guaranteed health care before they are booked into jail.
Al Jazeera America
Thousands of people were taken to the Baltimore city jail in recent years with injuries too severe for them to be admitted, newly released records show.
The records, obtained by The Baltimore Sun through a Maryland Public Information Act request, show that correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center refused to admit nearly 2,600 detainees who were in police custody from June 2012 to April 2015.
The records do not indicate how the people were injured or whether they suffered their injuries while in custody. However, they do suggest that police officers either ignored or did not notice the injuries. Suspects are constitutionally guaranteed health care before they are booked into jail.
Baltimore police are under scrutiny for their treatment of detainees after the death of Freddie Gray last month. He died of a broken neck that prosecutors said he suffered while riding in a Baltimore police van. His death sparked widespread protests and occasional violence in the city and came amid national scrutiny of how police officers treat suspects, particularly black men.
NPR
Baltimore police seem to ignore injuries suffered by detainees by the hundreds.
That's according to a review of records by The Baltimore Sun.
According to a report published by the paper this weekend, from June 2012 through April 2015, the Baltimore City Detention Center refused 2,600 detainees brought in by police because they were injured.
"In those records, intake officers in Central Booking noted a wide variety of injuries, including fractured bones, facial trauma and hypertension. Of the detainees denied entry, 123 had visible head injuries, the third most common medical problem cited by jail officials, records show," the paper reports.
Newsweek
Baltimore police officers in the past three years have arrested and brought to the city jail thousands of individuals with injuries deemed too severe for them to be incarcerated there, according to records recently obtained by the Baltimore Sun.
Correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center denied entry to almost 2,600 detainees who were in police custody between June 2012 and April 2015, the newspaper reported over the weekend. The information suggests the officers often ignored or overlooked suspects’ injuries or illnesses.
The records, however, didn’t disclose how the individuals were injured or when they sustained the injuries, which ranged from facial trauma to fractured bones.
New York Times
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Central Intelligence Agency officer on Monday was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on espionage charges for telling a journalist for The New York Times about a secret operation to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. The sentence was far less than the Justice Department had wanted.
The former officer, Jeffrey A. Sterling, argued that the Espionage Act, which was passed during World War I, was intended to prosecute spies, not officials who talked to journalists. He asked for the kind of leniency that prosecutors showed to David H. Petraeus, the retired general who last month received probation for providing his highly classified journals to his biographer.
The case revolves around an operation in which a former Russian scientist provided Iran with intentionally flawed nuclear component schematics. Mr. Sterling was convicted in January of revealing the operation to James Risen, a reporter for The Times, who had revealed the operation in his 2006 book, “State of War.” Mr. Risen described it as a botched mission that may have inadvertently advanced Iran’s nuclear program.
McClatchy
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and environmental and industry groups criticized the federal government’s new safety measures for oil trains when they were announced earlier this month. Now another group has expressed disappointment in the new rules:
Emergency responders. They’re among the first in danger when a fiery derailment happens.
After another oil train derailed and caught fire last week, this time in North Dakota and the fifth in North America this year, firefighters renewed their call for more training and information about hazardous rail shipments.
The International Association of Fire Fighters’ primary objection to the new rules is about their information-sharing requirements. But Elizabeth Harman, an assistant to the general president of the group, also said firefighters needed more training on responding to hazardous materials incidents. The rule didn’t directly address that issue, though some lawmakers have sought additional funding.
Al Jazeera America
Two inmates were found dead at a maximum security prison in southeastern Nebraska on Monday, a day after prisoners clashed with guards over grievances at the overcrowded center.
The state Department of Correctional Services said the bodies were found after officials regained control at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution. All staff were accounted for and the prison was declared as secure Monday morning, officials told local media.
Prisoners told local media the disturbance began after inmates drafted a petition highlighting grievances, including limited access to the prison yard and jobs.
Officials said the takeover began Sunday afternoon after staff members tried to break up a gathering of prisoners. Two or three inmates were shot and at least two guards were assaulted, Lincoln's Journal Star reported.
Inmate Jeffry Frank told local media that dozens of officers in full riot gear stood outside a housing unit at the maximum security prison late Sunday night.
Spiegel Online
Patrick Venzke was the first German national in the NFL, but he says he paid a high price both physically and psychologically. His case raises questions not only about the neurological problems linked with American football but also about a culture he describes as Darwinism run riot.
Patrick Venzke only recently turned 40, but even though his face looks youthful, his body is ravaged. He suffers terrible backaches, his left shoulder is wrecked and he also has knee trouble. "It's the price I paid to pursue my dream," he says as he drags himself up the steps of a café in Essen, Germany.
Venzke became the first German national to make a National Football League roster when he signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars in April 2001 -- although he was never fielded in any of the team's games. He began playing American football at home in Essen. At 18 he went to the States. After high school he was awarded a scholarship from the University of Idaho, where he studied marketing and spent four years playing college football. It was there that he caught the eye of the Jaguars' scouts. After a year in Jacksonville, Venzke moved to NFL Europe, where he played for Rhein Fire in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt Galaxy. He also had a spell in the Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles squads. Today he describes American Football as Darwinism run riot. He lost count of the number of times he threw up during training. He retired in 2011.
Reuters
The National Football League came down hard on the New England Patriots on Monday for their role in Deflategate, suspending star quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of next season and fining the franchise $1 million.
The NFL also said the Patriots will forfeit their first-round selection in the 2016 draft and a fourth-round pick in 2017 for using under-inflated footballs in last season's AFC Championship game.
Ted Wells, an attorney hired by the NFL to investigate the allegations, said in a 243-page report that it was "more probable than not" that Patriots personnel "were involved in a deliberate effort" to circumvent rules by using deflated footballs in the team's 45-7 win over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC championship game.
The Guardian
To Barack Obama, the Trans-Pacific pact will increase trade, strengthen protections for Asian workers and aid international relations.
But opponents of the most important trade deal in a generation - including unions, but also left-leaning Democrats such as Elizabeth Warren – are worried about the impact it will have on US jobs.
And on the right, Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina and others have attacked Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP’s) “secrecy” and the lack of transparency in a deal involving 12 nations accounting for 40% of the world economy.
As a vote to speed adoption of the deal looms on Tuesday, Obama almost seems to be channeling rightwing anti-union firebrands such as Republican governor Scott Walker as he attacks critics of the Trans-Pacific trade pact that he so badly wants.
Irked by Warren’s criticisms of the deal Obama chided his long-time ally for being a “politician” who was making “arguments” that “don’t stand the test of fact and scrutiny”.
The Guardian
A multimillionaire trailer park landlord who boasts that he makes big profits by buying up cheap trailer parks and immediately increasing rents is being sued for allegedly doing just that.
Frank Rolfe, the US’s 10th-biggest trailer park owner and co-founder of a bootcamp designed to teach other people how they too can become millionaires from mobile homes, is being sued for allegedly breaching rental contracts by nearly doubling bills for tenants at a trailer park in Austin, Texas.
The move comes as trailer parks have become increasingly controversial investments. Billionaire Warren Buffett was forced to defend the high-interest loans one of his companies gives to low-income trailer park buyers at his annual shareholder meeting earlier this month.
Reuters
President Barack Obama spoke to Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Monday about preparations for the summit with Gulf leaders at Camp David this week, and the White House said the summit would result in a statement outlining commitments from all sides.
The meeting would include an announcement on integrating ballistic missile defense architecture as well as more military exercises to address maritime, counterterrorism, air and missile defense challenges, U.S. officials told reporters on a conference call.
Reuters
George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, suffered a minor wound in a road-rage shooting incident on Monday, media reports said.
The shooting occurred in Lake Mary, a suburb of Orlando and WFTV said Zimmerman was shot in the face. WESH-TV in Orlando said the wound was minor.
Police said it appeared to be a "road rage incident," according to the FOX 35 television station in Orlando.
A bullet hole could be seen in the passenger window of Zimmerman's vehicle, WESH reported.
Reuters
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a Roman Catholic nun and prominent death-penalty opponent that "no one deserves to suffer" as the victims of the deadly 2013 attacks had, she testified Monday as the defense rested its case to spare his life.
The federal jury that found the 21-year-old guilty last month of killing three people and wounding 264 others, will soon begin deliberating whether to sentence him to death by lethal injection or to life in prison without possibility of release.
"He said it emphatically. He said no one deserves to suffer like they did," said the 76-year-old nun, Sister Helen Prejean, whom the defense called to testify as it wrapped up its case to spare Tsarnaev's life.
NPR
Over Tokyo's Rainbow Pride Weekend in late April, Ren married her partner of four years, Yae, on stage before hundreds of Japanese strangers. They were proud to tie the knot and be part of a milestone in Japan and East Asia, a region where same-sex partnerships have never previously been recognized.
While same-sex marriage has become increasingly common in the U.S. and Western Europe, it's still rare in other parts of the world. There are signs of change in some parts of Asia. New Zealand legalized same-sex marriage in 2013 and Australia recognizes civil unions. Vietnam this year repealed a law banning same-sex marriages, though it does not officially recognize them.
No place in East Asia recognized same-sex marriages until late March, when Tokyo's trendy Shibuya ward passed a local ordinance granting same-sex couples the right to partnership certificates.
NPR
Since October of last year, four teenagers in California's Palo Alto school district have taken their own lives. Tragically, it's not the first cluster of teen suicides this area has seen: In 2009 and 2010, five local teenagers killed themselves by stepping in front of trains, and more suicides followed the next year.
Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is home to some of the nation's most competitive public schools. The factors that lead to suicide are extremely complex, and simple lines cannot be drawn between academic stress and young people taking their own lives. But there's been a great deal of soul-searching about the pressures on high school students in the wake of these deaths.
In a March op-ed, Carolyn Walworth, a junior at Palo Alto High School and a school district student board member, wrote of feeling "desolate" and suffering from panic attacks. She made a heartfelt plea for change: "It is time we wake up to the reality that Palo Alto students teeter on the verge of mental exhaustion every single day," she wrote. "It is time to realize that we work our students to death. ... Effective education does not have to correlate to more stress."
USA Today
A massive cleanup and hunt for the missing were underway Monday after a line of tornadoes and wild storms roared through the nation's Tornado Alley, killing five people and injuring dozens.
More than two dozen tornadoes ripped through parts of Arkansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas on Sunday, National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Carbin said. The storms are the latest in a string of recent deadly storms -- a tornado Saturday near Cisco, Texas, killed one person.
"We've had at least one tornado reported somewhere in the nation every day since May 2," Carbin told USA TODAY. "It's a dangerous time of year." More tornadoes hit the U.S. in May than in any other month, the weather service reports.
Tornadoes were possible in southern Texas and around the Great Lakes for later Monday, he said. A tornado watch has been posted in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky.
DW
Residents in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo have begun to return home following a weekend of violence in which 22 people were killed. Thirty gunmen have been arrested on terrorism-related charges.
As the suspects appeared before an investigating magistrate in the capital, Skopje on Monday, authorities in Kumanovo began demining and clearing explosion debris in the ethnic Albanian town. Several houses were destroyed after a violent two-day battle broke out between special units and alleged ethnic Albanian militants.
"The suspects have been accused of terrorism, jeopardizing constitutional order and security," the prosecutor's office said on Monday, adding that some were also charged with "illegal possession of arms and explosives."
Eighteen of the 30 alleged gunmen are reportedly Kosovoans.
"Out of 30 people charged 18 are Kosovans, 11 are Macedonian citizens, two of whom are living in Kosovo, and one is from Albania with residence in Germany," the prosecutor said in a statement.
DW
The Israeli president has been received with military honors by his German counterpart Joachim Gauck in Berlin. His visit marks 50 years of diplomatic relations with post-war Germany.
At the start of his three-day visit, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin received an official welcome in Bellevue Palace, the German president's official residence.
Gauck and Rivlin, who crossed the red carpet to Bellevue in a close embrace, are marking 50 years of diplomatic relations between West Germany - and then Germany - and Israel.
The two countries took up diplomatic relations on May 12, 1965. The anniversary comes just three days after the 70th anniversary surrender of Nazi Germany and the end of the Holocaust. East Germany did not have diplomatic relations with Israel, partly because of the GDR's outright support for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
DW
French President Francois Hollande has arrived in Cuba in a bid to bolster diplomatic and economic ties with the communist country. Hollande is the first French president to visit Havana in more than a century.
The French president arrived at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport late Sunday and was received by Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra.
Hollande is the first European leader to visit the isolated communist nation since December, when Washington said it was ready to normalize ties with Cuba after half a century of diplomatic isolation.
"I arrive here in Cuba with great emotion, because it is the first time a president of the French Republic has visited Cuba," Hollande said in a message to Cuban people before landing in Havana. "It is also symbolic to be the first western head of state to take part in the overture to Cuba and to accompany the country in its transition," he added.
DW
Greece has narrowly avoided default by ordering a major payment to one of its international creditors. The move allows negotations to continue on loosening the conditions of the indebted nation's repayments.
Greece has ordered the payment of 750 million euros ($836.4 million) to the International Monetary Fund IMF), averting a near default that could have ejected the indebted country from the eurozone, officials from the Greek Finance Ministry said Monday.
"The order to pay the IMF has been executed," a Greek finance ministry official told the Reuters news agency on Monday.
European finance ministers convened in Brussels on Monday to hash out a deal over Greece's outstanding debt to its international creditors. Athens has been pushing for officials to acknowledge its progress in reforming the economy in a bid to unlock further financial aid.
Al Jazeera America
Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed Monday to have shot down a Moroccan F-16 fighter taking part in Saudi-led airstrikes targeting them and their allies, just a day before a five-day humanitarian cease-fire was set to begin.
Morocco's military would only confirm that a jet had gone missing early Sunday evening, but an online news site with close ties to the kingdom's royal palace and security and intelligence services added the downed aircraft was one of two that flew out of a base in the United Arab Emirates on a reconnaissance mission over the Yemeni side of the border with Saudi Arabia.
The French-language site, Le360, said rebel anti-aircraft positions stationed atop mountains standing 1,800 meters (almost 6,000 feet) high opened fire on the two aircraft as they flew overhead at low altitude.
“The Moroccan fighter jets maneuvered, gained altitude, attempted to escape the danger, but it was too late. One of the craft was hit and went into a spin,” said Le360.
Spiegel Online
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is running out of soldiers and is forced to rely on mercenaries in his ongoing battle against rebels. Many of his foreign fighters come from Afghanistan -- men like Murad, who is now being held in Aleppo as a prisoner-of-war.
His war only lasted from one dawn to the next. When the sun rose for the second time over the Syrian city of Aleppo, Murad, a farmer from Afghanistan, was still cowering on the second floor of the house he was supposed to defend to the death. That, at least, is what his Iranian officer had ordered him to do.
Al Jazeera America
About 1,600 Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees have landed in Malaysia and Indonesia in the last two days, apparently after human traffickers abandoned their virtual prison ships and left them to fend for themselves, officials said Monday.
One group of about 600 people arrived in the Indonesian coastal province of Aceh on four boats on Sunday, and at about the same time a total of 1,018 landed in three boats on the northern Malaysian resort island of Langkawi.
Langkawi island deputy police chief Jamil Ahmed said that the group picked up Sunday was 865 men, 52 children and 101 women. Police found a big wooden boat trapped in the sand in shallow waters at a beach in Langkawi, capable of holding 350 people, he said. This meant there were at least two other boats but they have not been located yet, he said.
In a statement, Malaysia's marine police said all those who had arrived illegally had been arrested and sent to detention centers.
The Guardian
David Miliband has delivered a harsh critique of his brother’s election campaign, saying it appeared to push the Labour party backwards from the principles of aspiration and inclusion.
Speaking to the BBC on Monday from New York, where he works as president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, Miliband said last week’s election result was “devastating” for the Labour party and its supporters.
But he cautioned against blaming the electorate for failing to understand the party’s message. “There’s absolutely no point in blaming the electorate. Any suggestion that they didn’t ‘get it’ is wrong. They didn’t want what was being offered.”
Miliband said: “I think that the voters have delivered a very clear verdict. And unless Labour is able to embrace a politics of aspiration and inclusion, a politics that defies some of the traditional labels that have dogged politics for so long, then it’s not going to win.”
The Guardian
Sweden’s highest court has thrown out Julian Assange’s appeal against his arrest warrant, dashing his immediate hopes of an end to his three-year confinement in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
His lawyers were, however, encouraged by a 4-1 decision by the judges, which a senior legal figure said indicated the court could still change its mind.
The WikiLeaks founder is wanted for questioning in Sweden following allegations of sex crimes that date from August 2010. But without a guarantee he would not be extradited to the US to face espionage charges, he has refused to travel to Sweden and in 2012 sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Stockholm’s supreme court said in its ruling on Monday: “The public interest in the investigation continues to weigh heavily. In view hereof, and the risk that Julian Assange may evade prosecution if the arrest warrant is lifted, continued detention is currently regarded as compatible with the principle of proportionality.”
NPR
Early one morning a couple of weeks ago, rheumatologist Anas Muhana got into his 2008 tan Mercedes jeep, turned on the ignition and drove from his home in Ramallah to his work at Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem.
It was the first time he had been allowed to do this in 15 years.
Muhana is Palestinian. His car has a green and white Palestinian license plate. And in 2000, at the start of the second intifada, Israel stopped allowing cars with Palestinian plates to cross checkpoints from the West Bank.
But now, for a select few Palestinians, Israel has eased this restriction. For the first time in a decade and a half, some Palestinian residents of the West Bank can now drive their own cars, with Palestinian license plates, into Israel.
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McClatchy
Scientists are zeroing in on an AIDS breakthrough that until recently had been thought impossible: finding a cure.
On Monday, that goal will gain new impetus with the announcement of a new life sciences company in the Triangle, based on the growing confidence that scientists are within striking distance of an AIDS cure. The new venture, Qura Therapeutics, will be equally owned by UNC-Chapel Hill, a national hub for AIDS research, and GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second-largest maker of HIV drugs, and will be housed on UNC’s campus.
Organizers say the development of the company and the UNC-based HIV Cure Center marks a major milestone in HIV research: The pharmaceutical industry’s willingness to invest in the development of intellectual property that could lead to a potential blockbuster drug. The national quest to find an AIDS cure is expected to take as long as three decades, and organizers are wagering the discovery will be based on research conducted by UNC and GSK scientists.
The Guardian
Walmart is the latest company found to be sourcing its bottled water from drought-stricken California, as state residents push for greater regulation of the bottling industry.
Starbucks was moved to alter its bottling practices in California last week and Mount Shasta community members are fighting the opening of a major bottling plant by California-based company Crystal Geyser. Then on Friday, an investigation by CBS13 in Sacramento found that Walmart’s bottled water comes from the Sacramento municipal water supply.
The revelations come as state residents face increased water use limits during the fourth year of drought in the state. State governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order last week that calls for a 25% urban water reduction across the state.
“It’s only logical that as the governor has asked all Californians to reduce their water consumption that he holds extractive industries like bottled water companies to the same standard, yet he hasn’t asked anything of them,” said Adam Scow, the California director of Food & Water Watch, which is calling for a moratorium on bottling water.
NPR
The possibility of humans colonizing outer space may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but British astronomer Chris Impey says that, if only the U.S. hadn't slashed the budget of its space program four years ago, the sci-fi fantasy would be well on its way to a modern-day reality.
"I think we might actually be living on the moon and Mars," Impey tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "Maybe not many of us, but we might have our first bases there. We'd have robust commercial space activity or people routinely in orbit. America wouldn't have had a hiatus of four years and counting when we couldn't get astronauts into space. It would be probably quite different."
NPR
Terri Bradford has suffered debilitating headaches all her life. Some days the pain is so bad, she says, "By 11 o'clock in the morning, I'm on the couch in a darkened room with my head packed in ice."
Over the years, Bradford, who is 50 years old and lives in Bedford, Mass., has searched desperately for pain relief. She's been to the doctor countless times for countless tests. "Everything I've had, I've had twice," she says. "I've had two spinal taps; I've had so many nerve blocks I've lost count."
Bradford is not alone. It's estimated that every year 12 million Americans go to the doctor seeking help for headaches. Nearly one quarter of the population suffers from recurrent severe tension headaches or migraines.
NPR
Here's a job that sounds perfect for either a superhero or a glutton for punishment: Get nearly 200 countries to finally agree to take serious action on climate change.
Two men have taken on this challenge. They're leading some international negotiations that will wrap up later this year in Paris at a major United Nations conference on climate change.
"It's kind of like taking 196 cats and trying to get them all to move in the same direction," explains Daniel Reifsnyder, whose normal job is being deputy assistant secretary for environment at the U.S. Department of State.
USA Today
WASHINGTON — Environmental groups deplored the Obama administration's decision to allow Arctic oil drilling, after the Interior Department granted conditional approval Monday for Shell Gulf of Mexico's plan to drill six wells off the coast of Alaska.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's approval of the drilling plan is just one step to allow drilling, and there are still 16 conditions that Shell must meet. The company must apply for and receive permits from the three other federal agencies and the state of Alaska to drill each well.
"Issuing this first permit is a slippery slope that could lead to environmental catastrophe for birds, other wildlife and people," said Audubon President David Yarnold. He called the approval "cynical partisan politics" and said it was "a public relations bone that the Obama administration is throwing to Shell" in an effort to deflect criticism of a global greenhouse gas agreement."
CNN
Irving, Texas (CNN)Jim and Gail Wells have lived in the upscale Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas, for 14 years.
Nestled between Dallas and Fort Worth, they love their quaint neighborhood for its custom homes amid rolling hills and large trees.
One of the neighborhood's newer features is a spate of seismic activity.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Dallas area has suffered almost 40 small earthquakes (magnitude 2.0 or higher) since the beginning of this year, the latest a magnitude-2.7 quake near Farmers Branch on Saturday. Many of the epicenters were recorded in Farmers Branch and Irving, with a couple to the south in Venus.
Reuters
BERKELEY, California - In the wake of the devastating Nepal earthquake, researchers are hard at work developing the next generation of search and rescue tools in the hopes of saving more lives in the aftermath of deadly natural disasters.
At a laboratory in Singapore, a researcher uses a joystick to control the movements of a giant beetle in flight. As the researcher moves his controller left and right, radio waves are sent to a wireless receiver fitted onto the beetle's back, which activates nanowires to stimulate a small muscle in the its wing. Depending on the signal the beetle turns accordingly.