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SomeGuy writes:In the early morning hours of June 24, 2021, half of the 12-story Surfside Florida luxury condominium, Champlain Towers South, came crashing to the ground, killing 98 occupants.In a recent public update, the NIST detailed the lengthy work needed to uncover the causes of this collapse.This includes building design, construction, modification, and deterioration analysis, evidence preservation, remote sensing analysis using data collected with tools such as LIDAR during recovery, material tests on recovered evidence, a geotechnical analysis of the surrounding soil and geologic conditions, as well as detailed structural and failure analysis using computer modeling.Additionally, they will interview people with historic knowledge of construction in south Florida, and continue to accept information from the public that could shed additional light on this tragedy.Although answers from NIST's investigation will not be forthcoming for a number of years, many individuals unrelated to the NIST have combed through publicly available information to find possible causes.While precise triggers leading to the collapse may never be known, most public evidence, as this video demonstrates, points to two key factors: Badly neglected and deteriorated pool deck concrete slab that lead to a pool deck collapse, and resulting damage to three key building support columns that lead to the building collapse minutes later.A timeline based on public witness accounts, details the dramatic events of that morning.In an interesting twist, this USA Today article digs deep in to possible drug related money laundering and corruption surrounding the building's construction.AP News reports a lawsuit that was just filed alleges previous construction next door contributed to the collapse.Most of the media has focused on the lack of "answers" from the NIST and other organizations. Youtuber Jeff Ostroff has compiled an informative explanation of who NIST is, why the NIST is investigating, and why this takes so long.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US in one year, a record:

upstart writes:Scientist advances prospect of regeneration in humans:

upstart writes:NASA's Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars helicopter:

upstart writes:NASA tracked wild 'earthgrazer' meteor fireball for 186 miles through the air:

takyon writes:Microsoft is no longer bringing x64 emulation to Windows 10 on ARM

Phoenix666 brings us this EV-themed story from the BBC:

takyon writes:Paralysed mice walk again after a single injection

upstart writes:Developing Telecoms reveals the biggest data center in UAE.:

upstart writes:Black holes slamming into the moon could end the dark-matter debate:

upstart writes:Perceptual links between sound and shape may unlock origins of spoken words:

owl writes:https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/the-end-of-click-to-subscribe-call-to-cancel-one-of-the-news-industrys-favorite-retention-tactics-is-illegal-ftc-says/

upstart writes:OSU study yields a first in fossil research: Seeds sprouting from an amber-encased pine cone:

New iodine-based plasma thruster tested in orbitFreeman and AnonTechie write:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/new-iodine-based-plasma-thruster-tested-in-orbit/

takyon writes:The shareholder fight that forced Apple's hand on repair rights

An Anonymous Coward writes:The latest offering of FPGAs may have just been announced.

An Anonymous Coward writes:I think this was posted before, but worth repeating since it will come about this Friday.https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1056205732/lunar-eclipse-moon-friday-morning-how-to-see

takyon writes:'Apple Must be Stopped' and Google is 'Crazy' Says Tim Sweeney

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/nuclear-radiation-used-to-transmit-digital-data-wirelessly

upstart writes:Open-sourcing of protein-structure software is already paying off:

hubie writes:From a recent Science Reports paper:

upstart writes:Mathematicians derive the formulas for boundary layer turbulence 100 years after the phenomenon was first formulated:

upstart writes:Hospitals are at a high risk of cyberattacks, but patients don't realize it:

upstart writes:New Human Lineage Discovered In Indonesian Cave - Asian Scientist Magazine:

upstart writes:Study Shows Immune Cells Against Covid-19 Stay High in Number Six Months After Vaccination:

acid andy writes:The Guardian newspaper reports that Doctors are seeing young adults developing tics and seizures that usually start in childhood, with some people linking it to social media use.

upstart writes:Using mechanical tools improves our language skills:

hubie writes:It is fairly common these days when visiting a doctor's office or entering a port of entry to have one's forehead scanned by a Non-Contact Infrared Thermometer (NCIT) to check for fever (temperature greater than 38 °C). The measurements are typically very quick and easy to make. NCITs are not as accurate as contact thermometers, so it is important to know whether convenience is being traded for accuracy.NCITs measure forehead temperature by detecting infrared radiant energy. Since the temperature of the forehead skin is lower than the core body temperature, the device manufacturers use propriety algorithms to correct for this. Depending upon the device, it might also factor in the ambient measurement conditions such as the room temperature and skin emissivity. These devices may give erroneous results from not only issues with the hardware or algorithms, but also in how they are used (pointed too far away or at the wrong angle), or the local conditions of the forehead skin (local heating or cooling from sweat or moisture). FDA approved devices conform to voluntary standards that specify they should be within ± 0.3 °C of a laboratory source.FDA researchers measured oral temperatures from more than 1000 subjects using a clinical-grade reference thermometer and compared that to measurements made at the center of the forehead using six different models of NCITs. Although it is expected that the variability in a clinical setting would be larger than in the lab, they saw that the error can range from − 3 to + 2 °C in extreme cases, with the majority of the errors ranging from − 2 to + 1 °C.

upstart writes:New Windows 11 build fixes widespread printer issues, system freezes:

upstart writes:PFAS exposure, high-fat diet drive prostate cells' metabolism into pro-cancer state: Dietary fat synergizes with PFAS to trigger cancer in benign cells, accelerate tumor growth in malignant cells:

takyon writes:Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details, Proton Update Available For Testing

canopic jug writes:Two Finnish news sites, YLE and Helsinki Times, are reporting that Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters fame has begun a five year stint as professor of "practice" at the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. He was previously awarded an honorary doctorate by the same institution and there is a prototyping lab named after him where students can design, build, and test prototypes. He is said to be on site at the moment but the first lecture is scheduled to take place via proprietary videoconferencing software.

upstart writes:US says it 'won't tolerate' Russia's 'reckless and dangerous' anti-satellite missile test:

Top500: No Exascale, Fugaku Still Reigns, Polaris Debuts at #12MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramSource: https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/11/15/top500-no-exascale-fugaku-still-reigns-polaris-debuts-at-12/

upstart writes:Zero-day bug in all Windows versions gets free unofficial patch:

upstart writes:Polymer discovery gives 3D-printed sand super strength:

upstart writes:Team of Experts Approve Do-It-Yourself Artificial Pancreas for People With Type 1 Diabetes:

Just days after voting to water down restrictions on fossil fuel use at COP26, India finds itself struggling to deal with the consequences of fossil fuel use.New Delhi Braces for Emergency Measures as Toxic Smog Worsensupstart writes:New Delhi braces for emergency measures as toxic smog worsens:

upstart writes:Surveillance firm pays $1 million fine after 'spy van' scandal:

upstart writes:NASA's Juno Captures Jupiter Photo So Gorgeous You'll Swear It's Fake:

upstart writes:Facebook Puts Instagram for Kids on Hold after Pushback:

upstart writes:Amazon Rainforest birds' bodies transform due to climate change:

sgleysti writes:I'd like to know Soylentils' takes on the following Sci-Fi thought experiment:In the near future, scientists create a safe, non-invasive, and irreversible procedure that causes a person to perceive reality without any human biases. It is offered to the general public at no cost and takes 15 minutes with no convalescence time or physical restrictions. The effects take hold gradually over the course of 24 hours and are thereafter permanent.Would you do it?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Cheers! Better Beer From CRISPR Gene-Edited Barley:

upstart writes:China "Boldly Goes" for Space Independence - Asian Military Review:

upstart writes:Team engineers new way to get medication past blood-brain barrier: UT Dallas researchers method uses light and nanoparticles to pry open tight junction:

upstart writes:Why the chip shortage drags on and on... and on:

martyb writes:Back on November 1, 2021 I announced a Folding@Home contest.

hubie writes:It is no surprise that driver lane changes in traffic affects the flow of traffic itself. When the density of vehicles is low, it can lead to efficiencies in traffic flow. However, when the density reaches a certain level, it has the opposite effect. In this situation, when a driver moves into another lane, the vehicle behind the lane-changing vehicle suffers a delay, which leads to a delay imposed upon the vehicle behind it, etc., that compounds itself as a delay that ripples through the traffic behind. There are several traffic flow models that simulate this, but they can be contradictory in their results. A group of researchers from the Department of Traffic Management School at the People's Public Security University of China obtained quantitative data on this effect by flying DJI Phantom 4 drones over a target vehicle driving in congested traffic. They found that a single lane change (LC) adds between 3.9–9.5 seconds of delay to the cars in the trarget lane.A key dependency observed, which would not surprise too many people who are accustomed to driving in congested traffic, was the space between vehicles. They found that 5.5 meters was a break point between behavior for the trailing vehicle in the next lane. It was found that when the distance between vehicles is less than 5.5 m, the vehicle following the target vehicle tends to drive at a constant speed or decelerate, but when the distance between vehicles is greater than 5.5 m, the vehicle following the target vehicle tends to first accelerate to prevent the target vehicle from entering the lane (Ed note: I've always thought of this as "Philadelphia driving etiquette"), but then the speed gradually decreases when the target vehicle is forcibly inserted.

upstart writes:FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks: