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Submission + - End of the Line for Smelly Socks (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by athe!st on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @01:28PM

athe!st writes: A new anti-microbial treatment that can make clothing — including smelly socks — permanently germ-free has been developed by US scientists. In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal Applied Materials and Interfaces, Dr Jason Locklin and his colleagues state that the treatment kills a wide range of dangerous pathogens, including staph, strep, E. coli, pseudomonas and acetinobacter.

Submission + - ITAR damaging US space industry (theiet.org)

Submitted by athe!st on Thursday September 09, 2010 @06:23PM

athe!st writes: International Traffic in Arms Regulations(ITAR) are a major headache for companies trying to put their satellites into space, so much so that some companies are using ITAR-free (aka free of US technology) as a selling point. The European Space Agency is trying to reduce it's dependence of ITAR components and it's also threatening the nascent space tourism industry.

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