Cat Saves Man From Burning HomeSource: BBC News
Andrew Williams who was sleeping when fire began in his home on August 1, 2009, was awakened by "his neighbor's cat Hugo."
BBC NEWS | Europe | How to dismantle a nuclear bombSource: BBC News
A joint mock exercise by both UK and Norway, but kept as realistic as possible, of how to disarm a nuclear bomb or verify in the dismantlement of another country's nuclear weapon. A BBC correspondent finds out.
Passenger fixes faulty airlinerSource: BBC News
Holidaymakers avoided a long delay to their flight home when a passenger fixed a mechanical problem with their plane.
Passengers on Thomas Cook flight TCX9641 from Menorca were told to expect an eight-hour wait while an engineer was flown out from the UK.
Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of NeuroengineeringSource: Wired News
Metaphorically, the neuroengineering approach brings the study of the brain into the Age of Enlightenment. By isolating, then testing and altering individual parts of the neural system, we can, for the first time, truly understand what those components do.
IT admin plotted to erase Fannie Mae Source: The Register (UK)
A fired computer engineer for Fannie Mae has been arrested and charged with planting a malicious software script designed to permanently destroy millions of dollars worth of data from all 4,000 servers operated by the mortgage giant.
Engineer sentenced in deadly Bavarian ice rink accident Source: thelocal.de
A civil engineer responsible for building an ice rink that collapsed and killed 15 people in Bad Reichenhall almost two years ago has been handed an 18-month suspended sentence for negligent homicide on Tuesday.
Live fish caught at record depthSource: BBC News
A live deep-sea fish has been caught at a record depth of 2,300m on the hot vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Three shrimp species were also pulled to the surface, researchers report in the journal Deep-Sea Research.
The Bubble BurstsSource: Science: Current Issue
A Purdue University nuclear engineer who claimed to have carried out tabletop nuclear fusion is responsible for two instances of scientific misconduct, a report made public today concludes.
American allegedly spied for Israel, arrestedSource: msnbc.com
A U.S. Army mechanical engineer has been arrested on charges that he slipped classified documents about nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli Consulate, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software EngineerSource: Read/WriteWeb
Every company is a tech company these days. From software startups to hedge funds to pharmaceutical giants to big media, they're all increasingly in the business of software. Quality code has become not only a necessity, but a competitive differentiator.
MapReduce ExplainedSource: Google Blogoscoped
Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google's programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google's server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on h …