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All the latest on newscientist.com: ironic electronics, blood minerals, ultimate world clock, bionic pancreas unlocks shackles of diabetes and more

Why electric car maker Tesla has torn up its patents
Rival electric car makers are not the enemy 鈥 petrol stations are. So opening up Tesla鈥檚 patents may not be as crazy as it sounds, says Will Oremus

Baby鈥檚 haunting cry created by online reverb room
快猫短视频 uploaded the sound of a baby crying to test out the National Physical Laboratory鈥檚 acoustic reverberation room, to eerie effect

My dive into the blighted future of acidified oceans
Under the waves of Papua New Guinea, a vent of pure carbon dioxide showed BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin what a CO2-choked ocean looks like

Bionic pancreas frees people from shackles of diabetes
A smartphone-linked 鈥減ancreas鈥 removes the need for people with type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor and tweak their blood sugar 鈥 with profound results

Isn鈥檛 it ironic? The value of sarcasm
Sarcasm may be called the lowest form of wit, but it still exercises psychologists, linguists and computer scientists hoping to build automatic irony detectors

Create the ultimate world clock with a quantum link
A network of ultra-precise atomic clocks could be kept in sync with the spooky property of entanglement, creating the first truly global time stamp

Blood minerals are electronics industry鈥檚 dirty secret
A crackdown in the US is forcing technology firms to come clean about the source of the minerals used in their smartphones and electronics

Brazil鈥檚 mega power line threatens Amazon鈥檚 top reserve
Extending an electrical power line through parts of the Amazon would destroy one of the world鈥檚 most precious nature reserves, say environmentalists

Listen to sounds inside the body to monitor health
Chewing, breathing, heartbeats and a gurgling stomach 鈥 your body鈥檚 internal symphony plus a wireless microphone could yield round-the-clock medical data