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Germany says China is operating two illegal ‘police stations’ on its territory. These set-ups don’t have a fixed office, and are run by private individuals from the Chinese diaspora. The aim is to collect information on Chinese dissidents and citizens in exile and pass that on to Beijing.
Its a pattern that’s come to light across the world. An earlier report by Madrid based NGO Safeguard Defenders claimed there were more than a hundred such ‘police stations’ in at least 53 countries. Most exist illegally and aim to monitor, coerce and in some instances repatriate, those Beijing considers criminal or anti-China.

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At number 20 on IE’s 22 best innovations of 2022, we take a look back at this intimate invention.

Can you imagine kissing someone you love long distance? As sci-fi films have showcased this is one innovation that is desired by many. In May of 2022, Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group released a new invention that consists of a headset that can achieve just that.

This impressive achievement was done using ultrasonic transducers.


A spinning top submerged in a liquid can make a striking fractal structure.

Fractals are patterns and structures that repeat themselves at smaller scales when zoomed in. Bavand Keshavarz and Michela Geri at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were studying how one liquid breaks up into droplets when it is mixed into another and unexpectedly discovered a new kind of liquid fractal.

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬

𝙄𝙣 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝘼𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙮𝙣𝙣 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮, 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨


In a new study led by Associate Professor Lynn Perry, researchers have found that the specific types of words children know first can be an early predictor of language difficulties.

The paper, “Late bloomer or disorder? Differences in toddler composition associated with long-term language outcomes,” which was recently published in Developmental Science, suggests that the number of words toddlers know that name things that are similar in shape, such as cup, ball, and spoon (i.e., “shape-based nouns”), can differentiate between children who are considered late bloomers and those who have persisting delays months or years later.