We took months to adjust the organization, training, and support structures of our active combat forces, we experienced major problems with some aspects of the call up and training of our reserves, and we literally had to make thousands of modifications to our combat equipment, munitions, support equipment, and battle management and communications systems.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century

Dr Ip looked at which genes were active in the gill-like structures of the mouth and found one that appears, from its similarity to genes of known function from other species, to encode a urea transporter.

ECONOMIST: Softshell turtles urinate through their mouths

The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.

ENGADGET: 'Talking Places' is the Google Glass of tour guides, we go hands-on (video)