The Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, stretches from the planet's core out into space, where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted by the sun. For the most part, the magnetosphere acts as a shield to protect ...
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In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before ...
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Asics America has become title sponsor of the Mammoth Track Club, one of the country's most respected running clubs. The club has hosted some of America's top distance runners, boasting 12 Olympians, 12 World Cross Country medals, 23 ...
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Landec Corporation, a materials science company that develops and markets innovative and patented products for healthy living applications in food and biomedical markets, is expanding commercial applications for its patented BreatheWay ...
The industrial world as we know it is changing rapidly, making more and more advances and coming up with new processes every day. This means that the supplemental processes that keep these industries functional, like logistics and ...
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The standard will see the introduction of safe, high quality and energy efficient lighting products to the UAE market, as well as the phasing out of low quality, inefficient lighting products. These measures will reduce energy consumption ...
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(Phys.org) —On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, ...
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May Design Series, organised by UBM Live Built Environment, will welcome back DX Freight after its debut last year. This year, DX Freight will host a display of 60 of the best products from the international show circuit in four ...
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Lee Broom has been commissioned by Selfridges in London, one of the world's most famous department stores, to design an innovative new bar to celebrate the first anniversary of its Men's Shoe Galleries. Operated by Mark Hix, the new bar ...
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To better protect lives and property, a new radar network offering higher resolution data and potentially earlier warning of severe weather goes live this month in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex as government, university and industry ...
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has found that temperature feedback in the Arctic is causing more warming in that region than sea ice albedo. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
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UK-based packaging designer and manufacturer Alexir Partnership will introduce its new modified atmosphere board-based food tray produced as part of a joint project between the company and Proseal. According to Alexir, the new ...
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It’s the middle of winter. Icicles glitter from the roofs, white covers the ground. Nothing is further away than the thought of patio furniture. At least that’s what you may think if you’re from the “warm” ...
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The Alexir Partnership will be launching the AlexiMAP at the Packaging Innovations Show on 26-27 February at the NEC in Birmingham on their Innovation Centre stand J43. The AlexiMAP is the result of a joint project between Alexir and ...
Tags: Board-Based Tray, Packaging
Volcanoes spewing Sun-reflecting particles into the atmosphere have partly offset the effects of Man's carbon emissions over a 15-year period that has become a global-warming battleground, researchers said Sunday. A so-called hiatus in ...
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