Given North America's recent record-breaking cold with its thousands of cancelled airline flights, ice and aviation are very much in the news-especially the ice that cakes up on wings and tails, requiring trips to de-icing stations on the ...
Tags: Aircraft Icing, Alpha Particles
A trio of researchers (two from the University of Chicago, the other from Princeton) has proposed a new theory to explain the sudden breakup of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002. In their paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, Alison ...
Tags: Larsen B Ice Shelf, sudden breakup, cause of the collapse, drainage
Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great potentials, but also give rise to major ethical concerns. In their review ...
Tags: cyborgs, cybernetic organism, medical implants, electronics
Different metals have long been a strong and preferred source for many different things. Because different metals are so strong and able to withstand a lot of pressure and even he, it is useful in so many of the things that we use today. ...
Sitting down all day is bad for you, or so doctors say. There's been a burst of interest in standing desks, but they're not that easy to use, and it's hard to motivate sitters to stand. Stir, a company founded by a former Apple engineer, ...
Tags: Stir, table, hi-tech, Stir Kinetic desk
The sale of seed treatments has tripled in the last decade. Why? It makes economic sense for the farmers who use them, says Jay Vroom, CropLife Foundation president and CEO. Vroom and CropLife Foundation had a press conference at the ...
TAG Oil Ltd. (the "Company" or "TAG") (TSX: TAO) and (OTCQX: TAOIF) is pleased to provide the following exploration and development drilling update in both the shallow and deeper targets within the Taranaki Basin. As TAG enters calendar ...
Tags: TAG, Taranaki Basin, operational update, exploration targets
PetroFrontier Corp. ("PetroFrontier") is pleased to announce that the Joint Venture OperatingCommittee has approved the 2014 Work Plan and Budget (the "2014 WP&B"). The 2014 WP&B includes the drilling of up to five vertical test wells. All ...
It seems like only yesterday we awarded the Ford Fiesta ST a win against its Peugeot 208 GTi and Volkswagen Polo GTI rivals (read more here), then went a step further by crowning it one of the best-ever hot-hatches created and one of the ...
Tags: Ford, Renault Clio RS200
GOLDCORP INC. (TSX: G, NYSE: GG) today announced gold production and preliminary cash costs for 2013, and provided production and cash cost guidance for 2014 and the five-year period ending 2018. Goldcorp's year-end financial statements ...
Tags: GOLDCORP, gold production, cash costs, guidance for 2014
Corvus Gold Inc. ("Corvus" or the "Company") - (TSX: KOR, OTCQX: CORVF) announces initial assay results from three core holes along the northern extension of the Yellowjacket deposit, and two core holes from the western extension of the ...
Tags: Corvus, Yellowjacket deposit, assay result, Sierra Blanca deposit
The complete temperature control in bending is the very crucial factor in obtaining the warm malleability. The advanced heating of all equipments and dies at temperatures of 500oF or 260oC is preferred to prevent the cooling of Incoloy 800H ...
When you think about cleaning, polishing and deburring, you will find plenty of options but these options are very expensive and time-wasting. The brushes are the best option for your problem, and circular brush is one of the best from all ...
Tags: Circular Brush, Brush, Tools, Hardware
In the aftermath of a house fire, many homeowners can anticipate a great deal of time and money will be spent on restoring the structure back to habitable conditions, even if the fire was very minor. Let's take for example a lightning ...
Florida Tile's Craftsman DP line has been expanded to include 6x6 and 12x24-inch floor and wall tile sizes. "The new larger formats will be offered in all three colors, Biscuit, Rye and Wheat," said Sean Cilona, marketing manager for ...
Tags: Tile, Construction