According to a report from the Lake Carriers’ Association, shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 58.3 million tons in 2013, a decrease of 5.3 percent from 2012. While the trade had been slightly behind 2012’s pace ...
Tags: Iron Ore Shipments, Mineral
Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure and thus cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology suggests. Research carried out at the Universities of Southampton ...
In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
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The battery problem that last year afflicted Boeing's worldwide fleet of 787 Dreamliners appears to have recurred. Japan Airlines grounded its 787s Wednesday after workers noticed smoke emanating from a battery pack on a 787 they were ...
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Marking a milestone in the evolution of fully-bioresorbable drug-eluting scaffolds for interventional cardiology, the first commercial implant of Elixir Medical's CE Mark-approved DESolve Novolimus Eluting Coronary Scaffold was performed in ...
When firefighters want to extinguish a blaze, they often douse it with water. Astronauts on board the ISS, however, are experimenting with a form of water that does the opposite. Instead of stopping fire, this water helps start it. "We ...
The keel laying process for PETRONAS' first floating liquefied natural gas facility (PFLNG 1) has commenced this week, marking another significant milestone in the construction of the facility at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering ...
Tags: Oil News, Gas News, Petronas, Floating LNG
"We knew there was basalt in the Norwegian Sea – but we were still surprised when we found 100-metre thick columnar basalt underneath the extrusive basalt which covers large areas in the western Norwegian Sea," says an excited Robert ...
Tags: Oil News, Gas News, Rov Expedition, Norwegian Sea
Producing brightly speckled red and green snapshots of many different tissues, Johns Hopkins researchers have color-coded cells in female mice to display which of their two X chromosomes has been made inactive, or “silenced.” ...
Tags: X chromosomes, Johns Hopkins, color-coded cells, genetic diversity
The incoloy 800 alloy wire is produced by the special constitution of chemical elements that provide superior chemical properties such as excellent temperature strength and resistance to oxidation and various other chemical environments ...
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Radius Medical has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and product introduction of its new Prodigy support catheter. The company has designed the Prodigy support catheter for providing back up support to the ...
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Haugesund, Norway – January 9, 2014 – DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, today announces that company has been awarded the contract for inspection of the Nord Stream gas export pipelines in the Baltic Sea ...
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The new edition of Maersk Post has been published featuring a wide range of stories from across the Maersk Group, including a report on how Maersk Drilling aims to be a significant player in the ultra-deepwater market. "There is a lot to ...
Tags: Maersk Post, Maersk Group, Maersk Drilling, Chris Hallan
TGS announces four new multi-client surveys; a 3D survey in offshore Northwest Australia, two 2D surveys offshore Madagascar and a 3D survey onshore Alberta, Canada. The Huzzas is a 2,100 km2 3D survey that will cover the Barrow ...
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Ithaca Energy Inc. (TSX: IAE, LSE AIM: IAE) ("Ithaca" or the "Company") announces completion of flow test operations on the second development well on the Stella field and provides an update on Greater Stella Area ("GSA") development ...
Tags: Ithaca, flow test operations, Greater Stella Area, Stella field, A2 well