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Cancer cells change shape, how they move to invade different types of tissue, OSU research shows

The World 05 Nov 2021

Sun and collaborators in the OSU colleges of Science and Engineering used a type of artificial intelligence known as computer vision to track a cell’s migration program based on its shape; computer vision derives information from digital photos, video and other visual inputs.

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Manulife, Sun Life warn of more COVID-19 hurdles in Asia

Reuters 04 Nov 2021

Manulife Financial Corp (MFC.TO) and Sun Life Financial Inc (SLF.TO) have been targeting expansion in the region, which has been their growth engine in many past quarters ... Smaller rival Sun Life paid out almost ... Sun Life shares fell 0.8% to C$70.80 in morning trading in Toronto.

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‘Finch’ review: Tom Hanks battles the elements alone. Didn’t he do this in ‘Cast Away’? ...

The Mercury 04 Nov 2021

Louis, where the story initially takes place — has become uninhabitable thanks to a deteriorating ozone layer no longer offering protection from the sun’s UV radiation. There’s not another soul around, only a robotics engineer (Hanks in amiable Hanksian mode) who spends his days ...

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Six Korean series to watch instead of Squid Game

Al Jazeera 03 Nov 2021

In My Mister, Park Dong-hoon (Lee Sun-gyun) is forced to admit that his life is not a happy one. A middle-aged engineer working at a company where a college junior is his boss, he lives with his mother and two unemployed brothers ... When he was a child, Ha Sun’s parents died during an epidemic.

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James Webb Space Telescope, Set To Launch In December, Has Multiple Maryland Connections

CBS Sports 02 Nov 2021

James Webb will operate around the Sun-Earth second Lagrange point,” said NASA mission systems engineer Mike Menzel.READ MORE ... The observatory will stand about three stories tall, weighs six metric tons, and the sun shield alone is the size of a tennis court ... “They’re all single-point failures,” spacecraft systems engineer lead Krystal Puga said.

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World’s First Transnational Solar Panel Network GGI-OSOWOG Launched In Glasgow

The Eastern Herald 02 Nov 2021

2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The International Solar Alliance (ISA), India Presidency of the ISA, and the UK COP Presidency today unveiled plans for the first transnational network of solar power grids, known as the Green Grids Initiative – One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG), at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.

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Our tryst with carbon neutrality and beyond

Live Mint 02 Nov 2021

This was expected ... As an air pollutant, carbon dioxide is a heat trap and therefore our top threat ... That is dangerous ... MORE FROM THIS SECTIONSee All ... solar geo-engineering. This idea is controversial, no doubt, but placing a shield around the globe as a sort of sun-shade could help keep off the heat as we edge close to the danger mark ... Booking pr ... .

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Trucker Hats for Dogs Provide Eye Protection and Street Style

Purcell Register 30 Oct 2021

The idea of a trucker hat for a dog may seem strange, but in fact many dogs, especially those with blue and light-colored eyes, suffer from sun sensitivity that makes them squint and become anxious in bright conditions. Tony Choi, an engineer in San Diego, Calif., and his veterinarian wife, Dr.

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Detector advance could lead to cheaper, easier medical scans

Phys Dot Org 30 Oct 2021

Experimental work was led by Sun Il Kwon, project scientist in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering and Ryosuke Ota at Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan, where the new photon detector technology was developed ... Sun Il Kwon et al, Ultrafast timing enables reconstruction-free positron emission imaging, Nature Photonics (2021).

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Promote water conservation before building pricey pipelines

The Gainesville Sun 29 Oct 2021

The idea attracted widespread criticism, including from the Gainesville Sun Editorial Board ... More Sun editorials. ... GRU senior engineer Rick Hutton told The Sun that the water withdrawal amount is unchanged from the 1990s, despite population increases since that time ... Get a digital subscription to the Gainesville Sun.

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Bill Gates and the Uncertain Future of Food Security

Off Guardian 29 Oct 2021

He owns 500,000 Monsanto shares worth a modest $23 billion, making him, by implication, the sworn enemy of everything under the sun organic and sustainable ... According to their mission statement, Gingko will produce custom organisms, using cell programming technology to genetically engineer flavours and create ingredients for ultra-processed foods.

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Thousands of Space Rocks Follow Jupiter Everywhere

The Atlantic 28 Oct 2021

The pumpkin and these gourds have been on display like this for billions of years, strung together by a quirk of gravity, tracing the same loop around the sun ... The gravitational forces of the sun and Jupiter keep the Trojans where they are; one set always remains ahead of the planet on its path around the sun, and the other always trails behind.

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Making Martian Rocket BioFuel on Mars

Technology Org 27 Oct 2021

An engineered E ... Rocket engines departing Mars are currently planned to be fueled by methane and liquid oxygen (LOX) ... After analysis and preliminary experimental study, we realized that it is actually a good candidate,” said Wenting Sun, associate professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, who works on fuels.

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Pandemic pressures don't apply in certain auto aftermarkets

The Joplin Globe 27 Oct 2021

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As the auto industry has held its breath amidst pandemic-fueled inventory and chip shortages, dealers of certain aftermarket services have been trying to catch theirs ... Valor can repair surface scratches using heat from the sun or a car engine – protecting vehicles and helping them look newer longer ... .

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Workers at Mississippi space center to protest vaccine rules

Morning Times 26 Oct 2021

Stennis Space Center workers plan a prayer rally Tuesday afternoon in Hancock County in south Mississippi, the Sun Herald reported. The center is a NASA national rocket engine test site ... Nyla Trumbach, an engineer at Stennis, said she ...