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NeoCoV: What is coronavirus strain which ‘could jump from bats to humans’?
News stories this week claimed a "new Covid variant" known as “NeoCoV” had emerged and threatened higher infection and
Engineering Analytics platform, Hatica, emerges from stealth with US$900,000 pre-seed funding
GURGAON, India and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Engineering Analytics platform, Hatica, has emerged from stealth with a $900,000 pre-seed funding, led by Kae Capital and followed by Titan Capital, iSeed Ventures, and angel investor GBS
I shared details of my brother’s degenerative disease without his consent | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
While you believe your extended family had the right to know about the gene passed on by your late father, that information wasn’t yours to share My dad died two years ago, exposing a sea of secrets and lies. He’d had a degenerative condition, but was totally
Comment on I got a £27,000 bill after Range Rover’s engine seized up just months ...
A FURIOUS mum was slapped with a £27,000 bill after her Range Rover engine seized and she was told it was HER fault. Zara Ahmed, from Essex, noticed issues with her three-year-old car when it would SHAKE and make a
Dalriada Drug Discovery to Collaborate with atai Life Sciences’ New Platform Company to Discover Next-Generation Therapies for Mental Health
Dalriada Drug Discovery to Collaborate with atai Life Sciences’ New Platform Company to Discover Next-Generation Therapies for Mental Health Invyxis to leverage Dalriada’s agile Turn-KeyTM model to establish and rapidly advance a pipeline of NCEs in
Ending masks and isolation will kill vulnerable people
Last week Boris Johnson announced his latest changes to the pandemic restrictions in England: in brief, that he was scrapping most of them. As of yesterday, masks no longer need to be worn in public, and what has really spooked many of us is the suggestion
UK pipeline decom firm targets more oil & gas clients with new facility
Northern Ireland-headquartered pipeline decommissioning specialist Decom Engineering has opened a new facility near Aberdeen […] The post UK pipeline decom firm targets more oil & gas... ... ...
New lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Norway
Canada-based Ly-Cycle has formed a joint venture with Norwegian-headquartered strategic partners Eco Stor and Morrow Batteries to build a new commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility in southern Norway. With demand for battery storage set to go
Google to invest up to $1 billion in India’s Bharti Airtel
FILE PHOTO: A girl checks her mobile phone as she walks past the Bharti Airtel office building in Gurugram, previously known as Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi BENGALURU (Reuters) -Alphabet Inc’s Google
Future Leaders Winner Passionate About Math & Science
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (CBS4) – Every month during the school year, CBS4 partners with PDC Energy to celebrate high school students who excel at science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. The Future Leaders award comes with $1,000 and a
This Week In Science!
YouTuber Wins World Record For World's First Retractable Lightsaber A YouTuber has entered the Guinness Book of World Records after creating the world's first retractable "lightsaber". It can produce a 1-meter (3.28-foot) long plasma blade when initiated – far
Study finds zoos might be able to improve lives of animals
Exeter: A recent study has found that zoos and aquariums could improve the lives of a wider range of their animals. The study has been published in the ‘Animal Welfare Journal’. The use of “environmental enrichment” (giving animals
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Degree Days Helps Utilities Prepare For Energy Demand
During the winter most utilities are worried about outages due to a destructive weather trifecta of extreme cold, heavy precipitation and strong winds, such as the one expected to hit the Northeast this weekend. ...
Nano-architected material refracts light backward; an important step toward creating photonic circuits
A newly created nano-architected material exhibits a property that previously was just theoretically possible: it can refract light backward, regardless of the angle at which the light strikes the material. This property is known as negative refraction and it
Void-confinement effect of nanoreactor promotes heterogeneous catalysis
A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently obtained a catalyst composed of the hollow carbon sphere and inner Ni nanoparticles (Ni@HCS), which displayed good performance when applied in
Why Gambia should fast-track gender quotas for women
Women have historically been poorly represented in positions of power and decision-making in Gambia. Out of 58 National Assembly members, only six are women lawmakers and only three of these are elected. Women make up more than half of the Gambian population,
Panama’s Success Is Defying Political Science
The Latin American country has experienced one of the world’s most impressive—and surprising—trajectories of the past three decades. ...
Analysis-Aerospace firms brace for turbulence in Russian titanium supplies
By Mike Stone and Tim Hepher WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) – Western aerospace companies have increased stocks of titanium and are scrambling to shore up supply chains in case the metal used widely in planemaking is thrust into a potential trade war between
Is it time to ditch cloth face masks for FFP2 or next-generation alternatives?
As the Covid pandemic has unfolded, the choice of face coverings has mushroomed Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage During the early days of the pandemic the choice was simple: you either wore a reusable cloth mask or a disposable
Sound Engineer Training, February 2022
The Vortex Jazz Club is arranging an introductory course for six would-be�sound�engineers, starting in February. It
Construction, operation of buildings responsible for 38% global emissions: WEF
Construction and operation of buildings are responsible for 38 per cent of global emissions and there is an urgent need for solutions to help accelerate decarbonisation of the urban-built environment to limit the global temperature rise to below 1.5�C, the
Binary black hole spin behavior revealed using novel techniques
Research done at Cornell has uncovered from gravitation wave data the first potential signs of spin-orbit resonances in binary black holes, a step toward understanding the mechanisms of supernovas and other big questions in astrophysics. “These
