Human Genome Editing Summit Kicks Off in Hong Kong
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November 27, 2018
Engineering News
InSight Mission Shows That CubeSats Can Relay Messages From Deep Space
Two CubeSats, MarCO A and MarCO B, have gone where no CubeSats have gone before: beyond low Earth orbit. MarCO A and B—short for Mars Cube One—traveled to the Red Planet in a mission to prove that the tiny satellites can be useful in deep space. The MarCO satellites made the journey alongside NASA’s InSight […]
November 26, 2018
Statement from the Organizing Committee on Reported Human Embryo Genome Editing
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Hope Exists to Reverse Bee Colonies Collapse if We Take Action
photo by Justin Hunter The bee colony collapse disorder has been ongoing for more than 10 years and while some scientific understanding has been gained the complexity of the problem continues to stifle progress. The first post I wrote on this blog about colony collapse disorder was published in 2006. As early as 2007 a […]
China Gears Up for Ambitious Landing on the Moon’s Far Side
Image: Xinhua/Alamy Touchdown: Humans will steer China’s Chang’e-4 lander through the first half of its descent to the moon’s surface. Then, the spacecraft will complete its landing autonomously. In December, China will attempt the first soft landing of a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. No official date has been announced, but the […]
An Airplane With No Moving Parts
MIT researchers have flown the first airplane that has no moving parts. The aircraft, packed with lithium-ion batteries, used an ion thruster to fly the 60 meters that were available in the indoor flight area. “This was the simplest possible plane we could design that could prove the concept that an ion plane could fly,” said Steven Barrett, […]
A Vote of Mass Importance: Historic SI Unit Overhaul Redefines Kilogram, Ampere, and More
Our standards of measurement seem, well, standard. A meter is a meter. A second is a second. The units by which we measure our world simply are—they feel as immutable as an ocean wave. But these longtime standards are set to change. A governing body unanimously voted Friday for the biggest ever overhaul of the […]
New methods for hydro transportation
Active Minerals International (AMI) and OSD of Australia have entered into a binding agreement that provides a step change in transportation costs to the mining industry via hydro transportation (slurry) of lump coal and magnetite via pipeline. OSD and AMI have come together to provide this solution which has the potential to significantly reduce OPEX, […]
November 15, 2018
Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure – New Report
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Major contract extension in Azerbaijan
Expro has strengthened the opening of its new purpose-built facilities in Baku, winning a four year contract extension for BP’s Shah Deniz Stage 2 project. The contract extension will see Expro continue its provision of subsea landing string equipment and services to the project in the South Caspian Sea. In 2014, Expro secured a five […]