On Earth, liquid flows downhill thanks to gravity. Creating an effective liquid fuel tank involves little more than putting a hole at the bottom of a container.
Day: March 11, 2017
First Global Maps of Volcanic Emissions Use NASA Satellite Data
But only occasionally. A less dramatic but important process is continuous gas emissions from volcanoes; in other words, as they exhale.
Trump Said to Weigh Political Risks of Firing CFPB’s Cordray
Since Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, he’s faced demands from Republican lawmakers to quickly oust the head of a controversial financial regulator. The president indicated this week that he’s proceeding cautiously.
nanotek 2017
Nanotek 2017 is comprised of several tracks designed to offer comprehensive and interesting sessions that address current trending technologies in Nano fields. Nanotechnology plays key roles in science and technology in current era.
Value For Losses
The purpose of business, said iconic management guru Peter Drucker, is to find or create a customer. He defined a customer as someone who pays a business for goods sold or services rendered.
How Start-Ups Die Plop
They were to inherit the earth. Start-ups, the playfield of the young and the restless, have had a hard reality check.
pando_ruffus 0.1.37
Pando_ruffus is a bioinformatics tool for for exploring and characterising bacterial genome data. Input is paired-end reads and assemblies.
Snowflake school makes top 10 in national STEM contest
Snowflake school makes top 10 in national STEM contest Their invention could save countless human and animal lives. You can help them win by voting on social media.
Top Trump confidante admits to speaking privately with…
OCTOBER 08: Political consultant Roger Stone speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival 2016 – ‘President Trump: Life As We May Know It,’ featuring Max Boot, Amy Davidson, Roger Stone, and Sean Wilentz in conversation with Evan Osnos at MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre on October 8, 2016 in New York City.
Hart to Heart: The fight to save Nicholas’ life
The battle against B Cell High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia has been beyond challenging for 12-year-old Nicholas Childers of Savannah. The Hancock Day School seventh-grader has endured multiple medical complications during rigorous treatment since being diagnosed with B-ALL in 2015.
Storm Watch – Plowable Snow Potential Sunday – Northeast Blizzard Brewing
Sunday Snow Potential but Springy Next Weekend Our oldest son moved to Seattle with his new bride, taking a job at Cray, the supercomputer company that powers weather models at NOAA and ECMWF . He was hoping to take a badly-needed break from the merciless cold and snow of a Minnesota winter.
Scientists grow potato under Mars-like conditions in Peru
Potatoes on Mars? Scientists are reporting promising results growing the tuber under conditions that mimic the Red Planet in an experiment in Peru linked to US space agency NASA. “Preliminary results are positive,” the International Potato Center said this week after a potato grew under simulated Mars atmospheric conditions in an experiment in Lima.
Health warning: Poisonous Chinatown herbal tea leaves two critically ill, could kill others
Health officials warned the public Friday to throw away any herbal tea purchased from a Chinatown shop, after two people became critically ill after consuming the tea which was found to contained Aconite, a lethal poison. In separate incidents from February and March, a woman in her 50s and a man in his 30s became gravely ill within an hour of drinking tea made from leaves supplied by the same San Francisco herbalist.
Moto Z (2017) accidentally spotted ahead of official launch
We’re getting a clear picture of what to expect from Motorola ‘s next-generation smartphone – including how it looks. At its press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, Motorola launched new Moto Mods, including a game pad that appears to show off the successor to the Moto Z smartphone.
Fried Egg? Flying Saucer? Nope. Just Cool New Closeups of Saturn’s Moon Pan
This new view of Saturn’s moon Pan is the closest yet, snapped by Cassini from a distance of 15,268 miles on March 7, 2017. Pan measures 22 miles wide by 14 miles across and displays a number of small craters along with parallel ridges and grooves in addition to its relatively smooth equatorial “flap.”
Unvarnished truth key to Silicon Valley success
As we clang towards our automated, robot future, the arts and sciences of management need an overhaul. Companies are heading for dramatic changes, and people are going to need different kinds of handling.
Bharara, Wall Street’s Cop, Among Prosecutors Asked to Quit
Wall Street enforcer Preet Bharara may be forced out as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan despite assurances he said he had received from the incoming Trump administration that he would remain in the job. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday abruptly asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys, all those remaining who had served under former President Barack Obama.