2,077 search results
World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin

...La Pérouse who had disappeared after leaving Botany Bay in 1788, it also had a scientific purpose. The expedition made a number of important geographical discoveries, amassed a significant collection of natural history specimens and made some of the earliest ethnographic observations of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The expedition also visited Tenerife, the Cape of...
View article World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin
Article 5 mins
Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Nature & Environment

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

...based on technology already tested by the same engineers, but made more attractive with a switch to chemical components that are non-toxic, non-flammable, and safe for use in homes and offices. Electrical action Typically, flow batteries have exploited a metal, such as vanadium, dissolved in acid to deliver electrical action. Kaixiang Lin, a chemistry student at Harvard,...
View article Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Article 5 mins
Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?
Money & Business

Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?

...based in the City are planning to leave for Dublin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris,” the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, told journalists soon after the UK’s referendum. Other countries in the European Union are also intent on stealing financial services jobs from the UK. Even the economy minister of Bulgaria, the EU’s poorest country, invited City of London...
View article Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?
Article 5 mins
Is norovirus an economic threat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is norovirus an economic threat?

...based on the computational simulation model study published in PLOS ONE. That’s $15 billion more than the insurance payouts for Hurricane Katrina, $40 billion more than the estimated costs of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and $20 billion more than the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake. That’s over sixty Airbus A380 airplanes, one of the largest passenger...
View article Is norovirus an economic threat?
Article 5 mins
Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...based on fundamental principles which are applicable across a very wide range of experience and circumstances, no matter when or where they occur. This case study dates from 1965, and is an example of a situation that still occurs frequently. The company concerned was the leader in its market in the food canning industry in the UK and belonged to a large parent group. Its...
View article Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Article 5 mins
Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...base material, but also from the structure applied to the material. Common examples have existed for centuries, such as corrugated cardboard (patented in 1871) used in packaging materials, foams (such as the memory foam developed in 1960s by NASA) used in mattresses, and lattice structures used in bridges and other structures (including the Eiffel Tower, built from 1887...
View article Design from the inside
Article 5 mins
Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...based industrial past overlooks another important and continuing aspect of its cultural heritage. For in the 1960s, while the number of potbanks was declining daily, the city also boasted twelve flourishing Spiritualist churches. The earliest written evidence of Spiritualism in Stoke-on-Trent is from a newspaper article in the Staffordshire Daily Sentinel in 1873. Since...
View article Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
Article 5 mins
Manual metal arc welding (MMA)
Science, Maths & Technology

Manual metal arc welding (MMA)

...base metal, and molten core wire from the electrode, forms the welded joint. Welding materials are shielded from contaminants in the atmosphere by gases produced from the flux coating. ...MMA welding (flux-coated electrode) An electric arc is produced between a metal electrode, carrying a high current, and the workpiece to be joined. Under the intense heat of the arc...
View article Manual metal arc welding (MMA)
Article 10 mins