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Instant diagnoses via lab-on-a-chip
Soon, your family doctor will no longer have to send blood or cancer cell samples to the laboratory. A little chip will give her an Instant diagnoses.
November 17, 2010
New polio vaccine may eradicate the disease
A new polio vaccine holds the potential to eradicate the disease from our planet in as little as three years, according to a new study.
November 15, 2010
Managing hazards with process safety
A Shell safety engineer talks about managing hazards when a potentially harmful event in oil and natural gas production takes place - a fire or an explosion.
November 15, 2010
Safety of work crews on major industrial projects
Sipke Mennes talks about what it’s like to be responsible for the safety of large crews of workers on a Shell industrial construction project.
November 8, 2010
Wrasse to fight salmon lice
Researchers use a biological weapon to fight salmon lice. One of the methods being discussed is the use of a small fish, the wrasse.
November 2, 2010
World’s largest tropical ice sheet is shrinking
Thompson says the Quelccaya tropical ice sheet in Peru's Andes mountains is bigger than 10 thousand football fields – but it's shrinking.
November 1, 2010
Oil and gas industry workplace safety
Steve Beckett spoke with EarthSky about some of his company's methods for keeping people safe in their oil and gas production.
November 1, 2010
New elastic materials for renewable wave energy
New elastic materials that can generate electricity may help make wave power cheaper to develop. Read more about the fabric here.
October 25, 2010
Ka’iulani Murphy’s star compass helps navigate oceans
Ka'iulani Murphy talks about "non-instrument" navigation, steering a double-hulled canoe across the sea with only celestial bodies and waves to guide it.
October 25, 2010
The mathematics of war with Sean Gourley
Gourley says that mathematics can help predict the timing and size of attacks in certain types of war, regardless of where, and why, these attacks are taking place. Read more about the mathematics of war.
October 25, 2010
