Abby Delaney can roll onto her stomach, hold up her head and turn pages in her favorite books. Her sister, Erin, can now sit up on her own, and she is starting to think about crawling – learning to hold herself up on her small hands and knees. More than …
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AMERICAN GAS EXPORTERS LOOKING FOR EVEN-SHORTER SHORTCUT THROUGH MEXICO, BYPASSING PANAMA CANAL
The LNG carrier Oak Spirit transits the Panama Canal with a cargo of U.S. Shale gas exported from Cheniere’s Sabine Pass terminal and destined for Asia. By Ryan Collins and Lucia Kassai (Bloomberg) — since the first shale gas export terminal opened in Louisiana last year, America’s drillers have seen at least …
Read More »THIS NEW ‘UPLIFTING’ MIRROR FORCES CANCER PATIENTS TO SMILE AT IT
It’s obnoxious enough when strangers tell you to smile, but now a smart mirror is doing the same thing – specifically designed for cancer patients, it won’t reflect unless it detects that the person is smiling. It’s called the Smile Mirror, and it’s a screen with a camera in the frame. …
Read More »ULTRA-LARGE CONTAINERSHIPS SEEN DOMINATING ASIA-EUROPE TRADE IN 2020’S
The ultra-large container vessel OOCL Germany calls at Eurogate Container Terminal in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, in October 2017. The Asia-North Europe trade will be almost entirely operated by ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) during the course of the next three years. But this will leave shippers with significantly fewer sailings each week. …
Read More »TRANSPARENT SOLAR CELLS LIKE THIS COULD DELIVER 40% OF AMERICA’S POWER
Solar energy is off the charts. Not only is uptake skyrocketing, but solar is now the cheapest form of new energy in dozens of countries, with record-setting solar farms being built all around the world. One even looks like a giant panda. But amidst the surge in all things solar, there’s something we’ve been missing. When …
Read More »TITANIC VICTIM’S LETTER SELLS FOR RECORD $166,000
A letter written on April 13, 1912 and recovered from the body of Alexander Oskar Holverson, a Titanic victim, is seen in this photograph. The letter was written by Holverson the day before the ship sank. LONDON (Reuters) – A personal letter found on the body of a man killed …
Read More »SINGLE MOLECULE IN BLOOD THAT MAKES PREDATORS GO CRAZY FOR IT AND THAT SAME CHEMICAL IS REPULSIVE TO HUMANS
A chemical scent contained in the spilt blood of mammals is irresistible to predator species craving fresh kill, but provokes a very different reaction in animals that are hunted. Researchers have found that E2D, a molecular component of animal blood, is as effective as actual blood in luring wolves, tigers, …
Read More »ARCTIC SEA ICE MAY BE DECLINING FASTER THAN EXPECTED -STUDY
Arctic sea ice may be thinning faster than predicted because salty snow on the surface of the ice skews the accuracy of satellite measurements, a new study from the University of Calgary said on Tuesday. The report from the Canadian university’s Cryosphere Climate Research Group published in the academic journal …
Read More »MCKINSEY SAYS CONTAINER SHIPPING SHOULD DIGITIZE
Analyst McKinsey & Company have imagined the future of container shipping 50 years from now and advised companies to digitize their operations to take advantage of digital technologies, big data, the Internet of Things. The company predictes: Autonomous 50,000-TEU ships will plow the seas, perhaps alongside modular, drone-like floating containers, …
Read More »LARGEST LEASE SALE IN U.S. HISTORY PROPOSED
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced a proposal for the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States – 76,967,935 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The proposed region-wide lease sale, offering an …
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