14 MAR 2020 The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a Marine Accident Brief about the March 10, 2019 accident involving the towing vessel Rivers Wilson, which was pushing six loaded barges, when it contacted the Norfolk Southern railway bridge near Jackson, Alabama. The NTSB determined that the probable …
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13 MAR 2020 If you have a baby, you may be worried about them catching the coronavirus, particularly after media reports of an Australian infant diagnosed with it. The good news is, the evidence so far is babies almost never get seriously ill from the coronavirus. And even if infected, they may have no symptoms. …
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13 MAR 2020 IBM and marine research organization Promare have announced that a new artificial intelligence captain (AI Captain) will enable the Mayflower autonomous ship to self-navigate across the Atlantic later this year. With the three hulls of the trimaran Mayflower currently reaching the final phase of construction in Gdansk, Poland, a prototype of …
Read More »12 MAR 2020 The race is on to identify an effective vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Once discovered, the next challenge will be manufacturing and distributing it around the world. My research group has developed a novel method to stabilize live viruses and other biological medicines in a rapidly dissolving film that …
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11 MAR 2020 Time, as far as we know, moves only in one direction. But in 2018, researchers found events in some gamma-ray burst pulses that seemed to repeat themselves as though they were going backwards in time. Now, recent research suggests a potential answer for what might be causing this time …
Read More »10 MAR 2020 In a research note published Thursday, an economist at leading European insurer Allianz SE predicted that the impact of the novel coronavirus on global commerce will be greater than that from the U.S.-China trade war. “We estimate that losses of trade in goods and services could amount …
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