News tagged with hazardous situation

New method cleans up textile industry's most dangerous chemicals

Textile dying is one of the most environmentally hazardous aspects of the textile industry. During dying, harmful chemicals that are difficult to break down are released, all too often into rivers and agricultural land. However, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Creating resilience for vehicular applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed promising approaches to a long-neglected aspect of car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications: fault-tolerance and resilience. The technology is ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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The environment and pharmaceuticals and personal care products: What are the big questions?

Researchers at the University of York headed a major international review aimed at enhancing efforts to better understand the impacts of chemicals used in pharmaceuticals or in personal care products, such as cosmetics, soaps, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amateur astronomers boost ESA's asteroid hunt

A partnership with the UK’s Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency’s space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Foxconn shows off changes at factory campus

The global controversy surrounding the treatment of assembly-line workers who manufacture iPhones and iPads - and just about every other consumer device - is triggering an unprecedented effort by Apple Inc. and its chief ...

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NOAA near-term weather forecasts get powerful boost from new computer model

Starting today, NOAA is using a sophisticated new weather forecast computer model to improve predictions of quickly developing severe weather events including thunderstorms, winter storms and aviation hazards ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Cadillac testing 'Super Cruise' feature for future cars

(Phys.org) -- Cadillac is reportedly joining the crowd working on features that it says should reduce car accidents by allowing the car to drive itself under optimal conditions, relieving the driver from fatigue, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Poor spring rain projected in Africa

Spring rains in the eastern Horn of Africa are projected to begin late this year and be substantially lower than normal.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In certain jobs supervisor support can reduce absenteeism

A supportive supervisor can keep employees in certain hazardous jobs from being absent even when co-workers think it's all right to miss work, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UA engineer launches robotic planetary Lake Lander

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wolfgang Fink of the University of Arizona department of electrical and computer engineering has developed an autonomous robotic lake lander that could be used to explore this planet and others.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Near-miss asteroid will return next year

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet – but not by much. The 50 m space rock is expected to come closer than many satellites, highlighting ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Using graphene foam to detect subtle traces of hazardous gases, explosives

Fazel Yavari has developed a new sensor to detect extremely small quantities of hazardous gases. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doctoral student harnessed the power of the world’s thinnest material, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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