#Custom Engineering latest news
- Bahamas is set to start offshore oil drilling just 150 miles off South Florida November 29, 2020Florida's waters may be protected from offshore drilling but the Bahamas plans to start looking for oil in less than a month at an exploratory well just 150 miles off the coast of the Sunshine State.
- Average winter temperatures in Northeast have warmed by up to 4.8 degrees since 1970, new research shows November 29, 2020In the winter of 1969-70, Philadelphia had an average temperature of 30.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Last year, the average was 39.4.
- Sydney records hottest November night as heatwave sweeps city November 29, 2020Sydney recorded its hottest November night as Australia's largest city suffered through a weekend heatwave that saw daytime temperatures peak above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Mammoth move: loneliest elephant heads to Cambodia after Cher campaign November 29, 2020Following years of public outcry and campaigning by American pop star Cher, the "world's loneliest elephant" embarked Sunday on a mammoth move from Pakistan to retirement in a Cambodian sanctuary.
- Mine ponds amplify mercury risks in Peru's Amazon November 27, 2020The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in Peru's Amazon has dramatically altered the landscape and increased the risk of mercury exposure for indigenous communities and wildlife, a new study shows.
- Melting ice patch in Norway reveals large collection of ancient arrows November 27, 2020A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in Norway and one in the U.K., has unveiled their findings after collecting and studying a very large number of ancient arrows they found near a melting ice patch in Norway's Jotunheimen Mountains. In their paper published in the journal The Holocene, the group describes […]
- Physicists invent printable superconducting device November 27, 2020Superconducting devices such as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interferometry Device) can perform ultra-sensitive measurements of magnetic fields. Leiden physicsts invented a method to 3-D-print these and other superconducting devices in minutes.
- Researchers fabricate co-doped aluminosilicate fiber with high laser stability for multi-kW level laser November 27, 2020Multi-kilowatt (kW) (≥3kW) level fiber lasers with high stability are significant in many applications, and Yb-doped fiber is the key device in such fiber lasers. The incredible advances of the past few decades in fiber fabrication technology have led to an exponential increase in the output power of continuous-wave (CW) fiber lasers. However, with further […]
- Cyprus rocky testing ground for Mars November 27, 2020International and Cypriot experts on Friday discussed a research project to test space equipment on the Mediterranean island before sending it to Mars to measure the age of its rocks, officials said.
- Comet 2019 LD2 (ATLAS) found to be actively transitioning November 27, 2020A comet discovered last year is offering scientists new insights into how these objects "turn on" and evolve, as it actually transitions out of the Centaur population and into the Jupiter Family of Comets (JFCs), according to a paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Jordan Steckloff.