World Health Organization increased estimate of air pollution deaths to 7 million deaths per year in 2012 which is more than double prior estimates and shows it is the single largest environmental health risk

April 7, 2017March 29, 2014 by Brian Wang

In new estimates, WHO (World Health Organization) reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died – one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Reducing air …

Cheap sanitary pads are better than Apple iPads for poor women in India by improving lives, improving health and providing thousands of jobs

April 7, 2017March 5, 2014 by Brian Wang

A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads. Arunachalam Muruganantham’s invention came at great personal cost – he nearly lost his family, his money and his place in society. In …

Saturn’s moon Titan is covered with liquid methane lakes

April 7, 2017December 27, 2013 by Brian Wang

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an eerie world about the size of Mercury. It is the only moon in the solar system with a thick, hazy atmosphere and the only place aside from Earth that has large bodies of liquid on its surface. But there’s also one very big difference: on frigid Titan, the lakes …

Toronto tailors make a modern and stylish $20,000 carbon nanotube custom tailored bulletproof pinstripe suits

April 7, 2017November 5, 2013 by Brian Wang

At Garrison Bespoke, they take pride in building relationships and trust with each and every one of our clients. That’s why, this year, it was crucial that they offer their clients a bullet-proof suit to keep them safe during their travels to dangerous places for work. They wanted to create a lightweight garment that not …

India launching a Mars Orbitor in the first week of November for arrival at Mars on 21st Sept 2014

April 7, 2017November 5, 2013 by Brian Wang

India is preparing to send a robotic spacecraft into orbit around Mars. India plans to launch a Mars orbiter from Sriharikota in the east coast of India in the first week of November and then the PSLV-XL (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) is used for the launch which will put this orbiter into an elliptical orbit …

World’s largest building has fake sun and beach like the movie the Truman Show

April 7, 2017July 15, 2013 by Brian Wang

The largest building in the world is the New Global Century center in Chengdu China. It is 1600 feet long (500 meters) X 1300 feet wide (400 meters) X 300 feet tall (100 meters). It the world’s biggest building measured by floor space. The Boeing Everett Factory in Everett, Washington has the largest volume, and …

NASA Eagleworks Space Warping and Quantum Vacuum Plasma Thruster – Propellentless propulsion

April 7, 2017May 31, 2013 by Brian Wang

Popular Science discusses the Harold space warping project at NASA and Quantum Vacuum Plasma Thruster Quantum Vacuum Plasma Thruster White shows me into the facility and ushers me past its central feature, something he calls a quantum vacuum plasma thruster (QVPT). The device looks like a large red velvet doughnut with wires tightly wound around …

Fish farms provided 66.5 million tons in 2012 about 42% of total world fish production

April 7, 2017May 10, 2013 by Brian Wang

Aquaculture Production in 2012 is estimated at around 66.5 million tonnes. This is based on the preliminary data for several major producers and projections for others, the world aquaculture production of food fish in the year 2012 is estimated at around 66.5 million tonnes. World aquaculture production of food fish reached 62.7 million tonnes in …

General Fusion has minisphere and a full scale plasma injector prototype

April 7, 2017September 6, 2012 by Brian Wang

General Fusion is working towards magnetized target nuclear fusion. General Fusion is targeting a large prototype by 2015 and a working reactor by 2020. Canadian Manufacturing had an article earlier in the year covering General Fusion. General Fusion is creating a prototype and subsystems at full scale. They have made a full scale plasma injector …

MIT researchers could produce stable nanocrystalline metals with exceptional strength and other properties

April 7, 2017August 24, 2012 by Brian Wang

Most metals — from the steel used to build bridges and skyscrapers to the copper and gold used to form wires in microchips — are made of crystals: orderly arrays of molecules forming a perfectly repeating pattern. In many cases, including the examples above, the material is made of tiny crystals packed closely together, rather …

Nanocomp Technologies and DuPont Form Strategic Relationship

April 7, 2017June 8, 2012 by Brian Wang

In addition to participating in Nanocomp’s current financing round, DuPont has agreed to work with Nanocomp to develop products utilizing its CNT sheet and yarn materials together with offerings from the DuPont Protection Technologies business unit, in support of further advancing ballistics protection and core structure applications for their markets. DuPont becomes the latest entity …