Normally, the degenerative disease is only identified after progressive symptoms, but it possibly could be detected much earlier via nitric oxide tracking, according to new research.
Temperature sensing with the high spatial and temporal resolution is crucial in many industries, including industrial manufacturing, environmental monitoring, and healthcare monitoring.
The Top 5 of February 2021
Collapsing ice shelves raised concerns in 2020, but the immediate effects of climate change in the polar regions are merely the tip of the iceberg, write Olivia Popp and Michaela Stith in this month’s top post. What happens in the polar regions doesn’t always stay in the polar regions it has profound effects on climate and communities around the world.
This month’s third top post continues the conversation around climate change and its impacts. Cullen Hendrix and Zachary Lien ask whether climate change and declining fisheries productivity are likely to lead to a future of fish wars, or can existing fisheries management institutions evolve to help prevent large-scale fisheries conflict?
Vale joins Boston Metal Series B; developing MOE for emissions-free steel
Boston Metal, an MIT spin-off working to commercialize molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) for emissions-free metals and alloys production, announced that Vale and Energy Impact Partners have joined its Series B fundraising, closely following a $50M close announced in January. MOE is an electrometallurgical technique that enables the direct production of metal in the liquid state from oxide feedstock.
Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and present on five continents, Vale is one of the largest metals and mining companies in the world based on market capitalization and one of the world’s largest producers of iron ore and nickel. It also produces iron ore pellets, manganese ore, ferroalloys, metallurgical and thermal coal, copper, platinum group metals (PGMs), gold, silver and cobalt.