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BeeBank & Brokerage Wins 2021 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge
April 12, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 12, 2021
Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University today announced that the BeeBank & Brokerage team was named the winner of the 2021 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge. The team was one of 16 finalist teams competing in the virtual Challenge on Friday, April 9. The 16 finalists were selected from a field of 123 teams, composed of 414 students from 50 different countries. They represent 87 graduate schools, and their projects targeted impact in 33 countries.
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People s teeth-chattering experiences in the dentist s chair could be improved by fresh insights into how tiny, powerful bubbles are formed by ultra-fast vibrations, a study suggests.
The physics of how so-called nanobubbles are generated could have a range of clinical and industrial applications, including in dental hygiene devices used to remove plaque, experts say.
The findings could also inform the development of other technologies - such as devices to selectively target tumour cells - that harness the energy released when the bubbles burst.
Engineers at the University of Edinburgh ran complex supercomputer simulations to better understand the underlying mechanisms behind the formation of nanobubbles - which are tens of thousands of times smaller than a pinhead.
Masks block 99.9% of large COVID-linked droplets
Vaccines are right around the corner, but in the meantime, masks are still a key ally in reducing infection.
“If you wear a mask, you are mitigating the virus transmission by an order of magnitude 10 times less,” one study author said. For larger droplets, which are more likely to carry viral particles, it’s 1000 times less.
In what seems like the millionth study that confirms mask effectiveness in the fight against COVID-19, researchers working in Scotland have shown that masks filter the vast majority of viral-carrying particles even homemade ones.
“There is no more doubt whatsoever that face masks can dramatically reduce the dispersion of potentially virus-laden droplets,” senior author Ignazio Maria Viola, an expert in applied fluid dynamics at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, told AFP.