Thanks to ESA and a high-tech fabric used in spacesuits, Swedish steelworkers will soon be wearing safer and
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Earlier today, the first Ebola patient to have been diagnosed within the US died of his infection. Thomas Eric Duncan succumbed to his illness 11 days after being admitted to the hospital. Duncan had become infected while in Liberia, but was asymptomatic until after his travels brought him to Dallas, Texas.
Also in Dallas, a sheriff's deputy has been hospitalized after exhibiting a limited set of the symptoms that are used to diagnose Ebola infection. The deputy had been in contact with some of Duncan's family members, but not the infected individual. CNN quotes an official from the Centers for Disease Control as saying that the individual, "does not have either definite contact with Ebola or definite symptoms of Ebola." Nevertheless, a local hospital has admitted him through its emergency room as a possible case of exposure.
In response to these events, the US has announced that passengers arriving from three countries where the epidemic is uncontrolled—Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, will be subjected to screening if they arrive in any of five major airports. (These are JFK, Dulles, Newark, Chicago O'Hare, and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson.) Customs staff will observe them, ask basic health questions, and screen them for fever. This will supplement the existing exit screening procedures already in place in the affected countries.
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The next generation of aircraft could be thinner and lighter thanks to the development of a new imaging
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Imagine: with a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his young Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets. They levitate the worlds above their heads, spinning them in orbit around their symbolic Sun.
As you (safely!) watched the progress of yesterday's partial solar eclipse, you probably also spotted a giant sunspot group. Captured in this sharp telescopic image from October 22nd the complex AR 2192 is beautiful to see, a sprawling solar active region comparable in size to the diameter of Jupiter. Like other smaller sunspot groups, AR 2192 is now crossing the Earth-facing side of the Sun and appears dark in visible light because it is cooler than the surrounding surface. Still, the energy stored in the region's twisted magnetic fields is enormous and has already generated powerful explosions, including two X-class solar flares this week. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with the flares have not affected planet Earth, so far. The forecast for further activity from AR 2192 is still significant though, as it swings across the center of the solar disk and Earth-directed CMEs become possible.A surprising phenomenon has been found in metal nanoparticles: They appear, from the outside, to be liquid droplets,
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