Tassanee Vejpongsa and Stephen Wright Associated Press Published 10:41 AM EDT Oct 4, 2018 Palu, Indonesia – A French rescue team said Thursday it has detected a person believed to still be alive under the rubble of a hotel in Indonesia’s central Sulawesi, nearly a week after it was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. Philip Besson, a member of the French organization Pompiers de l’urgence, said the team’s high-tech sensors “detected the presence of a victim” in the wreckage of the four-star Mercure Hotel in Palu but wasn’t able to say if the person is conscious. The device is able to pick up signs of life, including breathing and heart beats, he said. He said the five-member team only had a hand drill that was not strong enough to reach the victim, who was trapped under thick concrete, and had to abandon digging as night fell. Besson said they would bring heavy equipment early Friday to try to rescue the person. “We have to … [Read more...] about Rescuers detect signs of life under quake-hit hotel
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Inside NASA’s incredible mission to ‘touch the sun’ using Venus’ gravity to ‘slingshot’ Parker Solar Probe at 430,000mph
NASA’s incredible latest mission is hoping to boldly go where no one has gone before – the sun. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe will "slingshot" around Venus seven times and circle the sun 24 times, edging closer until it enters the sun's blistering atmosphere. It is destined to become the fastest man-made object in history and get eight-times closer to the sun than any mission before it. Costing £1.1billion and 60 years in the making, this mission will unlock secrets fundamental to man's continued exploration of space. It began at 3.31am on Sunday, on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, hours before the star it would study appeared on the horizon. The ignition of the Delta IV rocket's engines signalled the start of a seven-year journey stretching further than the 93million miles from Earth to the sun. The moment Nasa announces the Parker Solar Probe launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida is delayed by 24 hours By flying through the corona, the sun's … [Read more...] about Inside NASA’s incredible mission to ‘touch the sun’ using Venus’ gravity to ‘slingshot’ Parker Solar Probe at 430,000mph
NASA spacecraft hurtles toward the sun
Marcia Dunn AP Aerospace Writer Published 5:47 p.m. UTC Aug 12, 2018 Cape Canaveral, Fla. – Embarking on a mission that scientists have been dreaming of since the Sputnik era, a NASA spacecraft hurtled Sunday toward the sun on a quest to unlock some of its mysteries by getting closer than any object sent before. If all goes well, the Parker Solar Probe will fly straight through the wispy edges of the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, in November. In the years ahead, it will gradually get within 3.8 million of the surface, its instruments protected from the extreme heat and radiation by a revolutionary new carbon heat shield and other high-tech wizardry. Altogether, the Parker probe will make 24 close approaches to our star during the seven-year, $1.5 billion journey. “Wow, here we go. We’re in for some learning over the next several years,” said Eugene Parker, the 91-year-old astrophysicist for whom the spacecraft is named. It was Parker who … [Read more...] about NASA spacecraft hurtles toward the sun
We can fix this: Don’t be dispirited by Big Oil’s power in the age of Trump — real climate change solutions are in reach
In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human-made climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat waves, massive winter nor'easters, and a $20 billion plan to reduce future flooding. Last year, the United States as a whole experienced the highest losses from climate disasters, an estimated $309 billion. With the Big Oil lobby firmly entrenched in the Trump administration, national action against climate change has ground to a halt. The path to climate safety is closing fast. Climate change results overwhelmingly from the burning of coal, oil and gas, and the carbon dioxide emissions that result. (Emissions from agricultural production and land use change are also drivers.) The key to climate safety is therefore decarbonization: to shift from the fossil fuels to zero-carbon energy, such as wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power. The future of the planet therefore depends mainly on the few place that produce the … [Read more...] about We can fix this: Don’t be dispirited by Big Oil’s power in the age of Trump — real climate change solutions are in reach
Using mobile technology to optimize disease surveillance and healthcare delivery at mass gatherings: a case study from India’s Kumbh Mela
Split View Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data PDF Cite Citation Dhruv S. Kazi, P. Gregg Greenough, Rishi Madhok, Aaron Heerboth, Ahmed Shaikh, Jennifer Leaning, Satchit Balsari; Using mobile technology to optimize disease surveillance and healthcare delivery at mass gatherings: a case study from India's Kumbh Mela, Journal of Public Health, Volume 39, Issue 3, 1 September 2017, Pages 616–624, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw091 Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager © 2018 Oxford University Press Close Permissions Share Email Twitter Facebook Navbar Search Filter All All Journals Mobile Microsite Search Term Sign In Register Close search filter All All Journals search input Advanced Search Abstract … [Read more...] about Using mobile technology to optimize disease surveillance and healthcare delivery at mass gatherings: a case study from India’s Kumbh Mela