Even before the smoke detectors, the smell of something burning in the kitchen can stir a person from their sleep. In a similar manner, one of the most distinct qualities of oil and gas is the smell. A robot with the ability to sniff out a leak can have the potential of preventing disaster. What …
The oil and gas industry is riddled with dangerous rigs and unsafe pipes. The operation and maintenance of oil rigs constantly put people in dangerous situations and cause many deaths. Automation of oil rigs is a product of robotic advancement that has the potential of saving many lives. Areas of Automation An oil drilling rig …
Since ancient times, humans have wanted to satisfy the demand for food, not only to please individual hunger like other animals but in order to maintain the stability of the communities. The first sedentary farmers appeared 12,000 years ago in the fertile crescent. Cattle raising and agriculture were the first strategies to ensure prosperity. Strange …
Skin cancer is among the most common causes of cancer in humans. Last year in the US alone, over half a million people were diagnosed with this disease’s variants. The usual diagnosis is made using clinical examinations and biopsies. Basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and melanoma are the three most common skin …
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Global famine is a consequence of the misallocation of resources, but it also stems from exponential human growth. Every day more and more people suffer from malnutrition. While it is true that most of them live in underdeveloped or developing regions, these situations also exist in first-world countries. Moreover, the situation is expected to worsen …
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Biomass is defined as organic matter grown by the usual functioning of a living organism. This matter holds inside a multitude of compounds rich in bonds and therefore energy. Understanding the concept of biomass is not difficult, because we have always used it. I venture to say even more: without the primary production of plant …
Over the last few years, the food-as-medicine concept has gained momentum- thanks to physicians’ and practitioners’ awareness about making food an integral part of treatment for chronic illnesses along with their medications. Scientists at Harvard Chan School of Public health have found a link between food and many health conditions such as obesity, longevity, a …
With global temperatures rising at previously unseen rates, governments worldwide are looking more and more towards renewable energy as opposed to conventional fossil fuels. The vast field of renewable energy encompasses a wide variety of carbon neutral and carbon positive energy generation methods – the main ones being hydroelectric, wind, and solar. On the other …
All living things degenerate in health as they use their molecular machinery to extract nutrients and energy from the environment. We can say that aging is an obligatory disease of living beings. There are many reasons for this natural aging, losing telomerase action encoded in our genome, being lost is the main one. Telomeres are …
Biotechnology has dramatically increased the supply of many pharmaceuticals and other products for human consumption, especially thanks to the technique of heterologous expression, which seeks to express genes in a “heterologous system”, a different organism from the one that originally produced the compound. Perhaps the greatest example is human insulin, a polypeptide hormone that is …
