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Scientists working with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council now claim that airport pollution might one day be successfully dealt with with the help of so-called “virtual chimney” fences.
As several studies have shown, those living fairly close to major airports more often than not ris... |
2 February 2013
13:11 GMT |
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Airports were proven to be vectors that helped the spread of epidemics and pandemics years ago, and researchers have been trying to find a way of dealing with that ever since. Now, experts create a map of the most dangerous airports in the United States, when it comes to contamination hazards.
At the beginning of th... |
23 July 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Though most people don't complain overmuch, having to do away with everything from water bottles to toothpaste while going on a plane can be frustrating.Fortunately, Cobalt Light Systems has the solution: INSIGHT100.This scanner, looking like an oversized microwave, uses Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS... |
14 February 2012
10:28 GMT |
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Mount Etna decided to frighten the people living around it for the first time this year. On January 5, it erupted, generating an ash cloud that currently rises about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) into the atmosphere.
Traffic through the Fontanarossa di Catania airport, in Italy, was immediately limited, due to growing co... |
5 January 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Nintendo of America has announced a partnership with Wi-Fi service provider Boingo, which means that 42 North American airports now offer free hotspots for the Nintendo 3DS handheld.Boingo hotspots also offer a new Nintendo Zone, complete with coupons and promotional services.There are now more than 29.000 locations ... |
9 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined that airports pose a much higher health risk to people than initially calculated. In a recent study, it was found that oil droplets jet engines spew on the runway while running idly can be broken up by sunlight into extremely dangerous particles. These particles are extremely small... |
11 May 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Shortly after the Eyjafjallajökull volcano began erupting in Iceland last year, authorities in Europe and in other areas of the globe decided to shut down major airports, causing millions of euros in economic damages to numerous countries. An analysis of the ash released shows this was the right thing to do. Sci... |
27 April 2011
04:25 GMT |
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On May 6, the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth-observing satellite Envisat captured a new image of the ash plumes that have been produced by the renewed eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano, in Iceland. The massive ash plumes have been determined to be covering an area of about 1,600 kilometers above the Atlant... |
7 May 2010
10:32 GMT |
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The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull did not only prompt concerns for public health across Europe, but also about the integrity and ability to resist of the global air traffic system. At the peak of the crisis, the massive ash cloud the glaciovolcano released in the atmosphere prompted the closing d... |
23 April 2010
09:39 GMT |
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German experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE, in Wachtberg, announce the development of a new security system for airports. The complex mechanism consists of several components, which have a very high probability rating of identifying possible terrorists see... |
14 January 2010
09:58 GMT |
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On Christmas Day, December 25, a passenger of Northwest Airlines' Flight 253 attempted to detonate an explosive device he had strapped to his leg inside the plane, while in mid-flight. For some reason, the explosive failed to detonate properly, and the attacker was subdued by passengers and crew members. But it ... |
29 December 2009
02:49 GMT |
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Scientists at the Forschungszentrum Juelich, in Germany, announce the development of a new method of scanning liquids in airports that reduces the waiting time and is far more effective at detecting substances that may be combined to form bombs than any other existing method. If put to commercial use, the new scanner... |
20 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
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Just before the H1N1 swine flu influenza outbreak started in Mexico, a large number of aviation officials from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) were supposed to meet in the country, and, ironically, discuss a new set of measures to be employed in case of an outbreak. As ICAO's Tony Evans said... |
25 May 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Over the past year, four major airplane incidents, which could have ended in tragedy, were resolved exemplary by the crew on board. Fatalities were kept to zero, and every single passenger and crew member made it out of the plane alive. In the past, when an airplane fell from 20,000 feet with a hole in it the size of... |
17 January 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Because of their rather "crowded" nature, airports are very likely to be the source of the new spreads of previously-eradicated diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, in major city centers throughout the US, recent studies show. Because the climate becomes increasingly warmer, areas with appropriate living condi... |
12 November 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Here is some good news - the LAX airport has deployed a new security measure, in the hope that other airports will follow in their tracks. It seems like a great development, as it involves guessing what a terrorist would think and countering it. This is all about randomization - as Newsweek informs us, the LAX has be... |
5 October 2007
11:09 GMT |
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