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    PostHeaderIcon Process Sensors And Their Role In Industrial Environments

    Just as technical advancements have made our life easier and more comfortable, they have also had a positive and impressive impact in our working environment. Business organizations rely on computers and machines to satisfy their customers’ expectations all year round and all day round and in almost every case to ensure high levels of productivity.

    Industries and factories also require technical devices to help them perform at their best level, keep up with their clients’ expectations and comply with the industry standards. Thus, industries and factories many a time rely on process sensors to make sure that the products being manufactured are being produced within the acceptable standards.

    There are different process sensors available in the market. Some of them are specific to some industries while others can be shared by many. Two of the most popular ones are humidity sensors and temperature analyzers. We are going to deal with both of them in this article as they are quite generic and they are widely used in several industries.

    PostHeaderIcon As Arctic Night Falls, Sea Ice Holds Its Ground

    The sun has just set at the top of the world, and the weather in that neck of the woods is about as lousy as you would expect. The temperature dropped to 4 degrees Fahrenheit earlier this week at the world’s northernmost outpost, Alert, in Canada’s Nunavut territory.

    Another Arctic winter is coming.

    Nevertheless, the high Arctic is still the epicenter of global climate change, and the scientific and policy controversies that surround the topic. Much of the region has just experienced another abnormally warm summer. Springtime snowpack was extremely low across Siberia, which set the stage for thawing breezes to blow offshore toward the Arctic Ocean’s ice pack. This followed a freakishly warm winter – part of last winter’s strong La Nina event – over Greenland and eastern Canada, which left that typically frigid locale almost devoid of sea ice last season.

    PostHeaderIcon Faster Than The Speed Of Light

    On Thursday 22 September 2011 Prof. Dr. Antonio Ereditato, head of the department at the University of Bern, High Energy Physics, released an astounding press statement regarding the findings of an international team of scientists working at CERN and Gran Sasso on a project called the Opera collaboration.

    Their findings show that they have recorded subatomic particles (neutrinos) travelling faster than the speed of light, 186,282 miles per second. Going faster than the speed of light is something that is not supposed to happen. Ever. It is considered to be the Universes ultimate speed limit. Einstein’s theory that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, underlies pretty much everything in modern physics. The experiments, conducted over the last 3 years show findings of neutrinos pumped underground from CERN to Gran Sasso (730 km) arriving at their destination 60 nanoseconds faster than light could have. Light would have covered the distance in 2.4 thousandths of a second but this was faster. 60 billionths of a second faster. That might not seem like much but conceptually this is huge.