https://youtu.be/riy7E4ehldM 3D printing is revolutionizing industry and medicine, and inspiring designers and DIY enthusiasts. The main drawback is how long it takes… Printing an object the size of a tennis ball can take up to 12 hours. New developments could reduce this to just six or seven minutes. At present, printers use a layer-by-layer technique The simplest method is known as filament printing, and tends to be used in mass-market 3D printers. A thread of […]
Videographics
Adapting city life to climate change
https://youtu.be/0L_6fyH8KfI Videographic showing how cities can respond to heat waves. Northern hemisphere summers will deliver dangerously longer heatwaves, droughts and bouts of rain even if humanity manages to cap global warming at two degrees Celsius, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. VIDEOGRAPHICS Fred Garet, Emmanuelle Bailllon / AFP Videographics / AFP
Israel aims for the Moon with its first lunar mission
TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — Israel is to launch its first moon mission next night from Cape Canaveral. Videographic on the mission.
Journey into space: a test for the human body
Videographic illustrating how space travel can affect the functioning of the human body over time. https://youtu.be/qdZZ44_3pwQ
The power of dams
Videographic illustrating the role played by the world’s dams. A search resumed on Monday for more than 300 people still missing two days after a dam collapsed, killing dozens of people. https://youtu.be/DjsSNqmrI_A
WATCH: The artificial rain
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Videographic on artificial rain. Thailand is set to deploy rainmaking planes to seed clouds in an effort to tackle the pall of pollution that has shrouded the capital Bangkok in recent weeks.
The power of dams
Videographic illustrating the role played by the world’s dams. In Quebec province in Canada, four massive hydroelectric dams that will produce “clean energy” for the northeastern United States are nearing completion. https://youtu.be/77P6moLrVRo
The Greenland’s giant crater
Videographic locating a huge meteorite crater discovered in Greenland. The crater is the first of its kind ever found there — or under any of the Earth’s ice sheets — and is among the 25 largest known on Earth.
The importance of ice shelves
Videographic looking at the importance of ice shelves. A study shows that Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will continue to shrink this century, even if warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. https://youtu.be/TOhPgqM0tt4
The importance of ice shelves
(AFP) — Videographic looking at the importance of ice shelves. Earth’s surface has warmed one degree Celsius — enough to lift oceans and unleash storms, floods and droughts — and is on track toward an unlivable 3C or 4C rise, scientists say. https://youtu.be/DnojXKd0wJ0
Things you should know about Tuberculosis
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Videographic on tuberculosis. A global plan to tackle the killer disease will be formally adopted at the first-ever TB summit on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. Meanwhile, The struggle to contain the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a “perfect storm” of challenges, including rebel violence and pre-election manipulation, the UN said. https://youtu.be/BmS3j6Qmi_c
Satellite images of Typhoon Mangkhut
(AFP) — Millions of people are at risk from a strong typhoon set to smash into the northern Philippines this weekend which could bring floods, landslides and huge waves to the disaster-prone nation.