As plastic trash fills NC waterways, the legislature has banned local efforts to stem the flow | Opinion

In 2023, Republican state lawmakers slipped a provision into the state budget prohibiting local governments from banning ...
Sports Illustrated

Fighters slug it out in wild MMA brawl that ends with brutal walk-off KO

Yoo Chan Lee and Jun Seok Park crammed a lot of living into just over four minutes of fight time at Road FC 74 on Saturday. A packed Saturday slate of MMA action featured high-profile events like UFC ...
The Atlantic

The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This week, a friend sent me our horoscope—we’re both Gemini—from Seven Days, a beloved Vermont weekly, because, improbably, it was about the sea slug I’d been ...
Biloxi Sun Herald

New sightings of invasive, potentially dangerous slug in two Coast counties

The matte-black slug can grow up to 3.5 inches long and stands out from many native species, which typically have lighter markings or colorful spots if they are dark in color. Ashley Morgan-Olvera ...
Frontiers

Machine learning technique for the identification of two-phase (oil-water) flow patterns through pipelines

1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia 2 Industrial Multiphase Flow Laboratory (LEMI), Mechanical Engineering Department, São Carlos School of ...
IEEE

Flow Rate Measurement of Oil–Gas–Water Three-Phase Slug Flow Using Pulse Wave Ultrasonic Doppler Technique

Abstract: Oil-gas–water three-phase slug flow characterization and flow rate metering is an important issue highly related to the production safety and efficiency in petroleum industries. In this ...
IEEE

Translational Velocity and Dispersed Bubble Distribution Measurement in Slug Flow Based on Fiber Optical Reflectometer

Abstract: In horizontal gas-liquid slug flow, the translational velocity of the liquid slug and its bubble distribution play a crucial role in guiding pipeline design and understanding the formation ...
BioTechniques

Faster, cheaper, simpler: flow cytometry just got an upgrade

A research team from George R Brown School of Engineering and Computing (Rice University; TX, USA), led by Peter Lillehoj and Kevin Mchugh, have developed an innovative AI-enabled microfluidic ...
News Medical

Innovative AI-enabled, low-cost device makes flow cytometry accessible for clinical use

A team of researchers at the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing at Rice University has developed an innovative artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled, low-cost device that will make ...
C&EN

Experimental Analysis of Paraffin Deposition in Slug Flow

Paraffin (wax) deposition poses a significant challenge in oil and gas production, particularly in ultradeepwater and harsh environments where temperatures drop below the wax appearance temperature ...
IGN

Metal Slug Tactics Review

Metal Slug Tactics lives up to its stone-cold classic namesake from SNK’s golden era with its painstakingly detailed pixel art, head-bopping soundtrack, and snappy structure. It magnificently ...