The Board of Directors of Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has approved the appointment of Dr. Philip Mshelbila as the gas giant’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Mr. Tony Attah. Attah will return to his parent company, Shell, on August 30, 2021 at the expiration of his five-year tenure. Attah was
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A passion for biomaterials inspires PhD candidate Eesha Khare to tackle climate change. Eesha Khare has always seen a world of matter. The daughter of a hardware engineer and a biologist, she has an insatiable interest in what substances — both synthetic and biological — have in common. Not surprisingly, that
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From Augmented Reality games to automatic car locks: Gauging the location of devices is becoming increasingly important in modern life. Except that the precision we demand is far beyond the reach of GPS or Bluetooth. With Ultra-Wideband (UWB) micro-location technology from imec, the location of objects in a space can
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Intel has announced the addition of two new processors for thin and light laptops to its lineup of 11th Gen U-Series Intel Core processors. The Core i7-1195G7 is now the U-Series range’s top chip, while the Core i5-1155G7 comes out as the best Core i5 chip yet. Both feature four-core/eight-thread configurations,
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Scientists have uncovered the exact mechanism that causes new solar cells to break down, and suggest a potential solution. Solar cells harness energy from the Sun and provide an alternative to non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels. However, they face challenges from costly manufacturing processes and poor efficiency—the amount of sunlight
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As revenue from oil nosedives following incessant global price fluctuations, the Federal Government is now channelling efforts to the development of minerals in the mines and steel industry to shore up foreign exchange earnings. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development said on Wednesday that while there had
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MIT research team finds machine learning techniques offer big advantages over standard experimental and theoretical approaches. In a September 2020 essay in Nature Energy, three scientists posed several “grand challenges” — one of which was to find suitable materials for thermal energy storage devices that could be used in concert with
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As researchers push the boundaries of battery design, seeking to pack ever greater amounts of power and energy into a given amount of space or weight, one of the more promising technologies being studied is lithium-ion batteries that use a solid electrolyte material between the two electrodes, rather than the
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Many organisations are starting to reconsider their printing habits and policies in light of an increased understanding of printing’s impact on the environment. For example, a recent study found more than two pieces of paper are used for every person on Earth every hour, and demand for paper is expected
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With the ever-increasing worldwide mass production of plastic, the inefficiency of current plastic recycling strategies has raised several environmental, societal, and economic concerns. Magnetic density separation (MDS) is an efficient state-of-the-art recycling technique that uses magnetized fluids to separate different types of plastic particles. Researcher Sina Tajfirooz has developed and
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