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WADESBORO — Governor Roy Cooper issued a temporary, modified stay-at-home order beginning on Dec. 11 in order to curb the spread of COVID-19, which has reached new heights over the last several months. This executive order will place a night-time public closure on certain businesses and issue a “stay at home” order for all residents of the state and will be in effect through Jan. 8, 2021. The state’s website states that this order is necessary due to the record highs in daily COVID-19 c...

A 2020 look at PLOS in the news! — Charlotte Bhaskar, PLOS Media Relations Manager  January  Image: Zhu et al, 2020 (PLOS Computational Biology CC BY4.0) An image of the setup for the moth’s navigation experiment and a grid discretizing the moth’s position. –PLOS Computational Biology (Many of our most popular papers continue to sound the alarm regarding the climate crisis and the need to steward our planet with greater care and consideration. Other popular papers highlight all we ca...

SPIE Monday, December 21, 2020 12:20PM IST (6:50AM GMT) The international optics and photonics society will use its digital-forum platform to organize first five meetings of 2021   Bellingham, Wash., United States:   SPIE Photonics West, which normally convenes in San Francisco, will be held as an interactive, virtual conference 6-11 March 2021. North America’s largest optics and photonics technology event – with its popular BiOS...

Date Time GRDC events to kick-start 2021 SA cropping season Tom Blake (left), GRDC Grower Relations Manager – South, at the GRDC Adelaide Grains Research Update in 2020 with Andrew Lehmann, now policy director with Grain Producers SA, and Salter Springs consultant Craig Davis. Photo: GRDC Registrations are now open for Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) grains research events to be held in South Australia in early 2021. GRDC Grains Research Updates – designed to ...

(1) The international optics and photonics society will use its digital-forum platform to organize first five meetings of 2021 SPIE Photonics West, which normally convenes in San Francisco, will be held as an interactive, virtual conference 6-11 March 2021. North Americas largest optics and photonics technology event with its popular BiOS, LASE, and OPTO conferences held by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, also includes two digital exhibitions and the industry-focus...

Trade News  |  December 15, 2020 Global Media BASF and Eramet partner to assess the development of a nickel-cobalt refining complex to supply growing electric vehicle market Ludwigshafen, Germany and Paris, France – BASF and Eramet have signed an agreement to jointly assess the development of a state-of-the-art nickel and cobalt hydrometallurgical refining complex. Such a development would include a High-Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) plant and a Base Meta...

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 12:00PM IST (6:30AM GMT)   Wilmington, Del., United States:   CSC, a world leader in global business, legal, tax, and digital brand services, is pleased to announce that it has acquired FIRSTCORP PTE. LTD (FIRSTCORP) and its affiliates, a Singapore-based service provider of company secretary and administration services to corporations and alternative asset managers.   FIRSTCORP offers company formation, co...

Credit: WMG, University of Warwick As the inevitable growth of transport electrification continues, the types of batteries that will be used in such vehicles, their charging parameters, infrastructure and timeframes are key considerations that will speed up the transition to electrification. In the paper, Determining the Limits and Effects of High-Rate Cycling on Lithium Iron Phosphate Cylindrical Cells published in and on the cover of the Journal Batteries, researchers from WMG, University of...

Date Time Spray safely to reduce drift risk this summer GRDC Grower Relations Manager – North, Richard Holzknecht, is encouraging growers to be ‘spray aware’ this summer to reduce the risk of spray drift issues. Photo GRDC With summer storm activity increasing across large areas of Queensland and New South Wales, grain growers are being reminded to take a community-minded approach when spraying and be ‘spray aware’ to minimise the risk of costly off-target crop damage. Whi...

The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) says the allegations in a Dutch Television documentary that its staff were involved in pipeline vandalism for personal gains lacks evidence.