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Have you ever wondered what happens to torpedoes that miss? Where do they go? The answer might surprise you.

Image Credit: Shutterstock What is an interim measure? Interim measure covers a wide variety of orders, and most are granted at an early stage of the proceedings to preserve the status quo or prevent the dissipation of assets before an award in made in the arbitration by the arbitral tribunal. They are often awarded without notice and on a provisional basis to preserve evidence and can be granted by an arbitral tribunal or by a court. Which measure to use and when? There are a range of interim measures that are available to parties in international arbitration, and each are a...

Island Hopping In the Pacific: America's PT Boats in World War II Fast-moving, heavily armed U.S. Navy PT boats harried enemy forces in the Pacific and European Theaters in World War II. Here's What You Need to Know: During the island hopping in the Pacific, PT boats blocked enemy vessels shelling U.S. positions and intercepted Japanese vessels transporting troops to islands. Late in the day on October 24, 1944, all of the available 39 patrol torpedo (PT) boats of the U.S. Seventh Fleet were traveling at high speed into the Mindanao Sea just south of Leyte Gulf. By dusk they had taken up pos...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Carnegie's Manoela Romanó de Orte and Ken Caldeira led a research team that deployed a cutting-edge incubator to monitor the metabolic activity of coral and algae in an area of... view more  Credit: Image courtesy of Ken Caldeira. Washington, DC-- Algae colonizing dead coral are upending scientists' ability to accurately assess the health of a coral reef community, according to new work from a team of marine science experts led by Carnegie's Manoela Romanó de Orte and Ken Caldeira. Their findings are published in Limnology and Oceanography. Corals are marine inver...

Will Air-Powered Vehicles Ever Become A Reality? By Tatiana Serova - Mar 13, 2021, 4:00 PM CST In 2008, when the Indian company Tata Motors announced plans to commercialize a vehicle that would be fueled by air, many optimists believed that a revolution was underway in the transport sector. However, more than ten years later, this promising and carbon-free technology has yet to reach production and now seems to be dead in the water. So what happened, and is there still any hope to turn this technological dream into a reality?  The origins of the compressed-air car date back to 199...