At one time you needed a large room to house a computer – now there’s more than enough room on a coin. The Michigan Micro Mote is the smallest autonomous computer in the world at just one millimeter cubed. It’s the culmination of about ten years work for the University of Michigan’s computer science department. […]
Floods shut down oil operations
Oil well drilling contractors are having a tough time coping with flooding in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, which has damaged roads and bridges. That’s making it impossible to move heavy equipment onto drilling sites. President and CEO of Crusader Drilling Corp., Don Rae, said normally he would employ about 70 people to run three drilling rigs; […]
Oil wells may be linked to earthquakes
A study by researchers from Cornell University, University of Colorado, Columbia University, and the U.S. Geological Survey believe four waste water wells could be at fault for starting one in five earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S. from 2008 to 2013. The results are published in the journal Science. The wells were used to […]