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Jobs saved as rival buys Eco Modular Buildings
Industry ‘disruptor’ Spatial Initiative has bought troubled rival Eco Modular Buildings in a deal that saves more than 50 jobs. The Manchester firm, part of ESS Group, acquired the Hull-based offsite-construction specialist from administration. Eco Modular Buildings previously warned that it expected to make a loss in the current financial year and last month revealed
How engineers saved NASA’s new asteroid probe when it malfunctioned in space
Hal Levison was planning to take a nap when he got the bad news. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft rocketed off our planet at 5:34 a.m. on October 16, 2021, so Levison and his team had been up all night preparing. It was a spectacular, “picture perfect” launch, recalls Levison, who is the Lucy mission principal investigator…
How Bola Tinubu saved Nigeria and made heaven
An Abuja-based discreet Think Thank invited me to the Nigerian capital for a strategic meeting. The goal is to develop a plan to rescue the South-East of Nigeria, irrespective of what is happening in other parts of the country. The group thinks there is room to build a progressive region around the incoming governor of…
Cozy Grove Saved Me While Stuck on a Train for 35 Hours
Since the days of the Game Boy, the biggest joy of handheld gaming has been portability. From a bench in the park to the backseat of a car, anyplace can be a venue for button-mashing. This has become even more true during the last two years, when being able to play while reintegrating with the…
We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work.
I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers pointed out dead puffin chicks. As other climate war zones smolder with wildfire embers, are strewn with flattened homes, or marked by bleached coral, the…
A snake was saved from a potential fire at North Fork Elementary School in Woodland Friday morning
Upon locating a classroom with heavy smoke, firefighters discovered a terrarium containing the snake with smoldering wood chips inside Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue (CCFR) units were dispatched at 5:31 a.m. Friday (Oct. 1) to a report of smoke inside North Fork Elementary School, located at 2250 Lewis River Road in Woodland. A school staff member had…