Crafoord Prize awarded for discovery of miniscule organism
This year’s Crafoord Prize has been awarded to Sallie Chisholm for the discovery of and research into Prochlorococcus, a very small cyanobacteria of huge importance. The prize amount is 6 million Swedish krona.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 2019 to Sallie W. Chisholm Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA “for the discovery and pioneering studies of the most abundant photosynthesising organism on Earth, Prochlorococcus”. The Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria is the smallest and most common oxygen-
The number of gas-fueled cars increased again in Finland. There were several factors behind gas being more commonly used as a fuel, such as willingness to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from transport and the highly popular campaign offering biogas at a fixed price. The scrapping incentive and support for gas car conversions introduced at the start of 2018 have also contributed towards the increase of gas-fueled cars in Finland. According to the latest estimates, there are around 6,700 gas-fueled vehicles on Finland’s roads.The year 2018 saw a continuation of the huge increase in driving
Exploding in to the New Year, European Springs & Pressings, supported by their parent company Lesjöfors, have invested 1 million euros in a new spring coiling machine, the first of its kind in the UK.In 2018, the Lesjöfors group has made continuous investments in both production premises and new machinery and technology in most of the companies within the group. And the activities hasn’t stopped; the latest investment for the growing UK market is a unique state-of-the-art coiling machine.
The Wafios FUL166 is one of the latest large-scale, high-end spring coiling machines to come out of
