Hot, It’s Not:

Is it me or is it hot in here? A plea for more research into hot flushes.

It’s as though somebody has built a furnace inside of you and it’s your whole body. It starts almost at your feet and works up and you just feel as though you are literally on fire inside and it’s trying to escape and you just want to escape but you can’t escape, there’s nowhere to go and nothing to do [1]. The social consequences of this embarrassing experience can affect employment, personal ...

It’s a Hot World Out There

Hot Corrosion Behavior of Magnesite – Chromite Refractories Used in Reverberatory Furnaces at Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex

Iran’s Sarcheshmeh copper industries with an annual production of 120,000 tones are the biggest of it’s kind in South Asia. The main method of production is pyrometallurgical matte making in two reverberatory furnaces which use direct–bond magnesite-chromite refractories supplied by German and Austrian companies. Following a recent major overhaul, bricks in contact with slag, matte and furnace ...

Mantle dynamics. Sea-floor study gives plumes from the deep mantle a boost.

Earth’s interior is like a pot of boiling water— very viscous, very slowly churning water. The great debate about how Earth’s interior operates to shed internal heat and shape the surface began with disagreements over whether two layers in the pot—the upper and lower mantle—always remain separate, like oil and water. That debate ended when seismologists imaged Earth’s cold, brittle surface scum...

Soy and Men’s Health

Much of the research involving soyfoods published over the past 20 years, especially the clinical research (human intervention studies), has focused on the health of postmenopausal women. This focus is understandable because soyfoods are uniquely rich sources of isoflavones. Soybean isoflavones are commonly referred to as phytoestrogens (plant estrogens). Clinical research indicates that isofla...