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31 Things to Do for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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What’s better than an indoor water park, like the one at the Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio? Delta Air Lines has been advertising path-of-totality flights from Austin (sold out) and Dallas-Fort Worth to Detroit. Entertain the kids If you’re taking your children to see the eclipse, they will need distractions.

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Video Friday: Tensegrity Wheels

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IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL ROSCon 2023 : 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. He successfully set out fresh food and water for the cat, put dirty dishes in the sink, threw away empty cat food cans, and checked the kitty litter.

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Rice, Lawrence Livermore scientists develop new efficient non-Pt MX2 catalyst for efficient hydrogen production; Materials Genome Initiative in action

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Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost. —co-author Jun Lou.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. It consists of a shoe box that houses a 900-gram reusable water bottle, which is connected to a pump that sends air through the bottle and into the baby’s airways. After earning her Ph.D.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Remote sensing technologies to tackle earth science problems In 1980 Crawford joined the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin, staying for 25 years.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Austin, Texas. was the first to apply fuzzy theory to a consumer product, a shower head that controlled water temperature, in 1987. Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96. (Zadeh is also known for encouraging others to be independent. Chang, who is now president of Nicesoft Corp.,

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Mattershift scales up CNT membranes; potential for zero-carbon fuels for less than fossil

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Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. Freeman, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin. The CNTs used in the membranes were arc discharge nanotubes with inner diameters of 0.67 Source: Mattershift. Click to enlarge.

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