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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health. Kaushal, S.S.,

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Automating Road Maintenance With LiDAR Technology

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by SICK Inc. In this challenge, SICK reached out to universities across the nation that were looking to support innovation and student achievement in automation and technology. From advanced manufacturing to automated vehicles, engineers are using LiDAR to change the world as we know it.

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California ARB mods to ZEV regulations for IVMs would result in ~1.9% drop in total ZEV/TZEV units 2018-2025; no impact on air quality requirements

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Currently, nine states have done so: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Put another way, the ZEV regulations are driving to force the creation of a market for those vehicles in a much shorter time frame than would normally occur. Section 177 pooling (the ZEV states).

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

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The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. McGinnis has authored over 30 patents and peer-reviewed articles in the fields of membranes, energy, desalination, and nanotechnology.

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Inexpensive 3D-Printed Microscope Can Spot Coronavirus in Blood

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He is the director of the Multidimensional Optical Sensing and Imaging Systems Lab at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Liang is dean of the university's school of medicine, O'Connor is a biomedical engineering grad student, and Shen is a physician at the university's medical center.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. But they usually just gripe. Paras Jha was an exception. On Wednesday night, 19 November 2014, at 10:00 p.m.

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