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DECEMBER 1, 2017

A development in catalysis research by academics at the Universities of St Andrews and Newcastle could lead to new systems to treat diesel emissions. Catalysts are typically metallic nanoparticles—often platinum group metals—that are finely deposited upon a substrate. Irvine & Ian S.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, according to a recent study by researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. The study is published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Asbridge et al.

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APRIL 6, 2022

When IEEE Spectrum published an article in February about blind people whose bionic vision systems had become obsolete and unsupported , it generated both attention and outrage. He also thinks that clinicians should have forthright conversations with their patients about bionic body parts.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. This work was supported by South 8 Technologies under National Science Foundation NSF SBIR program (grant no.

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MARCH 26, 2024

In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems , we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is needed. Harvard’s AI Sandbox , for example, enables university researchers to study security and privacy risks in generative AI.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

A new spatially-explicit life cycle assessment of five different “sun-to-wheels” conversion pathways—ethanol from corn or switchgrass for internal combustion vehicles (ICVs); electricity from corn or switchgrass for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and photovoltaic electricity for BEVs—found a strong case for PV BEVs.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

A team of scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with Tohoku University, Tokyo City University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency has proposed a novel, more efficient method to reduce radioactive waste.

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AUGUST 16, 2013

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) (S. Korea), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University (S. The power density of a commercialized low-temperature SOFC system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Redox Power is also more than 2W cm -2 , earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. It holds networking events, provides educational resources, and publishes career-related articles on its blog. Partnering with IRENA, the U.N.,

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JUNE 15, 2016

Methane monooxygenases (MMOs), found in methanotrophic bacteria, are selective catalysts for methane activation and conversion to methanol under mild conditions; however, these enzymes are not amenable to standard enzyme immobilization approaches. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct. Craig D.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team also suggested that algae systems can be either net energy positive or negative depending on the specific combination of cultivation and conversion processes used. In this new study, reported in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , Clarens et al. Credit: ACS, Clarens et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Today the IEEE senior member is head of science and technology at IBM Research in Zurich. She is also the lead for IBM Research Quantum Europe and Africa , a group that aims to create technologies in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, and related fields. After earning her Ph.D.

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APRIL 14, 2017

All are from NREL; Crisp also is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines, and Pach and Marshall are affiliated with the University of Colorado, Boulder. High solar conversion efficiency is key for a viable technology as that directly impacts the land area to be covered and ultimately impacts the cost of the system.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1957 from Rutgers University there. He was accepted, and the academy sponsored his postgraduate studies at Iowa State University , in Ames. patent for the technology. that develops lightweight electric drive systems for military and civilian use.

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MAY 4, 2018

nm), the energy conversion efficiency and apparent quantum yield reaches ~8.75% and ~20%, respectively—the highest values ever reported for one-step visible-light driven photocatalytic overall pure water splitting. The work was supported by the Fuel Cell Technologies Office of the US Department of Energy and Emissions Reduction Alberta.

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

The government of Chile is taking a stand: Its citizens must be protected from technologies that are capable of mind control, mind reading, or any other nefarious interference with their brains. There are also a host of noninvasive technologies that can record from or stimulate the brain, some of which are approved for medical use.

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MAY 19, 2014

A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., lignin valorization. Ragauskas et al. courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Click to enlarge. —Ragauskas et al. Ragauskas, et al.,

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

An alternative method is its primary conversion into bio-oil by fast pyrolysis. This technology, already mature, is predicted to be the most economic way to produce hydrogen from biomass on an industrial scale. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef1010995. —Xu et al.

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MAY 1, 2023

Perry wrote her first article for Spectrum in 1980. That made future MOH interviews less stressful going in, because I had faith that the medalists would be able to make me understand their technologies.” It’s a rite of passage, a vital part of the process of being selected by IEEE as a Medal of Honor recipient. Education: B.A.,

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APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work.

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MARCH 31, 2022

They reach out from their exhibit case to spark conversations with visitors: “I remember Grandma having a slide rule like that.” I encountered this funny-looking calculator during a recent visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge. Which brings me to the object at top.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have developed a calculation procedure to estimate the maximum theoretical yields, as well as predictions of the conversion efficiencies in terms of mass, carbon, and energy efficiency, of selected biorefinery production chains. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 23, 2013

Researchers in South Korea have developed a simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs) with excellent catalytic performance in both dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel cells to replace conventional platinum (Pt)-based catalysts for energy conversion. —Jeon et al. —Jeon et al.

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APRIL 23, 2013

A team from the University of Exeter (UK), with support from Shell Technology Centre Thorton, has modified strains of E. Hydrocarbons produced by cells expressing the synthetic alkane pathway (CEDDEC) or the cyanobacterial alkane pathway (AR and AD from N. punctiforme) without modifications to the fatty acid pool. Howard et al.

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JUNE 10, 2022

In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. To begin with, we have updated Misty's conversational skills, focusing on both improved NLU capabilities and added more languages. So what is new, we hear you ask?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Researchers at Colorado State University have found that a microalgae biodiesel process using currently available technologies can show improvement in lifecycle GHG emissions and net energy ratio (NER) compared to soybean-based biodiesel. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es102052.

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

Rau; CO 2 Mitigation via Capture and Chemical Conversion in Seawater. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es102671x. t, and societal acceptability of this and other approaches to CO 2 emissions reduction and ocean acidity mitigation. —Greg Rau.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. It only took 50 milliseconds to capture the image, but it took 23 seconds to record it to the tape,” Sasson said in the 2015 Times article. It was of a Kodak lab technician, Joy Marshall. “It

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APRIL 2, 2014

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) report in an open access paper in Scientific Reports that bulk antimony sulfide (Sb 2 S 3 ) with a size of 10–20 ?m Both Sb 2 S 3 wires and bulk Sb 2 S 3 electrodes showed similar charge-discharge peaks for alloying and conversion reactions of Sb 2 S 3. Yu, Harry E.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

To start the conversation around these questions, I appointed the 2022 IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on IEEE in 2050. The committee explored plausible scenarios across IEEE’s range of interests and scanned for drivers of change within existing and emerging technology fields. What issues will influence the development of technical standards?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To our knowledge, this level of conversion of carbohydrate feedstocks into simple organic molecules is unrivaled in the literature. Because working at higher temperatures afforded no real advantages in terms of carbohydrate to CMF conversion, reactions were generally run below 100 °C to avoid this hydrolysis reaction.

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APRIL 14, 2022

IEEE Spectrum carried out its conversation with Foster by email to find out more about why RF exposure assessment research has been such a success, what makes RF dosimetry so difficult, and why public worries about health and wireless radiation never seem to go away. Foster: Measuring RF fields in free space is not a problem.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Many of today’s engineering students want to work on technologies that address public-interest challenges, IEEE Fellow Deborah Estrin says. PiTech helps them develop technologies to help meet societal needs such as accessibility, food security, and sustainability. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And there they would have stayed without a chance conversation and assistance from some very capable librarians and archivists. The technology had many precursors, including German “ gramophone postcards ” and Soviet “ bone music ”—jazz or rock recordings pressed on to discarded X-ray film to avoid government censorship. Bayless, S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

A team at China’s Southeast University in Nanjing is developing a process to improve the thermal stability and heating value of bio-oil produced using catalytic fast pyrolysis. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef900720m. A paper on their work was published online in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels on 19 October.

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JULY 7, 2022

In May 2022, MedCity News published an article on the globally declining birth rate and noted that depopulation is placing a huge burden on a diminishing workforce. It also highlighted technological improvements in egg freezing have been improving pregnancy rates. The United Nations projects that by 2100 the world will have 11.2

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