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Engineering Lunar Network 2.0

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By day, Baysinger, who had an interest in radio astronomy, was the station engineer at WHAS AM in Louisville. NASA itself has developed an architecture it calls LunaNet , which it recently shared with industrial and government partners. This article appears in the April 2022 print issue as “One Small Step for Radio.”.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. By the time teams reached the SubT Final Event in the Louisville Mega Cavern, the focus was on autonomy rather than communications.

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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HEI is an independent, non-profit research institute funded jointly by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the worldwide motor vehicle industry. These results have appeared in more than 260 comprehensive reports published by HEI, as well as more than 1,000 articles in the peer-reviewed literature. Earlier post.)

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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This week, we're at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions of dollars in prize money and being able to say "we won a DARPA challenge," which is of course priceless. This is it! Team CSIRO Data61. Team CSIRO Data61. CSIRO Data61.

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AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables

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Right now, the recycling industry is facing a financial crisis, thanks to falling prices for sorted recyclables as well as policy, enacted by China in 2018, which restricts the import of many materials destined for recycling and shuts out most recyclables originating in the United States. We have to do better than that.

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