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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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More than 50 percent of pregnant people become anemic, according to the Cleveland Clinic , risking premature birth, low birth weight for the baby, and postpartum depression. He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

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Like many of the residents that come to our EV Ride & Drive events or email me for advice on what EV to buy, I appreciate the many advantages EVs have over internal combustion engine-powered ones. EVs are much more fun to drive because of the instant torque at any speed, including from a standstill.

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Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

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are based on scores of national and international epidemiological, animal and human exposure studies. Cleveland (Elyria), OH: 196 lives saved, 487 fewer morbidities and 231,859 fewer impacted days. Cromar et al. Click to enlarge. The ATS recommended standards for O 3 and PM 2.5

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Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

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In the late 1980s, the DOD issued a “Single Fuel Forward” policy calling for use of JP-8 fuel to reduce the significant logistic burden associated with managing and transporting multiple fuels on the battlefield—albeit with Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) internal combustion piston engines originally. Sandia National Laboratories, N.M.,

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