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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. The IEEE senior member serves as cochair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee. The high school senior recently has been applying to colleges.

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. NASA is testing the propulsor, designed by United Technologies Research Center with research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in its 8' x 6' Wind Tunnel at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Novolyte Technologies and Foosung Form JV for Li-ion Electrolytes

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The US-based new joint venture entity will retain the Novolyte Technologies name and will be managed by Novolyte’s current management team from its existing Cleveland headquarters. Foosung Co., Novolyte is contributing its energy storage business to the joint venture. and its leaders. Novolyte received in 2009 a $20.6-million

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Space station droplet combustion experiments reveal cool-burning flames; potential to lead to better engines

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The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. The challenge for future applications is to get the right mix of fuels to generate this cool flame combustion here on earth. At the end a very large vapor cloud forms. See chart above.) Click to enlarge.

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Environmental groups sue San Diego Association of Governments over $214B Regional Transportation/Sustainable Communities plan; first regional plan under SB 375

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The Cleveland National Forest Foundation and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the San Diego Superior Court against the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), challenging SANDAG’s $214-billion 2050 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (2050 RTP/SCS). region’s future employment and housing.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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is recovering technical capabilities it lost two or three generations ago and is on track to returning astronauts to the moon,” says Bleddyn Bowen , associate professor at the University of Leicester, in England. “It and the electric propulsion thrusters are being tested in Cleveland. “It’s a demonstration that the U.S.

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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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Designing greener chemicals: The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Lipshutz, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara. Future generations of surfactants may include a catalyst tethered to a surfactant to provide both the reaction vessel (the inside of the micelle) and the catalyst to enable the reaction.

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