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EU GRAMOFON project ends after 42 months with promising results on CO2 capture

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Implemented in cooperation with South Korea, It was funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement number 727619.

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US$7.5M JOSPEL project to develop energy efficient climate control for EVs; leveraging Joule and Peltier effects

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Joule heating refers to the conversion of the energy of an electric current into heat as it flows through a resistance; when current flows through a solid or liquid with finite conductivity, electric energy is converted to heat through resistive losses in the material. The aim of the €6.7-million million (US$7.5-million)

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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We need to make sure that we have a diverse set of people at the table to be able to ensure that when these models are put out there, there’s a degree of transparency that we can help review and be part of that conversation. At the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, we are a grant-making organization internally for our faculty.

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Light-powered nano-bio hybrid organisms consume CO2, create plastics and fuels

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Now, exposure to even small amounts of indirect sunlight would activate the microbes’ CO 2 appetite, without a need for any source of energy or food to carry out the energy-intensive biochemical conversions. The focus now, Nagpal said, will shift to optimizing the conversion process and bringing on new undergraduate students.

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How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner

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The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer Godfrey Hounsfield had with a doctor while on vacation in the 1960s. The IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section sponsored the nomination. Hounsfield worked at Electrical and Musical Industry in Hayes, England.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Units from Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, Singapore, and the United States will participate. Military personnel from Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Republic of Philippines, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom will also participate.

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

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Clark had trained as an ear, nose, and throat surgeon in both Australia and the United Kingdom, but he preferred research to private practice. Rod Saunders converses with his wife, Margaret, via his prototype cochlear implant. In Australia, Graeme Clark read Simmons’s report while working on his Ph.D.

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