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This Startup Is Building the Internet of Underwater Things

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Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. The adventure of the startup began at the University of Sapienza in Rome , where Professor Chiara Petrioli is in charge of a research laboratory. “We and Norway.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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events last year, including the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs and the Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community Conference. In a survey HAC conducted after the event, more than 80 percent said they were satisfied with the event.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

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The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains. It has to be manually reset after water mains and gas lines have been checked and, if necessary, repaired. Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum The estimated 7.9-magnitude More than 130 major fires broke out, with little ability to suppress them.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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The sensor equivalent of a sleeping dog is called an event-driven sensor. Using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, we can make such event-driven sensors on silicon chips that are only millimeters in size. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. The idea behind this motion event-triggered sensor isn't new.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif.,

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

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It’s basically the reason they say you’re 66 percent water or whatever. This is like sieve water. This was work from Denis Jabaudon at the University of Geneva, and they were looking at how neurons actually differentiate. Adee: Well, so Michael Levin is a professor at Tufts University. Now, let’s go to the ions.

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