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Swiss team finds particle emissions from aircraft turbine engines at ground-idle induce oxidative stress in bronchial cells

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Image: University of Bern /SR Technics Switzerland AG. In innovative, combined experiments, the researchers investigated the toxicity of particles from the exhaust of a CFM56-7B turbofan—the most commonly used aircraft turbine engine globally. Turbine engine in the testing facility (not running).

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. So we called 20 subjects from all across Switzerland, some people also from outside Switzerland, with different levels of expertise. Faster, it turns out, than even the best human drone racing champions. But they were quite good.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. Frederick (Rick) W.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. Frederick (Rick) W.

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

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ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4 ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Why Is Facebook Getting Into Cryptocurrency?

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The plan has undergone a major revamp, and the company now plans to launch by the end of the year , offering free person-to-person transfers both domestically and across borders. They're pointing to a legitimate problem," says Lee Reiners , executive director of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke University.

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

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s.

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