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Oregon transit district buying 11 New Flyer electric buses and 7 ABB depot chargers

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With the addition of Xcelsior CHARGE buses to its fleet, LTD joins other West Coast cities leading the transition to zero-emission mobility with New Flyer, including Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Coachella Valley, Oakland, San Francisco, Orange County, and Victor Valley.

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University of California adopts full open access policy for research papers system-wide

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The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of the UC will be made available to the public at no charge. It follows more than 175 other universities who have adopted similar so-called “green” open access policies.

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Video Friday: Robot Training

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Nature ] Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall grass, loose gravel and mud to gather data about how the ATV interacted with a challenging, off-road environment. Insta360 ] I think I may be too old to have any idea what’s going on here.

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This Implant Turns Brain Waves Into Words

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my research group ’s clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco in hopes of pioneering a faster method. University of California, San Francisco. University of California, San Francisco. University of California, San Francisco. He volunteered for.

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Stanford researchers develop new electrolysis system to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen

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Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. Water splitting with electricity—electrolysis—is a simple and old idea: a power source connects to two electrodes placed in water. Image credit: Courtesy of H. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney).

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Ford opening up Silicon Valley research lab

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The new Ford lab will be located in the San Francisco Bay area of California and will serve as a hub for independent technology projects and identification of new research investments and partners located along the west coast. and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash.

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Call for Papers for ACS Fuel Cell Symposium at National Meeting In March 2010

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The American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Fuel Chemistry has issued a call for papers for a Symposium on Fuel Chemistry and Electrochemistry for Fuel Cells to be held in conjunction with the 239 th ACS National Meeting, 21-25 March 2010 in San Francisco. Abstracts and preprints for the symposium will be due 2 November 2009.

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