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AUGUST 23, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Team members are John W.

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JULY 27, 2016

The multi-disciplinary consortium includes leaders from DOE national labs, universities and industry, all of which are working together to make smaller, lighter and less expensive batteries that can be adopted by manufacturers. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Stanford University.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Boston Dynamics ] Fish in Washington are getting some help navigating through culverts under roads, thanks to a robot developed by University of Washington students Greg Joyce and Qishi Zhou. Dynamic sensing unlocks flexible and reliable data capture for improved site awareness, safety, and efficiency.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Among the current 29 members of aireg are oil companies, airlines, airplane and engine manufacturers, research institutions, and universities such as Total, Lufthansa, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Technical University Munich (TUM), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Hari Balakrishnan Employer MIT Title Professor Member grade Fellow Alma maters Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the University of California, Berkeley He and his research team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory developed CarTel, short for car telematics. While pursuing a Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The National Academy of Sciences is hosting an intensive two-day Sackler Colloquium 21-22 May in Washington, DC, to survey state-of-the-art research on science communication and to consider its implications for governance, policy, and public engagement. The Arthur M.

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MARCH 14, 2017

The study, from the University of Washington, the University of California Santa Barbara and federal scientists, is published in Nature Climate Change. The idea that natural or internal variability has contributed substantially to the Arctic sea ice loss is not entirely new.

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MARCH 31, 2024

His first story, “ The Dangerous Dimension ,” was a light-hearted tale about a professor who could teleport anywhere in the universe simply by thinking “Equation C.” Marshals raided Hubbard’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., To use the E-meter, a user grasps the metal cylinders while a mild electrical current runs through them.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

Here’s How We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth Geoengineering—altering the planet to mitigate the worst effects of climate change—is an idea that has taken on new currency of late. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer. She looked at a recent study out of the U.S.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

Still, Pedott liked the idea of the gadget, and after the original investors went bankrupt, he bought the patent and hired engineers to fix the glitches. Pedott test-marketed the Great American Turn-On at People’s Drug in Washington, D.C. In 1985, he was hired to sell the Great American Turn-On, the Clapper’s original name.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Robert Sparrow, Monash University For consumer electronics, there’s a lot of activity around right-to-repair laws : Europe’s first such regulations took effect in 2021 , requiring manufacturers to make parts available to third-party repair shops for up to 10 years. And, as Spectrum discovered, medical regulators aren’t yet on the bandwagon.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The paper explored the idea that instead of sending one big and complicated and extremely expensive robot to explore (say) the surface of Mars, you could instead send a whole bunch of little and simple and extremely cheap robots, while still accomplishing mission goals.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Based on their findings in a new study, researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota suggest that modifying urban form—as a means of affecting motor vehicle usage—may be a strategy to mitigate urban air pollution. More than half of the world population, 3.9

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Lewis Latimer/Google His exquisite patent drawings and keen understanding of how to translate technological ideas into schematics on the printed page were so highly regarded that when Alexander Graham Bell retained the firm to help him put together his patent application for the telephone, Latimer was assigned to do the work.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Diesel vehicles generally saved owners between $2,000 to $6,000 in total ownership costs during a three to five year period when compared to similar gasoline vehicles, according to data compiled by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

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The researchers, graduate student Yu Lin and Assistant Professor Wendy Mao at Stanford University and Ho-kwang Mao, senior staff scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, worked with ammonia borane (NH 3 BH 3 ), which already has a relatively high hydrogen content (19.6 Yu Lin, Wendy L.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. Lynn Heidelbaugh, a museum curator in Washington, D.C., But was Pong fun?

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came up with the idea last summer after seeing her grandfather struggle to remember to take life-saving medications at specific times each day. Marrapu presented a poster on her invention at this year’s IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference at Johns Hopkins University ’s Applied Physics Laboratory , in Laurel, Md. pharmacy chain.

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2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I They jumped on the idea.

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The technology underlying Analytica is based on a decade of research by decision analysts, computer scientists, and user-interface designers at Carnegie Mellon University, with support from the National Science Foundation. Analytica Technology.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Last week, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference took place in Washington, D.C. One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics —we've previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal robots, which originated at the University of Pennsylvania with Minitaur in 2016. We thought it was a great idea.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

A team of engineers at Washington University in St. This is why manufacturers over-stack the material; they have no idea what’s happening inside. The School of Engineering & Applied Science is providing $1.2 million in matching funds, for a total project investment of $3.2 —Venkat Subramanian.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

While some ideas existed for how this happens, the team used computers to simulate phenol interacting with catalysts and water to see step-by-step what is going on. Ketones will link up with others like them and form long chains that “gunk up” the catalysts and interfere with important reactions. —Yeohoon Yoon, co-author.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Institute spoke with Kleiman, who teaches Internet technology and governance for lawyers at American University , in Washington, D.C., Planning for the event, which is scheduled to be held in Silicon Valley, is underway. Details are to be announced before the end of the year. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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APRIL 6, 2022

It was a photographic system to demonstrate the idea of an all-electronic camera that didn’t use any consumables in the capturing and display of still photographic images.”. Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. The IEEE Rochester (N.Y.)

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Carbon nanotubes for touch-free presence sensing Somalytics claims its paper-based, carbon-nanotube sensors, developed by University of Washington researchers in collaboration with CoMotion , can detect the presence of human tissue up to 20 centimeters away. The idea is valid, as heat has been shown to stop an itch.

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MARCH 6, 2009

A map accompanying the report shows that most such rocks are found in and around coastal mountain ranges, with the greatest concentrations in California, Oregon and Washington, and along the Appalachians from New England to Alabama. Some also occur in the interior, including Montana.

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MARCH 31, 2023

New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up. Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

To get an idea of how close the reactions had to happen to each other for isobutene to show up, the team combined powdered zinc oxide and powdered zirconium oxide. The right balance of zinc and zirconium oxides in this catalyst (purple block) converts ethanol to isobutene with low amounts of unwanted byproducts such as acetone and ethylene.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Stuart Daw in a presentation at the recent DOE merit review meetings in Washington, DC. Based on that input, the team moved to a different experimental design with the objective of cycling constant volume combustion—something that’s closer to the idea of a regular combustion engine.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Because people naturally, logically believe electric cars are a good idea. Via paid consultants, close relationships with universities, a pliant press more apt to reprint a press release than analyze it, and print and television advertising, their negative message has been successfully imparted.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. C in this century.

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APRIL 5, 2009

Just as there’s widespread support on promising ideas, there also seems to be broad agreement on what’s off the table. Anything that increases the cost of driving is soundly rejected by the public. People are willing to change their behavior in many ways, but they don’t want to be forced into it.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Instead of a universal product like battery boosters or jack stands, we’ll walk ya through the installation of an accessory placed on one of our cars just the other week. These days, modern LED technology makes it easy to incorporate these federally mandated units into a car’s design, with creative ideas cropping up like kudzu.

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But right now we’ve got some distance to go with any of these ideas. And again, scientists look to what they’ve observed before when arriving at these ideas. So those are the kinds of questions that they would like to study before they would say, “Oh yes, we know this is a good idea, or we know this is a bad idea.”

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