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SDSU-led project to design bacteria that extract rare earth elements in DARPA EMBER project

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To purify and collect the REEs within, these slurries of water and crushed rocks will be run through a biofilter containing the modified bacteria, allowing the designer proteins on the surface of the bacteria to bind selectively to the REEs.

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ARPA-E to award $10M to third SEED cohort

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Engineering Of Scalable Platinum-Free Electrodes For Pure-Water Aem Water Electrolysis. Existing water electrolysis technologies are expensive due to high materials cost or complex balance-of-plant systems required when using conventional alkaline electrolysis. Phoenix Tailings.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains.

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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Previously, land between airports had been represented by patches of color—green for forests, gray for urban, blue for water. Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative. In 1993, Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 brought a new killer feature: textures. Textures offered new details.

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