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Researchers provide insight into OER electrocatalyst

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Researchers from Oregon State University College of Engineering, with colleagues from Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory, have used advanced experimental tools to provide a clearer understanding of an electrochemical catalytic process that’s cleaner and more sustainable than deriving hydrogen from natural gas.

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Researchers contend that large-scale forest bioenergy is neither sustainable nor greenhouse-gas neutral

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Thus, early suggestions that a large-scale forest biofuel industry would be greenhouse-gas neutral or even reduce greenhouse emissions “ are based on erroneous assumptions ,” according to the authors from the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany, Oregon State University, and other universities in Switzerland, Austria and France.

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Study Finds Unexpected Decadal Decline in Global Evapotranspiration, Links It to Moisture Limitation in Southern Hemisphere

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—Beverly Law, a professor of global change forest science at Oregon State University. It is critical to continue such long-term observations, because until we monitor this for a longer period of time, we can’t be sure why this is occurring.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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USA, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway. University of Nevada, Reno. ETH Zurich, Switzerland. University of California, Berkeley. Flyability, Switzerland. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. California State University Channel Islands. Team CERBERUS. Team CERBERUS.

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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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Video Friday: May the Fourth be With You

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KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. A2Z ] Don’t let that clear blue sky fool you—the ground in Oregon in the spring is like Jello, which makes walking a challenge. Happy May the 4th from KIMLAB! NCCR ] Lex Fridman interviews Boston Dynamics CEO Rob Player. [

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Renault-Nissan Alliances Forms EV Partnership in Phoenix Metro Area; Beginning of a Phoenix-Tucson EV Charging Corridor

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The new partnership supports the goals of the MAG Regional Council, which voted to support efforts to develop a universal electric vehicle charging infrastructure to support plug-in vehicles. (Phoenix is about 116 miles (187 km) from Tucson via the 10.).

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