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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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A new modeling study led by researchers from George Washington Universit (GWU) finds that 86% of people living in cities worldwide (~2.5 concentrations and associated mortality trends in more than 13,000 cities globally between 2000-2019. concentration between 2000-2019. million excess deaths in cities globally in 2019.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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Herbert Kroemer Nobel Laureate Life Fellow, 95; died 8 March Kroemer, a pioneering physicist, is a Nobel laureate, receiving the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed and opto-electronics. As an undergraduate student at Monmouth University , in West Long Branch, N.J., Vladimir G.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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Ivanek received a 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal , which honors individuals who have significantly contributed to their IEEE society, region, or section. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. He authored and edited many technical manuals and was granted several U.S. Ronald Norris Sampson.

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

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May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases. Earlier post.) and 5.0%.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. That desire was nicely captured by electrical engineer Benjamin Lamme in a 1918 presentation to the Washington, D.C.,

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John Brooks Slaughter: Courageous Advocate for Diversity in STEM

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Under Slaughter’s leadership, the NSF had been a strong supporter of science programs at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). I visited schools in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia, and I established relationships with some of the scientists at Howard University ,” an HBCU in Washington, D.C. “I

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

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Al Gore is one reason I like to believe in my own favorite version of the String Theory of particle physics – multiple alternative universes occurring simultaneously is the way I like to grok it. Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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