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

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billion people) are exposed to annual average levels of fine particulate matter exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline from 2005, leading to 1.8 The WHO 2005 guideline for PM 2.5 It was conducted by researchers from George Washington University, the University of British Columbia, Washington University in St.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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After stepping down, he went back to teaching electrical engineering until he retired in 2005. After earning a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Axelrod joined the U.S. He then was elevated to department head and worked in that position for 10 years.

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Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome

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The new maize sequence was produced by a consortium of researchers that was led by the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University in St. and included the University of Arizona, Iowa State University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. The complexity of the maize genome is partly due to its size: with 2.5

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US total VMT hits historic high in first half of year; VMT per capita trending upward, but below 2005 peak

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However, on a per capita basis (non-institutional population), VMT, although it has been trending upward for the last year on a 12-month moving average, is still below its peak in June 2005, according to the Federal Reserve Economic Data ( FRED ) database from the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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Critically for Sutherland, he supported a new effort by Clark, who by then had moved from MIT to Washington University, in St. Clark had created an innovative small computer intended for an individual user called the LINC, especially suited to the real time needs of biomedical research, and he moved the project and team to St.

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