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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 —lead author Veronica Southerland, George Washington University. million excess deaths in cities globally in 2019.

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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. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. After earning a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Axelrod joined the U.S. Ronald Norris Sampson.

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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. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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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. Buckler of the USDA and Cornell University and Doreen H.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. The reason? Clark discussed the history of the LINC in a 1986 talk.)

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