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Study Provides Evidence That Low-Level Clouds Act as Positive Feedback to Climate Change

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a positive feedback), according to a new study of the NE Pacific by researchers from the University of Miami and UC San Diego. Low-level stratiform clouds—which play an important climatic role because of their net cooling effect on the global climate—appear to dissipate as the ocean warms, thereby enhancing the warming (i.e.,

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

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Ten years ago, at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trial event near Miami, I watched the most advanced humanoid robots ever built struggle their way through a scenario inspired by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A team of experienced engineers controlled each robot, and overhead safety tethers kept them from falling over.

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BIRD Energy to invest $6.4M in Israel-US projects; biomass, fuel cells, natural gas, water-energy nexus and energy efficiency technologies

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Miami Beach, FL) will develop and demonstrate boosting EV charging through energy storage system. Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. BIRD Energy began in 2009 as a result of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. —,US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette. The seven approved projects are: Chakratec Ltd.

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