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Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters

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Olsen grew up in a farming family and wasn’t really exposed to computers or engineers until an EE lecturer from James Cook University , in Australia, came to her rural high school to give a presentation. She went on to earn a master’s degree in systems engineering from Australia’s University of New South Wales, in Canberra.

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Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration

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In a forthcoming paper to be published in IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics (TAFE) , Reynolds and fellow researchers at North Carolina State University explored how plant tissue’s impeding of electrical current can be monitored to identify plants under stress with relative immediacy—less than an hour, in some cases.

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GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

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Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Illustration credit: Licht, from Scientific Reports at Nature.com, 6:27760, 2016. Click to enlarge. Scale-up of our C2CNT process is progressing.

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Discovery of mechanism for atmospheric particle formation suggests need for ammonia emission regulations

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The presence of ammonia was first discovered in the upper troposphere in 2016 using the analysis of averaged MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) infrared limb-emission spectra. To make clouds, you need water to nucleate or freeze.

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Harvard “bionic leaf 2.0” exceeds efficiency of photosynthesis in nature; hydrogen and liquid fuels

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Researchers at Harvard have created a hybrid water splitting–biosynthetic system based on a biocompatible Earth-abundant inorganic catalyst system to split water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen (H 2 and O 2 ) at low driving voltages. It takes sunlight, water and air—and then look at a tree. and Onie H. Silver, Daniel G.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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The program aims to contribute to the resolution of environmental concerns and cultivate a new generation of leaders who will drive change on both a local and global basis. This year’s theme will be “Biodiversity Conservation” or “Climate Change”. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients. WWF Hungary.

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Etihad Airways flies first flight using fuel made in the UAE from plants grown in saltwater

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The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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