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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France. students from European universities to help them transform their research into marketable products and solutions.

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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

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The startup was founded in 2017 as a spin-off of the FuZE (Fusion Z-pinch Experiment) research team at the. University of Washington. Before the company’s founding, the university team had collaborated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers. The company produced its first fusion reactions the very next year.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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My test parallel park of Ford Escape was a breeze when the SUV parked itself. Own a Level 3 in 2017. GM CEO Mary Barra announced that in 2017 it will offer its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance technology on the Cadillac CTS and possibly other models. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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A 2017 study estimated that about 685,000 Americans who live at home and have medical insurance are electricity dependent; of that group, roughly one fifth are vulnerable to even short power outages of 3 to 4 hours. To help implement this strategy, my group at New York University has been developing a Power Outage Dashboard for New York City.

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First snapshots of CO2 molecules trapped in MOFs shed new light on carbon capture

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Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have taken the first images of carbon dioxide molecules within a molecular cage—part of a metal-organic framework (MOF), with great potential for separating and storing gases and liquids. —Stanford postdoc Kecheng Wang.

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Science Fiction Short: Hijack

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In addition, if too much of a planet-scale computer’s mass is concentrated in one place, “it could implode under its own weight,” says Anders Sandberg , a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. There are materials stronger than steel, but molecular bonds have a limit.” It had to be done.

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