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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. Before, I had no idea that college professors did something called research. After earning her Ph.D.

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easyJet to trial electric taxi system in aircraft; H2 fuel cells, batteries and wheel motors

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The only waste product is fresh clean water which could be used to refill the aircraft’s water system throughout the flight. easyJet and Cranfield University signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement last year to share innovation and knowledge. grams CO 2 per passenger kilometer.

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TUM, partners to present electric aCar prototype at IAA; transport for sub-Saharan Africa

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Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partners will present their new prototype of an electric four-wheel drive utility vehicle designed for Africa—the aCar — at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt next month. to set up a mobile physician’s office or a water treatment station.

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New mesocrystal photocatalyst enhances light-driven hydrogen production

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at 360 nm in overall water splitting and even good durability up to 1 day. The discovery was made by a joint research team led by Associate Professor Takashi Tachikawa (Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University) and Professor Tetsuro Majima (Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University).

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. They also need to know how to pitch an idea and make a proposal so they can get funding.”

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Here Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term Quantum Computers

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Although recent finding s have poured cold water on quantum computing hype, don’t count the technology out yet. In 1981, physicist Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a quantum computer as a means of simulating the full complexity of the quantum world. How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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