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University of Alberta Researchers Find That Oil Sands Industry Is Releasing More Pollutants Into Athabasca River System Than Previously Estimated

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New research from a team at the University of Alberta, Canada, finds that Alberta’s oilsands industry is releasing more pollutants into the Athabasca River, its tributaries and its watershed than previously estimated. An open access article on their study was published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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How Three-Season Tires Perform in Diverse Weather Conditions

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Generally, tread patterns on three-season tires are smooth and straight, traits which are ideal for repelling water whilst driving in the rain and gripping the road when temperatures have us all sweatin’ to the oldies. RoadX backs the RXMotion MX440 with a 60,000-mile/60-month tread life warranty (100,000km/60-month in Canada.

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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

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But when Phillips asked Faraday to write the review article for the. For a good summary of Faraday's article, see Aaron D. While reconstructing Ørsted's experiments, Faraday was not entirely convinced that electricity acted like a fluid, running through wires just as water runs through pipes. The next day, he got it right.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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John Shegerian: When we got into the industry [in 2002], Al Gore had not yet won his awards for “ An Inconvenient Truth.” Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. There was no iPhone or Internet of Things.

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The Importance of Recycling and Repurposing EV Batteries

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This article focuses on the crucial process of EV battery recycling, highlighting its importance in the broader context of sustainable transportation and environmental stewardship. Improper disposal poses risks such as soil and water contamination.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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This article was first published as “Lotfi A. He never considered going into industry, he said, because money was no problem. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. was the first to apply fuzzy theory to a consumer product, a shower head that controlled water temperature, in 1987. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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The lab hosts some 3,000 guest researchers each year, about one-fourth from industry. research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury.