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Lintec licenses UTD carbon nanotube technology, opens center to spur commercialization

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Lintec of America has licensed novel fabrication methods for carbon nanotube (CNT) macrostructures, including sheets, yarns and ribbons, developed at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) by Dr. Ray Baughman, the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, and his colleagues at the University’s Alan G.

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Bosch developing sensor box for air taxis using production-tested components from automotive

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A team of Bosch engineers has combined dozens of sensors to create a universal control unit for flying taxis. —Marcus Parentis, the head of the technology team at Bosch in charge of the control units behind the electric light aircraft. Experts expect commercial operations to begin in 2023.

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Stress Levels Revealed in Micro-Beads of Sweat

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The technology, developed by Dallas-based EnLiSense LLC and the University of Texas at Dallas , is promising enough that the U.S. Complementary closed-loop research University of Houston researcher Rose Faghih is eager to have access to the EnLiSense sensor. Reading off a person's glucose and cortisol levels is the goal.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. So we, and others, are figuring out how such flights will be accomplished. Mass), Amherst.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that the power is out. government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. In the false-color image, shown at top, reds are vegetation and grays and whites are urban or rocky land.)

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles.