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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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One way teachers are trying to help students grasp difficult concepts is through virtual-reality technology. The San Francisco–based company helps educators teach math to preuniversity students. Black, Native American, and low-income students had particularly low math scores on the federal standardized test.

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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

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The concept announced at EVS29 is the first market-ready home storage system using a second-life automotive BMW i3 high-voltage battery integrated by BECK Automation (Würzburg, Germany). BMW i has worked with universities, national laboratories, utilities and industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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Awards under this category focus on research and development of concepts and components that could be part of a CSP baseload system. These selections include: General Atomics – San Diego, CA – up to $2.1 The energy is stored through a chemical reaction, which potentially allows the energy to be stored for a much longer period of time.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

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I have to admit that for the first few hours of day one in PV101: Introduction to Photovoltaics I was dazed and confused by all the foreign concepts I was trying to grasp at once. Now my head was swimming with concepts of Joules, Coulombs and electrons all dancing about in the mysterious ways they create electricity.

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