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Scottish Enterprise project converting train to hydrogen power

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Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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SwRI develops device to test friction, wear associated with EV fluids

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Traditional fluid testing tools, however, were not developed to effectively analyze lubricant properties in electrified environments. This small-scale bench test was built around a traditional universal testing machine. That extends to tribology testing as well.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory. The inverse text normalizer, most often used by text-to-speech tools on phones, converts speech into written expressions. But after earning my Ph.D.,

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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

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Alma mater: University of Maryland in College Park. Barth initially attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to pursue a degree in biology, but she soon realized that it wasn’t a good fit for her. She transferred to the University of Maryland in College Park, and changed her major to applied mathematics.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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How We Got Started With Drones for Demining I became interested in land-mine detection while studying geological science as an undergraduate at Binghamton University , New York. Our resulting model correctly detected 92 percent of PFM-1s in these environments, on average. demonstration previously described.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg.

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Exploding Chips, Meta's AR Hardware, and More

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Cass: Sam, you recently attended the Big Kahuna Conference of the semiconductor research world, ISSCC. Moore: Well, besides being a difficult-to-say acronym, it actually stands for the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference. So there is another conference for inventing new kinds of transistors and other sorts of devices.

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