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Commercial Space Stations Approach Launch Phase

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These included hitting targets for trace contaminant control, water contaminant oxidation, urine water recovery, and water tank tests—all of which are required to operate effectively and efficiently to enable finite resources to keep delicate human beings alive in orbit for long timeframes.

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USGS-led study finds that recent unusual snowpack declines in the Rockies may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to temperature as dominant influence

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regional water supplies. Runoff from winter snowpack accounts for 60% to 80% of the annual water supply for more than 70 million people living in the western United States. Both the snowpack declines and their synchrony result from unparalleled springtime warming due to positive reinforcement of the. —Pederson et al.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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It is for this work on packet communication technologies—as part of the project that became the ARPANET and in the foundations of the Internet—that Kahn is being awarded the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. The reactions were all the same.

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Physicists Spin Up Quantum Tornadoes

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These wave-shaped clouds, seen over an apartment complex in Denver, Colo., The same thing would happen to a drop of water if I were to spin it up in the same way—the drop would elongate while spinning.”. The crystalline form appears clearly in a magnified part of one of the images. Rick Duffy/Wikipedia.

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2018 VW Tiguan and new 2.0 TSI B-cycle engine gives VW a strong offering in compact SUV segment

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Based on our half-day of driving the new Tiguan in the foothills of Denver, the automaker has succeeded on the quality front. The system features a brake disc drying feature to help remove water from the rotors to optimize wet-weather braking, as well as Electronic Brake-pressure Distribution (EBD), and Hydraulic Brake Assist (HBA).

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Audi announces A3 e-tron battery electric vehicle pilot program in US

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The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany. This marks Audi’s first foray into the rapidly developing US electric vehicle landscape. It stores 26.5

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AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables

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You may feel virtuous, thinking you’re doing your part to reduce waste. The truth about recycling in many parts of the United States and much of Europe is sobering. Before I explain how AI will improve recycling, let’s look at how recycled materials were sorted in the past and how they’re being sorted in most parts of the world today.

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