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Insomniacs Rejoice! This Headband Helps You Fall Asleep

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I found it comfortable, with a thick cushioned band that sits across the forehead connected to a stretchy elastic loop to keep it in place. Neely would love to see more applications investigated in the future. It’s like noise cancellation for the brain.” I briefly tested Elemind’s headband in May.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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In our always-on, sensor-laden, Internet-connected world, shouldn't technology have done better? And then, with transmission complete and the triggering stimulus gone, the system would shut down and return to a sleep or fully powered-off state. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University.

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Research Suggests Renewables Could Generate 40% of Global Power by 2050

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According to Professor Peter Lund from the Advanced Energy Systems of the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in Finland, who presented the research ahead of the congress “Renewable Energies: How Far Can They Take Us?”, Professor Petersen. More specifically, Germany has more than doubled its share of renewable energy since 2000.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. Structure and function of a smart membrane separator. (A)

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. Energy Markets in a State of Change.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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The taxpayer is financing the American automakers’ survival and their future. In addition to the California funds there is federal stimulus money, $41 million by mid-April, being doled out to their projects, many of zero environmental benefit. Although the future of plug-in cars looks brighter than ever, our work is cut out for us.

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Restoring Hearing With Beams of Light

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For 15 years, my team at the University of Göttingen, in Germany, has been collaborating with colleagues at the University of Freiburg and beyond to reinvent the cochlear implant in a strikingly counterintuitive way: using light. At left, the hair cells [light blue spiral] connect to the cochlear nerve cells [blue filaments and dots].

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